Creak...
The door is pushed open by a smooth black hair boy of about 12 years old.
"Hello, I am Darius, nice to meet you" Darius quickly send out his hand out for a handshake.
"I am Eric, Nice to meet you too" Eric shake hands with little Darius.
"Let's see where we should keep your luggage and then after that it will already be time for training, then we will go together, right?" Darius excitedly talk.
"It's fine by me, we should train together" Eric agreed.
After helping his new friend settle in the room, its time for training, Darius is looking forward to the training.
After running around, Darius and Eric arrived at the training hall and pushed open the door, Darius take a peek before entering.
They waited for a while before the complete number of students arrived In the hall.
"Alright we will start our Energy gathering training today and my name is Charles" Charles introduced himself.
"We use the lowest energy stones to fill up this hall, because this is where the newbies will be Training. You will learn how to gather energy here" Charles explained why this hall is powered by low leave energy stones.
"Why are the medium and high energy stones not use for our training hall?" Darius curiosity get the Better of him.
"You little boy, if you directly learn how to absorb energy using medium or high level energy stones, you exploding will be the best outcome the other outcomes are worse" Charles come closer to Darius to scare him more.
"Exploding? I wonder how that feels. Senior, if one is to explode, how is the feeling of explosion?" Darius Curiously asked again.
"Hey! I have never exploded before and besides, if someone explode he will die without a complete corpse" Charles try scaring little Darius again.
"Senior, wha-
"Please keep quiet, junior brother. If you keep asking question we cannot have time to finish our class today" Charles is even ready to beg this junior of his that like asking question about everything to keep quiet.
"Listen up newbies, energy is the basic of everything, from the smallest point of view to the largest all contain energy in one form or another" Charles explained.
"Then how do we gather this energy?" Darius's voice is heard.
"Junior apprentice brother, just bear with me a little, I will come to that soon" Charles really don't know how to handle this junior apprentice brother of his.
"First you sit in a meditative pose or any pose that you feel comfortable in. The second step is closing your eyes and then concentrate, you might see energy like threads try to imagine pulling them towards your abdomen" Charles explained.
'Alright let's do this, the first step is a comfortable pose' Darius sat in a meditative pose.
'Then close my eye and concentrate' Darius try to see or feel the energy thread.
'I can do it, I can do it, I can DO THIS' Darius kept practicing.
'Oh my, why is it that whenever I feel like I am about to do it the energy fades away. If this energy is real life person, I will beat him daily for eternity' Darius is annoyed at his current situation.
'Why is he taking so much time, if he cannot make a small progress today he can do it tomorrow' Eric gaze at his new friend's sweating face.
'This junior apprentice brother is really stubborn' Charles wanted to see how long Darius could last.
"Why is that stupid energy not showing itself? Aha Senior apprentice brother you must have an answer to this, right? like why this thing is refusing me" Darius kept pestering Charles for a long time before agreeing to try it tomorrow again.
'What a trouble some kid' Charles thought.
"After this class, you are going fetch water and distribute it to the many places here. After that, workout training" with That Charles send them off.
"Hey Eric, what is your thought about the workout training that is about to come after this?" Darius put a lot of effort to lift his two buckets.
"Are you not tired? you can still talk even in hardship?" Eric asked.
"Yes, of course I could. I can even talk to you while doing our workouts later" Darius happily chatted with Eric.
"That is a tiresome work" Eric said.
"Yes, it is" They have currently finish fetching water.
"So, what is the feeling you get when you absorb energy?" Darius asked.
"Its some times cool and it is sometimes hot, it even tickles sometimes. I really don't know how to give you a specific definition" Eric said.
Darius jovially burst into laughter.
"Why are you laughing?"
"I will love how it will tickles" Darius run out to the field for workout.
At the field the instructor, instructs them to do 50 push ups as they are newbies, a fifty squats and fifty sit ups.
"Hey Darius can you run after all this hard workout?" Eric asked.
"Of course I can do it" Darius confidently said.
After the running the students are instructed to go to the cafeteria and get their meals.
They return back to the room and take a bath, as soon as their body hit the bed, they were fast asleep.
'This training life is hard but I will persist' This is Darius last thought before he slept off.