Beginner's guide on flame elemental ability, E-grade Special edition, D-grade Special edition, C-grade Special edition.I stared at all of them, sprawled out on my bed.I had very limited time to feed them all.Picking up the Beginner's guide, I flipped open the first page."Ava Ash and Sabrina Jonas." My mother had co-authored the book with another Q-grade Special.It seems as though there was no book my mother didn't have a hand in, in the entirety of the academy.Smiling in pride, I began to read."Flame elemental ability is one of the first Special abilities to be discovered. It could be combined with different other elemental abilities during missions but a proper understanding of this ability could make its user stronger than he could ever imagine."I was damn sure my mother had written this preface herself. It was just so -----her."Before you can learn to use your flames, you must learn to calm your mind, your thoughts and your emotions. Without control over all of these, your
A while later, we were still green fists against red fists.I was throwing back half as much punches as he was.Whenever he threw a punch, I didn't dodge it, I merely blocked it with my green flame.If there was anything I have achieved during our short fight, it was that I had learned to use green flames for both attacking and defending.I wiped off the beads of sweat from my forehead.It came at me with an unmistakable whirl speed but I was faster thanks to my speed abilities.I caught it hand midair and punched it hard in the gut.It bent over in….. wait…was that pain?Well, whatever made it bend over like that didn't last for long because soon, it attacked me with its other fist.I imagined a shield and burning red flames wove into a shield to protect my face from getting burned.I pushed it when I could, creating distance between us.I didn't just want to keep fighting, I needed a way to end this damn fight once and for all without giving up.I refuse to give up this time, not wh
I sat on my bed, his words repeatedly replaying in my head.What was possibly going to happen if I bled out?Why had he even thought such an advice so important that he went as far as bringing me to his Universe to tell me about?FLASHBACK"What?" I took a step backward."Whatever you do, Kastian, however you fight, do not bleed to the ground." He sounded harsher but only out of desperation."I will be fighting against a Special in a high rank, I am not ranked and since he challenged me to the fight, he definitely already knows he has a higher chance of winning than I do. In case you do not understand what's about to happen, I'll gladly explain. I'm getting into a physical combat with Ivan who has absolute control over his abilities; unlike me. As far as I can tell, I am going to bleed and I am going to bleed a lot."He grabbed me in the twinkling of an eye, "It's difficult to explain, Kastian but you have to keep your blood all to yourself. You have no idea how important this is.""N
Kastian's POVI stepped out into the hallway, expecting to see Landon waiting for me as always but he wasn't there.Was he probably still in class?Someone from his friend group, luckily for me, walked into the hallway.He seemed in a hurry but nevertheless, I stopped him."Hey." He jumped back in fear when I approached him."I just wanted to ask about Landon." I put my hand up at once, startled that I had startled him."Oh, Land." He sighed, placing his hands on his knees like he's been running for too long.I guess everyone called him Land.There was a temporary look of fear in his eyes but before he blinked it away, I saw it."Did something happen?" I asked him but he shook his head almost immediately."Hey," I tried to reach out to him but he took several steps backward, with a suspicious look in his eyes.What could have possibly happened to Landon?Slowly, he took the same steps back to me; closer to me.He considered me for a while before speaking."He went up against a B-grade
"Are you okay?" Landon asked me for the umpteenth time.I nodded, averting my vision from the ground, to Landon."How did your challenge go?" I asked him, in order to change the topic.I didn't want to have him asking questions I wouldn't be able to answer.As expected, he got distracted.Landon smiled brightly, flexing his muscles, "Took down my opponents with the few moves you taught me. They didn't see the moves coming so it knocked them right out of consciousness. Learning to fight on so much sand did help me get even better with fighting on the floor."He finally learned the moves."Good. We will be proceeding."As I said those words, Landon took a stance, creating a distance between us and curling his hands, ready to attack."Before we begin…."Ivan knew Landon and I sparred regularly. He must have been watching. For the first time, I felt relieved my abilities were still unknown to anyone but Micah, Magda and Aki.If I had used them to spar with Landon, he would have definitel
"If you really do not want to do this, I'm honestly not going to try to compel you to." I wasn't expecting him to decide to help me even after getting to know that Ivan was hot on our tail so, I was half expecting him to decide to back out now."I said I was going to help so I'm helping." He answered in a tone of finality but it was still a little weird to know he was helping because he wanted to."Thank you." I have been using those two words more than I ever did on Earth, in Lath."Thank me when we're out." He glanced at me and offered a smile."What do they see now?" I asked him where we passed by a group of Specials who didn't bother to spare either of us a glance, much to my surprise.They would never not stop to look at me for being the weakest.Moreover, I was pretty sure Landon had managed to earn an even bigger reputation by taking down every one of his opponents today during challenge, like he had said.I knew he was making them see what wasn't real."Nothing." He answered,
Landon kept the illusions up until we returned to the training ground.Since we didn't have to stay for too long in the faculty, we still had enough time to train before my daily routine."So?" He smiled but I could see the exhaustion under his eyes.Now that I saw how much power he possessed and how creatively but easily he could use his abilities, I supported that he deserved a higher rank than D-grade.I couldn't tell him I didn't find what I was looking for. It would only make him curious to know what I had gone in search of.I didn't even know exactly what I wanted to find but it was definitely not the secret room in use by the Principal.What could he possibly do in that room?Why had he gotten rid of the other bed?Whatever he wanted to do, it had to be similar to what he had done to Zenin and my mother.But there was just one bed now?Was he experimenting on himself?Did he probably notice the folders that I stole?He didn't seem bothered when I saw him so he likely didn't eve
"Why did you never tell me anything about Ivan's classified ability?" I asked him upon entering his Universe."You didn't have to know about it." He didn't sound remorseful.Well, he wasn't obliged to giving me information about anyone in the academy."You said not to have myself bleed during the fight. Why? Ivan's ability only needed my sweat."He was hiding something and I needed him to tell me."It is your blood you should care for and not your sweat, Kastian." He sighed."He can take my form and use my abilities by just touching my sweat. He has no use for my blood." I argued."If you do not believe me then that's on you but I tell you, Kastian, it is your blood Ivan values and not your sweat." There was something dismissive about his tone.How does he expect me to simply trust his words when he wouldn't clarify anything?"You do the same thing to Landon." I ignored the tiny voice in my head.I hid certain information from Landon because it wasn't safe for him to know.He is simpl