Twenty minutes goes by as we travel through the forest, the towering trees cast shadows upon us, the sound of distant growls and the occasional twig branch snapping close by made the group tense and apprehensive. The chatter of anticipation and adventure died down about ten minutes ago, when the sun began to set and darkness began to approach onto the group.
We huddled together slightly keeping close to each other as Lucas led the way "Don't be scared you guys! With me leading the way you've got nothing to worry about!"
"Stop shouting will you, you'll attract attention"
"Yeah, what he said, we don't want to become beast food because of you"
A few people whispered to Lucas, trying to get him to quiet down and I couldn't help but agree, most beasts are known to have good hearing, the last thing I would want is to have my life end here.
I shivered slightly as I felt the cool air on my skin, I looked up to see the bright moon and how the shadows seems to shift as night falls.
"It's too dark, I can't see anything someone do something!"
"Shut up already" Kiran snapped, his voice snapped "Zerith stop staring at the moon. Use your fire to help Lucas, staring at the moon won't get me to the Acadamy quicker"
Kiran shouted out, breaking me out of my thoughts once again 'this fool, only knows how to disturb me' I walked ahead of the group close to Lucas and held my hand out in the air.
Channelling mana is not so hard, once you get the hang of it, for beginners like me. All I have to do is focus on my mana heart, then send a signal from my brain to my mana heart using the excess mana in my mana stream and the intentions from my thoughts, once that happens my heart will pump out an amount of mana from my heart, the amount of mana is what my body thinks by instinct i desire for the action I'm going to take.
How does my instincts know exactly? When one awakens their mana not only does the body get enhanced but also the instincts and mind. Once the instincts calculate how much mana i desire, it will be be pumped into and through my mana veins to preform the action i desire, if I'm capable. Then you finish it with a:
"Fire flame"
A medium sized flame appeared above my hand lighting up the area around us, letting us continue our journey.
As we continued to walk through the forest, we huddled together closer, without realising it, as if trying to get some sort of comfort in this tense environment.
Lyra came close to me, looking at the flame in my hand "So cool! It's much more better than my element"
"Lyra, your element has alot of uses there's no point comparing" i chuckled to Lyra, after all, her element was not bad at all.
"Laugh all you want, but no one's gonna save you when you're both in the stomach of a beast" Kiran warned as he glared at us both.
"Don't be so negative man, nothings happened so far right?" I patted Kirans shoulder trying to comfort him but he slapped it away.
Lyra chuckled "That's right, Kiran. Don't be so hard on yourself all the time"
Snap
We all stopped chatting and looked towards the noise and we instantly all took a step back, I held up my flame to get a better look.
A wolf type beast, it had dark fur and red piercing eyes, with spikes all around its body, it was huge also 'from the spikes, I'm guessing it's an Earth elemental' I gulped hard 'this is serious trouble'