Training

Just as promised, Osei, picked up Tobi at coordinates, that buzzed into the Hizor.

As the shuttle dropped out of camouflage, Tobi's eyes grew bigger.

He had spent most of the afternoon, putting out fires, hiding appliances from himself, and accidentally freezing things he touched.

Tremors occurred below and around the building, scaring the tenants.

Things were getting too real.

Curiosity struck Tobi like a child as he ran around the large shuttle, touching everything and anything.

After Osei finally got him to sit down, he asked questions nonstop.

"Just fasten your seat belt please."

They flew to a an opening, in a forest on the outskirts of Ottawa.

"No one will see us here."

Osei said, as they exited the shuttle.

Tobi looked up at Osei, after staring at his palm

"I need to get a hold of these abilities. My building can't take it anymore."

Osei laughed

"Typically a normal Rennayan awakens their abilities at around 6-7 years old, rare cases at 5... So, keeping our abilities under control feels natural."

He backed up a bit, giving Tobi some distance.

"Since I have a lightning ability it's the first one I'll show you. The rest I will convey all that I can remember from my teacher... Waio."

He shook his head and put a fist in his other palm in front of him and gave both his legs some distance.

"Now assume a focus, feel the flow of energy within your body and manifest it into a a ball in front of you."

Tobi did as he was told, and copied Osei's stance.

He breathed in and closed his eyes, focusing and picturing a ball of energy in front of him.

He was deep in concentration.

The ground broke up into tiny pieces around him.

The they collided together shaping into a ball.

Followed by a ball of ice, a ball of fire, a ball of crackling, white electricity forming into spheres of their own.

Rotating slowly around him.

Osei backed up a bit more as this was going on.

Even though he had seen a portion, he was still shocked at the latent potential that his brother had possessed.

Tobi opened his eyes.

Astounded by the sight before him.

"Woah, am I... am I really doing this?"

He reached for the sphere of electricity and it transformed into a lightning rod the size of his arm.

Osei looked up from the orbs, to Tobi.

"Whatever image you have in your mind, the elements will take form of... The fact that you can actually produce all four at this moment, means you definitely have potential. We'll just need to draw it out of you."

Tobi placed his hand on the ice sphere and it turned into a sparrow.

He touched the orb of fire, and it turned into a ring of fire.

He finally placed his hands on the earth sphere and it crumbled.

Osei chuckled.

"Earth abilities need more time for you to form an object out of them."

He then looked at the sparrow.

"You know our mother used to manifest those types of birds made of ice. Surprising that was your go to."

Tobi looked at it with interest as well.

"I'm not sure, it just came to me."

Osei stabbed back once again.

"Alright, onto the next step. Launch attacks using each element to hit that tree over there."

He pointed towards a tree, roughly 60 meters away.

Tobi nodded.

"Ok."

While raising one hand, he faced his palm towards the tree.

Then launched the elements he recreated around him.

All of them falling flat and dissipating less than 20 meters away.

He shook his head.

Osei laughed.

"You won't get it right on the first try. Keep practicing.

Tobi kept practicing but was unable to hit the tree.

After 30 minutes he collapsed to the floor.

Osei rushed to him from where he sat.

Kneeling by Tobi's head, he'd realized how exhausted his brother was.

Wielding all four elements, seems to drain a lot more energy than he had thought.

He might have to train him using each one separately.

He carried Tobi into a small, bunker bedroom, on the large shuttle and let him rest there.

Then he went out to train.

The next day...

Tobi woke up up to not find his brother on the ship.

He rushed out to the forest, where he found his brother.

Clad in lightning, bouncing from tree to tree and chopping branches.

Osei noticed Tobi watching him.

He dropped down from a tree and with a static electricity coming forth from him, landed on his feet, in front of Tobi.

"Ready for today? You knocked out pretty early yesterday."

Tobi was a bit a embarrassed.

He scratched the back of his head.

"For sure, I got a bit carried away yesterday. Let's grab some breakfast first at Timmies."

They head back to the shuttle.

As they entered, Tobi noticed a modern offline android packed away.

"You have a robot?"

Tobi asked.

Osei nodded.

"Every shuttle comes with two Type 3 Naya. They are supposed to be a companion in case you ever got lost in space... You can program them however you want them to be by uploading your mind to theirs."

An idea was forming in Tobi's head.

"So y'all aliens are pretty advanced then."

Osei shook his head.

"Well not anymore, this tech is a copy of a relic from the people of Messa, an ancient planet destroyed almost 200 years before ours."

Something had still been puzzling Tobi for a while.

"Still, how are you able to speak English so fluently, if you came from space."

Osei, points to a laurel like headset.

"After hacking into a nearby network, I uploaded the most common languages on this planet to my brain."

He then pointed at a small white device in his ear.

"Afterwards I have to use this device in my ear which intercepts what you say and helps me formulate what I want to say in English... Otherwise with just this in my ear, I would be speaking broken English."

Tobi, scratched his head.

"That's a lot to keep up with."

He followed up by asking.

"Tell me about our people and how Rennaya fell."

Osei sighed and took a seat at the console.

It was a heavy subject, but he reluctantly agreed.

They went to grab breakfast first.

Then flew back to their training area.

As they ate, Osei filled Tobi in about everything he remembered about his people and his home planet.

He started slowing down, as he got to the invasion.

The pain still evident on his face.

Tobi noticing it was tough for him, reached out.

"You don't have to if it's too much."

Osei responded shaking his head.

"No, you must know what they're like. Those abominable heart-less creatures. I won't stop till they are all dead."

Osei continued to recall all the events of the invasion.

Tobi was silent.

Unable to perceive how his brother had gone through all of that, at 7 years old.

"They are holding billions of people captive and enslaved. The slaves in camps often talk about the legendary Rennayan. Hoping that one day, they would come free them, like they did, in the First Galactic War."

Tobi frowned, then crossed his arms.

"I'm against slavery and all that, but I'm no hero. Besides wasn't I made in a lab or something? I'm guessing that the hero was a lil' more natural, don't you think?"

Osei looked at him.

"It doesn't matter, father always said destiny is what you make it. I never thought I would see you again, if I never thought to escape."

He looked down.

"My only regret was leaving my friend, Ganitas, behind. He's a Monrosion and they're good with weapons development & tech."

He gazed back at Tobi.

"Regardless, we can't waste time, we'll be practicing the Rennayan martial art for the rest of the afternoon. Then in the evening we'll have elemental training."

The day blurred by pretty quickly and by the evening, Tobi was all covered in bruises.