Table Of ContentThe Fire Mage
K.E.Bloomfield
Copyright Kate Bloomfield 2010
Cover design by Kate Bloomfield
Names and characters are the intellectual property of Kate
Bloomfield.
9781447694892
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
A note from the author
Part 1
PROLOGUE
Chapter One - Flight of the Fire Mage
Chapter two - Law and Power
Chapter three - A Good Impression
Chapter four - Fury Little Friend
Chapter five - An Absurd Growth Spurt
Chapter Six - A Son Returns
Chapter Seven - A Nervous Disposition
Chapter eight - Room Service
Chapter nine - Tethered
Chapter ten - Something Stronger
Chapter eleven - Flight
Chapter twelve - A Traumatic Consequence
Chapter Thirteen - The Stalker Seth Swaggart
Chapter fourteen - Disappearing Act
Chapter Fifteen - Bludvok’s
Chapter Sixteen - The Black Bird
Chapter Seventeen - Hunted
Chapter Eighteen - Saviour
Chapter Nineteen - A Marital Distraction
Chapter Twenty - Fire and Ice
Chapter Twenty-One - Till The End
A note from the author
Thank you for reading this edition of The Fire Mage. I hope it brings you as
much joy as it has brought me. I have aspired to be a writer since a very young
age, and have always known that it would be a difficult task to accomplish.
Though if I make just one person on this planet smile because of something I
have written, then surely I have accomplished something.
K.E Bloomfield
Part 1
PROLOGUE
The humans never expected that their precious technology would lead to their
eventual demise. Mobile phones, factory pollutions, computers, nuclear
experiments, cars and petrol were all contributors.
After hundreds of years of abuse from humans, the earth’s air became toxic
and the land turned to fire and ice. The fumes were deadly and the humans fled
underground where they had built cities large enough to house them for several
hundreds of years. The cities had many generators to create electricity and
warmth, and hundreds of underground farms with an artificial sun. It was the
only way to save them from the hell they had created, yet they still could not
survive without their wretched technology.
The abuse of the earth had brought forth a self-made apocalypse, killing
billions of people. Hundreds survived in their underground cities for decades,
and bred, trying to save the human race from extinction for they feared that all
life on the surface had been turned to dust.
However there were a handful of humans who possessed a rare and hidden
genetic code, which allowed them to survive in the radiation – barely. Over time
they came to tolerate the deathly conditions, and month by month living on the
surface became easier. Yet if a human who did not possess the rare genetic code
ventured from the underground and onto the surface they would surely die
within a matter of minutes.
And so the underground humans hid beneath the earth’s surface for five
hundred years, passing the knowledge of the apocalypse through each generation
until the cold, hard facts became blurred and there was no one in living memory
that had actually experienced it.
It was one particularly brave, adolescent that broke free from the
claustrophobic underground and wanted to see what the world had to offer. The
fact that the humans did not properly educate their young anymore about the
dangers of the toxic air was a great factor to this break out. However when the
young man breathed his first breath upon the surface he found the air to be pure
and clean – cleaner than any air the generators underground had provided. His
mind had never felt clearer.
The adolescent quickly returned to the underground and told everyone of his
discovery – that after five hundred years the earth had finally healed itself and it
was safe to live outside again. After much convincing the humans ventured
outside and heaved a sigh of relief to be free of their prison and to see the colour
of the sky and grass. The earth had returned to its perfect state.
The humans believed that they were the earth’s only inhabitants, and the only
survivors of the apocalypse that happened so many years ago. Surely they were
the masters of this new land.
Yet there were those who had managed to survive the hell on earth. It was rare
for humans to survive the radiation, though some did. Eventually, those humans
with the hidden genetic code began to breed over the several hundreds of years
that the earth had been unoccupied, and generation by generation their bodies
began tolerating the changed environment more and more until they had evolved
completely to live harmoniously with the earth.
When the humans from the underground encountered the evolved race they
were joyous that they had found other survivors and wondered where their
underground cities were located. The evolved race looked exactly the same as
regular humans, yet inside their genetic make-up couldn’t have been more
different. The evolved race did not refer to themselves as humans, but introduced
themselves as Mages.
The humans discovered that the Mages were not regular people for they
possessed strange and unnatural powers that had been unlocked within the
depths of the mind after hundreds of years of evolution. What usually took
millions of years to happen had taken a mere millisecond in comparison.
The humans watched in awe as the Mages demonstrated their powers. Some
could read minds, or move inanimate objects without touching them. Others
could control the elements of fire, ice and water, and then there were those who
could heal fatal wounds in the blink of an eye. One young female Mage could
even morph into a bird at will.
The humans were amazed and proposed that the two species unite to rebuild
their fallen empires which had shattered to the ground all those hundreds of
years ago.
The Mage’s disagreed and foresaw with their Power that the earth would
surely crumble and die if it were abused again by humans. They declared that
technology and harmful toxins were now banned on earth in the effort to
preserve life and prevent another global catastrophe. Of course this declaration
was also in the human’s best interest.
Overcome with rage and jealousy the humans declared a war upon their
