Chapter 1: Freak!
Alex came out of university with his books under his arm. He was depressed because of everything that happened to him on the first day of university. Alex was a Familiar, a demon subclass that was strong as itself but needed a partner or literally a host to live longer than 20 and unleash that power in him. From kindergarten till university Alex was considered the weakest Familiar because he didn't have any magic power. Instead, Alex focused on studying and understating more about himself and the reason why he was so weak.
Alex's parents were powerful, so powerful that people would consider them some kind of nobility. His mother was one of the strongest Familiars and his father was the representative of one of the deadly sins, the prince of lust. Naturally, Alex should be powerful but he wasn't and after years of studying he found the reason. He needed a partner and not a normal one, a human at that! finding a human in Aurus wasn't the problem for Alex because humans and demons lived in peace. Alex grew up beside humans and even had many human friends but the thing was that Alex couldn't even complete the ritual to become someone's partner because it needed magic!
From that moment onward, he decided to ignore the fact that he was a Familiar and just live like a normal human. It was a hard task because even if he somehow could, his bloodline and appearance wouldn't let him. Although humans and demons lived in peace, it didn't mean that they interfered with each other business. The human had their own jobs and demons had their own so because of this unwritten rule, nobody tried to act like the other or meddle in each other's business .
After finding all of this, Alex was disappointed and just tried to study and ignore everything until he reached university. Slowly he lost his friends and became a freak in the eyes of society, a person who knew that he was nothing but wanted to fight and change his fate. Years passed and Alex got accepted in the most known university of Aurus, Blearnore, easily only because of his studying.
On the first day of his university, many professors came and all of them talked about how to find a host, how to grow your body, how to control magic, etc. Not even a single of them talked about other things. Alex even asked if they teach anything besides magic and stuff and they looked at him like they had seen a ghost! They thought that only a freak would want to learn other things in a magic university.
'Why am I so unlucky? Why? Did I do something wrong in my last life?' Alex thought.
As Alex woke up from his daydreaming, he saw the gate of his family palace. from afar it looked like a castle carved out of dark stone, shining under the light of day. A guard came toward Alex before he even could press the button on his remote.
"Welcome home young Master!" The guard said and without further ado, he opened the gate for Alex. The gate made some cracking sound and opened.
"What can I do for my young Master?" The guard bowed and said respectfully.
'How many times should I say that I don't need this kind of respect…ah mother…' Alex thought.
"Nothing and thanks for that…" Alex said and slowly walked toward the castle.
As the castle of the prince of deadly sins, Alex's family house looked…different. Many naked sculptures of any race in the universe were placed in the garden, they were carved out of the same dark stone as the castle.
It took Alex some minutes to reach the main door. when he reached the main door, ten succubus maids were standing in line to greet him. Alex was sad, depressed, and irritated but he still greeted back the maids politely. Tired, Alex went to his room. His room was upstairs and it took him a while to reach it. Alex dropped himself on his royal size bed and grunted while staring at his room roof that was full of drawings.
'I have everything that everyone desires. Women, Power, Money, Respect but why can't any of it satisfy me? I want magic.' Alex thought and cried till he fell asleep.
The next morning, Alex woke up to the sound of his clock. It was 6 AM, the time that Alex should wake up and get ready for university. He was just looking at the roof expressionlessly. his eyes didn't spark anything, no sadness, no hope, no life, nothing!
Slowly he stood up from his bed and got in front of the large mirror in his room, and with a snap he got dressed into his uniform. A black jacket, white shirt, and black pants, with a pair of leather shoes. Although Alex had no magic, items, and tools sometimes had and his mirror was one of those. It could transform your clothing into anything that you wished. feeling bored with life and without hope, Alex didn't pay attention to any of these changes and went out of his room. He reached the front door and opened it but what came into his view, made him surprised and irritated.
A large and magnificent griffin was standing in front of the palace. On the back of the griffin, a guard with black and yellow armor was sitting and it looked like he was waiting for someone. The moment he saw Alex, he came down from the griffin and bowed.
"Young Master, your father has ordered us to give you a ride to the university. Come on" the guard stood tall and said in a tone that only soldiers used. It was obvious that he only respected this teenager out of order.
Alex saw him and didn't know what to say. He was irritated and angry. Why wouldn't his family leave him alone? He was weak, hopeless, and without any future but his parents did anything to please him. Alex was angry!
"Hey guard, go and tell my dad how many times should I say I don't need anything from you? Just leave me alone. I can go to school by myself." Without waiting for the guard's reply, Alex walked away.
'My life is bad as it is but why are they pressuring me so much? Ahh is it so hard to forget about me?' As Alex was inside his mind and daydreaming, he felt something grabbed his shoulder hard and the next second he was in the sky.
"Ahh shit, just like my father..." Alex mumbled and didn't move. He wanted to shout but because of the flying speed it didn't matter how loud he shouted, nobody would hear him.
After a few minutes, the griffin reached the university and Alex was praying to all the lords of hell and all the gods of heaven to not make what he was thinking a reality. Alex was praying that the griffin would drop him somewhere near Blearnore to not draw any attention but his fear became a reality and the griffin went inside the university. The defense mechanism of Blearnore became active but when they scanned the enemy they suddenly turned off.
In all Aurus, everyone knew that griffins were the pets and symbol of the prince of lust so it was obvious that the university programmed its defense based on those information to not anger any lords or princes.
