Chapter 10 His abilities explained and unknown abilities?

Thinking back to the last bridge, I replayed the scene in my mind. The look up suprise in Aura's eyes as the Myric Dragon had merged eith her. It was clear to him she had no clue about this rare ability, not suprising, considering only a handful of Kitsune had acquired it over the last millennia.

Those that had, always led a life of solitude. Feared and respected by their clans.

Looking over my shoulder, my eyes pass over each member of my party. A hint of shock running through me as streams of information stream into my mind. Detailed explanations of their abilities and strengths appearing like lists in my minds eye.

Aura, Level 15

Race: Kitsune Magi

Age: 16

Alignment: Light +10

HP: 550

MP: 700

Vitality: 30

Endurance: 25

Strength: 25

Dexterity: 30

Spirit: 100

Luck: ??? +10

Abilities: Summoner (1), Shifting(2 forms), Night vision, future sight, Spirit of the Sword

Elements: Light, Lightning, Fire

Status: Confused, Asleep

Edith, Level 60

Race: Dragonic Elemental, Princess

Age: 200

Alignment: Neutral +5

HP: 3500

MP: 5000

Vitality: 350

Endurance: 200

Strength: 40

Dexterity: 90

Spirit:500

Luck: 25 (+5)

Abilities: Breath ATK(Fire, Ice, Water, Light), Summon Natural Disasters: Blade Storm(Tornado made up of razor sharp blades of wind), Earthquake: Summons spears of stone or crystal from the ground for 50ft around the caster, Dragonic Heart(When health falls below 30% all stats increased by 300), Light Pillar, Flaming Ice Cage, Mist of Regen, Shared Power.

Shaking my head in exasperation, I look at the two again, not understanding what this information was coming from, or what it ment. What the hell are levels? My find goes blank for a moment before I turn my mental eye upon myself.

'What can I see about myself, maybe that will help me understand this.....list better.' As I concentrated upon my own physic, another stream of information poured into my mind.

Alister, Level 20

Race: Darklight Guardian, White Pheonix Lupin (DNA splice: Shadow Eagle. Spirit Bind: Elemental Annomaly(Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Space, Time, Light, Dark.)

Current Tranferance Age: (20),

Over All: 10,585

Alignment: N/A (+25) +80

HP: 1000

MP: 8000

Vitality: 50

Endurance:1500

Strength:800

Dexterity: 200

Spirit: 300

Luck: ?!? (+25) +80

Abilities: Ancient Veil(Fire-Water-Light) , Dimensional Storage, Shifting(2 full forms and partial depends upon you Imagination, get thinking boy), Omnidirectional Jump (Air-Space Mana Based), Surge (Fire-Air), Shared Sight, Cataclysm(Fire-Earth, Water-Air, Space-Time...Surely you get the picture?.) Enveloping Aura....

NEED UNLOCKED

Shaking my head I turn my minds eye to each section one at a time.

Level: Based upon experiance gained from training and life (Spars, Life or death battles, Special books.)

THIS IS ALL YOU KNOW, TIME TO STUDY UP.

Alighnment: Where you fall in the balance of good and evil, Light and Dark. Self explanatory right?

Health Points(HP) How much damage you can take. looks like you are above average for your level. Wonder why that is?

Mana Points(MP) How many spells and mana based abilities you can use before rest is needed.

Your bloodline is freakishly strong in this stat.....and your mother was a demon of a trainer. (Mana increases through repetitive use of spells and continous mediation)

Vitality(VIT) For every point +10

Endurance(END) How much weight can be carried, and distance that can Sprinted.

Strength(STG) Determines what weapons can used and damage that can be dealt with strength based weaponry.

Dexterity(DEX) Determines agility, what weapons can be used and damage dealt by Dex based weapons.

Spirit(SP) Determines Mana Points, and spell strength

Luck: simply what it says, determines what you find i chests and what is gained from enemies defeated.

