Donum Deae – stop drop and dodge the fire balls
The group was staring at the massive room they were sitting in; it was a metal room with the single area they were sitting lined with rubber mats. Huge scorch marks littered the walls both burns from fire and electrical; there were huge cracks in the floor as if an earthquake had hit the place. The floor had huge slash marks in it along with the walls like someone had taken a huge knife and just gouged into the metal.
It felt like they were in a class as Genesis Rhapsodos was currently standing in front of the group on a small set of rubber bleachers. The others were either sitting at the back of the group or standing around, each looking bored.
Pulling a large green marble from his pocket Genesis held it up so everyone could see. "This little ones is a materia. Concentrated, crystallized mako..or liquid life stream; the very life blood of the planet. These little spheres of crystallized mako contain in them raw magic; raw magic that when harnessed can have devastating effects.
Materia is extremely rare now as the world has been paved over and many of the natural mako springs have long since disappeared. But these.. are the ultimate form of magic."
Genesis lowered the materia seeing the kids giving him a confused look. Rolling his eyes Genesis really wanted to start hucking fireballs at these moronic children.
Angeal shook his head from where he stood off to the side; Genesis was no a teacher, he never had been. He as better known for chasing cadets with fireballs then teaching them anything; deciding to take pity on the man Angeal moved forward plucking the materia from him.
"To elaborate on what Commander Rhapsodos was saying; the magic that is known to the Wizarding world today is another form of the magic we know. Every person has a connection to the lifestream and it is from that lifestream that we pull our magical powers; have you ever wondered why witches and wizards show up in muggle families? But yet those that are considered pure blood can be born with none?"
He saw several of the children nodded, though most were remaining quiet. "The strength of the wizard is determined by how strong their connection to the life stream is; the stronger the wizard the bigger connection they have. Materia," he held up the faintly glowing ball, "is pure lifestream crystallized into a solid form; there are five classification of materia."
Seeing something he could do since he knew he sucked at teaching Genesis pulled one of each materia and held them up between his fingers. "You can tell their classifications based upon their colors." He held up the green one he had taken from Genesis. "Green is magic materia, generally elemental based; each one is a different single element that can grow more powerful as you use it. This one is Firaga, a full mastered fire materia; this is the most powerful fire you can get." Handing it back to Genesis he pulled out a glowing red one. "Summon materia, always red; these are not for beginners. A summon is a creature that comes to your aid, there are many different summons and if you are new they may not obey you and that can have deadly consequences."
"This…" he held up a yellow materia, " is a command materia, they generally equip to weapons and can do anything from increase the speed of your swings to elemental attacks. This blue one is a support materia they can give you special little abilities such as faster run speed, status, wards.. but they have to be linked to another materia."
"These last ones, the purple materia are called independent materia, they increase your physical and magical power.. useful materia to have equipped. Materia can be equipped into specially designed weapons and bracers, each person has their own preferred setup, Harry.. what was yours?"
Hearing his Wizarding name Sephiroth looked up from where he was leaning against the wall trying not to fall asleep. Materia had been boring when he was a kid.. it was even worse as an 'adult'
"All my materia was mastered; in Masamune I had a linked Fire and Revive, a linked Ice and all, and a restore with an empty linked spot. In my gold armlet I had a linked lightning and all, and a linked earth and all." He shrugged he wasn't really a materia user that was all Genesis.
"We are at first going to teach you how to use materia, while they may be rare if you have even a simple fire it can save your life more so.." he held up his wand. "Than this will.. these." He tossed his wand away. "are a joke, your magic requires you to speak an incantation giving away not only the element of surprise but giving your enemy a chance to counter. Materia there is no such thing as saying what the attack is. Also if you gain a sense of using materia it will help you connect with that inner life stream and eventually allow you to cast wordless magic."
Taking back the mastered firaga Angeal slipped it into a bracer around his wrist. "Just like with magic there are always going to be some that are not as skilled with materia..I am one of those, even though this is a full mastered Firaga I will be lucky to get a fire 1" moving away from the group he faced once of the scorched walls. A brilliant red light started to form around his hand before a medium sized fireball flew out and hit the wall scorching it instantly.
The students were all gaping at this; they hadn't seen anything like that before. Removing the bracer Angeal tossed to it Sephiroth. "Harry, is not a master but he is power." Getting the hint Harry slipped the bracer on and without really putting any effort threw his arm forward producing a massive fireball that slammed into the wall leaving huge sections of metal completely melted.
"Genesis here, is a materia master.. the difference between a master and someone powerful like Harry here, is Genesis can completely control the fire even once it has left."
Sephiroth tossed Genesis the bracer and moved over to a control wall and hit a button causing a training dummy to pop up out of the ground behind Genesis. Smirking Sephiroth moved out of the way.
"Same materia but watch the difference."
Throwing his hair back arrogantly as normal Genesis started to build the spell in his hand; fire licking at the leather that covered his fingers. Throwing his arm out he sent out two volleys of multiple fireballs towards the wall; he clenched his fist and drew his hand back.
