Chapter 22 : MAGIC PRACTICE

"Shit..." Maurice said as the car slowed down into a complete stop on the side of the road.

"Well... we're out of damn gas..." Maurice wasn't very mad. He knew he should have filling up the tank before leaving Lunento.

"Oh no..." Krycella said sinking into her seat.

"Well, this is all my fault, so... guess I'll just walk on back to Lunento and get us a tank of gas..." Maurice said.

"Can't Zoar just use his magic?" Kasstia asked.

Not a single one of them has ever thought of using Zoar's SPEED to do things besides fighting Neal.

"That's a good idea... but..." Zoar said.

"What's the 'but... I'm tired of the buts..." Maurice said sinking to his knees.

"People seeing me use it would cause a commotion more than likely." Zoar took out his sword and set it inside the car.

"So, one of us still needs to go get a tank of gas." Zoar began stretching.

"Damn... looks like I'll be going now..."Maurice began his venture back to Lunento.

"What will we do while we wait, Zoar?" Kasstia asked.

"I and Krycella need to practice using our magic," Zoar said, turning his stare from Kasstia to Krycella.

"Really!?" Krycella seemed a bit nervous.

"Yeah. I haven't seen you do anything since we first met. Show me what you can do." Zoar said, crossing his arms and stepping back with Kasstia.

"Okay..." Krycella said.

She stood still and closed her eyes.

Nothing happened for a few seconds.

Then the temperature around them began to drop and snow particles formed in the air.

Tiny jolts of her ELECTRICITY began to spark as well.

Then the air around her began to turn into ice and it formed into a big sphere surrounding her.

Bolts that looked like small lightning strikes jolted around the sphere.

"Wow..." Kasstia said, amazed by its beauty.

"How was it?" Krycella was suddenly right behind them.

"What-!" Zoar grabbed Kasstia and jumped back.

"It's just me!" Krycella put her hands up in the air.

Zoar looked at the sphere and it began to disappear.

He looked back at Krycella, still confused.

"How'd you do that?" He said while putting Kasstia down.

"Special Magic! I think that's what Velvet called it..." Krycella said.

"That still doesn't explain how that happened," Zoar said.

"Oh... well, ya know what Special Magic is so... my ability is to freeze time for exactly 20 seconds!" Krycella said.

"But I can only do it once, every 4 days... heh..." Krycella laughed nervously.

"That's amazing!" Kasstia said, clasping her hands together.

"Really?" Krycella smiled.

"Yeah. I don't even know what my Special Magic ability is." Zoar said.

"Velvet told me about mine. I don't know how she knew, but she did so..." Krycella twirled her hair.

"That's great and all, but we need to start learning how to use our magic better. Well, more so me than you..." Zoar popped his knuckles.

"I know a lot of different attacks with my magic! You need to learn some of your own!" Krycella sat down on the back of the car and crossed her legs.

"Yeah..." Zoar stared at his hands for a few seconds.

"Almost there...." he said to himself.

He closed his eyes and began to activate his magic.

Zoar's aura began to glow and he felt the power within himself rise.

He opened his eyes and looked around.

He needed something to practice attacking.

"Give me my sword." He said aloud.

"Yessir!" Kasstia ran to the car and grabbed his sword and threw it at him.

He caught it without looking and smirked.

He saw a pretty sturdy tree in the distance.

He ran off to it.

It was about 200 meters away and he got there in 2 seconds.

He immediately began attacking it when he got to it.

He thought of many different ways to strike it.

He thought of striking it from above, below, left, and right.

He bounced off of trees and drove his sword into its bark. Then he thought of something fantastic.

He bounced off of the bigger tree and went straight into the air.

200, 400, 600, he went 800 meters in the sky above the tree.

He held his sword downwards and began to fly down to the tree at an incredible speed.

"Look at him!" Kasstia said in amazement.

"That's gonna destroy that tree!" Krycella stood atop the car to get a better view.

Zoar went straight through the middle of the tree and it exploded into thousands of pieces.

Zoar's aura flowed throughout the explosion.

"Wow..." Kasstia and Krycella said, amazed by the sight.

Zoar swung his sword out of the ground.

It was still stable and clean.

Zoar noticed something.

His right hand and part of his arm were glowing red.

He thought of it as part of his magic and ran to another tree and swung at it.

The tree exploded on impact and his arm's glow got dimmer.

He ran to another and hit it.

The tree exploded on impact and his arm's glow got dimmer.

He hit one more tree. It exploded and his arm's glow disappeared.

This was it. His special magic was the ability to use his right arm and anything it was holding to make things he hit explode. It seemed to be a 4 time only thing.

It must be like Krycella's ability. A timer and consequence.

Zoar ran back to the group. He deactivated his magic and put the sword away.

"How did you make those trees explode!?" Kasstia asked, excited looking.

"Yeah! Tell us!" Krycella ran up beside her, just as excited.

"I don't know, my arm turned red and it went away after 4 strikes..." Zoar was still curious as to what it was, even though it was more than likely his Special Magic.

"That's your Special Magic!" Krycella grabbed his hands and looked at them.

"Man, I can't do it..." Krycella let him go.

"Velvet could tell what type I was by looking at my palms...."

"Type?" Zoar and Kasstia said in sync.

"Yeah! There are different types of Special Magic! I and Zoar are Leins! Our abilities have a timer and a consequence put on them! The timer indicates how long or how many times you can use the power of your ability and the consequence is what must happen for you to use it again. There are 3 other types, but Velvet never told me about them." Krycella said.

"Interesting..." Zoar said.

The magic truly was an interesting concept.

The different elements of Basic abilities.

The way every magic-user is born with a different Special ability.

The fact you can train your kind of Custom Ability.

It was all so intriguing. Magic's name still didn't even know to anyone. The unsolved language held the secret to magic's name.

•••

It was now 8:28 PM and Maurice was nearing the car.

Maurice didn't realize how far they were from Lunento.

"I'M BACK!!!" Maurice yelled as he got closer.

Everyone was in the car playing card games with a pack of cards they found in the car.

"That's Maurice!"Krycella said and jumped out of the car. Zoar and Kasstia followed.

Maurice was drenched in sweat and was carrying a 15-gallon tank of gas.

"I'm starting to believe electric cars may be the right way..." Maurice said, running out of breath.

Zoar walked up to him and grabbed the tank.

"Thank..." Maurice collapsed and fell asleep.

"That big dummy!" Krycella said laughing.

Zoar and Kasstia smiled.

Zoar filled up the tank, then carried Maurice to the car.

They decided to sleep in the car for that night and pick up their speed again tomorrow.

They were almost there.

To Neal.