Merlin, the Modern Day Wizard.

“It’s charged,” the wizard exclaimed to his apprentice as he took his crystal from the moon alter and attached it to his beautifully hand carved staff. His friends, and pretty much everyone else call him Merlin, the modern day wizard. He earned this name in his younger days as a hacker when he invented the spell virus, which seamed to cast a spell on a users pc, causing it to be fully under Merlin’s control. He played around with this virus for a while till he realized the real magic was in things most people could never fathom. He was skilled at every thing he did, but his top skills were alchemy, necromancy, technomancy, telemetraphy, computer hacking, and shamanism. He began his studies of these subjects at a very young age indeed. He was hacking into mainframes at the young age of 8, and by the time he was ten could completely ravage even the governments most powerful systems. This is when he learned of the various forms of magic and mysticism, and shortly after he began his studies of metaphysics. Now at age 28 he was an adept at all forms of magic he had learned, and yet still he continued to study all that he could, including the dark arts. He felt as though for one to truly understand the nature of the universe one must see things in the full spectrum. On this day he had collected his much coveted crystal, as many felt without it he would be powerless. Only his apprentice Malice knew that though the crystal improved Merlin’s abilities to control the magic he understood, his limitations without the crystal would be insignificant. Today was the day that Malice was to learn his first lessons in necromancy, and Merlin wanted to be sure that there was a fail safe, just in case something went wrong with any incantations Malice performed. Malice was a good student, but even under Merlin’s wing Malice was often clumsy, and occasionally summoned things that where often thought of as atrocities. Merlin would have never wanted an apprentice, but Malice and his meeting was an obvious sign of the wheels of fate turning. The day they met was a powerful day with Saturn aligned with the earth and sun perfectly. Merlin was preparing for a spell involving the control of weather when Malice stumbled into his cellar. Malice had been chased into the room by something Merlin had not seen since his first years of training as a wizard. This apparition was only there long enough to show the way for Malice, then without hesitation in a cloud of mist the creature was gone. Malice showed a natural ability to commune with the souls of the dead, and this interested Merlin, so he promised to make Malice his apprentice as long as he would scrye for Merlin in times of need. They formed a pack, and Merlin began teaching Malice many of the arts he knew, and gave him the freedom to learn about subjects he had interest in as well. They also formed a pack that if either of them learned knowledge that would be useful to the other that they would without hesitation teach one another such knowledge. This day though was as said before Malice’s first lesson in necromancy. Merlin gathered a few corpse of small animals to be placed on the alter, he then instructed Malice to place the necessary items on the alter, such as candles, and his own personal power ankh. Then Merlin handed his staff with fully charged crystal to Malice, and instructed him to perform the ritual.
Without hesitation Malice quoted the text in his book, “Wake creature whose life which ended fast, wake and walk with the living, with memory of the past, time is not yet over for thee, this is my will blessed be.” And with a wave of energy flowing from the staff two of the animals were reanimated. The third though disappeared in a green flame, apparently to charge life into the other two. This is a result Merlin had only read about, but the ritual was a success otherwise, and Merlin was confident that Malice could further his studies in necromancy.