Unlocked Potential

Damien wakes up, gets his morning ritual out of the way. "Alright, it feels like it'll be a great day! Time to head out." Damien heads to Genesis Academy from his dorm room.

As he comes toward the entrance he spots two familiar faces, Lauren and Jessica. "Hey girls!" As he shouts running toward them to catch up.

"Hey, Damien, how are you?" Jessica asks.

"I'm doing fine, having a good morning. Haven't really ran into any trouble lately."

Lauren and Jessica smile as they walk beside Damien going through the entrance area where the main desk is.

"Do you have any plans for the afternoon?" Damien asks the girls.

The girls shake their heads, "Well, we're going to the cake shop after class." both girls start giggling.

"Ah, alright well, have fun." Damien says as he heads to the Warping classroom.

Both girls wave goodbye to him.

Upon entering the classroom, he sees Veronica sitting in the front, so he decides to sit right next to her.

"Good morning, Veronica." Damien says with a smile.

"Good morning to you too." She says as she goes to reach in her bag for a book.

"Whatcha reading there?" Damien says inquisitively.

Veronica rolls her eyes before replying, "It's a book about warping magic. I want to know as much as I can so I can transfer out of the classroom."

Damien nods "Hmph, pretty solid plan there. Well, good luck."

Damien starts looking around the classroom then something catches the corner of his eye. "Oh, what's that?"

Damien says as he walks up to a strange orb, as Damien gets closer the orb starts shining in a light blue hue and the closer he gets the heavier Damien starts feeling.

"This feels strange." As Damien is about to touch the Orb he hears in a loud authoritative voice, "Do NOT touch that Orb!"

But it's too late Damien already places his full hand on the Orb and BOOM the area around Damien feels like 10 full size buildings have fallen on his back.

"Oof! This is Intense!" Damien closes his eyes, starts taking slow deep breaths, and what seems to be a few seconds later he opens his eyes, as he does that there is a dark blue hue glowing in his eyes and his muscles begin to tighten up and grow in size.

Damien lets out a loud roar as he stands straight up, everyone in the room goes bug eyed as they see Damien standing with an increase in size and his eyes glowing blue. From the normal six-foot size Damien was, he looks to be a little close to six and a half feet tall now.

"Woah, teach." As Damien says that the orb that was once glowing blue seems to stop and Damien eyes glow with even more intensity.

Damien takes a few steps away from the orb and he falls on his ass. The pressure disappears and his body returns to size.

"Wow, what a rush. That could have killed me." Veronica scuffs at Damien, and Arnold comes up to him, "Well, seems you've been chosen boy. Congratulations."

Damien struggles to get to his feet. "What do you mean?"

Arnold rests his hand on Damien's shoulder, "You've been chosen by the orb of magnetism. That means you have 100 percent compatibility with an ancient magical artifact, and you can control it. It will now be yours, once you pass this class."

Damien goes to his seat next to Veronica, she mumbles under her breath, "Stupid fool what would you have done if you'd gotten hurt?"

Damien barely hears her, but he gives her a I'm okay smile while he takes his seat.

"Well, that was an interesting start to class! And it's only going to get even more interesting as we are going to be doing fighting matches today!"

The students and Arnold enter the colosseum. The ground is just dirt surrounded by a circular wall that stands to about 15 feet high.

Arnold announces the pairs.

Veronica and Damien got matched up. "Take it easy on me." As he gives Veronica a concerned look.

"I just got my ass handed to me by that magical artifact."

Veronica ignores his request as she casts a lightning bolt right at Damien without warning.

Damien gets hit right in the chest and falls on the ground. After that Veronica cast increase gravity on Damien to keep him on the ground.

"You stupid fool, you gave me a chance and now look at you! And its your own stupid curiosity that put you into this position. Here take this!" She sends another lightning bolt at Damien but this time the lightning bolt misses as Damien rolls to his left dodging it.

"Veronica, get ready!" Damien rushes at Veronica as she starts sending even more lightning bolts at him, but he dodges them as he closes the distance.

Damien goes to throw a punch, but his vision darkens! "Huh, what the fu-" Veronica hits him with multiple Lightning bolts Damien falls to the ground twitching. "Dam-Dam-Dam-Dam-Damn i-i-it!" Damien lets out twitches on the ground.

"Better luck next time, Damien." She sends one last lightning bolt at Damien, but it seems time as slowed down, the lightning bolt stops in place and starts to go reverse as Damien puts his hands up and sends a shock wave outward hitting the lightning bolt and Veronica.

Veronica gets sent flying across the fighting area and slams directly into the wall. She drops to the floor.

"Shit!" Damien rushes over to Veronica, Arnold is already there when Damien arrives. "Is she alright?"

Arnold looks over Veronica and gives Damien a nod. "Yeah, she'll be fine, but can you take her to the infirmary just to get checked out." Damien nods as he picks Veronica up.

Just as he is about to leave, he turns around and asks, "Where is the infirmary?"

Arnold runs up to him "Just go to the main desk and they'll point you in the right direction at least they'll do better than I would." He chuckles as he goes back and monitors the students.

