The Awakening

CHAPTER 1

The morning sun shone brightly, and the rays flickered into the small room and caused a teenage boy to wake up from his slumber. 

He stood up from his bed sluggishly, yawning, while stretching his body. After making sure he was fully awake, he walked into the bathroom to get ready for the day's activity.

In a few minutes, he stepped out of the bathroom fully clothed in his leather brown jacket and black trousers. He picked up his bag before exiting his room.

Exiting the room, he arrived in the living room where an elderly man could be seen sitting down behind a round table and having breakfast. 

"Good morning, Dad." The boy known as Eric greeted as he sat down in the chair opposite his father and picked up a spoon to start eating.

"How was your night?" Eric's father, known as Gary, inquired while eating his breakfast.

"Good, I guess," Eric responded softly as he dug into his food and began to fill up his mouth.

"Don't tell me you are still concerned about yesterday's incident?" Gary questioned with a concerned look on his face, but Eric didn't respond as he buried his head down while eating his meal.

The incident Gary was talking about yesterday was when Eric was sent to the river to get water for his father. 

After Eric was done fetching the water, he decided to have a quick swim since he had been under the hot sun for several hours.

While he was at it, his clothes were magically set on fire right where he kept them and burned to ashes. Eric came out of the river after his swim and attempted to put on his clothes, but all he saw was a pile of ashes lying there.

Perplexed by what happened, he shifted his gaze to the side and saw a group of boys with magical wands laughing at him and raining words of abuse on him. 

Since his clothes were all burnt, Eric had to return home naked with his hands covering his crown Jewel, and he faced humiliation on his way home. "Don't let that worry, son," Gary muttered.

"Don't let it worry me? I am being bullied every day by these guys! It's always one thing or the other, one prank or the other, and there's nothing I can do about it because I have no magical abilities and I am nothing but a weakling!" 

Eric slammed his fist on the table and rose from his chair furiously before running towards the exit door.

He halted his steps in front of the door and turned around to face his father, who was worried about him.

"I'm sorry, Dad." Eric apologized after realizing he shouldn't have raised his voice. "I will be going to the market like you asked and get the vegetables." He added before opening the door and exiting the place.

Gary sat there and watched him leave before letting out a heavy sigh of concern.

Eric is the only boy in the current world who doesn't know how to cast spells. His body cells were too weak to contain magic, so he was left with nothing. 

He went through bullying from everyone in the village day in and day out because of that, and all he had to do was bury his head down and endure it.

After walking through the streets for several minutes, Eric finally arrived at the market. The place was filled with several shops that sold different types of goods and foodstuffs, and people could be seen moving from shop to shop buying what they needed.

Eric glanced around the place before advancing and began to head towards the vegetable shop. 

He suddenly halted his steps after catching sight of people gathering up on a certain spot, and they all seemed to be watching something.

Out of curiosity, Eric made his way towards the crowd, but he couldn't see anything due to the towering men that stood in front of him. 

Eric began to squeeze his way through the crowd until he finally arrived in front and could see what everyone was excited about.

Standing at the center of the place were two men clad in long purple robes, and a long purple hat worn on their heads. 

A wand gripped firmly in their right hands that had sparks of magic on the tip of it. "Mages from the Magical academy?" Eric exclaimed, his eyes widened in excitement after catching sight of the men.

One of he magicians stepped forward, confident, and cleared his throat before speaking. "Good day, everyone! As we all know, we go from village to village seeking talented children to join the magical academy and become a powerful mage like us in the future. Luckily for you, our next stop was this particular village, and we will be picking a few children from here!" The mage announced, and the crowd, including Eric, began to clap their hands.

Eric has always wanted to join the Magical Academy and become a powerful mage who would help people in the future, so this was definitely an opportunity for him.

"We will be conducting a test in two days in this market. A test that would help us choose the people who would be following us back to the magical academy!" The mage spoke further. "So, if you wish for your children to participate in this test, make sure you are here in two days! Only five people would be chosen!"

As the man announced, the second mage began to walk around, distributing fliers to everyone that had the information of the test written on it. 

The man arrived in front of Eric, who was eager to collect, and when he glanced at Eric's face and realized he didn't have magic, he walked past him without giving him the flier.

Eric's blood boiled in anger as the mage walked past him after realizing he was the weakling in the rumors he had heard.