Still waiting in the open field for Manchester to give them some lessons. While some leaned-on trees to support themselves, some laid on rocks, some rested on the grasses beneath the spots shaded by trees from the sun.
A portal suddenly opens, having the looks of a distorted spatial tunnel, somewhat like a hole through space. This directed everyone's attention away from what they were busy with to the portal… filled with so much curiosity of what pops out of the portal, they were like 'finally he is here' well it was actually him Manchester. He is the man in-charge with every training and lessons to be given to upcoming warriors, he is a replacement.
Manchester walks out of the portal… he had a silver-colored scarf wrapped around his neck, he was putting on a coat that reached the middle of his calf level. Both of his hands were in his pockets, he had a black hat on his head, he was chewing on a thin piece of wood about two inches long.
Filled with little bit of annoyance, Thomas stood up from the grass raising up on his feet saying to Manchester as he still was on his so-called cool entrance
"Manchester sir, what took you so long, according to the rule book, an instructor must not be even five minutes late to his lecture"
"I see you already know my name (he spits out the thin piece of wood he was chewing) perhaps there will be no need for an introduction" Manchester said looking down, he had his hat covering his entire face.
"well I don't know you, so umm, you might want to bring your identity to our awareness, so…" Lucy said with a bored kind of tune as she spoke, she was leaning on a tree with one of her hand in her pocket the other peeling off the tree's bark. She had both of her eyes tied or covered with a black cloth, a lot of people throws this question at her; "yo Lucy, you got something in your eyes, how do you see, lass". Well she is regarded as the silent one, but once in a while she talks to make clarity of someone's identity, she is very serious with the identity of people, she is like that one true person that might just always remember everyone's names ages after graduation.
"But I mentioned his name earlier (Thomas said referring to Lucy's comment, he then looks around and immediately grabbed the fact that his earlier comment wasn't considered reasonable) … oh they never listen"
"Well I am… (he raises his head up slightly, thereby displaying only his eyes, then immediately his name echoed in everyone's head, he somewhat communicated to them like a telepath)
They all came alive from their weak response in surprise the moment they found out that he is a telepath…
"Wow, you are a telepath" Elliott said in a bit of surprise.
"yeah I am, I possess those abilities; but you see here, us Xenians, we possess cells that normal beings don't have, these extra single mechanism of life that we have allows us to do things no ordinary human can do, so our abilities is fused with our biological embodiment, our abilities are part of us, we did not acquire them, one could say that Xenians are the evolved versions of normal humans in terms of things the normal person found difficult to execute but has to get them done, in a means to survive, the Xenian cells were then cultivated… but take note you are not just limited to a single ability… well depends on the kind of Xenian you are, some may say the abilities you possess, is a reflection of who you are, or what you are to become... or who you are meant to be, the personality that revolves round you circling about the past, the present and the future. You can choose to evolve, you can choose not to, it is your choice that requires a thousand steps, but you have a limit… currently right now some of you only possess few abilities not more than five, some of you maybe one, the point is the ability you possess may be different from the ability the other possesses"
"so, you are saying, not all Xenians possess the ability to heal beyond human's ability" Ally asked.
"yes Lucia, you are right"
"I am not Lucia, she is" Ally said, looking a bit confused of Manchester misconception, and then pointing at Lucy.
"call me Lucy, that is my mom's name"
Everyone had the looks of surprise…
"sorry, sometimes I accidentally go into peoples thought, that is something I currently have no control of, my bad… (he appeared troubled while staring deeply at Lucy, thereby raising up his head completely, he continued on his teaching…) the study of Xenian's biology, goes a long way, it has not been completed, or maybe never to be completed, it might just spam as long as infinity itself, we have diverse combinations, some possess large amount of xenic energy, but are only able to ultilize superspeed, some are only able to heal, some might even be Xenians for years but never manifested their ability. So, it varies, like you all know what Lady Elizabeth is capable of doing, she is under the category of those that possess diverse capability. It is then left for you to make the best out of your ability, so in proper words I am Manchester, your new instructor, responsible for all your trainings and everything you need to know about yourself… now I know you all might've heard or learnt these things in your previous grades, but it gets advance… very soon we will be going on a practical aspect, whereby I would have to assess your ability, when I say soon, I mean real soon, so today I shall be dividing you all into groups"
"Group A, group B and group C, equal numbers in different groups, since we are exactly twelve here…" As Manchester spoke, Elliott cuts in…
"You are saying it as if the rest are missing this class, we were more than twenty in this grade, the rest died defending us weaklings who boarded the secret hideout, have some consideration for the heroes"
"I know Elliott, I know about the heroes that died that night, and it bothers me, some of them chose to fight, in respective of the rule given that hinders low graders from participation of critical battles, and that is why we are here now to prove that their efforts were not in vain, I am sorry for the wrong manners there Elliott. But you guys are not cowards, we all fought to defend the empire, we worked hard, we always stood out till the last day… did we ever hide, you students never hid yourselves, you took it as a responsibility, even though we were part of those who boarded the hideout, that doesn't mean you are cowards, you are here for Arcadia to be among the living. So clearly, we all had our parts to play, you remain because you need to carry the dreams of our predecessors, survival is the part we have to play, however we all fought on the very last day" as he lectures them in the open field, he patrolled to and fro at a path front of them
"Did we?" Luthur asked as all the students stared at him.
"What do you mean?" Manchester asked…
"you should have remembered to make exclusions" Luthur replied.
"you are saying, you all here didn't have a part to play, in getting us here"
"Not exactly, we did, but some had a part to play as being the weaklings needed to be protected… I mean, while we were fighting for our survival, some were sitting back guarded like 'a prince'…"
"I see you speak of the Empress's son"
"yeah, I am… Sebastian was always guarded, while we went for support at the last day, he is nothing but a coward, although his mom subjected him to extra lessons, he still wasn't able to grasp any, once his mom says 'keep him safe' he just sits back saying 'yes guide me, guide me, I am scared like a little baby'…" he pitched up his voice as he spoke those last statement in form of an expression.
