The Rebirth of a King

Chapter 1

written by Makhi T.

The King Gray, on his deathbed, wished for one thing and one wish alone; to get another chance to live. He had lived his life in poverty and suffering. As an orphan, his mother died very young and he had no idea who his dad was. He learned his own type of swordsmanship and fought his way to the position of King. He opened his eyes once again but he felt way better than he was before. He looked at his hand and jumped in shock, he was a baby! He couldn’t believe his eyes as he was being held by his mother, but it was not his previous mother she was different. He didn’t restart his life, he got a new one! His new mother said his name was Arthur Lewin.

This world was different; it had magic and spells. Two years later he had finally gotten used to the language, but of course he couldn’t show his parents that. How strange would it be if a baby could talk fluently at two. As he was crawling in the library at his house, a book fell next to him. It could teach one how to awaken magic, he was so thrilled He could finally learn magic; he started immediately. It was so exciting until he blew up half the house. His parents finally noticed how abnormal he was. Oh no, they finally knew about how strange he was; how would they react? They were acting weird and arguing all the time. I don’t know what it was about because they stopped every time I came to see.

Finally they stopped arguing and told Arthur he would be learning swordsmanship in the morning and magic during the day. Arthur was shocked they were arguing about what he would learn. He let out a deep sigh of relief, they didn’t think he was weird. In fact they were pretty weird themself. It turns out his dad and mom were adventures in the same party with four other people. In a few days, he would go to the capitol to go to the magic academy, his escort would be the adventures in his mom and dad’s party, Arthur assumed they asked them to but he didn’t say anything.

It would take a week to get there. Everything was fine for the first few days he even got to know everybody a little. On the fourth day it was extra peaceful, a little too peaceful, they didn’t run into any monsters. The fifth day a group of a few bandits attacked. It was easy to take care of but they ran away; they chased them to a dead end until two hundred bandits attacked from behind they were tricked. All there was was a cliff and about two hundred and fifty bandits.

The bandits were the better choice for about two hours; they fought endlessly until Arther’s dad got severely injured, his mom has a special type of magic called healing magic, it is one of the few types of special magic there are. The bandits would automatically target the healer. Arthur’s dad said not to heal him, but she did anyway.

Once they figured out she had special magic they targeted her and she was pushed to the edge of the cliff. There was one upside to this Arthur was with her. Everybody was still fighting, but then as soon as Arthur's mom was about to fall off the cliff Arthur pushed her to the side and he fell off the cliff. A few hours later Arthur finally wakes up. As soon as he fell off the cliff he used wind magic to save himself. Then he starts hearing a voice, a menacing voice, he looks all around but finds nothing. Then the voice told him where to go; 3 days later he finally found the cave it told him to go to. He walks in and finds a big black figure in the shadows. It walked out and was about 20 feet tall, Arthur jumped in shock, it was so big and so menacing.

For about a few seconds Arthur couldn’t believe his eyes. Turns out it was a she and very nice, he never believed in sayings but it was true, “Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover”. Her name was Silviea; she was at the light gray stage (the stages of magic are green, blue, red, orange, gray, and white In order from weakest to strongest)(dark and light stages in between the stages) she was so strong! She started to teach him stuff about magic like you can move when channeling mana (basically how to upgrade your stage color). Arthur tried to move while channeling mana but could only move a finger for about 5 seconds.

Arthur then again thought that she was amazing, she could run and jump for so long while channeling mana. After a few months he could finally move freely. She was like a grandma to Arthur, she told him when he was wrong and punished him when he needed it. Everything was amazing until it was time to go home, the next day was nice. It would be the last day they spend together, they made the most of it until something happened. A mysterious figure appeared, Arthur looked at Silviea; she looked like she knew it.

It started talking, "your time is up Silviea." She looked like she knew it was coming. She wanted to live a bit longer to take Arthur to his home, but it said too late. Silviea and it started fighting. WHAT it was stronger than Silviea, no way. She got severely injured and made a portal for Arthur to leave. Arthur said he wouldn’t go and he would help, but they both knew it was useless. Silviea pushed him in, he was in the middle of the forest.Then he heard Silviea’s last message, “I am one of the dragon race, I have betrayed my clan. I want you to live a normal childhood Arthur Lewin, no, or should I say King Gray.