Reborn 3

Two and a half months passed in the blink of an eye, and it is now Kyle's 8th birthday party.

"Happy birthday Kyle!" Fred, Elena, Dave, Paul, Kathy and Claire were all at the birthday party. It was strange, 3 and 8 were the only big birthday parties Kyle had. When he last lived every birthday was celebrated.

"Thank you everyone." Kyle put on a big smile for the party, but one person was not there whom he wished was, but they had not spoken to him in the entire past 2 and a half months.

"Open your gift from me first!" Dave handed Kyle something wrapped in paper. Kyle unwrapped it and it was... a stick from a tree near the house.

"Oh wow Dave, this is really special." Kyle said, not wanting to hurt Dave's feelings.

"Is that a magic wand?" Fred asked Dave, bending down and facing him.

"Yep, I found it on the ground outside the butcher shop and sense brother is always talking to mom about magic, I thought he would like it." Dave was all smiles and thought he did something great. In front of the butcher shop, there was a dying oak tree, so this stick was certainly from it.

Magic wands allow a mage to accurately channel their magical energy into a targeted spell, but they are made from the bones of monsters or mythical tree's branches. An ordinary stick would not help at all, in fact it would hinder the spell casting process.

"I'll be sure to use it if I ever learn magic that uses a wand." Though Kyle already knew many spells, Elena and Fred thought he only knew Flame and Fireball. Dave did not know that his brother actually knew any spells, so he got Kyle the wand with the knowledge that 8 years old was when the magic aptitude test was taken.

Fred and Elena could not help but smile at each other at how nice Kyle was being to his brother. They both knew why an ordinary stick would not be a good wand at all, but Kyle was playing along. Claire was stumped at first that Kyle said that, because it was Kyle himself that told her nothing could be obstructing the hands when casting a spell or else it would hit the object and hurt the hands. Claire did not say anything though, because she trusted that Kyle had his reasons for saying what he did. Kathy and Paul were not very knowledgeable so they had no input.

"Okay Kyle, open mine next." Claire held out something in a cloth bag to Kyle. The cloth bag looked like a pillow case. Kyle opening it up and inside was... a necklace made from red string.

"What's this Claire?" Kyle asked. He was stumped. 'Why did she give me a loop of red string?'

"One of my friends told me about a warrior who gave his wife a ball of red string so that when she dropped it, the ball would unravel to his location and she could always find him. I didn't have a whole ball of string, but this necklace will work too." Claire was confident about the effectiveness of the red string.

"Wait, does that make me the wife?" Kyle made a shocked face and put the string around his neck.

"If you are going to be a mage you can't very well be a warrior too." Claire put her hands on her hips and Paul and Fred laughed. Elena and Kathy both had their heads in their hands.

"Kyle, the four of us all chipped together to get you something really special for your birthday." At that moment, Fred dropped a large sack onto the table. It was filled with coins. Not just iron or copper coins, but silver coins. There were 30 all together, for a total of 30,000 coins.

"Mother, father, Paul and Kathy, this is too much." Kyle said. He did not need that many coins for just his spending money. 30,000 coins was all the money his father would earn in a whole year. Before anything else was said though, Fred bonked Kyle on the head.

"That is not spending money for you, that is for joining the Vegivile mage school. We have high hopes for you and want to give you the best we can give." Fred was very proud of his son. Making his own decision to learn swords, learning words and maths and even history on his own, and even learning basic magic without a teacher. If Kyle could receive the training, Fred was sure he would be a powerful mage.

"But I really don't need to go to the mage school, I can just learn at home with a few books." Kyle already knew all the spells that existed in the world. He was sure of it. He even made a new spell, but it did not have a call or type. Kyle knew that after the magic aptitude test if he started using many types of spells, it would not be questioned very much.

"You have to go to the mage school to learn more spells and maybe how to use the other types if you have the aptitude." Fred was serious about this. Even though Kyle could come back and teach Claire the new spells he learned, they were going to send her to the mage school too, if she had enough mana and good types when she turned 8 years old.