"Luthur stop it now" Manchester said as he puts on a serious look, but Luthur still kept on showering Sebastian with more insults.
"your mother made you train harder than everyone here, she had taught you several times but tell me bro, what have you learnt? Nothing, absolutely nothing at all, just because you are worthless, a big useless basket, what pours into a basket leaks out, you couldn't even defend yourself, you got yourself severely injured, you are a scum a worthless one indeed, all you do is run for your life"
"Luthur stop it now" Lydia yelled, while everyone including Manchester kept staring at Luthur, he still kept on talking, while Sebastian was still leaning on the tree with his hands in his pockets, he remained calm expressing no emotions at all not even staring at Luthur's direction.
"He is so cool, his silence, his posture, I am on cloud nine" Sara said with her hands under her chin as she wiggles around in admiration…
"Answer me scum, answer me, you're trying to play cool, answer me let me derive some pleasure from this moment" he yelled as he bursts into laughter like a lunatic.
"Luthur, look at me" Manchester said calmly, as his eyes glowed in a dark blue color, with his hat casting shadows on his face, giving his stare a more deadlier look… Luthur took a gaze at his face meeting with his inimical stare… immediately, Luthur had fear grasp onto him; that moment bunch of human arm began to emerge from his body, each growing out of the other, they began growing towards his face the closer they got to his face, the smaller they become, they were baby's arm like a lot of them, the growth was rapid… Luthur began screaming in pain like when you watch your guts being operated on by a bunch of doctor, not pain but trauma. Suddenly one arm emerges out of his mouth with a sudden force, it was slimy and irritating to watch, this time it was something like an actual person covered in a dark-blue fluid crawling out of his mouth, it was forcing its way through… Luthur muffled… while everyone around him screamed in surprise and intense shock, it was crawling, bringing out the other arm, placing both arms on his shoulders to pull itself up, Luthur watched the head slowly emerge from his mouth, starting from its head… the moment it was about revealing its face… bam... he snapped out... it was all an illusion, back in reality Luthur was screaming holding his own neck, his mouth was wide opened, he was screaming like something was actually crawling out of his mouth, suddenly he comes back to his senses, he was both terrified and traumatized he looked left and right observing everyone, he then realized that it was an illusion, he gave Manchester a fearful gaze and said…
"what the bloody hell was that? What did you do?"
"Do you want to see the entire face of that person, do you want to see it come out completely from you and pick your brain… huh, sounds to me you were pretty scared and terrified, now have I made my point, or you want me to subject you to a four-hundred-year-old experience of that" Manchester said…
"no, I am sorry" Luthur said in fear.
"I can't hear you"
"noooo" Luthur yelled…
"you guys think, all this is fun, I have heard stuffs about this class that you lack teamwork, and all of you only think oneselve… here you are speaking nonsense about your teammate, now listen to me everyone, from this day onward, you all improve on everything, you are not even compared to what is out there, I have seen terrible things, and if you go out there you are dead… what I showed Luthur was something that actually happened… so don't let me use that technique on you, so if you all collaborate, I won't do this the hard way"
Everyone nodded, staring at Manchester fearfully, although they did not experience the Illusion Luthur just saw, but through the way he was screaming like he was been straggled from the inside almost as if he had his lungs squeezed Luthur was still laying there terrified…
"I sense fear, do not tremble, because more is yet to come…" Manchester stares at everyone and saw them having fear in their eyes…
"Fear not, do not be terrified…" he then paused for about thirty seconds… then he burst into laughter, he laughed so uncontrollably, that moment everyone else joined both the cool ones this also included Luthur… he was laughing out his guts to the extent he fell down to the ground on his bottom sitting upright, he takes off his hat and placed it on his knee, when they all stopped laughing, they were all on the floor sitting as the cold wind blew by…
"Sir, you are weird" Ally said… that moment they immediately knew the kind of teacher he was, the kind that jokes when the time is right, and goes death serious when times are intense, from the moment he came out of the portal, it was to give them this friendly but critical atmosphere that helps them relate with him as much as possible easily.
"Manchester, you made mentioned of us being twelve earlier, we are actually eleven" Lauren asked…
"Oh yeah, there is someone joining you, she was transferred to this region, shortly before the attack, although her sister stays here… welcome in your new classmate, you are to treat her with respect as she is your senior in grade, but since there are no other grade to join, she has to join you all temporarily for just the moment…"
"what grade is she in" Sirius asked after all this while he never mentioned anything he had stayed death silence… why now, because a new girl is joining in.
"she is indeed more skilled than what you can imagine, the best in her class, she has the skill of a grade ten student, she is the seventh grade"
"Ava, you can come on out now" a girl then pops out of the portal Manchester opened after he closed the one earlier. She had her red beautiful hair weaved in large braids to her back making them two in number… she was dressed entirely in a black garment somehow like a gown but it was loosed and free reaching her knee level, she had her boot reaching the top part of her calves… her looks were captivating, she was gorgeous, a pronounced beauty indeed that got Sirius faking out a loouud cough… he said to himself… "now that is a lady worth fighting for"
"Now none of you should not try anything stupid… she is somewhat close to Lady Elizabeth" he said as he gave Sirius an intense stare.
"Ava introduce yourself like we talked about" Manchester said to Ava in an informal way.
"My name is Ava, I am a girl as you can see, probably four feet tall, don't ask if I know about nursery rhymes, because as a four feet tall person, I find them rather disturbing…"
she is actually about 5"6, an all round bored kind of girl… she sighed.