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Chapter 5
Beginning of Torture
The next morning Al woke Simon before dawn with a bucket of freezing water.
"Hey!" yelled Simon jumping out of his bed soaking wet. "What'd you do that for? It's four in the bloody morning!"
"You need to get up," growled Al. "Tomorrow get up on your own if you don't like my wake up calls. Breakfast in five."
With that Al walked out of Simon's room shutting the door behind him to give Simon some privacy.
Half asleep, Simon pulled on a pair of navy blue basketball shorts with white stripes down the side and a white sleeveless shirt as well as his trusty black sneakers.
Two minutes later, Simon was in the kitchen sitting at the table trying to convince AL that two fried eggs and a piece of toast with jam would be enough for breakfast.
"No. Daniel said to make sure that you ate plenty of good meals. Two eggs and a piece of toast is not a good meal."
"I'll barf if I eat four eggs, six pieces of bacon and four pieces of toast! That could fill Ron up! Without the oatmeal!"
Al didn't reply but set down a bowl of oatmeal, a plate of three fried eggs, four pieces of bacon, three pieces of toast and a glass of water.
"Eat up," said Al sitting down at the table with only a mug of coffee.
"Why don't you have to eat all this?" whined Simon.
"Because I'm the trainer and I won't be workin' my ass off," growled Al taking a sip of coffee.
Simon gulped and began eating slowly.
Ten minutes later, he sat back and sighed.
"I can't eat anymore," he groaned.
Al glanced at his plate. Simon had only eaten two eggs, two pieces of bacon and one piece of toast, along with half the bowl of oatmeal.
"Fine," said Al without getting up. "Not my fault if you get hungry before lunch… Wash your dishes then go for a run. I don't want to see you back here for forty five minutes." Simon groaned and got up. "Make it fifty."
Simon went silent and summoned his watch before he washed his dishes.
After finishing with the dishes, Simon put on his watch and walked out the door. Before the door shut behind him, he heard Al yell, "NO walking!" Simon sighed and set off at a jog.
Not even a mile away from the cabin, Simon began to get a cramp. 'Just to the tree then I'll stop,' thought Simon.
He didn't even make it to the tree. Instead he tripped over a root a went sprawling across the ground, nearly hitting his head on the trunk. 'Good thing I didn't hit my head,' thought Simon starting to get up.
Crack!
"Ow! Bloody coconut!"
That's right. A coconut fell on his head. As he was getting up… after tripping… over the root… of the same tree.
'Just my luck,' thought Simon getting up. 'Bloody coconut gave me a headache and a lump on the back of my head.'
Simon slowly began running again, but not without a bit more grumbling.
Forty minutes, three side stitches, and no major mishaps (just an untied shoe) later, Simon arrived back at the cabin. He was panting, thirsty and worn out. He stumbled in the door and collapsed on the couch.
"Not worn out are you?" Simon just looked at AL with a look that clearly stated. 'No, I pant and act worn out for the hell of it… Of course I'm not bloody worn out!' "Well, of course you're not worn out!" said Al too cheerfully. "You still have weight training, elemental training, normal magic training, dueling, animagus lessons and more running." Simon gave Al a blank look. "Right so you don't have to run again but you do have physical training so let's get started."
Simon got up and followed Al to what Simon had thought was a closet. Al opened it to reveal a staircase, or really a set of staircases, one going up and one going down. Al took the stairs going down which Simon was thankful for, not realizing that he'd have to climb up them later, after weight training and whatever else Al tortured him with.
Downstairs was a large open area with gym equipment, mats, a trampoline, dummies and a box of weapons. A door on the other side of the stairs lead to a huge library full of books. In lay-mans terms, it was Hermione's heaven complete with overstuffed armchairs and tables.
Al called Simon from his exploring back into the large open room, which Simon assumed, was the training room.
"Yes?" asked Simon entering the training room.
"It's time for weight training. I'll show you how to use these weight machines then you'll get started. I want ten sets of fifteen of each to start with," said Al and with that Simon's training, or torture, began.
An hour later, Simon's muscles were burning from his workout. Every movement hurt.
"Usually, I'd teach you sword fighting, elemental magic or you'd practice changing into your animagus forms, but before you learn sword fighting you need strength. Right now I doubt you could hold a sword, much less fight with it. To learn elemental magic, you need to know a bit about being an elemental. To learn to be an animagus, you need to know everything possible about your forms." Al paused as if remembering something. "What are your forms?"
" A Black Unicorn, mini-dragon, dog, phoenix, griffin, hippocampus, shadow wolf and a common adder," said Simon in a matter of fact voice.
Al's jaw dropped.
"Flies, Al. Flies," said Simon grinning tiredly.
Al's mouth shut with a snap.
"Right… Your job for the rest of the day is to read up on elemental magic, and research all your animagus forms. Be sure to look up something about being an emotional and if you have time, any curses, hexes, jinxes, charms or potions that you might find useful," said Al before turning away from Simon muttering about eight animagus forms, six of which were magical.
Simon smirked and walked slowly back into the library.
Walking among the shelves, Simon scanned the titles occasionally pulling out a book and stacking it in his arms. His aching arms protested as he pulled out a third book, 'Magical Creatures A-Z,' and added it to the stack in his arms, along with 'Mundane Creatures A-Z.'
