Today seems to be a nice day. A beautiful sunny day, where I am training the new guy who has recently joined our team, and this guy is doing a pretty good job at shooting sunrays, much better than I thought. Sure it took him five minutes to hit those mannequins but this is progress because I thought he is going to be a worse shooter. And now, I am going to teach him how he can transform, thanks to the Sun Worships encyclopedia Alexandra gave me.
"Now, you will learn how you can summon."
"Question!" says Constantin raising his hand.
"What's your question?" I ask him.
"Can I summon anything? Especially someone very strong from a series of movies or animations?"
I check the encyclopedia for a second a the section of transformations and I told Constantin about the limits of transformations. And he didn't take it well because the transformations at the beginners cannot do summon powerful entities or any other powerful things, and it doesn't work on fictional cases. This means that he cannot summon an entity from the anime or whatever show is he watching. But, I do tell him.
"You can somehow summon small things as bullets or animals, like an eagle or crow."
"Bullets? And crows?" he asks just to be sure. "I think I will begin with an eagle or some other kind of animal I can."
"If it is small and it exists in this world, it is possible," I told him after I read a paragraph from the encyclopedia.
"Like a small Rasengan?"
"You mean the one from the Naruto? Probably. But try to summon a stick. To see if you can do it."
"Alright."
Then, Constantin is closing his eyes. while he closes his eyes I tell him that the key to achieving summoning it is to close your eyes and think about the object you wanted to summon it. And he did as I said, but he summoned something easy for a beginner user at Sun Worshipers unusual powers. He summoned just a stick that was glowing yellow light. I quickly go to the section of weapons from the encyclopedia and there I find out that the weapons that presents a yellow light can use some kind of weapons specific to Sun Worshipers such as shooting sun rays, creating a barrier of the sun (like some bars of a prison window and it can absorb the powers of people), and it can also help them teleport, just a short distance.
When he summoned the weapon, I told him to try and shoot those mannequins. He did as I told, but the stick did not launch the sun rays. Instead, I asked him to pint his stick onto the ground, and try to think to prison bars. And it worked, it created a prison bar that could help him and stop the enemy. Constantin was about to touch those bars, but I told him that these bars could electrocute the hell out of him if he is not careful enough.
He retracted his hand from that gesture, and we both have decided to end this training lesson here. After all, learning two abilities is amazing progress. Summoning and shooting those sun rays could give us an advantage in fights because I and him are ranged type. Sure, Hengar and Travis are also ranged types, but those two are using their weapons not anytime. For example, Travis is using his pistol when he is pretty far from the target and almost whenever he is invisible. And Henagr, he is intimidating, that some enemies decide to not surrender, but those Sun Worshipers were the ones with a fighting spirit.
I deactivated the sphere that made us the training ground, and we both leave this place as nothing ever happened. We are going to the immense bus station, close to the train station where we fought a few days ago. While we were walking there, Constantin asked me.
"When you got those powers?"
"A year earlier, and back then, I also couldn't control them," I respond to Constantin's question. "But if there was not that guy, I would've been thrown in another dimension."
"Who is the other guy? Is he from our team?"
"No. He is from the fourth, and both of those teams are sharing zones, cause almost every area was taken by the other teams."
"So. The guy who saved you... What is his name?"
"Luke Casado."
"Oh... You two are together?"
"Um... Well.." I tried to say, but the guy decides to tell me a thing I had not expected.
"Don't worry. If you love this guy, I can let you go to him. Besides, that confession was not really a love confession."
"How come?"
"Because I wanted to have a friend. All of my classmates don't even acknowledge me. I am just the air of the class." says Constantin who made me feeling quite similar. After all, my classmates ignores me sometimes because all I do is study and go after school to the base, where I am going to train for future fights or completing some missions.
"Well. Now you've got more." I tried to encourage him. "Five friends are better than one, right?"
"Yeah... you are right. Thanks."
We arrived at the front of the gates where the minibusses from Oesti and Albesti are departing. I said my goodbyes to Constantin and we are going into different locations, Constantin is going to his apartment, and I going home, by taking the minibus.
Today was really a nice day to enjoy, and I really like this guy... But as a friend. And I think he is feeling the same as well.
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At the night, at my home, I am in the bedroom, looking at a movie on Netflix while I eat some popcorn I have bought from the supermarket my mother is working. Today she got the night shift, which means, I can watch a movie and peace and eat popcorn, but when I thought the thins will be peaceful, someone knocks on the doors.
I paused the movie, but the popcorn down, and go to the door. But right before I was about to open the door, I have decided to transform my left hand into a werewolf, just in case an enemy is about to fight. But when I have opened the door, at my door, there was Jacob, my ghost teammate, and he has come here by using his gloves made especially for ghosts. This seems unusual because Jacob used to enter uninvited here. Which made me feel weird.
"Jacob? I did not expect you here. What is the matter?"
"I need you," he says to me in a serious voice.
"Need at what?"
"To go somewhere. Somewhere extremely dangerous for anybody, even for me."
"Okay. But why me?"
"Because your powers are the ones that are going to help me into this mission."
"What mission?"
"To... Revenge my brother."