Reborn 2

Kyle Mercer could not pay attention for the rest of the day, and not just because he was staring so intensely at Miss Helen, because even though he was staring at her, he was also upset about being named a traitor. Even Beth started to notice something was going on.

"Did you really want to teach me words that much?" Beth finally asked Kyle after he had not said anything more all day. She was also quite all day, but after Kyle tried to talk to her so much before the lashings she felt that she caused his unhappiness.

"You could... if you want..." Though Beth said these things, she did not speak any more. Kyle could not reply because of the trance like state he was in. If there was a spell to stop time he would use it just so he could get a feel of Miss Helen without everyone seeing.

But then Kyle though, 'Hey, I have a divine given spell. Invisible hands, telekinesis!' and he remembered the spell he learned in the library which he had not used much because it used so much mana. Kyle used the spell to try and get a feel of the mountains of heavenly curves, and as he did the mana cost felt significantly reduced.

'This is so great!' Kyle could not help but think to himself as he cupped feel after feel with the invisible hands. Every few seconds though, Miss Helen would turn to the board and straighten her shirt around her chest, so Kyle would have to retract the hands quickly, but he was already a master at the spell. Nothing can force the mastery of a technique like primal lust, and Kyle Mercer was no exception. Not even in a 5 year old body.

Suddenly though Kyle stopped. 'What if she gets so embarrassed she never comes back?' he though, and he suddenly pulled his telekinesis away. The lesson continued as normal and nobody knew what happened. Kyle could not focus on the lesson though, he could only move his eyes from Miss Helen's slightly red face to her ample body.

Fortunately for Kyle, Beth was too embarrassed for what she was about to say that she did not look at Kyle's face. She did see his hands under the desk though, and they made strange shapes like he was holding a sack of marbles, though nothing was in them.

"Are you understanding this Kyle?" Helen was walking around the room to see how the students were doing on their maths. This lesson they were making addition. 4 + 5. Kyle had nothing on his paper though, it was just circles drawn over more circles.

"...yes..." Kyle could do nothing buy say 'yes' in front of Helen. He was deeply mesmerized. As Helen walked off and Kyle watched the bountiful cushion gently bounce, Beth leaned over.

"If you are having trouble at maths... I could..." Though Beth could not complete what she was saying before becoming completely red faced, Kyle still gave a reply.

"...yes..." Because Kyle was still transfixed on Helen's godly stabilizers exposed from the calf down. Beth became infinitely more red faced when Kyle said yes, even though she hadn't said anything someone would say yes to.

"So... you will come... to my house?" Beth said sheepishly in a very quite voice that Kyle could just barely hear.

"...yes...yes...YES" But it was too take for Kyle who was already fantasizing about marrying Miss Helen and doing the dirty deed with her. Kyle yelled the last yes and everyone looked at him.

"Oh so you now understand the true power behind addition Kyle?" Helen asked this as if she did not know what Kyle was saying yes to.

After the lesson, Kyle was preparing to leave when he was approached by Beth.

"Once you finish packing up you can follow me." Kyle did not know what she meant, because he truly did not know what anything meant when he was around Miss Helen, and right now she was at the front of the room sitting down behind a desk.

"Okay." Even if he did not understand, the trance was wearing off and Kyle knew he wanted to make friends with the person so similar to himself that was sitting next to him, so he agreed to whatever it was she wanted.

Kyle followed Beth into the 2nd district on the other side from his own home and they walked up to a larger house than his own. It was at least two stories high and had a stone wall around it. The lower part of the house was made from stone while the upper part was mostly from wood. Beth went inside the iron gate that she used a key to unlock first, and Kyle followed her.

"Well, this is my home." Beth said as she looked at Kyle and then looked down. The trance of Kyle was completely gone by now and he wondered why Beth took him to her home. Beth walked down the short path to the front door and held it open for Kyle. "Please, come in."

While they were not in the 4th district, Beth's home was as close to a noble's that he had seen in this life. There were paintings and pottery, and for some reason dresses on glass cases on the sides of the hall.

"If you are wondering about the dresses" Beth said as if she was reading Kyle's mind, "my father designs them so he put his best ones on display." The answer to Kyle's unspoken question was... a let down.

"So what are we here for?" Kyle asked Beth and smiled at the same time. It was nice of her to invite him to her home, but only if he and she were about 10-15 years older.

"You... here... me..." Beth became flustered and did the first thing that came to mind. She slapped Kyle and then ran up the stairs. Kyle did not know what was happening so he just stood there.

