Darkmancer Chapter 8

Note : This story is completely fictional!

I prepared the ring with chalk left in my desk drawer, forming a ring in red chalk on the wooden floor, with the right symbols written round the edge of the ring, a spell of containment and hiding from sight. I prepared the ingredients for the spell and had the ready, I released the energy that was required for the spell to work and the chalk ring turned into a ring of energy. All I had to do was wait for Tom to return, within moments of everything been readied Tom opened the door, looked at me then at the ring and back to me before asking.

“What are you doing?”
“Well this is a ‘Ring of Kelakhan’ a special symbol used for the summoning of Infernal creatures.”
“I know what it is. What I want to know is what are you going to be summoning.”
“I’m not summoning anything in particular, just the dead body of an infant imp”
“Why do you want a dead infant Imp at all?”
“Well if you want to find out then I suggest that you help me now”
Tom sat down opposite me and asked
“What do I have to do?”
“Nothing important all I need is a drop of your blood” 

Tom took the dagger that I passed him and nicked his thumb. Allowing the blood to well on this thumb, I passed the vial with my blood and he dropped a single drop in, passing me backs the vial. 
“Thank you and now all you have to do is sit back and watch”

I grabbed the Cow’s heart out of the bowl and threw it into the circle, as soon as it touched the floor the energy ring exploded until the floor inside the ring was a pure red glow. 
I chanted out the words for the beginning of the ritual.

“N’a N’agasta N’ancrava N’corum exeperimelus tatorum negrash totara imperio
I took the next ingredient from another bowl, blowing in a handful of “Salt of Life” and then I grabbed the vial with both Toms and my own and poured it into the ring, the blood spun round as though been sucked down in a spiral tube. 

Again I had to chant out the next pert of the spell.
“Necrocorum investilimus traits tratimrin cocoro deralatis neratiog coronge necros necromum troelemus experlieamtum trarrtos”

Into the centre of the ring, then when it turned into a black pool I called forth for the body of a dead infant imp. I then poured in the required tribute for the summoning. I poured the quicksilver into the ring and watched as it coalesced into the form of a small body. As the light of the ring faded, the quicksilver began to change and grow more solid and real. It was the body of a small dead baby Imp, no bigger then 1 and a half hands length. I picked up the body and lifted it of the floor, it was so light. Its little head was the colour of blood, with 2 black horns sprouting form the side of its head. Its body was the same colour as its head its wings were like a bats sprouting form its shoulder blades, the bones were a dark red and the skin over the wings was a deeper shade of red then the body. It had a small red tail and its hands had three fingers and its feet had three toes and were black. I lifted it onto a towel and laid it out. I drew fourth a black filament and sent it into the body creating a link between my spirit and the body, I created a flame of Black Flame sprit, however, with no High Magick essence it would not last longer then 36 hours without a infusion of new Darkmantic energy, I knew how to deal with that so I implanted a new instinct to treat me as a mother, and instead of needing real food it would drink Darkmantic energy like it would milk. I infused it with enough energy to last 36 hours. Within moments it was twitching and moving, but it couldn’t get up, I blended another Black Filament into the body and implanted a new set of powers. I gave it the power to go invisible at will, and then I sent in a created personality to fully create a new being by enhancing the flame inside it that already existed. The personality was a mixture of loyalty and the naivety of a child, with the love for a mother aimed at me. When the personality blended with the spirit flame the child got up and leapt to me and clamped onto my robe, looking into my eyes, and then clamouring onto my shoulders.

Tom looked at me then at the child
“You created a familiar by bringing back the Imp with a new artificial spirit, an impressive technique, but what purpose does it serve?”
“It doesn’t serve a purpose, it is my child”
“Your child”
“Yes my child and yours as well”
“Mine, what do you mean mine?”
“Well it was your blood that created it, you are the father, and I am the mother. It will cling to me and follow me. I gave it the ability to go invisible, but even when he’s invisible both you and I will see him.”
“Well I never thought that I would be a father”
“Well you are”
“What is he called then, you have to name the baby”
“Tom, I think he will be called Lucifer”
“Apt for a hell spawn”

Lucifer sat on my shoulder growled at him, then from his toothless mouth stuck out a snake like tongue. Tom laughed and got up, as I got up, Lucifer still sat on my shoulder and rocked a little bit, as Tom and I cleared the room and set it back to normal Lucifer, leapt into the air and beating his wings flew above us, watching us as we tidied the room back to normal. Tom and I sat down on the bed.
“Lucifer, come down here please we need to talk to you”
Tom looked at me as if I was a complete moron
“Can it understand us or not, I mean how intelligent is it anyway?”
“He can completely understand us, he is as intelligent as you or me, now stop interrupting me while I’m trying to talk to him, this is important.”
“Lucifer come to me my baby”

Lucifer flew to me and landed on my lap, looking up into my eyes with his bright blue eyes. Full of love for his motherly figure.
“Now my baby there is one thing that you must always do for me, with no exception. When you’re outside of this room in he rest of the school or even out on the balcony you must always remain invisible is that understood”

Lucifer looked up to me and nodded uttering a “eigh” as a positive response. 
“There’s my baby”
I kissed him on the head; he flew onto my shoulder and settled there, I stood up and turned to Tom. 
“I need to go for a Fag you coming with me?”

