The morning was still settling when Aether made his way back to school after a week of recovery. He spotted Freya right away in the bustling cafeteria and slid into the seat next to her. "Oh, you're back! You sure took a long break" Freya said with a smile, Akira's little companion, jumped onto her head and curled up contentedly.
Aether exhaled, "Yeah, so what did I miss while I was gone? I bet I'm behind in the test right now". Freya searched through her bag and pulled out her binder "Here, just because you were recovering I'll let you use my notes." Freya said, Aether's eye widened open and he smiled "Really? Thank you so much, Freya!" He grinned and started copying her notes, grateful for the head start.
Just as he relaxed, Lucas stormed over, hands slamming on the table. "I want to spar—now!" he demanded.
Aether blinked, taken aback. "I... Lucas, I just got back, and—"
"I don't care! Fight me!" Lucas interrupted.
Freya stood up for him. "Could you stop? Aether literally saved you, and now you're pushing him for a fight? What's wrong with you?"
But before things could escalate, the cafeteria's attention turned to a nearby table where Akira stood, facing off against a group of bullies. The tension was thick as one of the bullies pounded his fist, cracking the table.
"What did you say punk?" one of the bullies yelled stepping closer to Akira.
Akira a bit angry, "You deaf? I said get lost...idiot"
The bully's face reddened as he leaned in closer, clearly fuming. "Think you're tough, huh?"
"I'll let it slide if you give up the girl, seems like a fair trade don't you think" the bully said trying to make an exchange.
Akira didn't flinch. "Sure thing, friend," he replied calmly, before kicking the table. With a powerful strike, the entire table flipped, slamming into the three bullies and sending them into the wall.
"Incredible...how did he kick the entire table up and launch it towards them with ease? Not even I can do that" Freya said a bit amazed at what Akira just did.
But Aether analyzed what had actually unfolded, "Akira uses wind magic right? So he might have used some of the wind to lighten the table and amplified his strength. Wind magic can make heavy things feel light." Aether explained.
More reinforcements had arrived at the battle and tried to take Akira on, it was one vs ten, "We need to help him!" Freya said as she tried to run off but Lucas stopped her.
"No, you'll just get in his way." Lucas said as he blocked her with his arm out to prevent her from moving further.
Akira stood calm as the group advanced. "If I draw my blade, you'll regret it," he warned. The bullies laughed, mocking his empty weapon sheath.
"Pfft, blade? What blade? Is it invisible or something or did you leave it at your mommy's house" they made fun of Akira and they started to charge at him.
Akira smirked, then placed his hand on his sheath as if he was gripping a sword, chanting, "Wind Style, Dust Storm Blade!" Akira yelled as a magical sword appeared in the holster and Akira with a sweeping draw, a powerful gust surged across the cafeteria, scattering trays, students, and bullies alike.
The room settled, with everyone processing what just happened. The bullies, now lying against lockers, were staring in awe and terror. Akira sheathed his blade, which disappeared as quickly as it had formed.
Aether chuckled to Lucas. "Still sure you want that duel?"
"T-that kid is terrifying...he seems to be at least Grand Mage level no?" Lucas questioned to himself, but the truth is no one really knew what Akira was, all anyone knew was he was a transfer student nothing else. He's very quiet and collected and he also isn't interested in talking to people.
"You didn't have to do that..." the female student said, Akira closed his eyes and let out a sigh, "At least they were lucky to witness 10% of my power" Akira said as he walked away and she followed Akira.
Aether looked around the cafeteria, there was food everywhere, the whole cafeteria was just a disaster and within five minutes, the school staff found out about the whole mess and forced everyone to start cleaning the cafeteria, no one was able to leave until it was all cleaned.
Aether and Freya started to clean the cafeteria with the rest of the students, they all were complaining about how they were all punished for Akira's actions, but Aether and Freya were more worried about why Akira would have resorted to such powerful spells instead of something else. "I can't believe Akira has such power hidden behind him" Freya said to Aether.
"I always thought he was a regular mage, but now I'm scared of him. I never knew he could even make a katana with his own magic, can you also do that Freya?" Aether asked a bit curiously, but she shook her head "No, but anyone can actually do that. That would also explain why his sheath was actually empty, he actually has a katana in the sheath but he obviously hid it" Freya explained, and she also mentioned that Akira is possibly a weapon mage, they create weapons out of magic and use it to fight against enemy's, they don't take physical forms like normal weapons so they aren't as durable, the strength depends on the user she explained.
Professor Lysander walked up to Aether and Freya, "How's cleaning duty?" he said laughing a bit, "What's up Professor?" Freya said looking up at him and Lysander asked the two of them to come with him, "W-what about the cafe?" Aether said but Professor Lysander sighed and said it was important and plus as long as a teacher allowed them to leave they don't have to stay and clean the cafe and the two of them took the chance to leave and go towards his office.
Aether and Freya sat down on the couch across from Professor Lysander, the Professor had poured them a cup of tea and they all settled down "So what is it Professor?" Aether asked and the Professor took a sip before speaking, "Do you two know anything about Akira?" as asked.
"Why didn't you just ask us earlier?" Aether questioned Professor Lysander, but he shook his head "Teachers are monitoring the child, and are interrogating students who are connected to him for information..." Professor Lysander explained.
Freya was petting Lithia and she looked up to Lysander "Wait isn't that what you're doing right now?" and Lysander laughed "No no, I'm not gonna do that to you guys. You two are my precious students, but the reason why I asked you all here was so none of the other teachers could listen in to our conversation." Professor Lysander explained in hopes they would at least trust him as their professor.
"Well to be honest we don't know much about Akira, we do know his abilities if you'd like to know that" Aether said and Professor Lysander chimed in "He uses wind magic right and he's a weapon mage, is that about it?" Professor Lysander deducted.
"So why is everyone so...suspicious of him?" Freya asked, and the air grew tense. "To be honest, the school thinks Akira is actually a creation" Professor Lysander explained and the two of them were in complete shock, "Creation!? Like...he wasn't born like everyone else?" Aether tried to get more of a clear explanation, Professor Lysander frowned "Yes, so he's possibly like a weapon and whoever created Akira might be using Akira as a weapon and well that could cause issues" Professor Lysander said.
"If you guys are that worried why not just remove him from the school?" Freya said trying to come up with a solution, but Lysander shook his head "Afraid we can't just remove him from the school, even if we believe he's a threat he could actually be a real human for all we know, and if his "guardians" find out we removed him, there could be conflict..." Professor Lysander explained.