"We will leave for Vegivile in 3 days, so prepare your things. It will only be 3 weeks after the time we get there that the new year for the mage school will begin, so we don't want to be late getting your aptitude test done." Elena was serious about this. Fred picked up the pouch of coins and put it in his pocket. "If you don't want to go to mage school after the test, we will come back home and not say another word."

"Alright then, let's just have cake for now!" Kathy picked up plates from a stack and passed them around the table. Cake is said, but it is really just soft bread.

Elena cut the cake (bread) and put a slice on each plate, then put a fork in each piece. Dave and Claire happily munched down on it and the adults cried about how much it cost them. 30,000 coins was no small amount, and this cake (bread) cost around 300 coins. The Mercers and the Droughts were going to be in borderline poverty for a few months, but they would accept it if it meant Kyle becoming a great and powerful mage. Kyle had no intention of going to the mage school, and had just learned it was in another town.

In his previous life, mage school was done in the same town people were living in. There was no general education, and everyone was either trained by a craftsman, or joined the swordsman school or magic school. The magic school was taught by anyone who had free time and just covered how spells worked. It was free so sometimes they would stop in the middle of explaining a spell and start with a new one, but Kyle learned everything he knew about spells there and at the royal palace for his hero training. Kyle learned about 5/6 of everything he knew about spells from the people in his village.

After eating the cake (bread), Paul, Kathy, and Claire left. "Make sure you don't leave without saying goodbye!" Claire said as she left the house and Kyle tried to say goodbye as the door closed, but she might not have heard. Kyle would make sure to go to her house in the next two days.

"I don't know what she is thinking, i'll only be gone for a day or two and then come right back." Kyle said to his parents as they cleaned up. Kyle picked up the stick (wand) and swung it around while saying things like "Fireball!" and making explosion sounds with his mouth. Fred and Elena quickly looked in the room when he said a spell name, but were revealed when he wasn't actually casting anything. They still thought he needed to use the call, but they did not know if he said it too quite for them to hear. Dave was enjoying watching his brother pretend to be a mage.

"You know Kyle, you are Claire's oldest friend, so you have to say goodbye even if you only leave for a few days." Fred said back to Kyle once he was sure Kyle wasn't casting any spells.

"But I used to not see her for weeks."

"That was before, but now you go there every day after school. That his a big change for a little girl like her."

"You might not see it, but you are very important to Claire." Elena said while looking at the red string. It was said two lovers who had two parts from the same red string could always find their way back to each other, and both Elena and Kathy knew how romantic that notion was, even if Claire did not see it like that. Claire just saw it as something to help him find her if he got lost looking for her, which in her eyes he was doing very often.

Kyle could not help but get a little red and go into his and Dave's shared room. 'She is 6 years old. We are not romantically involved.' Kyle could not say it out loud, but this was what he thought in his heart.

The next day. Kyle went to see Claire and told her he would only be gone a few days and then be back for a few weeks. Claire understood this to mean 'I am going to leave forever and then come back, only to leave forever again.' and she tightly held onto Kyle, stopping him from leaving.

"It's just two days!" Kyle could not help but yell at Claire, but that did not stop her. Claire was an unmovable object attached to Kyle's leg. Over the next 3 hours, Kyle was able to loosen Claire's grasp, and he promised to come over the next day and the day after before he left with Elena to Vegivile city. This was the day Claire had off from lessons at school, so Kyle stayed over for the entire day and went back home at night.

As Kyle walked back home in the dark, he remembered the person who he had not seen for 2.5 months and did not speak with him for two weeks before that. Claire was a borderline relationship candidate, but the person who had not talked to him was relationship candidate #2. Unfortunately, that list stops right at #2, but that was enough for now. Relationship candidate #1 was Miss Helen.

The next day. Kyle went to see Claire just like he said he would, but she had to go to school, so Kyle walked her there and then left after steeling a look at Miss Helen. 'Maybe relationship candidates have switched spots... nah.' Kyle could not help but be less and less attracted to Miss Helen every time he saw her. It might have been him getting used to her, or something from his 8 year old body. She was still the embodiment of perfection though.

