NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1: Ch:1 Flashback
He just finished working and got out of the train. The many people at the station always annoy him so he hurried through the people to finally get home and watch Netflix for the rest of the day. He walked across the street when the brakes of a truck malfunctioned and the truck crashed into him. The last thing he saw was the panicked face of the truck driver and the headlights that blinded him. Then followed the impact and he could feel his bones breaking under the heavy force.
'Ah fuck' was the last thing he thought before the darkness engulfed him.
He then floated in this endless darkness and felt at peace. The darkness was like an incredibly soft pillow which made him tired and he felt relaxed. He didn't know how long he floated in the darkness but he then slowly lost consciousness.
He woke up in an old forest with another young boy besides him. Before he could process his new surroundings a pain so great that he felt like his head was split open assaulted him and memories appeared in his head.
Flashback:
Orion Pendragon was 7 years old and ran inside the castle laughing like a madman.
He was being chased by his twin Mordred. Althrough they were twins their appearence couldn't be more different. Mordred had short black hair and red eyes while Orion had white hair with venom green eyes eyes.
Suddenly a house elf appeared besides them. "Young masters, the lady ordered your presence in the ritual room" the creature said.
Mordred and Orion stopped in their tracks and looked at each other and ran off in sync. They both hated classes where you would learn complicated magic and boring politic stuff. Still the house elf didn't let them go. He apparated in front of them, grabbed them and apparated them into the ritual room.
"Ah he finally caught you two, thanks Zippy" a woman in her late twenties said, her curled black hair giving her an attractive look but what gave Orion and Mordred chills were the blood red eyes the woman has. She looked like a demon in expensive black robes.
That woman was Morgana, their mother.
"Today you will undergo your rites and a few rituals to let you adapt to the ancient magic that the royal family has perserved for over thousands of years" she said in a strict voice that left no room for negoation.
"You will first get your heir rings of the house LeFay and Pendragon to become legitimate heirs. The rings contain a large storage space were a few things are stored. That includes your keys for the treasury of Camelot, Grimoires and a bit of money should you need it" Morgana explained and gave each of them two rings, a golden one that had a dragon engraved on it and a black one that also showed a dragon.
The rings adjusted themselves to fit their tiny hands as soon as they put them on. Annoyed by their flashy appearance Orion willed them to be invisible and the rings dissapeared. Mordred through seemed to be fascinated by the magical radiance the rings gave of.
"With this sorted ,now you need to choose your companion that will follow you for the rest of your life. A companion is bounded to you, if either one of you dies, the other follows. But the benefits of having a companion outweight the risk. Your companion will grow stronger with you and you will also gain the animagus form of your spirit companion, the element of it and in rare cases also a different energy other than mana." she lectured the two boys"there are a few other energy sources besides magic energy or mana such as Qi, aura or aether energy which are all several times more powerful than normal mana."
"Step into the ritual circle on the right" she ordered them impatiently.
They followed her instructions and the ritual circle soon activated sending them to a space where countless glowing orbs floated in the darkness like stars in the sky in all colours one can imagine. Then a black orb suddenly shot towards him at a rapid speed. Like a bullet it crashed into his chest and a second later he reappeared in the ritual room. His body was eveloped by a black energy that he seemed to have gotten and in front of him was a pitch black crow that seemed to absorb all light in the room with red eyes that included an incredible intellegence. Knowlege appeared inside his head and he was barely able to supress a groan at the sudden headache.
He felt his magic shift and liquid shadows seemed to fill his body. The knowlege of this power appeared inside his head. Miasma, the power of darkness and corruption. The knowlege of how to use his newly animagus form and his darkness element also appeared inside his head.
Looking over to Mordred he also saw a small white cat in his lap.
Seeing the shadows that eveloped Orion and the red energy on Mordred Morgana smiled.
"Good, it seems everything is in order. Now the next ritual" she said and pointed to the other ritual circle.
This was the ritual of ancient blood, the magic that would awaken their ancient magic and bloodline.
They stepped inside the magic circle and the circle lit up. A surge of mana overflowed the room. Their bodies began heating up and their heartbeat accelerated. Then tatoos started to form on their bodies. A big white dragon on the back of Mordred and a black snake on Orion that coiled around his left arm.
"As expected of my sons" Morgana said proudly "to have awakened the bloodline of Jörmungandr and Zephyr the golden Dragon".
Power flowed through their bodies and merged with their magic, they also gained new abilities and knowlege. Mordred gained the tongue of reptilians and knowlege of the runes of light while Orion also gained the tongue of reptilians and knowlege of cursed runes.
But then something started to go wrong , the energys of their stigmas seemed to attack each other and the rampant mana ripped through space. Before they knew what happened they were sucked into a void and lost consciousness.
Confused they regained conciousness in an old forest.
(End of flashback)
'So I was reincarnated into the middle ages and then in an accident I got teleported to god knows where?' Orion thought 'just great'.
"Where are we?" Mordred asked him "and why did the ritual go wrong?".
"Do I look like I have any Idea what happened? It seemes like we were teleported into the middle of nowhere" Orion said.
Mordred looked around and froze" Say Ori, don't you find something familar in this forest?".
"What do you mean?" Orion asked confused. He looked around and froze like Mordred. In the middle of the clearing was a piece of a stone wall and in their surroundings there were also signs of an incredibly old castle overgrown by plants and earth.
"We are in Camelot" Mordred wispered and turned to Orion "we are in the future".