Ok I am going to say some things before you read this. If you have problems with grammar and spelling I will put my email up and you send me an edited version with the proper grammar and spelling I am dyslectic and am writing this more for my enjoyment. Though if you have any idea on where to go from here or a view on the story and world so far feel free to share.
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The owl sitting on the desk in the large room stared at the old man seated at the desk. The man’s white hair reached the floor and fanned out across it so far that it would still have reached the ground if he were standing. His equally white beard was just as long.

The snow white owl’s eyes shone with more intelligence than an owl’s eyes should , a fact proven when it spoke. “Master are you sure of this? You could live another thousand years if you do not do this, Master. Come on surely your life is not so trivial.”

“My dear Archimedes, I have been alive for 1,477 years give or take. That is more than anyone, even you my old friend, has ever lived. I have gotten to the point that the boredom alone has gotten to me. I do not have the drive to live anymore.”

“How can you lose your drive to live my master, for you are the strongest and wisest of all wizards, the great and powerful Merlin?”

“Archimedes, there are 2,340,000,000 people in the world give or take a few, with at least 25% capable of using the talent for magic. True, most of the people would be lucky to be able to light a candle. But I still should have 585,000,000 people coming to me to try and learn to use their powers. However I have not had a student in so long that magic has become a myth to the world. If with my death the world would remember magic and start to use it once more I shall die happy.”

“I see that you have made up your mind, my master, and I shall follow you anywhere, even to the void that is death.”

With that, Merlin moved his hands in a complex gesture and all over the world his face appeared on any surface that could hold an image. His words became whatever the person could understand so that there were no language or understanding issues.

“Hello world. My name is Merlin, and I am a wizard. That you have given up on magic and have instead gone only after that which follows the path of technology, has brought me much sadness. About 585,000,000 people on this plant have the gift of magic. I am placing a curse on the world, so that those who have the gift of magic can no longer hide it.

Some people’s magic will be to become werewolves. Others will be able to turn into cats. Both will have complete control over their animal forms. Still more will have their eyes opened to the two main types of witchcraft or wizardry. The first is earth magic, which uses potions to do what needs to be done. The second uses ley lines, the power of the very earth to do things. There will also be elves and pixies, though I am going to be nice to the pixies and let them be full human sized “

His image grew and glowed, as his sonorous words burst out, “SO LET WHAT I HAVE SAID BE!”

And all that Merlin said came to be. About 25% of the world population gained strange eyes. The werewolves eyes became golden. The pixies eyes lost the black from the pupil and became a “hot” color. The pupils of the cat shifters eyes became cat shaped, with vertical pupils. The pupils of the witches eyes became a triangle pointing down if they were earth witches, a triangle pointed up for a ley line witch or a star if they could use both powers. The strongest of the witches had a circle around the star being able to use both of the forms of magic in the same spell. If one of the were-animal people had kids with a none were their kids would get the ears and tail of that animal.

Each different type of magic user had a different sleep regimen though they all needed eight hours. The pixies and elves sleep for four hours between eight and two both morning and afternoon. The werewolves sleep mostly in the day as do the witches. The Nekomori which is what the people who turn into cats became called had the worst situation, sleeping one hour out of every three.

My eyes shot open, though that is what happens when you have to sleep using a sleep potion to get more than an hour of sleep at one time. I jumped out of my bed seeing all the boxes around my room. I got ready for school, putting on my special pants that had a whole for my tail. That was not the only odd thing about me I had cat ears and cat eyes, as well as the mentioned tail. I also have a triangle pointing down in my eyes. I am part Nekomori which is a cat person and part earth witch, which means that I can do at least 300 potions. That is why I am called a witch, even though I am male. The coven that controls all magic users is mostly female, since females tends to the stronger with magic. They were the ones who decided whether ones powers made someone a wizard or a witch. They believed in equal rights, to the point that both male and females had the same requirements for the titles.

My dad just had got a job at the college in this town so our family got the pleasure of moving over 500 miles in the middle of the school year. And to top it off is the next day would be my sixteenth birthday, which for any blessed one is a BIG birthday. Well for anyone it is big one because that is the birthday that your true nature will fully manifest itself. Tomorrow three things could happen. First, I could stay the same. Second, I could gain more power, or third, I could lose all my power. It has been known for people to go from a blessed one to a norm on the blessing day most everyone calls the sixteenth birthday, well at least in a ‘blessed’ family. Most of the norms still call us the cursed.

I put on a necklace that had a wooden cat’s eye on it. As soon as the wooden part touched my skin, the cherry blossom pink fur on my tail, eyes, and ear turned to a forest green. This charm also helps me deal with bright light, since too much direct light can give a Nekomori a headache. If I was not a earth witch I would have to wear sunglasses and put up with my pink fur since this charm at a charm shop would run around $500 and I would have to pay about $50 a week to get the charm renewed. Me, I just have to put three drops of my blood on it and it is back to full strength. My dad told me that if I still need to maintain the green fur after tomorrow, he would teach me how to make it tso I will only need to renew it once a year. One like that would run you around $3,000, plus $500 each year to renew it.

In the long run it costs you less money to use the weekly charm, but who has $3,000 to shell out. My dad said it is a pain to get them that at the shop and to have to go back to get it renewed, However he said that he would not show me how to do it that way until we knew if I would need it any longer I just got to the point that I could cast the weekly renewal spell as it is. At my old school I had been stuck with the pink fur and wearing sunglasses.

I finished getting ready by putting on my tee shirt, putting three rings on each hand, some of them being wooden while the others are silver. Then I placed a wooden arm guard around my left forearm, then went to the circle on my floor, I extended one of my claws. One of the gifts of being Nekomori is that I have claws that I can retract on my hands. I sliced the claw across my palm on my other hand and watched as it sealed itself as soon as my claw went past that point. I sprinkled the blood that came out on the ground in the circle. The circle glowed and I disappeared to reappear in the kitchen in front of my mother and father.

My mother is a full blood Nekomori. The only thing that is out of place about her are cherry blossom colored cat eyes. She can transform just her ears and tail to cat as well as have the claws as well, but she fits in with the norms more in than I do, since she can get a lot closer to human form than I can.

My father is a witch with stars in his eyes. That means that he is both a ley line witch and an earth witch. Though he cannot do any of the biggest and most powerful spells that use both at the same time, the most powerful witches can do both at the same time. The only ones to ever have the circle so far have been female. My dad teaches magic. Even though I could lose my powers tomorrow, he was the one that helped me master as many of the potions as I have.

Each witch has a grimoire. All magic users under the age of 16 have a starter one with just 75 pages in it so that we can have at least some idea of powers they are not linked to us like the ones that we might get when we turn sixteen. The temp one will display up to 150 spells in it depending on your pre age 16 skill level. Mine was going in the same order as my father’s earth magic to where he let me practice and master the potions until I can now stir around 400 potions.

Do not get me wrong. I cannot do them from memory, but I can still do them from the recipes. If I keep my powers I will be starting off with four hundred potions instead of thr hundred fifty which most would start with. While I have had power since birth, my current grimoire is blank until I touch it. When I get the new one that will link with me tomorrow, if I do not lose my powers that is, it will not keep going blank when I do not hold it. Only those I permit to open it will be able to see them, and they will only be able to see the spells and potions I want them to see. The covent makes them that way.

“Do I really have to go to school?” I asked my parents. “What if they put me in advanced gym due to being a Nekomori, or put me in a magic class to learn about potions and such?”

“You know they would not do that. Today you're just going to school get your ‘Normal Schedule’ which will have only the academic classes. You're acting like they have never had a person come right before their sixteenth birthday before. They know what they are doing with the schedule. It will be set up in such a way that they can either put special classes where you would have an elective and your advanced gym, or have a normal elective and a normal gym class. Not only is it better for you to go to school so you are not moping around the house, it is VERY rare for a child of two blessed ones to not stay blessed.”

“I am still scared. I would rather not be wasting what little time I may have with the power to invoke potions or turning into a cat stuck in a school. I just do not know what I will do if I lose my powers and become a norm.”

“No matter what, we will love you,” my parents said at the same time.