"Erg, only her second day and she is already bringing home a boy!" The voice of a man in his 20's spoke an Kyle looked around. To the left of him was a man in attire that could belong to a high class person, and in his hand was a smoking pipe raised to his lips and in the other a cane even though he sounded young.

Kyle was exceptionally gifted in his previous life, so he never got to experience the things normal students did at the magic and sword schools, but he was certain being fearful of boys their daughters bring home was something fathers did after the age of 10, not half that.

"I don't really know why I am here, but if you could direct me to a restroom I would be grateful." Kyle who did not know exactly what Beth wanted followed her without asking, even though he had to use the toilet. The sight of Helen was enough to calm the gates, but now if nothing was done he would be finished.

"Sure, just follow me. I'm Reginald Valheart by the way, Beth's father." Reginald lead Kyle to a door and then opened it. Kyle went inside and then closed the door.

On a stand by the toilet was a lap bench, some paper, and a pencil. 'The mind does it's best work on the porcine thrown.' Kyle though to himself as he did his business.

Reginald was outside though and he was calling everyone in the house, everyone but Beth of course. When Kyle left the bathroom, he was greeted by 3 extra faces. One was a woman about 30 years of age. The next was a boy about 2 years younger than Kyle and the next was another boy but about 2 years older.

"I am Sarah Valheart, Beth's mother. I am glad to see that even though I was unable to come to her first day, Beth is adjusting well."

"I am Beth's older brother Berry. You better be nice or i'll knock your teeth out.

"Cory. Knock. Teeth." A small child behind Berry spoke these 3 words. He was about the same size as Dave.

"That was Cory. He'll knock your teeth out too." Berry spoke as if what Cory said was inadequate, because truthfully it was.

"Well now that you know a little about us, how about we here a little about you?" Reginald asked as he leaned over and faced Kyle. Reginald was probably trying to be intimidating, but it did not work.

"Dad!!!!" However before Kyle could say anything, one long word came from the stairs to the second floor. Beth ran down the stairs and grabbed onto Kyle's hand and pulled him towards the stairs. "Come with me, we... can..." Though as she did, Beth became slightly red faced and stopped talking as she pulled Kyle away from her family.

"That's fine. We'll have a long chat at diner." Sarah smirked and turned around and walked away, back to where she came from. Reginald, Berry, and Cory all left at the same time, with Reginald going one way and Cory following close behind Berry.

Beth took Kyle to her room and they both sat on the floor. Beth sat with her legs crossed and looking at Kyle, and he did the same to her. Under the bed, Kyle could see a large mess, as if she quickly cleaned her room by pushing everything under it. There was a desk in the corner of the room by the window and it had a few pens and some paper on it. There was a bookcase, but it was empty.

"I'm going to teach you maths and you can... words." Beth trailed off at the last word but was able to get one more out before looking down. Kyle had to think about the statement for a few seconds before coming to the conclusion that Beth wanted to teach him maths, because that was the clearest thing she said, and that she wanted him to teach her words.

"I already know my maths pretty well, how about I just teach you words?" Kyle did not think he needed to learn maths. During his hero training in the human kingdom palace, words history and maths were all taught. The history is now worthless though because nobody remembers anything about what happened over 3,000 years ago, and nobody cares.

"Alright..." Beth could only say this before looking away. Kyle went over to the desk and took a paper from it and a pen. He then placed them in the center of the desk and started to write a few things.

"Okay Beth, come over here and tell me which of these you can read." Kyle said to Beth as he got up from the chair at the desk and held it out for Beth to sit. Beth walked over and sat in the chair and then Kyle pushed it in.

"dag of fer, this is too much!" Beth was upset that she was not able to read the words on the paper Kyle placed on the desk, and perhaps it was for the best that she could not. She would have produced a small flame from her hand if it was read completely.

"That's alright Beth, just repeat after me. Dragon of Fire."

"Dragon of Fire."

"Create thy essence."

"Create thy essence."

"Flame."

"Flame."

At this moment... nothing happened. That was the basic call for the most elementary flame spell, Flame. "Now I want you to put your palms up like this say it all at the same time." Kyle then put his the backs of his hands on the desk with his fist open.

Beth looked over at Kyle and then put her palms up on the table. "Dragon of Fire, create thy essence, Flame."