Just before the multiple fireballs hit the wall they suddenly turned and shot back behind them striking the dummy and completely incinerating it. "As I said.. full control." Angeal shook his head seeing his friends smugness at showing off.
"Because Materia is pure life stream, if you can harness even a basic level 1 spell it will help increase your casting with a wand."
Seeing a hand Angeal motioned for Hanna to speak. "How do you all know this, I mean Neville..you were horrible at magic last year..but now..all of you."
The group all shared a look, while Hermione was alright to reveal the truth, it may not be as wise to do it here. "That we cannot tell you.."
"It should not matter how we know, the fact is we do know." Sephiroth pushed himself off the wall once more moving over to where Genesis was and stood next to him. "While a few will practice with the materia the rest will work on their spells."
Sephiroth nodded to Genesis and moved back to his spot against the wall. Looking to the group Genesis instantly saw his first target. "Hermione, the red head next to you and the lovely young lady right below you." Cho flushed seeing he was looking at her. "I will work with three of you at a time; the rest of you will be with Cloud and the others working on your spells." Turning away he headed over towards a bag he had stashed full of low level materia that he was hording; he had planned on leveling them himself when he was bored but Seph had talked him into giving up a few of the basic ones.
That had been accompanied by much pouting and temper tantrum throwing by the auburn WEAPON until Sephiroth had found a way to silence him.. a fun way mind you that didn't really silence him..but that was besides the point.
Having the three in front of him he gave Cho his most charming smile; he was as gay as a jay bird but he could still make the ladies melt.
Cho swooned slightly looking over the beautiful man in front of him. he was beautiful, lean.. powerful and he seemed to be in close ties with Harry.
"This…" Genesis held up a green materia, "Is a level 1 fire materia, it's never been worked so it's at the most basic level you can get for a magic materia. When you hold it in your hand.." he held it gently in his fingers arm out stretched. "feel the life stream within and will it to manifest into a ball and force it towards your target… Hermione." He held it out to her who took it eagerly, though she noticed a second green materia in his hand. "What's that one?" smirking Genesis moved away, "Cure..in case you set yourself on fire."
"You wanna try that one again"
Ron screamed and hit the deck seconds before being incinerated by a fireball from the what he learned was the very volatile Genesis.
He had made the mistake of mouthing off to Hermione when Genesis was working with Cho about how Genesis shouldn't even be teaching them that he was a crack pot.. Now he was currently running for his life across the room as Genesis was now using him as target practice.
Harry of course was just laughing it up the entire time watching the auburn haired man chasing him all over the place trying to barbeque him alive!
Deciding to take pity on the poor stupid boy Sephiroth moved over and gently pulled Genesis into his arms. "Alright that is enough Gen, you can BBQ him later you have others to work with.. hopefully more promising."
Huffing Genesis turned back to his lover and smiled "do I get something in return then?" smiling slightly Sephiroth tightened his arms around him. "How about.. Once this is over we accesses the data frame and recreate Costa del sol..just you..me.. the golden beach.." Smiling even more Genesis turned in his arms leaning up and kissing the man deeply. "Sounds like a plan."
Genesis pulled away ignoring the shocked looks on everyone's faces. Smirking Sephiroth moved over to where Angeal, and Cloud were. "How are they doing?" looking over Cloud shrugged, "This poor schooling system they had it leaving them far behind, though they are pretty good at disarming."
"Good.. let's put them to the test than." Cloud nodded but allowed Sephiroth to make the command.
Moving over to a small intercom Sephiroth hit the button knowing Reno and Rude were both up there working the control room.
"Reno.. Shinra program Alpha Echo 43."
"Sure thing General hotness." The room flickered and changed to that of a massive grasslands.
"WHOA! How did you do that?" Seamus was staring wide eyed as were half of the other students. "Virtual Reality cameras.." Sephiroth said simply and motioned towards the grass in front of them. before any could make mention of a technology that wasn't sophisticated yet they all as a group moved together as the grass started to move.
From it a tiny creature with a yellow stalk like body and long grass stuck from its head wandered out onto a section of dirt.
"What is that?" Katie asked, it was actually really cute.
"They are called mandragora.. your job will be to disarm them before they overwhelm you."
"Overwhelm us? Those tiny things? Are you kidding?" it was a Ravenclaw that Sephiroth knew had had his eye on Cissnei prior to her change.
"Yes.." the group of reincarnates all shared a knowing look. The boy Michael he believed his name was shook his head an arrogant smirk on his face. "no problem"
Raising his wand he sent a smirk to Cissnei and pointed it at the monster. "Expelliarmus!"
The mandragora flew into the air and disappeared showing it had been killed, smirking arrogantly Michael turned back to the applause of the small student body. "Ehem.. Micheal." Sephiroth pointed back to the grasslands. Wondering why the hell Harry was telling him to turn back he turned and felt his heart stop.
There was now thousands of them all rushing towards him.
"They attack in a group.. better start casting.."
AN: sorry another really short one, but I'm really strapped for time for this chapter and I promised it would be one a day. I don't know how long the next one is going to be but I promise it will be up tomorrow.
Right now I got about 3 ½ hours till I gotta shove off for sakura con! So review peeps I'll be getting them over my phone all day
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