Jonathan

“Oh, my head hurts.” This was the first thing Jonathan thought as he woke up. He screamed of pain.

Now there were three persons in the room. One seemed ancient, the other two were the ones he first saw, before the headache.

The oldest of the three came closer and asked friendly: “is everything good now?”

Jonathan had problems understanding. On one hand, he understood clearly, but he also spoke a foreign tongue, he never heard.

He tried to answer in his language, but it did not work. Out came his words in this foreign tongue as he said: “What is this for a language you are speaking or I for that matter? How is this possible, where am I, who are you?”

The old man chuckled a little at Jonathan’s questions and answered: “I am Archmage Heinrich Tablos, headmaster of the Royal School of Magic in the Kingdom of Theron, which is also where you are. This one”, he pointed his finger at the other man, “is Mage Lukas Fizzlewood, one of the teachers here the school. The girl is Elise, no surname, your summoner.” He held his hand up: “I see you have many questions, but please let me finish.”

After a short break he continued: “Yes, she has summoned you. I will have to analyse the exact spell used, to find out how this will affect you. Elise, please create a copy for me, give it to me after we are finished here.”

While the Archmage did a short break between his words, Elise confirmed this order and set to work.

Afterwards, Tablos continued: “You are now in this world and you are bonded to Elise. I can already tell you that this will not change. I will try to help you cope with the situation. While summoning a human is not entirely unprecedented it happens incredibly rarely, so I have no information about how this normally affects the summoned as well as the summoner. What I do know is that you must now live with it. I also know that you came from a world different from this one, your pain shows us this. But now you are adapted to this world, so the pain should recede soon. Now on to the language. You are speaking it because of a translation spell”, in the background Elise mutters: “Oh, that’s what it was.”, but Tablos continued unfazed: “that allows you to understand us and allows you to speak our tongue. It has difficulties with idioms and concepts unknown to us or you, so it would be for the best if we find a way for you to really learn this language.”

At hearing this Jonathan groaned and said that he really hated learning new languages, after hearing this the Archmage seemed to understand his plight and asked him what his name was. Jonathan answered with his name, Jonathan Maier.

Tablos continued after this exchange and answered another question of Jonathan: “This world has magic. If I analysed the effects of the familiar summon correctly, your world does not have any magic or only a little. The spell also gave you the ability to work magic, but I do not know how good you can become. Something like this would need a more in-depth analysis, for which we do not have the materials ready. I do know other worlds exist, also I have read some theories on the topic, but you can at least confirm some of those. Many think that life needs magic to develop. I think that it might help the development of life, not that it is a necessary ingredient. But this is a debate for another time. Let’s find you a place to sleep and live, afterwards, we can search for a permanent solution.”

After Archmage Heinrich Tablos finished, Jonathan asked where his backpack was. Elise could answer this question and showed him the backpack. She also had already copied the ritual and gave the copy to Tablos.

Afterwards, all followed the Archmage. Lukas Fizzlewood at taken it upon himself to carry the backpack. After they reached a chamber, they entered it.

In it were a bed, a table as well as one chair and a few cabinets. A door in the chamber went to a small bathroom, where he had a toilet as well as a sink with attached faucets. In one corner something similar to a shower was standing.

Jonathan asked Heinrich Tablos how this worked and the Archmage answered that it would work with magic.

In the sink was a small mana crystal, as the Archmage explained it seemed to work similarly to a battery or an accumulator, which a pupil could recharge easily. The same was in the shower. Down in the bottom of the toilet and the sink as well in the shower was a banishing spell, which could be deactivated and banished water.

Jonathan did not even try to understand the explanation, he wanted to sleep. The summon had tired him immensely. After he told the others this, Elise went first out of the room, followed by Fizzlewood and Tablos. Instantly, after they left the room, did he empty his pockets and laid to sleep.