The griffin continued and when he reached the main building, he came down from the sky and put Alex down. Alex wanted to vent his anger on the guard but the guard didn't even stop to look at Alex, he just turned griffin around and flew away.
after some cursing and shouting, Alex calmed down a little, just a little. He then started walking toward his class. It was a mandatory class and he had to attend it no matter how he hated feeling weak. The class was about the Familiars and their power, something that Alex studied more than a million times. He knew about his magic power, his body structure, and everything about Familiars, at least he thought!
He reached the class and it was empty. Alex didn't like attention so he always came to class early and would always choose to sit where no one would sit and that was the rear right corner of the class. Usually, those that tried to become a student of such a grand university like blearnore wanted to become someone important, and to achieve that, they had to understand objects and make good connections with professors so students rather choose to sit closer to the board but it was boring for Alex, all of these felt boring to him because he could never achieve anything, at least he thought!
Alex just sat on his chair started daydreaming, dreaming about when he could use magic. As he was lost in his dreamland, students came and crowded the classroom. As he had guessed, nobody wanted to sit at the back of the class. He was rather sad when he saw that he was right. He took a deep breath and looked at the door.
A bald-headed professor that Alex didn't saw yesterday came in. He was tall, handsome, and had a charisma that only powerful people had. When Alex saw the professor he didn't say anything because he knew even a man like the professor couldn't help him. He just sat there and out of boredom, he listened to the professor.
the man was wearing a black dress from top to bottom and besides those he had a black beard. He looked at the students and he saw that Alex was disappointed but he didn't say anything, he started walking around the class slowly with his hands behind his back he started "I'm professor Achilles and you are gonna study magic and its usage with me. Some of you may think that why do you need to study something that you have studied for the past 12 years but let me tell you something, every science and studies in Blearnore is private. Not even the emperor have any access to this knowledge." Professor Achilles glanced at Alex and without stopping he continued.
"The magic I am going to teach you today is about how to make a contract." When Professor Achilles said this, Alex laughed. The sound didn't even came out of his mouth when Professor Achilles looked at him. The moment Alex saw the eyes of Professor he felt like he became petrified, even the light around him stopped and for a second he became invisible. The next second Alex felt alive again and he stopped his actions and just sat like a good boy in fear of that petrifying feeling.
"As I was saying, In Aurus we have many creature and many races but the important thing about making a contract is that you should choose someone like yourself. Because there are times that you need their strength and vice versa so if you choose wrongly, they can abuse you and make you do some dirty thing… that I prefer not to talk about."
"There are two ways for us ,Familiars, to expand our life and become powerful: First, through the ritual that we all know about, You can choose anyone and unlock your hidden talent and power. You can even change your host as you like. Second: by making a contract. It is the most vital knowledge that only the students of Blearnore know. When you make a contract, you bind your life to your host and no matter what, it can't break. people mostly try to make a contract with creature of other universes."
"You guys might thing that Aurus is the only world and our universe is the one and only universe but you are completely wrong. Aurus is the world number 9 and their are uncountable universes beside Aurus. The reality of the universes are same but with one difference: they don't have any demons and angels. Although you guys have not seen any angels, I have and they live on another continent of Aurus." "You guys, as a Familiar, can choose to make a contract with the people of this universe or other universes. So today you guys will learn how to open a portal to another universe and do your job. It may be dangerous to make a contract right away but rest assured that Blearnore would find you a host with 99% compatibality. "
The Professor Achilles then went on and explained the process and everything necessarily about the portals. When he finished speaking, he added "I forgot to mention that both making a portal and signing a contract requires no magic and is done through devices. So which one of you would like to volunteer?"
Alex was so amused about the things he was hearing, first the details about contract, second the fact about multiverse and finally his dream turned to reality to be able to become stronger! Alex raised his hand without even thinking about the consequences.
"Come here, stand beside me." Professor Achilles smiled and grabbed some tools that were on his table and waited for Alex to come.
Alex didn't know what he should expect. Should he be happy? Would it actually work? He didn't know, nobody did actually! He went and stood beside Professor Achilles and did as Professor explained earlier like a robot.
Professor Achilles was amazed because in all his years in Blearnore, he hadn't seen a single student doing everything perfectly and not even ask any question on their first try, except one!
Alex didn't know why but something was calling his name from the moment he started. A whisper here and there and he didn't understand what it was saying but Alex didn't stop. Slowly Alex's eyes turned white and a nine fox tails made out of light appeared on his back. It was one of the signs that the portal was successful.
His visions became blurry and like a fast forwarded video he saw a universe. It then shrank and became a galaxy and from that galaxy it shrank and became a solar system. It shrank again and a planet came in Alex's view.
He didn't know how but the name of that planet echoed through his ears: "Earth…"
His visions then turned and shrank. It showed a girl, A beautiful teenage girl. She was running through the woods in her sport outfit and her silver ponytail danced between the trees. Suddenly his visions changed and an old house came in his sight. slowly a little red bat engulfed his visions and BOOM!
Unbeknownst to Alex, every single student saw the changes in Alex's body. First his eyes turned white, then the light tails and at last a little bloody bat appeared in the middle of his palm and suddenly the bat turned to smoke and vanished.
Alex's visions shattered and he woke up. When he opened his eyes he was scared because everyone even the Professor was looking at him strangely. He didn't know what to say because it was the first moment in his life that he had experienced magic like this.
He looked at Professor and with an awkward smile he said "Did I make it?"
"You found a match with 100% compatibility!" Professor Achilles answered.
