Chapter 5

We rushed to the source of the scream. It was an orange haired girl, with a big black gash on her arm.

"What happened?" The students around her asked the girl.

"I... don't know! It was just a little black dot earlier. After a while, it became like this." The girl said. "I've tried to heal it, but it won't work." she continued.

"This girl must be a student of Nature." Lyan whispered. "They have an ability to heal wounds, depending on their capacity."

"Let me."

A girl with light green hair touched the gash of the girl's with her palm. She chanted something under her breath, and the dark gash disappeared.

"Thank you, Viera!"

The girl with the light green hair, which we now know as Viera, nodded and waved. The little crowd dispersed.

"That was amazing! They can actually heal." Cya said to us and we walked to the entrance of the cafeteria.

"I know." Cynx said.

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After lunch, we decided to roam around the school. At the training area, we saw a few students battling.

A boy was chanting a spell, and a rain of fireballs suddenly appeared on his opponent. The other boy cupped his hands and an electric circle appeared, reflecting the fireballs.

The stopped when they saw us. They smiled.

"Those are the novices from our class." The boy who conjured up the electric circle said.

"They're actually few. Well, not wondering why. We gots lots like the Water element, so many that Lady Fiéra had to get another room for them." They chuckled.

"Ummm hi." Cya said. "We were wondering why are you guys battling each other."

They laughed. "Novices indeed. My name is Pierre. We're just practicing for the event." Pierre said. He was the one who did those fireballs.

"Hey, you guys should practice too. This year, there's a category for the novices and another for the advanced. It's actually pretty cool they did something like this. Guess you novices this year are pretty lucky to experience it when it never happened." The electric guy said. "I'm Émeric by the way."

"It's still next month right?" I asked.

"Yes, but we wanna prepare for it? Hey, do you want us to teach you guys? We could show you tips and tricks. But since all of you are Electrics, Émeric and renea should teach you the spells." Pierre offered.

"Sure." Lyan answered.

"Good." The girl beside Émeric said. She must be Érenea.

"First thing you've got to know about, are the elemental reactions. Our element is electric. Electrics is good with fire, since it creates explosions. Like the other elements, Wind is a big disadvantage for most elements since it absorbs most of the attacks and hits it back to the caster. The only thing that is an advantage to Wind is Nature, since it's usually composed of earth. Electrics gets the upper hand when battling with Water, since water absorbs the electrics and that attack disables the water attack to weaken." Émeric started.

"Now, if we ever have a way to counter Wind, us electrics will have to disperse it." Érenea continued. "It must be a spell with high voltage. to completely disperse the wind. Seems like were gonna have to demonstrate this. Heidi?" Érenea called. A girl with thick glasses stepped forward. "Please do make a simple wind current."

The girl held her palms forward and we can see the air accumulate in her hands. It went bigger, until it created a whirldwind. She placed her hands down.

The whirldwind continued to get stronger, getting bigger every second.

"Now watch this." Érenea said. She cupped her hands and widened it every second. A very large wave of electricity was starting to form up, and she suddenly clapped her hands.

The wave spreaded across the training floor, and the whirldwind started to become purple. The whirldwind suddenly bursted into thin strands of air. "That was amazing!" Cya said, with awe.

"You'll master that sooner than you'd expect." Émeric said. "Ms. Éllaine will teach you soon. I mean, we'd love to, but I'm afraid students aren't allowed to teach new ones spells without an official's announcement."

"Thank you for showing us anyway. It was wonderful. Atleast we now have basic information." Cya said. We thanked them, and went off to our rooms.

It was four in the afternoon. I decided to go get coffee from the cafeteria.

As I sat down and got my coffee, someone whispered in my ear.

"Come with me."

I looked at my back to see the source of the sound. There was nothing.

"Come with me." I don't see anything. All of the stufents there were chattering.

"The white smoke." The voice said.

Suddenly, there was a white smoke, and I followed it. It led me through the edge of the library. The smoke circled around a book. "Open it." It ordered me. I opened it, and there was one word.

"Read it."

"Réveillez-vous à la réalité; tu dors dans un fantasme....?" I said.

I suddenly disappeared.

When I opened my eyes again, the white smoke was there. I was in a dusty old room. "Hello, little one." The smoke said, and it suddenly transformed into a human. She has long white hair, reaching to the bottom. She was wearing a plain white dress that also reaches to the ground.

"You may be wondering who I am." She said. "I'm Christelle. I am a spirit of the Wind." She explained.

"A spirit?" I asked

"I am long dead dear. It's been a long time since someone has seen or heard me. You are the very first person." She said.

"Eventually, I did the same to others who I think that has possible potential too. But they did not hear me." She continued

"Where am I? And why exactly did you bring me here?" I asked once again.

"You, little one. I see something in you. A star that hasn't shone yet. This room here, used to be my dorm. Everytime I go out of this little room, I can only travel as a little stroke of air, thanks to my element. If you probably saw a flying flame you would have screamed like crazy earlier." She chuckled. "I don't have access to other dorms anymore. My companions are long dead as well."

I had a lot of questions to ask her. But even if she did explain, I still wouldn't understand.