Chapter 5: Adaptation

I woke up and prepared to go to school again. Ringo was already up and about doing the same thing. We left for Suzuran High and for the entire morning of that day, everything seemed normal. I learned more about the anatomy of a Puyo, interesting history was dropped, and of course, I nearly broke with notes from calculus. I was having a good time with Lemres and Feli. They always enjoyed my company, we felt like a trio of best friends. I will admit, it was quite healthy and sweet for me. However as much as I did enjoy things, today at lunch was the exact opposite. What had occured was... rather cancerous and sour. "Ah, this is the life… I really enjoy hanging out with you two." I said. "Heh, what can I say? It might as well be… true…" Lemres stops and moves his head around in another direction. "Lemres, what's wrong?" Feli asked. "Uh oh… we're 'bout to see some trouble…" Lemres replied. "Hmm, that can't be good… what could it be?" I wondered. Lemres pointed us to the growing issue that was about to sprout. "Look at those students, they're all movin' in a pack, like wolves. No doubt about it, they are troublemakin' freshmen…" I saw these kids, they were awfully roughnecked for their size. Not to say that they were short, but calling them grown would be an overstatement. "Shit, they're moving towards those weaker students... likely to bully 'em." He said. "What? B-but, we can't let that happen, there's no one around to defend those innocent people…" Lemres assured my concern. "That's right, no one in their right mind has yet to revolt to those freshmen. We have to do somethin', otherwise… they'll remain a dominant force in the realm of students." "What a bunch of stupid, immature, and naive kids…" Feli groaned. "I know, I agree with you one hundred percent on that statement, Feli." I said. The roughnecks came up to the weak. "Hey there… where's the money that you said that you would give us to stop botherin' you?" One of those guys must have been the leader, identified with a scar across his left eye. "I'm sorry, Gale! I dropped it somewhere, please don't hurt-!" The student begged. "Sorry doesn't even begin to cut it small fry! That was a poor excuse you've made and a mistake to pull on me too!" This "Gale" reeled in for a punch.

Me and Lemres prepared to defend the poor bastard from Gale. "Hold on guys, We'll handle this… you stay back." We heard an unfamiliar voice behind us, I didn't know who this was, but it was a guy. This guy wore a trench coat and sunglasses, with his hair being jet black. He had a squadron of other students with him. They marched over to the roughnecks as we watched curiously. "You are Gale... are you not?" The guy says as Gale turns around. "Huh? Who the hell are you guys? Ha, it doesn't matter, you're still students in the end tryin' to defend these weaklings with no power yourselves." It was at this moment, we as well as everyone else, witnessed a standoff between delinquents and justice seeking prodigies. "I'll have you done like damned dinner in no time flat!" Gale goes to punch our mysterious guest. "Squad, incapacitate Gale and his followers…" He said. The squadron pulls out stun guns, and then they began shooting. "Arrrrrgh!" Gale and his men yelled out. A few seconds later, Gale and his group were on the floor, incapable of moving. The weak seemed to be thankful to our mystery guy after that chaos. "That was certainly something…" I trailed off. "I have never seen anything like it before." Feli said. "Just wow… amazin'..." Lemres said with a lack of better words to choose.

Our "friend" came back over to us shortly afterward. "Alright, there shouldn't be any further worries made from that idiotic mass." He said. "Uh excuse me, but could you explain to us who you are?" I asked. He pauses for a second soon after. "Ah, where's my manners? My apologies... I am known as Jace, Student Council President. It is our job, as Student Council to regulate the school as much as possible, to a certain extent that is. Basically, we prevent chaos from spreading across the school and stuff along those lines." Lemres looked confused as Jace said that.. "Student Council? I don't recall this school havin' one…" Lemres pointed out. "Neither do I…" Feli agreed. "Well, this is more of a recent development, by that I mean we were formed just a few days ago by the school itself in secrecy." Jace elaborated to us. "I see… well thanks for doing what you did, who knows what would have happened to the defenseless." I thanked him. "No need for thanks, I was just doing my job as Student Council President." Jace kept this serious face on him the whole time that we saw him. "Alright squad, let us take our leave with the garbage, so they can't sully this sanctuary anymore…" I didn't know what he meant by that. "W-wait, where are you going to do with them?" I questioned, hoping to get a valid answer "I can't give away specific details regarding that, it is classified, but let me make it clear to you... they will be transported to a facility. At this facility, they will pay off their heavy misdeeds by doing special tasks, and they won't refuse either. Let's just leave it at that, shall we?." Jace and the Student Council left, probably for other matters to attend to.