A small fire came from Beth's hand and she got scared, panicked, and it was put our. "What was that!" Beth yelled at Kyle in a slightly raised voice. It might have gotten the attention of someone.

"That was a basic fire spell. You just case magic." Kyle looked at Beth as if he was proud. Kyle had once before taught an orphanage how to use Ice and Fire magic to create water, so he understood tricking someone into saying the call was the best method. Or so he thought.

"I just did magic!" Beth was very excited at being able to use magic. "Nobody in my whole family can use magic, but... I just... did." Beth's excited tone became normal as she looked at the paper in front of her. "Was this the chant for the magic spell?" Beth said as she pointed to the paper on the desk.

"Yes, if you had been able to read it yourself, it would have made a flame appear just like now when you repeated what I said." Kyle was proud that his student was already this excited about learning words. "These things you have to say before casting a spell are called 'Calls', and I know a few more other than this."

"Really?!" Beth was very excited. The nervous reactions from earlier were completely gone.

"Yes, and if you can learn to read, you will be able to use the calls from all of them, as long as you know how the magic works."

"How it works?"

"Right. You understood how a flame is made, so the spell was easy. Almost everyone knows how a flame is made. Other spells are a little more difficult though, so I will have to teach you the meaning too."

"Okay, lets do it." Beth had a determined face and she put her palms on the desk.

"Just one thing, you need to have your palms up when casting a spell because the result will be made there." Kyle said this and then began teaching words to Beth in the form of reading spells.

Kyle finished teaching words to Beth for that day and then went home. Kyle purposely fled the house before Reginald or the others could stop him. Kyle went straight home on the other side of the town but was stopped by a guard.

"You there child, what is your name?" The guard spoke to Kyle. Though Kyle had gone to sword practice in the morning for a while, it was not long enough for the guards who worked inside the city to remember his face.

"My name is Kyle Mercer."

"Then you are just who we are looking for. Follow me."

Kyle did not know why he was following the guard, but it was in the same direction as home and his father worked with the guards, so it couldn't be anything bad. Unless this guard had a grudge against his father and was going to kidnap him. Kyle followed the guard for a few minutes and finally came to his house. 'Strange that he knew where I lived.' Kyle thought as the guard went to the door.

"Mrs. Mercer, I found your Kyle." The guard spoke loudly at the closed door and it was quickly flung open. Elena instantly saw Kyle and fell down and hugged his little body and started to cry.

"I thought you were taken by bandits in the city Kyle, you can't just go around and play at night!" It was certainly a little dark out, but not night. Evening, dusk at the most.

"Mother it is fine, I was with the girl who sat next to me in class at her house." Kyle thought this explanation of things might make it alright. Elena remembered the girl who sat next to Kyle because it was just the day before, and she did not look like someone who would invite someone to her house.

POV: Guard

'Is that really Fred's boy? Nice.' The guard could not help but think if Fred's kid was already being invited into girl's homes he would have a great future.

First grade the simultaneously the most boring thing ever, and the reason to live. 'Skorva can suck a cock. Woodworth can kneel over and die, Helen can be my wife.' was something Kyle said to himself everyday. Kyle did not try anything else with his telekinesis and pretended to pay attention during class.

Lessons with Beth at her house went very well. Beth could now cast Flame, Frost, and Light. She was able to read the calls for earth magic, but she did not understand it enough to use it. Those three things did not create mass, they just changed things that were already there. Earth magic on the other hand created mass. This was extremely difficult for most people to understand, and Beth was one of those people.

Every day was exciting to learn magic spells, and even though Beth could not cast them without the call like Kyle, she still had fun with it. Kyle was less than a year old when he started using magic without the call, so it must get much more difficult when older. Kyle could still feel the mana flowing in him though, and wondered why he did not feel it in his previous life.

Because Kyle became friends with Beth first, and neither of them liked school at all, except Kyle liking maths, neither of them had other friends. Kyle wanted to make friends, but the he remembered his 4 best friends in the whole world betrayed him and had him removed from history, and the rest died during the demonic army invasion. Kyle did not need many friends.

As the year passed, one thing passed by Elena. Kyle's sword lessons. After the 3rd night coming home when it was dark out, Elena approved of Kyle being taught swords. Fred and Kyle worked together to make the story about him going to learn from the guard's swords instructor as if it had not happened yet and they were going to make it happen. Because of his training, Kyle could use a sword a little better than before.

