I spent most of my life thus far in the shadows of my parents who were known to be diligent workers. My father was a well known scholar who traveled the globe debating economics with other scholars in front of audiences while publishing books throughout the day. He was blessed with a rare acacia plant at his Ceremony of Implantation. My mother was also blessed with a plant but hers was a water lily which gave her a career as a doctor.
I say I grew up in their shadows as I never had the chance to do much outside of what they envisioned for me. They told me what to do when to do it and honestly my childhood wasn't bad. My parents loved me but they just never really showed it as they were always busy with something. To be honest there were days they completely forgot to feed me as young as a two year old.
My parents arranged everything for me to the point that I was now enrolled into the prestigious Ghostrun Academy. My parents handed me two boxes containing eggs for the Ceremony of Implantation. The one box was dusty but elegant, I didn't know it at the time but the box was over a thousand years old. The other box was brand new and had an egg with a high probability for an intelligent plant similar to my parents.
My family name held no renown but given my parents professions I was now going to be going to school with all of the richest kids in the country. My parents believed that if I was to surround myself with successful people I would too be successful. They felt that their sacrifice financially to send their only child to the most prestigious academy would have the best return of investment.
The first day of school was the Ceremony of Implementation where you would bring forth your potential egg or eggs if you were one with a legacy egg like myself. The ritual was held in front of the entire school so that everyone could see all the new beast masters and their potential paths in the future. Tradition of having the same beast would bond them in ways because they could help each other grow.
The legacy egg was a purple and green egg that had the largest probability to be an intellectual plant beast type with a 51% chance. There was a 30% chance it would be an elemental beast with an 18% chance of a common plant beast with a .01% chance of an elemental wisp. The egg they bought me was green and yellow with a 93% chance for an intellectual plant beast and a 7% chance for a common plant beast. I silently prayed to the unknown please legacy egg work!
I looked at the chances of common plant and intellectual plant taking up 70% of the chance and I figured I would be doomed to a life of having a plant beast meaning I would be doing a desk job instead of adventuring. The world I was hoping for would not be in my cards if I get a plant.
My mind was racing about the different elemental beasts that could come to fruition. There was a common belief that the elemental beast manifested was based on the individual's own personality and mannerisms. I secretly was hoping I would get one of the elemental tigers or wolves. The chances of plants just seemed inevitable.
All of this went through my head while I watched the principal announce the first student's name to come forward with their egg. The pedestal in the middle of the room was a golden chalice that you placed the egg in and then standing over it gave the sacred words of implementation.
"Looma Wilson" a small brunette girl with a round face and big round brown eyes stepped forward. She placed her blue egg in the chalice and chanted the words written on the chalice that was easy to read when you approached it. The egg cracked open and a blue mist escaped. The mist expanded out into the shape of a large blue marlin fish and then suddenly the fish dove down into the body of the girl.
Her face changed to a thinner pointed look as her nose elongated similarly to the marlin. Her skin turned blue and scales that matched the marlin were now covering her visible skin.
"A Blue Marlin of the Iron rank, Congratulations!" The principle noted.
"Kyle Gin" a thin red head boy stepped up with his orange egg. The egg cracked when the words were spoken and this time flames came out of the egg rising up into the shape of a tiger. The tiger then dove into the body of Kyle and his skin suddenly changed to show the tiger stripes. His eyes glowed and changed colors to the yellow slits that were common on tiger faces.
"Yes! Let's go!" Kyle shouted as he was really hyped to get the tiger as his beast. Most guys wanted to get some form of a tiger I felt like as his marking looked cool and his boosts had to be incredible. At the time I didn't know that there were huge differences in the boosts from the beasts that we would bond with.
"Hanna Hunt" the principal called out to an athletically built girl who had a black and yellow egg. Her egg was known to have a decent chance for a queen bee beast that gave exceptional boosts to the individual's strength and agility.
The egg cracked open and a black and yellow mist oozed out and went to the floor. The mist formed a massive snake with black and yellow stripes. The snake then lunged into the chest of Hanna and her skin soon showed the snake scales in yellow and black patterns. Her tongue stuck out suddenly and was forked with her eyes blazing yellow with slits instead of round pupils.
The list continued with students receiving beasts, plants and powerful insects. I had completely forgotten my name when they finally called it as the previous egg to open was a golden lion.
"Is Jordan Kane here?" The principal inquired again, not sure if he should continue as he was told everyone was here.
"Eh sorry, that lion made me forget where I was." I blurted out not sure what to say as I felt completely embarrassed to be the center of everyone's attention more so than the normal amount given how long it took me to recognize my name.
I heard many laughs as I moved to the chalice and placed my purple and green legacy egg. "Status Echo Xavier Fran Ehfra Enthos Loco Supra Gysh Ollie Ommo Den" I read out loud and chuckled as I saw the capital letter spell out a hidden meaning.
Not sure if anyone else chuckled at that moment like I did. I personally think it is what did me in. The legacy egg cracked but no mist, no flame, no real reaction. Suddenly, a small tiny wisp appeared and floated up in the air in a weird uncoordinated circle, while doing so it was changing colors showing the elemental colors signifying it as an elemental wisp.
