Following Ken into a room full of different pods, tools, tubes filled with glowing liquid and other different things, the students were now anxious about getting their magic. After hearing everything Ken had said about magic, the students were no longer very excited about getting it. Some didn't care about what Ken had said and were still very excited.
"Stop being a wimp Smith." Kevin said. "There's nothing to be scared of. The rules are simple, the magic chooses you and don't go past your limit."
"Yeah but what if a day comes where you have to go past your limit or else someone close to you is going to die?" Smith asked Kevin.
"Then I'll go past the limit but not for long." Kevin answered. "Now quit being a killjoy and move forward."
Still in the company of Cat and her friends, Jake was still in a good mood. The news of magic being a double-edged sword was in a way bad news but as long as he stayed within his limit, there would be no issues.
"Students," Ken said to get their attention, "this is Dr. Thomas, the current head of our researchers."
Looking at the man in front of them, Dr Thomas surely had the look of a researcher. Short, not too fat, very close to having no hair on his head, a lab coat over his body and a pen and notepad in his hands.
"Uh Dr. Thomas?" Ken said after waiting for a few seconds with no response from him.
"Huh?" Dr. Thomas said as he looked up from the table where he was taking notes from. "Oh sorry, don't mind me. Hello students, I am sure you all have heard a little bit about the story of our battle against the Werts. I want to let you know that it is not a must to receive the magic we are about to give you, if you decide you do not want the magic then you can simply wait and watch as others get their magic. But just so you know, without magic you will not be allowed to go on the frequent expeditions as a third year, the expeditions can be quite dangerous at times and we can not risk taking a student without magic on those expeditions. Am I understood?"
"Yes sir!" the students answered.
"Good." Dr. Thomas said. "This is a large laboratory, do not touch anything, there are multiple hidden cameras in this room so if you try to take anything we will know. Like you were told before, the magic chooses you. Walk around the room and when the magic is compatible with you, the glowing liquid in the tube starts vibrating."
The students began spreading out and walking around the room. They could see so many tubes with the name of the magical ability tagged on them.
Still walking around with Cat and her friends, Jake could hear them discussing about a magical ability. He was looking at a tube which was tagged Life Force Absorption. "Hey Dr. Thomas?" Jake called out.
"Yes?" Dr. Thomas answered.
"How do we..." Jake was about to ask a question when a girl screamed and looking in her direction, he could see a tube vibrating. Moving closer to take a better look, he could see it was tagged Somnokinesis.
"Everyone step back." Dr. Thomas said as he got to where the girl was screaming. "One of you step forward." he said to the set of people who were in front of the people who had stepped back.
Stepping forward was a boy, going closer to the tube which had stopped vibrating as everyone moved back, the tube remained unmoving.
"Move back." Dr. Thomas said when the tube didn't vibrate. "Next person."
This time the girl who had screamed stepped forward and the tube began to vibrate. "Young lady," Dr. Thomas said as he took the tube from its rack and handed it to the girl, "I believe you have found your magical ability."
"Really?" the girl asked sounding and looking very happy. "What do I do now? Do I drink it or something?"
"No come with me." Leading her to a reclining chair, she sat down and Dr. Thomas picked up a syringe from a rack of laboratory equipments. Taking the vibrating liquid out of the tube with the metal syringe, Dr. Thomas injected it into the right shoulder of the girl who had to look away due to the syringe.
"How do you feel?" Dr. Thomas asked the girl after injecting her with the liquid.
Watching from the sidelines, the other students were watching as the girl stood up and looked at her hands. "I feel different," the girl said, "a good different. What can the ability do?"
"A user of somnokinesis can induce sleep and manipulate aspects of sleep, like a person's dream." Dr. Thomas answered.
"You are going to be taught how to utilise your magical abilities when you get back to school." Ken said. "The rest of you continue moving around and find a magical ability that you are compatible with."
Looking at different abilities, Jake continued moving round the laboratory waiting for a magical ability to choose him. When he finally got close to a tube, the tube began to vibrate with extreme force.
Quickly taking it out of its rack so it doesn't break, Jake was holding onto it tightly but with just enough strength so he doesn't break the tube.
Running to meet him, Dr. Thomas led Jake to the same chair the girl before him had sat in. "Wow!" Dr. Thomas exclaimed as he took another metal syringe to inject the glowing liquid into Jake. "You are one lucky kid. That tube has been sitting there for over three years and it is a very powerful magical ability, it was not compatible with all the people that had been coming in here."
"Guess I am truly lucky." Jake said as the syringe was injected into his shoulder. "What ability is it?"
"Magic Mimicry." Dr. Thomas answered. "You will be able to copy the magic of people around you but it has a condition you must meet."
"What's the condition?" Jake asked.
"I don't know. You will have to figure it out yourself."
"Well that's great. This is some really cool type of magic." Jake said walking back to where Cat was.
"Jake." Cat said when she saw him. "What kind of magic did you get?"
"Magic Mimicry." Jake answered. "But don't tell everyone. Dr. Thomas said it's a really powerful type of magic, I don't want everyone to know about it. Have you found an ability yet?"
"No. I'm still walking around but no tube has..." Before she could complete her sentence, a tube to her left started vibrating and she picked it up.
Going to meet Dr. Thomas, she gave him the tube and sat down on the chair. "Empathic Telepathy." Dr. Thomas said reading the tag on the tube. "This is a nice magical ability."
"Really? What does it do?" Cat asked with felicity.
"It gives a person the power to hear the thoughts of others and also project thoughts into the mind of another person, this all depends on how strong your magic is." Dr. Thomas explained.
After everyone had gotten their magical abilities, Dr. Thomas had one last thing to tell them.
"From now on I suggest you all include caution in anything you are doing. Until you learn to control your magic, it is like a ticking time bomb that can explode at even the slightest trigger. So be extremely careful. Goodbye."
Leaving the laboratory in a single line, they all went back to the Seetle they had come in. After thanking Mr Ken for being their guide throughout the day, they headed back to school.