Samantha's Journey into Real Magic Part 2

This is a work of fiction in the genres of Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance. The novel is in the 'Rings of Gaia' domain. ‘Merlin Parnassus’, and ‘Zed’, are prequels to this series "Samantha’s Journey”. The theme is ‘reincarnation’. The stories contain adult material. Do not read if under 18 years of age or are oversensitive.
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Gaia is the soul of Planet Earth. She serves God the creator by looking after herself. Gaia’s intention was to create leaders who could educate and protect the Earth. Man is self-destructive, and Gaia needs agents who would go out and repair the damage. Gaia gave Merlin Parnassus long life and real magic.
In 2010, Angel discovered Samantha had magical powers. Angel was 35 years old before Merlin changed her into a baby in Samantha’s womb. It was all part of a stage illusion, but Angel had an ulterior motive. In the middle of the illusion, Angel told Samantha she wanted Samantha to carry her for a full term and to birth her naturally. It was a big gamble to avoid the big ‘C’, “Cancer”. Merlin took the pregnancy back to conception; then, Samantha discovered her magic-powers. Samantha altered Angel’s egg replacing the faulty cancer cells with healthy copies from her own DNA. Samantha is now 15 weeks pregnant, carrying a ‘reconceived Angel’.
Samantha had spotted that her powers, Astrid and Arturus had intelligence. She instructed them to work within a set of constraints; they would learn alongside Samantha. Samantha decided to test her powers by attempting to fix the drug addicts at the Milton University Research Hospital. When Samantha discovered that Arturus could read and repair memories, it was a small step to surmise that he could copy skills. Samantha postulated that craft skills were memories stored in multiple organs of a body. She saved the skills of a Paris-trained corsetiere and copied them to several recovered patients. Samantha set up a company to make ‘made-to-measure clothes’ targeting ‘the larger lady’. Each patient Samantha rescued was added to the workforce. The fortunate few had a home and a job. Arturus fixed the patients; Samantha was left to come up with stories to explain away the recoveries.
Meanwhile, across the pond in Havana, Cuba, Zed was recovering from his close encounter with Merlin. His endeavour to find the ‘subject tested positive’ was successful. He now knew it was Samantha. Unfortunately, he had one answer and many more questions. How long had she been learning Real Magic? How strong was she physically? To name just a few.
Zed had lived multiple lives. He had avoided his day of reckoning by using the power of his ring of Gaia. When a pregnant great-granddaughter reached 26 weeks, Zed’s magical ring became the conduit; Zed’s spirit moved through the ring into the new baby, thus preventing the arrival of a new spirit. Zed would be reborn again. The current Zed was 35 years old. He had the arrogance to think he could steal Samantha from Merlin and had a chance of making Samantha his wife. Maybe he could turn Samantha into another Josie? Zed had treated all his women badly. Zed’s family were little more than servants. Zed had been female twice. Unfortunately, this hadn’t mellowed Zed’s attitude to the fairer sex. As a woman, she had been a complete bitch.
Teddy had met Samantha on his first day at K2. Somehow, he was volunteered into Samantha’s world of real magic. He was helping Samantha produce copious magic-essence. Beguiled by Samantha’s shenanigans, Teddy had become a falcon on a treasure hunt, a cat on a retreat’s routes survey, and an owl on a site survey. Was Teddy being groomed for a future role as Samantha’s familiar?