Master of Youth (part IV)

The gate was a five minute walk from the front door to the house. As I got the gate I saw the five polls were I was to attach the rope to. I took the rope and tied it to the first poll. I made the pentagram with the rope and stood in the middle of the pentagram. I raised my arms so they were parallel to the ground. “Kai,” I yelled as I flicked my hands up to be perpendicular to the rope. The rope began to glow a bright red that slowly faded through the spectrum. I took a deep breath and let the energy gather inside me. My hands made the appropriate symbols as I stated the spell, “Mai Sode no Shirayuki.” The rope began to glow like a white fire. This was an advance protection spell. It required a great deal of focus and left me almost completely drained of magic. My master new this but he needed his magic to save us both if this did not work. “Tsugi no mai,” I took a deep breath and clapped my hands together, “Hakuren.” Little white strands of energy grew from the rope and began to form a tent above my head. “Some no mai, Tsukishiro.” The strands of energy above me began to come together creating a flat disk, which covered the entire pentagram. “I gathered all the energy I had within me and yelled, “San no mai, Shirafune.” The disk compressed to a little white dot then expanded to cover a distance of four miles from the center. The wave of magic becomes a barrier that makes it hard for anything not of the light to withstand being in it. The closer you are the center the strong the magic. I collapsed to the ground. The spell had taken its toll and my magic was almost completely gone. I sat there for what seemed like hours waitng for my strenght to return. When I recoverd enough strength to get up I made my way back to the house. I walked throught the front door and saw my master on the floor. I walked over to him. He was in a circle doing a mirror barrier. It creates a barrier in the caster designated location. It makes all who enter the space see a mirror image of the space. Everything that was right is now left. Up is down and far is close. It can be very confusing and can ward off even the most stubborn witches. He finished quickly and was less exhausted then I was.


“You okay son, didn’t take too much out of yah did it?” My master asked. I just smiled and stood up tall. I was trying to be cocky; I just didn’t want him to worry about me. The last time his apprentice made him worry, the apprentice had died