Ancient Veil: Heals upon contact for each target +5mp drain when MP falls below 50%, spell takes 25% MP needed from Target's'

Combines elements of Fire, Water, and Light to heal everything short of death.

Omnidirectional Jump: User can jump off of platforms, and form hand/foot holds to change direction at will. Mana cost reduced with mastery level. Current cost: 5 mana+10 sec

Surge: Send a pulse of lightning through the air around you, or through a weapon to deal damage to enemies.

Effects: Paralysis, Fire Damage causes Burn(deals damage over time 5mpc×sp+lvl÷fire defence)

Cataclysm: Element combination attack, limited at this time to Fire and Light. Channel Fire and Light mana into a destructive beam. Fired from user, the sun, or reflect it off of the moon(third option magnifies damage.)

Aura Domain: Expand your aura over a choosen radius, channel elemental and emotion buffs to allies, debuffs to enemies that fall within your domain.

Duration: 5MPC+SPxLVL Minutes

Cool Down: 12hr

'These are my abilities? Why am I seeing them like these now all of a sudden?'

Turning my gaze back to my sleeping friends, my gaze lands on Holy.

Holy, level 10

Race: Aviaire (High Elf)

Age: 18

Alignment: Light +10

HP: 200

MP: 400

Vitality:15

Endurance: 600

Strength: 20

Dexterity: 80

Spirit: 35

Luck: N/A +10

Abilities: Natures Call, Mana drain, Refresh, Natures Sense, Bond, Empath Channeling

Valiora, Level 15

Race: Aviaire

Age: 20

Alignment: Light 10

HP: 500

MP: 600

Vitality: 35

Endurance: 650

Strength: 30

Dexterity: 75

Spirit: 55

Luck: 35 +10

Abilities: Eye of the Pheonix, Natures Might, Call of the Wild, Bond, Calming Aura, Psychic Whip, Psychic Sheilds, Arrow Storm

Sa'hera, level 40

Race: Golden-silver Liger

Age: 29

Alignment: Light +8

HP: 3000

MP: 500

Vitality: 250

Endurance: 500

Strength: 200

Dexterity: 250

Spirit: 50

Luck: 10 +8

Abilities: Diamond Claw, Mode Change (Might of the Gold Lion, Agility of the Silver Tiger), Call for Aid, Summon Ancestor.

"Good morning Ali."

Snapping out of my half trance like state, my eyes meet the gentle gaze of Aura's. Having shifted into her two-legged form, a tight fitting silver robe all that she wore. A shimmering silver light momentairly Illuminates the cave, as I shift. A gentle smile curling my lips as she steps up before me, my gaze flicks to the partially concealed cave before I take her hand and lead her farther up the mountain. My eyes shimmering in the earily morning light.

Reaching the top of the cliff, My gaze meets Aura's once more just before she throws her arms around his neck. Her lips meeting his in a slow hesitant kiss. After a moments suprise, my arms circle her waist, beneath her now loss steal-silk robe. A shudder runs through me as i hold her tight, my head tilting as I deepen the kiss. Her scent, that of Fire and ancient forests reminding me of more peaceful times. Pulling back with a low moan, I look down into her eyes, one arm beneath her ass as i hold her up.

"I know you feel it Ali. But I will not ask for more." Aura whispers with a gentle smile, her eyes bright with want. With a playful nip to his neck, she slips from his hold. Tightening her sash like belt once more before moving to sit near the cliffs edge. "You've seen it haven't you? The level system, or as some call it Leaders Stat System. Your mother once mentioned it to my sister, when one of her blood gains five followers. They are able to read the abilities, and strengths of them. You have Holy, Valiora, Sa'hera, Edith and Myself. Not only have you met the requirements, but you also unlocked your own page haven't you?" She says slowly, with a knowing look in her crystaline eyes, as she peers over her shoulder. In the next moment she flips back to her feet, a slim crystal sword appearing from thin air as she lands light face me. "My sister always says, their is only one thing better then an earily morning spar to get the blood pumping."