Kyle is 6 years old. Claire is 4 years old. Dave is 3 years old. Fred and Elena might not be trying for a third child, but if they had any kind of pattern it was being broke. Kathy told Elena she wanted to wait until Claire turned 5 before trying for another child. She might have still been a little shook up from Claire being dead when she came out. In this whole time, Kyle has converted all of his spells into call-less. It was very frightening for the town when a meteor appeared from nowhere, but they got over it soon enough.

During the next year, Kyle taught Beth some more advanced magic. The lessons were now less about words than they were about magic, and Beth was an enthusiastic disciple. She could now cast Flame, Frost, Light, Fireball, and a very low power Ice Age. Beth could not understand wind or healing magic, and so in addition to not knowing earth magic, 3 out of 6 wasn't too bad.

Classes continued like normal, but Beth had to finally start paying attention in all of them. Kyle could teach words up to a point, but he did not have 20 years of experience doing it. Woodworth was old as usually, nothing really changed. Maths was... Helen.

Kyle only went to Beth's house every few days now because Beth was learning words from class and already knew most of the magic she could learn from him. Every time when Kyle went to Beth's house, Berry and Cory would act upset at him, but Reginald and Sarah eventually warmed up to the idea of him visiting after school with Beth. This did not change the fact that when he did leave, he went through the window of Beth's room.

Claire and Dave were talking better and Claire would be going to school soon. They still played together often, but not as much now that Kyle was going to Beth's after school.

Last year of royal decree mandated education.

"Kyle, you have to walk Kathy and Claire to the school, alright?" Elena was making breakfast for Kyle as she spoke from inside the kitchen. Kyle was preparing his school tools for the day and sitting in a chair.

"I think it would be best If I did not accompany Kathy and Claire into the school." Kyle knew he had bad standing with Skorva and Woodworth, and maybe is staring was starting to get on Helen's nerves. No, Kyle was only 7 years old, he was safe.

"You probably wonder why I'm making so much to eat." Kyle did not wonder why. He could not see how much she was making and it did not come into his mind. "It's because Kathy and Claire will be coming by to eat before going to the school."

"Hello, it's Kathy!" A voice that sounded very much like Kathy was at the door.

"And Claire!" A voice that sounded like Claire was heard. She was undoubtedly Claire.

"Kyle, open the door and let them in." Elena told Kyle as she kept cooking. Kyle had already gotten up from his seat and was waking his way to the door.

"Come in Claire, Kathy." Kyle held open the door and allowed Kathy and Claire to come in. "So you are starting your first day of school?" Kyle asked when he sat down in another chair and looked at Claire.

"Yep, mommy is coming with me today too." Claire was proud that she was going to start school like Kyle had already done for 2 years, and she was happy to spend the whole day with her mother, even though she already did almost every day.

"Well if you have any questions about anything, you can ask me. I am in the class 2." Classes were assigned in a 1, 2, 3 cycle. The next student group would get the number of the class that graduated the year before, so Claire would be getting class 1. This made students never change classrooms but had teachers constantly moving their things.

"Claire is in class 1, but she is a smart girl and I think he is going to do just fine." Kathy was absolutely beaming at Claire as she praised her. Claire was also happy to receive the praise.

After a little while, the breakfast came and the four of them ate. Kyle left with Claire and Kathy to the school which took a little while to get to. Kyle left Claire and Kathy at the gate and told them the teachers thought he was a bit of a delinquent, which earned the reply from Claire; "Kyle isn't a delinquent!", even though she probably didn't know what a delinquent was.

"Hey Kyle, who was that?" Beth had come up to Kyle after Claire and Kathy both left and he still stood at the gate. Beth was 7 years old now and had grown a small amount. A really small amount.

"That was Claire and her mom. They live near us and are friends with my mother." Kyle said to her as waited for her to catch up.

"Alright then." As if giving her approval, Beth agreed with something and went with Kyle into the school. Class 2 was always in the same place and they always sat in the back.

Classes were like normal. Words was useless, history was worthless, and maths was the greatest thing ever. At least in some regards. Somehow, Helen was looking less and less attractive every year. She almost looked like a normal person. Almost. At the end of the day, Claire and Kathy met up with Beth and Kyle as he left the class 2 room.

"All done Kyle, wait, who is that?" Claire just now saw Beth after boasting about finishing the first day of school.

"Is that the friend who's house to go to?" Kathy had a smile on her face as she bent her knees to be on level with everyone else there.

"You told them about me?" Beth became a little red faced and stepped back a little.

