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A/N: Due to popular demand I decided to resurrect this story. I decided to just say screw it if someone wants to report me for some bogus reason they can. I'll fight it and if I lose, well, I have this story up at another location anyway. I'll be pulling the list of gods off of chapter 4 so I may prevent that. I'll post a link to a site where I have the gods listed should you want to look them up.
Chapter 6: The Training Begins
Within the first week of training Dielare was fairly used to the training regime that he was being thrown into. Eliz wasn't kidding when she said that she wouldn't cover something the next day as he had found out his first full day of training. After they had spent that first night training him to connect to his element they dove straight into the more difficult things the next day without so much as a review on connecting to the element. Dielare still didn't talk much after, but he wasn't silent all the time, which Eliz found as progress.
So far that week they had covered some of the easier attacks in the Earth Elemental Magiks, but by the sadistic grin on Eliz's face Dielare knew that today they were going to be doing things a lot more difficult.
"You know the drill Dielare, start running," she called out as soon as he entered the training room. He just shook his head briefly before he began to run around the room as he had been every day since his training begun. She had told him that the more fit he was physically the more endurance he would have using magic so she would push him every day for the first hour with running and various other exercises aimed to tone his body and increase his stamina. I wonder when I'll be having another language lesson with Seliv, he thought as he continued his run. I haven't had any so far this week, though today is Friday so I might be having those on the weekend. At least there seems to be someone near my room every morning so I can get the translation charm cast until I learn the language properly.
"That's enough running for now," Eliz called out, "Front and center for the rest of the warm-up." Dielare immediately slowed down to a jog to cool down as he made his way over to Eliz in a vain attempt to get his breathing under control. "25 double push-ups, now," she said with the same sadistic smile. He complied knowing better than to try and complain about it. The last time he complained he was only told to do 25 push-ups, complaining made the exercise double, and stay doubled it seemed. Once he was done with the push-ups he had to do the equivalent of 40 jumping jacks, and finish off with 50 sit-ups. There were some miscellaneous stretches mixed in there, but it all added up to him being quite worn out, though he was getting better. "Ok, you might like to know that today is going to be a half day for you as there are a few non-training related things that you need to learn to do," Eliz told him as soon as he was standing.
"Like what," Dielare asked suspiciously.
"Flying for one," Eliz said with a smirk, "You're going to learn how to fly a broomstick today, as well as talking to Seliv to arrange your language lesson times." As she told him the last part she renewed the translation charm since it was just about that time.
"I'll be learning to fly? Really," he asked excitedly.
"Yes," she said chuckling, "But we need to finish what I have planned for today first so you'd best work hard."
"Yes Ma'am," he replied knowing she hated it. She shot him a playful glare proving that.
"Now, today you're going to be learning some basic healing as Earth Elementals are usually natural healers, plus you'll probably need it before long," she said with a sadistic smirk to which he gulped. "I daresay you have enough bruises and aches this week that we won't need to manufacture any injuries yet. What I want you to do is sit in a comfortable position and connect to your element. Then I want you to direct it to the sore areas on your body and see if you can't figure out how to heal on your own. I'll be watching in case you mess up."
"As you wish m'lady," he replied with a smirk. She rapped him on the arm with her staff once the sentence was out of his mouth. "What was that for," he asked attempting to look innocent.
"That was for being a smart-ass," she responded with a mock-glare. He just chuckled before sitting on the floor to attempt to heal himself. Once he was comfortable he connected with the Earth directing the energies towards his wounds. Once he could feel the energy surrounding his injuries he followed his instincts and had it wrap around the them permeating them with the energy. As he did so he could feel all the areas he had directed the energy to feeling better. Once he felt those injuries were taken care of he directed the energy to the sore muscles that he had so he could relieve the strain on them.
"I think I got the hang of it," Dielare said once he opened his eyes.
"I believe you have. Now that you've taken care of those we can move on. It's the same principle when healing someone else, just push your energy out to the person you want to heal instead of keeping it inside. You'll get plenty more practice at that so we'll leave it for now," she told him. "Now normally we'd spend an entire day on this but you're training is a little more rushed than most. Leos feels that Cornil, that pompous man that you met your first day here, is up to something. We need to get you trained as soon as possible."
"What does Leos think he's up to," Dielare asked.
"He's not sure, but that's also why we're using this more-or-less unused training area," Eliz replied, "It's less likely that he'll be able to spy on your training or try and intervene."
"Gotcha," he said in understanding.
"For the remainder of the morning we're going to be working on your weapons training. Now, as you're an Earth Mage, we'll be training you with a staff for the most part, but we'll also do some sword training so you're not completely defenseless against someone who has one if you can't use your magic," she explained.
"Alright," he replied standing back up at the ready.
"Now, once you are good enough with the weapon you will be able to create one out of your element, but until you have sufficient grounding in the weapon you won't be able to. It's to prevent you from hurting yourself," she added with a smirk.
"So, where do I start?"
"Take this," she said handing him the same staff she had whacked him with earlier, "I don't expect you to be able to use it proficiently…" She was cut off mid-sentence by Dielare moving through a complex set of moves that he shouldn't have had an idea of how to do without proper training first. "Have you ever done this before," she asked once he had stopped.
"Never, why? I was just goofing off," he said with a guilty smile.
"Forget what I was saying. Can you do that again," she asked dumbfounded. He complied moving through the exact same set of movements he had done a moment ago. "Well, I guess we can move on. Looks like you're a natural with the staff."
"How do I go about creating one from the Earth," he asked interested.
"Connect with the Earth and draw the power into your hands. Once it's there envision the staff and clap your hands together," she said before demonstrating. Dielare followed her instructions creating an emerald green staff that appeared to be made out of…well Emerald, but a lot stronger than that of the gem. Eliz nearly fainted when she looked at the staff because all the modern day Earth Mages had staffs made out of different types of wood. There was only one Mage that was said to have a staff made out of a gem and that was centuries ago! And only then it was the King of Atlantis himself that had done it! There hadn't been another Elemental Mage born into the royal line since so they weren't able to tell whether or not it was just the person or the heritage as it was with the Animagus form that all descendants of the royal line had.
"Like that," he asked.
"Just like that," she replied once she had regained her voice, "Now that you have summoned your weapon we can move onto the harder moves of an Earth Mage, but that will have to wait until Monday as it's time for lunch and today we are dining in the Royal dining hall since we are meeting up with Seliv as she will be helping me teach you to fly."
"Alright, how do I dispel the staff? I doubt that it'd look good if I carried a weapon into the dining hall," he asked with a mischievous smile.
"You're right, it wouldn't. Just draw the energy back into yourself," she explained watching as he did it naturally. "Let's go or we'll be late," she said before guiding him out of the training room. They walked silently towards the dining hall each wrapped up in their own thoughts about the other.
"Have you learned anything of his training," a cold voice asked from atop a dark ornate throne.
"Not yet m'lord, but we are having difficulties tracking down which training room they use," a kneeling figure in black robes trimmed in red responded.
"That is not good enough! Crucian," the leader barked sending an early ancestor of the Cruciatus curse to his servant. He held him under the curse for several minutes before letting him up. "You will discover where he is being trained before I call you again!"
"Y-yes m'lord," the crouching figure replied recovering from the 'punishment'.
"Now get out of my site, and don't fail me again Farew."
"Yes my lord," Cornil said as he backed his way out of the chambers.
A/N: I apologize for this being a really short chapter, but I'm trying to get myself back into writing the story so the next few might be short as well. I'll do my best to make them longer tho.
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