as we make our way to storm hinge jillian and i are a little sad now that two of friends are gone but we know one day will meet up later on.
as we contuine to walk we see the sign and realize we made it storm hinge is only a few miles away were almost there thankfully after all the things that seemed to head our progress we are finaly to the last stretch the only problem that means im only one step away from traveling alone for the first time but i know it has to be done to get stronger as we contuine Jillian asks me if ill return to learn ice magic with Victoria i tell her yes but not as soon as i drop her off i plan on training on my own before returning for awhile. she agrees that it sounds good as we arive in storm hinge as we walk around for awhile we decide to go to the nearest pub and order food as were eating we decide to talk about how life is going before i overhear someone talking about some crazy lady with a lance that could use concentrated lightning whos supposed to be extremely feared and dangerous he said the weapon she holds was one if the twelve great weapons this ones name was the thunder lance i decide to walk over and ask him where i can find this lady hes talking about and he says to me little girl i dont know why you came over here but theres no way im telling a weakling like you where that crazy lady is.
after hearing that i was going to try to be calm even when he called me little but when he said weakling thats when i had it i grab him frezzing his hand as i ask him okay jerk im running low on patience where is she as he's still refusing to talk he says i wont tell you i proceed to dunk his head in the water pitcher threatening to frezze it as hes screaming i finally let him breath and ask him one last time where is she he finally gives me an awnser as we grab the rest of our food and head out for the location Jillian asks me if that was really nessasary i say originaly no it wasent but he deserved it as we head for thunder back mountain where she is at the top of.
in this place known as the center of storms. apperently she has a dojo there but currently all the people there are supposedly extreamly strong according to storys thrown around we decide in order to scale the mountain we need more then ice magic i tell Jillian we may need to train i then pull out the book of magic from the pheonix dungeon and turn to the page of lightning magic i look at a way for her to learn quickly so we can avoid the blue lightning of the mountain and according to the book it says a quick way is to unlock the magic gateways of the body and have your element enter your body for me ice aint hard but lightning aint gonna be easy to get struck by were more lickly to just have the lightning hit the ground and have the tremer of the strike get us killed by having us fall off the side of the mountain.
after looking around we find the enterence to the mountain and start to hike up as were walking Jillian says she feels on edge that we we should turn back. and come back later it doesn't feel safe now i tell her shes just paranoid and we should contuine on were halfway to the top at this point turning back seams like a waste of time she agrees with me as we make our way to get to the top as were walking a storm appears and without warning lightning strikes but i coudent have predicted this would happen now so without warning i shoot an ice blast at Jillian to get her out of the way but its to late the blue collored lightning hits Jillian full force and my ice blast misses jillian as she falls to the ground not breathing i check her pulse and its there but its moving so fast you can almost not sense it as i grab her and sprint to the top i scream i need help my friends been struck as i scream a lady comes out to greet me and tells me to set my friend down as she pulls out her lance and points it at Jillian as she does this the lightning in jillians body seems to leave and enter the lance as the damage to her seems to leave as well as jillian wakes up she looks around confused i then ask her to lift up the back of her shirt for me dazed and confused she agrees to as the mark the book told me about is there her magic gateway is open and she now has a jumpstart to being able to learn magic i turn to the lady and thank her as she says no problem your just lucky you made it when you did any minuite later and her heart might have gave out due to the increased intensity of her heart beat you got lucky but before i ask your names what are you doing here i say well were here looking for the teacher of this place my friend here jillian has the nature of lightning and we were looking for a teacher and we heard of someone with the thunder lance that chould teach her.
but it seems that person is you before i can say any more Jillian speaks up and asks if she could teach her before she can explain why the lady introduces herself as Jane and says she will not take her as a student. Jillian asks why she wont consider it as Jane says i cant teach right now not when i have to search for someone to pass the thunder lance to.
i speak up and say why not just pick one of the dojo students she looks at me and says its not that easy everyone of the 12 weapons found hold great power but some weapons like the thunder lance have requirements to wield and in this case also use it the.
in order to hold it the thunder lance requires you to have strenght and conviction but to use its powers requires a third requirement a pure heart ive met over 30 people who can hold it but none of them could use its power cause they lacked the pure heart when i inherited this weapon from my mentor i was the first and only person he had ever seen besides himself that could use it and when i took it i also took the responsibility of finding someone i could pass it onto before i die and in my line of work death is always around the corner so kid you have some strenght and major will but i cant take you on as a student not now anyway. as i try to get jillian to go will find her another teacher she says to me Madi we have come to far to turn back we have had obsticle after obsticle thrown at us and have overcome it you have achived a bond with your fox that alows you amazing abiltys Natalies learning water magic and Davids learning fire me ive got nothing i cant leave as she gets up you can see the determination in her eyes as she says these words in her face now Jane i may not be strong i may not be the optimal choice i may not even be a good choice but im all that i can be without your help to grow stronget i made a promise to my friends to learn lightning and i refuse to turn back when you chould help me learn it and to prove it ill defeat you in combat as she says that Jane turns around and looks at jillian in confusion that such powerfull words came from her and she says alright i accept your challenge if you win ill take you on but if you lose i have the right to kick you off my mountain if i choose Jillian says alright as we walk in the dojo to the fighting arena where the center of the storm is as we enter Jane presses a button letting the cealing open up and now we can see the rising storm as they enter a stance you can see the determination as they begin to battle janr pulls out the thunder lance as jillian pulls out her bow ready to fire Jane lunges shooting an e.m.p. blast as jillian fires a ice arrow at her feet frezzing her in place as the battle go on Jane knocks Jillian down and proceeds to pumle
her with the thunder lance before backing off having knocked jillian out as she turns around to leave its as the gods themselves dont want this battle to end as if in a dream Jillian gets struck by lightning for the second time but heres where it gets interesting jillian from what i see used all her mana her magic energy in every shot her arrow made making it so when she got struck her magic energy has refilled with nothing but pure lightning as she stands up ready to contuine eyes glowing lightning in her she charges at Jane and it looks like Jane wasent fast enough to react as Jillian grabs the thunder lance from her as she does the thunder lance starts glowing as she Jillian against all odds fires a pure lightning blast out of the thunder lance hitting Jane point blank as she does all her energy that the lightning seemed to give her disappears as she falls to ground as Jane gets back up she goes over to jillian as she starts to wake up she asks what happend as jane relays what happened to Jillian she has a disappointed look in her eyes jane says kid you did well out there and tho you didnt win your the only person ive ever seen get close to winning against me and your the first person since my master ive seen besides me be able to use that weapon i will train you but this wont be easy im going to groom you to be the next user of this weapon as well so youll have to be ready for that as Jillian accepts its now time for me to go as I'm about leave Jane gives me her contact and I leave now alone its time for all of us tho apart to grow stronger as I go to grow stronger alone.