New Acquaintance

Location: Star City's Outer Grounds

09:58 AM: August 8, 2010

POV: Alex

"AAH'' was the first thing I heard when I impacted the ground. While I laid on the ground and got my bearings I pushed myself up in a sitting position. When I sat up I was facing towards the cliff craning my neck to look behind me I saw the source of the scream was a girl around 2 or 3 years older than me. Looking behind her I could see 4 other guys around their 20's positioned to prevent us from leaving. I just continued to stare at them with disinterest before I stood up and was going to walk out of there but the girl stopped me grabbing my hand.

"Please help me," the girl said to me in a hopeful tone. Looking at her curiously and then at the 4 men I asked her "What do you need help on''. When I answered she got hopeful and said that the men in front of us were trying to kidnap her to use her for ransom against her father. Wanting to know why I asked her "Why do you need help just sensing the magic around you I can tell you're a Mid Tier B-Class Mage"

Quickly replying she said, "I would but they used a mild poison used to block my magic". Turning to the four men I said in a calm tone "Leave her alone and I might spare you". The men with a look of surprise slowly started to laugh and in a matter of seconds, it became a full-blown laugh.

"What makes you think you can threaten us because the way I see it there are 4 of us and only 2 of you," said the ringleader of the group.

After he finished speaking I stared at them and a quick as I could I impale 1 of the men through the back before making it branch out making smaller spikes causing more damage. Another one I crushed by opening the ground beneath him and using the rocks and dirt to crush him.

When the leader came to he was horrified at what I had done. Trying to apologize he began to slowly back up along with the other man. Not wanting them to get away I created an Earth Barrier behind them.

Realizing they could not escape they decided to fight back. The leader used a simple fireball and his partner used a wind blade. As the attacks came at me and the girl I raised an earth wall. After the attacks impacted I pushed the wall forward hitting one of the two and knocking him out.

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The remaining one in the last-ditch effort to escape shot a small tornado to both hurt us and block our eyesight.

As he ran I used the glass from the glasses of one of the dead men and made it impale the back of his skull and make it come out his forehead.

The girl behind me was scared of me after what I had done to the men. Turning towards her I asked her a question.

"Where do we go now?" wanting to know where I had to take her so I could get back to what I was doing. She responded in a fearful tone.

"Just follow me" she began walking in the direction of Star City. As we walked I grabbed the leader of the men who had been knocked out and started dragging him with us.

Following her, I wondered why the men targeted her over anybody in Star City.

"My dad is the City Lord" she responded in a hurry.

"Out of curiosity, what is your Rank I can't sense any magic from you," she said as she turned and looked at me with a hint of curiosity. Looking back at her is when I realized I was blocking my magic from spreading preventing others from gauging my magic Rank.

Ignoring the question I asked myself "How much farther do we have to walk to get to your home". The reason I wanted to know was that once we entered the main part of Star City people were giving me weird looks because of the man draped over my shoulder.

"Not much further you can see the gates from here," she said pointing at a gate with guards in the distance. We continued walking towards the gate as we got within a couple of yards from the gate that the guards recognized the girl.

"Lady Mia where have you been your father has been looking for you," said one of the guards.

"That's not of importance where my father is," said the girl was now known as Mia. She asked in an authoritative tone not giving any room for the guard to argue.

"The City Lord is in the main hall Lady Mia" responded the guard with worry laced in his words in fear of getting punished.

After she got her answer she walked past the guard without sparring another glance towards them. I just followed behind her ignoring the questioning glances of the guards. We continued walking throughout the compound heading to the center which I assume is the main hall.

When we arrived at the door for the main hall Mia slid it open revealing what was inside. Inside were 5 seats. 2 of them were on my left and another 2 on my right. The last one was located in the middle of the other 4 seats and it looked more lavish than the others. On the seats were 5 men.

The man located in the center seat stood up and strode over to Mia and hugged her before he asked "Where have you been". He asked Mia this in a caring tone.

"I was in the outskirts of the city and was almost kidnapped," she said to him in a sincere tone. When she said it one of the other men in the chairs snickered at her explanation. When he snickered the city lord turned towards him.

In an angry tone, he asked "Is there a problem Nick?" "How can she be kidnapped she's a B-Rank mage she's probably lying" the man known as Nick said in a very condescending voice. Without any hesitation, I responded "Who are you to say that it's a lie" Saying it with a loathing that could only be described as a raging fire.