I dreamt I was like Danny Phantom, in the sense that I was half ghost.
I ended up dying in a fight but somehow lived on as the strongest ghost capable of using both ghost and Space powers. Then I died again, it's all fuzzy but I think I died trying to save someone, which is in itself a form of irony. It was ironic
I wouldn't even die for the man that raised me for 16 years! You only have one life
After having another crazy, meaningless dream I woke up the next morning with a jump. I ignored the sore back I had, plus the fact that I could move now and began scattering the room searching for something.
'Where is it?' I look for the familiar microchip necklace that was handed to me yesterday at the B.M.E.
I finally find it in a tossed aside shopping bag with clothes I didn't arrange yesterday and the phone I've yet to open since yesterday.
The tiny accessory is a pendant necklace that has something embedded into the pendant. It is that 'something' that is called an Emmisser.
According to source, our bodies are too unused to Energy to be able to adapt perfectly to it. We can absorb it, release it but lack the ability to tame it.
There are five types of Emmisers for the five different types of Energy and the Mage version comes in the form of a necklace. And it was this same necklace which I was NOT wearing throughout yesterday.
I'm only realizing this now but how did I end up using magic. It's supposed to be impossible for Energy-noobs and even some experienced guys to do that.
Just as I'm lost in my thoughts the door opens unannounced causing me to jump in fright.
I turn around sharply, expecting it to be Zayn but it turned out to be Amir, he's wearing a bathrobe and sporting his usual smile like yesterday.
"You look like you're well rested" he said with a smile that contained a deeper meaning.
"You mean the paralysis I had yesterday night?" was he peeping through the door? Did I poke his eye out?
"That's just Energy Drain. It's the same as what happened when you first awakened. Your body used up more than your 'safe' amount of Energy.
I would advise you not to try that very often once you start training." He warned me before switching to a lighter tone.
"Come have breakfast. We may not have the need for it but it's still a sort of culture, eating food that is."
"Sure" I hadn't forgotten what happened yesterday. Does she think I'm a sexist-woman-beater now? Even though I'm the victim of domestic abuse...
Anyways I put on some fresh clothes and followed downstairs
After heading downstairs I saw a familiar white robed figure in the dining room sitting.
After cooling down my head I really feel like something came over me yesterday for me to suddenly act out.
'Should I apologi-' that thought was interrupted.
"Hey, pet, regarding what happened yesterday…" she started softly, except I doubted she was going to apologize
"The only way to settle what happened between you and me is to have an Energy battle!
I will give you one month's time to train your Energy to the Trainee level. After that time has elapsed we'll fight." So it was this trope…, I've decided!
"I refuse" I will simply lose, my life- if someone tosses me in a ring with this Psychic witch!
I look towards Amir for escape and unsurprisingly, he's smiling!
"I agree, that is the only way to settle the dispute between you two. I'm saying from experience; you two need a good fight to vent all grievances between you two. There's no other way to advance your relationship"
'What relationship'
No killing though, everything else goes. You fight on the 15th of July. Now shake hands and eat, the bus will soon be here"
He forcefully grabbed our hands and made us shake. After shaking hands for like 5 seconds we were both free to detach hands.
Her hands were soft, small and warm and wait…
What just happened, I'm going to fight HER in one month, that same her that damaged the room to this extent yesterday night? I imagined yesterday recalling the damage she caused yesterday
Speaking of the house… everything was tidy now but the wall still had dents where her Energy attacked it.
"You should really wake up earlier, school starts by 8. Zayn woke up early and cleaned up the mess she made yesterday, while you were still sleeping." Amir said
"It's not my fault, your 8 o'clock is different from mine apparently." 'where I come from I'm early!
Who knows what else is different I thought as I ate the food on the table that looked like baked beans and plantains but tasted oddly like potato porridge.
"And Zayn, I've already called installment to fix the walls because they can be fixed easily, your new brother's head… probably not"
'Wait what?' "I don't want to fight! I'm calling it mmph" my mouth was forcefully shut with some food?
"It's ok, I tested it yesterday and his head was very hard for a freshly awakened , once he starts training he'll be able to last longer" I met eyes with her to glare hatefully but instead was met with a cold stare
'Last longer?' this girl was trying to kill me wasn't she?
HONK
The school bus was here. And I was considering if it was safe for me to stay here until a month or even sleep here at night
"Okay, my sweet, freakish kids, time to go to school" Amir said "I'll miss you, but I have adult work"
"Wait, how will I get around school then?" I thought he was coming with but I guess it was wishful thinking
"Don't worry. They have a guide for new students"
'A guide?' someone to show me around? Ok then.
HONNNK
I turned to see Zayn in the same white robe as yesterday that happens to match her short silver hair already going out the door wordlessly. Is that how today is going to be?
"Oh"
'I forgot to ask about the Emmisser' they said I couldn't do it. Even after they knew about the so call perfect Energy talent but I did it. Am I shaping out to be a cheat even after my first 24hours.
My thoughts run even as I follow Zayn into what looks like what a school bus, decorated with blue inscriptions. It has a window and a door. I saw this same bus disappear yesterday.
After getting on the bus I had just enough time to glance at the students on the bus once before I was enveloped by a strange feeling, different from my being intangible, but the feeling was similar.
Anyways when everything was back to normal the bus landed in the midst of other buses and up ahead I could see some other students and a structure I assume to be the school. Apparently Zayn's house is the last stop before school
Leaving the space bus I find myself at the gates of the compounds of a large yard with a main building the size of a large apartment surrounded by about a dozen other smaller buildings scattered around.
All around the campus were some people in color coded robes scattered all around the uni-sized grounds on benches. The robes are in only five colors, so the people are from the five main forms of Energy.
'They're some new races' The people I thought I saw were actually the most varied group of races I've ever seen in one place in my one day of being here.
There were guys who were short like Zayn but had skin that wasn't pink. I already knew these guys as dwarves, there are guys and girls with elf ears; they were light elves. But I didn't know all of these other races at all!
There were guys who weren't overly short but overly tall instead! The shortest of them at least my height and had different varieties of skin colors.
'The 39 races…' not gonna lie, I was intrigued by the thought of learning about different races I'd never seen before.
Just as I was in the middle of my thoughts I saw Zayn leaving wordlessly.
"Hey, Zayn, where are you going?" I shouted to her still distancing figure.
"One month's time, don't forget to train" she said walking off to a crowd of students without looking back.
Damn. Where do I find that guide.
As soon as I had that thought I sensed something behind me.
Turning around I came face to face with the one of the last things I ever expected to see.