I wake up in a daze as I my father calls me from the yard. I set up stretching as my brothers run from the room. I take in the room quickly trying to fully wake up. A beautiful portrait of our family hangs over our beds.

“Hurry up sleepy head or father will be angry!” I smile showing a toothy grin jumping form the bed to the floor. The cold stone floor instantly wakes me up from any drowsiness that I had left. I race after my brothers easily catching up to them. All four look the same looking scrawny and small. The sky is crystal clear as I see my father standing on the edge of the lake. I run up to him smiling as he plays with some water in his hand. We five sit down on the ground and look up to him.

“Good morning Father.” We all say in unison. He turns to us smiling. His golden eyes shine brightly as his long brown hair flows in the breeze.

“Hello my children. Are you ready for today’s lesson?” We all nod happily as we hear our mother’s voice call from the house.

“Make sure you have them in before dinner” Her heavenly voice brings us at peace as he smiles looking at her.

“Of course my Dear.” My vision fades to red as I am brought back to my current situation. My vision comes back to me seeing Father holding my head up making him look at him. His angry golden eyes look for a sense that I have left. White hair angry waves letting me know his emotions aren’t in check. I black out for a moment being brought back as pain shoots throughout my body. I focus on trying to keep my eyes from shutting. “My dear daughter. Soon you will watch all your work go to waste. My sons.. It’s time to go back into the world.” I grit my teeth as he drops my head to the side. He turns around from me as my Brothers look at me. “Maybe a few thousand years in the dark will make her realize the mistake she made.” He heads to the door as one by one my brothers follow him.

“Father. Don’t you do it.” I scream as the door starts to slowly close behind them. I start laughing uncontrollably as a smirk comes across my face. “They will win.” I whisper as the door closes and total darkness encompeness me.

I wake up from my breathing heavily as James looks over at me concerned. “What’s wrong with you?” I shake my head slightly trying to get those images out of my head.

“Nothing James.. Just weird dreams.” I get out of bed as he starts to pack his bag.

“Well come on. We need to get ready for class. Apparently, we are having an old friend of Alistar today.” He seems excited as I sigh trying to find my things.

“Why did I get tricked into coming to this school again?” I look back at him as I climb down from my bed.

“Because the thought of me going on some grand adventure while you stayed back home would have tortured your soul.” He smirks at me heading to the door. I snort at the comment heading over to the desk.

“Sure.” I collect the rest of my school supplies and quickly do my makeup. I analyze my face slightly as I comb my hair. My light green eyes go well with my long red hair and freckles that dot across my face. Once he leaves, I close the door and put on the school’s uniform for us mages. Well people who pretend to me a mage in my case. I head back to the door checking the room one last time before leaving. I exist the room bumping into James. James smirks looking down at me as I look away from him.

“Took you long enough?” I roll my eyes annoyed.

“If someone didn’t wait til the last minute to wake me up, I would have been done sooner.” We start to walk to class passing a few other students. James has been my best friend for as long as I can remember. He stands about six feet tall and always makes me know how short I am. It doesn’t help that I’m five foot nothing. He is nice looking but his personality is all over the place. He is charming one day but a total ass the others. Lucky me, I guess. The one thing he has going for him is his hazel eyes and long brown hair. The next love letter I get for him I might decide to cut his hair off. Ever since he found out that he could do some magic, we found out about this school that will help with his skills. He forced me to tag along with him for some unknown reasons. He helped me cheat my way into classes which still amazes me how he could pull that. We walk into the main classroom and see our Master waiting for the rest of the students to come into the classroom.

James and I sit down in our usual positions in the front and we see our teacher head to the door. His brown hair and eyes are extremely bright today. His freckled face greets us as the rest of his students slowly come in. He seems excited today as the rest of our classmates join us. In total, there are about twenty of us. We all range in magic and abilities, but our teacher does an excellent job teaching us.

“Hello everyone. Is everyone ready to meet an old friend of mine?” One of the students in front of us raises his hand. “Yes Melvin?”

“Can I go to the bathroom Master?” A few other students start to laugh as our teacher smiles slightly amused.

“Later Melvin. Now today you are going to meet my first student I ever taught. She will be here later today, so we need to be on our best behavior She has come a long way from…” He stops as a rock gets thrown through the window. Before the rock hits the floor, he stops the rock with a blast of wind. A slight panic runs through the class as he looks at us, “We will meet back up just before she gets here. Everyone please return to your rooms.” A groan goes throughout the classroom as our teacher gives us a look. Everyone slowly gets up and heads to their rooms. As me and James leave the room, James grabs me by the arm and pulls me from everyone.

“What are you going James?” James looks at me and smirks.

“I want to see what Alistar is going to do to the rioters.” I pause and yank my arm out of his grip.

“We were told to go back to our rooms.” He gives me a look making feel like a chicken.

“Oh come on. I know that you want to see him use magic as much as I do.” I frown slightly and look around for a second. I grumble how much he is going to cause me to die young.

