Mr Stevens closed the distance between him and Adam in a second, swinging his tie sword straight at his belly.Adam dodged it, taking a step back before lunging at his opponent, "if that thing touches me, I'll be cut in two!" Thought Adam.Stevens slammed his hand into the air beside him, right in the direction of Adam's lunge. Adam slammed into the air between them."More tricks!" He yelled as he gathered mana in his fist and drove it with all his force straight into the solid air.A huge thud echoed through the woods, the air cracked in half and shattered, his fist ran through it like a bullet train."Be it solid or not, air is still air afterall!" Smiled Adam.Meeting the other end of his fist was Mr Stevens, with a punch of his own, the two fists colliding in a test of strength.A gust of wind blew about in the area surrounding them, "using your alchemy on yourself? Making your own arm more solid to resist the strength of a strong Alchemist, what brilliance!" Smiled Adam."I'd pre
Mr Stevens now stood face to face with Adam, Leo, and Kettle all boosted by the Storm drug, all looking to spill even more blood."When we kill you, we'll kill that girl over there, and then we'll experiment on all your bodies," said Adam."But you proved an admirable fighter, so we're giving you a few seconds, speak your last words now!" He smiled.Mr Stevens turned to Annie, "can you walk?" Annie looked at him confused, "if you can then run away from here... I don't think I want any student of mine seeing what I'm about to do next!" He smiled.Mr Stevens turned to his opponents and immediately pulled out a piece of chalk, and in the blink of an eye, inscribed an alchemy circle on his hand.He then bit on his thumb, drawing blood, and then smeared his blood on his palm, cutting the alchemy circle in two. Small blue particles began floating out of his hand and the alchemy circle turned black.The three opponents seeing this all had different reactions, Adam smiling, Kettle raising a b
The entire group of Ralph, Austin, Annie, and Mr Stevens were back at base, with all three of the kids huddled around the fire, and Mr Stevens off to the side doing his own thing.As the three sat there in silence, Mr Stevens turned and glanced over at them, "they're sulking? I guess that's a normal reaction... Let's hope they don't stay that way for long," he thought.He turned his attention to the letters he had in his hand, he took a good look at them, he then turned to his students once more."It's been a month already hasn't it?" He said as he sat down and looked up at the sky. "We'll be meeting in a month from now before continuing our journey..."His mind remembered the past, when he received a letter from Charlie, stating how he'd found Earl's familiar Plushmellow and how they were headed in the right direction.He gripped the letters in his hand tighter and looked down at the three alchemy return circles he'd drawn."We'll find you kids soon enough," he said as he dropped eac
Sidney was seated on his bed, it'd been three days since Ronda and Veronica had talked to him, and he'd been mostly alone the whole time.Spike and Viking occasionally dropped by, but he turned them away a lot of the time. Partially due to their excessive noise and trying to set off explosions and test out new gizmos in his room, but mainly because he was deep in thought.Take a risk with the enhancements, or stay natural but walk on thin ice, it was a decision he still hadn't made.On the one hand, enhancements would solve his current problem and put him at ease, but there were a lot of factors involved.Ronda said that his body would adapt to the poison, but wasn't it purely because his body failed to adapt to his new Channel spell that he ended up in a worse state than he was?But on the other hand, if he took the natural route, things would be even more hectic. His body was extensively damaged after all, and he'd been bedridden—and would stay bedridden—for days.And he'd had time
"The procedure will take a week," said Ronda. Sidney was laid on a bed in a room separate from the dragon's den.Surrounding them, all over the walls, in shelves, and by the bed he laid on, were potions and tools of different calibers.Potions, runes, talismans, so many different things were at the disposal of Ronda, in each and every direction."A week?" Asked Sidney, "I'll work you through the process," said Ronda."Your bones are going to be replaced with enhanced alchemy infused bones, or rather, I'll be enhancing your current bones with alchemy infused ones," said Ronda."Enhancing? Not replacing?" Sidney asked, confused. "It would be easier to tear out your bones and stick in new ones, but the danger of doing that and the extensive recovery time would be unbearable and bad to say the least, however, carefully injecting a certain fluid into your bones and slowly changing them from the inside would be more effective and faster, though a lot more painful," said Ronda.Sidney looked
In a different portion of the forest, a certain group trekked through the woods, with a woman leading them all.Miss Kayla took the lead, her steps cautious and graceful, yet firm, her hair packed, and her eyes sharp.Trailing behind her were all three boys, Jake, Henry, and Williams. Jake wore an unbothered expression, Henry as well, however the same couldn't be said for Williams.He seemed to be tripping over every tree root and rock in his way, and more times than not, ran into Henry or Jake.As the four trekked through the forest, Williams caught his leg on one of said exposed roots and fell over, falling flat on his face."Ow!" He groaned, the group stopped, Jake in particular had an irritated look on his face, "damn it Williams, this is the twenty sixth branch you've tripped on!" He yelled."Normally I'd stand up for you but he's right, this is getting pretty annoying," said Henry as he walked over to him."You three should hurry up, we'll be almost there. The night's almost her
"The students that are moles?" Asked Henry, "yes, Williams story just helped us figure that out," said Kayla."What were the names of the students that approached you?" Asked Kayla, "Oh... I-it was..." As Williams spoke, Miss Kayla pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down the names of the students, along with something else.When she was done, she drew an alchemy return circle on the floor and dropped the piece of paper into it."Williams," she turned to him, "on behalf of both me and Jake, I'm truly sorry for how we've treated you," said Miss Kayla as she bowed her head.Williams looked at her a bit shocked, and so did Henry. Jake on the other hand just lowered his head, not turning to face anyone."I'm ashamed of myself not only as a teacher, but as an individual for putting you through all what I set Jake up to do. Please don't hold any ill feelings towards him, everything was my doing!" Said Kayla."N-n-no, you d-don't have to a-a-apologize—" "But I do!" Kayla said with determin
The day was bright, it was early in the morning. The birds were singing, the sound of river flowing accompanied their song, it was the symphony of nature.Amidst all this were footsteps, filling up the ambience. Jake, Williams, and Henry were all walking in the forest, making sure that their steps weren't heard.They'd been training heavily for the last two weeks under the guidance of Miss Kayla. After that night, they'd trained their bodies, and worked on their alchemy, with heavy emphasis on Williams.Jake hadn't spoken much to them during that night that he'd heard Williams and Henry's back stories, he'd been really distant, but he'd been working hard and seemed focused as well.Williams and Henry were a tad worried, but they were focused on the task at hand and had been working hard as well.Right now, it was the day that Miss Kayla had been preparing them for. She'd spent those two weeks tracking their movements and gathering information.Now that she had all the info she needed,