"I was scared that you got stuck inside while searching for your true source" He rasped as he moved his wrist in circular motion.
"Oh I am sorry I took so long to come back," She noticed him slightly struggling with his right hand.
"Does it hurt?" She asked as his hand grabbed onto his wrist was caressing on it slowly. "You were really strong, bruising my hand with your own, with just a normal hold of your powers." A small hue of red painted around her cheeks again making her embarrass and a little guilty for hurting only him out of the blue. She was feeling raged towards this shitty takt holder inside of her which could have caused more pain to her if she had planned on staying inside that hollow hell more.
"I am really sorry for that. It must be hurting you a lot," She slowly added with a worried expression.
"Nah it's nothing, I was just checking if my power has stopped or if it needs time to recover," He said, tracing his hand on his wrist.
"Ohhh it must have cost you using a whole lot of your takt with your own energy." She said with an apologetic face. Her eyes gleaned at causing him trouble for such a small thing.
"Honestly its nothing, but you..." He stopped and admired the look of her worried face. He somewhere felt a strong urge to pull her tinted cheeks just so she could stop worrying about small things. He continued, "...you are really powerful Ella, I sensed your powers through mine and it was enormous," He said, embarrassing her again.
"No, it's just, .." The brown eyed girl was speechless. Kellen's big smile with his eyes gleaming bright was just the encouragement that uprooted Ella's thoughts and her denial of using her red takt. After Kellen's short praise she was planning to use this red takt once before she has a final talk with this crystal and throw it away out of her soul.
"Don't... I… I am truly sorry for this" While Kellen's praises made her competent decision to stutter for a change, she couldn't bring herself to find the right word to respond to him. ' Curse you Eleanor' She badmouthed herself using her full name.
"How many times are you going to apologize to me?" He asked me with a frantic look. His face is so pure and full of warmth.
No no, stop thinking so much about him.
'I slapped myself mentally!`'
"I..uhh... I was... " Ella's attention went to his wrist which he was caressing with his left hand. Her expressions softened. It was because he helped her and now because of that damn crystal's power, it caused him pain and the bruise on his right hand.
"So you were duelling your powers with mine?" She tried to strike up a normal conversation with him and watched closely on his right hand.
"Yeah we can totally work together for the duo test!" He claimed excitedly. The vanilla scented beauty smiled back.
"Let me see," Ella said and slightly moved her hands. He happily nodded.
She looked for any marks or internal bruises from her own takt. The jacket bearer ran his left hand on the back of his head ruffling his hairs. A small tint of hue appeared on her face by knowing that he got a little nervous about it.
"It isn't anything serious," His tone was sly.
"Alright, just let me see," She examined his hand. There was a red bruise on his wrist and on the back of his palm. It was internal, maybe a direct shot caused blood clotting at the same place.
"Putting some ice might help, alright?" Her soft tone which could sound like an order was too sweet to even categorized it under gentle orders. Yet the hazel-green pair nodded back with a sheepish smile.
"So disappointing! No one here is able to create this shell." Mr Samuel yelled at all of the students. Everyone's attention suddenly powered at him. He looked unsatisfied whilst his tone was raw. He was merely pleased by the learner's presence.
"None of you is taking this seriously," He said, glancing a pitiful and disgusting look at the learners.
"If you can't get this shell done, don't dare to do the Takts further of elite level." He notably implied.
"What's a Takt?" Isla asked slightly lifting her strawberry blonde to her back.
"It's a higher level of learning and controlling your abilities." The Jacket bearer strolled towards the group and passed a glare at Aubrey who was throwing needless through her sharp gaze at him.
"Abilities?" Ella asked in mere confusion.
"Yeah the one with you were born and the one's which have been passed on to you through genes." Jareth said stiffing his hands inside his pocket. He saw the piercing glare from Aubrey's oceanic blue eyes. He shook his head and continued looking at his group.
"So what is Urja?"
