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came to the realization that those who possess magic can
detect it in others. When he informed the king he could do this,
the king immediately ordered him to find others like him. The Maget
soldiers were brought in to help him with his task. The soldiers
were originally from the king’s personal guard. The adviser,
realizing the soldiers were not going to be enough to enforce the
law, came up with the idea to have others who possess magic join
him. This was how the Magima came to be. It was to be an
unfortunate time for those people. They were told they would join
the Maget Order or die, and most, picked death. They didn’t believe
the law should exist or wish to put others through the same
torment. Once he had enough Magima, the adviser convinced the king
to go after all creatures that possess magic.” He paused for a
moment, wanting to see how this information was affecting the
twins. Koral looked appalled, Eric bored. Shaking his head, he
continued. “The first to go were the fairies. They were very
trusting beings who were easily captured. With them out of the way,
they went after the
    Elves. It was
an incredible battle, which lasted almost a year. The Elves did not
stand a chance against such a formidable force and were destroyed.
The hardest to get rid of was the dwarves. Although they did not
appear to possess obvious magical abilities the king’s adviser
thought if they did not remove them, war might develop. The king
agreed but found it difficult to enforce the decision. Living deep
within the mountains, the Magima had trouble finding them all. They
thrive to this day, in their mines. Lastly, it was the dragons.
There were not many left after the war, but it was decided if they
lived then magic would flourish, and they would never be able to
rid the world of it.”
    “So dragons
were a key to magic?” asked Koral, enamoured by the entire
conversation.
    Gillock smiled.
“They were very important to the balance of magic. In fact, I had
befriended one myself. They were very close to us wizards. They
felt we were the only humans worthy of their friendship. This was
mostly because we were almost as intelligent as they were.
Unfortunately, they were caught in the war. Used as pawns by the
wizards and almost all were destroyed along with their wizard
counterparts. Any found after, were slaughtered on sight. The day
they said they could not find any more dragons was a dark day
indeed.”
    Koral and Eric
could see the tears in Gillock’s eyes. Obviously, the wizard’s
dragon friend had been very close to him.
    Regaining his
composure, Gillock continued. “Now you must understand this. Both
of you possess magic. You’ll need to harness your abilities if you
are going to fulfil the prophecy.”
    Eric smiled,
and muttered under his breath, “I am going to be the greatest hero
of all time.”
    Gillock heard,
but pretended not to. “The prophecy fulfilment is upon us. You’ll
need to be ready when the time comes.”
    “For what?”
asked Koral.
    “I’m not sure,
exactly, but something will happen soon which will set the second
stage of the prophecy in motion. The first, as I’m sure you are
aware, was your birth.”
    Gillock watched
the twins take everything in. It looked to be a lot for Koral to
deal with, but Eric appeared unusually calm and this bothered
Gillock. Eric appeared to understand everything he had just said
without question.
    “Now, take the
book back to the castle and study it. We will meet here at the same
time tomorrow. I must go now, but I promise to be here to
administer your final test.” Then he walked up to his horse and
rode off to the west.

    Koral and Eric
just stared at the book. It just looked like an ordinary book, but
was tied shut with a rope. “I guess we take that off at home,” said
Eric.
    “Yes, I guess
we do,” Koral iterated.
    Seeing that
Eric obviously was not going anywhere near it, Koral picked it up.
“Well, we should get home and see what this says.”
    Eric