I'm back! Sorry for the wait everyone, I just lost the motivation to continue. I got re-motivated thanks to all of your reviews saying I should write more. I read all of the reviews. Here it is, the training chapter. One more thing, they will not be incredibly powerful straight away, cause no matter how fast you pick up on a new magic, others have had years to perfect theirs, and they still need some form of competition.
Three days had past since meeting Natsu again. Lucy stood in the middle of a clearing with Amaya, while Lisanna and Amaya did the same in a clearing not so far away. Every once in a while there would be flashes of either black or white that would cover the sky to remind them all just how powerful Sting and Rogue were getting so quickly.
It also served to scare the hell out of all the girls every time, as the flashes were followed by loud bangs. Amaya was once again helping Lucy attempt to summon a small ball of blackness.
Lucy had her hands together as if she was holding an invisible ball and was attempting to pump magic into the space between her hands. Amaya started to feel faint magic flowing from the girl's hands and into the targeted space.
"Keep going Lucy, almost there!" A large burst of magic shock waved through the clearing, throwing the girls hair back and disintegrating trees around them. In between Lucy's hands was a ball of magic. Amaya ducked her head to look at the magic and was surprised to see not a ball, but black and gold swirling together to make a key that was releasing incredible amounts of magic.
The dark angel glanced back up at Lucy and saw the girl sweating profusely and clenching her eyes shut.
"Stop." Ordered Amaya. Lucy did so and promptly collapsed. The angel caught the girl before she reached the ground and set her down slowly. Amaya sat down next to the girl, shading the two of them from the hot sun with her wings.
Aurora and Lisanna felt the burst of magic from their clearing. "That feels like Lucy's magic!" said Lisanna happily, "She did it!" Aurora nodded in agreement while wearing a huge smile. "Let's see if you can't do the same."
For the five hours they had left in the day, Lisanna tried and tried to summon any form of angel magic but simple couldn't, no matter how many times the collapsed from magic exhaustion.
About 2 hours before the sun set, Aurora called the training to a stop. "That's enough Lisanna! Anymore and you will hurt yourself!" Lisanna accepted glumly and started trudging back to the campsite.
The proof of Sting and Rogue's training had stopped about an hour after Lucy successfully summoned angel magic. All the time that Lisanna and Aurora were walking back, Aurora was trying to cheer the other girl up.
"C'mon Lisanna, please don't be sad, please, please, please, please, PLLLEASSSEE!" Aurora tried her puppy eyes on the other girl, which didn't do anything. "Lisanna, please, don't sulk, it took me far longer to summon any sort of magic. It took me over 3 years!"
Lisanna looked up, "Really? How long did it take Amaya?"
"Amaya is a prodigy; she got it on the first day." Lisanna looked down again.
"Oh no." said Aurora as she face palmed. "How about I tell you about my home town, you don't really know very much about us."
Lisanna looked up again. "Don't angels come from heaven?" "No. Angels are actually rarely religious. We normally only believe things we have experienced by ourselves. We live on earth, just like humans. We just stay invisible most of the time and build our towns far, far away from any humans."
Aurora continued to talk about her home town all the way back to the campsite. Lisanna learnt the common customs and a few words of the native language. Although, the thing Aurora talked most about was the food, which all sounded very, very strange.
Some of Aurora favourite foods were tree sap and Eucalypts leaves, and burnt bird necks with mashed garlic. Lisanna silently vowed never to let the angels cook anything with such strange ingredients.
Aurora saw Lisanna slight look of disgust for the split second she let it show, and Aurora started laughing so hard she had to sit down. The angel's laughter was infectious and Lisanna was soon chuckling as well.
"I-I'm jo-joking! We-We eat al-all the s-same food as you!" laughed Aurora. The two girls arrived back at the campsite, still chuckling. Rogue, Amaya and Sting were sitting on a log next to a fire, Lucy was sitting in Sting's lap, asleep.
Sting put a finger up to his mouth, signalling to Lisanna and Amaya to be quiet. The two pulled up another log and sat across from the other four. Rogue stood up and switched sides so that he could sit next to Lisanna.
Time slipped by as the five stared into the fire, Rogue and Lisanna gently murmuring to each other and Sting playing with Lucy's hair. The sun had fully set when Lucy woke up.
"Finally." whispered Sting. Lucy's eyes slid open, she took a while to struggle to keep them open, then gave up and smashed them back together. Sting would not have this, so he poked her in the stomach, a move that he regretted as he was lying in the dirt with a squashed nose where Lucy had punched him.
Lucy, who was still half asleep, fell over as she had just punched what was keeping her upright. Lucy's elbow landed right on Sting's stomach, who was winded instantly. The rest of the group chuckled and Lucy slowly came about her senses. She looked around and gave Sting, who was rolling around in the dirt, a 'What the Hell' look.
The camp quietened down after a while, and Lucy and Sting returned to their seats, Sting moving carefully, making absolutely sure not to do anything to annoy Lucy in any way. Aurora pulled a bag of marshmallows out of nowhere and started handing them out along with pointed sticks to roast them on.
