Darkmancer Chapter 7

Soon it was well past morning, I woke in the bed next to Tom, I turned and the bed was empty. I listened and heard the shower running, I got up and walked to the door and went in, to see Tom naked showering. I opened the door and stepped in with him; he spun round and kissed me. 

“Good morning Sam”
“You seem very happy Tom”
“Yes well I woke up this morning and felt brilliant”
“Why?”
“Oh, Sam drop the act, I know the truth, you are a Darkmancer and you also gave me the Darkmancer ability. I know it was you who killed that young Mage earlier, probably because he watched you do something that you could not allow him to tell anyone. You know that before I would have been fearful of you, but now I agree, it was necessary. I wouldn’t want you been found out, not only for your sake but also for mine, we are now bound by our shared gifts, I also know that I don’t compare in anyway to your power, I can see the power it blots you out to me. My flame in comparison is but a flicker, while yours is like the flame of a bonfire. I love you with all my heart, but do you love me or was I just a tool for your ascension?”
“I love you deeply Tom with every ounce of my spirit, and every beat of my heart”

We kissed deeply yet again, Tom broke away and began to bend down kissing down my neck until he reached my nipple and began to lick and suck it, he continued down my body and began to suck my raging hardon, he sucked and sucked for what must have been half an hour, I felt my balls convulse as they prepared to send my seed down his waiting mouth. Within in moments I sent a stream of hot cum down his throat, he swallowed it down. He spun me around and I complied with his wishes, I felt him enter me and felt complete with him inside me. he continued with the thrusts, getting harder and faster as time progressed, within an hour he was thrusting so hard that I thought my arsehole was going to rip open until I felt him cum inside me, as he pulled out he grabbed my nipples and rubbed them while moaning
“God I love you”
We got out of the shower and dried off, Tom looked at me.
“What you doing today then?”
“Well seen as you know about your gifts now Tom you should come with me today. I'm off into the forest, to collect an Oak seed. I intend on having some fun with my new powers, I have a conjuration lab booked.”
“Ok, well let me get ready and collect some things that you might need, after all if we are in the conjuration lab I can only guess that you are going to make something from the seeds that you find in the woods.”
“Well you will have to see for yourself, now follow me we have work to do”

Tom ran through to the main room and got dressed in his flowing long formal blue robes, while I simply covered myself in feathers of pure white. I walked through to the balcony and tom came out onto it behind me, I hopped up and sat with my legs over the balcony rail. 

“Are we going then?” Tom asked looking very puzzled
“Yes get ready, when I’ve fully changed hop on my back, I can get there much faster by air, then by walking”
Realisation dawned on Tom’s face is I dropped of the balcony turning into a giant Eagle, hovering by the railing, Tom Jumped on and landed flat on my back, he clambered forward and sat with his legs straddled across my neck so I could fly properly. A saddle sprang forth from under him and he mounted it properly, his feet in the stirrups, as I flew of he lent in closely, I could feel his heat on the back of my head. Soon we were on the edge of the forest I landed and Tom leapt of my back as I returned to my human form.

“Thanks that was a great ride, now how many of these Acorn’s do we need to collect, as he opened his back pack and took out a smaller bag made of leather”
“What’s that for Tom?”
“Well I’m going to collect some other things while I’m in the forest, I could do with some other items”
We walked of into the forest, although there were no animals as the barrier stopped animals entering the school grounds. Tom would bend down and pick up things like Ivy berries and fungi, as well as other items and seeds as well as parts of plants, while I sought out several Acorns. When I finally found a cluster of the seeds I grabbed about 6 or 7 of them and placed them in the bag. This by now was packed with all sorts of different objects. 

“Have you got everything you wanted?”
“Yes, now are we off to the Lab now, I’m fascinated by what you have planned for the acorns”
“Well I will tell you when we get to the Lab, I don’t want to risk anything going wrong, after all the best things come to those who wait, isn’t that the saying. Now do you want a ride on the Horse express or not?”
“You what?”

