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~chapter 9~

[Meltdowns and Flowers]

That evening, i carried him inside, he had passed out after our episode the lightning, that. I was intrigued and afraid of using the lightning... damn, this guy is heavy! i set him down gingerly on his bead, and went off to my own. I woke up to a bright, sunshiny day. I found a green and brown bodice and skirt set waiting for me in the closet, so i put it on and headed into the main room of the cave. "good morning sleepy head." was my welcome. I saw the old man eating an apple sitting on the counter, waiting for me. "That was some crazy stuff yesterday, I'm surprised you aren't dead!. dead? why...? "I..." i started, but he cut me off. "no, don't worry about. now, I'm going to teach you HOW I've been able to get all the rare materials for your garments and all the weapons I've made.
We lept off of the cliff and picked up a good strong wind to bring us to the clearing. When we landed, i found myself a little lost. "Nysicia, what are we doing here?" as i said this, i saw a sheathed sword come flying at me! i caught it barely and gave the old man a glare. "Today," he started "i am going to teach you some of the beginnings of swordsmanship, are you ready?" I was ready for this! today was going to be a lot of fun. I belted the sword to my waist and drew it. its pretty heavy for a sword... whats this made of? "I'll bet you want to know why its so heavy right? well... there's a metal called Thorium, and when made into an alloy, ti becomes very dense. It is primarily used in Thick plates of armor, but sometimes in two-handed swords. I took the smithing style of the thorium blades and made a katana. I hope your ready, i wont be going easy on you."
He lept into the air and struck to my ribs, I parried the strike and tried to counter with a flourishing riposte. "Oh child! you need to do better than that! Come get me!" with that, he did a back flip, then started flying away! if I'm going to be a fighter, i need to learn how to fight in the sky... and not chop my wings off... I jumped into the sky after him; and started to catch up to him slightly. I knew how to beat him, ill climb higher than he is, and strike between his wings. "Above you Ildecia!" I turned too late, he was already coming at me with the same strike, i held up a block, but it failed, i had no support and so i plummeted to the ground. thud... or so it wounded.. i thought i broke a leg. Now I'm mad. the b*****d smote me with my own plan... I jumped into the sky, closing in on him, pulling up the sword to strike him when the air pressure suddenly changed and i realized how he is doing this he is bending the air around him to move faster! i realized this too late, because he struck my shoulder and sent me crashing down...again. My purple eyes flared red for a second, I positioned myself carefully, lept into the air, and struck him with a connecting slash from left shoulder to right hip. It missed. He countered it and i fell to the ground again. as i was falling I remembered that i have magic. I stopped the air around me, thrust it under my wings, and shot back up. I layered my sword with a difference in the air current known hereafter as wind slash and swung. It was apparently powerful enough that although it had missed I deforested a few acres of land with it. we descended into the forest in order to rest.
"Wonderful, wonderful. You are making excellent progress. Now, i need to show you how to use earth magics; These involve manipulating minerals and rocks. and Nature, plants and animals." He did a quick sign with his arms and made a stone gauntlet. Then he went up to the nearest tree, spoke a few words to at, and received a pure redwood staff. "now you try, make me something i won't see often. I sighed, walked up to the nearest bit of nature i could find at this time i was woozy and about to fall over. The nearest flower reminded me of ones back in the Seraphim lands. I plucked it and reminded myself of the flowers i adored in the Seraphim lands. When i opened my eyes, i held in my hands a flower, made of gems. An emerald stalk and leaves, blooming into a splendor of glittering sapphire, ruby and amethyst facets on the petals. "my god... that's beautiful.. how.. how did you do it?" for the first time Nysicia was in awe at what i had done. his normal cheering ones were crazed glee "well.. all i did was remind myself of the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, then I applied it to this flower."this is absolutely astounding.... show me something else!" Well, I couldn't, I fell to my knees, then on my back and passed out in that field. When i woke up, It was dark and long into the night. The stars were performing a concert for anyone lucky enough to see or hear it. The stars each glittered beautifully, but together, they created the most amazing luminescent darkness i have ever seen. I tried to stand up, but i couldn't, The orchestrated beauty overhead was too enchanting to let it leave my sight. i curled up there and slept.