Hello Good People of Fanfiction! I'm sorry for not uploading Tuesday OR Wednesday. I was so busy both days, that I didn't have enough time to upload. So, someone said I should just saw I will upload two chapters a week. And that's exactly what I plan to do. So, Instead of every Tuesday and Thursday, I will be uploading twice a week. Sorry to keep you waiting, and enjoy the chapter!

As they were about to leave, the guards stopped them.

"Hey, where do you think you're all going? You're not done-" The soldier looked behind them, to see that the elder had disappeared.

"Oh… well then, go ahead. We'll be waiting here for you to escort you all to the ruins. Get whatever you need from our townsfolk, and come talk to me when you're ready." The soldier said, as the other two moved out of the way, and they headed out of the door.

"Alright, so Aqua, do we need any other supplies before we go?" Light asked, as they went along throughout the village.

"Well, one thing we need to ask Lilly for is all of our equipment back… as you can see, we have nothing in our inventory." Aqua was right: Light looked into his inventory, and there was nothing in there.

"Hey! Lilly, what did you do with all of our stuff!?" Light yelled, as Lilly went by Light.

"Hey, don't worry about it! It's all in our storage unit… just follow me!" Lilly said, as she ran off, with Aqua, Light, and Cooper barely being able to keep up.

Lilly eventually stopped in front of a giant hut that was hidden behind the village. It was much larger than all of the other village huts, and had a lock on the door to get into the hut. Lilly grabbed a key from her back pocket, opened the door, and stepped inside, Light and Co. behind her. As they entered, it was pitch black.

"Oh, sorry… here's the light switch." Light heard something click, and then a small, dim light came on. When Lih got used to the light, he saw all sorts of different things: food, armor, medicine, ores, and all of their supplies. Aqua walked towards the supplies and began rummaging through it.

"Potions… weapons…food… yup. It's all here."

"Of course silly! Why wouldn't it be? We're not thieves."

"Yea… says the person who kidnapped us in and threw us into jail…" Cooper said, as he picked up his hammer and placed it into his hotbar.

"Oh… That, yea… sorry I guess. Anyways, I got you your stuff back didn't I? You can at least thank me for that!" Lilly said, as she walked over by the door.

" I'll be outside if you need anything. Feel free to take any other materials if you need to." Lilly said, as she winked at Light, and walked outside.

"Thank goodness we can be away from her for a bit… I thought I was going to explode!" Light said, as he gathered up his diamond sword, food, and potions.

"Oh really Light? For a second there, I thought you actually LIKED Lilly… But maybe it was my imagination…" Aqua smirked

"S-Shut up Aqua!" Light stammered, and blushed a pinkish red.

"Hey, look at this Cooper. It's an old spell book." Light said, as he was rummaging through the other supplies, and gave the book to Cooper.

"Oooo! Nice find Light, let's take a look…. Huh. I can't seem to read it, it's in some sort of other language…"

" You're right Cooper. It's in Xilament, a language used in an ancient tribe long ago. However, I myself have been able to learn the language and I should be able to decipher whatever this book is. Here, hand it to me." Aqua said, as Cooper gave Aqua the book.

"...Ah, I see now. This is an old spell book. It seems like an earth spell book as well. Well Cooper, you should be able to learn some basic earth spells from this book. Nothing to advanced really, but you'll learn more powerful spells later on. Well, let's take a go at these shall we? Light, you may as well come along as well. You might be able to pick us a thing or two from our training." Aqua said, as he closed the book, and headed outside with Light and Cooper; Lilly racing after them after she locked up the storage unit.

They walked along an old path to a training ground that Lilly told them about after she caught up to them.

"Just a little farther, and we should be there…" She said, as the path cleared up to reveal a very open area in the woods. It had all sorts of different training equipment lying around, dummies were set up in some areas with targets on their stomachs, and shards of broken armor and weapons lay all around the area.

"So, welcome to the training are! This is where most of our soldiers train, and to-be soldiers." Lilly said.

"Perfect. Cooper, come with me to the center of the field. Light, find a seat somewhere near our training, but not too close. we don't want the legendary her killed, now do we?"

"Oh, I'll GLADLY take him off your hand Aqua… take as much time as you need." Lilly said, as Light felt her tail around him.

"Alright then, see you later you two." He said, as they walked off towards the center of the field, and Light and Lilly sat down on a tree stump not to far from the training.

"Alright then Cooper, the first thing we're going to do is to test your strength, accuracy, and speed. Don't worry about me: I can most likely doge out of your attacks, and I won't strike you with my sword, only the grip of the sword."

Cooper nodded, and ran toward Aqua at tremendous speed for someone who is carrying a 5 block wide hammer. Aqua quickly dogged out of the way, but Cooper counterattacked with the grip of the hammer. It hit Aqua directly in the stomach. Aqua gasped, and wobbled backward.

