2025-01-20 08:53:15“What? You're kidding, right? What do you mean you're not magical? What do you mean you don't have powers? Who told you that vile lie?”, Ally caught her breath after coughing for a moment as she nearly choked.
Adrian didn't seem surprised by her friend's reaction. He set the sandwich down on the half-finished tray, tossed the tray to the side of the bed and stood up, began to walk in circles for the short space he had to do so.
Her gaze was lost on the floor.
“Ally, did you know that the academy does an entrance test for students to define in which academic program they will be enrolled?”, he asked the girl with interest to know that what she experienced was not some kind of trap on the part of the director Roxanne, he wanted to know if that had been true.
Ally nodded.
“Yes, I knew that. I forgot to mention it, sorry. We've all been through that test, I nearly failed, I was sent to fight a horde of flying angry piranhas from another world. Yes, it may sound stupid, but with that test, they wanted to determine if I was able to survive using my methods of using my magic and my extraordinary combat skills. In the end, I made it through and here I am. But tell me, what happened to you, why did you end up working at the academy as a janitor?” the girl was very interested to know.
“Wow, at least your test was easy. I couldn't handle mine, I just didn't know what became of me. My powers didn't activate, there was no magic, Ally. And I failed the test no matter how hard I tried, even though I managed to demonstrate my escape skills, that didn't work. I failed. Headmistress Roxanne wanted to see magic and I didn't give it to her, and now, I'm here,” Adrian burst out. His voice tried to stutter because he wanted to cry again, but he resisted.
Ally didn't know what to say to support him, she noticed his sadness, and she didn't want to say anything to cheer him up either.
“And... Principal Roxanne didn't mention anything to you about giving you a new chance?” she asked.
Adrian wanted to deny it, but the truth was that Director Roxanne had, she had hinted to him that by the time his powers finally activated, there was a possibility that he would retake the test, and this time, make another decision more convenient for him.
“He did, but that's not the point. I may have plenty of opportunities, but my powers are off, Ally. Understand that. I don't know how from one moment to the next, I went from knowing that I'm a magical person, to when I needed it, my powers would betray me and never activate again,” he was very sad, and there would be no power whatsoever to make him change his thoughts.
Ally stood there thinking as she finally finished eating her sandwich and moved on to dessert; butterscotch pudding for her.
“Well...it occurs to me...” she said.
“What, come on, Ally. Say it, whatever,” Adrian caught her attention to the girl.
“No, forget it. It's too risky, if we do it, we'll risk getting us both expelled,” she replied hesitantly at his idea.
Adrian grimaced his mouth in disgust, and for a moment, he stopped walking like a fool on an invisible circle drawn under his feet.
“For the time being, I'll stay here and work as a janitor. It may be the worst job in the world, but at least that's something better than having to struggle to survive out there on my own,” Adrian went back to his bed, sat down, and at last hunger attacked his stomach, and he ate from his sandwich as if this was going to be the last one he would ever eat in his life.
“That's true, and you can still be my friend. You saw that the headmistress gave us permission to live together, even if it was hidden from the others so they wouldn't make fun of us. You know how cruel people can be when we are not of the same social class”, Ally was the sweetest person Adrian had ever met, and he was happy to have known her, even if it had been in another world, and in very strange circumstances.
“Well, I'll drink to that with mango juice,” Adrian grabbed his juice, opened it and tipped the bottle towards Ally waiting for her to accept the toast.
She accepted it with a friendly smile plastered on her face.
Lunchtime was over, and Ally grabbed the empty trays with the trash, ready to take them to the cafeteria and leave them in their respective places to be taken to clean up. Just as she leaves Adrian's room, unfortunately, the group of three boys who teased her and took away her triumph with the giant that was already hers by the time she met Adrian, appeared.
The three of them were distracted among themselves, they were talking and laughing about who knows what when they saw her coming out of there.
“Look at the loser! You were coming out of the janitor's room? Now your boyfriend is the new janitor at the academy? Really, Ally. Grow up, you're too ridiculous to still be here at the academy. You're just stealing the job from someone who might actually be a better student than you,” the dark-haired boy mocked.
