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Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy CHAPTER 86
Once I was in his Universe, I created several replicas of myself.I saw his outline give me space to train.When my screen appeared, I changed my mind to train in his Universe rather than Lath.That way, I could try to get him to tell me more about Ivan wanting my blood since apparently, Micah, Aki and even Langrid knew nothing about it."Remember, they are no faster than you are. You created them, you can destroy them. Always keep that in mind."I created them, I can destroy them and I will destroy them.Without wasting any more time, I created a dagger using my blood and flames.This was the same thing that had weakened Langrid.I wasn't so sure the flames would do any real damage to my replicas since they were also made of flames but I was a hundred percent sure my blood would do a lot of damage."Don't create that thing. You might not get a chance to so it during your fight with Ivan." He advised and I heeded.I had no idea what rules that shithead might set so I must learn to fig
Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy CHAPTER 87
I got out of bed and took a really short shower. The water felt cooler on my skin and I kept icing up everything in the bathroom.It was a good thing I had flame abilities too.What was I thinking, believing that it would be as easy to get a newly unlocked ability under control as he made it sound?I took longer than I should to put in the academy suit because I kept icing up all of the suits.When I was finally ready, I made sure flames were at the tip of my fingers as I stepped out of my room so I didn't accidentally ice up someone.As I walked through the hallway, Specials kept making side comments and snickering as they stared at me.I guess Ivan and I weren't the only ones looking forward to this day.From the mocking smiles on their faces, it was obvious they had already concluded the fight but I didn't let that get to me.Today, I was going to decide my fate by myself.They had all made me understand that Ivan was going to try to mess with my mind but I wouldn't let him.I woul
Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy CHAPTER 88
Rule number one: only opponents are allowed to fight. None are allowed to receive help.Well, that screwed up Landon's plan.Rule number two: no healers are allowed until the end of the fight. My healing ability just came in handy.Rule number three: it's a free fight, both opponents can fight with Physical abilities, Specie abilities or both.My breath hitched when I read the third rule.I shouldn't be bothered since I could finally show my Special abilities and prove how useful I can be on missions.I wouldn't have been bothered if I never found out Ivan's classified ability."It's nothing more than mind work, Kastian. He'll try to control your mind against you since he knew he didn't stand a chance against you." I mumbled to myself and my breathing become normal again.Rule number four: opponents must do what they can to survive and win.Oh, there's a lot I had in mind to do, to win.Rule number five: none of the previously mentioned rules prohibit the death of an opponent.Wait, w
Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy CHAPTER 89
Writer's POVThe Principal rushed up to where Ivan stood and took his hand, "He wins!"Some Specials cheer but others grumble.Landon, Micah and Aki rush to Kastian's body but the Principal stops them."You are not allowed to interfere." He stopped them, calmly."The fight is over!" Landon yells at the Principal, trying to get closer to Kastian's body."He's dead. You are not in charge of taking care of his body." The Principal said in a dismissive tone.Some Specials came over and picked up Kastian's body.Landon still fought to get to Kastian's body but Aki held him down."Let me go!" He continued to struggle but Aki was stronger.When the Principal walked away with Ivan, the Specials began to leave, a lot of them still in shock over Kastian's death."Let me go!" Soon, Landon began to cry.His friends came over to take him from Aki, "We'll go with him. Apologies."Aki nodded and let the biggest of them take Landon."Shit!" Micah screamed when it was just the two of them."How the fu
Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy CHAPTER 90
I'm alive!The first two words that came to my mind.Judging by the broken portal pieces on the ground, I have not been dead for too long.I didn't get up immediately, I just stared at the bodies of the Specials long enough to believe that I was really alive and this wasn't a hallucination I had in death.When I was convinced that I was really alive, I sat up.I looked up, causing the sky to release more rain of ice.I was alive.He had said that I wasn't immortal but I am.Even now, I still didn't understand what his talk about the blood meant.He had already told me not to die so mentioning anything about my blood couldn't mean that.I reminisced on the fight to check for anything that might help me understand.I closed my eyes and the entire fight played before me like a movie.That wimp!He had pretended all along to fool me into believing that I would beat him.I thought I had messed with his mind buy in truth, he had messed with mine.Yes!I remember now!He had mentioned someth
Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy CHAPTER 91
