"So.... what you're saying is, I'm some type of ancient mage?"
"Yes, that is what I said." Elder Finn spoke so smoothly I almost fell asleep. I just felt calm around him.
"But, I'm telling you I am not from here. I can't have some super magical potential. I didn't even think magic was real until about five minutes ago when I saw hippie over there move the water with her eyes."
"Renn... calm down," his words seemed to cut through me. Straight to the core of my soul. "This is your destiny, and no matter how crazy it sounds, you are stronger than you think."
"If I'm stronger than I think then how come I can't do magic like everyone else?"
"Well... maybe... maybe you are here to show us a new magic."
I looked down at my hands and ran my fingers along my wrists. My veins looked oddly blue. My veins had always been very obvious but never this bright. They seemed to glow. A hand appeared around my wrist and pulled my hand up to show Elder Finn.
"His veins are brighter than usual. Should we worry?" The hooded figure with the silver eyes had my hand in their tight grasp again.
"No. That is quite common in mages starting magic. You should know this Nora."
"I've seen new blood veins before and we both know they look nothing like this." Nora slipped off her hood. She had shoulder-length silver hair to match her eyes.
"Show him to Kaia. She'll know what it means."
"OK, you two are talking like i'm some type of science project...." They both kept their eyes on each other, "OK! and now you're ignoring me...."
Before I knew it I was being pulled out of the room by this random woman.
"Who are you?"
"Elder Nora. Do you not listen?" She kept her eyes straight forward.
"Of course I listen. But I mean past your name. Who are you?"
"Well..... I'm... I don't know." She stopped for a moment before continuing to walk.
"Yeah.... I'm not too sure who I am anymore either."
Nora led me to another one of those rooms Rein showed me. Kaia was sitting on the ground. She disappeared for a moment and reappeared in front of us.
"Yay! New student... wait.... Renn? Are you here to learn how to use your inner frequency?"
"I don't know ask the elder. I got dragged her."
"Yeah. Nora can be a bit forceful sometimes." Kaia and I shared a laugh for a moment before pulling me away.
She sat down on a chair. There weren't any others so I just sat on the floor.
"OK. So. Inner Frequencies are types of magics that are tied to our souls. They can be super strong or super weak. Just like a person's soul. Now we are going to figure out what you can do."
She grabbed my wrist and stared dead in my eyes. Her face was completely washed of emotion. It felt like our minds were connected. Her eyes moved from side to side as if she were reading something. Was she reading me?
"Wha-"
"I'm amplifying your frequency. I won't have to much. Yours is already pretty strong." We stayed silent for a moment before she stood up. She pulled me to my feet.
Kaia tapped her foot on the stone floor. My foot began to tap along with hers.
"Listen to the music of your soul. Follow it. Push it outward."
All I heard in my head was white noise. It was getting loud now.
"What do you hear? I need to know to tell you what you can do with it."
".... white noise. It's deafening."
"White noise? That can't be right. If it is... think of a body part on your body. Like your hair for example."
My hair? It was an odd request but I listened. I closed my eyes and imagined my hair. It was neck length. It was down and not pulled up like usual.
Kaia's voice broke into my mind, "Imagine your hair getting longer or shorter."
Again I didn't question her. My hair in my mind grew down my waist and to the floor.
"Now open your eyes."
When I opened my eyes Kaia was smirking super wide. I looked down and saw long flowing hair along the floor. I spun around and felt my hair wrap around me.
Kaia snorted, "Ok. Don't get caught up here. We still have more you can do with just this part of your ability.
I spun back out of my hair and waited for new direction. We ended up talking for hours and she showed me different abilities I could use. We both had the same type of inner frequency. A new person walked in. It was a tall guy. He wore tattered robes. His skin was tanned and he had relatively good muscles.
Kaia elbowed me in the ribs, "drool much?" she then yelled from across the room, "Hey, Aaron. Come on you got frequency training."
The guy smiled and ran over. He glanced at me and smiled for a moment.
"Oh, Aaron. This is Renn. Renn Yang. He's pretty strong from what I know about him so far." Kaia and Aaron looked me up and down.
Aaron put his hand out to me for a hand shake. His hand was about seven times bigger than my face. And he was abut as tall as two of me. He ha dot be around six foot. I shook his hand and walked away and watched their "training".
Aaron's ability was a type of shield. The cool thing about it was when he dropped his shield it sent out a small burst of energy to knock his opponents away. Kaia was testing him by teleporting around him and attacking his shields.
When they were done we just sat down and talked about the world.
"So ... you're from a mining village?"
"Yeah. Its scary and very strict. When they found out I had magical potential they beat me and kicked me out." Aaron looked down remembering the past.
"And that's when I found him. Beaten and bloody in the woods. And we fell in love over sense." Kaia started laughing and blew kisses at Aaron.
"Gross!" Aaron swatted at her.
"Aaron isn't... the straightest knife in the wall." Aaron punched Kaia for that comment, "What! You aren't. I mean Renn isn't either."
"Hey! You don't know that." I blushed and sank down into my robes.
"It sounds like you don't even know that." Kaia smiled and patted my back, "I don't know where you come from but here we accept everyone for who they are. Mostly."
"Yeah. It doesn't matter who or what you like. Or who and what you are." Aaron smiled and patted my back with Kaia.
I was on the verge of tears.
"OK, enough sappy stuff. Tomorrow, you both should report back here early as early as you can for training. We are going to learn how to combine inner frequencies between two or more people." Kaia stood up and dusted herself off.
Aaron stood up and pulled me to my feet. Kaia looked at me and teased me and Aaron.
Is this what having friends is like? I hope I stay like this for a while...
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