Disclaimer, all characters involved in sexual acts are 18 years of age or above. Their also mine so no stealsies. Also I'm British so if there is slang, mannerisms w/e that you don't get you can ask me in the comments and I'll reply (hopefully).
'Oh, oh, oh. It's magic. You kno-'
"AARGH!"
I looked up to see my best friend glaring at me.
"Eric I swear to god if you don't get that damn ringtone changed I'm gonna melt your bloody phone."
So I guess my ringtone still pisses off my roommate Gary. Well that was the point of it anyways. He hates that song for pretty obvious reasons. Oh yeah, he's a Mage, so am I for that matter but he get's paranoid about the secrecy laws and I love digging him for it. When we went into a Costa once after lectures he heard the song and immediately walked out whilst looking pretty pissed, from that point I set it as my ringtone to annoy the heck out of him.
I answered the phone since it did have a purpose beyond pissing off Gary.
"Hello?"
"Hey Eric, so how's you're first week of college going?"
"Fine Dad, it's only been Freshers week so far, you remember what that's like or is it abit too far back for you.", I joked at him.
"Yeah, yeah alright, but don't be out too much arite? You need to make sure you keep up on both normal and magic classes got it?"
"Yes Dad. Not gonna be running around every night, I've had enough alcohol for a month I feel."
"Oh yeah I forgot to mention, you remember that family the DePleurs? From the last Sentinel? (TLDR: Sentinels are basically a meeting that happens to decide which college the next set of mages, magical lot go to, I'll explain in a sec arite) Well looks like their daughter Carmen is coming to Cardiff and not Northern Ireland, try make her feel welcome, we owe them a favour after all."
Uuuugh...why meeee. I obviously did not voice that displeasure to myDad, instead being as cheery as possible without going over the top.
"Of course. I'll make sure she get's along fine Dad" (Fuck No!).
"Good.", aaaand he hung up.
Ok so. Basic rundown as some of you lot are plebs, no I'm not being insulting it's just what we mages call those who are in the dark about us. Well I guess putting it that way it's an insult, but you're still plebs.
There are Mages, magic folk (as in creatures, weres, vamps .etc.) and Dragons....ok not dragons, they died like 600 years ago, and before you start thinking I'm bullshitting, the reason we're well hidden is because of glamours, memory wipes and government involvement. Like every government has a magical department to help the secrecy. Why the secrecy? Because apparently some wars and bullshit happened millennia ago, and they're extra hard on secrecy now because of religions (aka magical nincompoops deciding to do a sparkle show in front of plebs and then call themselves gods, those were the cases where memory wiping couldn't catch up and now you have Jehovah's Witnesses). Oh and dragon's when they die just convert to their corresponding element for example an Earth Dragon would become a mountain, and a Fire Dragon would become a pain in the ass, especially if it died in a forest. Oh that reminds me of something funny, the great fire of London? Not a bakery or whatever the main history is, a botched fire dragon hatching. I know right!
So in the magic community there's a meeting every year to decide which college everyone heads off to. This mostly only affects mages. You see we're mostly classed by our main core element, some people have other elements as their main but I'll get to that. The five cores are Fire, Earth, Water, Air and Ice. And here comes the weird part, our core magic doesn't just affect what we're best at casting and manipulating, it actually affects us directly. I'll give you the run down. Fire Mages: typically hotheaded, naturally blonde or red headed and can range from insufferably arrogant (American stereotypical Jock arrogant) to influential and charismatic. Earth Mages: Guy or girl, these buggers are HUGE, and they are ridiculously stubborn, but generally quite friendly. Water Mages: The most easygoing, you'll find it a serious effort to even try to slightly annoy one, and they have a good way of solving issues and disputes. Air Mages: Fucking hilarious, there isn't a single Air Mage I know that isn't likeable, the only fallback is that their typically abit ditzy but you get over that real quick, but when they get pissed off it's like a persona switch, they'll rip you to shreds, verbally or physically. And finally Ice. Fucking. Mages: not only are they the most uncommon of the cores, but they're also always female and absolutely stunning aaaand...you guessed it. As cold as a nuclear winter. Seriously trying to get past that outer personality is way too much effort. and before you think that a Fire Mage could, oh I don't know, (Obnoxiously Cheesy Quote start) melt their hearts (Obnoxiously Cheesy Quote end), they typically end up with people of the other elements just because nobody knows how to deal with them. The reason the cores get split up is because if too many of the same type are in one place then weird shit happens. Last time was too many Air Mages in Northern Ireland and a tornado almost formed. Yeah...a tornado...in Ireland. You see what I mean about weird shit happening.
