Kurt had given Blaine a task. To train Tyler to be able to defend himself if things ever went wrong. Kurt himself would be training Halle to recognize and use her power.

They had taken it upon themselves to be the children's mentors for now, it would count as a distraction for them, and give them something else to focus on.

Plus, Kurt knew they were bored out of their minds, hanging around the place doing nothing.

His father thought it was a good idea, Finn would be overseeing everything, so that if things went wrong there would be another to help. Kurt knew how to get her to tap in to her powers, but without control he didn't know how powerful she would be.

"Ok, Halle, being a Hexalka means that your powers are there, just underneath your skin," Kurt told her as they stood in a massive circle in the gardens, Halle was looking at him nervously, "now I can tell you how to tap into them, but I also need to teach you to control them."

"Ok." she replied quietly and Kurt smiled at her as he placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Alright, close your eyes," he said softly and she closed her eyes, he placed both hands on her shoulders and everything around them went silent, as he put up a shield so that she could concentrate, "now I want you to concentrate on your heart ok, how it beats, how it feels in your chest...now imagine there is a light inside it and it's trying to get out but it can't...I want you to give it a path to go."

Halle nodded and breathed deeply as she continued to concentrate with her eyes closed. Kurt smiled as he could feel it, a thrumming energy she was giving off.

"Can you feel that light travelling around your body?" He asked and she nodded with a small smile.

"Now I want you to push it around your whole body, in every limb, in every finger and toe, until it takes over every part of your body."

Halle remained still and smiled as she could feel the warmth spreading all around her body.

"Feel it?" Kurt asked and Halle nodded with a smile, "Now I want you to try and put a mental rope around it, like it's a dog you need to put a collar on to control."

She frowned slightly as she still had her eyes closed, concentrating on it.

Kurt dropped the shield when she opened her eyes.

"Feel ok?" He asked and she had a wistful look in her eyes and she nodded slightly.

"It feels warm, and a little strange, like it's vibrating under my skin."

"It will feel like that for a while. Because you haven't used them for 13 years." Kurt explained to her and she had an awed expression on her face as she was feeling her own arms and rubbing her hands together.

"So, how do I use them?" Halle asked and Kurt stepped back a little.

"Well, you push it out from your body, usually we start with hands and fingers, but eventually you'll be able to use any part of you, or even just eye contact to perform magic."

"Oh."

"I want you to start with hands though," Kurt added with a small smile, "and see how we go from there."

"Ok."

"So, now feel that vibration underneath your skin, and try and push it out in one hand," he said and she closed her eyes, "you don't have to close your eyes if you don't want to, just focus on the feeling."

She opened her eyes again and nodded. She looked down at one hand, focusing on the feeling of warmth and letting it accumulate in one hand, imagining the magic pushing through her hand. Light began to form around her fingers as she focused and Kurt smiled at her.

"That's it," Kurt said with a proud smile, "keep going."

She swirled her fingers around and the light took over her whole hand. She was watching it with interest as it seemed to pulsate in her palm, and she smiled as it crawled over her hand and back around her fingers. She turned her hand around and watched it dance across the back before turning it back into her palm.

"Ok, now I want you to try and think of what you want that magic to do, and then push it to do it." Kurt told her and stepped back a little more.

Finn was still by the castle doors, watching with a proud grin himself as Halle swirled her magic in her hand.

She used her other hand and cupped the magic in her hands, focusing on changing it, imagining colours and swirls, and the light faded as she opened her hand and there in her palm lay a red rose, with pink swirls within its petals, she smiled proudly as she gently tilted it to show Kurt.

Kurt clapped his hands a couple of times with a laugh.

"Yes, well done." Kurt said as he approached her and plucked the small flower form her hand, inspecting it, "it's beautiful."

"I can't believe I just made that." She said as she cupped her mouth and let out a happy giggle.

"Well, no we move on, see if we can't get your magic to do something else." Kurt said and she nodded with a grin and he pushed the stem of the rose through her hair, placing it on the side, "There...now, let's see if you can pick something up with just your powers."

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Blaine was teaching Tyler how to punch. They were in another part of the castle, surrounded by hanging bags of sand, and Blaine watched as Tyler kept pounding one of the bags, stopping him sometimes and correcting his stance.

"You need to leave yourself enough of a gait to balance, otherwise it would be easy for the enemy to get you over." Blaine said as he widened Tyler's legs again, "but also keep your arms in close to you after you punch, then nobody can grab them."

"This is a lot more difficult than in movies." Tyler said as he wiped the sweat off of his forehead, and Blaine laughed.

