Chapter 5

'FUCK' I internally screamed. It's been a week since I started testing my theory and I can't feel anything, no magic, not a single damn thing!. 'Is my talent that low?... Or has my body not started producing magic. Or am I just wrong altogether?' I thought, slightly frustrated. 'my theory can't be wrong, magic can't just come out of nowhere, and considering it's a form of energy, that obeys the laws of physic, energy can't be created or destroyed.' then, the thought struck me. 'What if it doesn't follow the same laws? Wait, Ella regains her mana reserves by sleeping, meaning it has to be another form of transferred energy; I have to be doing something wrong'.

I sat there in frustration while a bead of sweat rolled down my face. Sticking the nail of my thumb in between my teeth, I clamped down, thinking of what I could be doing wrong. Lost in my own thoughts, I didn't realise I had been called by my mother multiple times to come to the kitchen, until she was right in front of me.

"Eliza!" she yelled. Practically jumping out of my own skin, I suddenly looked up at her, taking my nail out of my mouth.

"Yes?" I asked as innocently as I could.

"Come down to the kitchen, food is ready" she replied, staring at me with a curious look.

"Okay" I replied enthusiastically, beginning to walk out of the room, my mother called out to me with some concern evident in her voice.

"What were you thinking about just now, Eli?"

"Magic!" I replied with a child like giggle, continuing my journey to the kitchen, earning a small smile and the shake of her head from my mum, before she followed along with me.

During the entirety of lunch, I was rather absent minded, thinking about my current predicament, and how I could get a solution. This earned me a few concerned looks, from my parents. After even more contemplating, I finally came thought of a way to gain a solution. However I was rather reluctant. So I went back to thinking again, and after getting nothing for another hour I finally decided... to ask my sister how she meditates.

The reason as I'm so reluctant, you'll find out. After getting to know where my sister is, I approached her.

"Big sis Ella, can I ask you something?" I asked, my childish voice making it sound way more adorable to her than I wanted it to be. As she heard this, she put down the book she was reading (found her in the study) and looked at me with a mischievous grin on her face.

"What is it, my adorable little brother?", you could hear it in her voice, she had already figured out what she wanted in return.

"Ca- Can you please show me how you meditate to practice magic?" as I asked this question, her smile disappeared as she replied

"Why do you want to know about that?"

"Mummy, read a book about magic to me, and I wanted to practice so that I'm really good when I get my magic." this was the only excuse I could come up with that would sound plausible. And with that excuse her grin returned.

"I'll tell you, if you agree to play a game with me"

There it was, that sentence that sent shivers of dread down my spine.

"What game?" I asked, apprehensively.

"Tea party" she replied without hesitation "except you're the wife"

'I knew she'd come up with a ways to embarrass me again. FUCKING SHIT!'

This all started when Ella learned that in 2 years she'd have to go to the mages primary academy, realising that she wouldn't have a lot of time to spend with me, at every time she could, she'd find a way to make us play together. It started off relatively normal, until she realised there were some games I was too embarrassed to play, considering I have the mental age of a late teen. So she'd end up forcing me into those situations any time she could, awakening to her teasing nature.

After finally agreeing, and getting my teenaged heart humiliated, she explained to me that you must get in a position that is most relaxing and natural to you, breathing as naturally as you can, and wiping your mind clean. She explicitly said you can't try to sense it otherwise you would get nothing. Finally getting what I wanted, I awakened from my stupor and pulled her into a hug.

"Thank you Ella!" giving her a childish smile, to which she patted my head and returned a gentle smile. While I most certainly don't appreciate being teased as such, I do understand she just wants to spend time with her baby brother before she has to leave, so I'll always appreciate her help. Finally returning to my own room. I sat on my bed with my back against the wall, my hands on my outstretched legs, breathing as naturally as I can. In this state It could only be described as forcefully zoning out, then I saw it, in my body, were specks of pure white dotted around, and a fist sized light around my solar plexus.

'I AM A GENIUS!' I screamed internally, causing me to lose sight of the mana.