Even before she finished speaking her figure blured forward, blade whistling through the air towards my right side. Taking a halfstep back and to the right, letting her blade pass by millimeters away. With a flick of my wrist, my black crystal blade appears in hand, just in time to catch Aura's reverse swing. With wicked smiles upon our faces, the deadly dance began. Strikes fast enough our near translucent blades blurred, each block, and parry sounding like a bell chimming in the early morning. Ringing through the mountain range around them.

Animals gathered to watch the exchange, Aura's laughter and the sound of crystaline blades clashing putting the wildlife at ease. A half hour passes in a blur, with Aura's sword resting against my neck as the sun clears the horizon.

Pulling back, her sword vanishes. Exitment clear in her eyes.

"Brianna told me you were good with a blade, but that I had eclipsed you ablities by the age of 10. 'The spirit of the sword walks with you' Where my mothers dying words, I didn't understand what she ment until now. I could feel the future path of your blade, where it would be." Shaking her head Aura tilts her head, noting the beads of sweat upon my forehead. "Though by the end of this adventure of ours, I think your hidden talents will show."

Pivoting on her right heel, Aura strides away. Her fingers trailing through the fur of a large black wolf that sat near the switchback path. The scared brutt closed his eyes in pleasure at her light touch.

Sending my blade back to my dimentional storage, I follow after her. Curiosity flashing in my gaze as her words repeat in my mind. First about what hers sister said, then her mothers line about the Spirit of the Sword. Shugging, I shift in mid stride and leap the 30feet down the cliff. Landing lightly a yard in front of Aura. With a low chuckle, i flick her in the forehead with the tip of my fluffy tail and lay down before her.

"You need more sleep little lady, ride with Valiora for a few hours. Then you can run more." I says with slight tilt to my head, wondering how she would take me worrying about her.

Smiling she wordlessly nods before climbing up onto the saddle once more inplace upon my back. Pushing myself back up, I pad into the cave as the last of our party was packing. Though to my suprise, Valiora was pasing her gear for Edith to store.

"Yes Ali, I'll be riding Edith for the next leg of the trip. It seems during the night that Holy found her animal spirit." She says with pride clear in her voice. Nodding her head to the horse sized blue dragon just out of my line of sight. Looking over at Holy in her second form, I chuckle softly and back slip back out of the cave.

"Looks like our group is getting stronger still. Hopefully our growth will continue." I whsiper softly before raising my voice slightly. "Ok, here is a quick quiz for all of you. What are all of the elements and their higher forms?"

After a short pause as everyone glances between themselves, Edith shakes her head.

"Fire, higher form Lightning: Red, Blue, Black, and White. Water, higher form Ice: White, Blue, and Black. Air, higher form Gravity. Earth, Higher form Metal: Black, Grey and Silver. Then there are the upper elements, Light and Dark they have no higher forms. Neither do the special elements Space and Time." Edith clearly spoke from memory, as if she had heared the speech repeatedly. Afterwords, a light blush colors her cheeks as she notices everyone eyes upon her.

"Very good Edith, thank you for that." Nodding to the young dragonling, I turn to look over everyone else. "Each one of you have different affinities, while we travel i will be teaching you to tap into them, and push you to unlock the higher forms. Memorize the new information, I will be testing you all around sunset."

Twirling around I take off down the trail once more, only to leap up to kick off the mountain and back the way I came an instant later, Narrowly dodging a spear of electrified ice.

"Ah, I finaly found you. It's no wonder the others found no trace of you in the forest." A low pitched voice said from above, the sound of wings beating steadily reaching me as i look up at the crimson winged fallen, so long away from the heavens that her wings had shifted to that of a demons. Over sized bat wings. His hair perfectly matched the scaled wings, hung down to midback in a tight braid. Pure black skin as if he had been burnt alive, ash drifting down around him as he watched us.

"My name is Azareth, and I will be your death!!"