Lucas nodded his head, but something weird was happening in his chest, or his heart? It happened as soon as the words "Captain" left Elena's mouth, but Lucas decided to dismiss this strange feeling for now and started observing his student
"Alright! Here it goes" She said as she readied her arm, there was a hint of unease and hesitation hiding in her voice
Elena closed her eyes as her breath became more rapid, a gust of powerful and untamed wind started collected at the tip of her pointer and middle finger. It was as if Lucas was witnessing the creation of a small blackhole as wind from around them started rushing towards Elena's hands, materializing and forming the shape of a sort of deformed rugby ball
"S-so, this is what I usually do alright?" Elena said as she slightly tilted her head to look at Lucas as beads of sweat started rolling down from her forehead "But before, I was able to control it so much easier! I'm kind of struggling right now... and usually the size isn't this big, it's supposed to be the size of a pebble!"
Lucas didn't really understand Elena's problem, dosen't it seem more like a positive than a negative? A bigger weapon is always better than a smaller one! You don't have to aim as much, not to mention the sheer power Lucas was witnessing right now! Was his student always this talented?
"Hmm, I don't really see the problem here Ms Elena" he said nonchalantly towards his flustered student
"I- Woah!" Before she was able to finish, he power started getting out of control, causing her to have to stop in the middle of her sentence to refocus "I told you to drop the Ms! And I'm about to show you the real problem right now!" The frustrated Elena further bent her knees, she was almost lunging
Her arm trembled as her body twisted and turned, the ball of wind seemed to be glowing at this point... this was it, it was finally her time to show off her skills to her teacher. Now all that's left to do was to try her best to not topple over like every time she practiced
Concentration was key to this
[Elena : Alright! Even though I haven't been able to do this correctly, I should at least try to save a bit of face as the older one! 3...2...]
"Lucas! Mom!"
As soon as she heard the voice of her darling son, it was over for her...
"Siun! Mom-"
Elena was blasted around 40 meters back, sent tumbling into boxes of wooden swords and metal shields along with some more scattered training dummies, the crashing noises were followed by a pained, but muffled, cry for help from Elena herself
"Ms Elena!"
"Mom!"
The two hurriedly ran towards Elena, with Lucas arriving to her aid first, hoisting her up by her elbow that emerged from the bottom of the pile of equipment
"With the Ms again... You know I am your subordinate now right?" Elena said, dusting the dirt off of her pants defeatedly
"What happened to mom?" Siun tugged at Lucas's white cuff, damping it with sweat caused by their little 'race'
"Is something wrong with her power's?" He said with worry in his voice, Siun knew that his mother just received a job that absolutely required strong powers (He begged Doryu to convince the king into giving Elena, Lucas and Karter some normal jobs... he didn't want to lose them from doing mercenary work of course)
"Don't worry" Lucas said yanking his arm away from the child's grubby palms "Ms Elena is just having a hard time controlling her new found powers"
[Tex : Uwahh! How cold, what did you do to Lucas for him to come to hate you?]
[Hey I didn't do shit to him! He should be grateful, I got him a job!]