Kyle agreed to walk Claire home from school that day, so he went to the library to read about the outside world. Many things had changed in the past 3,000 years, and new monsters were included in this. The old ones were still there, but new monsters were being created which took the strongest mages and swordsmen from all over the human empire to combat. In the Vegiland County where the town of Thornberry was located, monsters were mostly wolf and bear type. Woffen attacked at night and Gabear would stay inside the forest outside of town but always look in.

Kyle had never left Thornberry before in this life, and in the previous he was always being taken places in wagons by servants for the king. Being a hero had perks, including not having to walk. To prepare, Kyle researched about The Vegiland Country and it's monsters and the roads. It would take about 7 hours to get to Vegivile from Thornberry if they took a horse.

The morning before departure.

Kyle wore his thickest pants, shirt, and boots. It was not cold out, but durability was needed for traveling. Elena did not get a horse, but instead was going to be traveling with a caravan that went from Thornberry to Vegivile this time of the month. The boots went up a little past the ankles, and where tucked under thick denim pants. The shit was tucked into the pants and was button up. If it got too got, Kyle could undo a button and let more air in. Kyle did not take anything other than the clothes he was wearing because they would be coming back the next day after spending the night.

Elena had Fred get a sword from the barracks for Kyle to use for while they were away, and he got the child's sword that was made specially for Kyle so long ago. Elena worked out the cost for everything. 200 coins for a room at the inn for the night, 100 coins for eaten dinner when they arrived and 70 coins for breakfast before leaving, and a whopping 500 coins to get a carriage ride from Vegivile to Thornberry. A horse would have cost more than that though, and could be upwards on 5,000 coins to buy and that money was simply not had. Plus, the Mercer's had no use for a horse when they never left the town of Thornberry.

Kyle left the house early in the morning to walk Claire to school.

"Make sure you have the necklace on you at all times." She reminded him as they walked down the road. She had already said so at least 4 times, and now Kyle stopped listening.

The road before them had been traveled hundreds of times both ways by Kyle and Claire, but more than 3 times as many times for Kyle. The buildings switched from residential to shops and then behind the shops was the school. If not for people always walking in the area in front of the school, it might be considered a dangerous place.

"I won't be able to walk home with you today." Kyle said so Claire as they entered the final stretch towards the school. '50 feet till impact' Kyle thought to himself.

"Your you'll be back in two days right?" Claire asked him and kept walking, holding back tiers the whole time.

"Right, just two days." Kyle said as he continued moving. '30 feet till impact.' He thought.

Kyle and Claire were both silent for the remaining 30 feet to the gate and then just as predicted, impact was achieved in the form of the immovable object, second coming.

"Just two days!" Claire yelled and then let go and ran into the school. Some of the kids looked back on him as if they did not understand what just happened. At least one girl going into the school at that time was in Claire's class, and she could just chuckle.

In truth, Dave was also going to school, but he walked by himself and did fine in his lessons.

Kyle returned home and joined with Elena to leave the town for the first time. Kyle put the sword on his waist and left with Elena for the caravan.

"Nice to meet you Kyle, my name is Douglas and you will be riding in my cart with your mother and my wife, Gorsha." The man who was letting Kyle and Elena ride to Vegivile for very cheap was Douglas Livervur. He and his wife Gorsha Livervur had been in the caravan business for over 5 years, but due to certain complications, Gorsha was unable to have a child.

"I hope I don't cause any trouble." Kyle said, trying to be polite to the man who was giving him and his mother a trip for almost free.

"That is just fine. Gorsha will be happy to have someone to talk to on the way to Vegivile. I have to drive the cart now, so please, go inside and it down." Though it was called a cart, it was a full sized, covered wagon in the current state.

"So it's finally that day." Gorsha said to Elena when she and Kyle stepped inside.

"Yep it sure is. My little man turned 8 years old just 3 days ago, so it's time to get the aptitude test taken." Elena replied while looking at Gorsha. Kyle looked at Gorsha but could not see anything wrong with her that would cause her to not be able to have a child.

