Katara and Desmond are eating together, they both eat so fast and eat everything served on the table. Students are looking at them because they move at the same time, they're mouths full of food. It's like they've known each other for years.
"Could you please give me that?" She asks Desmond, and he gives him the beef steak immediately.
"Shenks!" She said while her mouth was full, they both looked together when Janice came to the scene.
"Wow, look at these two! Best buddies huh?" Janice smirks and laughs together with her minions, Katara just ignores him.
"Do you know her?" Desmond whispered.
"No…" She whispered back, Janice saw them whispering to each other. Desmond looked at her from head to toe and continued to eat.
"You both look together, both losers. Hahahahahahahahaha." Janice insults, Katara imitates the way she laughs.
"Are you mocking me?"
"Are you mocking me?" Katara again imitated, she even imitated her high pitched voice also.
"Gosh, you're so immature!"
"Gosh you're so immature!" Janice gasp because of annoyance, she can't believe this woman is so childish!
"Anyway good luck with the game, don't die."
"Don't you worry Janice, after all I am strong not like you." Janice walks out, and Katara sees Prof Alan approaches her. Her eyebrows raise and analyze his expressions. A small grin visible in her lips, it seems that he already made up his mind.
"Excuse me Ms. Heldigard but can I have a word with you?" Katara stood up and followed the Professor. The way students look at her it seems like she did something wrong, she acts like she's scared or confused.
She took a seat and Professor Alan served her tea, she smelled it before taking a sip.
Professor Alan went away for a while and when he went back he was carrying something.
"Here, this is my new invention that could protect you." He gives her a little box, she accepts it and opens it. She saw a ring inside, it looks like it's simple.
"When you say the incantation, a shield will activate and protect you from being affected by the attack of any elemtials. This could be used four times only per day and last for five minutes, you could only use it for most emergencies." Katara analyzes the ring more, she puts the ring on her middle finger and raises it while continuing to analyze it more. When she realized what she just did, she immediately brought her middle finger down.
She took a sip of her tea before she got up and then tested the shield.
"What's the word professor?" She asked.
Days pass and now Katara feels every part of the core inside her body. She couldn't believe it, for almost a week she tried to do it as per the book instructions. She felt that she had no progression at all, she couldn't feel anything about her core. A tiny particle in her body, she couldn't feel the veins of the core. The book says, if she could feel the veins starting to appear from being invisible in her body the core will follow.
And now, she felt the veins moving around her body, it was fast. From her heart, to her lungs, to her hands, to her neck and every part of her body It feels like there's something crawling inside, her eyes closed but from her mind she could see that the veins in her body's like lightning. It glows from inside, she takes a deep breath. She needs to remain relaxed and balanced. The book says it took for normal people to create a core for five to ten years but Katara didn't stop until she made a way to do it in the fastest way. She may not have elemental powers first but at least she could have core. Game is also a good opportunity for her to study different people who have used elements and how they did it. She might learn something from each student she'll bump into.
Based on the book, balance is the key and the main course of the first step of creating core. So she researches everything about how to balance, inner self and outer. Physically, mentally, and spiritually. You can't balance something if you don't know how to do it, since this body is not like her body in her previous life she didn't know much how to balance it. She tried to stand on the header of her dorm bed 2 inches wide using one foot only but she didn't take 2 minutes and she fell. So she practices balancing her physical body first before the inner.
With only 3 hours of rest, for two days she managed to balance her body. And the next day, she tried to balance her inner self. By feeling her heartbeat, by listening to her breath, by feeling the flow of the blood of her body.
Next step is connection, you have to feel everything has a connection. Core is connected to nature, or even in this world. So you need to connect them, to make them feel the connection. It's important to connect them, because the power of the core is from the main elements of this world.
Katara did that by feeling the air breeze touch her skin, by the warmth of the sun, by the roughness of the land, and by the moistness of the water. Core is like a baby without any knowledge of the world, and as a mother you are responsible to introduce it to them, the book says. So what you will do, it's by showing them, making them feel safe and making them have a connection.
By feeling each other's elements of the world, Katara's whole body responded. Her mind will play the images or scenarios in her head, and her heart will feel excitement.
Now that she's feeling core particles moving and starting to be visible, she can't explain the feelings. It's magical knowing like this exists in this kind of world, there's something that couldn't be explained by a human and it's perfectly fine. Even humans can't understand it's own kind.
Katara feels something warm from her body, she remains clearing her mind. She's not panicking or anything else, she just focuses on balancing everything even when she feels something changes. The next thing she felt was like she was slowly feeling completed, it felt like something piece of her was slowly being filled. It was like seeing someone fixing your broken cup that you had kept for several years was gradually getting fixed.
Katara felt exhaustion, she felt like all of her strength was sucked up. Just a little bit and she will complete it, she continues to be composed and collected. As the core is finally created, Katara eyes glow, it changes. A crystal ball-like float from her body with a different kind of colors, the green house filled with brightness. Katara was floating in the air, her hair was being blown by a strong wind, she felt her body cold and yet hot, her body was heavy. She's still conscious but she feels she will be blocked in any seconds, she feels so feeble.
Gradually Katara's body slowly lay on the ground again, the crystal ball-like slowly came back from her body. And at the last minute everything came back and Katara saw nothing but black.
A minute later, the crown prince entered the greenhouse and saw Katara lying on the ground. He was stunned and immediately called his right hand. Evan entered the greenhouse and saw Katara too. She's pale, looks so exhausted.
"Call a healer or a doctor, anyone!" Deimos commanded, and didn't waste any time carrying Katara. Instead of sending her to her dorm, the crown prince gently put Katara on his bed. A minutes later a healer came together with Evan, Katara was sweating too much.
What's wrong with her? He heard from Desmond that she's training so hard, he wanted to blame himself. She was not supposed to be in the game, she's one of the selections and it's his duty to make her safe like he promised.
A minute later Evan is back with a healer and a doctor at his back, he takes a bow to greet his highness and also the doctor and healer at his back. Damn!
"We will check her immediately, your highness…" A woman who's wearing a white gown said.
"You should be, do everything to make her alright. I have high expectations!" Deimos said with a cold tone of voice.
"Yes, your highness…" The two of them responded.
Two of them check Katara, while waiting. Evans gives the crown prince a tea to calm down. He seems so worried about her.
"I think Mistress Heldigard will be fine, so you can rest assured your highness." Evan says it's the first time for him to watch the crown prince get worried to another person other side of his siblings.
"She better be fine, I won't let her be hurt again."
A minute later, the doctor and healer left the prince's room.
"The Mistress passed out because of exhaustion, your highness, other than that there's no need to worry. She just needs to rest…" Deimos felt relieved for what he heard, he nodded.
"Then you can go for now, Evan escorts them." He commanded.
"Yes, you're highness."
Deimos walks into Katara who's sleeping peacefully, he can't help but to look at her face more. As he looks down to her lips that are slightly open he can't help but to be flustered when he suddenly remembers their accidental kiss. Damn, what a temptation she is.
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