And know we get to that point at last! (Phew explanations are long aren't they) The 'other' folk. These guys typically have elemental mains that are out of the norm and they're also ridiculously uncommon. The only ones I know personally are me and Gary. The elements could be bloody anything, apparently there was one who specialises in Methane gas manipulation, basically farts. People made fun of him but he apparently teamed up with a Fire Mage and levelled a small town (this was like 150 years ago).
Gary hides himself as a Water Mage but his aspect (their typically called aspects and not elemental powers) is liquid manipulation in general, which is incredibly awesome don't get me wrong. Whereas a Water Mage could say, drop a bubble of water on your head to piss you off, Gary could drop a bubble of Hydrochloric acid on your head if you pissed him off. See. Awesome.
My aspect is Shadows, least that's what my family told me after they freaked out at my first display of my powers. It feels more like it's just control of Darkness overall to me, it's stupid rare which is why my family told me to never tell anyone unless I needed to and got me to pretend I'm a Water Mage, despite me being terrible at it I'm better with water than the other cores. Gary knew, but we've literally been best friends since birth, we were in the same ward and next to each other in the same bed's. You know how I said your main element can affect your personality and stuff? I think knowing Gary is what prevented me from becoming some kinda loner, edge lord, which I'm sure is what my aspect would've done to me. But on the awesome side it still makes me appear all dark and mysterious and shit. Which, despite what people will tell you, chicks and blokes dig. Freshers week is my proof.
Me and Gary hide as biochemical engineering student's but are only on the system for about 1/3 of the lectures and the rest is 'magic class' which is what i was going to be late for right now due to my Dad's bloody phone call.
I went into a strop about the DePleurs and their daughter Carmen. A friggin Ice Mage and the worst one I knew, she was not only a cold bitch but a massive snob, half-French half-Asian buggering C@&t! When we met during the sentinel she managed to annoy the heck out of me by constantly commenting on my terrible Water manipulation, no one else cared but she got a massive kick out of it apparently. And now I have to help her get settled in or some bullshit.
So I was in a strop, and was now running late for my class.
When I finally made it to the little lecture theatre (warded from the plebs by the way hence why you've never 'accidently' walked in on a magic lecture) I found Gary grinning at me like an idiot, evidently pleased that karma decided to bite me in the ass for that ringtone thing. And Carmen DePleur sneering at me like a conceited little...ARGH you get the idea.
"So Mr. Horton you've decided to grace us with your presence.", said the lecturer, Magus Karen Pritchard. "Get to your seat with Mr. Abernathy and we can continue."
I walked up to my seat next to Gary, still grinning like a loon, little bugger. There was a glass of water in front each of us, I looked around and noticed everyone had something different, a rock, a candle, a tray of ice cubes and some with just nothing.
"So for a starter before everyone's split off into exercises is for you to display your name above your head using your given elements, we already have a list of your elements but it will be good for you to know each other well, after all you'll be in all the same classes for the next few years.", Mag. Pritchard almost smirked at that last statement upon seeing my look of horror. Seriously! The same classes everyday with this frozen bitch for the next FOUR YEARS?! I could've cried right then.
There was only eight people in the class,(mages in general are not that common compared to the other races of folk, I think there was about 150 in the entirety of the United Kingdom from the last census) so learning all the names wasn't too hard. Gary and me were the two 'Water' mages. There were two Fire mages, Josh and Kevin, and they both looked like complete twats, near orange skin from tanning beds and those stupid low v-neck t-shirts that for some reason are made for guys to wear. One Earth Mage called Gbenga (Fuck that's a cool name) who looked pretty alright, apart from the fact he looked like he was near 7 feet tall. Two Air Mages, they used fast air currents that made it visible for their names, Gina and Leah, they looked slightly bored and were dressed in long tie dye shirts with short shorts, abit hippy looking with their flowery earrings, they looked similar and given they were also similarly dressed I guessed they were sisters. Finally Carmen, fucking Carmen. She had her name in some fancy calligraphy with the ice, and was looking my way and looked like she was struggling not to laugh.
"So Enc how are things?", Gary said to me smirking slightly. I blanked at him confused for a moment before he pointed up, I looked and noticed that my name had the r and i blended together. I quickly separated the letters and gave the i a dot, but not before one of the Fire mages started chuckling. Great, not even the first 15 minutes of the magic lecture and I was already looking like an incompetent tool.
After the initial introduction we were split into our elements and set to doing super basic forming exercises. We each had to create our element and hold about a square foots worth in front of us in a cube shape. I was struggling slightly since my cube of water looked more like jelly with the way it was quivering, compared to Gary's perfectly formed transparent block.