He got what I meant as in a whirl of flesh and cloth I turned into a fully equipped saddled and readied to ride Horse, Tom jumped onto the saddle and was ready, I galloped through the woods and onto the main field, I had to run round half the outside fields. As I rode, Tom and I got many different looks from the people some, however, there were also about 5 Animalmorphs out on the fields, and I was followed for a while by an Ostrich, some other Animalmorph rushing into the alchemy labs general direction. As I neared the main door I slowed down to a trot and then to the a walk, Tom jumped down and opened the door as I shifted back to my human form, copying the robe that Tom wore, we headed through the pink gneiss walls of the corridor, to the Conjuration Lab, I had booked Lab 1 for the entire day. I opened the door and Tom walked in turning on the labs lighting. I closed and locked the door and spun round to see tom emptying his collected things and scattering them onto a large metal tray, sorting them out. I looked round the lab to make sure there was everything that I would need. 

Tom was at the desk sorting through the specimens. The desk was near the large chromium conducting Node, a large spherical orb of obsidian glass roughly the size of a football, which conducted the energy of the wielder into the table where much of the conjuration work takes place. I started by charging the orb with Balefire, summoning a sphere twice as large as the orb, I forced the energy into the orb, which absorbed any energy live a hover. It charged the table, creating a web of energy form which the spells could draw power. I went over to the cabinet next to the bookcase on the far wall and grabbed the basics for the spell, a bottle of the Water of Life, a liquid which helped create living being from organic or inorganic material. I grabbed a sample of Flowstone, a material that had the properties of water, but was in fact a sort of stone, which could be used to harden and create a strong thing, from enhancing a weapon, or creating a powerful beast. I walked over to the table, and poured the Flowstone on the table. Its raised edges stopped the material from flowing of the table; its lips raised over 3 inches from the table’s surface. I poured the Flowstone, which spread out and forced the water over it, like water forced oil onto its surface. I took a Brassium stirring rod from the table and stirred the waters together while sending bolts of Dark lightening down the rod and into the liquids making them combine and form as sort of liquid soil. Tom was still sorting through his collected material.

“Tom, are you ready to start this little experiment?”
“What, do we need to do? What are we trying to do?”
“Well you have heard of Nymphs, I intend on creating a race of creatures similar to the nymphs but made to work for us both you and me” 

I took an oak seed and placed it at the centre of the table, blasting the table and the seed with Dark lightening there were ripples of lightening running through the soil. Tom walked over to the obsidian orb and summoned a stream of Balefire which the orb hungrily absorbing it, I could see the table glow with an inner light, the web of life giving energy strengthened.

“Tom, this is where you will have to give your skills a full push to achieve my wishes and complete, please try and follow what I say to the letter, don’t worry about the power of the web at all, I can supply all the energy that you will need for the conjuration of this creature.”
“Ok, I’m ready for this tell me what you want me to do”
“Ok, forget about bringing life to start with, that’s my job when you finish yours”

Tom walked to the table and prepared himself for the up coming trial of his powers. He stretched out both palms and fingers and blended his own energy with that of the web been emitted from the table.

“Ok Tom start by using the seed as the main heart of the creation, but before you do I need to add one last ingredient, to bind it to our will”
I took a sharp dagger, and pricked the end of my finger dropping a bead of blood onto the seed, which seemed to absorb it like a vampire would, I then did the same to Tom’s and allowed the bead of blood onto the dagger to fall on the seed, it absorbed the second bead as readily as the first.

“Ok Tom lets go, force the seed to form into the shape of a small girl”

Tom began to manipulate the seed, shoots sprouted all over and began to weave into the shape of a women, with a head, arms and legs, before the shoots grew thicker and merged together into one shape, a woman made of bark and tree. With the basic shape, a slender body with thin legs and arms, and an ample bosom, however, it was too unlike a human woman to strike into the heart of males. 
“Tom, make the legs from the knees to the top of the thighs into the flesh of a woman”

Tom’s face was wracked by effort as the bark flowed and softened taking the form of human flesh. I realised the energy web was weakening, it had taken so much energy to make these changes so I spun round and sent a filament of pure power the thickness of my wrist into the orb, I turned round and saw the web enhance to the thickness of my wrist and I cut the flow off. Tom was now working with much more ease. 