“Sure, you will love the first person in either of your family without any powers since Merlin blessed the world?”

“Powers mean nothing. Do not get me wrong. It will hard, but we will still love you. The worst being a norm means is that you will lose about 400 years from your life expectancy if Merlin’s books that came around can be trusted and all the other info in the books tells the truth.”

“Yeah, it is rare that my great, great, great, great grandparents look like they can be my parents.”

I finished eating, still in a crappy mood. The last thing that I wanted to do was go to school. I knew logically that chances were I would either stay the same or maybe be able to use ley lines. But I was still scared like I told my parents. I would rather be making potions or just spending the day as a cat, since this could be my last day able to do either.

I walked out the door and cut my right hand across the palm again. When I placed my bloody palm on the wood arm guard on my left arm the wood started to glow slightly. Then the glow surrounded me as I took to the sky, flying. I'd made this charm as well. A charm like this would run a person right around $10,000 at a magic shop, since to able to fly like this is like buying a car. Do not get me wrong, there still are cars and other tech, but they are just alongside magic. The thing is that magic is faster in a lot of cases, and if done right, safer. If I had to take the bus I would be looking at around a 20 minute commute whereas with this I get to school in around 5.

I walked into the office after stopping at a bathroom to clean my hand off. It is a good thing I regenerate thanks to being a Nekomori. Normal earth witches use diabetic lances to prick their finger and use their blood from doing so to kindle the spell. That takes too long for my liking, and is very hard to do with my regenerative power as a Nekomori. I would have to prick my finger at least three times for it to take and get my three drops of blood.

I checked in with the lady at the front desk. There was a strong smell of rosewood on her. Then I saw the arrows pointing up in her eyes. I smiled at her, now knowing that she was a witch, I can normally tell what someone is just by smell, witches smell like rosewood, pixies like cotton candy, werewolves like wolfbane and magic, Nekomori smell like catnip and magic, and the elves smell of the forest and magic.

Do not ask me what magic smells like. I cannot explain it. Me, I was told by my mom I smell very heavy of catnip and rosewood. The more you shift or use your magic the stronger you smell of what you are. This is how blessed can tell who are other blessed, though the pixies, werewolves, and Nekomori have the best noses. Some join the cops and put tracking dogs out of business in that area. After all it is easier to get info from an animal or ‘mythical creature’ if they can become human. My nose is best in my animal form, but I can still smell really well in human mode, so well I can smell a lie.

A girl of about sixteen or so came into the office about 5 minutes after I got there. At that point the one lady in a side office called us both over. She passed me my class schedule than said, “Samuel Strife please allow me to introduce to Faith Carter. She is one of the top students in the school and she has agreed to help you get used to the school. The schedule you will be following is a copy of hers anyway, other than the girl’s gym part.”

“Nice to meet you,” I told her with a smile. “It will nice to have someone help me get around the school.”
With that I took the schedule and left with Faith. We went down the hall where she led me to the locker that would be mine.

When she saw all my charms she said, “It must be nice being rich.”

“Why do you say so?”

“I’ve priced charms before and well, all the ones that I see on you, though I do not know what they do, had to be expensive. What do they do by the way?”

I pointed to the one on the necklace first, “This one makes it so I do not need sunglasses.” I pointed to the rings on my hands one by one, saying, “This one lets me make a protection circle; this one lets me hear that thoughts of animals; this one dries me off; this one lets me turn any doorway into a gate way back to my room. This one will let me speak mind to mind with my mom, and the last one with my dad. The wristband lets me fly.”

“Um that is at least $35,000 worth of charms there,” she said with a look of envy in her eyes. “Like I said, it must be nice to be from a loaded family.”

“So you are saying that you think that I spent about $35,000 on them?”

“Um, that is what I said.”

“I spent a total of $200 on them and that was for the materials that they made with. I made all but three of them myself. The other three were made by my father for me to use. The circle and the two telepathy rings were made by my father. The rest I made.”

“Shoot, you should sell them. I know a lot of girls that would pay big time for the charm to dry off. Why does a guy have that anyway?”

“Um did you not see all my fur? Also I also have hair down to my shoulder blades.”

“Good point, so how much for a drying charm?”

“It’s not for sale. I could go to jail if I sold one. Though who knows, I might lose all my powers soon anyway. Tomorrow is my blessing day.”

“Your what?” she ask looking at me weird.

“Oh shoot. The fact that you were so quick to ask for a charm made me forget you are one of the unblessed, though I think you would call it the curse day.”

“Oh, you turn sixteen tomorrow. I turn sixteen today, though since I am adopted and my adopted parents do not know my time of birth. I am stuck in school. So what is your time of birth tomorrow?”

“Noon, give or take, so I am going to get lucky and be able to miss school.”

“Lucky!”

With that we went to the first class. The day was boring as hell. All of the classes were either right where my other school had been or a few chapters behind, though I must say that I had some fun when lunch came along. I was sitting talking to Faith when all of sudden she started to glow.

Using the charm that made the protection circle I placed her in iy as magic exploded out of her as her powers unlocked. I was able to smell rosewood coming from her. When the magic cleared, I dropped the circle. Faith’s eyes had changed from blue to a bright purple, and she had stars in her eyes.

“Faith, may I welcome you to the ranks of the blessed,” I said with a smile.

Faith looked at me for a few seconds before her eyes closed and her head dropped the few inches to the ground. I went over to her and picked her up, moving her violet hair out of her face with a small smile on my face. With her purple hair and eyes she was even more beautiful than she had been before. Too bad that in all the time I had been with her, I had only smelled arousal on her when she looked at another girl.

I made my way to the nurse’s office most people getting out of my way as I went, most giving me a strange look as the string bean of a boy carried the weight of the girl in his arms. I made it to the nurse’s office without much trouble. Faith was still out of it. I wanted to pound her parents big time. Now I don’t care if you do not know the time of birth, but if someone goes through the blessing it is best for them and those around them for them to be where they can be keep safe. It is very hard on those that go from non-blessed to blessed. In a lot of cases the body is rebuilt at least on some level. I mean it has to be since they are adding on about 400 years of life.

The nurse looked up as I walked into her office. She is a Lycanthrope. I heard her let out a growl before she stopped herself, just as I gave a hiss before I could stop myself as well. Nekomori and Lycanthropes just do not get along well. We can and do, but when we meet a new, one instincts take over. That is one of the reasons that some countries have named us animals and protected us under the endangered species act.

“Hello my name is Sam,” I told her, not meeting her eyes. Most people would take that as a being disrespectful but I had just walked into her domain and brought someone sick and weak. I was not challenging her at this time. “Faith here just got blessed.”

I then backed up giving the nurse time to look her over. She was fast with her work, taking blood as well as checking the eyes and other vitals. When she was happy with what she saw she sat down then looked at me.

“Why are you still here, cat?” she asked with venom in her voice. I could tell from the smells coming off her she had just had a long day and did not feel like having a student giving her any issues and that was also cutting down on her control of herself around a Nekomori.

“Well, nurse, the thing is that today is my first day and I was told to stick with Faith and she would show me around the school and such. Not only that, the last classes of the day are the ones I do not have to go to since I do not know if I will be going to them or not in two days.”

“Ah, so tomorrow is your blessing day. I remember my kids blessing days. And the great grand kids as well. Shoot, I remember Merlin’s face in the sky.”

“No wonder my instincts are strong around you as they are. I heard that the originally blessed Lycanthrope and Nekomori had a lot harder time controlling themselves around each other. And that a original can set a later generation off just as much. You know, I have yet to get a name from you.”

“I am called Nurse Wolf, and yes that was my last name before the curse, though my husband became a Nekomori, which I still joke with him about.”

I chuckled as I watch her make a call to Faith’s parents to come pick her up.

“So how are her parents? She did not get my reference to blessing day. Most of those that still call it curse day are the more extreme anti-blessed groups.”

“There is one other group out there that call it curse day. That is the group that loses the blessing on their sixteenth birthday. Her adoptive parents were born Lycanthrope. Both of them lost the blessing on their sixteenth birthday.”

“Dang, so do you think that she will be safe with them?”

