Fractured Moon

Chapter 3: First battle

After learning of magic Mitsuki started training as soon as he could. He tried forcing magic to come out but nothing worked. After a few days of trying on his own he decided to give in and ask Makato for help.

“Father, how can I do magic like you?”

“Ehhhh it's hard to explain, buuuut you have to feel it. Like imagine the fire coming from your core and move it to your hand, feel the heat of the fire, then shoot it out. Once you do it for the first time you’ll see what I mean, I'm sure you’re going to learn fast.”

Hearing that Mitsuki felt motivated to try until he succeeded. He immediately ran to his room and started practicing. He did just like Makato told him, but he failed over and over. Sometimes he would feel the sensation only for it to vanish when he lost even the slightest concentration… Mitsuki tried one more time, this time blocking out everything around him. He steadied his breathing.

“Feel the mana inside me, move it to my hands, imagine and feel the heat of the flames.”

He started to feel the mana in his core, he put out his arm and began to transfer the mana into his hand, it felt as if it were blood rushing to his hand, but he could tell the difference it felt hot, almost like it was burning but there was no pain. Once it was all in his hand he conjured the image of a ball of fire. He could feel it, he started to feel the intensity of the heat in his hand as the mana changed its form into fire. At that moment he opened his eyes and witnessed what he created.

“AHHHHHH”

The sight of his first time succeeding in magic made him so excited he lost concentration, the fireball he manifested dispersed before he got the chance to shoot it.

“NOOOO.”

Hearing the loud scream he let out Makato ran to Mitsukis room.

“Hoi Mitsuki what happened, are you okay?”

Though he wasn't able to fire it, he was ecstatic that he was able to create it but he decided not to tell Makato yet, he wanted to make his magic stronger before he showed Makato so he kept it a secret.

“Don’t worry dad, I'm fine.”

“Hmm, if you say so, dinner is going to be ready soon I'll call you when it's done”

After Makato left, Mitsuki looked at the hand he created the fireball with and began to grin. He was filled with ambition as he clenched his fist and went back to training. Day after day he trained in magic. Not just fire, but he trained in all elemental magic. He trained for months and during the training he noticed that one element gained more power faster than the others. His power in lighting is the most efficient. After realizing this he looked around the house and managed to find a book that explained more about mana. The speed at which people learn magic is different for everyone, so is the speed at which they learn certain types of magic as well. There are some magics such as gravity and light however not any person can learn them, you can only be born with the ability to use them. You can use mana another way called mana reinforcement in which you keep a constant flow of mana throughout your body to reinforce your body with mana, doing so increases all of your abilities, this is quite hard to do this however since you need to focus on fighting and maintaining a mana flow at the same time, but the more you do it the easier it becomes, you can even do it subconsciously if you are very experienced with it. He continued to train and everyday his mana pool increased along with the power he could output and speed he could manifest the magic but he wasn't able to do mana reinforcement yet. In this life he wanted to be strong so he's going to give it his all. After some time he felt pretty confident in his magical power considering his age but he still wanted to get stronger. After coming out of his room Makato approached him.

“Mitsuki grab your dagger and come out to the yard with me.”

“Ah okay, I'll be there soon.”

Mitsuki went back into his room to grab his dagger and ran to the yard where Makato was. He passed by Kyoko as he was running.

“Morning mom”

“Good morning Mitsuki, Don't get hurt too bad”

after hearing that he paused for a moment

“Huh? What's that supposed to mean”

Not looking too much into it he opened the door and walked into the yard.

“So what are we going to do dad?”

Mitsuki looked at Makato and noticed he was holding a wooden sword. Mitsuki got a bad feeling in his stomach.

“Now that you’re getting older, I'm gonna teach you how to fight now. Wanna know the best way to learn how to fight?”

“Huh”

“Experience”

In the blink of an eye Makato lunged at Mitsuki at full speed with his sword over his head. His brain hadn’t processed what happened but his body did. He dodged just before the attack hit and immediately grabbed his dagger and slashed at Makato. Makato dodged effortlessly, Mitsuki kept attacking however he could not make contact. He was out of breath and exhausted, he threw one last attack which again Makato dodged. Mitsuki staggered, and in that moment

SMASH

Mitsuki took a heavy kick to the stomach which sent him flying back. His stomach felt hot, he couldn't inhale or exhale for a moment. He flipped over on his stomach and tried to get up but wasn't able to.

“Hehe sorry Mitsuki, I hit you a little hard there didn't I. Though now you know how it feels to be hit. This was our first sparring match. You did pretty well. You managed to dodge my first attack, your reactions were pretty good as well. I won't go so hard on you next time but still be prepared. We’re going to be training in combat frequently from now on”

Mitsuki looked up at Makato while still on the ground and smiled. He aimed his hand at Makato.

“Hoi Mitsu-”

In an instant a fireball the size of a large boulder formed in his hand. Makato was left in awe at what he was witnessing. Mitsuki shot it from his hand, leaving Makato with only a second to dodge. After he jumped out of the way It bursted into an explosion in the distance.

“What the hell…How did you-”

He used all the mana he had in that attack, he soon lost consciousness