Bartholomew and Derek bump into Dorima and Shoiea as they are in their way to training grunts of hellos and hi's are exchanged awkwardly in the hallway as the group moves towards the classroom Beverly and Christine and walking in the opposite direction "What are you doing class is that way," said Derek
"Yeah, well like I was going to go but training sound so hard so I'm going back to my room and Bev here is like my best friend iso we're having a girl's day" replied Christine
"unacceptable, this is not good behaviour you need to go to training how can you be like this after we almost died against Akum hell Ameroon is dead," argued Derek his face getting progressively redder and redder. "
"fine man it looks like your about to blow a fuse. You need to chill out a bit," with two new additions to the group they made their way to the classroom where Fronrobos, Sylthie and Chiri were already waiting for them. "I can't believe him, damm that Leon," Glenns' voice travelled down the hallway "You kids get into the classroom now,"
The group at the door hurriedly sat down as Glenn got to the door "So you know how I said you were going to do training to well Leon misjudge how long it would take to get the special surprise for your class ready so other classes were moved ahead of mine, I bet that Ceil of G-7 is laughing at me, so we will be doing maths and English and training starts after lunch," This was followed by groans from the class.
Outside the window a black raven carrying a certain letter flew across the sky it soared around the world over the oceans and through the Deserts until it reached a sprawling city with the biggest cathedral in the world a similar how Rukworth is the centre of its city however, here the bright sun cuts through the darkness causing the raven to wince in pain. Atop the cathedral bathed in its brilliance light was the Goddess of light Seirina you look down and protect her crusaders. The term for the Holy Crusade Academy has already started and their star class just sat down for their lesson.
Yousaf the teacher to class H-1 enters the classroom in a long white church robe, immediately all the students rose to attention and bowed to show respect to the teacher and the goddess. The classroom was ornate with big windows and gold linings down the sides of all the desks "Alright lift your hands the mighty Headmaster and proud Archbishop of the light faction Cherbia received a letter from those heretics of Rukworth, one dose has to feel sorry for them through traumatized kids signing contracts forcing them to be cut open and taint themselves away from her beauty the goddess of light. Ahem sorry lost in my own thought, where was I oh yes, Our glorious Archbishop has decreed that we will crush them in the games of the world. As you all should know this is an annual tournament meant to keep peace between light and dark to prevent anything like the last big war just because the dark couldn't see that taking the same power that fuels the Nightjyg and using it to fight them is a bad idea, in these games you will compete with the Hunters for territory last year we dominated and got 76% of the entire planet. This year let's get one hundred percent."
The class cheered at they're teachers' speech. After settling down Yousaf took the register
"Raginmar?"
"Here," answered a small boy for his age with deep blue eyes and silver hair
"Lucilio,"
"Here sir," a tall dark haired boy with emerald green eyes where dark yellow armour answered
"Sabine?"
"yep," answered a fiery red head wearing shiny silver plate amour with the goddess symbol engraved on the front, the sun with wings and a sword down the middle.
"Gabriela?"
"here sir," answered a lady dressed in white robes with spirals tattooed around her eyes a symbol here for blindness
"Usha?"
"Here," answered a young girl with short black hair wearing a green robe with gold lining.
"Sankar,"
"Yes" replied a young man wearing a tunic with blotches of green and brown
"Melyssa,"
"Here," answered a young girl with purple hair and a yellow t-shirt with ripped jeans
"Nisha,"
"Yep," a young girl squeaked homemade bracelets clattering on her wrist
"Yerslan,"
"Here," a boy with a prefect badge on his school fitting blazer neatly cut hair
"Engin,"
"Yeah," a man with grey overalls and wielding goggles on his head.
"Alright everyone's here, that's good as today you each will receive you purpose a brand that lets you channel her gracious light through your body, oh how I envy you guys being touched by her light for the first time is the best. There are six divine purposes Monk, Seer, Dragon, Templar bowman, Paladin, and light smith. From birth you ten have taken rigorous testing and experimentation so you each should have an idea of what your purpose is, but this can be wrong, and you'll only truly know after receiving her brand."
"That's cool and all, but I constantly look up how the purposes actually use their powers and there's nothing on that," asked Lucilio
"Right, you are boy, that's information that will be told to you all after your purposes are assigned," Yousaf then motioned for everyone to follow him the walk out the classroom down two flights of stares and across a courtyard to the holy cathedral.
