"Magic doesn't exist," I said irritated to my younger sister Adele. "No, it does Ari," she argued. "Yeah it does but only in books and movies," I said feeling too much irritated. Don't know why but the word 'Magic' irritates me. I mean why to waste time by thinking and talking about something that does not even exist! It's just waste of time. "Yeah and also in your dreams," I further continued stretching the word dream due to which her smile slightly faded but she composed it soon. "But it might be real too," she said. She is so stubborn. She'd argue for hours giving her lame logics just to proof her so called 'magic' thing true so there is no point arguing with her. Moreover I'm really tired and sleepy to argue with her so I agreed with her. "Yeah they might be real," I said and she screamed in joy but before she could tell anything else I stopped her. "Now go to sleep. It's already very late," I said. "Goodnight," I continued while yawning and turned off the light. As I did it I heard some protest from her as she doesn't want to sleep but soon the voice faded and I was welcomed by deep sleep. ●●●○○○●●●○○○●●●○○○●●●○○○●●●○○○●●●○ In a dark room a hooded man was standing back facing the others in that room. "My lord, we found the other two powerful Magiies," said another hooded man. "Then bring them here," he ordered. "But they possess some special powers, my lord," the man said," which can be risky." "And that's why we need them, because of their special powers. Moreover I ordered you to bring them, I didn't ask for your opinion. So just bring them," the lord ordered. "As you say master," said the man and disappeared in the darkness. ●●●○○○●●●○○○●●●○○○●●●○○○●●●○○○●●●○ I was sleeping peacefully until I heard some noises but when I opened my eyes there was no one there. I even the light properly to see if anyone was there but even then the room was empty. So I turned the light off and went to sleep thinking that maybe it was just my imagination but my thought was proved wrong at that very moment when I saw some hooded people standing beside my bed. I was so scared after seeing them that I was about to scream but before I could utter even a single word one of the hooded people muttered somethings. And before I could understand what was happening I was welcomed by blackness. There was only blackness around me. And soon I was in deep sleep. God knows for how long I was sleeping like that. When I woke up I was lying in cold floor, my hands were cold as ice so were my feet and so was the room. And there was another girl in that room this is all I could understand since my vision was blurred. I couldn't see anything at first without blackness. Feel the coldness, listen to the sobbing of that girl and enjoy the blackness, that's all I could do at that moment. Black, black and black that's the only colour I could see. But gradually my vision started to get clear but I had to close my eyes to get adjusted with the lights. When I finally was able to open my eyes and see everything clearly I noticed that the room in which I was, was massive and made of glass. Through the glass I could see outside the room. Well it was not attractive at all rather it a little spooky. There were some weird or to say super-weird things there. Moreover I couldn't see up to a long distance since it was dark. But the things I could see were enough to send chills through my spines. When I had finally finished seeing the spooky environment outside I looked around the room to have a better look inside it. But there wasn't anything to see inside. The room was made of blue see -through glass from top to bottom except the floor the floor was made of tiles matching the colour of the glass. Except that the room was all empty no doors, no windows I wonder how many days or months or most probably years I'll have to stay here. Don't know why but the place was driving me crazy. Maybe it was the spookiness, the bad vibes I was getting from there or maybe the emptiness. There was nothing except a girl in the corner of the room who was crying. I could only hear her cry but couldn't see her she was hiding her face with her hands. I went near her and sat beside her. I hesitatingly started to talk with her. "Hi! What's your name?" I asked her and I noticed that my voice was clam, there wasn't nervousness or anything in it. But when she replied me I understood that she was scared and that to from her voice. "I'm Cassie," she said in a low voice. "Are you okay Cassie?" I asked her and she looked at me as if I was an alien. I know it was a dumb questions to ask when you are seeing her crying but don't know why I felt like asking it. "Like any other magii will be when they'll know that they have been kidnapped by the dark lord," she replied still crying. Magii...dark lord...well don't these sounds like the fantasy books and movies? Maybe she's gone mad from the shock that she had been kidnapped. But wait when they kidnapped me they muttered some kind of thing and I fell asleep. Is magic real? No...no, it can't be...maybe they hit me in the head with something but it would've pained then. Does this mean magic is real?! Well there was only one way to know that and that was to ask the girl and I did so. "What do you mean by 'magii' and 'dark lord'?" I asked and she looked at me as if I was an alien. "You don't know who Magii are and you don't even know the dark lord? And you claim yourself a magii without knowing this?" she said. "Well I don't know what a 'magii' is then how can I claim myself as one?" I replied. "Anyone who can perform magic is a magii," she said, " and the master of the ones who practice dark magic is the dark lord. He's one of the powerful magiies in the world." "You mean to say magic is real?" I asked. "Of course. Don't tell me you didn't know that magic exists?" she said to me. "Actually you're right, I didn't know that magic exists I didn't even believe in it," I said and she gave me a sympathetic look. I then told her everything that happened and how they kidnapped me. "Do you know why they kidnapped us?" I asked her. "Well there are some magiies who are more powerful than any other magii," she paused a bit and then continued," We're one of them. And so he wants us to join him so that he can have dark magic can have the powerful magiies." "Does the we include me too? But I'm not a magii. I can't even perform magic then how can I be a powerful magii?" I asked. "You can't because you never tried it. But you're a powerful magii and that's why you are here," she said. "But you said that the dark lord is a powerful magii, so why does he need us?" "Because we're more powerful," she said. I discovered I wasn't behaving as expected. I should've been screaming, freaking out, scared, frightened, nervous specially after finding out that I'm a magii, that magic existed and I wasn't kidnapped by any normal people. I was kidnapped by someone called 'Dark lord' who is the master of the ones who practices dark magic but I was so calm. No tension, no