MAGIC: The Rise of Tom Salisbury

2040

"Hello Sheltiel, what's up man? What's happening, what's all this rubble? 

"Dude Mr. Shanamon is dead."

"Shanamon? Which Shanamon? Shanamon the bald one? I wanna know which Shana…. "

"The Shanamon, the one we all know, the school principal is dead," Shel said in one breath. 

"What? You're kidding me! What do you mean by he's dead, what exactly… "

"You've got eyes, don't you?"

Skid was caught off guard by this question… 

"Yeah… so…?"

"Then use it. You can't see the rubble in front of you? Where's our School administrative building, your father's snake gobbled it right?. Sheltiel started blowing off some steam. "Man just damn it okay? Just damn all those kiddy questions of yours okay? I'm off. "

"Come Shel, where are you going? " Skid ran to catch up. 

"To the cafeteria, don't bother asking, I'm not buying you lunch" he waved his hands. 

"O..Okay" Skid stammered back. 

...At the Cafeteria

"Man… see the news" Skid pointed to the flat-screen Samsung Television on the Cafeteria wall. 

"Wha… "

The NewsCaster: we have a piece of not-so-good breaking news." the newscaster glanced down to look up again "The Rosario Central high school administrative building just caved in and fifty persons are feared dead while an additional twenty occupants of the block as at the time of the incident is undergoing treatment." he glanced down again before continuing, "any further development on that will be delivered to you by the CNN" the newscaster recomposed himself. 

"Back to the news today… "

"Man, did you just hear that? This is epic. Do you think this is a coincidence? Our school… "

"Maybe some sorta school dropout couldn't deal with his green guts, so he decided to act out some movie villain, probably like hulk. "

"Hulk ain't a villain, he's an avenger. I've told you to try out some worn-out DVDs you might stumble into the twenty-first century one day. "

Sheltiel gave him a frightening glare and both of them chuckled. 

"Another breaking news" all eyes turned to the television again. "It has been gathered that at the time when Rosario Central high school administrative block was caving in, somewhere in Chicago, the Chicago State University also suffered a similar event, investigations are ongoing by the CNN and concerned security agencies to understand if these events are related or isolated, stay tuned as we continue to bring you latest updates and keep you posted. "

"What?" Skid's mouth could fit a tennis ball. 

"This is serious "

"...and exciting " Skid added

"Let's go check it out " Sheltiel finished with a glint in his eyes. 

With that, the two mischievous friends got up and left after Sheltiel paid the bill… again. 

"Breaking News… New York City has been plunged into delirium as the University of New York suffers massive building collapse. 

Some minutes after…

Breaking News…. The Administrative block of the University of Connecticut collapsed as security personnel was already on guard to apprehend a possible mastermind of this mayhem. 

Some minutes again… 

Huge loss as the famed Missouri City library connected to the administrative block collapses with the administrative block… stay tuned as we keep bringing….

The story about this mayhem could be heard buzzing around the corner as every TV station keeps on blasting through the TVs the story of the most significant mayhem in modern America since 21/11.

People gathered in hordes despairing and wondering which terrorist organization is after America after all these years of undue interference with the Taliban States. 

Telephone booths were swimming with people who were desperate to reach their loved ones who were working in the universities and high schools, but there's only one reply for whoever makes it to the telephone first or last… static. 

" I really don't understand what you guys are planning to do"

"Oh man, you're giving me the creep right now, I'm beginning to think you're ghosted."

"What? "

"Men... You've always been the one who wants to try everything out no matter how crazy, you for the f××k made me throw the stale cream at my mom's face just to sneak out to Broadway, so what… "

"Yeah, I wanna try everything out except getting myself killed by an academic or Muslim maniac who thinks demolishing schools will make him feel better, I bet demolishing you and me and Sheltiel won't satisfy him enough to leave the next one. Get a brain for just a minute bro"

"Woah Woah Woah… Huh" Shel chuckles, "wait a minute man, we ain't here to hit on you or drag into some kinda Skido avenger thing... Who do you think we are? Some kinda ripped off masochists, we've got a plan, a feasible one at that. Come, come on, let's go inside ."

"What? Shel, you're in this too, what the heck man? "

"Come on Hank let's go inside. " Shel and Skid called. Together the trio went inside the condo.

Meanwhile, in a towering edifice north of London, some two dozen or so of long robed men sporting a kind of trademark white beards were seated around a casket or rather call it a table, [can't differentiate much between the two.] chanting an ancient lost song while going round the table or casket-looking ceramics.

This chant continued for a long time before they finally reached a crescendo and started returning to their normal states. Meanwhile, during the chant, the casket-like table was shaking non-stop and emitting one kind of heat or burning element. As the chant crescendos, the heat started becoming more pronounced and a red glow that resembles that of a heating volcano could be seen revolving around the central lock-like compartment on the casket ceramics.

"Oh, mother of all living creatures, the birth of the rose and thorns. We of your most noble descent swimming in thy blessing of the power of the blade and chalice, go down on our unworthy knees to proclaim the wonder of your majesty. As you have once again delivered to us your humble servants the hope of the world to come. That on Mount Moriah, your city will be rebuilt and the glory of the kingdoms be delivered to you in the chargers of human souls. Your son has come again. The manifestation of your presence, shower on him thy immense protection and let the heathen kingdoms touch not a hair of his garments. The vulle guże chä has risen, let the world be united."

He finished. 

Everyone, there was flummoxed and appeared to be returning from another dimension. So the meeting of the Order of Secrecy, Servants of the Chalice ended.