Chapter 9

Today was the day when I would start my training. I had to prepare myself because I knew my sister was going to make it tough. She knew how badly I wanted to get strong, so I thank her for it, but I always wonder if she knows I want to get revenge against the dragons. I hope she doesn't, I don't want her to be worried about me. It would make sense if she does though, she is my sister, so she is probably able to read me now.

This morning I had no time whatsoever to get woken up properly. For one my sister had woken me up ridiculously early and she instantly made me rush my breakfast and made me skip getting washed at the lake telling me I could do it after training.

We started pretty much as soon as I had finished my breakfast. The first thing Mae wanted to teach me was how to use the energy and manipulate it so I could enhance my speed and strength with it.

She gave a brief explanation on how I should do it, telling me that it's pretty much the same as being able to channel it into my core just instead of putting it into my core I should put it into my body and its muscle. Sure, it sounds easy enough but putting it into practice was another story. I don't know why but the energy just wouldn't stay, it kept flowing back out no matter how hard I tried to keep it there. It was nothing like storing it into my core, there was nowhere to put it.

I asked my sister if she could explain it a bit more but all she said was to find it out myself, with the reasoning it would help me get used to thinking on my feet. She wasn't wrong but it was definitely slowing down the amount of training I could be doing.

I could tell the amount of energy I was actually manipulating was a lot. I had practiced with doing that for a week, so it made sense, but I now understand why Garv and my sister were so shocked.

I sat down on a small rock to try and think about why the energy would store in my muscle like it does within my core. A gust of wind blew, and I realised why it hadn't been working. I was doing it wrong the whole time. I shouldn't have been trying to store the energy in each individual muscle. I should have been trying to let the energy flow throughout my whole body at rapid paces. This was pretty much the principle for storing it in your core but your core let the energy flow by itself, so you didn't have to do anything, you just had to imagine it staying there.

I ran to where my sister was waiting with an obstacle course through the woods for me to complete with the speed enhancement that I had come to realise how to do. Mae told me if I wanted to be able to go my fastest, I should just focus on the circulation in my legs. I didn't listen though because if I concentrated the energy flow in my whole body, I would be able to easily climb over obstacle using my arms at the same time. It would also get me used to spreading it out through my whole body more efficiently.

I line up at the mark on the ground that signified the start of the obstacle course Mae had kindly set up for me to test out what I had learned and put it into real situations.

My sister fires a ball of fire, the explosion telling me to start running and make the fastest possible time I could. She let me look through the course beforehand, so I knew exactly where I was going and didn't end up veering of the track and getting lost. I knew there was more to the track than she had shown me though because that's just the way she is. There would probably be some secret flying arrows that will get flung at me that I'll have to dodge or some swinging logs.

Boom!!

The explosion of the fireball echoes through the forest telling me to start my sprint to the finish line about a quarter of kilometre away. I instantly charged up the flow of energy in my body as I heard the explosion and whizzed of straight away. Dust from the ground coming up from the ground from the speed I was going. It wasn't much compared to my sister yet, but I knew I was going really fats for only awakening about a week ago now.

I definitely surpassed the 50mph barrier with ease. The great thing about channelling the energy into my whole body was that I could use any part of my body to my advantage. Even swinging in the trees would be a lot faster than usual. I decide to jump up onto the tree branches as I knew most the obstacles were on the ground.

I got about halfway through the course up on the branches, but something felt off. There was no way it would be this easy. To just jump into the trees to dodge all of the obstacles. Suddenly a massive wooden barrier swung out in front of me. I ran headfirst right into it; I knew there was a reason I felt uneasy. My sister left traps in the trees now too which would be a lot harder to dodge as there was less space for me to move about.

I got up from the ground after a regained my self-awareness after the big impact I just took. I take a little breather so I'm 100% certain that I am okay, and I go the rest of the sprint on the ground dodging all of the obstacles. I ended up losing a lot of time from running into that wooden wall that appeared before me. I also wasted some time when I would slowdown sometimes to get past an obstacle.

It became clearly noticed by me that I really wasn't ready to move at such high speeds yet. I wasn't able to be fully fluid with my movement around the obstacles in the way. I knew my sister had noticed to and something was telling me we were going to be doing this course quite a bit until I mastered my movement at high speeds.

My speed was only going to get better as I got stronger, so it was great that it was the first thing I was training in. I would always try my best with this as this was assassins training, I could tell because the track had everything to do with speed and agility. Mostly it was to do with just training my ability to enhance my body, but I knew it was solely focused on training an assassin, well at least I felt that way.

I practiced on the course non-stop until I was being sick. Being stuck in this small body for now was very restricting. I couldn't wait till I had become more grown up with a bigger and stronger body. My limits could be endless then, I would be able to do everything I was able to do with my old body for physical training then. I would be able to do 100 times more with the magic I know by then to add to it all.

I kept practising on the course for about a month and I had realised I had mastered my movement. I was running a quarter of a mile in less than 40 seconds even with obstacles standing in my way. They were nothing more than a mere annoyance in my way now.

I went to gather my sister and Garv so I could show them what I can do now. I didn't mention how fast I could do the course because I thought it was a pretty normal time to be able to do it in. I once again lined up at the starting line and readied myself to begin the run. Mae firing up the fireball to signal me to start my sprint.

Boom!!