"Well, movies aren't real." He said and Tyler threw him an exasperated look, before he moved into the stance Blaine had shown him and threw more punches.

Blaine grinned as he watched. And after a few more times, correcting and watching again, he decided to move on to kicks.

"So, the proper way to kick isn't like the movies, you need to find a stance that you can go back into quickly, and make sure that you are close enough to connect with it," Blaine said as he took his shirt off and then moved to the bag of sand himself, "I want you to watch for a minute ok?"

"Ok." Tyler said as he removed his sweaty t-shirt too, and then sat on the floor and watched Blaine intently.

Blaine widened his feet, and threw a couple of solid punches on the bag in front of him, before switching his stance a little smaller and kicking one leg up and out to the bag. The thud echoed around the room they were training in, and then Blaine quickly placed his foot down back into his stance, before repeating the whole process again.

"You make sure," Blaine said as he threw another punch and then switched his stance to deliver another thudding kick to the bag, "that whatever you do, you always move back into your balanced stance."

"So they can't tackle you to the floor."

"That's right, there is vulnerability in kicking, you have to make sure the time calls for it, otherwise it won't work." Blaine explained and Tyler nodded before standing again.

"Right so, I can pick whatever stance I feel comfortable with?"

"Whatever gives you enough balance, and that is easy to go back into." Blaine said as he stepped away from the bag, and Tyler took his place in front of it again, "after you get the kicks down, you can spar with me."

Tyler nodded slowly, and then made sure he was balanced before kicking out at the bag, but as he put his foot down he wobbled and nearly fell over. Blaine corrected him slightly, and he tried again.

"This is harder than you made it look." Tyler said as he wobbled again, and he was becoming frustrated with himself.

"It took me years to get this good." Blaine said and Tyler moved into position again, but he was too close to the bag and almost toppled over when he kicked at it again.

"Were you in the army or something?" Tyler asked as he corrected himself again, and Blaine chuckled.

"It's a resistance and yeah, something like that."

"So you've been fighting for a while?" Tyler asked as he paused before landing his first solid kick to the bag.

"About 50 years." Blaine said as he continued to watch, impressed by how fast Tyler was learning his tricks.

Tyler took a couple of swings at the bag, widening his stance as he threw the punches and then changed his position again to connect another kick.

"Better." Blaine praised him with a smile, and Tyler continued to keep going.

Things progressed faster than Blaine expected and he raised an eyebrow when Tyler sat down, sweating and breathing hard, but with a smile on his face. Blaine grinned and moved to pick him up.

"Come on, no breaks yet," Blaine said as Tyler groaned and then Blaine gestured for him to follow him over to the mats on one side of the room, and then stood opposite him, "there aren't any breaks in fighting, until you know the enemy is unconscious or dead."

Tyler gulped and then nodded slowly.

"Ok, so now, we spar." Blaine said as he gestured for Tyler to stand opposite him, "I'll let you have the first hit."

Tyler laughed a little and then moved to stand on the mat with Blaine. Blaine moved into a defensive stance, with his fists up by his face, arms closed in to his chest. And Tyler did the same.

Blaine made a gesture with his fingers on one hand for Tyler to start forward, and he did.

Tyler found himself on his back within half a second, and Blaine was chuckling slightly as he grumbled.

"Woah," Tyler said with a small laugh as Blaine helped him up from the floor, "Ouch."

"Sorry." Blaine said with a laugh.

"You're fast."

"I am," Blaine said with a grin, "but we'll get you up there, don't worry...let's take a break and then do it again."

"Alright." Tyler said as Blaine went to grab two bottle of water for them.

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"Finn! You seeing this?!" Kurt called over to his brother as they watched Halle lifting rocks and placing them around the garden, and Finn nodded with a big grin from where he was standing.

"Yeah!" He called out, "it's great!"

Halle was pleased with herself, the big grin on her face so wide, Kurt thought that any second now it would split her face, but he was grinning too. Proud of what she had accomplished so far.

"Ok, great, Halle, good job." Kurt said to her as she placed the final rock down gently on the grass, "Now let's see if you can throw magic light balls huh?"

Halle nodded again, excited to be learning so much, and Kurt grinned as he swirled his hand around, his hand glowing white with energy before it turned a little red in colour and then he threw it up in the air a few feet above his head.

"Ok, now I want you to form light into a ball, ok?" Kurt said as he pointed up to the glowing red ball above his head, "and see if you can hit that target, I'll move it around as we go."

Halle nodded and focused the magic in her hand again, feeling it curve into a rounded shape, and as it became more solid she threw it up above Kurt's head. It took her a few tries but eventually she hit it and Kurt moved the red one to a different place around them.

