A week passed by.
Ray opens his eyes after a long sleep, stretches his hands, then tries to sit up, but can't even lift his upper body, then he rolls around, pushes his body from side, and somehow sits in his crib.
Then he felt something pulling him back, he streches his hand but there was nothing to grab except the air, the world seemed as if rotating for a second then he found himself again lying back on the soft mattress.
He looked at the ceiling in silence for a while, but he couldn't give up, not after trying only once. He this time first rools over to one side, as his body hits the fences, he uses the same technique again. After sitting up with some struggle, he leaned on the rail and took a breath of relief.
As he slightly turned his head, his eyes fell on a bag flying in the air. Ray's mouth agep and eyes widened. "Aooo," he said, stretching his hands.
The baron turns his head hearing the sound, and sees his 1 month old son leaning on the crib, hand waving in the air, "Wooo"
Cedric rushed to his child with a breathless grin. "How did you sat up?"
"Maic maic," Ray said, pointing towards the floating bag.
Baron looked at the bag, then back at his son, "Yes, that's magic, do you want me to teach you?" He brings the bag closer to Ray before making it fly inside the crib.
Ray slowly moved his right hands below the bag, and his small palm got pushed upwards, he jerked out his hand in fear, and held his palm with left hand, still kept staring at the bag.
"It's wind magic, I can teach you wind magic, if you get wind element, or your mom can teach you swords–" His smile faded for a moment.
"Well… I don't know if she would or wouldn't," Before it came back. "But I would," He took the child from the crib and went to their room and placed him on the bed.
"you wanna know about magic, right?" He asked, looking at his son with wide eyes, "one must form a mana core if they want to learn magic, even you can form it inside of you," Cedric says putting his finger on the boy's chest.
Ray touches his chest with both of his hands with amusement. 'Oooh, so that's how it works!' "Ooooh"
"Yeah, it's cool isn't it?" Dad asked with a grin, son responds with a nod. "Wait a second.." Dad takes a few steps back, and lifted his hand.
Thomas feels a strong yet gentle wind touching his body before pushing him up. "Ooooh" Thomas rolls on his belly, facing ahead, while stretching his left hand as it forms a fist. 'Super child' Thomas narrows his eyes, as if to enhance his vision.
From his expression, he looked like he was trying to save a child from falling.
"Honey.."
"Oh shit". As baron hears the voice he dismisses the magic as quickly as he could.
Ray, who was getting hit by the wind, realises that the wind was no longer their.
"O Shi," Ray began falling from a height which was at least two times of his height. He closed his eyes in fear, as he was one feet above from the crib.
A few seconds went by, Ray realises that he is still alive, and even in the child's form. He opens his eyes, and the first thing saw is Cedric standing in guilt and shame, he then feels someone tapping on his back, maybe even before then when he had opened his eyes.
'Damn she is fast' Ray thinks, as he looks at the woman with admiration.
"Ohh, my son, you want to learn magic?" She says squeezing his chicks. "Two years later"
'Two years later? Twenty four months later? Seven hundred and seventy days later?What am I gonna do until then?'
Ray began screaming while trying to get away from his swordsman mom. "Wow calm down sweetie, you are getting stronger at an incredible rate," She says hugging her son tightly. "Look how angry he is at you, he would charge at you the moment I let him free" she says, squeezing him further.
Cedric on the other hand, stayed still, maybe he can't bring himself to forgive himself. Seina looked at him with concern before walking up to him. "It's fine, just make sure to be more careful from next time" She puts her palm on his shoulder.
Then the family shared a family hug, until she realised the child had been pushing her from the beginning.
She pulls back her son, and sees his watery eyes and saddened frown face. "Maic pwese"
She looked at her son in silence, until she couldn't anymore. "Alright alright, learn what you want" She said and handed him over to his father.
Ray, whose watery eyes had come to normal again, started smiling as soon as he escaped her. The Baroness tapped on her son's shoulder, and as he looked back, she said. "Just promise me you won't get obsessed with it, not to the point Where you can't even have fun with friends and families."
Ray nodded, 'yeah yeah, as long as I am getting allowed I can promise anything,' Then the Baroness left son and father and went her way.
He then turned to his dad, who had been awkwardly silent since the previous incident. "I'm sorry dude, I should have been more careful,"
Ray decides to help his fellow mate, since who would if he wouldn't.
Cedric, who was lowering his head, feels someone tapping his head, he looks up, it was his son showing pity at him. He smiled. "Yeah, alright, I will make sure that I won't repeat the mistake, now let's go and learn magic,"
"Let's go to the library," he said and walked out of the room.
In the bookshelf, as Cedric was searching for a book, glancing around the shelf, he realises something, his eyes first widened then he breaks into a breathless laughter. 'I almost forgot that he isn't even 2 months old, and… can he really properly understand what we talk about? My son is a genius, no not just genius, he is genius among geniuses,'
He picked Ray who was sitting on the sofa, walked out of the room and went back to Ray's room, put him on his crib, just making sure for safety. "Wait for a minute, bud," he said with a smile then ran out of the room.
"I have to talk to her about this, we should get him a tutor, we must provide him with everything we can." Baron murmurs to himself rushing from room to room.
Then he found her, sitting on a sofa, watching something related to babies. Maybe about how to be strict with babies. As she hears the noise, she turns her head and sees her husband panting near the door.
"Honey.." She looks at him with a calm, straight face. "Honey our son is a genius, he-"
"No he isn't," Cedric raised his eyebrows, "I know what you are thinking about, but we shouldn't do that, I don't want him to get obsessed with this unnecessary thing". She replied with a calm tone.
"but what if in future–"
She narrows her eyebrows as she starts looking for something else on her device. "If something happens I will protect him"
"But what if the enemy is too strong?"
"Then I will buy some time so that you can get to him to a safe place"
Baron comes near his wife and holds her hand gently. "Honey." Baroness lifts her head with a faint of hesitation on her face. "What do you think he would think of himself if you forced him to depend on you?"
Seina stays silent for a few seconds. "Alright, but you don't do anything to get him obsessed with magic or fighting,"
"Promise, love you," He says before hugging her and leaving the room.
Baronnes puts her hand below her chin as she looks at the photo of Ray on the wall, where Ray was sleeping, sucking his pinky finger, 'i Must make sure that he hates magic and violence as he grows up,'