“Considering that they are my relatives, I do. Do not get me wrong. They were very angry when they lost the blessing. They were able to keep at least the human form enhanced senses. For the most part they do not talk about the days that they had before their sixteenth birthday, though right now they are in some test to try and get their powers back.”

“Yeah I have heard of those tests. My father is going to be working with the university to help them with that. I am happy he is looking for a way to give people back their blessing. I just hope that I do not need to be one of the ones that have to get it back.”

“Oh, That’s right, your sixteenth birthday is coming up.”

“Tomorrow. I tried to talk my parents to let me stay home so I can stay in cat form all day. Or make potions all day. Shoot, I have about a hundred does of potion that are already to go that would turn me into a cat that can work on a norm or blessed just as well.”

“Wow, not taking any chances, I see.”

“Yeah, though my father already told me he would be willing to make me more after I am through with them if I need them. I hate that about the blessing. Tt would not be as bad if it was just genetic. Then I would be safe. No, it is random with no real rhyme or reason to it. It is just my whole life has been kind of based on being blessed. To lose that I do not know what I would do.”

“Life goes on, I know that is not an answer but it does. If there was one thing that these last seventy-five years has taught me, it is that life goes on. No matter what you are blessed whether it is as a normal or as a blessed.”

At that point two people ran into the office. I could smell a little wolfbane on them and figured that they were Faith’s adoptive parents. I could smell their fear as well as love for Faith. There was little to no worry that they would be having a issue with the fact that Faith was now a magic user.

The woman chuckled a little once she was done making sure Faith was okay. “Man, it is kind of funny that her hair is now her favorite color.”

They both got up from checking her at that time. The one continued speaking, “So are you the one that helped our daughter out?”

“Yes today is my first day of school, so she was helping me out, showing me around the school.”

“Man you have it rough kid,” said the man the first time. “I can smell the lust from here though there is one big thing that is going to make that suck royally for you kid.”

“The fact that she is a lesbian? Yeah the only time I smelled any arousal on her was when she was looking at girls. So I knew that I was screwed with that, though I can definitely see us becoming friends.”

With that Faith woke up at last. She shot up and looked around. Her mom and dad gave a hug to help calm her down.

“You okay, Faith?” I asked

“Yeah Sam, I’m good, though thinking that I got shafted on having to go to school today.”

“Hey it could be worse. When you were blessed you released a lot of magic. Without the protective circle I put around you, you could have hurt your family. Go home and relax, get used to your new body.”

I then reach into my bag and pulled out my starter grimoire. I took a piece of paper and wrote my address on it, folded it and tossed it to her. “Here this will get you by until you can get to the coven to get your advanced one.”

She opened up the grimoire and her eyes shot open. When she first looked at it, the page was blank before she opened it. Now it showed a potion, a ley line spell. “So what is your potion?”

“A potion to make a charm to dry yourself.”

We both share a small laugh as she and her family left for their home. I said goodbye to the nurse and left as well, figuring that I might as well go home since there was no reason for me to stick around school with only two classes left, when I did not have to go to either.

I took to skies on the way home figuring that if things went wrong with the next day this would be my last time to be able to fly like this. I have been told by people that the ride on the store bought charms is nowhere near as good as a home stirred charm is.

When I walked in I saw both my mother and father sitting in the front den watching TV.

“Yo,” I said with a smile seeing them.

“Aren't you home early?”

“Yeah Dad. Gym and the extra elective will be periods seven and eight for me. That, and the girl that the school had helping me get around for the day was blessed today. She went from a norm to a ley line and earth witch. No circle though. She had an eye and hair color change as well.”

“People with the circle in the eyes are very rare. Though the hair color change is not that rare a lot of people who become blessed will find some change in their body. Your aunt had a boyfriend who became a girlfriend with the blessing.”

“And I thought that losing power would be the worst case with the blessing.”

“Well, no real issues with it.”

“Well, I think that I think I am going to call it day.”

I shifted to my cat form. Don’t ask me where everything I was wearing goes. I do not know. What really sucks with it is the fact that I lose all my charms with it. So I am stuck as a pink cat, not that it really matters to me. I just love how it feels as a cat.

I spent the next two to three hours just playing around the house. It is kind of sad that every house we ever lived at had a playground that would make any cat envious of it. I always found it funny that we normally had two to three cats and we had none at this time. Finally, I took a slight cat nap.

I heard my mother calling me downstairs, so not thinking anything of it I ran down the stairs. When I got downstairs I saw Faith, and gave my mother a look from hell.

“Hey, you know to never come down in animal form,” my mother told me. “If you don't want people to see you in your animal form, then you should not come down.”

“Is that you Sam?” Faith asked.

I shifted back to my human form. As I took my human form, all of charms came back and with them, the forest green fur. I look at her bashfully, “So would you like to come up to my room?”

She nodded. I led her over to the transportation circle, sliced my hand with a claw and teleported us to my room.

“So how do you feel?”

“I feel good, so pink fur?”

“I just got to point that I can change my fur color with the charm. I got hell for my fur color at my old school. The strongest potion maker in the school, and I was bullied big time.”

“You keep saying potions, but all I am seeing are the charms. What is up with that?”

“Wood is your best friend for earth potions. Wood is able to store potions, then you can use your blood to evoke them. You are going to want to get some ceramic spoons. That way you do not mix potions, because if you mix potions, you could blow your house up.”

“What about the silver rings that you have on?”

“Silver holds ley line charms in them. Ley lines are different in the fact that they store for a longer time. Normally, earth charms can last around a week in-between invoking them. Your blood is what fuels the spell. The rest you can learn in school like normal people.”

“You did not learn in school. And what is up with only one potion and one ley spell in this book?”

I took it and showed her the book was completely full, “It will show you potions and spells that you are ready for. How many potions or ley line spells you get depends on your strength in both.”

“So I was talking to my parents and got permission to come over tomorrow and keep you company while you wait for your blessing. I do not have to go to school tomorrow since I went today.”

“That would be nice. I could more than likely get my dad to take you to get a real grimoire for you. They hold a lot more spells and will be linked to you as well. It is a big step for you. Only magic users can enter the store. There is only one store for them, but there are portals all over that lead to the store in almost every mall .”

“Who runs the store?”

“The coven, they will test you as well to give you an idea of where your level is. If I still have my powers tomorrow I will become a witch, since I have mastered more than the needed amount of spells to get that rank.”

“What will I be?”

“A wizard, to start. They will tell you if you will become a witch at some point or not. Well I need to get some sleep so let's see if your blood can activate the transportation circle.”

I grab a diabetic lance from my desk, “Get yourself one of these. You can use this though, since it has a new needle. Prick your finger, think of where you want to go, and get three drops to drop in the circle.”

“What if my blood does not work or is just a little too weak?”

“It will do nothing. This is completely safe.”

She did as I asked and disappeared.

I went to my desk cutting my palm and got at least three drops in my sleeping potion. Changed into my sleeping clothes I sat on the bed and drank the potion. I placed the cup on the bedside table and fell into a deep sleep.

This is a BIG chapter for the story a transformation and shopping what could be better…

Eight hours after taking the potion, I woke up and got ready. I dressed in some loose clothes. Since I did not need to worry about going anywhere. I didn’t worry about any of my charms, as there was no use for them at this time. I went over to the circle on my floor that was linked to the one in the kitchen. I saw my mom and dad there, looking concerned. I sat up to the table and ate the huge breakfast that my mother had made for me.

Looking at the clock on the wall I saw that it was seven o’clock. “Going to go cat until Faith gets here or closer to blessing time whichever comes first.”

“I’ll join you,” my mom said, a sad smile on her face.

I spent the next four hours playing around the house with my mother. I will say this there is nothing that can take my mind off of issues like playing in my cat form; I could give up my magic and just become a Nekomori in a heart beat. It is one of the things that the double blessed like me think of leading up to our blessing day. We debate what we would be willing to give up to maintain our blessing.

‘A penny for your thoughts,’ my mother’s thought came into my mind.

