To be friends

She turned around and blocked his sword attack as he was about to strike her with it. When he looked at her, his eyes widened, and she opened her eyes and smiled. She could sense his movement despite the fact that his feet were not firmly planted on the ground because she could feel changes in the air around her.

"How?" He asked.

"You are clever; you use your ability to increase your speed; you use it under your feet and no one notices because you appear to be moving normally, you have the ability to increase your agility, it's impressive how good you are at it, and this is cheating, you are not supposed to use any of your abilities," She responded and his eyes widened as she shoved herself away from him, and Yuna chuckled.

'She seems to dislike cheaters,' Yuna thought with a smile as the guy charged at Myalis, who dodged his attack and spun around, kicking him in the stomach with force.

The impact of the kick sent him crashing into the arena's wall, the other students looked at them and Myalis's eyes narrowed as she noticed lightning sparking at the side of his feet and she chuckled.

'Since this is a no-magic practice, him using his speed hinders the other person's movement, if this was a normal practice where you could use any of your skills, only if his opponent can catch up to him, then they will be able to win, seems like he has the power to use lightning as well,' Myalis thought as he boosted the energy under his feet.

He was about to attack her and her eyes widened, but she jumped up in the air and looked at how he moved then grabbed the sword and began dodging each and every one of the attacks he tried to use on her using his sword.

The fact that she continued to avoid him irritated him, and he gnashed his teeth.

"How do you keep doing that?" He asked as he moved away from her and she smiled at him.

"Concede, I can keep this up all day, I don't need to chase after you," She responded and he chuckled.

"All right, I give up, but please..." He said and she approached him and then patted him on the shoulder.

"Why you cheated is not my concern; I will not tell anyone, but I recommend you stop; you have a strong ability that has many forms, master it, and it may take you far," She responded as she walked away and he turned around to look at her as the other students smiled.

"Seraphina," He called out and she looked back at him.

"Thank you," He said and she scoffed.

"You are welcome, change or I will deal with you myself," She replied and he chuckled, then she approached Yuna and the girl smiled at her.

"How did you know, Seraphina?" She asked.

'When am I going to get used to being called Seraphina?' Myalis thought as she grabbed her bag and placed it over her shoulder.

"His movements, that's how I found out," She responded and Yuna smiled.

"You are good," Yuna said.

"Thank you, the next class will be starting soon, I should get going," Myalis replied as she was about to walk away, Yuna grabbed onto her arm and she looked back at the girl.

"What's the matter?" Myalis asked and Yuna lowered her head.

"Will you be my friend for the time being?" Myalis chuckled when she asked.

"Is that what you're so serious about? Fine I will be your friend; I have no objections to that," She responded as the girl stood up.

"Thank you, you are different; I would say that many different things interest you, and you don't mind if they are dangerous, that's the type of person you seem like to me, am I right?" She asked and Myalis scoffed and patted her on the shoulder.

"You are correct, a lot of things pique my interest and I like to try new things, but right now, my top interest is getting stronger, I will see you around," Myalis responded with a wink before leaving and the girl cheeks flushed.

'Stronger huh? I can understand that,' Yuna thought as the bell rang for them to go to their next classes and Myalis went to her next class.

After Myalis sat down, their teacher who was a female entered the classroom, they all greeted her and she smiled at them and then introduced herself as a fire user named Nina.

Their class was limited to those who could use fire.

"Today I will go over the basics with you and give you an assignment; are you okay with that, even though it is only your second day?" The teacher asked.

"Yes!" Nina chuckled after they responded.

"That's good to know; now those who can use fire, please follow me outside; we don't want to burn down the academy," she said, and they laughed before following her outside.

They went out onto the lawn just outside the building where the classroom was, and Myalis noticed that there were targets in front of them, and the teacher smiled.

"Now, I want to see how strong your flames are. You may have the ability to use fire, but that doesn't mean it will be strong; you must make it stronger on your own. You do realize there are different ways to use the fire ability, right?" She inquired, and they nodded before she smiled.

"All right, now I want each of you to aim at the targets and use any sort of fire attack, it doesn't matter how weak or strong it is, we are all here to learn, do you understand?" Myalis looked at the targets after she asked.

"Yes," They responded.

The students began taking turns using each of the four targets, and when it was Myalis's turn, she approached the target and sighed, then looked at the material of the target and saw it was solid iron.

'I need to strengthen my attacks as well as my defenses, training is the best way to do that, I need to learn to master my skills, this shouldn't be that difficult, I hope it isn't...' Myalis thought as she took a deep breath, lifted her right arm up, her eyes glowed orange, and she unleashed her first attack.