Training new skills

After they left Matt stayed there for a long time beside the pool. Then he stood up with eyes filled with hatred and said, "Max, you'll pay for this. You'll pay for this very badly!" and went out.

***

When Max and others reached near the car, Max said to Danny, "I'll send you a location. You come by on weekends after class."

Danny nodded. He didn't know why, but he felt that this was going to be important.

Soon everyone took their own rides and went home. While they were in the way Max asked Allison, "Do you check with Lydia?"

Allison nodded and said, "I went to her place last week. She was kinda like..." Allison trailed off as she didn't know how to say it to Max.

Max said, "Crazy, right?"

Allison nodded. "Yeah, she was kinda crazy. She said that she was hearing voices."

Divina frowned hearing this and said, "This could probably be related to supernatural event."

Max said, "Well, actually you don't have to worry to much. I know what this is. We'll talk to her later. Okay."

Selene was surprised hearing this and asked, "What did you do, Max?"

Max just laughed and said, "Hahaha. You'll know soon."

**

Soon the weekend came and with that Danny also joined them. Max explained everything that happened in town and introduced everyone's ability to Danny and put him to train with Stiles and Allison. But to what surprised everyone was that Divina wanted to train with them. They all knew that she was a witch and it was useless to her, but they let her join in.

And later that month on the full moon Derek helped Max become Jackson's master, and by the end of the month Divina gained a bit of her own magic powers. Then Max also noticed that, by training Divina in his meditation techniques he was able to gain back hey magic at a faster pace.

After that month Jackson also came back to school which surprised everyone. Coach immediately put him back in Lacrosse team, coach also pestered Max often, but Max said that he missed his studies and slipped away from him often.

All this time Max was practicing instant transmission, as he was only using his abilities to just search for ki sighs around town. But after he started to practice instant transmission he was able to locate people who were outside of his town as well. After a month of practice with his shadow clones, Max was freely telephoning thorough out the town. But he didn't tell his friends that he was able to teleport, he wanted to keep it as a secret which he could use sometime later.

Now that Jackson was also a part of their group, he also joined them in training every weekend. But one day suddenly said that he wanted to train alone and went off to Nemeton to practice Sage Mode. It too him two months and twenty shadow clones to get in a average control of Sage Mode. But there was one fatal flaw to it, whenever he goes into Sage Mode his entire body turns light green and he has an eye shadow of dark green. But this was enough for him to enhance his senses that enabled him to use ki sense to sense people more than a hundred miles away.

After learning Instant Transmission and Sage Mode he felt a bit relieved, because he was able to sense many different kinds of energies inside him. He didn't know how many types there are because there were too many to count. If he were to describe it in a word, it'll be 'Chaos'. Max knew that one of these energies might be Dimensional energy which God told him about, he even suspected that with one of these energies he could even practice witchcraft, but he didn't have time to do so.

Over the past few months Max also found out that Divina's magic was growing at an unprecedented rate. Watching this Max came to conclusion that Divina might even become the strongest witch of this century. Once Divina also asked him about her growing magic, Max didn't give her a proper reply. But he knew that this was Nemeton's gift to her as she gave away her connection to her ancestors to Nemeton.

Because of that Max also noticed Nemeton channeling the magic from Divina's ancestors, he knew that if this keeps up three ancestors magic will run dry and the Halo will be released sooner than expected, but he couldn't do anything as he didn't know much about Nemeton.

Max even once wanted to destroy Nemeton, but thought about how the town was being protected by some sort of barrier with weakens witches and repels vampires, and concluded that it must be related to Nemeton and decided not to do anything stupid.

**

Now it was after three and a half months of training Max decided to join in with the others. Everyone was surprised that Max came back here to train with them.

Stiles who saw this immediately asked Max, "So did you learn something new?"

Max nodded. Max knew why Stiles was asking this. Because Stiles who was also human thought that whatever Max learned he'll also be able to learn it in the future. But Max wasn't going to tell him that he was special and he asked God for a wish to manipulate energies. He just smiled at him and asked everyone, "You guys wanna spar with me to see my new technique?"

Scott immediately nodded and said, "Well, I'll go first. I also want to see what you learned this time."

Max said, "Give me a moment." After that he stood still for half a minute and slowly his body turned green.

Derek who was watching Max frowned, and asked him, "What happened to you? I feel like you're just a tree standing there still."

Max opened to greenish pupiled eyes and said, "I just absorbed the energies which were nearby." After that he took a black cloth and blindfolded himself.

Scott asked, "Are you sure you wanna fight blind?"

Max turned to Scott and said, "You'll know when you try."

After hearing this Scott ran towards him and threw a jab but to his surprise Max easily leaned his body to the right and slipped past him.

Derek who saw this said to Scott, "Try not to make any noise, Scott."

Taking Derek's advice Scott moved elegantly and threw few jabs and cross and a few kicks, but Max didn't let a single hit land on him as he easily moved around Scott.

Derek watching this came to Boyd and Isaac and whispered in their ears, "You guys slowly move towards him, when you see that he has his back turned towards you, both of you take him down."

Both of them nodded and slowly made their way towards Max. Max who sensed them just smiled and continued his spar with Scott. When they silently reached near Max, Max held his back towards them as he easily slipped Scott's punches.

Issac and Boyd saw that they had gotten their chance jumped at Max from his back, as they reached a few inches from Max, Max simply ducked and let them fly over him and crash on to Scott who was kicking at Max.

After that Max took out his blindfold and laughed, "Hahahaha. Boyd, Isaac, I didn't know that you liked Scott that much. Hahaha." when he continued laughing his greenness slowly faded away as he quit Sage Mode.

Derek came to his side and asked, "So you're able to sense everything around you, huh? Nice trick. But that's not gonna be of much and it's taking some time for you to absorb energies. It's not of much use of it doesn't make you stronger."

Max smiled at him and said, "Actually I'm working on shortening the absorption time. Oh, and you saw that I didn't hit Scott while sparring right? It's because when I'm like that my strength increases more than a ten fold, so if I were to hit him by mistake, I'll put him in a precarious situation."

Everyone who heard this was shocked, especially Selena and Derek, as they already had an estimate to Max's strength.

Danny who didn't know much about Max's supernatural side asked with curiosity, "So who taught you this technique?"

Everyone knew that Max wasn't going to give them a straight answer, but they were also curious.

Max looked at everyone and said, "Oh, when I left Beacon Hills before this, I had to go to a mountain range, there a blind hermit taught me. He said that only sages could practice this."

Everyone except for Danny and Jackson thought (Here he goes with his neverending lies). Jackson and Danny who heard this were thinking which mountain it could be.

Stiles said at this time, "And you're not gonna tell us which mountain that is, right?"

Max smiled and nodded, "Yup."