“Fine. But no one can know.” He smirks and digs into his pocket. He pulls out a needle and pricks his thumb. I shiver slightly as he traces his mark on his hand and my hand.

“No one can see us.” I look down at my hand still seeing it. I look up at him not trusting it

“You said that last time, but we still got caught.” He laughs slightly taking my hand.

“Let's go.” We sneak pass a few students and head out the back of the school. The air has the smell of smoke and fire. The rioters are chanting words from the Brother’s Church. Our school is far away from any town because of this reason. Tensions are still high with many mages throughout the Green Belt. For the first couple months here, no one knew about us, but soon the Church of the Brothers started to riot outside the school. School itself is a small three story building with one large classroom in the middle of it. The building itself is old but looks great on the inside. In the back of the school, there is a large area that is cleared out for people to practice magic. Woods surround the rest of the school except for the road that leads to it.

We try our best to sneak our way to the front of the school. The rioters stand in the middle o the road dressed in all brown. They have torches and keep shouting things told the school. Our Master walks out of the building looking annoyed. He yells at the group expanding his voice with his mastery over the wind, “I have told you to stay away from this place! Do not make me tell you again!” Many of the men in robes drop the torches as the wind starts to pick up around us. A few of them start to back away, but one of the men in robes steps forward. He removes his hood and I see a scared man with burn marks covering his head. I gasp slightly quickly covering my mouth trying to not make a noise.

“What you are going here goes against everything we stand for. I demand you stops this at once and turnover the mistakes inside now.” The wind starts to pick up as our teacher starts to walk to the man.

“Who’s going to make me? Last time I checked; the military is trying to put itself back together. You have no power her priest.” A dark smile comes across the priest's face as he looks toward the sky.

“I have the Brothers’ light on my side.” The priest flies back as our teacher uses the magic to push him back into the other rioters. I see James get excited as I feel something in my head yelling at me to get away from this place. I grab James shirt and whisper to him.

“We need to leave now.” James looks at me confused.

“Why? This is awesome” We both hear a loud thunder crack as lightning fills the sky. The ground shakes as a lightning bolt strikes the ground near our teacher. Many of the rioters run for the forest our Master creates a wall of wind around him protecting him from debris. The burned priest yells something as the rest of the rioters run for the protection of the forest. I see our teacher become worried as the lightning disappears. I see a man standing there that looks like those people in my dreams. He is in robes similar that the rioters have. I can’t see his face only from his mouth since he has his hood up. Our master sends winds trying to end him quickly. The man smirks sending lighting toward our master forcing him to fly out of the wave barely. The man follows our master in the air stopping as he looks directly at us. I frown and pull James with me.

“We need to go!” The man appears in front of me as we turn. Up closer, I can feel something pouring from his body. He reaches for me, but James gets in between us.

“Stay the hell away from her.’ The man cracks a smile as vines shoot from the ground wrapping around James. The vines constrict tightly around James forcing him to the ground. I back up against hitting the wall. The man slowly stalks toward me reaching out toward me. I flinch as he whispers in my ear.

“Awaken your true potential Price.” This feeling rushes me causing me to drop to my knees. It feels untamed and different. Nothing I’ve ever experienced can explain it. I slowly look up trying to keep my composure. A large blast of wind knocks the man away from us. The man lands gracefully to the ground as our Master lands between him and us. Lightning strikes where the man was standing. Our Master turns to us looking a mic of anger and worry. He blasts the vines off of James and helps me up.

“What do you two think you were doing? You could have gotten yourselves killed.” I grip my stomach trying to stop this strange feeling going through out me. James dusts himself off looking at our Master pissed.

“What the hell was that Alistar?” Alistar starts to head to the back door of the school leading us that way.

“I do not know. It was old magic and very powerful..” He stops before entering the school looking at me.

“Ashley… Are you okay?” I pause getting worried and quickly nod.

“..Yes..” James snorts slightly looking at Alistar.

“That man did something to her. He caused her to drop to her knees by saying something to her.” Alistar looks at me waiting. I sigh slightly gripping my arm.

“He.. told me to.. awaken my true potential.. or something. I don’t know. I was freaking out slightly from..” I pause realizing that I was going to tell them about the dreams. Alistar has a look of interest on his face. “..from my dreams.” James sighs rolling his eyes.

“She has been having these weird dreams for the last few weeks.” I look at James shocked.

“How do you know about my dreams?”

“You keep me up at night sleep talking.” I glare at James but Alistar steps closer looking concerned.

“What dreams Ashley?” I swallow feeling awkward.

“Um… just... I’ve been this woman sitting in a chair in a dark room. I get this intense anger trying to struggle underneath the chains...” I recall myself being there feeling the same panic that she feels. “I saw that man that attacked us… but there are four of them.. and this Old man with golden eyes. Stuff about the world ending.. I just..” Alistar gets a serious look on his face.

“I need to get you to see my friends as soon as possible.” I pause worried as I loud thunder rings over the house. I feel Alistar blast James and me away as the house is strike with multiple lighting strikes.