[Description of wilderness outside of Thornberry]

Elena and Gorsha spoke for most of the ride to Vegivile, and as Kyle held out his hand to help Gorsha out from the cart, he cast Dispell and Cure on her. Gorsha shook a little when the 2 spells were silently cast, so Kyle knew something like a disease or a curse must have been effecting her.

Outside of Vegivile, it was very busy. It was just 3 weeks before the entrance exam for the mage school would take place, and Kyle wondered how much more busy it could get. Kyle and Elena both got directions from Douglas about where the magic aptitude test could be taken, and they went there.

Registering with the ministry of magic which was where the magical aptitude test was taken was necessary for becoming a student at the mage school or having a job as a mage. It was like a certification to learn and use advanced magic. Mages were ranked with their types of magic aptitudes, and how bright the light from the crystal ball shown. Red for fire, blue for ice, white for wind, yellow for lightning, brown for earth, green for healing. The light was in either bright, normal, or dim.

[Description of the city]

The ministry of magic was a huge building. "Well, this is it." Elena said as she took Kyle inside.

"Welcome to the ministry of magic in Vegivile! How can I help you?" A blonde bombshell was working the reception desk, and she instantly became relationship candidate #3.

"We are here to get the magic aptitude test taken for my son." Elena spoke, because Kyle was starstruck by the twin towers in front of him.

'The people might be a little dumber, but the women haven't gotten any worse!' Kyle could not help but say to himself. The best way to determine if a guild or group of any kind was worth the paper they signed their names on was if the first person that spoke to outsiders was smoking hot. The school in Thornberry failed this by having that bitch Skorva teach first period, but the ministry of magic was alright.

"Alright then, just fill out this form and hand it back to me when you are finished." The receptionist had a huge smile among other things, and was a perfect woman.

Elena filled out the form, and she couldn't have done it any faster. Before he knew it, Kyle was already being dragged away by Elena to get the test taken. Elena and Kyle waited in a blonde-bombshell-less waiting room for a few minutes for the test to be ready for them. There was one other person in line in front of them so they had to wait for at least two people to finish.

Someone came from the back room with a triumphant look on his face and both parents leading the way. The kid made a face at Kyle and the other kid in the line, as if he was better than them. 'Bitch please, I've been using magic for over 3,000 years. Get on my level!' Kyle said in his head.

The first person in line took his test and then left with a gloomy expression and the rest administrator beckoned Kyle inside the testing room.

"The test is very simple. Just put your hand on this sphere and it will glow a color for each aptitude you have. The brighter the color, the more mana that can be used for the spell." The test administrator Thomas Engen had a crystal ball and placed it on a pillow on the center of a table. "Go on, just place both hands on it." He said.

This was different from the test taken 3,000 years ago. In that time, a test was taken for what someone's mana amount was, and it was done with a different material.

Kyle placed his hands on the crystal ball and a wave of colors began to appear. All 6 colors the ball could turn where there, along with a black cloud and a golden cloud.

"What is this!?" Thomas jumped up at the bright light coming from the crystal ball. Not only did 8 colors show instead of the theoretical 6 maximum, but they were all so bright. The colors vibrantly danced around the crystal ball and slowly faded into nothing.

"Please wait here a moment" Thomas said, and then hurried out of the room.

POV: Thomas Engen

'This is unheard of!' Thomas Engen could not help but say to himself. 8 colors was... impossible. Thomas was heading to the Mage Schoo of Vegivile to speak with the most powerful mage in the Vegivile County, Marvin Akira.

"Quickly, I need to speak with the headmaster!" Thomas said as he was stopped at the gates to the school. Thomas took out his ministry of magic identification and was allowed entrance.

"What is that man in such a hurry for?" Some people around him were asking each other. "It's not even classes right now." Every year, classes would stop for 2 months for students to go home. This was during that time so only students who could not afford the trip and staff stayed.

Thomas entered the school and knew where to go. He had close relations with the headmaster because of his status as a magic aptitude test administrator, which required good judgement.

"Headmaster! There is something at the ministry that you need to see right now." Thomas said, also banging on the door to Marvin's study. There was rustling within the room and then a man in his 50's came out.