I glared at the clock.‘10:59, About an hour till my life is changed forever.’ *I was thinking that if I could chose if I had to lose anything it would be the magic, not my Nekomori form. Most times the only thing that can calm me down no matter what is being in cat form. Shoot, it made almost four hours go by without me realizing it.*

*I was a ley line witch for the first sixteen years of my life,* my mom thought to me. ‘I lost all my magic and became a Nekomori. Other than you I am the only Nekomori in the family though I agree I love being in cat form.’

We both heard the door open and heard someone come in.

“Sam, Faith is here,” my father shouted.

My mother and I both ran down the stairs and into the living room. I could see her smile when she saw me run into the room then a look of shock when my mother came in. Here is the thing. In cat form, Mom and I look like twins.

“So, um, did Sam clone himself or something?” Faith asked with a strange look on her face.

Mother and I both took our human forms. We both shook slightly to get the tingles of the change out of our system.

“You remember my mother, right?” I asked with a shy grin. “That is who I get my Nekomori traits from. Our cat forms are identical.”

“Wicked,” said Faith with a grin. “My parents told me a lot about the blessed. They never really wanted to talk about it before, because it is a sore subject. They said that they miss it big time. I am hoping I get a transformation potion so I can let them be wolves again.”

“Very admirable, I can understand that, so what do you want to do to kill an hour or so?”

“Well, we could watch some TV.”

And with that we watched crappy pre-noon TV. At about 11:50 we where both taken down into the basement that my father has his lab. I stood in the middle of a circle that was engraved in the ground and filled with salt.

“Another quick lesson while we wait this out. This is a protection circle setup. Salt is the medium for a light circle. For a more powerful circle you can use blood, but that is normally for a dark circle. Also when you set up the circle you will want to make sure that there are no wires or pipes going under it and break the circle, Nothing that can get in that way. Also electronic signals weaken a circle. Some potions that are more complex and need a circle so that no other things get into the pot.”

With that my father put up the circle. I was surrounded in what looked like a green bubble.

“The circle you did at school was green as well,” Faith told me.

“My dad did it, it was stored in the ring, and I normally just use it so that I can make the harder potions. It has about ten circles stored on it, without salt or blood as a medium. though they are weaker.”

With that I felt pressure building in me. It was crazy powerful. It caused me to shout out in pure agony. It felt like my whole body was on fire though the strongest flames were on my chest, my crotch and in my eyes. I could feel my whole body being forced into a new shape. It felt like I was on fire for years, though I was told that I was only screaming for about a minute, which is very rare for a blessing. Most happen in less than thirty seconds.

Than my very world went black.

I woke up hard. It was like my mind was offline one second and was on the next. I did not open my eyes I was too scared. There was a strange weight on my chest and my body just felt different is the best word for it.

Okay, self test; I moved my ears and felt them twitch on top of my head. Okay, so I still had cat ears. I moved my tail and it was still there. I extended my claws and they were still there. With that I heard a scream of pain.

I shot up and saw Faith setting beside the bed looking at her hand that was bleeding where I’d nicked her with a claw. I had not even realized that she had been holding my hand. Then my mind caught up. I felt my body shift in a strange way when I shot up. I looked down and saw that I had breasts. They were not big, maybe a B cup, not that I was an expert or anything. I wanted to check below the belt, but with Faith there I could not.

“Mirror, please,” I asked in voice that made me grab my mouth real fast. She handed me a hand mirror. I closed my eyes and put it where I thought that it would right in front of my face. Then I opened my eyes. My face was breath taking. I took after my mother big time, with big kissable lips, cute little nose. And the eyes pink cat eyes had a star in them with a circle around it. I noticed for the first time my hair was longer, down to maybe my lower back, and it was now a light purple color. My cat ears and tail were still a pink color. My hair and fur went well together.

“So how long was I out?” I asked, hearing my voice again, sounding almost like I was singing.

“Around a hour. Your parents said that you should not wake up for another hour, with as big of a change you went through. Oh, and it is a complete transformation. Your dad was kicked out for that examination. Then I was once your mom got whiff of me.” Her hands went to her mouth and her face turned a very pretty shade of pink.

“Pink is a good color for you. I knew you are a lesbian by the way.”

“HOW? OH GOD, I AM SO GOING TO KILL MY PARENTS!!!!!!!!”

“Do not do so,” I say with a small smirk. “I smelled it on you yesterday. You were only aroused when you saw another girl.”

She blushed again.

“No need for you to blush. Most people don’t know about that. Pixies, Lycanthrope, and Nekomori can smell emotions as well as lies.”

“How can you smell a lie?”

“It is hard to explain. It would be like trying to tell a person who could not hear how a song sounds. It is a mix of things you send as well as hearing things in the body betraying you, like your breathing changing pace or your heart speeding up. My mother is way better than me, though, so I try not to lie at all anymore.”

“It must stink that you cannot get away with telling a lie to your mother. You know? I had trouble getting to sleep last night. It was almost dawn when I finally got to sleep. And I slept for like eight hours, it was strange.”

“You just brought up one of the true things the blessed call a ‘curse’ of the change. Each different blessed group has a different sleep schedule. Witches or the plain magic users sleep from just before dawn for eight hours, lycanthrope are the same. Pixies and elves sleep four hours in the middle of the night and the middle of day. And the Nekomori get stuck with cat naps of one hour every three.”

“But I saw you awake for longer than that, how is that possible?”

“Potions. You can get a prescription for them and they are paid for by the government, since you have to take them in order to have a normal life. My parents said that it made me an easier child to care for since I had a ‘set’ sleeping pattern. Even though my dad could have used a sleeping potion on me they did not start me on them till school started. Most times on long weekends I will go natural, because that is when I feel best. I almost got my parents to send me to a Nekomori boarding school. Each group has private schools where their hours of operation match the group’s.”

“I am glad that you could not get them to agree to it. I think that we have already became good friends. I think what helped with that the most is the fact that you were able to help me so much yesterday. You know, I thought that you would be freaking out more with the whole being a chick thing.”

“Look at me and then kind of look through me. Tell me what you see.”

She looked at me strangely for a few seconds, than gasped, “You have a pinkish glow to you and there is a strange symbol on your forehead in blazing green.”

“That is a ley line charm to bring a level head and cut down on ‘freaking out’. My father more than likely put it on me. I cannot and will not complain about it though, it is better to get a more logical look at this then the emotional look in the start. I won’t be surprised if he doesn’t take it off me till tonight to see how I am holding up.”

“I can see how that is nice, but it is still strange. I just would not feel good knowing that someone did a spell on me without my permission.”

“I trust my father. He is one of the top males in magic. Also, it is not something that can cause problems. You’ve seen my eyes right?”

“Yeah you are so cool. They have a five pointed star with a circle around it. What does that mean?”

“That I have the option to use some of the most powerful spells out there. My spells will be way more versatile then either by themselves because they combine them both. If I freaked out I could cause a lot of problems so it was either stick me in a protection circle while I had a freak out, which would use A LOT of my father’s power and energy, or cast the spell. I am happy with this. Like I said, I can look at it more logically. I mean I would rather be female and still be blessed, then to stay male and lose all of my powers.”

“Wow, I think I will have to learn to do that for when I take test.”

“It is one of the few spells that are permitted to use to take a test, since it does not help you by giving answers. It just lets you relax to where you can do your best.”

With that there was a rush of air and my mother and father were in the room. They rushed to me and gave me a hug. I could tell that Faith felt left out so I waved her in. After a few moments we broke the hug.

“So what are we doing first?” I asked my mother.

“We are going to the mall to get you your clothes. After we are done your father will take you and Faith to get you two each a grimoire. We are going to have so much fun.”

“Um, seeing as these clothes do not fit me at all, what am I going to wear to get to the mall?”

“Since I do not really have anything that I want to push you into right away, you can wear those. You will look funny, but it will still work for you.”

“Hold still Sam my boy,” said my dad. He made a gesture with his hands and all of sudden the clothes got smaller to where they fitted me. My shirt became a sports bra looking thing. “You can grab one of your smaller tee shirts and you’re ready to go.”

“I have got to learn to do that,” said Faith.

“It will not last,” said my father. “It will last about a hour to two. But it should help get you girls to the mall to get some clothes.”