I screamed as I continued to fall.Eventually, my back hit something solid.I healed quickly and got up.It was pitch black in here and the ground felt metallic."Lights?"The light came on immediately, thanks to the screen.I was speechless at the sight before me.It felt like I had been transported to a superhero comic; the type with cool science gadgets and a secret base.The metal ground made light noises as my feet collided with it.I walked through the not-so-vast room.There were two computers on each side of the room and two desks meant for two people.Stacks of folders were lined up on each side of the computers.Up ahead, there was a bed, a stove, and a small refrigerator.I looked behind me and saw curtains.I walked briskly to the other end of the room and pushed aside the curtain only to reveal a laboratory.It wasn't so small but it wasn't so large too.It was the perfect size for mild experiments on not more than two people.There was a bed similar to the one outside, d
Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy CHAPTER 92
"No fucking way." I muttered under my breath.It wasn't as large as the ground Landon and I trained but it was perfect.A part of it was sandy, just like in the academy.Another part of it was dry ground. The floor was smoothe, it looked like I might slip on it.My parents have been dead for so long but this whole….base looked like someone had been taking care of it.To my right was a shelf with books.I moved closer to it and saw that they were just like the ones at the academy.It looked exactly the same so I put them back.I checked out other parts of the training ground, like the sand.I tested the sand by putting my legs in it but I didn't drown.After exploring other areas of The training ground, I returned to the main room.I stared at the desk I had just seen the video.I pinched myself and closed my eyes, hoping that when I opened them again, I would wake up in the academy or in the corners of my room on Earth but when I opened my eyes, the desk remained the same.This was rea
Academy for Specials; The Ash Legacy CHAPTER 93
This must be why the Principal didn't get rid of me just yet.Even though I couldn't go on missions or wasn't ranked, he still kept me around.He needed me around for as long as it was going to take him to give Ivan my prototype."If Callin ever finds out about this, he's going to be hot on your tail. I should have known he was only a power-obsessed psycho who wants nothing more than control." My mother frowned for the first time."We are going to make sure that he never finds out about your potential whether we are there or not. And even if he does, you'll be strong enough to keep yourself away from him. We are not going to leave you defenseless, son,we promise."The video ended."Unlimited." It sounded strange.Was the screen possibly the protection that my parents had put on me?If it was, that explained why it wanted me to unseal my true potential when it sensed that I was returning to Earth.I clicked on the subsequent file, eager to know what else my parents had done to protect
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After what felt like a few days, I had gone through the rest of the videos on the flashdrive, taking mental note of the few strategies my parents taught me when fighting using physical and Special abilities. By the time I had successfully gone through the entire flash drive, the laboratory had run out of food. I had already covered the entire books in the laboratory but I was yet to start training with the dummies or even my Special abilities. I didn't know if I was going to get new abilities or if I did, what they were going to be. I went to the training ground to train with the dummies. It was just like fighting Aki, Langrid or Landon except, the dummies already had their moves programmed. Turning them on, I took my stance, ready to train. There was no one to access my progress except the screen which I now understand was the seal created but my parents to protect me. One of the funniest came on and before it attacked me, I quickly attacked it just like my father had explaine
CHAPTER 103
I continued screaming as I kept falling from what I now realize was a building and not a cliff.The mayor had just commissioned the building project before the day of my examination.Just how long had I been away from Earth for the building to have been completed so fast? Do not fall."What the hell?! I'm falling already!" I screamed at the screen as I continued to fall.No one could see me nor hear me so no one was coming to save me.No one would know when I fell and if I died which I knew I would, falling from such a height."Breathe, Kastian. Just breathe." I closed my eyes and tried to block out the fear.Aki had said that I could create absolutely anything with flames.If I could create a flame version of myself then creating something to save myself shouldn't be difficult."As long as you can think it, you can make it, Kastian." I repeated those words a few more times until I felt heat on my fingertips.I imagined a parachute made of flames and immediately something pulled me
CHAPTER 102
Eager to know what deal my mother had made with the Principal, I clicked on the next video.It was still just my mother in the next video."Hi, Kastian. Knowing how curious children are, I know you must have eagerly clicked on the next video. You know, sometimes, I doubt that you would be the one to find this place and the flash drive but I believe you will be strong enough to find it all." She smiled.I was tempted to skip the other parts of the video until I found the part where she spoke about the deal she must have made with the Principal but I didn't.Every detail was important and I didn't want to miss it."Callin wanted control." Finally!"From the moment I saw him on Earth when I saved him, I knew he was going to develop an obsession with control. It was a good thing he wasn't strong enough to to on missions.""When the disease broke out, it went on for a while until he said he could help. Desperate, I took his help. As much as I wanted you to understand how bad it was, I neve
CHAPTER 101