“Ok Tom make the shoulders and arms down to the elbow down to the top of the bosom, as well as the neck and the head, make the hair into long twisting branches covered with leaves.”
“Ok well I suggest another burst of power, otherwise it will be near impossible”

I complied and sent another filament into the power web, as Tom carried out the changes, the rough bark sinking into a human flesh, with the bark blending with the flesh perfectly where it connected, the hair thickened and turned into dark green branches, which budded and leaves uncurled and covered the branches making it a thick shrub like hairstyle. When Tom finished he looked worn but not exhausted. The first nymph was still not quite right, it was sexy and alluring but didn’t stir fear into the heart. 

“Tom, make the feet so they resemble the base of a trunk with the roots breaking off, also make the hands and fingers into claws rather then normal human hands, but keep the bark, I need the synthesis of Tree and human.”

Tom carried on with the changes using what energy was left to bring the changes the fingers lengthened and sharpened becoming fearsome claws while the feet shrunk into the ankle and from the stumps four thick root like toes appeared. Making the creature on the table appear very fearsome, the perfect synthesis of tree and person. Tom stepped back and admired his work like a master.
“What do you think?”
“It's perfect, just as I imagined it, now all that is left to do is to bring it to life”
“How will you do that?”
“Well that child who saw my transformation into a Darkmancer was killed, but I captured its spirit, it will act as the power source of the new Night’Nymph’s life. Stand back and let me show you how I will do it”

I opened one hand and formed a ball of pure Darkmancy, like the spirit flame of an Ill’guard but the centre was hollow and the flames were like an open crocus, hollow in the centre. I sent a connection of the flame into the body on the table and the flame stood in place like a flaming flower. From the other hand I called forth the spirit of the young child, a flame of pure white High Magick, containing the essence of Théoden and placed it inside the hollow centre of the flame flower, the flames rapidly engulfed the High Magick flame and closed around it turning into a flame of pure Darkmancy a new sprit forged from the corruption of a High Magick spirit. I forced the spirit down into the body and using my special vision, watched it as it spread out through the body. Slowly the Night’Nymph began to stir, its fingers twitching and curling together, and then it rose from the table, looking at me then at Tom with its deep blue eyes.

Its voice was deep and layered with a rich tone.
“Masters, where am I”
“Well child, you are in our lab, we have just finished creating you. You my dear are the first of the Night’Nymph’s created to serve your masters Tom and myself. However, you are still weak from the creation; it will take time rooted in soil for you to grow strong. Now I have a request of you”
“What ever you wish Master”
“Turn yourself into a seed and we shall plant you in the forest, until you are strength enough to bear children do not contact us. When you are strong enough to have children, use one of your powers to construct a child of leaves for you to come to us and for you to talk to us through, rather then risk leaving the forest yourself. Is that understood?”
“Yes Master, I live to serve you”

Tom interrupted our conversation
“Before you turn into a seed, we should name you. I think that Nocturna is apt. do you agree Sam?”
“Yes my child you are called Nocturna. Now Nocturna my dear turn into a seed”

Nocturna nodded and she shrunk in on herself, turning into an Acorn the size of a chicken’s egg. I placed her in my pocket and cleared up the mess. Tom repacked the other stuff he collected and we left the Lab.

Tom asked
“Are you off to plant her now?”
“Yes”
“Well I'm of to the cafeteria for some lunch do you want me to get you something?”
“Yes would you get me a BLT sandwich?”
“Yeah I will meet you in the room later”

Tom walked of as I went outside into the fields, I ran down towards the forest and wandered through the trees for a good 10 minutes before I found the perfect grove to plant the seed, I dug a small hole in the soil and placed the seed in. covered it with the soil and left the grove. I walked and soon turned into a raven and flew across the fields towards my room; I had another task to complete today. This task was not for power but for pure love. I landed on the balcony rail and returned to my human form, walking into room and pushing all the furniture out of the way, so that the bare wooden floor were exposed, I knew what to do for this small ritual and began to prepare.