The other two who accompanied him burst out laughing so loudly that several boys passing by in the distance heard them and focused all their attention on finding out what was going on there.
Ally blushed with rage, those three boys had become her worst nightmare since she entered the academy, they always found a way to tease her, to make fun of her and to make her feel that she didn't belong there.
“Guys, please. Don't bother us, we haven't done anything to you to come and treat us that way,” Adrian interrupted calmly, wanting to run the party in peace, and help Ally finally stop being bothered by those three graceless boys who enjoyed picking on people in their free time.
Ally was about to get angrier, since she had never liked anyone butting into her fights, and Adrian had.
“Adrian, please stay out of it. This business is not with you,” she tried to stop Adrian, but the boy didn't seem to be listening to her.
“He's the new janitor? This jerk is your boyfriend, Ally? Come on, girl. You could have gotten yourself something better. Like me, for instance,” Ryan said, looking at her with a wicked smirk, a look Ally didn't like at all and didn't know how to interpret at the time.
But then, it happened.
Ryan walked up to Ally, grabbed her arm, and pulled her to him with full intent.
Their bodies came together, they were very close to each other, their gazes connected, and their lips were about to touch. But when Ryan wanted to make the attempt despite Ally's denial and resistance, a flash of ultraviolet light shot forcefully towards him, hitting only Ryan, and Ally was lucky not to fall to the ground because Adrian took her in his arms.
Ryan fell to the ground, rolled a couple of times while lying on his side, and then ended up with his body lying face down, smearing mud from the ground on his face and mouth.
That's how the center courtyard of the academy became a battlefield.
Ryan stood up, he was furious about the humiliation he had just experienced, his friends did not help him, they just stood there, looking at him as if nothing in their places. On the other hand, several boys from the academy, as well as teachers, were surrounding them.
All except one.
“Ally, are you okay, did that idiot hurt you?”, Adrian asked Ally by the time they regained posture.
“Yes, Adrian, thank you,” Ally smiled sheepishly at him.
Adrian smiled back at Ally.
“Hey, you!”, Ryan yelled at Adrian from his position, and Adrian turned to look at him. “Who are you calling an idiot?”
Adrian watched as from Ryan's hands released a strong blizzard of powerful wind that was about to swirl around the boy's body, and when he least expected it, Ryan's hands through all their power against him.
Adrian pushed Ally hard to the side so that Ryan's magic would not hit her and end up hurting her, and that was when Adrian did it again, by instinct, his hands formed an X in front of his face, and when the power finally hit him, Adrian had created a powerful barrier of ultraviolet energy that combined several emerald colors that prevented him from coming out of that confrontation unharmed.
Before they knew it, Ryan and Adrian were fighting on a battlefield inside the academy.
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The battlefield was similar to that Adrián had entered when the director Roxanne told her that she should do to enter the academy as evidence.But this field was different, now, the sky was black, there was no space where a single flash of light could enter. Around it, the students had all organized themselves sitting on stone benches that appeared magically at the same time as the battlefield.Under his feet, kilometers of sand extended.A battle has begun.The teachers joined the students to be spectators.Adrián looked around, looking for Ally everywhere, until, finally, he found her sitting in the front row from the highest point of the steps. Adrián calmed down to see her, because in the midst of so many people, it was impossible to stay calmly and surely what he was doing. Adrián came from a world in which magic did not exist, and now, he had reincarnated in soul in a world where magic was real, and the survival pillar is the fight.On the other hand, Adrián also saw Ryan's two
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Thus, Adrián did not wait any longer, and with all his might, his body emanated an intense crimson red power, Adrián's power raised a powerful winding wind made mixed with sand that quickly went against Ryan. Ryan was not prepared, and Adrián's power managed to defeat him. Ryan flew through the air, losing himself in front of the eyes of the battle -attendees. Ally looked at Adrián with pride, and as he knew that the battle is over, it was the first to run towards him to hug him. Adrián did not expect to receive that hug, but received it with pleasure. All the students, being excited by the incredible battle they have just seen, rushed to approach Adrián for their achievement, all except Ryan's friends who stood up, and looked towards the direction where their best friend became He had disappeared in the air. The director Roxanne proudly looked at Adrián, and soon, she disappeared, and when everyone but imagined, the academy returned to normal, the battlefield had vanished by mag
