A Tale After Four Lives

"I forgot"

"..."

Tosca stared at Alex's reaction, or lack thereof. His face was still expressionless as he stared at Tosca.

"Master?"

Tosca asked uncertainly as Alex kept staring at her for a while before snapping out of it and smiling a bit at her.

"Sorry, just the first time seeing someone that actually forgot to study magic when given all the materials for it and not to mention notes of what to do or not to do when casting spells."

Alex shook his head and stared at Tosca who currently lowered her head in embarrassment.

Tosca didn't know what to do, she thought he would be mad and scold her, but he just thought it was funny. She was lost on how to react.

"Don't overthink it Tosca, you asked me to teach you and I gave you the materials, its all up to you how much progress you will make, I never forced you to do it and never will, it is all your choice and yours alone. You can live an ordinary life for all I care. Aura and I will always support you so don't fret over something so minor and if you want to learn again you need only ask Aura and I would be delighted to teach you, not like we got anything better to do."

Tosca stood up and ran to Alex giving him a hug, which he reciprocated.

"Thank you"

The young girl said quietly as she kept hugging him, listening to his powerful heartbeat that sounded like ancient bell's ringing with a slow but constant rhythm.

Some time passed as the duo hugged each other in silence, which was finally broken when Aura came into the living room.

"Dinner is ready le..., hey you little fiend taking advantage of Master while I'm away"

Aura stared at Tosca with eyes that almost looked like they would spit fire at any moment now. Tosca turned her head towards Aura and stuck out her young while hugging Alex even tighter causing Aura to almost pouncing at her.

Alex stood up at this time gently placing Tosca down as he walked into the dining room and sat at the table, where a big plate filled with cooked vegetables in a cheese source, sweet potato, and a grilled steak, waited for him.

Sitting down at the table he was soon joined by Aura and Tosca and they enjoyed a fine dinner together after being separated for almost two years.

After dinner, Alex went up to his room and closed the door behind him as he bid Aura and Tosca goodnight.

Giving a light sight Alex held out his hand with his pam facing the sky, from it a wispy gas like substance came and slowly molded into a human figure.

Alex stared at the figure which was Shuri's soul for a while before starting to study it, he needed to know exactly what requirements they would need from a newly created body life core and soul core.

Returning Shuri's soul to his own he stood up from the chair and sat in a meditative position on his bed as he started using his own soul to probe Shuri's while also strengthening her soul as to lower the chance of her soul falling apart due to the strain of entering a new body.

He couldn't just pump it full of juice and then put it in a new body, he had to gradually strengthen it and that is why he started doing so even before constructing a new body.

The night quickly past, Alex opened his eyes at the same time as the first rays of light pierced the horizon. Looking at the rising sun through his window Alex felt a wave of peace ones more pas over him.

The only thing that would have made this better is if there weren' two girls currently hugging his waist while sleeping around him like curled up koala bears.

Even though Alex felt helpless ones more he just thought that he should get used to this, as hard as that sounded.

Space rippled and Alex disappeared from where he was, causing Tosca and Aura to hug each other.

Appearing outside his room Alex went downstairs and glazed on the couch as a cup of hot and freshly made coffee hovered over to him from the kitchen.

'Am I getting lazier as time goes on?'

Alex thought as he stared at the cup of coffee leisurely floating towards him a spoon still stirring the contents to make sure evrything has dissolved properly.

After finishing its task the spoon floated towards the kitchen sink leaving every drop of coffee behind in the might, cleaned itself, dried itself against a drying cloth, making it look a lot like Aura when she snuggled against him before placing itself back in its place in the utensils drawer.

'Nah...'

Taking a sip of the freshly made coffee, Alex closed his eyes as he savored the taste of his awakening juice.

After a long time and seven more cups of magical floating coffee's and self-cleaning spoons, Aura finally came downstairs and started making breakfast after greeting Alex with a sleepy smile.

Another few minutes past and a sleepy-looking Tosca came into the living room in her nightgown and went to sit next to Alex while leaning her head against his shoulder.

"Maaawwwwwwningggggg....."

She said while yawning, causing another magical cup of coffee to float towards her.

"Morning little one, here this will help"

She took the cup and started slowly sipping at it. Finishing half of it she looked up from her cup at Alex, with a red face.

"Teach me the magic...please"