[Peter's first person POV]

  This is dope. I tell that I'm strohan before and this weird feeling inside my body, it's as if every cell in my body is itg for something. I sehe mystical energy seeping through every er of the Earth. It's intoxig. And this exo skeleton armor, I manipute it to transform acc to my needs. It's as if a symbiote is ed around me.

  "You are thinking of leaving right now to meet your family, right?" The A One suddenly said with her usual stoic expression, but I tell that she's kinda happy for some reason. Weird.

  "Not yet. Since I'm here, teach me. I was tant and careless st time. I don't want to face such a situation again. So, teach me magid help me uand my power or something," I asked her. This is my st resort. As much as I would like to meet them, I 't go there in my dition. Although the exo skeleton armor is under my trol, what if another weird freaky power pops up? 't take that ce. Before I leave this pce, I'll learn magid master my spidey power.

  "Hmm," She rubbed her fingers across her face with a pting look, "Very well. Let us begin your training, Peter Parker."

  She teleported me to the training ground with a flick of her fihere was a group of newbies in e training clothes, practig the cssic transportation portal spell.

  I watched them create portals, some successful while some failed.

  "Peter Parker, stao them," She ordered me with a serious tone.

  [Zoooo!] Wow! She used magic to ge my clothes. It was weird and creepy. I feel a new underpearing out of nowhere and it's a fit. I looked down and saw myself wearing an e training cloth with a symbol of the Kamar Taj. Then she gave me those magigs to wear like the rest of the students.

  "I'm sure you won't have a problem mimig their movements. Feel the flow of magid focus. Imagihe garden we were standing in a few moments ago and open a portal," She instructed me as she walked behind everyone and started them individually.

  Alright! Here goes nothing.

  I copied them as they waved their hands and imagihe garden clearly with its green grass, oak trees, and stone buildings as I tried opening a portal, but nothing happened. Damn! I repeated it a few times, but it didn't work. I tried imagining the garden with better crity and even closed my eyes to visualize everything clearly, but still nothing.

  Wait! I see ish sparks as a faint rune or whatever it is called appeared before my eyes briefly. I do it. After eight months, I got a new d I won't let it go to waste. I know what's wrong here. I am thinking too much about it and trying to run where I'm supposed to walk. I'm getting frustrated aless right now because I doubt I've ever failed this many times in a row.

  Yeah! Focus...

  I took a deep breath and rexed my mind as I imagihe garden again while waving my hands and e sparks appeared briefly again. Just rex, Pete. You got this. I calmed my mind and trolled my breathing. I imagihose weird magies around the garden.

  [Sizzzle!] [Crackle!] As I opened my eyes I saw a round portal and beyond it was the garden I just imagined. Success!

  That's just the tip of the iceberg...

  "Good job. It took Stephen quite a while to use this spell. I had to throw him into the North Pole for motivation," A Oted my shoulder as she praised me with a proud smile.

  Yeah, I know. I don't even want to imagine where she would have thrown me had I failed repeatedly.

  Anyway, I repeated the spell multiple times until it became easier and the portal appeared faster.

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  After eight days of gruesome training with the A One, she finally allowed me to ehe Kamar Taj library.

  I spent most of my time reading various books reted to magid some a history. Sadly, I'm not allowed to go into the forbiddeion. Oh, well, o rush. Let's take oep at a time.

  While reading books about magic, I learned more about these mystic arts and how they funy theory about these mystic arts being simir to sce turned out to be true. But the only difference is that instead of using sce rules, they use magic rules. They manipute mystical energy by followiain rules to cast spells. It's fasating.

  Those magic threads I keep seeing after ing out of the Astral Pne are what ects everything together like the web.

  While I was engrossed in reading, I didn't even notice when Waered the library. Yeah, I got Spidey Power, but that A One forbade me from using them. She tried to seal off my power, but thanks to my Immunity power, it failed. Since her power doesn't work on me, she made me wear some kind of metal rings around my fihat suppress my power. It's hard, but I'm getting used to it.

  "Peter Parker," She greeted me with a stoic expression as she sat opposite me with a bag of food that she must have gotten from Dr. Strange.

  I g her for a moment a back to the books, "You do know, you 't bring food into the library, right?" I reminded her. I didn't want to get in trouble for eating in the library.

  "Don't you get bored of eating fruits and veggies all day? I mean, you haveen anything for almost eight or nine months, and then for the st eight days, you've beeing fruits and veggies. Don't you want something else?" Wanda argued with me as she pced the food between us oable.

  Girl you have no idea how long I go without eating fancy food or no food at all. Haaa... Bad memories fshed before my eyes when those lunatics were perf experiments ohey didn't give me any food, just some tasteless gooey liquid ced with poison. Damn! To think I survived years like that. Anyone in my pce would have found a way to somehow kill themselves, but not me.

  Anyway, I sighed heavily as I put the book aside and opened a portal to the rooftop, "e oer safe than sorry..." I urged her to move.

  Wanda smiled slightly as she picked up the bag of food and jumped into the portal. I followed her and closed it afterward. We sat down on the ledge of the roof looking down at the beautiful snowy mountains below. One would think it's cold up here, but there's a magie proteg this pd keeping the temperature in check.

  Ah! When you have magic, there is no need for AC or heater. How cool is that?

  "So... Spicey meat burger. I thought you were a vegan," I asked Wanda as I uned the burger and took a big bite.

  "Yeah, when you gh certain situations, you gotta adjust accly. And food is one of them," She replied while taking a sip from her co bottle.

  "'t argue with that. So, what's new?" I asked as I munched on the burger while enjoying the view. "Heard you got an earful from Woerday. What happened?" I teased her as I finished my burger within seds and grabbed another one from the bag.

  Wanda frowned as she recalled the scolding Wong gave her yesterday, "Yeah... Apparently, I messed up duriation. He kept tellihat I wasn't trating enough. It's hard to focus with all these thoughts going through my head stantly."

  "Talk to me," I urged her as I focused on chewing my burger slowly so that I could listen to Wanda.

  Wanda stared at me with flicted emotions fshing in her eyes for a moment before sighing heavily, "You sure you want to hear my story? It's nothing special. It's just that I don't know if what I want to do is right ."

  "Go on, it's the least I do for someone who took care of me fht months without a pint," I assured her with a genuine smile.

  Wanda stared into my eyes for a moment to find any signs of lies, but she couldn't find any. Finally, she sighed heavily and began narrating her life story.

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