Inside the great building statues of great heroes who fought the dark back in the previous war of shadows. The class walked down the grand hall and kneeled at the front. In front of them was an orb of brilliant light the expelled all darkness "this orb is but a tiny gateway to the sea of light where the hunters use sigils to open gateways to the abyss of darkness in there minds the light dose not hide and shines brightly we will put our hands directly into the sea of light,"
"sir if you don't mind me asking how you know so much about the hunters?" asked Sabine
"well Sabine, that's how we win each tournament by knowing our enemy better than they know us. Because you asked such an insightful question you can go first,"
Sabine then raised her head and slowly walked up to the orb, Yousaf raised his head to and watched her his face blushing at the thought of what was about to happen. Sabine plunged her hand into the orb, and nothing happened. "There must be a mistake I have purp—" Suddenly her words cut off and then the smell wafted from the orb the smell of burning flesh. Sabine screamed. "Quite girl don't be disrespectful we'll have the top seer heal you after the process," hissed Yousaf. Her flesh melted from her hands and oozed onto the floor till nothing, but bone remained. Amidst the blinding light and searing pain of her neurons burning she could see a beautiful hand slowly engrave a symbol into her hand it was an ornate sword on a shield then she was thrown back into the wall of the cathedral the current working seer rushed to her side and started healing her hand however the engraving she got will still be visible as a brand on her skin Yousaf rushed to her side and yelled "Paladin we have a Paladin the rest of you hurry get your divine purposes," he took a photo and ushered the now unsure class to the orb but one by one the all put there hands in the orb all felt her overwhelming light, her power.
Later after their hands had healed Yousaf took his class back to the classroom "Right now listen cause I'm only saying this once Crusaders, that's what your called now, fall into six categorise each with a different brand Sabine, Melyssa and Yerslan are paladins with an ornate sword with a unique design of each person reflecting the powers they can use on a shield. As you can all see" Yousaf says holding up a picture from the pile he brought back from the cathedral "Sabines' sword has lightning edged on it this means she can transmute light she wields into lightning. Next, we have Melyssa and look at this next picture you can see the sword has snowflakes on it this means she can transmute her light into ice. Yerslans sword looks to have water o it but looking at the photo you can see a reddish tint this means its blood you can transmute your light into blood. The paladin is a highly offensive purpose focusing on transmuting light from inside of them and weapons to do high damage but need the support of others to stay alive this is why you work in teams. The next brand is a crystal which indicates a monk, now Raginmar and Nisha are monks where Raginmars' crystal is a Citrine which is grounding this means that using your will and imbuing your words with light you can move the earth. Nishas' crystal however is a rare Tigers eye which is used for balancing this in turn means you can alter the balance inside your opponents by just your words this could be used to create an imbalance in blood flow causing a stroke in an enemy hunter for example. The next divine purpose is dragon their brand is a dragon's claw which reacts to the skin to cause colour ration signifying what power you have, Lucilio and Usha are dragons, now this new picture of Lucilio hand is unique the dragon claw is black which means the brand has killed all the skin cells this indicates that you embody the plague spreader dragon and can turn light into different types of poisons and curses, your very lucky with some quick study you'll become very powerful but Usha here she is going to out do us all her hand wouldn't heal we've put it in a special glove that protects and still allows full function but this means she absorbed high amounts of the goddesses light and is a divine dragon lord this means she can wield light directly drawn form the sea of light and burn through her foes with blinding fury. I must calm down my heart deep breath in and out, in and out, Onto the next one the brand of an arrow meaning Bowman the tail feathers of the arrow, listen Sankar this is you; the tail feathers of the arrow mean different things on design and colour yours Sankar are green with jagged lines this indicates thorns meaning you will transmute light into arrows of thorns. Finally, almost there if the brand is an eye, then you are a seer there is no variation on this brand seers can see the future and provide support miracles to their team mates I know you can't see the picture Gabriela, but you are a seer. Last one is a light smith the brand for this is a hammer and Engin is the light smith. By your wielding goggles I assume this news isn't a surprise but I'll explain it anyway Light smiths channel light through themselves and forge weapons out of the light for themselves but more importantly there teammates. These light based weapons repel all forms of the dark including stardust making them extremely powerful at the upcoming tournament. Right, I talked for what feels like forever go and have break and then go to the gym and I'll explain how the power system actually works.