freaking out, no screaming, nothing. I was sitting calmly looking at the spooky environment outside and taking in the information. It was a lot to take in. "What are they going to do with us?" I asked after sometime when I finished absorbing the information. "They will ask us to join them, to be the black-magiies," Cassie replied sadly. "What do the black-magiies do?" I asked. "They hampers the peace, kill anyone who comes in their way even if they are innocent, especially the non-magii. They don't believe in peace the only thing they believe in is destruction," she replied in a low voice, as if it was a secret. Actually the whole time we were talking in low voice, which only the two of us could here as if everything we were talking about was a secret. "If we join them then will we have to do these too?" "Yes." "And if we deny them?" I asked her in a low voice. "They'll kill us then," she replied blankly. Murder...kill innocents... I was never going to do these things. It's better to die then kill others especially if they are innocent. But I didn't want to die either. "There isn't any way to get out of here?" I asked. "Of course not. Have you ever seen any kidnapper keeping you in a place from where you can get out? No, right? Even if the kidnapper is a non-magii he won't do so and then you're kidnapped by the dark lord," Cassie said. "Right," I said. There must be some way to get out of these, there had to be. Suddenly it a thought crossed my head, 'we were powerful magiies, more powerful than anyone would be', she told it. And if we were most powerful then no power could stop us from getting away. "You said we are most powerful magiies, right? Then why don't we try to get out from here by breaking the glass or by some magical ways to get out?" I said. "Well this place is protected by spells so you can't teleport from here and about breaking the glass, I tried that but they have kept us in a place of high protection," she replied. She tried to get out but couldn't. I sighed. But I can try once there isn't any problem in trying. But I can't perform magic. Maybe I can learn from her. "Can you teach me how to perform magic, please?" I requested. "Sure, I can," she said. "It's easy since you have the magical power inside you. You just have to focus and think clearly of the person or thing in which you want to cast it and then mutter the spell. See its simple," she continued," If you want to break the glass the spell is 'Rethina' and if you want to create a door or something by cutting it say 'Connsolous'. Got it?" "Yes, thanks," I said to her and went in front of the glass wall. Focus... think...cast...it's easy Ari...you can do it. Focus....I closed my eyes and tried to focus.... then I tried to think of the glass wall which I wanted to cut when I pictured it I chanted the spell 'Connsolous'. Well I could sense something happening... I opened my eyes only to see the spell reflecting towards me. It was about to touch me but Cassie stopped it. " Sorry I forgot to tell you the spell to stop the spell reflecting towards you, it's 'sylous',"she said, "see this doesn't work I tried it many times," she said sadly and satin a corner. I tried it again but this time I tried 'Rethina' but the same thing happened. I tried both the spells for a few more times but nothing happened. I let out a sigh and sat beside Cassie. She seemed to understand that I'm not in a good mood so didn't disturb me. I was sitting like that for some time I suddenly got an idea. We both are most powerful magiies, nothing happens when we cast magic separately, then the glass can resist our magic. But if we cast it together then maybe it won't be able to tolerate the magic. Yess that's a great idea. I told Cassie the plan. She also seemed to like the idea. So we both decided to cast the spell Rethina to break the glass. We chose a wall to cast the spell. Focus...I needed to focus but I couldn't due to the spookiness outside. But I had to so I closed my eyes and tried to focus when I could I heard her telling me to cast on the count of 3. 1...2...3, 'Rethina' we said and the glass broke. The glass broke! I opened my eyes and saw that the glass wall around us was broken. I was too shocked to do anything but Cassie took a hold of me and started to run from there. "Why are we running?" I asked. "Cuz we don't want them to catch us," she said," Well they will be coming to catch us any time. Run fast," she commanded and then muttered something. As soon as she did something appeared around the two of us. She saw the confused look on my face so she said," It's a shield, it will protect us for some moment but after it gets over once you can't cast it in next few minutes so we'll have to use the spells then," she said. "But I don't know any spells," I said. "But I can so I'll protect you," she said. And suddenly we saw some hooded men behind us. They cast a spell towards us it was coming towards our direction but couldn't touch us rather it reflected. "Can't they see the shield?" I asked. "No, it's invisible," she said. We were running while I felt some changes around me. Well it was the spell wearing out. The shield was gone and I could see those casting spells towards us. It was coming close to us ready to harm us anytime but Cassie blocked it. I let out a sigh which I was holding and saw Cassie sending some spells towards them. The fight was getting on my nerves. Every time the hooded-magiies would send a spell my I used to get scared, I would just look at the flares caused until Cassie blocked it. I would even forget to breathe at that time. Sometime later we were surrounded by the hooded men whom the call the black-magiies. They were casting spells from everywhere. Cassie was trying to block a spell when someone from another direction cast a spell towards us which went unnoticed by Cassie. The flare caused by the spell was coming towards us. It was ready to hit me anytime and I was paralyzed. I couldn't move or ask Cassie for help all I could is see. I saw the flare almost hitting me. ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● I woke up with a jerk. My breathes were unsteady and my heartbeat increased. I was sitting for a few moments with my eyes closed and then looked around the room. My desk, books, teddy, dolls everything was there and Adele was sleeping peacefully. I was in my room nothing happened. It was just a dream. No, not a dream, a nightmare. After sometime I laughed at the dream. It was so unreal, I mean magic doesn't exist so it's unreal but still felt real. I tried to remember the details and learning the spell scene came to my mind. What was it? Focus...think....cast. Lol. Let's try. I closed my eyes and focused thought of the vase which was in my table and 'Rethina'. ! The vase broke. Maybe due to the wind it fell and broke but the windows are closed so no wind is blowing. Means Magic is real. Mm...Ma...gi...c is real and I'm a magii?! ••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°••°°•• ~The End~