Tom looked at me then at Lucifer sat on my shoulder, getting up. I popped a fag from the box and passed one on to Tom. Lucifer rocked as I opened the door, then there was shimmer of light around Lucifer as he went invisible, however, to both mine and Toms eyes he was still there on my shoulder, just slightly translucent.
“Good boy, aren’t you Lucifer”
“Eigh” he replied then flew of from my shoulder and landed on the wall, climbing up the wall like a gecko until he was in the corner of the balcony, sitting on the ceiling, like a toddler would sit on the floor, with his back on the wall. He sat their and watched us, I lit up my fag and inhaled a deep breath of smoke, Tom did the same and breathed out, sending a cloud of smoke up into the ceiling, Lucifer coughed as the smoke enveloped him and dropped, falling and then with a single beat of his leathery wings flew over to the railing and sat on the railing.

“Tom, that wasn’t nice”
“I’m sorry I didn’t mean it Lucifer, I forgot you were up their, do you forgive me?”
“Eigh” 
I blew out and sat down next to Tom, we sat in silence while we finished of the fags; tom got up and looked at me. 
“Sam, it’s nearly tea time”
“Well we should be going then”
“What about Lucifer?”
“He can come with us if that’s alright with you”
“Ok, I just wondered if he was coming with us or if was staying in the room”

We got up and walked of out of the room, down the corridor and headed out to the field, as we walked, the paths were covered with people form the school, with over 4000 people living in the school meal times where hectic, Lucifer flew above us dashing to interesting looking people, sniffing them and flying around looking and touching everything in sight. He grabbed a loose seam on a guys robe and the arm fell off. The guy turned round yelling to another boy behind him.

“Roddy that wasn’t funny”
“I didn’t do it honest, I may be telekinetic but I didn’t do that”

The other guy said looking bewildered and confused, by the accusation. I just laughed and walked on. Allowing Lucifer to have his fun, like all children, he enjoyed exploring. Soon we entered the food hall, a large chamber roughly the size of a football pitch. Filled with chairs and tables, form seating for up to 20 people right down to 2 people, we walked through the queue, because we were 18 we were allowed through first. We went and got our tea and walked over to a table. Sitting down, Lucifer flew over and landed on my chest. Tom looked at me and smirked
“It really is a child; it clings to you when it’s scared”
“Well he is my child in spirit, though not in body”
We continued the meal, when we had finished Tom got up and left saying as he got up.

“I’ve got to work in the repair yard until 11pm so I wont be back till late, don’t wait up and get some sleep, we have a highschool day tomorrow.”
I got up and walked out of the hall. When I reached the field, I shifted into a raven, as soon as I began to shift Lucifer jumped of and as I flew, he followed, I flew towards the Library and landed outside the doors returning to my human form, I opened them and walked in, Lucifer jumped onto my back and clung on with dear life. I walked through the library and towards the back; I entered the resource area and opened the secret bookcase. I walked in a quickly closed the door. Lucifer flew off my back and landed on my shoulder.

“It’s ok Lucifer you can be visible in this area as well”

Lucifer returned to the normal spectrum and became opaque like normal. I walked up the spiral staircase and into the little room; I took the key from off the table and opened the chest still on the floor next to the table. I looked through and found what I had come for, a folded square of paper. I opened the leaf of paper and looked at it; it was a map of the school, with all the secret passages on. I was in a room scribbled in purple ink, while the library and normal rooms were a black ink, small blue dots of ink representing people moved across the map. A yellow blob represented me and another smaller green blob was Lucifer. I laid the map on the table and rooted through the chest looking for the other item I intended on using. I found it at the very bottom of the chest, a long dildo made of Ebon’stone with a Heartstone crystal vain running up the centre and a large crystal at the furthest end. I walked out of the room and stashed the Ebon’stone dildo in a pocket in my robe. I refolded the map, and walked down the stairs, instead of turning to leave I turned to the left and found another lever, I flicked it and found another secret room of this one. I opened the door and walked through. The lights automatically ignited and I found the room I was looking for. A room lined in black and silver flecked Ebon’stone, with shackles on the walls, as well as trays with all sorts of horrific tools and devices lined up on them. There was a silver table with shackles on them to lock a person on; there were cabinets full of bottles and other objects. On a long shelf there were crystals made of Heartstone that glowed. This room was a lab used for the creation of an Ill’guard, as well as experiments on other Mages. 

Lucifer flew around and looked at all the equipment, with low growls and small murmurs. I walked over to a sphere and pressed it, the sphere glowed with an internal red light. Then from a small groove in the pedestal a small disc of matching material on a gold chain, made into a necklace. I knew that it was a teleportation device, developed to allow the person to teleport from anywhere, back to this room. Making it an ideal device for getting into the secret chamber without been noticed. I also hoped that it would transport anything that I was touching along with me. I walked out of the chamber and went to the secret office, Lucifer landed on my shoulder, I squeezed the amulet and in a flash of light I was in the chamber below, with Lucifer still on my shoulder. With the test been a success I left the chamber and headed to the repair room to see Tom. Lucifer shimmered out of sight and rode along on my shoulder.