"How could I not? I go to your house every week. Claire, Kathy, this is my friend Beth. We both hate classes here." Kyle first looked at Beth, then he turned to Claire and Kathy as he said their names so that hopefully Beth would learn who was who.

"Nice to meet you Beth." Kathy could smile and be polite, but Claire was not saying anything like that.

"Are you come to my house today Kyle?" Claire asked.

"Of course I will." Kyle said to her as he looked in her direction and Beth grabbed his hand from behind.

"Me too." Beth said as he invited herself to go to Claire's house.

"Of course, a friend of Kyle's is a friend of ours." Kathy was still smiling, unaware of what was happening between her daughter and Beth.

'is this... a rivalry?' Kyle could not help but ask himself as he stood between the two girls.

On the walk back to Kathy's house, Beth and Claire walked on opposite sides of Kyle, with Kathy on the same side as Claire.

"Kyle is going to come to my house every day and help me with my subjects." Claire would say to Beth.

"Kyle has been coming to my house every day for years already." Beth would say back.

"Kyle has known me ever sense I was born." Claire would repeat back.

"Kyle taught me how to read any word I see." Beth would say back.

"Kyle taught me how to make a big tower with blocks." Claire would say.

"Kyle taught me how to cast magic spells." Beth said.

"..." And Kathy stopped walking. Everyone was holding hands so that caused everyone to stop, but Beth quickly put her hand over her mouth. She was not supposed to say that, and promised Kyle to not let anyone know they could cast spells.

"Magic...?" Kathy could do nothing other than make the question and look over at Kyle.

"Surprise!" was the only think Kyle could think to say.

"..." Kathy started walking again but they changed direction from Kathy's home to Elena's. The four of them came to the door which did not have a gate in front of it and they knocked. Kyle had a key though, so he could open it up.

"Hello?" Elena came to the door asking who it was because it was just after school ended and she thought Kyle was going to Kathy's.

"We need to have a talk with everyone here." Kathy said as she lead the children inside. Kathy said something in Elena's ear which caused her to gasp. Elena's face returned to normal and she looked at Kyle, and then at Beth.

"Lets all just take a seat and I will get something for us all to drink, okay?" Elena went into the kitchen and got cups for everyone and poured tea. It was called tea, but it was more like boiled water with some leaves of a random plant thrown in. It was certainly through trial and error that no poisonous plant was chosen.

"So this is Beth?" Elena asked as she looked at Beth. Beth was the only one in the room that she did no recognize, so it was obvious who she was.

"Yes that's me." Beth said earnestly.

"And Kyle has been teaching you magic?" Elena questioned.

"That's..." Beth was about to agree but stopped herself. She knew Kathy already knew, but using 7 year old logic she though Elena might not know yet.

"Kathy told me what you said on the way home."

"It's alright Beth, mom, I learned some spells in the library when Mr. Reese was not looking and I taught them to Beth because she helped me with maths." Kyle's brain was working in overload trying to find a path for things to turn out smoothly.

"Kyle..." Beth could not say anything because someone Kyle had told her almost every day that she practiced magic she had just broken. The promise to not let anyone find out.

"So Kyle, what spells do you know?" Elena was very cautious. She and Fred could only use basic fire magic so this was mostly uncharted territory for her.

"Just two fire ones." Kyle answers childishly and Elena gulped. That was already twice as many as she knew. Beth understood what Kyle meant by this, he was trying to make it seem like he knew less than he really did.

"And what spells are those?"

"Flame and Fireball."

"... Beth, did Kyle teach you those two spells?"

"Yes." Beth answered back because she was not as quick witted as Kyle to think of something else to say. There was silence for a little bit, and then Kathy spoke.

"Can you teach Claire how to use spells?"

"Um, sure?" Kyle did not expect that from Kathy and answered with a question, but that part was ignored.

"You'll really teach me spells?!" Claire was not as excited about learning magic as she was about Kyle coming to her house every day like he used to do for Beth.

"Well, if you want and it's alright with Kathy, but learning spells was originally for learning words for Beth." Kyle looked over at Beth who was besides him. She was becoming more and more upset sense Kathy asked if he could teach Claire spells.

"Well we don't know Claire's proficient magic type, but most people can use fire and you already taught Beth fire spells, so it should be alright."

"Wait Kathy, we don't know what kind of trouble these two might get into for learning spells on their own like this, and now you want to being Claire into it?"