We didn't know what to think, this brand new student council shows up from out of nowhere and punishes those roughnecks. For the rest of lunch, me, Lemres, and Feli were reviewing what the hell had just occurred. So Dave, why do you think that student council was made recently?" Lemres asked. I didn't know for sure, but I had a theory. "Maybe those roughnecks were causing so many public disruptions around the school… that the faculty got tired of it." I guessed. "It's certainly possible… that would explain most of the oddities in a nutshell…" Feli said. "One thing's for certain, the council is protectin' us from ruffians, which is good. Lemres said as we finished up the conversation. The rest of the day continued fine until I came into Accord's class. The class begins and Accord began to speak. "Class, today it looks like we will have to delay our current lesson again due to Dave passing out yesterday after his test. I didn't anticipate this, but that's okay… this next thing won't take us too long. So Dave, come up here and sit on this chair." I didn't know why she wanted me to do so and she was quite serious about the ordeal. I decided to take her word for it and do what she requested out of me. "Now Dave, I'm going to put this blindfold on you. This is because things are about to get incredibly bright. As for the rest of you, I should tell you that Dave has no magic power to speak of yet. I will prepare him to feel magic aura flowing through his body by a use of a special method. You kiddies go into the small soundproof room. I'll lock the door to make sure that you don't go peeping into the brightness. You'll know when it's done as I unlock the door. So, do you understand the procedure class?" The other five students in unison replied: "Yes Ms. Accord." After that, she went ahead and locked them in the side room and placed some kind of magic around the front entrance.

This made me naturally curious "What's that for?" I asked. "It's to make sure that no one outside of the classroom can hear us. We don't want any noise the leak out into other ears, Dave." "But why…? This makes no sense…" "Oh you'll figure it out as we go along, so I'll put on the blindfold now." After she puts it on, I hear rustling of stuff moving for about two minutes. "Okay, it took me a little bit, but now I'm ready to get us started with this." I didn't know what she was doing until… I felt something, touching my lap. "Uuuuuuuh… what is this I'm feeling…?" I was very awkward with the event currently going on. "Ah… what are… you doing Ms. Accord?!" I felt her softly biting on the corner of my ears. "I'm letting magic aura flow through your muscles and veins, and because I know you are that kind of young man…" She grabs my hand and makes me grip something else. "W-wait! Is this... ?! Ms. Accord, this is not right!" I knew for a fact what I was now touching, it was one of her breasts. "*moan*" Accord starts moaning to these actions. None of this was legal, she was clearly older than me. She wanted to me to sexually pleasure her despite our noticeable age difference, all so that I could have the ability to cast magic. "Dave, do me one more favor, start sucking on them, you know what I mean." I did knew, if I wanted to get this over with, I had to abide by what she says, so I did. "Ah, yes! This… this should be enough to ignite that magic potential in you. Ooooooooh!" She yelled out for a final time. I began to feel empowered by an aura. At the same time, I saw so much light, even through the blindfold. It was as though this light was heavenly and all-blinding. "Woah… I feel strange…" "Oh my... Dave, it looks like you have quite the magic potential in you. I have never felt newly created magic aura like this before… Hold on, I'll come back in a bit and then you can take off the blindfold." I waited for her to return.

"Alright, Dave, you can take off the blindfold now." Accord said. I took it off and she opened the door for my classmates to reunite with me. "What happened, Ms. Accord? I really wanna know!" Amitie asked out of curiosity. Accord didn't say anything of what just occurred, so I guessed that was good for my own sanity. These guys would've freaked out if they knew the truth, so I was glad that it was being kept a secret. "So, kiddies... I want you to see what Dave is capable of now that his body is a vessel of magical strength. So go ahead, show them, I took precautions by placing a magic barrier around the room. Give it everything you have so I can see where you need help with for the future." She told me. "Ms. Accord... I'm not sure how I should go about releasing spells." I said. She paused for a moment. "Just have your mind focus on what is most precious to you, they'll come through soon enough. Think of names for your spells and you'll release them." I hesitated, but quickly went with the idea. I thought in my mind deeply, wondering what I had cared most. It was my friends, I didn't need to hesitate at this point. I knew what I was doing now and I called on my first spell. "Hrrrgh! Cryogenic Bomb!" I launched an icy ball from my hand towards the barrier and it exploded with ferocity. Desks and everything else in between were blown around by the force of the blast.

