By: Autumn R.
I
jogged the hallway to catch up to Ira, who knew her way around the place better
than I did.
"Ira,
is training hard?" I asked.
"Some
of it, but not all. You're training with other First Years, so it will be
easier." Ira explained. The door to the training room opened, revealing a snowstorm.
The girl, that accursed snow girl was there, creating a swirling creation of
death around me.
"Ira..."
I shivered, lighting myself on fire for warmth and getting the snowball's
attention.
"Ira!
I didn't know we hired a walking furnace!" She called, increasing the
snow. I blazed brighter, a yellow more than a red.
"Glacier,
please. Don't." Ira called back, her skin turning into pure iron.
Glacier
huffed, but complied, stopping the storm. Once Glacier stopped her snow, I was
a walking fire hazard. I mean, I was on fire, so...
"Why
don't we lose the flames, Torchy, and then we'll talk." She said. I
growled, stepping up to her. My heat was affecting her, so she backed away.
"Class!"
Mr. Deg greeted, Casper and Eval following him. "Today, we'll be testing
your agility skills! How about it, Brilliant? Care to join us?"
I
grumbled, nodding. "I'll join." Mr. Deg smiled, motioning Glacier and
I over to him. “First things first. What better way to test agility than an
obstacle course?" He pressed a button on the ground, patches of the floor opened
up to be replaced by several obstacles, including air rings and spinning
columns with rods sticking out.
"Ooh!
Ooh, ooh! Can I go first? Can I? Can I?" Casper asked excitedly, jumping
up and down. Mr. Deg nodded, the excited girl ran towards the course. She did a
handstand flip over the rolling lasers, avoiding the beams with practiced
precision. Casper then avoided the columns with ease without a single hit,
flowing in between like a leaf in the wind. Even Eval was surprised, and I
thought he was emotionless. Mr. Deg applauded Casper as she scaled the wall
easily and started swinging through the air hoops using her webs as leverage.
"Wonderful!
You seem to have a lot of practice in the agility field." He praised,
shaking Casper's hand once she had swung back over.
"My
mother believed that having powers meant that Spire and I would need to hide
our whole lives. So she taught us how to dodge and tumble. She also enrolled us
in gymnastics and Ninjutsu." Casper explained, looking humbly proud. I
rolled my eyes.
"I'm
going next." I shouted as I raced onto the course. First obstacle: Laser
beams. I turned to full flame, flipping and rolling under and over the thin red
beams. Next: trapeze bars. I jumped up, grasping the first one and doing flips
to each bar. Hands, knees, hands, knees, back and forth. The third obstacle was
to be a challenge, with the close quarters movements. I slipped between the
first few, using my flames like a cat's whiskers. Anytime a flame was brushed,
I would move to accommodate. I ended up finishing the third obstacle easily,
moving onto scaling the wall. This was fun, I thought as I used my fire to grip
the wall around my hands. Once I reached the top, I did a little pose and dove
off the other side and shot through the rings, a flaming bullet of small mass
and incredible speed. The frame of my body was visible, the training suit still
flawless against the flames.
"Well
done, Brilliant! Well done!" Mr. Deg exclaimed enthusiastically.
"Have you ever done a course before?" I shook my head no, and looked
very smug as Glacier scowled in frustration.
-~-
"You
showed her! I think you beat her record time!" Ira exclaimed, Dusty
nodding shyly. Even though it was the girls' dorm, Dusty was allowed to stay because
the boys in the boys dorm only beat him up. Stupid boys.
"Her
record...time?" I asked, confused.
"Yeah!
Her time was one minute and 18 seconds! What was yours?" Ira asked.
"54
seconds." I replied. Ira, Dusty, and Casper went nuts, while Eval clapped
three times. I went and sat on his lap, letting my hair turn to flames slowly
and then building into large flames on my head. The rest of my skin started
slowly catching fire as well, creating a beautiful array of fire and light on a
pale boy's lap. Eval didn't react, purple and yellow particles beginning to
float around him.
"Brilliant,
he's gonna-" I didn't let her finish, I disappeared. Okay, I basically
disappeared in a puff of red smoke and reappeared in another location.
"So,
Eval, what were you going to do?" I asked casually and resulting in shocked
laughter from Ira and Casper.
"Um..."
That was the first thing I had heard Eval say. "Teleport."
"Psh.
Call it something cool, like warping. Warping's cool." Casper piped,
bouncing in her chair. Spire nodded, watching the exchange with rapture.
Eval
furrowed his thin black eyebrows, thinking it over.
"I
guess it does." He answered quietly, Warping next to me. When he did,
particles flashed outward then into a small point and disappeared with a flash.
"Interesting..."
Ira mused, eyes narrowing.
A
faint “Oh boy” from Spire later and then we were stuck in a rant for the next
hour and 45 minutes. Talk about never doing that again.
"Worst.
Mistake. Ever." I moaned, earning a pillow to the face from said rant-er. Eval
snickered, getting the second pillow to his face.
"What?
I was just..." He faltered, cowering under her sharp gaze. I scowled,
glaring at her with glowing yellow eyes.
"Ira,
that was mean." She mumbled an apology, fluffing her pillow. I rolled my
eyes and did the same, settling down.
-~-
In
my next class I was introduced to powers. The goal was that I was to learn how
to control them, but I already had that skill. "Brilliant? Aren't you going
to participate?" Mr. Deg asked. I shook my head, leaning against the wall.
"I
can control my fire." I answered, not moving.
-~-
That
night, I had just drifted off to sleep as an alarm began to blare. Ira and
Dusty jumped up, hurrying to leave the room. I copied their movements, yanking
on my pack and dashing out of the room. Students poured out of the classroom
and dormitory doors, drenched in red emergency lights. "To the
trees!" Casper called. Casper and Spire used their spider-shooting skills
to get into the nearest trees, while Eval and I teleported. The sight we saw
from our perch brought our little worlds to a halt. A huge black and purple
cloud was advancing towards the facility.
"Oh
great. A week in and already there's trouble." I scowled.
"Let's
suit up!" Ira called, reaching for the packs. I was digging through mine just
as a large fireball of energy hit my back, knocking me from the tree and
sending me tumbling to the forest floor. I gave a groan as another energy blast
came right for me.
-~-
Find out what happens next to Brilliant and her friends in part
3 of Mystery Law and Protection Force. Part 3 will be posted at limegreengiraffe.org
on August 26.
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