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Chapter 4 - Aiming high In The Dark

*Hours after blackout*

After I had woken up my and my father and mother had found me on the floor and asked me what happened. Although my father knows I couldn't tell mom yet not until I can control it. And my father did not tell her either because he wanted to learn more about it and as long as I had this seal I should be in check. So we just told her I didn't get enough energy resting.

Later that day Karr and I began a training session for sword chasing. Karr wanted to be a sword chaser because I wanted to be one like my father so he just tagged along. We used the field on the farm to train on. Karr, I, and many other students had already awakened our potential and what was next for us is training the basics until we could take sword chaser lessons.

The way Karr and I trained is we did some bit of dueling, and some hand to hand. I learned most of what I know from my father when I was around five years old. It was hard I can admit but I've heard it will not be as hard as the chaser training. My awakened ability is on the more fortunate side since I awakened I have been granted 4 abilities.

Karr was not on the lucky side he only has one, unlike his father who has all 6 abilities. You can train to get more but it won't be as easy as it sounds. My abilities element is Ice and I can manipulate water, Ice, mist, and snow. I haven't yet used all four only water manipulation. The way I found this out was at school there is a technique a teacher uses that allows you to know one's abilities.

Karr's ability element is the fire he can add fire to almost anything, sword, food, grass. These abilities aren't all that special but they are pretty impressive. The next phase of the training session was to use our abilities in short we just used our abilities on our surrounding element. Karr used his ability to light sticks on fire, while I attempted to move water around at will.

From what I heard if you're lucky enough you can get energy abilities Karr and I aren't on that lucky side. My father is on that lucky side I think that's where he got his power from. We have done this training for an hour to expand our strength to use said abilities.

The next phase for me was to make my eyes active once again. It took some time to think about it but I wanted to use my eyes without my seal on me. Karr was preoccupied burning things and while he was distracted I took the seal off my wrist.

An instant flow of energy filled my body making me feel like I could run for hours. I proceed to close my eyes and focus only on them. I guided my body's energy towards my eyes and I opened them and nothing seemed to happen and I look up at the sky and think. Then it hit me right in the face since anger triggered it which means emotion triggers it. So I don't need to use anger to use my eyes I can simply use another emotion to trigger it.

On my first attempt, I tried the happy emotion this way I will not end up like the guy from Dad's story. I thought only happy thoughts, such as Aubrey I thought of only her. But unfortunately, I got a little too excited while thing about her. Next, I tried to use joy as another way to happy but less than happy, kind of.

"Hey what are you doing." Shouted Karr from a distance.

I signaled him to come over to me. He ran over to me and I said.

"I'm trying to use my eyes again, but nothing is working."

"Maybe it's like you said anger does trigger it maybe you should use mad instead of anger it does less damage than anger. I said.

"You're right Karr."

He says "Oh really I was just winging it really."

I attempted it using mad as my substitute for anger, and I closed my eyes forced energy towards them, and opened. When I opened them I saw the fire and reversed lighting again and the thought was Ace of course he does make me mad. Karr said

"Oh my god, it worked Noah your eyes are doing something."

"Really don't lie to me, Karr." I bantered.

Then through my left eye, I could see someone that looks out of the ordinary. The someone looks like a figure more than the other ones I can see. The figure was looking directly at me ever since my eye was active. Karr says.

"Well, what do you see?"

"Something is looking at me and it's freaking me out," I said

"What do you mean something I don't see anything," Karr stated

"I can see people through my left eye but something is looking at me."

The thing starts slowly walking in my direction and I start shaking and I do feel hostile intention from it. Karr says.

"What's happening Noah."

He said those words as the winds pick up and it begins to get cloudy and dark. The figure was at least 6 feet from me by this point and from Karr's perspective, he just sees me looking at something he can't see and starts freaking out.

I tell him to calm himself and the figure is chest to chest with me and it looks me in the eyes and I look at it with my right eye and it is outlined with smoke. The creature tries to touch me but I swiftly jump back and evade contact. The creature screeched but I could not hear. Other things like themselves crawled from every corner and they were everywhere. Karr was talking nonsense but then I saw a figure like no other it was pitch black and had red glowing eyes and smokey. The figure gave off.

I said, "Karr run."

"What do you mean Noah." Karr cried

"RUN KARR!!" I shouted

We both bolted in the opposite directions and when I was a good distance away I lost view of them. I hid behind a shack on the field and I poked my head out the side and felt a sudden breeze of air hit me. I turn around and the red-eyed figure is behind me. I started breathing uncontrollably followed by shaking and the figure touches me on my forehead and I start seeing shades of black. And the next thing I remembered that I was in my bed.

I got up and hear yelling it was my parents arguing with each other over the yelling I could hear the talk was about me.

*End of Chapter 5*