Percy Calding walked past town in the dawn of night, going to the Materials store where Amy Drake was working at for the past few weeks, she was just about to close the store, sweeping the dusty wooden surface of the store.
Knock, Knock, Knock
Percy went up to the door and knocked.
“Sorry, the store is now closed, please come tomorrow if you can!”
Amy went towards the door and opened it to see Percy standing there.
“Oh my lord, you’re awake!”
Amy hugged Percy, his face growing as red as a freshly farmed, sun-enriched tomato.
“Haha, yeah i’m awake…”
Percy smiled as Amy let go of Percy.
“I’ve been wanting to thank you ever since you saved him from that magic blast from the clouds, no one has ever done that, not even my own boyfriend.”
Amy held her hands together infront of her.
Percy slowly looked down on the floor feeling a heartbreak in his chest after hearing she was already in a relationship.
“It’s really, no problem at all.”
Percy followed up after a few seconds of silence.
“So uhm, i came here wondering if you would want…i don’t know, come for a hangout at the Alchemist headquarters next night-”
Percy stuttered through his sentence, being cut off at the end by Amy.
“Yeah, i would really love that.”
Amy smiled, of course being as much as a potion-nerd as Percy was.
“Really?”
Percy’s face was frozen with an awkward smile growing on his face.
Amy nodded, smiling with her bright, white teeth.
“I’ll see you there, partner.”
Amy smiled before closing the store and going back to cleaning the store.
Percy smiled running back home through town, avoiding the guards that roamed the night of Summerhold, all while he wanted to test out his magic again. He had seen many wizards performing something called “magic leaps” that propelled the user into the air and wanted to see if he could perform the same feat.
“Okay, okay, i got this, i got this…”
Percy’s eyes narrowed at the window of his room.
Percy sprinted towards his home, feeling a charge up of magic energy within his entire body, all of it going towards his legs and finally released.
“Flare Leap!”
Percy unleashed the build up from his legs and flew into the air and successfully going straight through his window and crashing into his room.
“What’s going on in there?”
Percy’s mother questioned.
“Just exercise…”
Percy responded, taking off his shoes and went to bed.
-Eleven hours later | Alchemist Headquarters-
Percy walked into the main room of the Headquarters, it was surprisingly quiet and the cauldron that would often be bubbling was rested.
“Hello?”
Percy wandered around the building, searching every room but there was still no one to be seen.
There was one room left, which he hadn’t even been in yet, the test chambers, he was told to never enter them but out of curiosity and since no one was here, he entered anyway.
He entered a room with about a dozen test chambers, with a person inside one of them.
“LET ME OUT OF HERE, OPEN THE DOOR!”
The deranged man yelled at Percy, his eyes glowing a light-yellow while salvia drooled out of his mouth.
While this was happening, Derius Graves, Nickolas Barion and Violet Silver all entered the same room.
“Percy, we told you not to go in here, dammit!”
Nickolas raced over and threw a potion at the insane man, putting him asleep.
“Who even was that? Why are you keeping people in test chambers?”
Percy’s high respect for them had dropped a lot from this discovery.
Nickolas and Violet both looked at Derius, his face in a serious grimace with his arms crossed.
“Ever since that Arcane Meliorater malfunctioned due to lightning striking it, it released dozens of magical blasts all over Magius…you’re not the only regular human gifted by the incident that happened a week ago.”
Derius spoke.
“And that man was one of many of them, however, he held a grudge against me after he accidently murdered his family due to his magic being unstable. So, he came all the way from Bell Village to kill me but failed.”
Derius spoke.
The insane man quickly got back up and smiled at them all, the glowing eyes bringing fear into them all.
“Explosive Blast!”
The dark wizard yelled, blowing up the chamber and knocking Percy and the others back into the room they entered from.
Percy then realized that he made a grave mistake, he knew that Amy would arrive here at any moment and she would be put into danger, it’s either she gets hurt, or his secret gets revealed to her.
“Derius Graves! Come out now you bastard!”
The Dark Wizard yelled, walking out from the room.
“Everyone go!”
Derius and the others ran into another room before sealing it off with a gate, all of them hiding behind a wooden table.
“Nickolas, do you still have your magic-protection suit?”
Percy questioned.
“Yeah why…wait…don’t tell me you’re going to fight him? We do not know his full capabilities, I’m not even sure the suit could tank an explosion user!”
Nickolas yelled back, of course not letting him do something reckless.
“We have no other choice to make, i have to beat him otherwise we are all going to die, even Amy!”
Percy begged.
“…Check the storage room in the third compartment, it’s somewhere in there.”
Nickolas finally replied back.
