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I realized the title and the description make this story seem like a cheesy romance. It's not. Anyways, hope you like the story so far!
Chapter 2: Training With Bracken the Charms Specialist
When Kendra arrived at the Fairy Realm, she was yet again taken aghast at it's pure beauty. Even though the Fairy Realm was recently inhabited by demons, the creatures of light had quickly made the formal prison a sanctuary. There were flowers everywhere, all equally beautiful and unique. The sky was crystal clear, and the sun was shining bright, making the Fairy Realm bright and a wonderful temperature. While Kendra knew it still had some flaws, she knew that this place was still more beautiful than anywhere on Earth. As Kendra looked around, she sow both big and little fairies.
After waiting for a few minutes, Kendra saw Bracken walking up to her. Kendra smiled, then burst out into a run, crashing into Bracken with a huge hug.
Bracken grinned. "If I had known you would be this excited to see me, I would have visited more often." He engulfed her in a large hug.
"I can't help that I missed you." Kendra was smiling very wide.
They hugged for another good minute, the Bracken said, "I think it's about time we started you training."
"Yes that would probably be for the best." Kendra said. "After all, I am still pretty bad at just about everything."
"Well you can't be that bad." Bracken said optimistically.
"Just wait and see." Kendra said.
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After a few minutes of walking, Bracken and Kendra arrived at the training destination. It was a wide, circular hunk of land made from smoothed rock.
"So how should we start are training?" Kendra asked eagerly.
"I should start by explaining charms." Bracken said. "I know, it's boring, but it's still essential to know what a charm is so you can cast it."
"All right. I'm all ears." Kendra said.
"Charms are essentially mini spells. While they can be used for offensive or defensive, they are mostly just little tricks to make life a little easier. Charms are often used because they aren't to tricky to cast and do t take up too much energy."
"Can I have an example of a charm?" Kendra asked.
"Of course." Bracken said. He then scrunched his face up in thought as he thought of a charm she might know. "Hmmmmmmmm. Charms. Oh I know!" He exclaimed. "You know the time I summoned my second horn from that wizard?"
"Yes." Kendra remembered it clearly.
"Well that was a charm." Bracken explained. "Another charm would be whenever you adjust the brightness of your aura."
"Oh." Kendra sighed. "If that's what's considered easy, I'm doomed. I can barely adjust my aura without feeling faint."
"It's alright." Bracken said. "You're still knew at magic, so it's probably difficult for you. With time and practice it will become easier."
Kendra was still upset. "But that will take so long! At this rate I will never be good at magic!"
"Well my job is to try to make your magic experience as easy as possible, so I'll try to help you as much as possible." Bracken said cheerfully.
Kendra smiles at him and said, "I guess it's time to start working on the charms."
"Correct." Bracken replied. "Hmmmmmmmm... Ah-ha! I have the perfect spell for you!"
"What is it?" Kendra said excitedly.
"It's the floating charm." Bracken said. "When cast, it can make one float, and when the caster becomes more advanced, they can even fly!"
"That sound amazing!" Kendra exclaimed eagerly.
Bracken smiled, pleased that she was happy with his charm. "To cast this charm, you don't have to say anything, like with many other charms. All you have to do is think to float and you will."
"Oh so it's like how adjust my aura!" Kendra said.
"Exactly." He replied, impressed by how quickly she was catching on to concept. "At first, you might have to concentrate a lot to float, but with practice it will become natural."
"So all I have to do is concentrate huh…" Kendra said. She tried concentrating, but nothing happened.
"It's okay!" Bracken encouraged. "It's difficult to do. Just try to continue concentrating!"
Again Kendra concentrated. Nothing happened.
Bracken could tell Kendra was felling frustrated, so he tried to give her some more advice. "When you're trying to to float, it might help if you imagine something floating."
"Okay." Kendra said. Kendra continued concentrating, but this time thought of fairies floating in the front yard. Just when she was about to loose hope, she felt different. She realized she couldn't feel her feet on the floor. Sure enough as she opened her eyes, her feet where about a solid inch off the floor.
"Look Bracken! I did it! I did it!" Kendra said giddily.
"You did!" Bracken said, a smile on his face. "I'm so proud of you! It usually takes much longer for people to cast this charm!"
Unfortunately, in Kendra's shock and joy of floating, she lost her concentration and fell.
"Oh no! I'm not floating anymore!" Kendra sulked.
"It's fine!" Bracken said. "That was very good for someone's first try. Above average I would say!"
"Hmmmm…" Kendra said. "I feel kind of biased."
"Why?" Bracken asked.
"I know that if you're my trainer, then I will get to spend lots of time with you. It makes me kind of want to pick charms just because if that."
"Do not fret, Kendra." Bracken stated sincerely. "Charms is more of an accessory; not a true branch."
"Huh?" Kendra asked, confused.
"While healing, elemental, offensive, and defensive magic are all main branches that you can dedicate yourself to, Charms is more of a bonus. It's useful, but not the main thing. If you follow defensive, you couldn't use offensive, healing, or elemental since they are main branches, but you could use charms since it is a bonus."
"So you're saying that if I pick a different branch, I can still do charms." Kendra asked.
"Correct." Bracken replied. "So whatever you pick, you're stuck with me." He joked.
"Well I wouldn't want to be stuck with anyone else." Kendra replied blushing.
Bracken smiled. "I'm glad you feel that way."
Bracken looked up at the sky. "It's about to be 11. Time for Mizelle to take over training."
"Wait!" Kendra exclaimed. "Before you leave, can you please tell me about Mizelle?"
"Sure." Bracken said. "Mizelle teaches elemental magic. As a result, you might notice she has very good emotional control, so she may not be very open about her emotions. Also, unlike me, Mizelle might want you to prove yourself to her. She will probably like you best if you prove how strong you are. That should be a problem for you, though since you're so awesome." Bracken winked.
"Thank you for the advice." Kendra said.
"Well it's just about time for me to go. Goodbye, Kendra." Bracken said.
"Goodbye!" Kebdra said, then ran up to him and gave him a big goodbye hug.
Bracken smiled and returned the hug.
As he walked away, Kendra waved.
While she was excited to meet Mizelle, she could help but fret about pleasing her. What if she thinks I'm weak and hates me? Kendra thought. No. I can't think like that. So Kendra stopped with the negativity.
And so Kebdra waited, both excited and nervous to meet Mizelle.
Merry Christmas! Hope you all have had a nice time. For those who don't celebrate Christmas, happy holidays! Anyways, I hope everyone has liked the story so far!
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