"Alright then… time for some offense!" Aqua charged at him in a blur, and hit Cooper right in the stomach as well. Cooper stumbled back, and Aqua came in for a second strike, but Cooper countered it, and was able to land a hit with his hammer right on the head. Aqua flew back against a tree, and dust covered all around him. Cooper smirked.

"I guess I won…" Cooper panted

"Oh really? You should never let your guard down Cooper!" Light suddenly saw Cooper fall down, and through the dust… He saw Aqua behind Cooper. Luckily, Cooper sat right back up after he woke up from the stab.

"H-how did you do that!? There was no way you could have dodged my hammer attack, and came behind me in that amount of time!"

"Simple: I used some magic; a duplication spell to be exact. Water replica. As you can see, the person you thought you hit wasn't actually me. Just look!" He was right: where they saw Cooper hit Aqua, there was no one there. Instead just a puddle.

"Wow… Anyways, how did I do? Pretty good for someone who's only know basic-"

"Hey, that reminds me Coopee… How exactly do you swing your hammer around anyways? It must weigh a ton!" Light said, as he went over by Cooper.

"Oh, that's simple. I've been able to add extra support where my hands go." He let go of one of his hands, and Light saw around the entire area where he put his hand was some sort of metal.

"Plus, these gloves are attracted to metal, so my hand is able to stay very firm when I swing it around a lot, and this metal also makes my strength 10 times more powerful, so that's why-"

"Yea, that's great and all, but Light should come sit back down with me… weren't you…" Lilly suddenly appeared behind Light and grabbed him by the back of his shirt, and started to drag him off. Before he was out of reach, Light mouthed HELP ME! But Aqua and Cooper were already back to training.

"Alright Cooper, let's get back to learning some spells. As I said before, these are just basic spells, but later on, you'll learn more powerfull spells later on. So, to demonstrate… I'll show you some of my spells."

Suddenly, Aqua hair raised up, and his eyes turned a dark blue. His swords suddenly were surrounded by water.

"WaterFALL!"
The water from the swords bursted out water, and created two giant water bubbles. The bubbles the collided, and exploded, drenching Cooper in water, and was engulfed in a tiny water bubble. But a few seconds later, the Bubble exploded, and Cooper gasped for air, and Aqua returned normal again.

"Just a example, sorry for putting in you that situation… Anyways, let's get on with the lesson. First… you need to concentrate your energy into your weapon. Since your element is earth, you should be able to make your hammer solid rock. So all I want you to do right now is transforming your hammer into a solid rock."

"Alright, I'll try" Cooper then closed his eyes, and his hair started to stand up, but only a few seconds later… they fell back down. Cooper then opened his eyes, and sighed.

"Aqua, I tried as hard as I could, but it's no use…"

"It's alright Cooper, no one masters transforming your blade in one day! However, I do want you to learn at least one spell today so…"

Aqua suddenly grabbed a potion out of his pocket, that was glowing a bright blue.

"Drink this. It will increase your magic power for about two hours." Cooper took the potion, and drank after a few sips.

"Mmm! Tasted like blueberry, anyways… I'll try again." Cooper closed his again, and his hair stood up a lot faster then before. Slowly but surely, the hammer started to turn into pure rock, but the spikes turned into pure metal. Cooper opened his eyes again, and looked at his hammer, stunted.

"WOOAAAAAH! Sweet!" Cooper yelled, as he swung his hammer around.

"Alright, alright, don't get too excited, we haven't even taught you a spell yet. Alright let's see here…. This one should do good! Alright Cooper you ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be!"

"Alright then. All you have to do is slam your hammer into the ground, and as you're about to hit the ground, say: EARTH SHATTER! And it should do something, but I'm not entirely sure what…"

Cooper nooded, and swung his hammer, and said

"EARTH SHATTER!" And he swung his hammer into the ground, but nothing happened. But a couple seconds later, Giant metal and rock spies came out of the ground, and grew spikes of their own.

"WOAH! AWESOME!"

"Wow… well done Cooper, but that's all I wanted to do for today. You can use that in battle tomorrow when we explore the ruins; right now it's getting late, we should be heading back to the village. Lilly, I you don't mind.."

"Sure! We can head back right now. You all can sleep in my house tonight!"

Light then groaned. "Ok, but one exception, you sleep on the COMPLETE OPPOSITE side of the house where I'm sleeping."
"Ok! Let's go then!" Lilly said, as they all left the training site.

What will happen inside the ruins? Will Light ever learn spells like Aqua and Cooper? And will Lilly ever ask Light out on a date? Find out next time on THE AWAKENING!