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Ivory smirked when she saw Mari panicking; she smiled at her class mates who in turn clapped as she returned to her seat. The next person was Natasha.

‘Hello everyone my name is Natasha Colby, my father is knight Colby’ Natasha said. Collective gasps could be heard, everyone knew the story of how knight Colby rose to fame, he went from grass to grace.

‘I’m proficient in literature, calligraphy and embroidery’.

Everyone clapped as Natasha went back to her seat. At last everyone had introduced themselves.

Mr. Barclay smiled ‘okay everyone today we’ll be discussing about the basics of being an elemental’.

As he said this, the word ‘basic’ made out of fire appeared in the air, the whole class was surprised and some clapped.

‘He has to be at least phase 3 to do that’ Tasha whispered to ivory who in turned agreed.

‘Why can’t I see any witches or healers’ ivory asked Natasha.

‘This is an elemental only enlightment class not a general class; you can’t expect a fire elemental to teach healers or witches’

Mr. Barclay continued ‘as we all know being an elemental, a witch or healer you have to awaken your soul space filled with energy, your energy…’

‘Excuse me sir but what is this energy?’ ivory curiously asked.

Mr. Barclay smiled and then asked ‘do anyone know what type of energy I’m talking about’.

Everyone shaked their head in confusion.

‘that water puddle in your soul space is your energy, the wisp of fire in your soul  space is your energy, that energy flows around your body, the fireballs or boulders or water that shoots out of your hands are formed by your energy…does everyone get it now’.

‘Yes Mr. Barclay’ everyone responded.

‘good but a word of advice, never let your energy run out or you might end up dying if your fortunate enough you might end up in a vegetative state or being an idiot’.

‘Vegetative state’ ivory murmured wondering what it was after thing long and hard she finally got what it meant.

‘Ha that must be the word for being in a coma makes sense, they call it a vegetative state cause they stay like a vegetable’.

After sometime classes were over so they went outside to attend the next class which was called ‘weaponry’ which ivory taught was a rather tacky name and this class was a general class.

‘Okay everyone’ Mrs. Fiona who was the teacher said as she tried to calm the chatty students which worked. ‘before I start to teach you, I would like two students to volunteer to fight without using your energies and in your next lesson I would point out your mistakes each students would choose a weapon which they think would suit them most’.

Some people raised their hands enthusiastically. Ivory didn’t even bother herself until she heard something shocking.

‘You with the silver hair and milky jade jewelry’ Fiona said pointing at the confused ivory.

‘Me’ ivory said pointing to herself in confusion as she looked left and right.

Mrs. Fiona almost smacked her head ‘who else would I be calling if not you’.

‘My brother’ ivory stated as a matter-of-fact as she pointed at her brother who looked like he would break her neck if she was not careful.

‘You have a brother’ Mrs. Fiona asked as she gazed at Ivan ‘you to, come on, it would be interesting if you two fought’.

Ivan mouth twitched, he glared at ivory who had chills in her spine and came out.

‘Choose your weapons wisely’ Mrs. Fiona said smiling.

‘I have mine’ Ivan said as he bought out a sword handle from his waist, then a sharp blade came out of the handle. Ivory gulped, she didn’t have any knowledge in sword fighting, it was just the fifth day she came to this world out of which she spent two days in coma.

She cooled herself the walked to Chloe. ‘Go get my weapon for me, you know where it is’. Chloe bowed and left the training ground, as Chloe left the training ground Mrs. Fiona ordered a student to go get a healer.  Four minutes later Chloe was back with two swords in a sheath.

Ivory unsheathed them, she admired as they glowed in the sun, both swords were not straights swords but they were swords which had an arc.

‘Okay let’s do this’ Ivan said, the two of them faced each other in battle stance while other people were cheering.

‘One, two, fight’ Mrs. Fiona shouted. The two of them ran towards each other and their swords collided they paused for a minute and looked at each other in the eye. Ivory smirked which ticked Ivan off; they separated and came back slashing swords at each other.

Ivory didn’t know how she knew how to sword fight but the minute she held the sword memories that were not her own were further unlocked, her hands just moved on their own as if sword fighting was something she did every day.

Ivory tried to slice Ivan stomach but Ivan used his sword to defend himself, she tried to use the other sword to slash his neck but he bent. Ivory used her leg to push him which made him fly some distance away.

She smirked and rushed at him intending to slice him piece by piece, he wouldn’t die because she had seen a phase 7 healer nearby and besides he was being equally ruthless. She stabbed the ground he was a millisecond ago, he tried to use his sword to injure her but she did a cartwheel.

Even though she was going about trying to slice him into two she couldn’t do it after all she came from a civilized society where killing was prohibited besides he is her brother.

Their swords clashed for quite some time then ivory saw an undefended part of his body; she immediately brought her sword to his neck which made them stop fighting.

‘I won’ ivory declared.

‘No you didn’t’ Ivan responded, ivory felt a jab on her stomach, she looked at it and saw his sword poking her belly.

‘It’s a draw’ Mrs. Fiona announced, some people booed.

Fuck it’ ivory murmured and picked her sheath on the ground, Ivan looked at her departing figure in surprise wondering when she started to say crude words.

It was night, ivory laid on her bed but her roommate-Chloe-had slept off, she thought of her life in the past few days and began to worry has she had no plan what so ever. Before she knew it she slept off.

At midnight the window that was slightly ajar was opened fully, a shadow stepped inside the room with utter quietness, the figure was clad in black and had a black mask on his/her face. When the figure saw ivory sleeping soundly it went to her. He smiled viciously in his mask and sat on her body.

Ivory awoke before she could comprehend what was happening, the figure started to choke her.  Her face turned from pale white to bright red. She tried to remove the person hands from her neck but he was just too powerful.