Glowing clouds

Glowing clouds is a chapter where Alex learns the spell dancing lights from Emrah

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After we all spent an hour trying to figure out the spell Emrah told us "do you want to move to a different spell? Or do something else altogether?"

Amafati said "I'm bored lets do lightning or cool shit like that!"

Emrah said to all of us "Lets have a vo-"

And we all raised our hands instantaneously

"Well it's unanimous, let there be light".

And then we saw a faint blue glow of light above us.

I moved my hands through the water and found there was none around us.

Then my mind's eye came into focus. Those were glow worms and we were in a cave. That made more sense than any other scenario I could think of at least, but who knows what bizarre scenarios are present in the 41st century.

The cave is full of illuminate worm like creatures that are bioluminescent. They light up the cave and show an entrance to a path.

The path is a smooth walkway like some kind of glass or crystal. This path is probably as strong as steel. There are no edges or corners to trip over.

And I looked down and saw a river of shimmering fish

The fish are beautiful. They are silvery on the surface with black lines creating a checkered pattern. They reflect the glow worms' light.

Amafati said "lets start igniting things!"

Her dark skin palpably pumping with enthusiasm

Emrah calmly said "let me demonstrate"

The phosphorescence was eerie. Emrah started by growing a small cloud of light in her palm. Then she moves her hand in a figure eight pattern and the cloud expanded and grew. She does this a few more times until the glor was as big as her head.

Then she brings her hands together and the fire disappears. She does this a few more times, each time making the light bigger and brighter until it's as big as a bonfire.

Finally she claps her hands together and the cloud disappears completely.

I was pleasantly surprised. Looked way more in my alley than cooking.

So I called out to Emrah "Can I start?"

She said "summoning clouds of light is probably the easiest thing out there. All you need to do is channel energy through the utility fog."

I asked "Utility fog? What's that?" And she responded "It's the nanotech everywhere here, how we cast spells. All sunclouds are just energy being expelled from the nanobots"

So I attempted. I visualized a bunch of electricity entering the air in my palms and turning into light.

And I saw a faint glow. I focused on the glow and it grew larger.

Then I saw something from the corner of my eye. And as I changed my focus the light faded.

Emrah told me "your focus is the key to this spell. We learn magic this way because it's about connecting to your individual mind. Whatever brings you focus will bring you light"

I try again, this time with more success. The cloud of light expands and grows until it's as big as a bonfire. Finally I clap my hands together and the cloud disappears completely.

The feeling of having learned filled me with a sense of transcendend joy, like I was approaching nirvana.

Amafati said "lemme try now"

Amafati said "this is going to be so cool!"

Her dark skin palpably pumping with enthusiasm, she focused on the utility fog. She visualized a bunch of electricity entering the air in her palms and turning into light.

She focused her energy and summoned a cloud of light. Then she brought her hands together and the fire disappeared. She did this a few more times, each time making the light bigger and brighter until it was as big as a bonfire.

But then, suddenly, there was a loud explosion! Amafati had accidently made the light too bright.

Then Hope came up and asked to try

She channeled a small glow, seemingly small light. It seemed small and insignificant, and then I saw she had her hand in a fist.

As she opened each finger a new orb appeared at her fingertip. It was light and beautiful.

Then she put her hands together, and with her right hand above and her left hand below she moved them apart and the light became a long blade 3 meters long.

Emrah jumped for joy "You shaped your lights, you have such a firm focus."

"Lets explore this cave and see what it looks like in other spots, we can use the lights to see details"

The nanobots were especially dense in one spot of the cave, and they were able to create a bigger and brighter light than before. This time, they could see every detail of the cave. The walls were covered in intricate carvings, and there were strange symbols etched into the floor.

Then I looked closer at the symbols

They all resembled a certain male organ

Emrah burst out laughing "We aren't in an ancient temple, we're just in the school basement."

And we all walked up the nearby stairs

We all started going up the stairs, but then Hope says "I kinda just realized, we are in the school basement and a bunch of high schoolers are going to be down here in a few minutes."

Emrah says "we should do something special with the lights since we have to come back here again"

Amafati says "something obscene"

And then we all drew more male organs on the walls, and some female ones too.

And Emrah said "our ancestors are smiling at us"

And then our ancestors came in and smiled at us

It was very funny, but it was also very distracting. When my friends had finally left I sat down on one of the benches and started thinking about how much I love magic.

I started thinking about how much I love the feeling of learning something new, of controlling the energy around me and doing strange and wonderful things with it.

I asked Emrah for a book on magic, and one materialized in my hands.

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