Warm. That’s what it was, the brisk ambiance of a seemingly forever lasting tranquillity which has absorbed the surrounding lands. Hardly anyone with the right sense would deem this anything but decent. The grand beauty of a bright warmth, illuminated even more so by the teasing show of flickers and silhouettes of not shadow but light caused by the heavily looming trees. The edge of this small kingdom was very much a paradise it it’s own right, even if there were others who didn’t always appreciate so. And even though it was off the commoners roads to experience such a sight, to those who made the venture would hardly be disappointed.

To the distance, or at least in the close proximity, a lake was fixated to the shore that surrounded it, upon which the wildlife, amphibious and bird alike took sanctuary in the paradise forged by nature and the paintbrush to her disposal. But to greater felicitate the elaborate artwork of her magnificence, the song of her own elegance, that of the natural denizens to offer thanks and praise caressed the ears of those present. Soothing, beautiful even, the music to the dynamic theatre of one’s own creation was just as tranquil as it was alluring, almost a dream to where a reality was only a conscious effort away.

“Wonderful !”

The praise to unsettle the previous euphoria of calm, rolling from the lips of a happy looking Boy, no young than the age of nineteen the young adult would walk threw the forest path, a smile on his face and his hair blowing backwards thanks to the wind he would just walk on forward. He lived in a tine of magic and old ways, to live in this time was deadly but also interesting as it is so different from what today is like. He is wearing old tattered clothes and on his back is an old tattered bag. He would just start to now lightly whistle as he walks on down the path in the forest as his eyes glance down a bit they would rest on a small shack as of course this was his home.

Walking to the door his right hand extends forward as he grabs onto the door handle he turns it lightly to the side and then pushes it open, walking into the old shack he closes the door behind him. The shack is all one room, a bed in the corner a table at the side and a small fire place and a few chairs and cupboards. He paces himself over to the table as he takes the bag off his back and places it on the tables surface as he turns it around and pours out the contents onto the wooden surface. Bread and a few pieces of fruit role out but also a loud thud is heard as a large book lies there on the table.

His hand moves from his side as he rubs the dust of the top off the book, he was in a rush to get home today as today was the day he sorts out the problem for you see the kingdom he lives in is right now encaged in a war and every available man is needed to join the army and fight for the cause. The army officials no he is at the age where he can fight and they no where he lives and they will be coming to get him and force him to fight. He does not want to waste his live, he does not want to die in a pointless battle, this is why he got this magic book from the near by town to see if it could give him any spells at all that would be able to help him get out of the current situation he is in.

He moves his hand a bit more as he opens the front cover as his eyes trail down the first page, a list off contents and the category off the spells, he just reads down them as there are love spells and also curses and everything, he comes across animal transformation but decided to skip it as he is not that foolish, he has heard tales of these spells that the only way to reverse them is to be able to speak the magic words once more, and when people change themselves into animals there are doomed to be like that for ever, so he skips that and comes to age spells, his eyes basically light right up as that’s perfect, if he could change his age, like maybe knock a few years off him then he cant fight for the army, he quickly looks up the heading off the spell that he would need and then looks at the page number as he quickly flicks right to the page that is named ‘Age Regression’.

The writing on this page is very different from the writing on the contents page, this seems to be an old and forgotten language lost in the ages, but he can make out a few off the words in the description. He reads it for a little bit more till he knows what the description says and it says this ‘To revisit your youth once more, read the magic words aloud, the spell will take affect right away and once changed all you have to do is speak the magic words again to change back’. smiling to himself he reads over the magic words, there is a line off words and then beside that it would seem there is a number also, the number is one and this confused him a little bit as to why you have to say the number 1 at the end of the magic words but hey it’s a magic book so it got to be a bit weird. He just grabs the book off the table as he then takes a few steps back into the centre of the shack.

His eyes glance down at the words as he takes a deep breath and speaks them out aloud as he then says the number right at the end of it, he goes a bit red in the face as he is a tad embarrassed he actually did something this stupid as he does not think it will truly work, running threw his head he thinks the number was the amount of time it takes for the spell to take affect on him, sp he stands perfectly still for one minute, and it comes and passes until he is standing there for nearly an hour as he would then just toss the book forward as it hits off the wall and slides and thuds onto the ground, what a waste it was for him, to do something so stupid, he wasted a few hours of his time, he could of dome something worth while to get himself out of this kind of situation instead he tried to do magic and it failed.

He stands there and now sighs a little bit, not knowing what else to do seeing his one long shot has failed he moves to walk forward but he would simply trip and fall flat on his face. Smacking his face clean off the ground he would blink his blue eyes a few times as he would then move a bit and roll over and sit upwards as he sits there his eyes would trail down to his legs to see what the problem was. His eyes go wide to see that his black shoes and socks are lying down in a pile on the ground and that his feet are sucked up his trousers a bit, his hands shoot forward as he can also see that they have crawled up the sleeves off his now baggy top.

“Oh my gosh is actually worked”

He looks right back down at himself as he judges that he has indeed lost a lot of years of his life and that he was no older than the wonderful age of ten years old, a perfect age right now to be, being this young was perfect, he would not have to join the army and fight and die for his kingdom, the magic worked he is now free to do as he please.

“This is great”

He goes to push himself back up but then he freezes as something is not right with him, he can feel himself getting smaller still, there is a strange tingling feeling covering his whole body, the change is still going on, he is still getting younger. His arms and legs get smaller and smaller as his chest basically deflates right before his shocked eyes. He is in to much shock to move as he can feel the clothes that he is wearing get bigger and bigger on him as his arms and legs continue to get smaller and smaller as baby fat starts to show on them, his face also gets softer and more cute as signs of baby fat appear on it as well. Shrinking down to the age off four year old he stares wide eyed, his hair feels different as it is short and downy, he kicks his feet lick mad as the massive trousers slip off him easily and land on the ground as he stares down at his little legs, but the thing he stares at the most is the tiny little feet, his tiny little toes, he stares at them shocked and amazed at how small they have become, they do indeed belong to a four year old.

Sitting there he now knows this has gone far enough and it is time to stop this, it is time to speak the magic words again and end this curse before he gets to young. He goes to open his mouth but before he does it seems the youthing speeds up ten fold not wanting the change to be interrupted. He shrinks down faster and faster, shrinking into now the tent like top, his mouth opens but before he can speak his teeth retract into his mouth leaving nothing but gums, his whole body tingles now as he falls backwards and lands on his back as he lies there hidden in the massive top. Everything about him now becomes even more innocent and pudgier and cute. His arms and legs pull inwards as the baby fat surrounds them as they are just little cute fat tools now. His hair also pulled all the way back into his head leaving just a few cute blonde strands. His bright blue eyes blink a few times as he cant see anything more as the massive top just covers his whole body now.

His blue eyes go wide as he tries to move his legs and arms and he finds that he has lost control off them, they fly in every direction and he just kicks like mad as he kicks the top a little bit, the top moves a bit and the neck hole falls over him allowing him out, unable to move the six month old baby lies there on the cold floor, its little arms flailed around, tiny fingers making a fist over and over again and again. His little feet kicking and his toes curling a little, a small line off drool runs down his mouth as it has dawned on him now what the one meant in the spell, it meant to go younger than the age off one and escape all troubles off the world. He has got what he wanted, he wont be joining the army off the kingdom, in fact he wont be doing a lot of things for a long time, and yet he is not happy, the spell gave him what he wanted, he has escaped the horrors of his old age and reverted back to a simpler time and age but he is not satisfied, he would show this by his eyes watering up and he then opens his soft tiny mouth.

“Waaaaaaaaaah”