"What is it Thomas?" The Marvin asked. He had been organizing papers before Thomas came, and he didn't like that kind of office work. Marvin had a mages robe and a wizards hat. Many rings where worn on his fingers too.

"Headmaster, a child came to get his aptitude test today and the result was impossible, 8 colors, that's right, not 6 but 8, and they were each like a spotlight." Thomas said. Marvin could tell Thomas was serious by the sweat forming on his brow.

"If this is true then I need to see it immediately." Marvin said as he closed the door to his study and said the call to locked it with earth magic.

Kyle and Elena waited in the ministry of magic for Thomas to come back. There were 3 seats in front of the desk that had the crystal ball on it, and one behind it for Thomas to sit. The crystal ball had gone back to normal and Elena was silently looking at it.

"Do you know what that means Kyle?" Elena asked him, but Kyle did not know. As long as someone knew how the element worked, anyone should be able to cast a spell for it. The crystal ball only told what people's current knowledge was, which was stupid. But it did reveal a little more than he would like.

"I don't." Kyle said to Elena as he waited besides her. When Elena had taken her magic aptitude test, she was a dim red. Fred was also a dim red, so the chance of the child having much stronger magic was almost nothing.

"Can you use any other types of magic?" Elena asked accusingly. Now that she knew Kyle had the aptitude for the other test, she did not know if he was hiding how much magic he already taught himself. Elena expected a bright red, but for so many colors... She was not even aware of how special the black and gold colors were because she was not a mage. Nobody in over a thousand years had gotten black or gold, and nobody knew what it meant.

"No, just Flame and Fireball right now. I might have been able to learn more if Mr. Reese would give me the books on it." Kyle lied. How would Elena react if he suddenly said 'yes mom, I know every spell from every type, and I've been dead for 3000 years but reborn tehe!'

A few minutes later and Thomas came back with someone new following behind him. The new person looked at Kyle and scanned him up and down, then moved to looking at Elena.

"Are you the mother?" The man asked Elena. He had not even sat down yet and was asking questions. Thomas who was in front moved the chairs around so that the man who came with him would be able to sit and face everyone.

"Yes, I am."

"It is an honor to meet with you. My name is Marvin Akira, 149th heir to the hero Akira and headmaster of Vegivile Mage School." The man said, bowing to Elena. As he got up from the bow, Marvin sat down on the chair that Thomas had prepared seconds earlier.

"Oh my, a hero's descendant, and headmaster of the mage school, isn't that just wonderful... Kyle?" Elena started to say, but then she saw Kyle's look on his face.

"He is probably in shock from seeing such an important figure. Kyle, how about you show Mr. Akira your aptitude?" Thomas asked, as he moved the crystal ball a little closer to Kyle by pushing it with a cloth.

Kyle did not move and just looked at Marvin Akira.

'AKIRA!' Kyle shouted in his heart. 'I'M GOING TO MURDER YOU!' He was yelling at the top of his lungs in his head. Kyle was still upset about himself being stricken from the record and being named a traitor. Before he knew it, he was being shaken by Elena.

"Kyle, the nice man asked you something." Elena said, putting on a fake smile. She was aware of the tail of the 4 heroes that happened over 3000 years ago, and to be a descendant would still make the person an important person. Kyle snapped back into his senses and looked at Thomas.

"Oh sorry, what was it you wanted?" Kyle asked. He had not hear anything he said.

"Haha, mesmerized by the hero descendant, just place your hands on the crystal ball again to show him your aptitudes." Thomas said as he moved the crystal ball forward again. It was now on the edge of the table.

Kyle reached forward and for a moment was regretful. Regretful that the Akira was going to learn of all his powers. Kyle tried to flow his mana inside of his body from each type to not come out into the crystal ball, but as he touched it he could feel the mana being drained out. It took a lot of effort, but it was useless. 8 Colors.

"This is outstanding." Marvin said as he looked at the crystal ball. He even wanted to touch it to make sure what he was seeing was real, but he knew that it would make it go away quicker. The crystal ball did not lie, and it was almost instantly able to show someone's aptitude for the types.