"Urja is the ability to use the aura and powers around you, like the force of life running through trees and the way plants breathe and animals live; all that ability is Urja. But we can use that ability to manipulate the nature around us and use it for our benefit." The jacket bearer was almost wording the texts out of a book he had read in the Library.
"So doesn't it imbalance the surroundings? And why use Urja if we have our own abilities?" Ella arched her brows and questioned him in an unfaithful manner. Kellen smiled at her immediate smartness. 'That's what has made her unique' He thought.
"It doesn't, just think of it like the life cycle, the way living things die and get decomposed in the soil but after sometime a new life is formed and it goes on." This time everyone was able to understand the way he was explaining things to them like how a parent would explain it to their toddler. But a huge frown was formed on Ella's forehead. It seems she wasn't satisfied with his explanation Kellen noticed her unsatisfied face and smiled gently.
"Alright let me simple it down for you." He accustomed his hands on the ground while his body bent down. The group watched curiously. "Now notice closely." His palms were resting on the ground. He touched the tip of his index fingers and his thumb.
"Prithvi Urja!" His summoning voice was deeper as he stood up just after his statement. A small shake under their feet imbalanced the group standing. The lightly held onto their self while keeping their balance.
"What are you doing, idiot?' Aubrey almost felt like she could fall after the ground was shaking. It was then when she noticed the tough walls around them.
"Where the hell are we?" Ella looked around while she heard the long exhasperated shout from Aubrey and couldn't help but twitch her lips.
"Calm down, Aubrey." She said softly. Aubrey stomped her feet and then started to look around. Ella touched the dusty walls and examined the long walls covering them in circle.
"Is it that we just elevated down to the ground? or the land was pulled up in shape of walls?" She said as she tapped her hand on the wall, some dirt fallen out like sprinkles and she turned around to notice the hazel-green eyed guy's reaction. He shook his head and followed a soft gaze at her.
"None of them," He said as he pressed his hand over to the soft and moist soil again.
"Reverse Prithvi Urja" While doing the same hand gesture like before, a long vibration shake them. Isla almost grabbed on to Ella's hand but kept her body balanced to herself. She was too occupied about why Kellen chose to show them Urja within the session.
With a shaking vibration the group was thrown at the same place where Kellen used his Urja. Nothing seems to change around them, the learners were still trying to use their powers to build the shell and Mr Samuel's look was still disappointed.
"With Urja you can travel in the time space." Kellen said with a cheeky smile. Everyone had their mouth formed in amused O expression while Ella gasped at the new knowledge.
"Regarding your second question about why we use Urja if we have abilities is because new combination of powers can be unlocked by using our unque abilities with Urja. And we can have some other people involved with us which is not sometimes possible for only takt users." He lightly ruffled his hairs and looked at Ella.
The jacket bearer continued, "The duelling which we both tried is the rarest possibility, even the talented shimers found it quite imossible to do it. In a way while my takt stays inside of you, you can use your powers with me."
She nodded learning about time space which brought her thoughts right back to the mysterious book she was reading last night till morning. She wondered if the guy on his deathbed used some kind of Urja unconsciously and hence was teleported into the time-space where he was born. To Ella, this whole theory was too confusing to even consider but her doubts were ready to research more on it. She became too curious to know all of it.
"So you made us time travel?' Ella implored with wavy eyebrows. Kellen showered a small curvy smile and nodded.
"You will understand this when you learn more and use Urja on your own, because like our Takts, Urja variates with our way of using it." Kellen said after loosening his wrists normally like his other hand and she nodded
"Easy on the hand," Ella gently warned him
"What happened to his hand now?" Aubrey moved her disinterested eyes at Kellen and then a curious look at me.
"He was helping me with my powe….
"....How much farther have you reached towards your goal, Ella?" Her heartbeat started running as his question escalated a whole lot of attention on the brown eyed girl. Their little gossip caught his attention as he directly looked at her. The short black hairs reaching his shoulders bounced slowly as he looked at her group.