"I want to learn spells!" Claire could not help but cry out as she saw Elena making a threat towards Kyle's daily visits. Everyone looked at each other for a small amount of time and then Kathy spoke.

"You can walk Claire home after school and teach her how to use magic at my home." Kathy said without anyone stopping her.

"Yeah, sure." Kyle agreed because he thought he had no other choice. Learning spells seemed like a bad thing to Elena, but a good thing to Kathy. At this point, Kyle needed to stock up on as many allies as possible.

"I... I can help too!" Beth quickly put in.

"Right, Beth can come over too."

"Just one thing, can we see the spells Beth?" Elena asked as she looked at Beth and was still worried.

"Um, sure." Beth made the calls for a small flame and a small fireball out the window. That really was the last thing, and soon Kathy and Claire left and Kyle went to take Beth home but was stopped by Elena.

"We might be fine with you learning and teaching spells, but Beth's family might not, so be careful." Elena warned.

"I will, bye and I'll be back soon." And Beth and Kyle left.

Down the street a few blocks.

"Are you really going to go to that girl's house every day?" Beth asked, pouting on the way to her house.

"I went to your house every day didn't I? I have to so she learns quickly and doesn't try anything without me there."

"Well just so you know, I will be coming too, so get used to walking me home like this every day."

"You really don't have to come."

"Yes I do!" Beth yelled at Kyle and walked a little faster.

"But thanks for not telling them about all the spells I taught you." Kyle was not so thankful as he let on, but this was simply the setup for teasing down the line.

"Oh, your welcome." Beth's face turned red as she looked down, which was dangerous because she was in the lead. There were no poles on the side of the street, but there were other people walking.

"Even though you let it slip that I taught you magic." Kyle's plan to tease Beth was a success.

"You jerk!" Beth turned around and hit Kyle's arm and then ran off ahead.

'Flawless victory' was what Kyle said in his head.

"Beth, what were you doing out so late?!" Sarah was very upset at Beth being gone all day and not returning from school. Sarah had gone to the guards to ask for them to search for Beth, but the guards did not owe any favors to the Valhearts and the Valhearts did not have any family members in the guards, unlike Elena who had Fred.

"Today I went to Kyle's house, and now every day I will be going with him after school and he will be walking me home." Beth said to Sarah who was the only one in the room.

"You're going to a boys home after school?" Sarah questioned, but what Beth said at first was wrong.

"Actually, she will be going to my friend's Claire's house and we will all be studying together. Claire joined school this year and wanted help with words like Beth did." Kyle spoke so that Beth could not mix up any more details.

"Beth is going to be alone with Kyle and another girl?" Sarah was hopeless.

'I'm only 7 years old!' Kyle could not help but yell in his head. He liked Beth and Claire, but he could never do the things to them that he fantasied about doing with Miss Helen.

"Mom, I have to!" Beth shouted at her mother.

"I think I will be leaving now." Kyle said as he approached the door to leave.

Sarah and Beth could be heard arguing about how much Sarah was misunderstanding things Beth was saying.

5 Months Later.

Kyle has been teaching Claire how to cast spells, but only Flame and Fireball. Claire comes every day too and makes sure nothing happens. "Don't do anything while i'm gone." She will say as she leaves the room briefly. Claire understands how to make Flame, but she still is unable to produce a Fireball. This is just her faking it though, because she thinks Kyle will stop visiting when she learns the last spell.

They really do learn words though. Claire doesn't like Skorva and told Kyle about a story she heard in class about a kid who on the second day got 150 lashes for calling her an old hag. Beth laughed when she heard that.

"I don't have much longer at school until I can turn 8 and can leave." Beth was talking to Kyle as he walked her home from Claire's.

"You are only a few months older than me, so once you leave I will be leaving soon after." Kyle reminded her. Beth would be turning 8 in just two more weeks and would be taking the Magical Aptitude Test.

"I am going to leave that stupid school as soon as I can, but we will be joining the magic school at the same time."

"But that still leaves about 3 months that you are not going to school for. What will you do during the day?" Kyle asked as they walked. Though Kyle could spend a lot longer in the library reading books, a surprisingly large amount of them were erotic novels. The top shelves of practically every row was erotic literature, and a row only had 6 shelves.

"I'm not really sure. What will we do when we enter the magic school? Will we be the best out of everyone?" Beth asked, partially ignoring Kyle's question. That, or she really did not know what to do when away from school because for the past 2 and a half years, the only break was one day every 7.

