Bab 8: Moon Charmer vs Witch

"Mom?"

You would also have a questioning tone if you saw your mom in a horror movie outfit. If she had fairy BGM, she could be in a fairy movie too. But the vibes he got were anything but a fairy movie.

"Ashy!"

That was his mother, all right. Only she could keep calling him that horrible nickname.

"What happened to you?"

She looked here and there and frowned at him. What? Did he grow up all wrong? Nothing like she expected. That's why she was angry? It was her fault too. She left him, otherwise he could also have a total family.

She interrupted his sob fest.

"There's no chair here."

There, she was frowning because of an absent chair, and he was having a full meltdown.

He got up and went back to his room. Just before he entered the door, he asked her.

"You won't leave till I get back, right?"

She watched him and shook her head.

He ran and got the chair.

She stood there looking ethereal in the white moonlight, almost like a fog wearing a human form.

"Here you go."

She then sat unceremoniously and stared staring at him again.

"Mom, do I have something on my face?"

"No, why did you summon me?"

He pointed at himself.

"Me?"

She nodded again.

"No, I didn't. If I knew I could, I'd have summoned you ages ago."

Hard to argue with that logic.

"You were always clueless, Ashy. Your necklace is a link to my place. You were in some danger, it sensed the magic power and then fed me back and I'm here now."

Asher then realized.

"Mom, I don't know what happened. I was setting things on fire today. I was really scared. But somehow, it stopped later."

She looked serious.

"You were not supposed to be in contact with witchy things. How dare they break their promise? I'll blast them."

Wait, what? Was this his mother who wanted to explode someone because of him?

"What?"

She looked deeply pained.

"Ashy, I'm telling you a secret now. You can't ever think of it. Who knows who's listening?"

She waited for him to react.

Secret, he loved secrets.

"You see, your father and I got married because of a contract my grandparents signed as a life-saving grace repayment. I never liked him. How can I, a Moon Charmer like a mortal?"

He knew it. His mother didn't like his dad. Come to say it, he didn't like him since he married again and had kids.

Wait, Moon Charmer?

"I thought leaving you here would be safe. You are a Natural. You somehow attract and repel magic. But someone attacked you. I made a contract with the agency that you won't be harmed. And they didn't fulfill it. I'm so angry."

He felt like it was all going over his head.

First, his parents, second, a moon charmer, third, a natural, what else was left?

"Mom, can you explain all this to me like I'm a five-year-old who knows nothing about it? " he said, flailing his arms.

"Son, you make it really, really difficult to act like a normal person. And I'm the most normal Moon Charmer in my clan."

Asher blushed. He wasn't that unbearable.

"Okay, let's start from the start. I am from the Moon Charmers line. We worship the Moon God. The Moonlight grants us powers. And we are at war with the Sun Charmers. Those jerks burned our home as a prank."

She showed her half-burned hair.

"See, I can't grow my hair yet."

Asher nodded.

"And then my grandfather came to the human world and was about to be trafficked and he was saved by your father's grandmother. That made a marriage contract and I had to marry your father."

She sighed.

"See, there was a period, a brief period where we liked each other but we are after all different. Now he has his family."

She sighed.

"Ashy, I left you here because you have powerful powers. You can absorb or give back magic. It's really powerful. You know, a long time ago, when there was the first magic War, people like you were massacred. That's why I felt you would be safe here."

Asher listened to her.

"But Mom, why did you have to leave?"

"I was injured. See, there was a stupid and dangerous wizard who wanted to fight everyone. That idiot hurt me. I had to go back to heal. Your father promised to take care of you. But now I see, he is abroad with his new family. I knew men can't be trusted."

She was angry by the end of her monologue.

"Yeah, I want to be with you, Mom. There's nothing here. "

"Ashy, our place is primitive. No phones, internet, just magic practice."

Asher felt he was good here.

"That aside, how did you get the spell on you? Did you touch something?"

Asher tried to remember.

"It was a parcel. Not mine. It was my secretary's. I felt the draw and I just touched."

She hit him on the head.

"Why would you touch other people's things?"

"Sorry, Mom. Then is someone targeting my secretary?"

"Maybe. Boy, those witches and wizards are nut jobs. Yeah, stay away from them. Don't get into any kind of contract with them."

Asher nodded.

"Hey, Mom, do you want to stay in the guest room?"

He asked hoping she would stay.

"Yes, I'll stay here with you. No one except you can see me."

Asher felt really happy seeing his mom. Knowing he wasn't abandoned made him feel great. It almost made the discovery that there were magical beings shadowed.

The weight of this knowledge didn't affect him till the next day.

When he saw his mom pranking some people with her invisibility, he was just so happy. She just changed the positions of some pens and files and people in the office were really confused.

He had so much fun.

"Ashy, why did you hire a witch?"

She said pointing at Rose. And Rose looked at her with wide eyes.

"Moon Charmer, ah. Run, Mr. Walden. Here, I'll cover you."

She put on her wand and made a defensive pose.

Asher rolled his eyes at both of them.