Hey Guys! I'm back, much earlier than I thought. It turns out that the winter break, basically means that I'm not really doing anything other than just sit around. I got bored and brought out this chapter a little early, sue me.

Chapter 12: The Best Friends Ever

"WAKE UP" I jumped out of bed and slammed my head into someone above me. "owwwwwwww, why'd you do that? You didn't have to attack me!" I looked up, still groggy, and saw Virgo sitting beside my bed, rubbing her forehead.

"Sorry about that, you should probably expect that when you put your face 6 inches from a sleeping man. Are you okay?" I got out of bed and kneeled beside her to check if there was a bump.

"Yeah, it's fine. Look you have to get up, you have your Semblance Lessons today." She pointed to my desk where she had already made me breakfast. Eggs and Bacon, the greatest way to start the day. It has been a couple of weeks since Aries and I had told the others about my Semblance and the extra lessons, and Aires was right, all they wanted to do was help. Virgo had to make sure I was ready for morning lessons, Aries for midday lessons, and Ryon has been taking care of the night lessons. So far they have been basically just making sure I was ready to go, and made sure I was okay when I got back.

"Wow, thanks for making me breakfast, you know you didn't have to though? I could have picked up something at the cafeteria."

"Well, sometimes it's nice to have a home cooked meal for a change, now hurry up and eat, you need to be dressed and ready to go in 20 minutes. When we get back to the dorm, the team is going to go out into Vale." I smiled. I loved going out to Vale and looking around, buying supplies and stuff, or just going to mess around. I then realized what she said and frowned though.

"Wait, A good breakfast, going into Vale afterwards, "We" are going to the lessons. Virgo, you know I can't take you to the Sessions, I can't risk hurting you!"

"Why not? We could help a whole lot more if we were there to help you! I trust you not to hurt me! I have experienced your Aura Release in the past, what makes this time any different?!"

"Now I know what the consequences are if I lose control of my power! If I had known them in the past, I would not have used it around you guys!"

"You won't hurt me." Her voice got really soft and she started to give me those puppy dog eyes I can't stand. "I trust you not to hurt me. Just let me come along to help, It'll be easier for you if you have more of a drive to not lose control." I tried not to look at her when she did that but I couldn't help it, I caved.

"FINE, but you are to stay a sae distance away from me when I release and you are not allowed to make any contact with me during the session." She jumped up and cheered in delight.

"YES, okay you eat your food, shower, whatever you got to do, we leave here in 15 minutes!"

"Hi Professor Goodwitch, how are you today?" We just walked into the Coliseum as she was walking out of her office, her back turned to us, trying to lock the door.

"Good, Leonardo, how are y-" She turned around and saw Virgo beside me. "What is she doing here?"

"It's okay Professor, I don't think that Leo will hurt me, I trust him not to." She just glared at me. I gave her a shrug.

"I tried whatever I could to get her to stop, but she was damn determined to come along."

"Ms. Virgo, you are not allowed to be here, these lessons are to be in complete solitude for only Leonardo and myself."

"With all due respect, Professor, I promised I would help Leo in any way I could with his Semblance, I do not plan on backing off now." I looked at her surprised, it was like Virgo to stand up to a teacher. I was hoping that Professor Goodwitch would be enough to send her back.

"Okay, fine, Leonardo, you know the consequences if she is any way hurt during these exercises?"

"Of course."

"Then I guess she may stay, please, Ms. Virgo, come stand by me and we will start the session." I smiled and handed her my things as she walked over to Goodwitch. I was only wearing sweatpants and a tanktop for these lessons at this point, so I was ready for the pressure. "Okay, Leonardo, let's start with 20 contained releases." I nodded and got into my stance. After giving off all 20 of the first releases, Virgo cheering me on the entire time, I was already sweating, not nearly as much as the first couple lessons, but that much Aura Deprivation can smack a pretty big hit. Virgo ran over and handed me my water bottle and a wet cloth to wipe the sweat off my forehead.

"Alright, that was 20, what's next?"

"Very good, let's move on to some larger releases, but still try to contain it to a 15 feet radius."

After the hour was done, I was sweating through my tank top and breathing heavily. It felt like Goodwitch was going harder on me than before, pushing me to increase my limit of contained Releases. When she had walked back into her office and left me once again, on the floor panting in the middle of the Arena, Virgo can over and pulled me up onto her shoulder. I looked at her apologetically, but she just brushed it off.

"Come on Leo, let's head back to the dorms." We walked back to the dorm, me leaning on her the entire time. When we had finally gotten back I separated from her and looked at her. "Hey, Thanks for coming along with me, Virgo. You were a real help." She smiled at me, but I could see a little pain in her eyes.

"It's not problem, now you see how much we can do if we come along!" I surged forward and wrapped her into a hug, startling her.