Everyone else was shocked, even Klug couldn't believe this. I have to admit, I was amazed with myself pulling this off. "Holy crap, did I do that?" I questioned while looking at my hands. "Brrgh! Everything's chilly in here..." Amitie pointed out. "That was certainly a show worth seeing." Tarutaru said. "The "Oomf" of that spell was off the charts, all of that energy…" Raffina said in awe. "Th-that kind of power is scary to feel..." Lidelle emphasized, whilst trembling. I noticed that Klug's expression changed to reflect slight anger, as though he was jealous of me. "Well, that was more magic power than I was expecting...however, now I know what Dave needs to work on to improve it. He simply needs better control of this, not like he had awful control for his first time, but it requires some... fine tuning." Accord explained. "Other than that though, I see amazing potential from this new pupil *giggle*." I heard the words of the wise being spoken, I decided to take a page from them. The classroom was still a mess from my Cryogenic Bomb, so we rearranged everything back. There was a bit of time leftover after all of this, so Accord had let us talk to each other for it. "Anyway Dave, that was incredible! I'm trying to become a great magician, but I can't deny that you're good right out of the gate." Amitie praised me. Raffina came over and gave me a slight noogie to the head. "I'm impressed with you, considering that was your first use of magic… I think you surprised all of us with that." She finished that statement up and goes back to sit down. "Uh… Dave…? I hear Lidelle asked me. "What is it Lidelle, is there a problem?" I returned a question.

Lidelle stuttered for a short time before grasping her words. "D-do you... mean to hurt anyone using that strong magic of yours…?" She wondered I thought about this question carefully, she was probably thinking that I would carelessly hurt innocent people. "Lidelle, there's no need to worry… I use dangerous things only for the sake of protecting other people. That line of thinking is how my magic was formed, and if you think I'll abandon it like that, I won't." I told her. She understood what I meant and thanked me for being so caring of others. Tarutaru didn't talk to me on that day, not because he didn't care, but he was preoccupied with other things. The bell clapped, and the school day was over. As I grabbed my backpack and walked through the door, Klug stands in my way outside the room. "Can I help you, Klug? I'm on my way back to Suzuran and I don't have much time, get out of the way." Klug was obviously agitated from this.

I knew what he was trying to get out of me. I just pretended to be oblivious of his actions. "I don't care if you're a descendant of a powerful magician… you started out with no magical power to speak of. But yet... despite that flaw, you were able to conjure up such high leveled ice spell right off the bat. You shouldn't be able to do that so soon, too irregular." He criticized me. I explained things to him simply, but it just made him even more infuriated. "Look Klug, it all comes from the will of the user, at least that's how I understood it. I had the will to perform that Cryogenic Bomb, because I had friends that I cared about-" I said before Klug interrupted me. "Don't give me something silly as hell like that! All that talk about friendship is bullshit, that can't be a catalyst for unlocking potential!" He exclaimed. I really had made him mad at this point, so I decided to humor him. "Alright then Klug, see if you can prove me wrong. We'll fight using magic against each other… on Saturday, after school, in the forest outside of Primp. It's my thoughts of power versus your idea of such, do you accept my terms?" I asked. Klug calmed down in response to this. "Very well "One-hit-wonder, Dave", I accept your boldness to challenge me. Do know this though: I will expose that friendship garbage as nothing more than trash that you cling onto!" He accepted the terms. We left each other with sour faces after making that agreement. I relaxed more as I return to Suzuran. On the way, I thought about one question that was lingering in my mind. Why was Klug such an ass to everyone else, and how did he become to be like one? I didn't have time to try and figure that out at the time, so I return home and the rest of the night was normal.

Author's Notes: I had the first spell of the main character's revealed as "Cryogenic Bomb" because I thought that it would be a "cool" one to start off with. Excuse me for the pun, I had to say it, but that statement is still true as well. It represents itself as a little taste for what there is to come, regarding the power of the main character moving forward in this story.