Shadowtorn: The Academy of Emergent Powers Seguir historia

(Flashback)

I let out a piercing yell. My heart trying to destroy my rib cage, matching my heavy footsteps.

The moon, the soul witness, cast a faint glow as if to shed light on me evading the monstrous creature that pursued me. Its form, shrouded in darkness, was gaining ground.

My mind raced, panic flooded my thoughts, eyes darted desperately seeking a glimmer of hope to get away from the encroaching predator. But with every glance over my shoulder, I could see the creature gaining ground, claws etching in the dirt before propelling it forward. It’s breaths becoming louder than my own. I thought, as I felt it almost upon me, run faster. Suddenly two shadows emerged enveloping us both.

(End flashback)

I woke up a few days later, a splitting headache the only thing on my mind.

After being awake for about twenty minutes, a nurse came in, and seeing that I was awake, called for a doctor.

When the doctor came in, she explained that I had been in a coma for about thirteen months.

'Finally, you're awake,' A gruff, gravelly almost, voice spoke as I signed the discharge papers, but no one around me seemed to hear it.

'Who was that?' I thought, finding it weird.

'Me, your wolf, Siya." The voice said, and a picture of a wolf stretching appeared in my head.

'So, you're a dog that lives in my mind?' I questioned, the weirdness of the situation increasing.

'FIRST OF ALL, DON'T YOU EVER COMPARE ME TO A DOG AGAIN UNLESS IT'S TO TELL ME HOW MUCH BETTER I AM THAN A DOG!' He growled, 'Now then, let me explain something, you're what's called a hybrid shifter, meaning you can summon animals from your mind if you know the right words, for example, to summon me, you must say Vocatio Siya,'

'Wait, you said I can summon multiple animals, what's the others?' I questioned, trying to see if he was lying.

'It's really only me and one other animal, and he's a pain in the ass, always commenting on everything and giving his opinion,' He said, growing angry at the mention of the other animal.

'What animal is it, and what's his name?' I asked, growing curious.

'Teyr, and he's a Phoenix.' Sia mumbled.

"Vocatio Teyr," I said, trying to make my voice boom, while we had been talking, I had found a small inclosed meadow in the woods near the hospital.

'I hate you.' Siya grumbled, probably close to cussing me out.

As he was grumbling, a large bird, about thirty-three yards tall, took up the whole meadow almost as he spread his wings while being summoned. After Teyr was fully summoned, he somehow turned around and lowered his head to my height.

"Siya, you forget our minds are interconnected," Teyr said, before disappearing back into my mind.

'Erasian, can I kill him? You won't miss him.' Siya said, before curling up in my head and going to sleep.

A few minutes later, Siya woke back up, claiming that Teyr was bugging him, so he suggested we went to a school for people getting used to having animals in their minds.

As we arrived at the school, I groaned, I had just finished getting my doctorate in automotive technology, and now I had to go back to school, not to mention I had two retarded animals talking in my head all the time.

Getting out of my Impala and closing the door, I looked up at the giant eight-story building, before focusing my view on the number of wolves and what I guessed to be dragons play fighting in the lawn, which looked to be about nineteen acres, given the size of the bigger dragons and the fact that they had room to spread their giant wingspans, which were almost as wide as Teyr's.

'Erasian, can I go play?' Teyr asked, sounding like a child who had just noticed his friends playing nearby.

'Only if you take Siya with you.' I said, trying to keep them from getting into an argument.

"Vocatio uterque Siya et Teyr." I commanded, watching as the two of them materialized in front of me.

While they were playing with the other summoned animals, I put my earbuds in and listened to Jimmie Driftwood sing 'The Battle Of New Orleans.'

" And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind..." I was cut off by the principal, an old black-haired man whose name was Mr. James.

"I see you have good taste in music," He said, pulling one of my earbuds out of my ear.

"Let me guess, I'm late for class?" I asked, thinking he was here to reprimand me as I shut the MP3 player off.

"Not at all, I just came over to introduce myself, and to see what we have to work with. "If you would be so inclined to summon any animals you have?"

As I called Siya and Teyr over, he stood shocked at Teyr's size.

"When you put hybrid shifter in your application, I thought you had like a wolf and a dragon, or two of one or the other, not something as rare a Phoenix." He clarified, excusing himself for his shock.

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Arriving in class, the teacher introduced me and one other student, a girl named Auchia.

After class, which was about how to summon, Auchia followed me to the summoning courtyard, just a flat field painted into sections for different animals, but she disappeared right before I opened the door to the outside.

I summoned Siya, allowing him to run laps around Teyr. While I was sitting in the shade watching them, a smaller female wolf, yet still larger than a normal one, walked around the building, and when Siya noticed her, he ran over and started trying to play with her, but to his surprise, she snapped at him before walking over a large oak tree about the size of Teyr and laid against it, going to sleep.

While I was watching her, Siya had dismissed his physical form and gone back into my mind.

'She's our soulmate, and she's feisty!' Siya cheered, before laying down in my head and taking control of my right eye, which was the side she was on, and he spent the next hour staring at her, while Teyr, being the blunt person he was, bent down and tapped her with his beak before tilting his head confusedly as she growled at him for waking her up.

A few minutes of her and Teyr staring at each other later, she walked around the building, and from where she walked away, around came Auchia, looking frantically around, before her eyes landed on me, and she approached.

"So you're my mate, huh?" Auchia asked, making it clear that she and the wolf were in each other's minds.

"Yeah, sorry for Teyr over there, he can be a little blunt," I said, pointing to the giant flaming bird.

"Wait, I thought you were a shifter, like me, not a summoner." She said, becoming confused.

"Vocatio Siya," I commanded, and she watched in pure curiosity and awe as he appeared from the air.

"That's so cool!" She cheered, wrapping her arms around Siya's neck and hugging him tightly.

"If you don't mind me asking, why did you snap at him earlier?" I questioned, getting up and leaning against the tree I was sitting against.'

"Oh, 'cause I didn't know that you were also my mate, and I didn't want anyone to know who I was mated to, so they couldn't try to blackmail me somehow." She explained, before going back to cooing at Siya like he was a puppy.