"You were a real help today, but you can't come along to any other sessions." She jumped back from me and gaped at me.

"What?! If I was such a big help. Then why can't I come along any more?"

"Because I could feel your Aura draining every single time I used my Semblance in your presence. I know you felt it, too, so don't try to lie to me." She suddenly sat down on her bed, like she was just as exhausted as I was. "I was hurting you every time, and I think I figured out why." She looked up at me. "It's because I have been using it without a target or enemy to use it on, each time I use it, it's looking for something to drain and annihilate, therefore, it noticed you and affected you the most."

"If that's the case, then why hasn't it been affecting Professor Goodwitch all this time?"

"She trained in the past with the other guy, she built an immunity to the draining long ago, but none of you guys have. That is why you are not to come along, one way or another, you are going to get hurt if you're in my premises." She looked down, as if she had been defeated and nodded.

"Okay, fine, I will let you train with Professor Goodwitch alone." That is when Ryon and Aries walked in.

"I'm just saying that they would totally good together!" Ryon was just shaking his head while Aries was trying to convince him of something. When she saw us sitting on Virgo's bed, exhausted she frowned and walked over to us.

"Hey, what's going on, are you guys okay?" Virgo just looked up and gave a pathetic smile.

"Don't worry about it, We just went on a jog, we're just a little tired. What's going on with you guys?" They both looked at us a little skeptically before letting it go.

"Alright then, are we still on for going into Vale?"

"Yeah, just give us a minute to get ready." We both got up and ran around the room getting ready to leave, after about 3 minutes, I was showered, changed into my social clothes (Jeans, White T-shirt, Grey zip up hoodie, with a Black puffy vest without sleeves) and was ready with my sword at my hip. "Okay, let's go."

The four of us walked over to the Bullheads to leave, and caught one ready to go. After a 30 minute ride, we arrived in Vale. "So, where should we head first?"

"I need to get some ammo for my shotgun." Aires said. I was running low on pistol ammo as well, so we decided to head to the weapons shop first, after about and hour of browsing and buying supplies, we headed out of the shop. We had them send the bags to our dorm room, so that we wouldn't have to carry them around. We had started walking down the street when Virgo stopped to look in a Dust shop. The rest of us were about to follow her, but Aries stopped me.

"Hey, Ryon go ahead in, I need to talk to Leo for a sec." Ryon just nodded and walked in. When she had made sure the others were preoccupied, she turned to me. "What was going on with you two when we got back to the dorm? You told me you would trust me with this stuff from now on."

"Sorry, I just didn't want to worry you guys." I stopped, but she just stared at me, waiting for an explanation. "Okay, fine, Virgo came along with me to my Semblance Lesson." She perked up at this.

"WHAT?! I thought you said it was too dangerous for us to be there? How come you let her go?"

"Look, I didn't want her to go, but she insisted this time. And I was right, it was too dangerous. Throughout the Session, I was draining her Aura with every Release I did, from now on I know what happens to you guys if I use my semblance without a target, it moves on to the next remaining force, which would be my allies. Luckily, no real damage was done, but I made damn well sure that she was not to come along with me ever again." She just nodded, as if deep in thought.

"Okay, good, I don't want you hurting Virgo or anyone else, but was it easier with her there?"

"Yeah, I'm ashamed to say it, but yeah it was a lot easier with her helping." She just nodded and walked back into the shop. I followed close behind her.

"Okay, Leo, time for your Session, you ready to go?" It has been a couple days since my last Session, and Aries was pulling me from my seat at the lunch room to go.

"Okay, Okay, I'm leaving." I started to walk off to Goodwitch's Classroom. When I looked over my shoulder as I was walking out of the room, I noticed that my teammates had already left the table without me noticing. Weird. Whatever, they probably had homework or something. I walked into the Coliseum and down to Professor Goodwitch, waiting for me in the middle of the Arena.

"Hello, Professor, how are you today?"

"Good, how are you?"

"I'm just fine are you ready to start?" Right as I said that, I heard a bunch of noise from the door and turned around to see my friends all trying to carry in bags full of stuff.

"What are you guys doing here? I thought I told you not to come along?"

"Fuck that, we told you we were going to help you get through this and that means that we should be here to help you, so I had an idea, If you hurt us without a target, then let's give you an enemy!" She reached into the bag and pulled out a big Dummy made out of Clay and Hay. "Now you can focus on these guys, instead of letting us get hit with it."

I just smiled. "You guys know that you're the best, right?"

"Yeah we know, now are we going to do this or what? I've got thirty Clay dummies in here, ready to be destroyed!"

I looked at Professor Goodwitch, basically asking if it was okay if they stayed. She just smiled at all of us. "Okay, Fine let's go ahead and start though, we need to make up for lost time."