The door that protected them from the Dark Wizard began breaking, Derius, Violet and Nickolas all got up and scattered around the room, hiding behind the many shelves of potions as Percy raced to the storage room to find the suit.
The Dark Wizard finally broke down the door, slowly walking through the smoke that was left behind after many magic blasts.
“Derius…DERIUS!”
The Dark Wizard screamed again; his eyes glowing yellow.
The insane wizard began searching around the room looking for them, Derius holding his breath as he hid behind a shelf of potions.
Nickolas slowly peaked behind the corner, seeing the dark wizard slowly approaching Violet’s hiding spot, he quickly grabbed a blindness potion and threw it at the wizard.
“NARUGH!”
The dark wizard roared in pain, sending off explosion blasts all over the room, breaking down multiple shelves of potions.
“Yeah, who’s the alpha male now, huh?”
Nickolas grabbed another potion and threw it at the Dark Wizard.
“Barion, NO!”
Derius yelled at Nickolas as he held his hand out outward to him.
The Dark wizard would be hit by a speed potion, smiling, he then immediately dashed across the room towards Derius, grabbing him by the neck and slamming him against the wall, pinning him against it.
“Augh- I’m- I’m sorry Lennox! I never intended for the A.M.R to go haywire!”
Derius pleaded for his life.
“You’re the reason my family is dead! You don’t get to be sorry!”
The Dark Wizard, Lennox yelled as he began charging up an explosive blast.
Derius closed his eyes, both Nickolas and Violet unable to stop him until…
“Flare Blast!”
Percy came back wearing the magic-protective armour and helmet and blasted Lennox off Derius.
Violet quickly helped Derius off the floor and the three alchemists ran out the building as Percy and Lennox both went to the middle of the room apart from eachother.
“Hrrmm~”
Lennox quietly growled.
“Bring it on!”
Percy yelled, shooting a flare blast at the Dark Wizard.
The blast hit Lennox, sending him backwards and lightly burning his shirt.
“Explosive Barrage!”
Lennox send a dozen explosive blasts at Percy, he tried to evade them all but would be damaged by the last two.
“GUAH!”
Percy howled in pain as the blast damaged the side of the left chest, the suit just barely saving him from organ-damage, however, blood slowly oozed out of the wound.
Lennox slowly approached the injured Percy, picking out a sharp, broken potion bottle off the floor and walked towards him.
Lennox then sprinted towards Percy holding the sharp weapon, Percy held his wound and got back up, ignoring the aching pain.
“Flare Leap!”
Percy jumped over the Dark Wizard, evading his attack while Lennox bumped into a window.
“Flare Blast!”
Percy then blasted Lennox with a flare blast while in the air, shooting him out the of the window and falling down the tall building.
“Ugh…”
Percy fell onto the floor, more blood continuing to seep out of his wounds.
He slowly crawled towards the healing potions, however, he eventually stopped moving before he could heal in time.
-Outside of the Alchemist Headquarters-
Lennox landed infront of the headquarters, where Amy was about to enter the building.
“Oh my…are you okay sir?”
Amy gasped as she slowly approached the man.
“ARUGH, YOU- DIE, EVERYTHING DIE!”
Lennox’s eyes glowed a bright yellow as he looked at Amy.
“Over here, Lenny!”
Nickolas grabbed the attention of Lennox alongside Derius and Violet.
“Your precious failure of an experiment won’t be able to save you now!”
Lennox roared.
Derius slowly approached Lennox, lifting up his sleeves, for some reason, he wasn’t afraid of him.
“…Heh…HAHAHAH, what are you going to do? Blast me with magic you weak, powerless human?!”
All of a sudden, a fully healed Percy leaped out from the window; his fist fully charged with flare magic directed at Lennox as he fell down towards the Dark Wizard.
“Ah there he is…”
Derius threw a potion of Strength at Percy while in the air, further increasing the damage of his attacks.
“Wait…that’s impossible! You should have died!”
Lennox tried blasting Percy as fast as he could, but he was too slow.
Percy landed a heavy, aerial punch into Lennox’s jaw, knocking him out cold as he fell onto the floor, the glowing magic from his eyes fading away.
Percy landed over the knocked out Dark Wizard as Amy stood infront of him, luckily, the helmet hid his identity from her.
“Who…who are you?”
Amy questioned the man who wore red-colored Armour.
“…Captain Ultrafist!”
Percy spoke.
A moment of awkward silence followed by the ridiculous name.
“Uhh, you can just call me Flare i guess.”
Percy smiled at Amy.
Percy turned around to see Derius, Violet and Nickolas all smiling in pride as Percy’s journey had only begun as a hero of Magius.
-The End-
