Such a master such a disciple

Fern stretched and massaged his temples. After a tired sigh he started to explain:

"The most important is to seal your energy. When your body energy flows from your body the people can predict your powers. So first we need to avoid it. Second, we need to hide your true force. That way even if they have your blood or hair they can only find what we want to show. And..."

"So we can't train? I will just hide like a coward?." after hearing this Jane feels sad. She thinks that now on she could be a help, but shows, in reality, she was a burden.

"How old are you, niece?"

"Thirteen."

"How do you expect to be useful? You are young, weak, childish, small... But I and your Dad are strong. Now I remember that this disciple interrupts me... Continuing I will train you to be able to support your bloodlines. With the seal, the other 24 bloodlines will sleep for a year. So we have this time to make your body strong enough to support the other two. In addition to strengthening your body, I will teach you a technique so that when you use your powers you can not release energy, because the seal that I will put on you does not work in case you use your powers. And the seal hurt a lot. You can choose if you prefer to be awake or asleep during the process."

"What's the difference?"

"If you sleep I can't predict when you will awake. It could be a day, a week or a month. And we are short of time"

"I don't need to sleep."

"Great. Take off your clothes. I stand behind you."

"All my clothes???"

"Yes, kid. If you don't take off, it will burn to ashes and when we finish you will be without nothing to cover yourself."

"Right!"

Jane feels uncomfortable with this situation, but her dad thrust in her uncle and he doesn't look like a pervert. After putting her clothes at a safe distance Fern said:

"Keep standing. I'll start and bit it."

Then a piece of leather landed on Jane's shoulders.

Fear finally took over his whole body and mind. At that moment, incredulity took over her, because since she arrived in this world she has not been able to believe that she was really here. Standing in the cold room, she shivered as she prepared to go through the biggest pain of her life.

If she had looked back she would have seen the mask fall from her master's face at the same moment that he drew his knife. Dread and sadness plastered on his face. But his eyes even in tears were determined. When the knife went deep into his two arms and the blood slowly spread from the top of Jane's head to the rest of her small body. Swallowing the lump in his throat, he began to speak melodiously in an unknown language. As soon as the spell started, Jane's small body moved by itself. Quickly, his legs and arms opened as in the drawing of the Vitruvian man while his feet levitated a few centimeters from the floor. The blood on her skin began to glow and run quickly all over her body and as she covered the last remnant of clean skin, strange symbols appeared together with Jane's screams. Three hours was the time it took for the runes to penetrate his flesh, bones, and soul. Three hours that were no different than burning in the fires of hell. Three hours while Fern's tears stopped falling due to the lack of blood as he spoke the ancient spell.

In the end, Jane's body stopped floating and gently touched the ground. But after so long of torment Jane did not know where she was, her body was unable to support her and she fell forward as soon as the spell stopped working. Before she rushed to the floor, Fern's hands held her arms and a single word left his lips before he even fell to the side taking Jane along while trying to protect her from falling.

"Dispel!"

As soon as the barrier vanishes, a soft shadow fell over their bodies. Before they touched the floor, they were moved to a soft bed. In the simple room with two beds lay two people. One was Fern as white as an apparition, it was clear that he lost more blood than he could. In the other was Jane, who was sweating profusely and stirring violently as if in the middle of a horrible nightmare.

Two other people were in the room. One was Rayth with a worried face without knowing who he was looking after first. The other person was a beautiful young woman, maybe 15 years old, with long black hair and a very thin body, wearing a long dark gray cloak. They stared at each other for just under one second and while the young girl went to take care of Jane. Rayth sat down next to Fern and took a tube with a needle at both ends of the bedside table and, in a few words, started the blood transfusion. After calming the girl's sleep, the pretty girl picked up Jane and said:

"I'm going to take her to her bed and I'll be with her until she wakes up. I hope Uncle Fern will be fine soon, the last time he used so much blood he erased for a week"

"Ty takes good care of her please, and let me know if anything seems strange."

Then the two disappeared into the darkness.

Opening her eyes, Jane found herself in a different place. The bed was soft and sitting on a chair without taking her eyes off her was the most beautiful person she had ever seen in front of you. Olive skin and honey-colored eyes, hair as black as the night sky.

After a moment of confusion Jane cowered as far away from the stranger and inquired:

"Where am I? Who are you? Why..."

"Easy... Look well. It is your room. Your father is treating Fern now. He lost a lot of blood and is in a critical situation right now."

"He got hurt a lot... because of me?"

"Yes. Our uncle has a master that teaches him how to do Blood Spell. The potency and result depend on the strength of the user's body, but mainly the memory and control of external energy. Nobody can compare to him, but the more powerful the spell is, the closer he gets to his death, each summoning takes some of his health. He explains better after awake."

"You say our uncle... Do you are?"

"My name is Ty. Nice to meet you."

"Did my dad have other brothers?

"Ohhh, no. My mother, your father, and Fern are really best friends, so I call them of uncles".

"Can I see them?"

"Of course, but... Take new clothes first."

Jane looked down and saw there was a sheet wrapped around her body.

Getting out of bed, Jane began to untie the sheet from her body. Ty, seeing this, turned around uncomfortably and turned quickly away from sight.

"Hummm... Ty, do you know where my clothes are?"

Even a little irritated, she went to the big wardrobe and took a simple tunic for Jane and handed it to her without looking.

"Here. Change fast. I will not look."

"We are both girls, so I don't care."

"But, but I don't like to be seen, so I don't look at other people."

"Ok." Quickly wearing her tunic. "Read. Let's go?"

Ty finally looks her, and say:

"Get closer"

As soon as Jane approached the two disappeared in a dark cloud and appeared in a small room with two beds. His father was sitting on a chair next to the bed and Fern was sitting on his own bed, both were very pale. Jane ran and took her master's hand, asked worriedly:

"Uncle, is it true that you could have died? Do you feel well? You look pale as a corpse."

Fern was touched by the girl's concern, but as he always decided to provoke her.

"Dear niece, your master is fine and I would never die from something so common. And you, niece? Are you in pain somewhere? I thought you would rest a month after that"

Jane felt as if she had gone to hell and returned. Just thinking about the pain ... Remembering what happened made her feel weak and scared so she pushed it out of her mind and got into her uncle's game.

"Dear Master, your disciple is fine, we can start training tomorrow, after your recovery"

"If you feel so good why don't we start now?"

"Master with his age and current condition don't think it's a..."

"Little brat you..."

"Stop!" Rayth says testily.

"Why do you start to fight for nothing again?"

"Uncle Rayth, do you think that is a good idea left both of them together? I guess they will just be messing around."

"Don't worry. You are in charge of supervising the two for me and protecting Jane."

"Rayth! What is it? Don't you trust me?"

"Fern I trust you for so many things, but I know you and I know my daughter so Ty will assist both of you."

Master and disciple looked at each other with complicity, a slight smile hovered on their lips when the two discreetly winked at each other.