Chapter 8: She's pretty

what that kind of money can for us?'

  Jake just stood there thinking then he asked.

  'Why so the Boss guy not send adults for the mining of the cloud energy instead of kids?'

  'You know a lot of people won't suspect kids going in and out of a place but they will suspect if it was an adult!' Anthony replied.

  Jake then thought of the reward though he didn't like the idea of smuggling, if they could get that kind of money then school life in Arcadia academy won't be hard.

  'Ok let's do it, so when is the day of the operation?' Asked Jake.

 'Tomorrow night and it's located at the Tethys east of Terran!'

   Later Patrick also agreed and they head on to the plan, and they went to bed. Jake woke up later to train, he, first of all, summoned his new beast powers.

     When he activated it and started using it he saw that everything even his surroundings was moving slowly, it was as if time was stopping he could see some insects which were supposed to be fast flyers flying slowly, he deactivated the Bashir skill and also started training on his mage and fighter powers. 

  After practicing for some hours, Jake retired back to the room, Thee next day they got dressed and went to classes.

   Jake remembered that Kathy would attend mage class so he went in early he could see a few students already waiting for the teacher to come.

     After some minutes he saw Kathy and Amy entering the class, he was smiling inwardly.

   'Jake you are been such a pervert!' he said to himself.

   'Hello again Jake, so you are also in mage class, if I may ask what's your skill?' Asked Kathy

' Don't know yet still yet to gain one what about you, what's yours?'

   'You will see!' She laughed and walk past Jake.

Amy didn't leave with Kathy instead she stood there looking at Jake.

   'You know if you have a crush on her you can tell her before it's late, she has other eyes on her and it seems she also has a crush on you!' Amy said and smiled passed Jake.

   Jake turned red, he was so shy that he wished he could enter a place n hide. Soon the teacher came inside the class. she was a different teacher, it wasn't mina their regular mage teacher.

      'Good day students, am lamia your second mage teacher or your assistant mage teacher, today we are going to learn Elemental – The ability to control or manipulate the elements of nature (water, fire, wind, earth), and you all will have to use your powers even if it's not Elemental powers, you will use it for Absorption – The ability to absorb energy and convert into something else, like physical strength. and also Augmentation – The ability to enhance or weaken someone else's powers.'

  'So, first of all, am going to show you, and then 2 persons are going to come out and show me how they do it with their powers!'

 Mina immediately made Small rocks appear and she made a flick with her fingers and what look like a dummy appeared.

    'Watch closely because am only going to show you this once!'

  She made another flick sound and the dummy seems to come to life, it then made a much bigger rock appear and it was heading towards teacher lamia.

  'Watch closely this is where Absorption comes in!' Lamia shouted.

  And when the rock was only a few inches away she made her arms look as if it wants to grab the large rock, but when everyone watched closely they could see she was now controlling the rock, and then she started making the rock shrink and it became as little as stones.

   'You see students the last stage is called Augmentation which is to weaken your opponent's ability and then defeat him or her, so am going to need a volunteer!' Lamia said. And Soon some students raised their hands and the teacher pointed at Kathy and she walked to the front of the training class.

  'First of all, display your skill or powers!' lamia said

   And immediately Kathy started spinning and when she stopped everyone could see White bright wings on her back.

'Wow, a harpy!'

 'This is so rare!'

'She must be one of the royals or the rich!

  Many students started talking but were silenced by lamia. She flicked her fingers and another dummy appeared at Kathy's front.

 'Now show us what you got!'

 Kathy then flew up and she close her eyes when she opened it she looked wide, she then started shooting out spikes from her hand, the dummy just dodged all the spikes and it created even bigger and much more spikes and shot them at Kathy, Kathy seeing this started using her powers to stop it in the air just like what their teacher lamia did.

     She managed to stop all but 2 got close to her, she just moved to the side and it passed her, Then she fell on the floor tired, the teacher walked towards her.

  'Good work and on your first try I think you will be a strong mage when you get powerful!' said lamia, soon the class was over and Jake met up with his friends.

   'So how was class today mister nice guy?' Patrick asked.

'It was fun and I get to see Kathy's powers, she's a harpy!' Jake replied.

    'What a harpy that's so rare, she's really lucky!' said Anthony

'Now let's get on to the plan!' 

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