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St. Jame's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.Toc, toc.The door of the room where Adrian Evans was resting opened.Dr. Steve Meyers entered, holding in his hand an old notebook that was about to run out of pages as he wrote in it.Immediately, sadness and death were feelings that accompanied him on his way to assess the 12-year-old boy who lay dying in the bed of the public hospital where he had been sent to end his days when his parents received the grim news that he would not be spared from death because of the terminal cancer he inherited from his father's family at birth.Adrian looked at the doctor, his eyes were bathed in sadness, he had already lost the last drop of hope he had left to survive.The doctor shook his head.“No, Adrian. I'm sorry, but there is no cure for your illness, I already told you once. I just came to tell you that you will be transferred tonight to floor 001 of the hospital. There you will end your days, without the right to receive visitors.”Adrian averted his
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The Darkside Specialist Academy in the new world was fantastic.It looked like a castle out of a tale of dark medieval stories where evil seems to reign more than good.The towers have been built on rocks, and the academy was located at a very considerable height as seen from the ground and in the sky.At the beginning, Adrian felt scared, nervous because he had to use a high-tech flying skateboard to gain entrance to the academy. For Ally, it was very easy to use it, she only had to jump on it, the skateboard gave off smoke and following the orders of her body began to move through the air with agility, without fear of falling to the ground.For his part, Adrian looked at his skateboard, not knowing how the hell he should use it, when he saw Ally do it, it seemed so easy, but just when it was his turn, terror took over him, since in his world, once upon a time, he got to play on these things, but not in those that could fly, his were different, they were used with small wheels, and y
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The students were entering the academy, all in orderly fashion, wearing the same uniform Ally had been wearing that morning, and the same one she had worn the day she and Adrian met. The group of the three boys who had confronted and stolen Ally's giant's head trophy were nowhere to be seen yet, Adrian remembered them, and thought that maybe the boys had already arrived at the academy and were at this moment showing off their prize to the teacher Ally had mentioned to him that she didn't want to be late for class that day.Ally looked nervous about approaching to pass attendance along with the woman stationed at the door, an antique notebook hovered in the air beside her, and a feather moved on top of it each time she called out a name of the student who was entering in line order.“You're nervous, aren't you?”, Adrian noticed.Although he didn't want to say it, he was. Ally was afraid to enter the academy, to attend class, because on that previous challenge depended on her future at
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Adrián left the director of the director Roxanne with a lot of papers he signed and that he promised himself that he would read as soon as he came home. Home. It was a word that, at this time and after having been admitted to the hospital of his last life for a long time waiting for death to take him, he was not yet updated in his vocabulary. But Adrian infinitely appreciated that director Roxanne has behaved very good with him and that he has now decided to give him a home without even having known him. Upon leaving his office, Adrián met several of his new classmates, going out with his backs loaded on his back. The vast majority greeted him, some girls smiled to see him. Being the new sensation was incredible, because before, it was just a marginalized. Quickly, he met Ally.“Hello, Ally. Look, I already have everything I need for my first day of class, I am already a student of the Academy”, he said when he approached to greet the girl, who at that time had been distracted
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The battlefield was similar to that Adrián had entered when the director Roxanne told her that she should do to enter the academy as evidence.But this field was different, now, the sky was black, there was no space where a single flash of light could enter. Around it, the students had all organized themselves sitting on stone benches that appeared magically at the same time as the battlefield.Under his feet, kilometers of sand extended.A battle has begun.The teachers joined the students to be spectators.Adrián looked around, looking for Ally everywhere, until, finally, he found her sitting in the front row from the highest point of the steps. Adrián calmed down to see her, because in the midst of so many people, it was impossible to stay calmly and surely what he was doing. Adrián came from a world in which magic did not exist, and now, he had reincarnated in soul in a world where magic was real, and the survival pillar is the fight.On the other hand, Adrián also saw Ryan's two