Simon's arms gave out and the books dropped to the floor. Simon stared at them. He didn't know what to do. Walking to the table and back everytime, he found a book would kill his legs, but holding all the books would kill his arms.
Finally, after staring at the books on the floor for about five minutes, Simon remembered his wand. 'I'm a bloody wizard! Why didn't I think of using magic before?' he berated himself.
Simon pulled out his wand and flicked it at his books making them float peacefully and painlessly behind him. Everytime he found another book, he'd tap it with his wand and it would join the others behind him. He might've looked like the Pied Piper of books with a line of books following him, but Simon was too tired to care.
A little later Simon had all the books he thought he'd need. So he walked over to an armchair and sank into it gratefully as he flicked his wand again to direct the books to stack themselves neatly on the floor near the armchair.
The pile of books (a tower really) reached well above the arm rest of the armchair.
'Hermione would be proud,' thought Simon as he grabbed the top book, 'So You're an Elemental?' by Geoffrey Glint.
Flipping to an interesting page, Simon began reading.
The are four types of elements that an Elemental may control: fire, air, water and earth. When a person is tested for this ability, they hold a crystal called an Elemental Crystal (only known way to give an elemental access to his/her powers) which glows different colors depending upon which element the tested has control of. Sometimes the intensity of the glow is said to be a gauge on how much control the tested has over that element. The length of time that the crystal glows is also said to be a gauge for the strength of the elemental, the longer the glow, the stronger the elemental. However, there is no proof that these 'gauges' are actually true. Each Elemental however, has there own special gifts depending on their element.
Red is the color for fire. Fire Elementals are generally treated with caution due to the temper that is normally apparent in Fire Elementals. Temper and a destructive element like fire can be a hazard to anyone's helth. Fire Elementals also tend to be brave to a fault and somewhat trusting. Most Fire elementals tend to have the ability to See with fire. The control over this gift though depends on the power of the elemental. The strongest recorded Fire Elemental claimed to have the ability to See a specific person's past, present or future at will occasionally.
Brown symbolizes the element of earth. Earth Elementals are typically down to earth, loyal and patient. While not as quick to anger as Fire Elementals, Earth Elementals are a force to be reckoned with if friends and/or family are harmed. Some Earth Elementals have the ability to speak to animals (also called Beast Speak). This gift depends on the elemental's power. Most Earth Elementals can speak to certain animals only while the most powerful Earth Elementals can speak to any and all animals.
The next element is water whose color is blue-green. Water Elementals tend to be calm, steadfastly loyal and sometimes graceful. When angered, Water Elementals are a force to be reckoned with, moving mountains if necessary to get the job done. A characteristic of a powerful Water Elemental is the ability to talk to underwater creatures such as Dolphins or fish. There are also some unfounded rumors of Water Elementals that can breathe underwater.
The fourth and final element is air. It's color is a light blue so light that it is almost white. Though often though of as a calm and harmless element, air can be the strongest. By adding air or taking air from flames, they can be stoked or smothered, A water spout can suck up water or possibly redirect it. Likewise, Air Elementals are usually determined, persistent, cunning and devious. Most Air Elementals can use their element to fly although some Air Elementals argue that they have the ability to fly without the aid of their element. All Air Elementals tend to also be illusionists (someone good at using or making illusions). There are also rumors of a few very powerful Air Elementals that developed the powers of a Metamorphagus, albeit very limited. Occasionally, an Air Elemental will claim to be telepathic; however, no one is certain whether may Air Elementals are really telepathic or metamorphagi.
Elementals of all elements have one trait in common, animagus powers. Typically, an elemental will have an animagus form for his/her element in addition to any form the elemental might have had without the elemental abilities. Sometimes a particularly strong elemental will have two element forms in addition to the normal form. The type of element form, magical or not, also depends on the strength of the elemental.
'Wow,' thought Simon closing the book and selecting another, 'Elemental and Emotional or Mage.'
Simon read for the rest of the evening only taking a small break to grab some lunch from the kitchen, which he ate while he read. At dinnertime, he slowly pried himself out of the chair and flicked his wand so the books he had read went back to their shelves. He flicked his wand again, turned and walked out of the library, once more the Pied Piper of books.
After a rushed dinner, Simon retreated to his room to read some more. He knew everything he thought necessary about his magical animagus forms and as much as the books had said about elementals, but he was lacking knowledge about emotionals. One book, 'Elemental and Emotional or Mage,' had suggested that a wizard that controlled all four elements and was an emotional could be considered a mage, although the status of mage was more about power than about abilities.
Simon sighed. He had read a lot today and he hope he would remember all the information he needed. Simon selected a book from his stack, 'Wizarding Terms A-Z,' and began flipping through it trying to find an entry about Emotionals. Surprisingly, Simon found it on the first try under 'Emotional.'
Emotional – said to be a wizard or witch who draws his/her power from emotions around him/her. Also said to be two types of emotionals, love and hate. Not enough proof to prove the existence of emotionals.
Simon looked up. He had finally found what he was looking for, in the largest book he'd ever seen. Yawning, Simon decided to stop for the day. Four o'clock would come early.
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