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.
I still felt like I was carrying the weight of the entire universe when I found myself in his Universe.I couldn't see his outline anywhere or perhaps I was too tired to see it.I remained still on the ground until I completely healed.Even after complete healing, I still staggered to my feet.I guess no amount of Special healing could beat a good sleep."You have only four days left." It wasn't someone else said it that I realized how unnerving it sounded.In the next four days, I would either leave the academy or begin to go on missions.No!I couldn't possibly leave the academy.I was going to decide my fate this time around and I have decided to remain in the academy at all costs."I have a daily routine update. I combat replicas of myself created using my elemental abilities but my prototype takes control." I explained to him.I still hadn't gotten the hang of fighting against my prototype and I had a feeling he could teach me all I needed to know about it.My prototype was the u
Landon just stares at me for a while before he laughs."It wasn't a joke, Landon. I'm requesting that you break into the flame elemental facility." Why would he take this as a joke?"There's no way I'm doing that, Kastian. You have no idea what I risked to get you into the facility the other day. Another Special who wasn't under the influence of my illusion might have come and we would have been jinxed, you especially. Worse? The Principal could have come." He's no longer laughing.There is nothing but pure anger in his eyes as he speaks."If he had nothing to hide, he shouldn't be concerned that we snuck into the facility." I blurt out the words just before I'm able to stop myself.The angry expression on Landon's face changes into suspicion."The Principal doesn't have to hide anything. The rule does not let any Special be there unnecessarily. It's where injured Specials receive healing after returning from missions." The look on his face does not match the tone of his voice.He loo
Writer's POVLangrid, Aki and Micah meet up, not to train Kastian this time but for something else.Micah already knows a little about the subject of their discussion while Langrid knows all about it.At the moment, it is Aki who is in the dark.Complete darkness."You are no longer Callin's shadow. He's going to suspect that something's off about you and then monitor you. You are not safe being in this meeting with us." Aki still wasn't comfortable around Langrid.In truth, none of them were exactly comfortable around him."I have this entire area invincible." He gestured to the four walls of the tiny classroom."Even if any Special comes in and stands so close to us, he's not going to be able to see us. The only person my Stealth doesn't completely work on is Kastian who will not find us here. The kid doesn't know any other place in the academy but his dormitory, training grounds, the healing facility and the Principal's office."Micah and Aki share a look, questioning each other if