Meanwhile over at Rukworth Leon crashes into classroom G-8 "it's ready Glenn it's ready, you should all go to the gym now,"
"Right, you heard him class finish up your test and hand it in I'll mark them for tomorrow and follow Leon to the gym,"
Dorima and the rest of the class followed Leon out of the classroom and to the gym when they went through the doors. A giant ring was set up in the middle of the room with Akum standing next to there with a child. "alright training will start after we introduce someone back into your class say hello to Ameroon," the whole class gasped the short tubby boy who died lost in hellish nightmares due to the tome now stood there in front of the class however he was different he was skinny, and his skin was a dark greyish purple with stiches running down his torso. "How are you alive," asked Chiri
"Obviously he has been turned into a risen," Fronrobos sneered "Look at before nothing for the eye's but now he's a monster,"
"Silence boy," Akum growled "Watch your tongue or I might decide to remove it." Fronrobos took an instinctive step back. "This is the surprise I was working on with the surgeon he can't speak yet but he is to the same stage you all are in training terms He is a magician and his illuminator is his heart which he uses as a median to cast cures and dark Arts" Leon informed everyone talking over them "alright we have straw dummies set up and a ring in the middle in case you progress fast and want to show off challenges to a ring fight must be accepted by both parties and rules agreed upon before the fight starts and of course no fights to the death,"
Leon turned and left the room and everyone in the class took positions next to a straw dummy "Alright you can manifest your aura so everyone who isn't a mutant or augmenter try manifesting a ball of stardust outside the body and throwing it at the dummy keep doing this until you blow up the dummy. If you're an augmenter or mutant materializing stardust out side the body is a waist of time I want you to do simple enhancing gather stardust from your Aura and run it into your arm then throw a punch at the dummy if you destroy it you pass if your arm breaks you fail," Akum turns around voice getting louder "If any of you die you fail and if anyone blows up they fail. You must make sure you maintain your aura and not draw directly from the tome as it will use your heart as a pump to move stardust causing extreme pain seizures and death. just informing you guys alright if you need anything I'll be sitting here," Akum sits in a chair that was tucked under the ring.
Dorima manifested his aura and tried to focus it on his arm to no avail then suddenly Bartholomew manifests a massive ball of stardust a loud explosion occurs where the dummy was vaporised "Well done Bartholomew now try it again but this time use your illuminator," Akum instructed from the chair. Shoiea walked over to Dorima "you know try imaging it as an ocean and the flowing into your arm," he whispered
"Thanks for the advice, but you haven't done it yet so how do I know this works?" replied Dorima. To that Shoiea lifted up his arm and a tiny ball of light about one hundredth the size of Bartholomew's ball. A snort of laughter came out of Dorimas mouth "You can't do anything you have no right to judge me," clearly disgruntled he walked back over to his dummy and Dorima focused he closed his eyes and imagined his purple aura like a liquid and then it flowed down into his arm he raised it and threw a punch at the dummy. The dummy flew across the room and crashed into the wall creating a huge crater, gasps of surprise came from everyone in the room even Bartholomew looked impressed until "What the hell are you thinking," Akum yelled as he rushed over "Look at your arm sure you had power but you've destroyed it, never have I seen such an irresponsible disregard for one's safety, go and see the schools doctor Surgeon he will fix your arm but you will have to be very careful next time ok," Dorima holding his limp arm nodded with agreement and rushed to the doctor's office.
While Dorima was getting his arm fixed Shoiea had manged to materialize a decent amount of stardust from his aura and condense it into a ball and fire it and was now trying to work his illuminator. The click of the lighter as the flame sprang to life, he channelled stardust through the flame creating a tendril that whipped the dummy the burn mark then erupted into flames engulfing the dummy. "Good work," akum said, "your flame arts are coming nicely that delayed reaction and long range manipulation in stardust will serve you well." Just then a loud boom akin to Dorimas one went off as Bartholomew blasted Fronrobos and sent him flying out of the ring and into the side of the gym wall cracking it and causing him to moan. A small smile came across Bartholomew's face but was quickly suppressed when he saw Fronrobos getting up and he grunted about being too weak and thinking he'd killed Fronrobos. "excellent control at least you didn't blow your arm up," yelled Akum. The other students were making great progress when Dorima came back everyone was working on using their illuminators.
Dorima now realising what he did wrong he instantly past the first stage as he blew apart the dummy. "I'm ready for the next stage," he declared.