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
The tab for the update didn't open until I got into my room. Daily routine update; sparring.I frowned at what the screen displayed.I already sparred with Langrid, Aki and Landon. That was how I trained to get stronger.Who else could I possibly sparr with?I clicked on sparring Sparring with replicas.Replicas.I was pretty sure it was referring to creations of me in flames or blood.Aki had created replicas of himself so I was sure that was what I needed to do.Replicas was highlighted so I clicked on it, Flame replicas, Blood replicas.Flame replicas came first so I had to begin with flame replicas which I could understand why.BlBlood was the strongest Elemental ability, if Ascher was right, which I for one, think he is then I should learn to spar with flame replicas before blood replicas.I clicked on flame replicas and a burning sensation sizzled in my fingers.When I felt heat scald my back, I moved away only to see that I had created one flame replica.I l
Writer's POVA brunette hid in the bathroom for fear of what she had done.She didn't mean to but she had almost drowned her best friend in the bathroom after gym class.Biting her fingers was the only thing the poor girl could do until she was certain that her best friend would live."You didn't do it." She said to herself, staring back at her reflection in the mirror.She had bitten her fingers so hard and so deeply, she now chewed down on her flesh.Her face was white from fear and her mascara was nothing but a disaster around her eyes."No!" She suddenly pointed at her reflection while wiping away her tears with her free hand."The shower was on, someone had left it on. You have absolutely nothing to do with what happened to Marvy. It was an accident and you were just unfortunate to be there."She almost believed her words until she broke down in tears, falling on her knees in the bathroom.She didn't want to believe it but somewhere deep in her heart, she knew what she had done.