“Um, even with the clothes like that, she really would not be safe showing up at the mall. That is so strange looking she would start getting a rep already.”

“Oh, the mall we are going to is about 500 miles away give or take,” said my mother.

“What?” said Faith with a look of shock.

“That is the mall that our one transport circle is still linked to,” said my father. “I have not had a chance to change the alignment of it. That, and I was going to just make a new one. That way Sam could visit any friends he, oh, I mean, she still has in the old city.”

.”

“Getting back to the shopping trip,” I changed the subject. “It’s not just that we have a link to the mall, but Mom also knows the owner of the Tail Shop store. I have to get all the clothes that for the bottom of my body there so she can get a discount on it.”

“What do you mean you have to get all your lower body clothes from one shop? You are a girl now you have to shop around, girlfriend.”

“No, with my tail I am limited to one shop for all the clothes that would fit for my bottom part. Some of the bigger chain stores claim to have tail friendly clothes, but at least the guy stuff never fit right for me. Not only that, she can take my measurements without having to explain as much.”

“Oh the one big issue that I see, my name.”

Dad looked at me, “Well kid we already changed it to Samantha. When we named you we had two names picked out Samuel if you were male and Samantha if you female. You never name yourself so no you cannot pick it that is still our right kiddo.”

“Uh, Dad, Mom, You’re right, Sam won’t work anymore. And I don’t want to be Samantha, either.” I hesitated, “How about … Koneko?”

“Koneko,” Mom said. ”Child of Neko. I like it.”

“Of course you would dear, since your name is Neko. But I like it, too,” Dad told us.

“That was easy,” I told Faith. “I expected more argument.”

With that we all went onto the circle. My father activated the circle taking us to our transport room. Since some of the circles go to the kitchen, like all one from each bedroom, all the rest go here. There is a heavy duty outdoor door on this room, since it has the ‘public’ circle to our house in it as well.

We got onto the one to the mall and activated it. We then traveled around 500 miles in about 5 seconds and went back two hours. Faith eyes shot open looking around the place she could see all the different stores and that.

“Welcome to Blessed Mall. Only those that are blessed or with someone that is blessed can enter this mall. It has the most charm shops of anywhere as well as some of the best cat toys out there.”

My mother and I both gave a little laugh about that. We led Faith to the Tail Shop, and walked right in. Out of the back of the store a woman with neon green cat features came out and greeted us.

“Neko Strife it is so nice to see you, and who are these two beautiful girls and where is Sam?”

“Sarah you are always energetic,” my mom said smiling. My mom pointed to Faith and me as she introduced us. “This is Faith a friend of Samuel’s from school. And this is Samuel though she is going by Koneko now.”

Sarah did not even bat a eyelash and pushed me back to the changing room, grabbing a tape measure and started to measure me.

“So your blessing day was pretty big I see.”

“It could be worse. I could of became a norm. I get ley lines and the circle in exchange for my Y chromosome. That, and that girl out there I have crush on is a lesbian, so I might have a shot at her now.”

“Ah, your dad hit you with a relaxation spell?”

“Yes, not that I mind. There really is a lot that I have to do today.”

“Ok I am going to shoot you. Your measurements are 36”-24”-36” 5’8” and about a B cub breast though I would suggest you go to VS to get measured as well, since they are the best for those measurements. Stay here I will let your mom and friend know so they can bring you clothes to try on.”

“Uh, VS?”

“Oh, I was forgetting you have only been a girl for a short time. Victoria’s Secret, dear”

I’m glad we were alone, as I know I blushed scarlet. If there was one place I never expected to shop for myself, VS would have been it.

I have seen Hell. Hell has a name. Hell is trying on an entire side of a store before being let leave the booth. Then Sarah talked me into wearing a skirt out of the store. The rest she said she would transport to our home for us. You have to love Blessed Mall’s delivery service.

We ended up spending over 5 hours shopping. It was not that bad once I got into the swing of things. I had some fun, even got some dresses. By the time we finished clothes shopping, I was in a halter top with skirt as well as high heels. Faith was so jealous of how easy it is for me to walk in heels though with my tail and the fact that cats naturally walk on the balls of their feet it was easy for me to walk in them.

I had thought that it was at last time for the part of the day that I was looking towards, getting my grimoire.

But my mom and Faith took me to a body art store. “My daughter needs her belly button pierced please, as well as three in each ear.”

I gave a look of pure hate but she gave me ‘The Look’. You know the ‘The Look’ that has grown men skirting away and hiding? So I got pierced along with three each in my ears. The only thing nice about it was I know people that make charms out of the earrings and belly button rings so I have more places for my charms. That, and Faith said it looked hot. It was nice that they healed as soon as they were pierced as well, so I could change them whenever.

My father caught up with us at last after that he did not even break a sweat when he saw the piercings. He even took out the belly button ring and put a charm in it.

“A protection charm,” he said with a smile.

We then walked down the hallway to the door that leads to the grimoire store. Mom stayed behind, since only witches can enter the store.

It was full of books and more books, all of them roped off. We went to service desk.

“I have two new blessed ones that need their grimoire.”

We then went up to two different people at the counter. They put our fingers in a machine and gave us a number from one to a hundred telling us where we fell on power.

Faith got a 75 which means that she was high as she could get without a circle. With practice could get the circle people have been known to go up almost a full 10 points before. Me, I got a 90 which is one of the highest score ever, though I knew it had to be at least a 76, since I was blessed at 75 before blessing day.

We each led to different tables. Both tables were covered by very nice looking books. I saw a pink book with a purple five sided star in a circle on the cover. When I touched it glowed and joined with me. I had my grimoire. I was not a fan of the pink, but to have a grimoire bind to you without the binding spell is rare and they will work better for you than anything else around.

Sorry about the delay though will be more like that with more part other then on weekends sometimes. Made this the longest to date to make up for the delay. I am fooling around with writing from a different point on view in this chapter there will be times in the future that I will do so again.

Also if you need help with the text I used http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php/ for the short hand and http://www.cool-smileys.com/text-emoticons for the emoticons.

Faith and I were practicing our ley line magic. It was still the same day that we went to the mall and my father showed us the basics we both had about ten spells or abilities based in ley line magic mastered. We can use our second sight which is what I taught Faith to do to see the spell on me. We both can do a protection circle, as well as a few other spells including moving an item without touching it. We promised my father that we would not try any other spells if they showed.

“Wow Faith you’re getting this fast,” I said with a smile on my lips . I saw a look of pleasure on her face at the compliment.

“I feel so behind though,” she said looking at me. “Your book is so full I mean you know so many potions and I do not know any.”

“You know I can teach you potions, though not tonight. Maybe this weekend?”

“Sure it’s a date,” she said as her hands flew to her mouth and she blushed.

And that my friend is when the calming spell dropped on me. I thought that the world was laughing at me, the guy who takes turning into a chick and does not even complains. I crouch down into a ball and just start crying and screaming at the same time. I can hear something in the distance but I do not know what it is.

The next thing I remember is Faith kissing me. Man can she kiss! I could feel it all the way down to my toes and I swear I saw fireworks go off.

“Thanks,” I said ashamed. “I needed that.”

“I can see that the spell dropped, your aura was all tweaked out and I could tell that you were in a tail spin. I did the only thing that I could think of to pull you out.”

“Thanks, what do you say that we stop with the magic and just watch some TV?”

She nodded and we went up to the living room. We cuddled on the couch and put on the TV. As we were flipping through the channels we saw a news story and left it on to hear it out.

“And the top story of tonight is it has been confirmed, the curse has evolved. People outside of the curse day are become more cursed. There are people that are spell casters are gaining the power of the lycanthrope or others. This is happening to a growing number of the cursed, there is no apparent reason for the change in the curse but it is happening. Unfortunately that is all the information that we have at this time. Back to you Brad.”

I looked at my screen jaw a little wide that is strange the curse or blessing has acted the same for about seventy five years why has it changed now. That though was a thought for another time and we turned to a movie channel and watched it. After the movie Faith went home.

I then got ready for bed and drank the potion. My last though was, I hated that it was Wednesday and that I would have to go to school tomorrow.

