Agatha was sitting in the middle of a blood drawn circle, quite a number of candles lit, all around. The wooden floor was ice cold despite the heat from the only light sources being hot burning candles. The deep bone freezing chill was instant death for anyone who dared to trespass. The darkness from the book in front of Agatha who was chanting in a unknown language, sent cruel vibes to your very marrow.
The Darkhold that this cruel woman sacrificed her son for, was making her more hungry, hungry for power, hungry for chaos. As she delved deeper into the daily ritual to rewrite her age, make herself immortal in one body, her fingers blackened. The spell was getting fader, harder to control, more violent the more days she did it.
Originally her vessel was named Lily Dorthy, know housing the soul of Harkness, her eyes snapped open. She was not in her future vessel showed in WandaVision, the vessel of person named Agnes O'Conner.
"I need chaos magic. That is the only way.", she whispered darkly as a projection of Wanda training in Stark facility lit up as a hologram powered by magic. "I will get my opportunity, your brother must die to make you unstable, that is when I will take it all", she said as a cruel emotionless grin spread wide on her face. A grin that had countless innocent's torture behind it. The once lively woman named Lily now colored possibly the most cruel human on Earth. Her hunger for Power unending.
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I woke up early as usual, the wake up knock came AFTER I woke up. Heh. I am proud to be an early bird. As they say, Early bird takes the worm. Well, after I freshened up it was the start of the daily morning torture. Running, push-ups, some insane yoga position holds, and very insanely superhuman fitness regime. There were many beginners with me, but I was the latest addition, around 1 month later than the greenest kid here. And also atleast 4 years older than the youngest in my batch.
"Hi! My name is Evan, what's yours?"
"I am Alexis, Nice to meet you Evan," I extended my hand. He shook it and then said, "Well, a Namaste is more common here, and more theme fitting you know? Anyway, I was the greenie before you, don't worry too much, everyone trains at their own pace here. The workouts are divided into batch but the difficulty is flexible. Well, the masters here say consistency is the key rather than short burst of motivation 1 fine day."
"Hmm... Nice well, I am anything but consistent so... I am sure I will be the best student huh?", i said with a sarcastic sigh. "Ah, I am sure they will beat you into it, did that to me and most before me", he replied with a smirk.
"I am not looking forward to that"
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I walked into a very cool library that was practically dripping ancient vibes, as a certified nerd, loner and a bookworm, I was looking forward to collecting my study material since forever and I also wanted to learn the trick of using astral projection to study lol.
I walked towards the very stoic and strict Wong, "Hello! I was sent to collect beginner books for my training here. I believe you are Master Wong?"
He looked at me and pulled out a huge stack of books without replying. God help me, everyone here wants to look so tough and mysterious, I do not understand why. Mordo has his perpetual scowl, and Ancient One has her perpetual knowing gaze that is pretty annoying, and now this guy.
"Anything happens to the books...", he said in a deep voice while make sure to make himself look really intimidating, would have worked if I did not watch Doctor Strange in my past life. And I am pretty sure he just used a spell to make his eyes glow or something, cause there is something funny with the lighting here, heh.
Okay, I lied. I kinda got a little teeny-tiny bit scared. Maybe some psychological magic. Gotta hurry up and learn some marvel Occlumency man.
I was thinking, as I walked out with my book stack, albeit with a faster gait than usual. Evan was waiting for me outside the library, he looked at me as soon as I emerged out of the creepily cool place with a intimidating librarian, no wonder I saw nobody studying there.
"Hey, got all the books? He scared you didn't he? Heh, he tried that on me too, I was so chill that he was surprised by how composed."
"Yeah, sure. I am sure you did not want to scare him by appearing with me there. Wanted to give me my valuable first time huh?", I said with sarcasm practically dripping from my voice.
*Cough*, "Anyway, I advise you start with Sanskrit: The language of the Mystic, well you have to start from that anyway, no other choice or you won't understand a word of the rest of the books"
"Aaah, great! I have to learn another Language now!"
"Heh, I am still learning it, but I have the basics down so, I am reading other books while checking it up when I do not understand"
"Welp, let's just do it, no point overthinking stuff, I'll just procrastinate if I think a little more"
"Anyway, thanks Evan.", I said when a clear bell sound rang in the place as the sun climbed to the peak in the sky.
"Time for lunch, I will put this in my room and come you go ahead man", I said while running towards the dorms. "Okay, hurry up"
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"Finally! SOMETHING MAGICAL!", I said with excitement as I walked towards the courtyard along with Evan. It has been 3 month since I have been here. And this is my first session with actual magic, in fact that is the case for the whole new batch. "Yeah, imagine how we feel, we have had this torture for 2 more months than you", added Evan.
"But well, you caught up to the basic level of fitness and knowledge pretty well, faster than all of us, so you must have put in quite a bit of effort in those 3 months. Respect man, studying for 12 hours a day, with no entertainment at all for 3 months, insane"
"Thanks, it was all for MAGIC, by the way, Sanskrit is pretty deep. So much more depth to things than English could describe. Damn, I never thought a Language could be like this"
"Hmm... Yea, it is very powerful. Most ancient texts that are very powerful are all in Sanskrit"
We reached the courtyard and found the Ancient One there. Everyone lined up in the usual grid practiced into our bones for a cruel duration of 3 months, 5 or 4 for others.
Senior disciples came to us and handed us 2 finger rings, the sling rings. Excitement was palpable in the air as everyone in the place was looking forward to it.
The cool sling ring slid into my hand like it always belonged there. I noticed that everyone had the same perfect fit. It seems the sling ring has auto resizing enchantments at work, cool.
"These sling rings are the first step to stepping to practical mystic arts. They are the easiest thing to help you get familiar with the eldtritch energy. I want you all to imagine a location or a object which you can remember very well", said the Ancient One while obviously using some kind of voice magic to reach all ears.
I closed my eyes and imagined the dorm room. The visualization was pretty easy and clear. A skill that came quite easily to me, and it was foundational to all my nerdy stuff. When I finished that, I raised my left hand with snugly fitted sling ring, and traced a circle in the air with my right while imagining the dorm room.
I heard gasps around me. And I opened my eyes. Oh yeah. I loved what I say. In fact loved, is weak. I absolutely insanely fucking loved what I saw. A shiny sparking circle leading to my dorm room and a very surprised face of the Ancient One. FYI, I loved the latter part just a little teeny-tiny bit more. Oh, I love you author-san, you made me into a genius.
A/N: Heh, you poor foolish soul. You do not know what is coming for you. hehehehe... Let us see if you love me then.