A figure approached Wand from behind while he was enjoying the beautiful scenery.
"Hey! Enjoying the scenery?" The child asked as Wand turned to look at the figure.
Wand saw an unassuming child—same age as him— with black hair and brown eyes looking at the rising sun.
"Yeah."
"I am Skyler! You might have noticed me, but I also got into Aurora Academy. What's your name?"
"My name is Wand from Happy Village! Where are you from?"
"I am from Brang village. The one near the capital."
"Oh? Brang village. I heard..." The boys kept talking about the villages, friends, and family with each other.
After a while, a man approached them.
"You lot should go inside now. The boat will start to speed up soon and I am sure you don't want to fall from this height."
Wand and Skyler got scared and quickly went inside.
" Let's meet again later, Skyler."
"Hmm, yeah! Later, Wand."
Wand ended up making a new friend that day.
Wand could feel the boat start to speed up.
After the boat attained a constant velocity a sound reverberated throughout the boat.
"Everyone is requested to come to the dining hall."
After that the sound stopped and Wand went out of his room. He also found Alaia and John while walking in the hall.
Some kind volunteer also guided them to the dining hall.
"Gasp" A small gasp escaped the mouth of the three kids.
After all, The dining hall of enormous. Although, that was to be expected from an enormous boat made from the collaboration of almost all of the academies.
Wand noticed two familiar figures too.
"Hey Skyler! Luna! Here come here!"
Both Skyler and Luna Walked towards them.
Skyler pointed towards Alaia and John "Wand! Are they your friends?"
"Hmm, yeah! Everyone this is Skyler, I met him at the main deck today! He is from Brang village. And Skyler, He is Alaia" Wand said pointing toward the white-haired teen "And He is John" he said pointing towards John.
"This is Luna. She is also from the same village as us. She got accepted into Scholars Academy."
As They sat down to eat, Skyler introduced himself to others. They kept on talking about various topics, making fun of each other, talking about future dreams and goals.
Skyler's ability [Rejuvenate] got him accepted into Aurora Academy. The brown-haired man—James— said that his ability could heal people and give a temporary boost in strength after wards. He would probably be placed in the Support group or department.
"I will now go and talk with some students who also got accepted into Scholar Academy. After all, I don't want to become an outcast with no friends." Luna said as she went away from the group.
"I also need to exercise today. Let's go back to our room." John said.
"Man! I miss my parents already." Alaia said as john nodded.
"We can still send them letters after we reach there. After 4 years when we graduate, we will be able to return too!" John said.
Wand was silent throughout the conversation. He also missed his parents; he was just stopping himself from thinking about it. He also had a 4-year-old sister.
He hopes for the coming 4 years to quickly pass then, he will be able to get a job and help his parents and sister live a better life.
The trio slowly walked as they reached their room.
After entering, Wand stripped his clothes—obviously, covering his genitals— and started exercising and stopped only after two hours.
"hahhh..hahhh" He was out of breath after exercising.
He quickly cleaned his sweat with a towel and started stretching his body while carefully applying Unie in his muscles, organs, and bones. He could feel the pain slowly go away.
He then slept for about an hour.
After waking up, Wand looked outside. He Could see that the sun was going to set, but it should have been mid-day only.
"Ah, I get it. The boat is moving towards east while Aurora is rotating in opposite direction. That's why the night came faster for us in the boat probably!" The Aurora rotating in its axis while revolving around the sun was a common knowledge in this world. The fact that their planet—Aurora— is round was a commonly accepted fact by most of the people.
Wand looked outside from the window in his room. There were no clouds below the ship.
Wand could see the endless blue sea kissing the dark red horizon.
The blue sea dyed red from the rays of sun. Sometimes, He could see a sea creature—fish— jumping out of the water and following the bat.
Looking at this Wand felt something in him rise. Wand wanted to explore this world. He wanted to Explore the Unknown that lied above and beneath the seas.
For that he required— "Everyone is requested to come to the dining hall." Wand jolted awake from his stupor.
Wand met Alaia and John again and the trio went to the dining hall. They sat down together with Skyler and talked about Aurora planet and its rotation around the sun.
After the meal, the kids went back to their room. The volunteers had advised them to sleep for the next eight hours as they will arrive at their destination in 10 hours.
They were going along a safe route to the main continent.
Wand went back but he couldn't sleep. He kept looking at the window, it was dark outside, but the blue rays of moon made it possible to see. Wand kept looking at some islands in the middle of the sea. One of them even had human civilization! After two hours of intensely looking outside he felt sleepy and went to sleep in his bed.
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*knock**knock*
"Wand!" a familiar voice spoke.
"Oi! Wand! Wake up. It's time for breakfast."
Wand groggily woke up and opened the door. A white-haired blue-eyed youth and violet-haired black eyed youth were standing there.
"What? It's already time?"
"Yeah, we are going to arrive in 2 hours." John replied.
Wand went along with the duo and had breakfast at the dining hall.
After about two hours, A voice reverberated "We have arrived at our destination. Everyone is to take their belongings and board out of the board through the same path they came from."
All the students rushed outside.
Outside the deck of the boat, Wand saw an enormous island located in the middle of an enormous lake where the Aurora academy was located. Looking at the opposite side—right side— of the boat, Wand saw a city which could put the capital city back home to shame. This city was the capital city of the largest and most powerful country in the main continent after all.
The capital city of Ender country— Totality city.
As the trio got out from the deck, they saw people from various academies waiting for the students and staff. All of them had a smaller boat with them. Except for two—Aurora academy and Scholar academy— which had a carriage with their name engraved on them.
All the ten students of Aurora academy approached the carriage without the instruction. It was time to go to the academy!