Chapter 2-Training

Training with Aurora was harder than I thought it was going to be. We trained during the night in the cold,and we even trained in a blizzard once or twice. Not fun. Aurora continuously told me that before I could learn Ice Dragon Slayer magic that I needed to become one with the cold. I may not have known that at the time, but she was right.

The first time she actually taught me magic, it wasn't Dragon Slayer magic, it was Ice Creation magic. When I asked Aurora why we were learning Ice Creation magic instead of Ice Dragon Slayer magic, she said, "Ice Creation magic was born of Ice Dragon Slayer magic. Once you can use Ice Magic in it's simplest form, I will teach you how to make it into your own form, into Dragon Slayer magic."

I practiced with Ice Creation magic for about three months, and Aurora had decided that I was ready to make my own Dragon Slayer magic, and then learn how to use it. I started with one of the simplest moves of Dragon Slayer magic: Freezing Fist of the Ice Dragon. Easy and simple, all I really needed to do was wrap my hand in my Ice Creation magic and then punch. According to Aurora, however, it was much more complicated. "You must feel it with your heart," she said. "Feel it with your heart, then, and only then, can it be called Dragon Slayer magic.

I was confused. I had no clue what she meant by that, so every time I would always just say, "huh?" or, "I don't get it."

"You'll get in one day, young one," Aurora said. "One day."

And so training went on, until the seventh day, of the seventh month, of the year 777. That morning, I awoke to find myself alone in that huge clearing. Aurora was nowhere to be found. I looked and looked for her, but she was gone, vanished into thin air. Probably forever.