William

When I was little, I was always weak. Apparently my legs were too weak to stand on until I was three. I was always in the hospital throughout my childhood, and when I was ten, me and my family finally learned what the problem was, magic poisoning.

I was at school when suddenly I got a really bad headache. The teacher noticed and had someone help me to the nurses office. The person helping me started feeling what they described as 'pulsing' coming from my body, and all the sudden I passed out.

When I woke up, I was in a hospital bed. Since then, I've been on MP suppressants. People at school became terrified of me, after all with the amount of MP in me, I might as well been a bomb to them. I was isolated, and that doesn't feel too great to someone as young as me at the time.

One day, I coincidentally came across an article about a theoretical treatment for magic poisoning. Time magic. If I could just speed up the time in which my body used MP, and slowed down how fast it was producing it, I could be cured. Theoretical, but it planted the idea in my mind.

By then my family and I had moved out of the UK and to the EUT. Mom and Dad were worried about me fitting in with people in the UK, and the EUT was almost a magical haven, being the magical capital of the world. They thought that there, I wouldn't stick out as much with my ridiculous amounts of MP.

But no matter where you are, Sapients with the magic level I have stick out. And it's not that my physical appearance makes me stick out either. I look pretty average with coal black hair, and blue eyes. I'm not too tall, but not too short either. So that cause of the problem was definitely ruled out.

Then one day, I made a friend. It wasn't in the real world, but over a video game. We started talking more, and we had a lot in common. She went by the username, Darknight224. A silly pun. It helped a lot to have someone to talk to, to get my mind off of things at least.

I was around then that my magic poisoning started getting worse. I had already taken MP suppressants for so long and they were starting to not have as much as an effect.

It was also around that time that I had finished my second year of Magic Studies I was about to go into my third year of it. I would finally start learning magic.

Sure, it was weird being the only Sapient in the class, after all why would someone who's race can't use magic that well be taking a class about magic? Of course I was the only one, but I stuck with it, and finally I started learning Time magic. I decided to go to a public school nearby that was teaching Time magic, and waited for the school year to start.

On the first day of school I met a girl who used a magic spell I had never seen before, she started floating before my very eyes! It was magical and something I would have never guessed in my wildest dreams would happen, after all, making something float was relatively simple, but making yourself float was a much bigger challenge.

I asked her how she did it, and she gave a kind of lame excuse to avoid the answer. I just told her it was okay and left.

She was the only one who didn't look at me differently. Everyone else always had that look of pity in their eyes, always looking down on me. Whether it's my circumstances, or the fact that I'm a Sapient trying to learn magic.

She didn't have that look. Her eyes were empty of of all of those things. If anything they had a glimpse of naivety. That's why I could never tell her. I could never tell her that I had magic poisoning. I couldn't bare having her pity me.

In the end, my magic poisoning got to me. I don't know how much longer I have. I just… don't want to hurt anyone. What comes of me, I don't know, I just don't want to drag anyone down too.

"William!" Did I just hear Jess? I'm too tired…

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Jess' POV:

School's finally over! I gotta visit the hospital, I wonder if William is doing better? It's been a day since what happened with William. I've decided to do what I can for him, and right now that isn't much. I have decided to visit him in the hospital after school though.

I teleport to the hospital and, after all the annoying checking in stuff, go to visit him. I knock on the door, and enter his hospital room. He looks a lot better than yesterday, but still not doing that great. To be fair though, it doesn't take a lot to be looking better than how he did yesterday, he looks so pale that the whitest of snow has nothing on him after all.

"H-hey William, you okay?" I'm so nervous, I've never visited a friend who's being hospitalized before, should I have brought get-well gifts or something?

"Oh, Jess, what are you doing here?" Did he really just ask such a stupid question? He seem like the type of person to respond "you too" to someone saying, "enjoy your meal" at a restaurant sometimes.

"Visiting you obviously... you are my friend, I'm worried about you."

"I'm doing fine, you know? You don't have to worry about me." Doing fine? Just look at yourself, you aren't doing fine. Your eyes look dead!

"You're looking more pale than a vampire! You are not fine!"

"Jeez, I get it... Look I-"

Tears start welling up in my eyes, "You are not fine! I'll do what I can okay! I'll help you! Just... get well, okay?!?"

"Y-yeah..."

The rest of the time I was there was just an awkward silence. Eventually though, I had to go home.

I can't just brute force my way through this problem, Gravity magic won't make William magically get better, and there is no known cure to magic poisoning, to top it off his case is so serious that MP suppressants can only postpone the inevitable. I honestly have no clue what to do.

I gotta think of something! As soon as I got home (which didn't take long with teleportation) I got to studying. Not for school, although that is probably what I should be doing, but more books about magic, or in this case MP.

If only I could find some way to take a little bit of the burden his MP is putting on his body, and help his body carry it. A crutch so to speak.

The concept of MP is simple. It is a power that exists in all living beings. It flows through our bodies like blood, and normally more of it is a good thing. However, anything in excess can be a poison, whether that be water or oxygen, having too much of something is dangerous. Same goes with MP.

The current problem is that Williams body cannot handle the burden MP puts on his body. Not much, but it's a start. I will keep studying, but as the saying goes, Rome wasn't built in a day. This time the problem won't be solved quickly.