She followed it with light balls, wherever it went, and eventually she was hitting on target every time, so Kurt decided to up it a little.

"Ok, next challenge, see if you can curve the light around me, to hit the target," he said as the red light moved directly behind him, and Halle glanced at him nervously, "it's ok, sweetheart, I have a shield."

Halle focused on curving, a few of her tries bouncing off of Kurt's shield and careening off into the bushes a few times, but eventually she got the curve down. Just enough to hit the red light behind Kurt, and he grinned.

"Well done," He said as Finn whooped and clapped from behind them, "now, we can move on to the real things."

"Real things?" Halle asked curiously.

"How to defend yourself against other magic users." Kurt explained seriously and she gulped little and nodded, "Now imagine yourself surrounded by an impenetrable force, nothing will be able to touch you, it's light and airy, but strong and unforgiving."

"Ok." She said a little nervously.

"I won't hurt you, darling, I promise." Kurt reassured her and she held up her hands in front of her and concentrated on imagining a giant dome around her made of steel, but invisible, and she nodded when she thought she was ready.

Kurt removed a gun from his holster and fired two shots directly at her, Finn had stopped to watch with interest. The bullets went ricocheting off of her shield, and Kurt clapped his hands as she started laughing happily.

"Alright, next lesson," Kurt said as he put his gun back in it's holster, "defending yourself without a shield."

"I don't know." Halle said a little apprehensively and Kurt swirled his hand around and a ball of fire appeared.

"Come on, Halle," He said as he threw it over her head, "you have to defend yourself."

"But Kurt I-" She was interrupted as she ducked another fireball, and she glared back at Kurt who was silently chuckling to himself.

She gave in to his taunting and threw a fireball of her own, missing him when he dodged it, and then they began circling each other and throwing light and objects, even materializing water and throwing that.

Kurt managed to catch her a little with a light ball, and she rubbed her arm.

"Ouch, that hurt."

"Yeah it burns a little."

She could feel her connection with her magic becoming a little unstable, but she had to learn how this stuff all worked, so she ignored it for now. Pushing down the magic as she dodged yet another ball of light, her eyes lit up a little and she held her hand out, creating another ball of energy, which shot from her hand like a bullet, and clipped Kurt on the shoulder.

"Ow, nice shot." Kurt said with a grin, but frowned and sucked when another was aimed at his face, "Halle?"

Finn was watching them as Halle continued to fire shots at Kurt, and he could see the beginning tendrils of her magic taking over the control.

"Kurt managed to dodge another one, but then Halle raised her other hand and the ground started trembling with the force of the shockwave she threw towards Kurt.

"Halle?" He asked again, as the shockwave hit him, but instead of moving past him, it surrounded him and squeezed, "Ha-lle."

Kurt tried to unwrap the force around him with his own magic, but she sent wave after wave to wrap around it, and it squeezed him tighter and tighter, until he was gasping and falling to his knees.

"Halle stop!" Finn shouted as he ran towards them both, but she wasn't in her head right now, the light beaming out of her eyes.

"Hal-!" Kurt gasped once more before he felt his insides slowly being crushed under the weight of her magic, and as his own magic was just about to give underneath the pressure of hers, Finn stood in front of her and placed a hand on his head.

"Ebika tel merata." He chanted as his eyes glowed and then her head dropped as did her hands and he slowly lowered her to the ground, unconscious.

Kurt gasped in air as the magic around him faded. He coughed and sputtered as he writhed in pain on the ground, gripping the grass underneath his fingers and trying to stave off the pain in his body.

"Fuck..." He said quietly as he could feel some parts of him were bleeding and or crushed and Finn rubbed a hand over his back while chanting a healing spell.

Soon the pain faded, and Kurt lay back on the grass panting with relief.

"We need to tell Burt." Finn said as he helped Kurt up from the grass and then they both looked over to where Halle lay curled up in a ball and Kurt sighed.

"Yeah, we do."

There was a thud and a crash as Blaine came tumbling out of the entrance of the castle, and Kurt rolled his eyes as his mate ran over.

"Kurt! Are you ok?!"

"Yeah I'm fine-" He started to say but Finn cut him off with an awed voice.

"Halle nearly crushed him to death."

"Thank you Finn." Kurt said irritably as Blaine looked between them and Halle, who still lay asleep on the grass.

"Come on, let's go and get a lecture off my father." Kurt said as he marched over to where Halle was laying and picked her up, the others following as they all walked back inside.

Unaware of the pair of eyes watching from the shadows, a wide grin smiling underneath them as they went inside the castle.