~.~.~.~

I was in a room with a bunch of books. I could see a desk with man that I would recognize anywhere since there are many pictures of him from when he cursed the world. I looked around the room shocked at the fact that I was dreaming about Merlin. Though with the fact that I just had my blessing day I guess that it was not too far of a far off idea that I would dream of him.

“Hello Koneko,” Merlin said with a small smile. “You most likely have many questions for me.”

“I am dreaming,” I said without skipping a beat. “You are just made up any answer you would give me would just be myself giving it.”

“You are dreaming, but I am real. I placed the curse that some still call a curse, and others call a blessing on a world ready to die. I gave up my will to live when I made up my mind to curse the world. You see my visions of the future were dried up I did not know what was coming and was afraid that the reason that I could not see the future was that magic was so weak in the world. I know now that is not the case.”

He stopped and took a drink out of the cup on his desk. I felt that the look that was on my face more than likely was one of complete shock.

“Oh you are thinking that you would not even dream of me saying that right. You see, I know that because I can read you mind as well. Well the world’s own magic took over the curse from me, letting me live, though I have been stuck in a coma ever since, living on pure magic, I will never be able to interact with the waking world ever again.”

“That must suck, though I know many people who would place that fate as too kind for you.”

I looked at his face and seen his eyes for the first time now and they were shocking. There was a six pointed star inside of a circle, with the left being a cats eyes in striking green. His right eye was a golden dog looking eye and both his pupils were a very bright orange color.

“What are you?”

“I am all of the magic races put together. I am the second strongest mage in the world.”

“Second strongest? what you cursed the whole world who the hell is more powerful then you?”

“You are. That is what I saw in my vision, me teaching you how to go above and beyond the limits that the coven has placed on the world. You will be able to do spells that people have only ever dreamed of, I made the spell that make the grimoire give people the spells the list that they gain the spells from. They are missing the most powerful spells, though your book has them. I will be spending every night with you teaching them to you.”

And with that we went into a hell of training that I was not ready for. He spent the whole time teaching me the spells that use both earth and ley line magic together. When I somehow knew that I was close to waking, he stopped us.

“You will need something other than the grimoire to prove that I am real I can feel it. Take this ring, it will permit you to gain full human form other than eyes, should you chose. Other blessed have been gaining gifts like this after their blessed days, so that when I got to you no one would look twice when I gave you it.”

“I do not want it.”

“I know you do not, that is why I also am giving a ring to your Faith that will let her become a cat at will, though she will not have the other powers of the Nekomori.”

“What other powers? The enhanced senses in human form and regeneration?”

“No there are potions that only the other magic users can do and witches cannot. The fact that people do not use those potions is why people become unblessed.”

With that I woke up.

~.~.~.~

When I woke up I saw the ring on my finger, so it was real. I then checked my grimoire and there where the spells that I mastered. Than I had to test something I though Nekomori and the book flipped and showed me a potion that permits me to fly anytime while in my cat form invoking it once. Wow, so that was what Merlin was talking about.

My mother than came into the room and said, “Get dressed in anything you feel like. You are not going to school today.”

“Not that I am not happy to miss more school, but why?”

“You need to see a doctor to clear you to go back to school.”

“Oh, okay. I will get ready as a do I want you to read the potion that I am opened to on my grimoire.”

“Your dad would be better to look at it. It would mean nothing to me.”

“Just read it please.”

I heard her gasp as she read I came out of the closet wearing a skirt and tee shirt. What do I have to say? Faith said my legs where too good to cover.

“I have never heard of anything like this. What made you thing to check the book?”

“This ,” I replied as I held up my knew ring using it to become as human looking as mom, then falling on my ass. That was when I became my normal self and got back up.

“You are gifted. Wow, lucky, some say that means you are destined for great things. So you were thinking about being a Nekomori while holding the book.”

“Yes I think it may be why people lose the blessing. What if since they did not use anything other the shifting power, if that is why they do not get to keep their powers.”

“That is an idea, though one we should think on, though, we should think on it later since we have to get you to your doctor’s appointment.”

Let me tell you this. I hate going places with my mom that we do not have a traveling circle to. We own a car, and well, I hate the thing. I feel like I am going to die every time that I get into the thing. However, we made it to the doctors without getting in a accident.

The lobby was full of pictures of pregnant woman and there were a lot of women’s magazines in the area. My face went whiter than white.

“Mom what kind of doctor is this?”

“A gynecologist, sweetie. We need this note to confirm you are female so that we can change the records at school”

“You are so dead; leave it to you to find one of the few places that I would choose school to be at other than here.”

“That is what moms are for, though this is a very big day for most mothers and daughters.”

“So you always wished for a daughter so that you could do all this crazy stuff with.”

“Not really. I knew that I could have another kid at any time so I was not really bummed over it.”

“You will know the real reason that we girls call the curse a blessing.”

“Why is that?”

“Other than your first few periods you can chose when you have kids. This is because we live so long and women have a finite number of eggs.”

“Oh, shit! I did not even think of periods.”

~.~.~

*Faith*

I walked the halls looking around seeing all the glows around people that tell me what their emotions the people in the hall are felling as well as their overall nature. While going down the hall I could also see a lot better there are colors that I did not even know existed.

“Hey Faith! Where is that hot dude that you had with you on Monday?”

“Hey, Ashley, not sure, though he is not a he anymore. He is now one of the hottest girls I have ever seen.”

“Faith, one of the few open lesbians in our fine school.”

“Hey, I do not mess with anyone who does not see things my way, Brittany. Shoot, I still have you three great platonic friends.”

“Nice to see you joining the blessed side.”

“Yeah Sarah I agree. I spent all of yesterday with Koneko. That is the hot girl’s new name, by the way. She helped me with ley line magic. That and her dad, Mr. Strife were very helpful.”

“The Mr. Strife?” said Sarah. “He is famous as the strongest male witch. I heard that the university in town is paying him five times the amount that they ever paid their most paid professor to come to this city.”

“I heard the same thing,” said Brittany. “Though I also heard the only reason that he said yes was because he had vision of the future and as such, came here knowing that this was where his family needed to be.”

“Yeah,” said Ashley. “I heard that he even went so far to say that the one that his child was destined to spend their life with is in this city.”

I than checked my watch to see that Koneko was about five minutes away from being late. I sent a text to Koneko saying: WRU? :-X

Koneko: Doctors Office…

Faith: wtf O.o

Koneko: Still classified as male on all my records

Faith: OIC

Koneko: So I get a another day off school

Faith: Lucky

Koneko: Would rather be at school

Faith: Y? O.o

Koneko: Um…

Faith: Come on it could not be that bad.

Koneko: No former guy should have to be here.

Faith: Are you at a gyna office?

Koneko: Yes

Faith: LMAO XD

And with that I fell down laughing.

~.~.~.~.~

*Koneko*

“Koneko, the doctor is ready for you.”

My mother and I went back to the doctor’s exami8ning room. I was told to strip and put a smock on. About five minutes later a Nekomori came in the room in the white garb of a doctor.

“Hello I am Doctor Cat. I will be doing your exam today. So I was told that this is your first exam. May I ask why you, as a mother, thought it was wise to not have in for regular exams?”

My mother stared daggers at the doctor to the point that I was happy that my mother did not know any Nekomori magic yet.

“Simple, my daughter Koneko was my son Samuel until his blessing day yesterday. We are mainly here to confirm that she is indeed female and get all the needed changes to her documents.”

“Oh, I am so sorry, though there are times that the blessed think that they do not need to worry about exams. The fact that I have never seen you as well, made me think that you are in that camp.”

“We just moved here, my husband just got a job here. If it was up to me we would have waited till after our son’s blessing day.”

“OK, now let us get started. Koneko I am going to explain everything that I am doing. Your mother is here to make sure that everything is done the way that it needs to be done and I do not over step my bounds.”

“I know in theory what you need to do,” I said with my tail twitching. “For the record, I am not twelve.”

With that the doctor did all the tests that needed to be done. Let me tell you this I am so going to try and come up with a way to do it all by magic. That exam sucked.

“Congratulations, Mrs. Strife. It is a girl! I will be able to get all the information changed so that she will be able to go to school tomorrow. Also I would feel honored if you both would keep coming to me.”