Damien steps up to the main desks. "Um- excuse me, can I get the location of the infirmary?" One of the front desk receptionists approaches Damien and places a hand on Damien's head. A flood of information pours through, and he gets all the highlighted locations of Genesis Academy, from the library to the cafeteria, gym, infirmary, headmasters office, pool, secondary gym, secondary pool.

"Wow, that's convenient." The receptionist gives him a smile and then returns to her other duties. "Alright thanks lady." Damien rushes off to the infirmary.

He knocks on the door of the infirmary, no one answers.

Damien just slides the door open and inside looks like a general nurses' office with a few beds set off to the side of the room with a desk with a shit load of miscellaneous things on it, cabinets stocked with all kinds of medicine and other things.

Damien lays Veronica on one of the beds. "There is easy now."

As he steps away some woman enters the infirmary, it seems to be the nurse as she is dressed the part. She looks to be around her thirties, quite voluptuous. Her hair is a dark gray, but she has fair tone skin, eyes a dark ruby color.

She approaches Damien, "What are you doing here, handsome?"

Damien points toward Veronica, "We were having a match today with Arnold and she got hurt. Arnold told me to bring her here, so here I am with her."

The nurse chuckles, "Alright, let me have a look."

The nurse examines Veronica, "She seems to be fine just a slight concussion. She'll make a full recovery."

Damien lets out a sigh of relief, "Awesome, is there anything I can do?"

The nurse squints her eyes at Damien, "Well, you could get some water for the both of us, she'll be awake pretty soon." As she says that Veronica starts stirring in the bed.

Damien rushes out to get some water.

A few minutes later Damien returns with some bottles of water, "Here take this." He sets a water bottle aside for Veronica.

"You know handsome, you don't have to stay here, right?"

Damien looks at Veronica, "Well, I'm the one that did this to her, so I want the first thing she sees and hears is my apologizing. I used a power I didn't have full control on her and it's my fault."

As he says this Veronica rolls to her side facing away from Damien. "Alright, well, I'll leave her in your care then."

The nurse stands up and walks over to her desk, grabs a few things, and heads out of the infirmary.

Veronica, laying on her side facing away from Damien, starts blushing as she has been awake since Damien left to get the water. She had talked to the nurse for a few minutes and the nurse told Veronica that Damien brought her here from the fighting arena, and that he insists on staying until she wakes up.

Of course, Veronica didn't believe her as she always was somewhat cold towards Damien, but once Damien had returned and heard him say that he was going to stay until she woke up, she started to smile and blush. She had thought to herself "What! Is this guy serious? After I was so mean to him?"

A few minutes later while Veronica battled her inner thoughts she turned around and looked at a goofy smiling face looking back at her. "Hey there! Veronica, I brought you some water here let me help you up!"

Veronica sits up while still staring at Damien.

He hands her the water, and she takes small sips. Damien clears his throat, "Veronica, I am so sorry for using that kind of magic against you. It was dangerous as I didn't have the necessary training with it yet, so I did not know the amount of output to put in and I just sent it all. I am sorry for everything." Damien head is bowed down as he said all that.

"It's alright." Veronica says as she places her hand on top of Damien head. He looks up, seeing a beautiful radiant smile on Veronica's face. "It's alright, I am fine. BUT don't think for a second, you'll be able to do that again next time I'll be more prepared!" Veronica says with a grin. Damien laughs as he removes Veronica's hand from his face, "And next time I'll be faster." They both laugh and spend the next few minutes just making small talk as the ice-cold atmosphere surrounding Veronica has slowly begun to melt.

Class ends and Damien starts walking back to his dorm room.

Damien sees that Emmy is walking alone and he jogs up to her, "Hey, mind if I walk you home?"

Emmy nods her head, "Yeah, let's go." She hugs his arm as they begin to walk to Emmy's house.

As they enter Emmy's house, Ariel is standing in the living room. She looks at Damien like a deer caught in headlights.

"Hey." Damien says breaking Ariel's stare, she says "Hey!" and rushes into the kitchen.

Emmy walks to her room to put her stuff down and get changed. Damien heads into the kitchen to see what is going on with Ariel.

"Hey, Ariel, are you alright?" She turns around surprised to see Damien in the kitchen, "Ye-Yeah, just had a rough night."

He walks over toward Ariel; she slowly backs away until her butt hits a corner. "Are you sure? You seem to be acting a bit strange."

Ariel shakes her head, "Nah, just a rough night. Before I knew it the sun was rising, and I didn't get an ounce of sleep."

Damien backs up and says "Alright, if you need anything just let me know." And he backs out into the living room.

Emmy comes out and sits down on the couch, she tells Damien to join her which he sits down, and they watch a movie together.

It starts getting late and Damien tells Emmy it's time for him to head home. She gives him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

Ariel comes out and says, "See you later!" Damien waves goodbye and heads back to his dorm.

Once there Damien gets ready for bed and as soon as his head hits the pillow, he's out cold.