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"Jude, jude"
I turned my head to look for the voice,
Then everything went black
"Jude, jude"
The lights came back on, I could see again.
I turned around to see a large dragon, it's wings flapping gracefully a few metres above me, it's large dark purple wings wrapped up as it landed near me.
"Jude"
It's thunderous voice hollered. "I'm Mila, guardian of your kingdom, I need you."
I restrained myself from laughing out loud "how do you expect me to do so,I'm powerless,don't even have an ability"
"No my dear,you are more powerful than you think,you carry a power far more dangerous than any I've seen,it's all in here"It raised it's clawed digits to point at my chest.
"Now go my son,for the safety of this kingdom depends on you,you and only you can save it"
" A great danger is coming to this kingdom."
"Only you can save it" Those words repeated in my head.
"What danger, Mila wait" I ran towards her.
I thought he caught up to her but then it seemed as though time itself seemed to slow down as he ran towards the flying dragon.
"Huh,what the hell is this,it's like time itself is slowing down", i finally stopped running knowing that i wouldn't be able to catch up to the dragon.
"Dude,wake up" I opened my eyes to meet with Connor's own.
"You've been shouting non-stop,is everything okay" his eyes showed concern.
"Yes,it was all a dream" My mind couldn't help but ponder a more realistic dream.
What did it mean by only I can save it,save this kingdom but from what. I ran a hand through my dark locks frustratedly.
It was a Saturday,they had the weekend to rest, laying back on my bed, I drifted in to sleep, a dreamless one this time
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"Any luck with finding the boy, Arkin"
"Yes sir, he's in his room" Arkin sneered at Ciara's uncle"
"Good, victory has never smelt so near, so sweet" Layton laughed hysterically.
"I've found the boy,can I go,I don't want in your business" Arkin stood up and started walking out.
"No no, little one, your job with me ain't over" Layton wagged a finger in front of him.
"Says who,I'm done with you" Arkin was fuming.
"But I'm not done with you,there's no turning back once a decision has been made,every choice will have a price that's just an equivalent exchange" with a snap of his fingers, Layton wrapped chains around Arkin.
"This is not over, you hear me" Arkin glared at him, his words coated with venom.
Layton snapped his fingers again, and the sound of bones cracking could be heard.
Arkin screamed, the pain tearing him apart, he thrashed around and Layton took pleasure in seeing him.
"You monster" a tortured Arkin could be heard.
"I like the sound of that"Layton laughed out in hysteria.
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Kyle stared at the ceiling, his mind flashed back to Liana, he really hated the fact that he was the one causing so much pain to her, he hated himself even more for allowing himself to take out his anger on Liana.
"I need to make things up to her" his mind nagged him. 'But how?'
"How about a date"he thought out loud.
"You're not allowed to leave this arena till the tournament is over"his mind told him,"just meet her and apologize"
Grabbing his phone on the nightstand he texted her, meet me at the garden in 10 minutes, the message showed two blue ticks indicating she had seen it "okay".
He wore his dark blue t-shirt over his black jeans, grabbed his jacket and left.
He had some making up to do.
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"Again"
"We've been at it for almost an hour now, E "
"I know, I just want to be a master" she looked at Ciara, "I want to be flawless"
"Okay, one more time" Ciara gave into Evette's wishes.
She surrounded herself with a stream of water while Evette coated her hands with fire.
"Go" that was Evette's key to attack, she ran at her and threw a punch but Ciara dodged and struck a stream of water at her, Evette bent and threw a crescent kick at her, Ciara flipped backwards avoiding the kick.
Evette let out a huge breath of fire as Ciara was mid-air knocking Ciara off as she landed on her back with a thud.
Ciara stood up, dusted the dirt off her clothes, she waved her hand around, she knew she could condense the water vapour in the air and that's what she did, condensing the water vapour, she got her stream of water and shot it at Evette, who dodged.
She shot the water towards the sky, Evette watched as the water dispersed into little droplets as they fell down, Ciara closed her hands and the water droplets turned to ice shards as she made them rain down at Evette ceaselessly.
Evette dodged the ice shards, melting some occasionally, she was excited that Ciara was finally giving her all.
"Two can play at this game" Evette thought she pressed her palms on the floor and a huge dome enclosed her and Ciara, the dome started burning, Evette watched gleefully, her inner fire was unlocked and she was attaining new skills in her powers.
Ciara made it rain putting off the fire not without getting some of her clothes burnt, she looked at Evette who's palm held some kind of halo in front of them, ancient writings were on it, Evette intertwined her hands and a large amount of fire came out directed at Ciara.
"Hey Ci, watch this" she started running towards her just as she was about to go near her she clasped her hands together the earlier formed halo enclosing both hands.
"Scatter flames" she released her hands as countless balls of flame shot out towards Ciara, who attempted dodging them, but they followed her.
"You can't run, they'll follow their target and make sure they touch their target"
"In that case"Ciara stood still "ice detonation, fire seeker"she looked at Evette, the corner of her lips tugged slightly.
"These pieces of ice will seek fire till they eventually meet it no matter what it takes"she smiled as the fire met ice as it melted.
"Nice one Ci,"
"You too E"
"Let's round it up shall we" Evette raised her hand towards the ceiling creating a terrifyingly huge ball of fire towards Ciara.
Ciara used her water to put it off, she turned the stream of water into a tentacle and wrapped it around Evette, raising the tentacle, she slammed the tentacle down to the floor, Evette was momentarily down, she flipped up and looked at Ciara who still had her battle stance.
"I think that's enough Ci,we did great"
Ciara smiled at her, she was happy that they were both gaining more knowledge on how to utilize their powers.
"Let's go back, I smell like barbecue"
Evette smiled at Ciara's words as she looked at her,"sorry, my fault"
"No problem"
"E"
"Yah"
"You're a great person and a powerful one at that, your fire powers are great, maybe it looks as if you weren't because you were up against water but not everyone can control water, and I believe you're a formidable for, just surpass your limits and I will too"
"Thanks Ci, this is the first time I'm hearing you talk this much"
Ciara smiled
"There's a first time for everything "
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"Kyle, I know this is hard but please just let me love you"
Liana took her step towards Kyle, she was trying her luck, she knew it.
She ran her hands up his arm to his shoulders, lilac eyes meet emerald green ones, her red lips spread out in a sly smile as she leaned into Kyle, her lips met with his.
She waited for him to push her, but he didn't so she took it as her cue to continue, she wrapped her hand round his neck deepening the kiss as he encircled his hands round her waist.
"Hmmmm" a cough interrupted them as they broke their kiss to see a familiar dark skinned short pink haired, blue eyed girl staring at them.
"Aviva, didn't expect to see you here"
Liana drew down her skirt which had hitched up during her little moment.
Aviva straightened her crop top and looked at Liana.
"I'm sorry for disturbing you, you two can continue with what you were doing, I'll head on back"
"No, you can go where you want to Liana and I were just going"
"If you say so,see you later you two"
Aviva walked past them her shoulder length hair was packed in a short ponytail to prevent it from touching her shoulders.