A.N. I forgot Francis and Antonio. Okay, Antonio is fire and wind. Francis is an Earth mage.
The next day, Alfred polished Texas repeatedly as Arthur sent the wind mages over to him.
"Right, wind mages, including you, Antonio, go over to Alfred for your first lesson. Fire mages, sit in that corner and try to practice summoning fire. Water mages, in the opposite corner, try playing with the water in your water bottles. Ludwig, sit in between the groups and work on both. Feliciano, sit by the window and get adjusted to the sunlight. Wild mages, just do whatever you normally do. NO, DON'T GO TO SLEEP! Frog, go play in the mud. Natalya, you're with me."
"But Angleterre, I'll get my clothes all dirty."
"That's what you get for being an Earth mage."
Alfred laughed at the banter between his two father figures as Ivan, Antonio and the three Baltic nations approached him.
"Alfred?"
"Right! Today we make tornadoes!"
"We don't even know how to summon the wind?"
"Oh, I didn't think of that." Suddenly a huge gust of wind blew into the room, putting out the fires the fire mages had. There were groans from that corner.
"Thank you, Ivan."
"That wasn't me, da."
Raivis trembled against the force of the wind pushing on him. Toris closed his eyes and mentally grabbed some of it from his control. Eduard lent a helping hand. The wind was now under the control of the three.
"Now, close your eyes and take little stands of it by feeling them with your mind. If it helps you, although you can feel the wind, you can color the wind by picturing it whatever color you choose. Ivan, dear, you have enough now."
Their eyes open to see Ivan's hand covered with a purple layer.
"Now grab the stands again and twirl them together. If it helps to do it with your hand, then do so. Spain, you can't mix elements just yet. Very good, Estonia."
They practiced for a while until Arthur called for the water mages to switch with the wind mages. Feliks, who arrived late, and was determined to be a plant mage, glared at Raivis while he helped Toris with his miniature tornado.
"Spain, what were you told about mixing elements?"
"To not to."
"Exactly."
Alfred turned to his students, teaching them to call water from their bottles. Next he worked with the fire mages, then with Feliciano and finally Francis.
The weeks flew by, each person got better and better. Eventually there were mock fights between two or more people.
"Let's try these mock fights. The setting is a dark alleyway. Alfred and Ivan are on their way home. They are ambushed by Elizabeta, Feliks and Antonio."
The lights dim, Alfred summons a small ball of light to show the way. Suddenly, vines wrap around their feet. Feliks was at work. Elizabeta appeared, throwing fire balls at them. Alfred stopped them in mid-air with small isolated showers. Antonio came at them with a tornado. Ivan gripped each end and untwirled the monster. The fight carried on like that for a while.
"Now, Natalya happens across the fight and decides to intervene, by taking them all down."
They stop fighting each other and combine forces as Natalya advances on them, marking her presence by snuffing Alfred's ball of light. Alfred swore and tried to call another, but is blocked. Feliks retracted his vines from the two and they cling to her, only to be devoured by a torrent of darkness. A ball of energy hits the Pole in the chest, knocking him out. She turns on Alfred. The battle that arises was complicated, light and darkness entwining and disentangling. At one point, Natalya had her guard down and Alfred took the chance to hit her with a streak of fire. Natalya combined the fire with her next shot, taking Alfred out. Elizabeta and Ivan came at her next, her fire being directed by him. It didn't take long for the two to be taken down. She circled Antonio. He sent a fiery tornado at her. She sent it back, they played a game of sending it back and forwards for a while until she caught him off-guard, sending him to the ground, knocked out.
"Very well done." Arthur woke everybody up. "Let's go home for the day."
