A magic the gathering fanfic
Written by Nikolaos Koutsioukos
Time for action
It was a cloudy morning, when sun should have risen over the horizon. But instead, the thick cloud blanket covered the sky and it felt like it was afternoon. Times were strange. When it was shiny, it was a bit brighter than it should be, and when it was cloudy the clouds were thicker. The ground was constantly shaking but everyone across Dominaria had been used to it, so when the trembles stopped for a couple of moments it was a weird deeling for them. Mana still cycling and cycling again. All these strange phenomena, took place shortly after the rifts in Dominarian skies reappeared and every day, the situation worsened.
On a grassy hill near the new Tolarian academy a tall shady figure of a man, dressed in an archaic blue Zhallfihr traditional outfit, was standing patiently holding his long staff on his right, next to a pretty cute and young woman, whose only her eyes would betray the scars of age and wisdom.Her hair were dark red and cut as a short ponytail hung on her left. She was smiling and he was grim with eyes half closed as if searching for something.
“What do you think? Will they—“ she started but the bald man waved his hand to stop her.
“Shh..The first one is here.” He pointed his finger to the west to a hooded figure walking towards them.
In an hour’s time they were gathered. All in all, eight people. Six young wizards with gleaming eyes. The bald brownskin figure and the short woman by his side.
“Hello every body.” Claimed the Zhalffirian mage. “First of all I would like to thank you all for accepting my invitation and welcome you on New Tolarian Academy”, said with a warm and friendly tone that would characterized a noble person like him. “My name is Tefferi, as you all would know. This is my companion, Jhoira of the Ghithu” again showing his courtesy presenting his conmpanion in such a gentle way. “ Now I would like to know if you are ready to follow me. But be sure to understand that if you do, your life will not be the same. Or,..” he hesitated for a moment and gave them a smile “in a better way your current life ends here.”
Some of the young wizards were a bit hesitant, but in the end everybody assured Tefferi that were ready for any errand.
“Great.” Said the mage, “You have a week before I finish prepearing my spell. In this time Jhoira will give you useful information about your mission, study some facts about the newely oppened ritfts, as well as the ones we experienced a few years ago and finally you will learn some historical things about planeswalkers, neowalkers and tips for palneswalking! Now let’s start! He have no time to waste at all!!”
And the company headed for the lower private libraries of New Tolarian Academy.
Though time was pressing them the climate between the gnang was warmful. The third day Jhoira came with a long piece of handwritten paper and told them,
“Here some things you should all know about the current situation of the Multiverese. Multiverse is divided in planes which only powerful and charesmatic creatures could cross and we call them planeswalkers. The are powerful beings who are immortal and have powers beyond imagination. They usualy are living creatures let alone some exceptions like Karn—“
“We have already studied that Jhoira!” shouted everybody in a voice.
“Now tell us something that is not within those books!” told her one of them.
“Alright..”She said dissapointed.However, the enthusiasm came as quicly as it was lost.
“The current situation on our Multiverse” she read.
“Tefferi conjectures that Nicol Bolas cast a powerful spell that would merge al planes into one and that is why rifts apperared. What is depicted in those rifts is not a window to the past, but to another plane. Tefferi has recognized them all. What he aslo guesses – and is my guess after all- is that neowalkers are imprisoned by him and his minions. What we also guess is that planeswalking is very difficult at the moment and that if anybody planeswalked, would propably be redirected randomly to another plane. Last but not least, Bolas has taken with him some people to rule under him each plane, or if the plane is huge like Dominaria, each continent. We know that because we faced Halfdane the Shapeshifter whom Bolas ressurected him from the dead, although he was dead for over a millenia..and we made him confess everything that he knew”.
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On the seventh day, Tefferi had prepared his spell. The one that would used his knowledge about the time he had studied well and would in fact make those wizards die, in order to ignite their spark.
He gathered them all and casted that spell. He released all the mana he gathered for a long time and the glyphs on the left side of his face glowed. And they ascended and knowledge opened in front of them and they felt powers they never felt before. The used all things that Tefferi learned them the previous day and they reappeared in front of him.
He stared at them and with a smile he said, “You know what to do”.
They all nodded positevly and they did their first planeswalk. They did not know what they would face.
‘Good luck”, he said and closed his eyes.