With that we left the office and went out to a nice café to have lunch.

~.~.~.~.~

*Faith*

The day has sucked so much. So far I have only known Koneko for around three days, and yet I cannot stop thinking of her. The day has been normal so far, but that is because my next class is my magic class which is one of the only reason I did not skip today to support Koneko.

“Okay class, you all have you all know what are doing for, now get to it,” the teacher said, then walked to in front of my desk.

“Welcome, Faith. This is mostly just a free class to work on your magic. I will work with you to teach you the basics. Once you have the basics down you are free to work on any magic you want.”

“I see you do not have the circle though you have the six sided star.”

“Yes the circle is very rare, though I hear you are close to having one. May I see your grimoire? You see, you need to give me permission to open it as well as see it.”

“You have permission this once to look into my grimoire and see what I can do. Once your hands leave the book the permission is over.”

“Wow, someone just took the fun away from my first lessen. No matter, let us see what we are looking at for ley line magic first.”

The teacher then went through the ley line portion of the book.

“Wow, you have the basics down on ley line magic already. Let us take a look at your earth magic portion.”

The teacher then went through that portion of the book.

“Ok. Well I see in your transcripts you have had home economics so you know how to follow a recipe. That is the basics of potions, though with potions you do not want to get close like you do in cooking because if you mess up the potion may not work or it may do something you do not want it to. The pots we have will hold any explosions, at least.”

With that the teacher then went back to the front of the class as I worked on potions, the first being one to change your hair color.

By the end of the class I had 3 potions in my book. As I made my way to advance gym class I saw Brit, Sarah, and Ashley in the locker room for it.

“Nice to have our friend in the class,” said Brit.

“Yeah,” agreed Sarah and Ashley.

We all got dressed and went out to gym. The gym teacher passed out wrist guards like the one that Koneko has to all the witches in class as I and all the other cursed went to other areas of the gym. Most of my classmates pulled out a lance, put three drops of blood on their wrist guards, then they put three drops on the guards of people that only had a triangle pointing up. The class took to the sky playing a soccer looking game just with using their hands.

“Hey Faith,” said the coach. “You have your lance, right?”

When I nodded she said, “Good now in advanced gym we work on different things. The blessed that are just witches do different sports while flying, or will go through obstacle courses. I will be teaching you how to fly today. Have you ever flown before?”

“No, I could never afford the charms.”

“That is good, because the charms that witches use and non-witches use are different. You will have a lot more control over your flight with this than any charm made for a non-witch.”

I will say this about flying it really does rock. After class I asked the teacher, “So why did my one friend say that she was not sure my blood would work for her flight charm.”

“This is a very low level flight charm. There are other charms out there that only full witches can evoke. These even wizards can.”

“Cool so there are better flight charms.”

“Yes there are.”

~.~.~.~

*Koneko*

We spent the rest of the day at home I spent my time in my spell room working with my mother on Nekomori spells. We both have been flying as a cat and it ROCKS. After we both mastered around twenty spells, my alarm went off telling me that school would be getting out. I ran outside and took to the sky, flying to school. I got there right as the final bell rang and class was let out. Faith came out of the school about three minutes later.

“Hey good looking,” I said with a smile.

“Hey yourself,” she said as she ran and gave me a hug. “So you got to go to a gynecologist?”

“Yeah, leave my mother to find one of the only places I did not want to go other than school.”

“What? You didn’t want to go to school? But I was there.”

“Well, with you there it is worth going.”

“Good.”

“Here is a gift for you.”

I handed her a wrist guard that I made for her with a flight spell in it. “I know now that your blood should be able to kindle it.”

I watched her put it on prick her finger and place the three drops on the wood she then shot in the air way too fast. I rekindled mine and took off after her.

“Wow, this is crazy way better then the wizard ones we used in gym.”

“No wonder you took off. You really have to think to get those to do what you want them to.”

After around thirty minutes of flying we went to the mall, Faith saying that she agreed to meet some friends there that I had to meet.

When we got there I say her friends one was Nekomori with the tail and ears. I later found out her name was Ashley. Then there was a earth witch named Brittany. Then the last a lycanthrope named Sarah.

“Hey girls, let me introduce you to Koneko,” Faith said then pointing to them each in turn. “Koneko, meet Brittany, Sarah and Ashley. They have been my friends for as long as I can remember.”

“Nice to meet you,” they each said in turn. I could tell that they were not happy to have me along, like I was a useless fifth wheel. The first hour was not that bad though, as they slowly started to warm up to me. In the end the mall was a really fun place to hang. We even went and saw a chick flick, which if I was completely honest did not suck as much as I claimed. Please, never tell Faith.

“You did it Faith,” said Ashley. “Found the one girl that acts so much like a dude it’s almost not lesbian to be with her.”

Faith blushed and we all said our goodbyes to Brittany, Ashley, and Sarah.

“Do not take what they said to heart. I do not really care how you act. It is cute.”

“I understand. Shoot, I almost went in the guy’s bathroom twice already. I know that there is a lot that I have to learn about this being female crap.”

“Do not put yourself down, you are just learning now. Normally you would have had sixteen years of training. People will just call you a tomboy and call it a day.”

“So, Faith, how about we get some dinner? I am starving.”

“Is this my beautiful Koneko asking me on a date?”

“Yes it is.”

We ended up going to seafood restaurant. My dad gave me a lot of money for tonight, saying that I would need it. Now I know why.

*Faith*

I was having fun with Koneko big time, even the girls started to like her in the end. I could tell that they were angry that I brought Koneko to the mall. Though, in all fairness we had a rule to the mall hangouts, no boyfriends. I broke that rule even though Koneko is not a boy, well, now.

The movie was really good. I did get the feeling that Koneko did like it more then she let on. I can let her have her little bit of male pride that she is holding onto. She ended up taking me out to a very nice seafood restaurant, though I did not have the heart to tell her I did not really like seafood. I will say this, though, the food was surprisingly good.

We then took a walk at the beach by the lake.

“I had a really good time with you. You know I found this ring on my finger when I woke up. I had no idea what it was though.”

“It is called a blessing. I got one as well; they appear sometimes on the day of blessing. Try it. Will the ring to activate. A blessing is never harmful. mine lets me become fully human, though; I cannot even stand without a tail.”

“Yeah, my mom and dad said that they had to go through physical therapy to learn to walk. That is where they meet.”

I willed the ring to activate and I started to shrink. I panicked as I got smaller and became a purple cat. As I transformed I felt my ring become a collar. I then saw Koneko transform as well.

*Can you hear me?*

I jumped so high it was crazy.

*I take that as a yes, Nekomori or any human as a animal can project their thoughts while in animal form. It is part of a Nekomori’s power as well as part of every spell that can transform a human.*

*This is so cool.*

We spent about a hour until dark playing tag. As a cat it was so much fun. We then both became human Koneko flew with me back to my house. As Koneko was about to leave, on impulse I grabbed her and gave a deep kiss.

My life has sucked, as my muse did not want to work on this… Also there will more than likely not be anther chapter until December since I will be doing NaNoWriMo.

*Koneko*

I was back in Merlin’s study again. I could not believe this. Merlin himself was teaching me how to do magic. We spent the whole night so far on mixed spells again. I had around a hundred stored potions in me that I can activate by connecting to a ley line and saying a magic word. Before you come out and say what is the use of drinking potions in a dream, well come on, we are talking about Merlin. He said that everything that happened in this dream will carry over to the waking world.

“You are making good progress Koneko. I plan on taking you to around five hundred spells in mixed magic, then see where you sit on the other disciplines of magic that you have access to.”

“What happens when I get that point?”

“I will unlock your other disciplines for you. I think that I will start you with pixie magic after the Nekomori magic, since you will have the most trouble with lycanthrope magic.”

“I was looking at these spells and finding that for the most part there is no difference in what one can do in one discipline to anther, just with how much work has to be done to get it done.”

“That is the case.”

“What is the use of knowing them all then?”

“Could you imagine if you combined all different disciplines into one spell?”

“Not really, what would it get stronger?”

