Landon's eyes both sent black and the ground beneath our feet began to vibrate.Right before my eyes, the sky above us turned a darker shade of blue and by the time I brought my attention back to the ground, the sand was red and soft.I was slowly sinking into them, I caught myself enjoying it.I have never been to a beach before.Landon wasn't even done yet but it was already feeling really relaxing in here.Everything around us changed; the training ground became more vast and a large, seemingly endless vast blue sea appeared by my right, raging.After he was finished, Landon's eyes changed back to their usual colors."Red sand and cold biting sea on a beach, there you have it." He spread his arms toward the sea and shut his eyes.It looked like he was enjoying the feel of his own hallucination.The sea was indeed cold biting.I just wanted to remain here for a really long time and do nothing but relax.For just a tiny moment, I didn't want to care about the academy, Zenin, my mothe
Writer's POVThe Principal had gone through the folders of several documents he kept on Zenin and Ava's experiment.He hid these folders away from Ava and Liam so they would never find his true goal in doing the experiments.When he had gone through the folders he had kept with him, he only realized how useless they were.He had kept the wrong folders with himself and stored away the really important ones in the room where the experiment was conducted."Shit!" He cussed loudly, dropping the folders.There wasn't so much time left before the fight between Ivan and the young Ash.He wanted everything in place for the experiment before the fight.Callin didn't know what Ivan was up to.He wouldn't say a word to him so Callin didn't want to be taken by surprise.He wanted to be ready when Ivan made his decision on how he was going to defeat the Young Ash without raising a finger.Sighing, he opened a portal to the room where the experiment had been done.Whenever he needed to visit the ro
Once again, I was in his Universe.His outline was right in front of me like he's been waiting for me.Had he been waiting for me?"Waiting for me, I see." I teased him."You have only nine days left." He overlooked my tease and began walking away."I know." I follow behind him.Aki went easy on me until it was time for Langrid to train me.I had managed to shut out Micah, I guess that was something I could do without having her hold back on me.As for Langrid….. I still couldn't even land a proper punch while using my physical ability, especially when he used his damn assassin level of Stealth.And as for him, I couldn't still beat him in a battle using our Special abilities, either."You failed the last time. We are going to be retaking that fight to see if your 'Special friends' have taught you anything useful." He sounded pissed but nothing pissed.Not pissed in a sense that he had always been like this but pissed in a sense that it felt like knowing I had only fewer days before t
It's the fifth day already before my fight with Ivan and a lot has changed.I'm stronger, faster and more stable on the sand.Not so Surprisingly, I'm bigger too; not too big but still big in a way that I never thought was possible.I caught his hand right before it hit me, momentarily enjoying the rush of wind on my face.His hand had healed but I could still see it.Even when he used the assassin level of Stealth, I could see the part of his hand I had stabbed.I push him over but Aki creates a big palm of flames to catch him."Once again, Kastian, you do not do the pushing, he does. All you have to do is avoid getting pushed off the fence." There was a groan in the end of his Speech that made it obvious he was tired of telling me not to push Langrid off the fence."Got it!" I nodded at him as he controlled the palm of flames to bring Langrid back to the fence.The latter goes invincible again once he is back on the fence.Aki had created really tall fences with flames.His aim was
After I healed my burned jaw, Aki's flames didn't hold back on me any longer or rather, Aki did not hold back on me any longer.They were fast; almost faster than Aki.I couldn't touch them or I was going to burn. They shouldn't touch me or I was going to burn.The only thing I could do was hop around and dodge their attacks as fast as possible.As the wielder of the ability, Aki could make his flames burn or save.When he created the palm that saved Langrid when I pushed him off the fence, Aki's flames had saved.But right now, they were all out to burn me. Unlike the cool green flames he used to save Langrid, these ones were a ferocious blood red."You're slacking, Kastian. They are going to catch up pretty quickly and burn you." I caught a smile on his face as he stood from a distance, watching me; watching us.His smile made me feel like he might have always wanted to burn me.I pushed myself to the right and dragged my feet to my sides as fast as possible before they caught on my
As Landon and I made our way through the facility, I waited for it but it never came.I opened my mind, ready to feel the cold, dark energy but it never came.I waited and waited, then waited a lot more but it never came."Are you okay?" Landon's voice snapped me back to reality."Yeah." I nodded but the look on his face showed that he didn't believe me."Just eager to meet Ascher.""You remember his name?" Landon tilted his head and stared at me like I was something interesting.I inwardly sighed, glad he didn't ask any more questions I didn't need him to ask."You mentioned it more than once already." We make our way past a huge gym with Specials training in it.They must be training their physical abilities."I did." He looked away from me.We reached a small room.I wonder what could be behind those small doors.Maybe it was just an aftermath of my daily routines but I felt big; too big, before the door."This is the library for water elementals. The academy has many libraries wit
Ascher catches his breath before he begins.Not like he needed to anyway.Just before he started, the screen appeared, Daily routine updated.Now was not the time so I simply ignored it and focused on Ascher.It remained in my face but I looked past it to stare at Ascher's face.Or at least I tried to look past it.Landon and Ascher must be staring at me thinking I was staring at Ascher when actually, the damn screen was blocking my view.Daily routine updated!Daily routine updated!The tabs kept popping up but I still paid it no attention.Sensing that I was going to keep my attention, it disappeared and I could clearly see Ascher afterward."Not being ranked means I don't get training and classes lavished on me." I didn't give a care in the world if he saw me as desperate.I needed to know everything he knew."Ivan is a sly wretch. There is absolutely nothing he wouldn't do to win a fight."Landon took a moment to roll his eyes, "I shouldn't but I pity all he's had to figh
"Kastian?" Landon shook my hand and I blinked, returning to reality."Hmm?" I looked around the library, hoping no one else saw me zone out like that.When I was satisfied it was just Ascher and Landon staring at me weirdly, I turned to Ascher, "You were saying?""I believe there would be so much more to study about the elemental ability if there was any Special with it. Personally, I believe that Special would have been able to take the academy back to the way it used to be where Ava and Liam governed it." There was an unmistakable sadness in his voice and on his face but when he quickly masked it with indifference, I swallowed the question I was going to ask."The blood elemental ability would have been the strongest of all six elemental abilities, established. How would you place the rest in terms of power?" Landon asked, surprisingly more interested in the conversation than I thought he would be."That's quite simple. Blood, Earth, Light, Wind, then Water and Flames on the same l