Stella and Crumble learned a lot about Clemens today: He was the son of a rich family and had started early with magical training; Jenna’s parents had worked at the Kiwing’s house so they lived nearby with little Jenna and her big brother. Whenever he was allowed to take a break and felt like playing, he went over to the two kids and they had a lot of fun together. Therefore, the three of them had grown up like siblings and it was hard saying goodbye when they left one after another to find a job or study somewhere else.
Gladly, there still was e-mail and instant messaging but it just wasn’t the same and sometimes they didn’t have the time to write back.
Jenna was a very friendly and caring person it seemed and she also got along well with Crumble (which surprised Stella because of the usual dog – cat problems). They had much fun in the afternoon when Jenna had bought some new cat toys and played with Crumble until he was tired. This time he didn’t even use magic while playing, feeling like a normal cat could be a nice distraction sometimes.

His reaction was as fast as the wind and almost too quick for Stella’s eyes: within no time Clemens caught the shadow with a magical net right next to his head! You couldn’t see much at first, just a big pair of furry ears and a long fluffy tail. After a few seconds this picture changed and a girl was sitting in the net, hanging in the air.
Stella’s mouth dropped open as he let the net sink down to the ground and hugged the girl like a long-lost relative.
“What are you doing here? Such a great surprise!” – “I stalked you, you know…” – ” So that was the familiar feeling I suddenly got…” The two of them grinned at each other and Stella got more and more confused: who WAS this girl?! They kept talking for a while about the most important things that had happened (which were a lot it seems).
Suddenly Clemens turned around and said “Stella, you should get to know Jenna, my werewolf-sister!”

Clemens said he hadn’t noticed anything strange, yet Stella always saw a shadow between the bushes and trees, watching them. Even Crumble looked into that direction but didn’t dare find out what it was. In a break, Stella carefully went to the place she had seen the creature and found nothing… She could feel a scent of magic though, as if someone had just left a few seconds before. Stella really wanted to discover what happened there so whenever she found the time while training, she quickly jumped right into the nature (summoning a shield around here just in case), hoping to finally catch whatever had been watching them. Each time there were only the little pieces of magic left, somehow scaring her.
One day, Clemens attacked Stella with a giant ball of fire plus a lightning and she had to block them with a bubble shield as she couldn’t use water because of the eletricity. He felt victorious as she was struggling with the magic and grinned. Right then they heard a loud cracking, leaf-moving sound and a big shadow rushed towards Clemens, jumping at him!

The man’s name was Clemens Kiwing. They practiced twice a week for a few hours and most of the questions Stella had written down could easily be answered during these trainings. She was a bit sad they didn’t travel do the Library of Magic yet but he promised to do so as soon as she was prepared enough. She agreed because now she had experienced how dangerous magic could be. Funnily, also Crumble got trained in magic and he even made good progress. Clemens thought up special tasks for him to train his magical abilities and keep Crumble entertained while they were practicing as well. Maybe he wanted to keep Crumble from influencing Stella? She didn’t know for sure because Clemens usually was rather silent and only talked when necessary. It sometimes seemed to be difficult for him to phrase magical definitions and explanations in a way he hoped she would understand, but he did a good job.
They also trained fighting on the field next to the airport on a regular basis to track her progress. One day, there was a person or creature sitting in the dark of some trees watching them for the whole time. Stella felt uneasy and she got worried when she noticed that ever since that day, the person or creature kept visiting all their fighting sessions and never left before they had finished.

“Great job!”, she heard the man’s voice after she finally stopped crying like mad and kept sobbing. Oh, what irony! Why did he even have to say that?! What a &%¥!?¿€!
He walked towards her because she didn’t answer anything. “Hey.” – “I HAVE TO GIVE UP MY DREAM JUST BECAUSE OF YOU, YOU DAMN IDIOT! I LOST, AND I ALWAYS WILL!” She didn’t care if people heard her now or looked at her. It didn’t matter anymore.
He waited for a while and finally said “You silly. You couldn’t have won against me. Don’t take that personally, but it’s true. I’ve grown up with magic, it has always been a part of mine. I wanted to test if your will is strong and if you have enough passion for magic to be its master and not the other way around. There are people who let the magic control themselves and that really dangerous, so I had to make sure what you are like. ‘Great job’ was honestly meant that way.”
She looked up through her red eyes. “Really?” – “I am saying the truth.” He hesitated. It seemed to be a hard decision for him to say this, “If you agree, I will train you to be strong enough to fight other magicians.”

She liked the fact he had said ‘other’ and not ‘real’.