“Yes it would. The curse that I placed on the world used all the disciplines plus a few others. When we are done with your lessons you will be able to use more disciplines than anyone else. I am going to teach you a very useful skill how to read a person’s grimoire without their permission.”

With that the lessens got back underway.

~.~.~.~

I got up and got dressed in the outfit that Faith said that I HAD to wear to school on my first day back. It was a tasteful dress that was sleeveless, with a hem that started at mid-calf one side and went up to my knee on the other.

I also used a mixed spell to make it look like I had makeup on. I went to the kitchen and had breakfast. It was a nice big meal, as is normal for days that my mother would call big days and this one fit that description. It was, after all, Thursday, which meant that I only had the hell that is school for one more day before the weekend that I really was looking forward to.

I flew to school, going way faster than I normally would have gone. I really wanted to meet Faith for the day.

Faith was waiting for me right outside of the school doors. She was hot in a skirt and tee.

“This is so not fair, I am wearing a dress, and you are in a skirt set.”

“I was always a girl and good job on the makeup,” she said with a smile.

“It is a spell. I am not really wearing any.” I stuck my tongue out at her. She picked that moment to kiss me.

“Oh we need to go to the pet store tonight,” I tell her. “I have a spell in my ley line part that is on the binding of a familiar. We’ll need to go to a shop at The Mall. They have a very big selection of animals that just roam free. That way they can choose you.”

“Choose me?”

“A familiar works it will let you do way more ley line magic with less risk to you. But the familiar chooses the person with magic, not the other way around.”

“So we’ll be able to bring them to school?” she asked me.

“More than that one of the first spells that you will place on it is one that stops its blood and other things such as hair and such from going more than a inch from the animal when not attached or when you do not want it to. That means that you can take them ANYWHERE, since health regulations about not having a animal in a area would be null and void.”

“Cool, but my book has not shown me that spell. Will I be able to use it?”

“More than the likely the reason that you have not gotten the spell yet, is because you have not worked that much with the ley line magic. I know that most schools have the witch work on earth magic first if they have a choice in it.”

With that the bell telling us to go into the school went off and the hell that is school started.

Faith made a motion telling me to go first, so I did. I went straight to the office to turn in all the information about my new status, and to get the schedule that would be set in stone for the rest of the year. Looking over it next to Faith I saw that it was still a copy of hers, now with girl’s gym being the same as well.

We made our way to the next couple of classes, then lunch. The day went fast until we got to magic class. That was a pain in the ass big time.

“Oh hello you must be Koneko,” the teacher said as I walked in, thus separating me from Faith. “I am looking forward to teaching you the right way to do magic.”

“What do you mean?” I ask with a small spark in my eyes.

“Well, I know that in the old days your family was the in-family on magic, but things have changed. I look forward to helping to mold you into a fine witch.”

I smirked at him at that point. “If and when you can read my grimoire without my permission is when you can start to teach me how to do magic. Till then just let me use this class as a study period.”

“That is impossible. The way that the spell works, you cannot read a person’s grimoire without their permission. It is a old kick back to when people had to learn spells on their own.”

“Is your grimoire here? If so, let’s see if it is really impossible.”

He handed over a older looking book without any real markings on it. “I forbid you from reading my grimoire,” he said with a smug look on his face.

I made a circle with the six sided star in the middle of it with salt, then placed his grimoire into the circle I connected to a ley line, and said “Quod occultum sit facienda. Talis enim ordo postulat ut potens.” Feeding ley line energy into circle. I opened his grimoire, showing him his spells in plain sight, even though he or someone he had not given permission to see it was not touching it.

“On a side note, never say that anything is impossible. It makes you look stupid.”

I walked to a desk next to where Faith was and helped her get to the point where she would be able to bind the animal tonight if one chose her.

*Faith*

I watch Koneko walking into the school with a slight smile on my face, loving how the dress fit my woman. She has a nice ass and tail. We both went into the office to get her new schedule, which I was glad to see that it was still the same as mine. And so we went to the fun-ness that is school.

It was fun watching her take the teacher of the magic class down a peg or two.

Gym was not what I was hoping it to be. Koneko got thrown with the Nekomori, though I will say this she was looking like she was having fun with the Nekomori. I went up to the teacher and asked, “Why did you put Koneko with the Nekomori? She is a really powerful witch as well.”

“Ah she is a visible Nekomori. That give her advances over just witches. Her senses are way higher than those that just a witch, so whatever team that she would be on would have a unfair advantage.”

“But could I not use magic to gain the same skills that she has?”

“Yes you could wither through earth charms or ley line magic you could. But for the most part students in high school are nowhere near that level at this point in learning to use their gifts. Though I think that she is one of the few that would prove me wrong. I have seen her use a lot of demon magic to help her. The game that they were playing is permuted of course.”

“Demon magic?”

“It is what some of the people that follow magic call magic that uses both ley lines and earth magic, though you could also call it angelic magic. If it is something physical that is used as a attack, it is demon magic, increasing speed and strength is demon magic, which is what she did. Using it to heal or defend people is angelic magic. Demon magic is not viewed as bad, just like angelic magic is not viewed as being good. It just is.”

“Koneko said that I am almost at the level of doing combined magic.”

“I know of her family, and they are known as the main leaders in magic development. If she says something about magic I would believe her. Now go ahead and get ready for your next class.”

*Koneko*

“Ko-chan,” Faith yelled as she ran towards me after cleaning up. “So did you have fun cheating using demon magic?”

“Ah, the teacher is an old school term person. People tend to call it just mixed magic now. And I did not cheat. We were told that we could do whatever we wanted within reason to win. There were other people using magic to help them as well. They are just not on my level of magic.”

“She said that your family was a big name in magic.”

“Yeah, my father ancestors did a lot of work in magic when it first started showing up with the curse. At the time they were persecuted for it, since most people tried to just ignore the magic and go on with their lives. As you seen in magic class, some people feel that they are way higher level than my family, though why a teacher at the high school level would think so is beyond me.”

“Why did you tell the teacher to never say impossible?”

“Simple, the really high level magic is subjective. It does what you think that it can. At one point people said that you needed a plane or something like it to fly, and that no human could fly. Or they even said that magic is not real. The spell that I used to open his grimoire you could not do. It is angelic magic.”

With that the rest of the day went by fast. We made our way to my house and then went to the magic mall.

We made our way to the familiar shop. What is really nice is that some of the animals that were ‘Magic’ in nature came back like dragons, unicorns, as well as many more.

“So what type of animal would you like the most?” I ask Faith.

“Mythic,” she said with a smile.

I let her go first. She stepped into a circle and shop clerk cast a spell on her so her familiar would come to her. A beautiful unicorn made its over to her and stopped next to her. I smiled, seeing that she got her wish, since a unicorn was ranked number two on the mythic scale, with dragons coming in as number one. This is a power scale, not on scale of most wanted. Unicorns are number for females on that list.

Next, I stepped into the circle and let the clerk cast the same spell on me. Not much later a purple dragon hatchling landed on the top of my head. I smiled, since even though I am female now, a dragon was still the one that I was hoping for.

Then we both went into the next room with the clerk, where they had all the tools needed to bind a familiar and bond our new friends to us.

*Faith*

“Oh my god! She is so beautiful,” I was gushing after we got back from the mall and were sitting on the couch. “Though she is so big, how is she going to get out of your house?”

*I will shrink myself down,* I heard inside of my head. *Do not be alarmed. One of the pluses of having a mythic as you call it for a familiar, is that I am able to think and reason.*

“Um what is your name?,” I said out loud.

*Celeri, also you just need direct your thoughts to me I will hear. Your mate has heard all of this as well.*

*Yes Celeri, it brings joy to my heart that you would feel that I should be a part of you and your partners first talk.*

I was shocked that Koneko could hear what Celeri said.

*I am Ignem,* said anther voice in my head.

*It is with great joy that I meet you Ignem,* came Koneko’s response.

*I find great joy that you spoke to me,* I said.

With the shocks of talking to our familiars done, we relaxed and watched TV. There was a news story of how some of the witches that could do demon/angelic magic are starting to grow wings.

“That might be a pain,” I heard Koneko say before she started to scream.