Writer's POVAs Landon stabbed Ivan with the needle, his eyes went wide open."Get away from him." Callin whispered, watching how Ivan arched his back and moved his body in the creepiest way.Landon was terrified and in shock to even move an inch."Get the hell away from him!" Callin screamed and Landon quickly moved away, shaping out of the shock."What is happening?" Landon asked Callin.The portals had closed and the knives had stopped flying at the Principal.He could barely stand with knives all over his body."I don't know." Callin was confused.When he had worked on Zenin, nothing of this sort happened."What the hell is that supposed to mean?!" Landon screamed at the principal, watching how Ivan's body kept bending in the weirdest angles."I've never worked on anything like this before. It's….. it's…. It's insane." He stuttered."You've worked on something like this before? With who?" Landon was beginning to understand why Kastian always asked him questions that made him doubt
CHAPTER 100
Writer's POVLangrid rushed back into Kastian's room, looking all ruffled up."What's it like out there?" Landon asked Langrid, curious.It sounded like real chaos from inside Kastian's room, he dreaded stepping out."You're about to find out." Was Langrid's only answer as he handed out their communication materials to each of them."So," he was interrupted by a loud bang outside Kastian's room.He only spared the door a glance before speeding up with his explanation."There have been changes of plans. We are canceling out Aki destroying the laboratory and my part to find out what Callin knows. What's out there is probably going to destroy the entire school. What we feared the most has come for us, we don't not need anything else that Callin knows." He rushed his words.Aki took the ear plugs from Landon to help him with it.The latter struggled with it as fear ate deep into his bones.Over the length of time he had been in the academy, they had been made to believe that no one could
CHAPTER 99
Writer's POV"That was a strange plan, Langrid. It could have fucked us up." Aki didn't believe the plan was going to work.Nothing he believed seemed to work these days; from letting Magda go on that mission believing she was going to come back, to believing Kastian was actually going to win his fight with Ivan, free and fair."Yet, here we are with knowledge no other Special knows." Landon was still a nervous wreck."You look like shit." Everyone could clearly see Landon shaking yet, Aki purposely pointed it out."Leave the kid, Aki, would you?" Micah rolled her eyes."So, where do we go from here, Langrid? We have enough knowledge really worth having our memories wiped out this time." Micah turned to Langrid."The real transfer of the prototype into Ivan's body has not begun. It's only been tested on him to check if he can survive having such powerful prototype in his body. The Principal is not going to return to Ivan until the next two days or tomorrow, if he's curious to know how
CHAPTER 98
FLASHBACK"I'll keep Kastian's friend at bay. He might cause some trouble if he's left unwatched."Friendship.That was the only possible relationship between Kastian and Landon that Micah, Aki and Langrid believed caused Landon to react the way that he did over Kastian's death."We'll meet here tomorrow and share information. It's not about us this time or just the people close to us that have been affected but about the whole of humanity. This is us truly being heroes.""Keep me at bay?" Landon scoffed, joining them."Shit!" Langrid cussed."I didn't cover us with Stealth.""How did you get away from your friends?" Micah asked, stepping closer to Landon."D-grade Special illusion user." Landon straighted his shoulder and stood proudly."Although, I'm pretty sure the ranking system made a horrible mistake leaving me in the D-grade." He muttered but loud enough for them to hear."You cannot be here, kid. You should leave." Aki told Jim off and Landon huffed."You think you're the only
CHAPTER 97
Writer's POV"If we let him walk out of here, other Specials are going to find out his memory has been wiped and by other Specials, I mean Micah. We don't know for sure what he has told them." Ivan never took his hands off Langrid's head as he spoke."We'll keep him with us. Now that he doesn't remember anything about them, he's going to help us with the experiment." The Principal opened a portal and nodded at Ivan.The latter didn't take his hands off Langrid's head immediately.He still doubted that it was a good thing leaving Langrid alive."Let him go, Ivan. If I say he's going to help us then he will." The Principal instructed Ivan sternly.He still hesitated but eventually took his hands off Langrid.Once he was free, he looked back and forth at the Principal and Ivan."Why are you both staring so weirdly?" He frowned, moving closer to the portal."You declined joining us for the experiment on me." Ivan decided to test if they could really go on without killing Langrid."Stop foo
CHAPTER 96
I clicked on the next video but it was just my mother in this one."Hi Kastian. It's day three of the Ash Experiment. Your father is monitoring the process of the seal. If it isn't successful then my internal organs will show signs of irritation. While he's at it, I decided to tell you everything about the first mission of the academy and how that changed the academy.""Together with the psychic users, we discovered that a planet called Karile held dangerous energy. Your father was a bit skeptical about the whole plan to go to Karile and check it out."She smiled and looked sideways like she was avoiding getting caught saying the words she was about to say, "To be honest, soldier, I was equally terrified."She straightened her back, "But of course, I hid it from your father. I couldn't let him see my doubt if I wanted him to get out of his own doubt and trust my plan.""I couldn't blame him since I was scared too. Just because we survived on Lath didn't mean we could survive on other