At that moment, Kyle was waking up from sleep.

'This isn't right.' Kyle was in an different place from what he last remembered. 'Think brain!' he tried to tell himself. The last thing he remembered was walking to Beth's house with her and then... it was all blank.

"We'll sure get a good price." Kyle could hear something happening happening as at least one person spoke.

"I know, getting the eldest son and the daughter of a rich merchant. Fate smiles upon those who wait." Two people were talking.

Kyle tried to look around but he had something on his head and was unable to see. Kyle used his invisible hands Telekinesis spell to move the object off his head, and it was a bucket. No, a barrel. Someone put a wooden barrel over his head, he just happened to grab onto the iron frame and mistake it for a bucket.

"Maybe we should just kill the boy to show the Valhearts we mean business."

'Oh no, something is really wrong.' Kyle looked around and the situation around him. It looked like he was in a dungeon, or the sewers. It was dark, moldy, and moist. His hands and feet were both bound, and on the other side of the room was Beth, not moving. 'I have to do something.' Kyle told himself.

Kyle used Telekinesis to untie his hand and then untied his feet with his hands. Telekinesis was getting to be something he could do without thinking now, and it used barely any mana, but he still liked doing things with his hands when they were intricate like this. It took about 10 minutes to get the bindings off and Kyle silently moved over to Beth.

Beth was tied up like Kyle was and had barrel on her head. Kyle united the bindings and removed the barrel. Kyle then went to the door to the next room and looked through the small window to see his captures.

"I reckon we can get 50,000 coins for the girl, maybe 10,000 for the boy."

"But we kill the boy and the girl will be worth twice as much."

"Why would that happen?"

"Because we scare the parents into thinking we will kill their kid you dolt!"

Kyle needed to do something. He opened the door and pointed his hands at the two thugs. Paralyze, Sleep! These two status effects put the thugs down for the count. Kyle went back to Beth.

"Sorry for this." Kyle said as he used a shock spell on Beth to wake her up after shaking her did not work.

"Ah, what was that!" Beth woke up and started looking around. The first thing she saw was Kyle which brought her relief. Then she saw the walls. "Where are we Kyle?"

"I don't know, I just woke up and took out some thugs who captured us. Let's get out of here." Kyle grabbed Beth's hand and pulled her along with him out of the sewer.

"Ew, it's dirty!" Beth said as she moved with Kyle through the sewer. The was something he could do, but it would be giving away too many of his abilities. Beth did not know the full extent of Kyle's abilities or that he could cast without a call. The two of them eventually came to an exit in the sewer and Beth was able to climb out with the help of Kyle, and Kyle used earth magic to make steps to get out along the vertical wall.

Once out of the sewer, they did not know where they were. It was already dark out, and by the looks of things they were in the 1st district. They were also covered in slime from the sewer. Beth had unspeakable slime on her, and Kyle could not stand it anymore.

"Beth, I'm going to do something an I just want you to pretend it didn't happen, alright?"

"You are? But i'm covered in..." Beth could smell what was on her and almost vomited. She would have if she did not already evacuate the contents of her stomach in the sewer before they left it.

Beth might have gotten the wrong idea, but Kyle reached out both his hands and activated Flame and Frost at the same time without calling it. This created water and it showered down on Beth and himself by pointing it upwards.

"Oh this is... nice..." Beth could only say this as the water washed the filth off of them. Kyle continued this for 20 minutes because it was late and nobody stopped them, then he used Heat and Gust spells to dry them with.

Both Beth and Kyle now stood in a puddle of mud with dry clothes, soaked shoes, and worried looks. They still did not know how to get home. Kyle had been in the 1st district before, but only at the guard barracks, which from what he could see was not near where he currently was.

"We should go that way." Beth pointed a little east.

"Why is that?" Kyle asked.

"Because there is a big building that way and it looks like the keep." Beth pointed and and Kyle looked but there was just a building in the way. Kyle stepped over to where Beth was an looked, and sure enough there was a tower visible in the distance.

Beth and Kyle walked towards the keep and soon entered the 2nd district. Once there, guards quickly found them and took Beth to her home, and then Kyle to his home. After that, Beth was not allowed to go with Kyle and Claire, and her mother took her home every day after school.

After two weeks, Beth turned 8 and did not come to school anymore. Kyle would turn 8 in 2.5 months and then be able to see Beth at the magic school, but it was too long of a wait. Claire was happy Beth was gone though.