AWAKENING BONDS

"The sky and earth shall both tremble in fear as I rise towards the glory, evil shall vanish as that how goes the story, beware abyssal wraiths as the king of lighting will rise"

I woke up with the voice saying this: I don't know how long I will have these strange dreams and voices. Since I met those two, I have had these abnormal dreams. When will it stop I asked myself, but for now I have to go to school and then I stared at the big metal door and remembered that I was taken to their base and now this was going to be my new home. I got myself up and went outside for breakfast, I guess? Even after all that explanation, it doesn't make any sense. I mean why do these spirits choose us? There are many people in the world and I mean I want to be a hero but my luck is not that great in stuff like a lottery and all, so how did in a population of 8 billion, I was given powers, sounds strange in itself. Now the question arises, what to do now?

After wandering for some time, I found the mash and had my breakfast. Not sure if they are trying to make me feel comfortable as the dishes were of Indian cuisine, but here in Seoul. I am not sure what time it is here now, but if consider my habitual waking time it should be 6, the sun is still not up so I am not sure myself. I didn't have any conversation with anybody here except for Yumiko. Hard to believe she is Lisa's grandmother. Apart from their face, they both don't seem to be related, I mean she is quiet and calm, on the other hand, Lisa is short-tempered and short-tempered. She is as beautiful as Yumiko But her personality is rude or is it the teenage period revolt that happens, I mean I used to have them but now I think I am mature enough. Still didn't know where to go, wandered many places, and hoped to find a washroom as I don't happen to know Korean and my English fluency is not that great so Yaa it took some time, and found the washroom. I felt it was a great achievement knowing that I found the washroom in a foreign headquarters, it would have been easy if I asked someone and would have also saved some time.

I heard Seri's voice from behind. "Where were you? I was looking for you for the last 2 hrs. Come on, we have to go to the training facility, Yumiko is very strict regarding training matters". We both rushed towards the training room where others were waiting for us except for Lisa as she seemed to have no interest in me, started her training. What type of training is she doing, I asked myself. All I can see is some weird hand movements and nothing else. "That is the invisible barrier technique that binds you and the abyssal wraith in and only those who have spirit powers can move in the barrier." I looked back and saw Yumiko behind me. "Late on the first day huh, didn't know you had that courage". "Sorry," I said, "I was just wondering here and there to, you know make myself more familiar with the base". "Next time this excuse will not cut you out of trouble, I am very strict regarding training". I was quite taken aback as I didn't know she could be this scary. I take back all I said about them not being relatable, they both are alike.

"Now we will begin our training. As you know, we have now all the spirit holders present here in the training room. To be able to work as a team you should know your strengths which could help your teammates and your weaknesses which your team would cover for you. Rudra your spirit is Thalassa, the water user so we would like you to use your powers so we can analyze it. So step into this machine and it would tell us your current power level. Every spirit is as powerful as others but it depends on the holder how much energy it can draw, so this machine tells us how much you can draw from Bramble. As others are here way before you, they have at least 4000 spirit energy, so don't be nervous and step inside". I wished she hadn't told me that, now I am nervous. What if I am the one with the lowest one? "Keep yourself calm and try to concentrate and find the energy inside of you. I know you can feel it, just relax". I closed my eyes and tried to look for whatever was inside of me. It was dark, I mean what would you expect to see with your eyes closed? After a few seconds, I could see a light. But then suddenly it turned into purple lighting and I could hear something from it: "You are special, Rudra, you are. Trust yourself and trust me and you will be able to defeat any wraith and protect your loved ones, as I shall be inside of you as you are. I am YOU and YOU are me. But before I give you 'OUR' powers you have to prove yourself worthy, don't tell a soul about what happened here, only you can do it".

After saying all this the lighting vanished and I opened my eyes. Yumiko and others were shocked and asked me if anything happened inside me. I said I didn't remember anything (had to keep my promise with the spirit). "This didn't happen to anyone else when we were calculating your power level it went up to 99999 but suddenly went to 400. We checked again and again but it was still the same". "So what does it mean? Am I the strongest among others here?" "Quite the opposite here, I mean it's natural so," and "You are the weakest member of all of us". "Lisa" "Did I say anything wrong? We flew all the way just to pick a member of the 400 power level. We were at least 1500 when we were picked and he is the lowest of all of us. Come on grandma it's a waste". I felt angry after hearing all this but also agreed with her. If being this weak means being trouble for others and not being able to protect instead being protected sounded more useless. But wait for a second, they said I had the spirit of the Thalassa, an earth user, so why the hell did purple lighting talk to me? "Every spirit doesn't talk to the holder in their original form. They will talk to you in the form of light or something else". How does she know what I am thinking? It's like she is reading my mind. "Rudra, you will have your special training starting tomorrow, so don't be late. I know it feels bad to be weak but if you train hard like hell then you may become strong".

Looks like my hellish training is going to begin...