Then it shot into my chest and my mind was flooded with an intense amount of knowledge that was overwhelming. The flooding of information caused me to keel over in pain. I could feel libraries of knowledge suddenly at my disposal. The sensation of intense amounts of knowledge caused me to collapse and wake up the next in the infirmary.
If I could go back and redo it all over again I would. To think my goal was to blend in pretty much failed day one. Upon waking up I was alone in the infirmary. I checked my body and everything seemed to be the same. I remembered the fact that a wisp had entered me but I saw no physical changes. I left the infirmary, joining my classmates the murmurs and whispers about me started the second I was recognized.
"Hey look out for a tiny dot coming to get me! Ahhh!" One boy mocked me, causing his group to laugh at me. I ignored it as I knew what happened to me had no explanation. I had been given my home room information and was currently figuring out where that would be so I could get away from the obvious humiliation.
Now that our Ceremony of Implementation was complete, the home room teacher, room assignment, and class schedule could now be figured out. Most were done as I had been unconscious and in the infirmary for a few hours. Seeing my teacher Mr. Jones gave me a subtle wave to get my attention. I felt something strange happen.
'He has a water snake on the silver rank.' A voice inside my head spoke. I thought I was losing my mind then the voice informed me 'He is your teacher but we will be teaching him, his snake needs new nourishment.'
I really thought I was losing my mind hearing that voice for the first time. It changed its approach after that as I started to figure out that it was in fact my beast. I was looking at different people and their beast and rank level was revealed to me by this voice.
"Jordan Kane, glad to see you awake and in good health! I am Mr. Jones and it's my responsibility to make sure you graduate from our lovely academy. Now you have an elemental wisp, these are iron rank beasts that have no known evolution.
But don't fret over the fact that you can't evolve, the 25% increase to intellect and a 50% increased mana absorption rate gives you the ability to hold more mana than most beast masters. You also can learn all of or concentrate on one element, it's up to you". Mr Jones was way too happy about such a terrible prospect.
I am not sure why I was feeling so down at the time. The combination of not being able to evolve my beasts meant I was going to be stuck at the iron rank like my parents and have to seek intellectual work. I hadn't really put together that I had access to all of the elements meaning I would be able to adapt to any situation so I was highly sought out for group missions.
As if the wisp could feel my agony I suddenly was flooded with a vision of a man with a wisp next to it that the wisp was larger than the man. They were battling a massive dragon with the wisp commanding multiple spells at once. The ball of energy flashed different colors as it cast spells of all of the elements. The entire engagement happened in a moment in my vision but was hours of combat.
I could feel knowledge flowing through me as if it had all been there the entire time. My mind was still trying to put together what I just witnessed but it was the kick in the ass I needed. It also helped me to block out all the side comments by the kids who thought they were superior because of their beast.
I resigned myself to finding my living quarters for the next year as my mind was still being flooded with information. It was as if there was a vast library of knowledge at my whim. The walls and floors had bits of information I could look at and enhance and study. Even the pictures were suddenly being portrayed in paragraph form of what the painting is showing.
I made my way to the first year wing and down the boys hall to room 9. The door opened slightly already as I approached I could hear two boys laughing as a third was telling a "your momma" joke. "Your momma is so fat, the elephant beast she was infused with at the ceremony of implementation said "Oh hell no!" and went back into the egg."
The laughter died down quickly as they realized someone had entered the room. One of my new roommates had a brown shell on his back and I remembered him from the ceremony as I thought his turtle was pretty cool looking and having an impenetrable back once gold rank would be nice to have. His name was Travis Finch and it made it easy to remember the T's(turtle and Travis) together.
The second kid, Joey Sho, who was laughing had a red and white pattern of fur as he received the beast of a red panda. The patterns of his fur were pretty cool looking in my book but at the time I had no idea what a red panda beast would do until I saw the beast summoned. Even my wisp was silent when I looked at the kid.
The one telling the joke would soon become my best friend. Adam Lock was his name and he had a unique beast similar to mine. His came from an egg that had a less chance of receiving than my .01%, his purple wyvern was a double headed beast specializing in arcane magic which had a .0001% chance of happening. I hadn't figured it out but my wisp's most powerful attacks would be from the arcane class as the two of us grew together.
Adam was a taller kid already with a slender build. His wyvern scales covered most of his visible skin and his eyes had changed to narrow slits. The purple scales would flash blue and green at certain angles giving him a glimmering effect at all times in the light.
They each looked me up and down and then realized that I was the one who received a wisp and their faces all changed to solemn expressions. The atmosphere had changed as they all didn't know what to say about my beast. I decided to break the tension by introducing myself. "Jordan Kane, wisp master!" I said with a big grin on my face.
They all laughed and introduced themselves to each other as they would be spending the next year together in the same room. I was glad I didn't get stuck with tools who would try to kick me out of the room the moment I entered, at least that was my worst nightmare before entering the room that day.