The six of them filled up the rest of the night with small talk about their training progress. The conversation eventually got on to Lisanna's progress. "So how are you going Lisanna?" asked Lucy. Lisanna's head dropped, "Nowhere at all."
"Don't lie Lisanna, you've made heaps of progress!" Aurora cheered. Lisanna just shook her head. "How on earth did you get it so quick Lucy?" sighed Lisanna.
Lucy shrugged and replied, "I don't know really, I just did as Amaya said and focused a bunch of magic in-between my hands after doing weird things with my magic flow. Did you do that?"
Lisanna nodded. Lucy continued "Did you feel some sort of pressure from pushing out the magic as well?"
Lisanna nodded again.
"You didn't tell me that!" Aurora exclaimed. "Lucy didn't tell me either." Amaya said. "Well this makes everything a lot clearer!" cheered Aurora. "It's just your other magic conflicting with the angel magic!"
"Of course!" exclaimed Amaya, "Why didn't we think about that!" The two girls looked at the two angels, Lisanna asked, "But how can I make them work together?" Amaya replied, "Just ask Lucy what she did."
Lisanna looked questioningly at Lucy, who chewed on her lip for a while, before answering, "I guess I kinda did something different the time it worked. I just followed my habit and tried to 'Summon' the magic."
"Oh!" exclaimed Lisanna before she ran off out of the clearing. Rogue quickly followed and Aurora wasn't far after. Lucy and Sting went to follow, but Amaya held them back, "No," the angel said smiling, "Let them surprise us when they come back. I'm sure Lisanna will want to show off a little bit."
The three sat quietly, staring into the fire and listening to the natural noises around them. It was all very quiet until there was a massive bang and a colossal pillar of white magic exploded into the sky.
All three of them were in awe while looking at the large amount of magic, Sting had a hint of hunger in his gaze. The magic disappeared, and Lucy whistled, "That was quiet some magic.
Amaya shook her head, "As impressive as that is for the results of only one day of training, that amount was nothing compared to the final stages of angel magic. And the blast when you released you magic was much more powerful."
Lucy's jaw fell open, "You mean to say, that I made a bigger explosion than that!"
Amaya shook her head, "No, Black Angel magic in much denser and more refined. So your release blast was nowhere near that size, however, the density managed to disintegrate nearby trees."
Lucy's jaw opened even more and Sting pretended to whimper and crawl away, at least, it looked like he was pretending. The three fell back into their own thoughts while they waited for the others to come back.
When they did, Rogue was carrying Lisanna in his arms with his eyes shining with pride, and Aurora was bouncing behind the two, looking like the happiest person on earth. As Lisanna was still sleeping, they dosed the fire and went to their tents.
The two angels went to their tent and slipped into their sleeping bags with difficulty. After they eventually got their wings comfortable, the silence of the tent became very pressing.
Amaya's thoughts were filled with the pink-haired boy she had known when she was still a wondering angel. She remembered being spotted by a mob of hunter mages while she was not invisible.
They had chased her and over-powered her magic. She thought she was facing death for sure, when a fireball hurled into the centre of the group and gave her the chance to change the tide of the little skirmish.
They had travelled together, the boy had not been bothered by her wings in the slightest, and, as they were the same age, Amaya began to feel strange feelings that she couldn't put her finger on.
They had been separated when her people had come to take her back home. As much as Amaya wanted to stay, and the young Natsu had raged, Amaya was taken back home to have her magic perfected. Amaya was pulled out of her thoughts by a small sob.
Amaya looked over to see her angel partner's shoulder's quaking. "Aurora, what's wrong?" Amaya whispered. "No-nothing." Sobbed the other angel. "I know that's not true." Amaya replied, "C'mon, tell me what's wrong, it's always better to tell your friends your problems."
"It's, it's just th-that… Will I always be the worst? It took be th-three years, when… when… most c-can learn ma-magic in less than a week!" Aurora broke down again.
Amaya crawled over to her friend and gave her a hug, "What you say is true, but magic isn't everything in life. You are the nicest, smartest and funniest angel anyone could ever hope to meet." Aurora slowly stopped sobbing.
"I *hic* think that might be you now May…" Amaya giggled softly. "I do slightly feel like our roles are reversed right now. Normally you're the one comforting the crying me." The two angels smiled at each other, and Amaya slid back to her mat.
"Good night May." whispered Aurora. "Night Aurora." replied Amaya.
AND DONE! Again, I'm sorry about my appalling lateness, however, I still don't know when the next chapter will be posted, maybe in a few days, maybe in a few months.
I feel every time someone reviews my determination to write another chapter rises just a little, but if someone says a really strong comment, then I will just be like, "OK, no more games, I'M WRITING ANOTHER CHAPTER." Then I'll sit at my computer for 3 hours writing, correcting spacing then blabbing on at the end like I am right now. I'll stop now, Cya next chapter guys, and girls for that matter.