"A SPECIAL MOVE! IT'S SOMETHING THAT WILL GIVE YOU THE UPPER HAND IN BATTLE! IT SOMETHING THAT WILL OVERWHELM YOUR OPPONENTS!" Zip shouts over the cacophony of powers being used. "A SHIELD THAT IS INDESTRUCTIBLE! WINGS WHEN YOU HAD NONE BEFORE!" He continues.
Another faculty member was busy creating clones for the students to fight. He also give special instruction to each individual student. "Jason, you should start with concentrating your power up until now you have only released blasts of it. Focus on it and shape it into a ball then throw it. That is what I want you to work on. If you can do it with light you can do it with shadow."
"Right!" Jason says. And with his palm facing up he tries to create a ball. A little ways away he can see Blake trying the same thing with his metal. Jason's concentration slips and he releases a beam. A lot smaller than his normal ones but seemingly more powerful.
"Focus Jason. I was in this class with your father. You can make your blasts dangerous or harmless. Or somewhere in between. You can do it. I'm going to start you on something your father was working on once you master shaping."
"What was he working on?"
"Shaping first. You need to shape it before you can do it." Clones clone says.
"Fine." Once again concentrating Jason starts to say the power shaping and he gets excited but once again the power releases.
"You have to control your emotions Jason. You power will react more to emotions than most others. Everything you do needs to be about control. Try again."
Taking a breath Jason focuses even harder than before on making a ball.
"Remember to breath Jason."
Jason exhales and inhales and finds his focus is sharper. And he finally manages to create a ball.
"Good. Good. Now while we are ahead take your ball and flatten it into a shield."
"R-Right."
Jason starts spreading it out and gets a thin shield put up. Then it disappears. Taking a gasping breath and sitting down Jason asks "What happened? Why didn't it blast out?"
"Because you made hardlight. That's what I've been trying to get you to do. Hardlight or shadow for that matter are the next step in your power. They will become most of your combat and movement kit. They are as strong as Blake's metal but weigh nothing. That's why your fathers costume was just his shadows. Now do it again."
So once more Jason focuses on creating a ball. It's a little easier this time but he manages it. Once more he creates his thin shield.
"Now pump more light into it."
As Jason blasts his shield with his light he sees it growing thicker.
"Try and concentrate the blast into more of a laser. You wast a lot less power that way."
Jason still keeping his shield up and concentrating on thinning his beam starts to lose concentration once more. "I can't do it yet." He says as both the blast and shield dissipate. "It's to much for me to focus on."
"That's alright. It's only the first day." Clone says. "But my goal is to get you to have multiple things on the battle field at once. One day you will be able to put up a shield and forget about it and it still be there."
"I hope so. I know dad use to do it. I hope I can so I don't disgrace his memory." Jason says as he sits down again.
"You won't. To be honest with you you are farther along day one than he was on day twelve. He couldn't shape a ball much less a shield. But you. You've made a shield and started feeding it in only two hours."
"What? No way? Dad was great with his power."
"Not at first. Now once more give me a shield."
As Jason stands up he sees an explosion of fire and rock "That boy Austin has an incredible power. He's maximizing the size and heat of his fireballs. Now give me a shield."
Across the gym from him is George and Lillian. George is trying quickly create large object and multiple of them. The faster he gets with the big ones the faster his smaller creations come out.
Lillian is working on making her mist hard and creating multiple illusions. This will give her quite an advantage against multiple opponents as well as single opponents.
Blake and Bailey are working on much the same thing that Jason was. Remy is working on using his and someone else's blood more effectively while Britt works on her healing factor by continually damaging herself. Trinity is working on hardening her obsidian even more while Axel throws punch after punch to increase his strength. Micheal and Thomas are brawling to increase there strength speed and stamina. Samantha spends her time trying to copy voices of people.