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“What? You're kidding, right? What do you mean you're not magical? What do you mean you don't have powers? Who told you that vile lie?”, Ally caught her breath after coughing for a moment as she nearly choked. Adrian didn't seem surprised by her friend's reaction. He set the sandwich down on the half-finished tray, tossed the tray to the side of the bed and stood up, began to walk in circles for the short space he had to do so. Her gaze was lost on the floor.“Ally, did you know that the academy does an entrance test for students to define in which academic program they will be enrolled?”, he asked the girl with interest to know that what she experienced was not some kind of trap on the part of the director Roxanne, he wanted to know if that had been true. Ally nodded. “Yes, I knew that. I forgot to mention it, sorry. We've all been through that test, I nearly failed, I was sent to fight a horde of flying angry piranhas from another world. Yes, it may sound stupid, but with that t
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Headmistress Roxanne and Adrian leave the academy's management office, and as they walk towards what would be Adrian's new temporary home, the boy couldn't help but look towards the classrooms where he could see that, in some classes, the injuries of the day were great; in one of them, they were learning the art of dark herbology, they were taking out a frog's heart without using surgical elements, yes, that would look disgusting to anyone's eyes, even disgusting, maybe someone was already vomiting from not being able to stand it, but in the classroom, there was no one vomiting.All the boys were concentrating on how they would manage to rip out the frog's heart without it daring to bite their fingers. Not even the girls were showing any signs of wanting to run out of the room, they all wanted to earn the points the teacher would give them for meeting the challenge.In another classroom, they were learning the art of tarot card reading. It was a less interesting class than the previou
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Adrian looked around him with nerves on edge, gripping every part of his body. Onexus was a place that seemed designed to break anyone who dared to enter it. The undulating walls, the air charged with an energy that could almost be felt, and the constant sensation of being watched made him feel tiny and helpless.Suddenly, the ground trembled beneath his feet.In front of him, the walls began to open, giving way to a gigantic figure emerging from the gloom. It was a colossus of dark stone, with eyes that glowed like burning coals. His step echoed like thunder, and every movement shed fragments of his body, revealing flashes of light at specific points.“The Shadow Colossus!” said Roxanne's voice, echoing through the air. Watch, Adrian. Every enemy has a weak spot. Find it before it finds you, that will be the key to its defeat.The giant advanced, raising a huge arm that slammed into the ground, sending a shockwave that threw Adrian backwards. He struggled to his feet, his hands wer
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They strolled through all the halls of the academy, Adrian kept looking in awe at what made it up; students with extraordinary abilities, superb teachers and teaching classes that didn't look at all boring like the ones he once took in his other life for when his terminal illness hadn't been detected yet.Headmistress Roxanne analyzed every step, every glance and every movement of the boy who accompanied her, wondering to herself from which of all the worlds she knew was the one that might have been Adrian's former home.There were different existing magical worlds that were annexed to the earth, for when people died, God decided if he wanted to take their soul to heaven, or if they deserved a chance to reincarnate in one of the other worlds, it all depended on their aura, their mentality, and their personality and heart. These worlds were seven in total, and the director, Roxanne, knew them perfectly well to the letter because both she and her graduate students from the academy, stoo
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The students were entering the academy, all in orderly fashion, wearing the same uniform Ally had been wearing that morning, and the same one she had worn the day she and Adrian met. The group of the three boys who had confronted and stolen Ally's giant's head trophy were nowhere to be seen yet, Adrian remembered them, and thought that maybe the boys had already arrived at the academy and were at this moment showing off their prize to the teacher Ally had mentioned to him that she didn't want to be late for class that day.Ally looked nervous about approaching to pass attendance along with the woman stationed at the door, an antique notebook hovered in the air beside her, and a feather moved on top of it each time she called out a name of the student who was entering in line order.“You're nervous, aren't you?”, Adrian noticed.Although he didn't want to say it, he was. Ally was afraid to enter the academy, to attend class, because on that previous challenge depended on her future at