"I see red, blue, white, yellow, green, and brown, but what is the black and gold?" Thomas asked as he looked at Marvin. Marvin was just as puzzled and stroked his beard.

"Black and Gold... I am not sure, but we must have this young man at the Vegivile Mage School." Marvin said the last part confidently as he looked at Elena.

"I don't want to, magic school is too expensive." Kyle said, hoping for a certain reaction.

"If money is the issue, please don't worry." Marvin quickly said this and reached into his pocket. From it, he took out 3 gold coins and put the on the table. "Those will cover the expenses that you have for joining the Vegivile Mage School, and anything that might have been gotten from working while you are here."

Elena was simply amazed. 30,000 coins was all the two families of Mercer and Drought could pull together from the time they learned Kyle was already using magic till now, and it was all Fred earned from being a guard in a whole year. Headmaster Marvin just put 300,000 coins on the table, equivalent to 10 years earnings from Fred.

"Well if mom says it is okay..." Kyle looked over at Elena. He was smiling on the inside. 'Flawless victory' He thought. Marvin had done just what he wanted him to.

"Of course you can Kyle, thank you Mr. Akira." Elena said, slightly stairing at the 3 gold coins. It was more money in one place than she had ever seen.

"Excellent, please take those coins with you and take this too. Thomas, give me a paper and a pen." Marvin said. He motioned for Thomas to bring him something and Thomas did. Marvin took the paper and gen and started to write something on the desk and then used earth magic to close it. Marvin then gave the paper to Elena. "I will prepare everything in advanced for Kyle to be allowed in and skip the testing phase, so that this does not happen again, and that paper can be given for the entrance fee." Marvin said as Elena looked at the paper with a stone seal.

"Mr. Akira, this is really..." But Elena was interrupted.

"This is really not enough, a mage with 8 types in unheard of, mostly because there are only 6 types. Any magic school would jump at the chance to have him." Marvin said, smiling at Elena. "I hope that in 3 weeks time, these 3 gold coins have convinced you." Marvin finished saying and left the room.

Elena put the gold coins in her purse and looked at Kyle. Thomas was not saying anything and was two types of amazed. One type that the headmaster gave 3 gold coins out so easily, and another type that the child had 8 types and not even Marvin Akira knew what it meant.

"Isn't this great Kyle? You will be able to go to the magic school here." Elena said with the smallest smile. She was just too shocked.

"You can wait here as long as you need to adjust." Thomas said as he got up from his chair and left the room.

[Finish Interaction Between Kyle and Elena]

That night, after confirming the price for a carriage ride, Elena and Kyle had a feast. They had just gotten 300,000 coins, and found out the 30,000 they saved for almost a year were not needed to be spent. To Elena, this was a miracle. To Kyle, he could only think of one thing.

'I'm going to bleed you of everything you have and then finish with your blood.' Kyle was truly angry with Akira. His once great friend had lied about him, and now 3000 years later he was unknown. Though it has only been 8 years for Kyle, there are 3000 years of dept to be paid to Kyle, and he is surely going to take it.

Elena did not bring most of the money she had with her for the small trip, so they still slept in the same room with the 3 hold coins tightly hidden on Elena when they slept. She did not let anyone hear about the coins or see them, but she could never be too careful with that much money.

In the morning, Elena and Kyle got a big breakfast and hired the carriage for 500 coins to Thornberry. In just 3 more weeks Kyle would be coming to Vegivile alone for entrance to the magic school, and his future for 7 years would be set.

It was not the thought of going to magic school that excited Kyle the most though, it was the prospect of seeing someone who he had not seen in quite a while. Plus all the future beauties that would be there. 'I can hit the necessary flags now and in 10 years reap the benefits. I will become the harem king!' Kyle laughed to himself on the way back to Thornberry.

As Elena looked over at Kyle, she thought he was just excited about learning more magic. The carriage ride was supposed to be safe, and luckily it was. Besides bumps and humps in the road, it was a pleasant trip.