Jack was ushered into a new room. This one was smaller, and was like a cabin with a bunch of bunk beds except it was carved in stone and had windows. There were also many minions, with colorful crystals on the floor. There was red, blue, brown, shiny, transparent, and black. There were five other kids, entertaining themselves with mini minion wars. He looked around. It wasn't a bad place.

"Guys, introduce yourselves to Jack."

They looked at him. There were two boys and three girls. The boys were smiling and the girls were looking dissapointed but rolling their eyes. He learned that their names were Nick, Brandon, Avery, Grace, and Jasmine.

"Hi. Want to join us in War?"

"I don't know how to use my magic yet."

"What are you?"

"Earth and Light."

The boys smilied even more and the girls looked even more unhappy if it was even possible.

"We'll teach you."

And so Jack joined in. The rules were simple. You had mini minions, the hight of a small stone. And then you had mabye small check points. Each team had a small fourtress, and the opposing team had to destroy it. It was one strait board, and it had mini valleys and lakes. You captured mini points to, which lets you make more minions. These were made by the judge, since they had a odd person out. And as the game progressed, minions could be more powerful. He first had to learn how to make a minion, and his first one ended up being earth, but too big for game and was a puddle of mud that could move around. The older mages, masters, called lights out and everyone went to bed. Jack had mixed feelings about this place. It definatly wasn't a normal place, but it was a nice place.

Jack had woke up to the sound of a loud bell and some minions squaking like crazy. The others just whacked the minions, and they stopped squacking.

"Get up, it's time to go to breakfast."

They dragged their bodies to the cave entrance, werer there was a line outside. They were shoved into line. The day's breakfast was fish, and Steve hated fish. But they told him to try it. He took a bit, and it tasted nothing like fish. It tasted like his farvorite food, pasta. Wait, how did he know that he had hated fish?

"I'm getting my memory back!" he yelled.

The others looked at him like he was crazy. Oh, he thought. He forgot to tell them that he had lost his memory. So he was starting to tell him that he had amneisia, but a big clap was heard. Jack almost jumped out of his skin. He realized, the man last night, was standing on a table. Others started to notice to and stopped talking. Everyone looked at him expectantly and the man started to call out times for training. He found out that he would be training all day, while others only trained for half of the day. Each session was about five hours. This mean he only had two hours to do something else if he wanted to have 12 hours of sleep. But he probably wouldn't, so he would at least only have four hours of free time. He was paired with Brendon, who also was in Earth.

Becasue it was his first time, he met the Earth lord. The Earth lord was sitting on his throne, when Steve came in. He was a colossus. He was 24 feet tall, and looked like a stone statue. He looked at Jack with rich brown eyes. He had a big brown sword. He thought it would be crude, but it looked like it was made from water, smooth, yet having a direction to where the waves of stone were pointing at. He had a crown, which was a hazel-nut brown. It was smooth, like it was spent some serious time at the pottery wheel. When he talked, his voice was a deep rich booming voice.

"What is your name, young one?"

"Jack"

"I heard you are Radiant. This is a big task ahead of you. Are you ready for it?"

"I guess"

"Jack, look into my eyes"

He looked up. He suddenly could see. The begining of time. Playing with others. The celerbrations and tradegies that happened. His placement on Earth. His students, coming and going in the blink of an eye. The Saviors, being made and being ended by another evil source of he He saw, his people in a war with another evil. And he saw his father being stabbed in the back. His announcement as a king for his people. And then leaving Vicia again to go back to Earth.

Now Jack could see sorrow and pain, but also wisdom and confindence in his eyes.

"I still keep in touch with my people. I am the king after all. But all those years as king has told me one thing. To have confindence. To commit."

"Thank you ..."

"Rickinsar"

"Rickinsar"

And with that name in his mouth, he left the chamber.

They had spent at least on hour conversing, so he had to catch up with the lessons. They we learning how to make a burst of earth, and there was aready a big pile of earth at the targets. The master just moved it all away with a flick of a hand. It took Jack an hour before he could master making a burst of earth, and even that was a short one. Then it was time to learn the history of the Earth element. Jack learned that the Earth element was a group that was a counterwheight to air. A counterweight ment that the two magics worked better togerther. Most elementals, a living thing that was made of an element, like Rickinsar, didn't belive in counterweights in the begining of time. But countless and countless times of experimenting did the elementals began to belive in counterweights. The earth elementals were one of the first to evolve into their plus form, metal. It made them more powerful, but more risky. The castings of spells didn't backfire as much, but the consenquenses were horrible. One know elemental, Etine, almost lost his spirit when he used his metal powers. He was also the first to devlove.

Then that big bell rang again, and all the mages started walking across the trail that was next to the training areas. It lead back to the breakfast area, but instead of fish, it was steak, wild boar roasted over a firepit and cut up. He carefully took a bite, and then started tearing at it after he had a taste. He went back for seconds, where there was already a long line for seconds.

Then it was time for his second session.

"Oh my god!"

He heard that scream and then saw the mage pointing up. He squinted at the bright sky and saw... no, those weren't birds. Those were way to big to be birds.

"Dragons!"

Everyone raced to a spot in the ground, and someone cleared all the dirt. Then there was a door. Everyone rushed in. The door closed right after the last person came in. Jack's eyes were adjusting to the dim light orbs hanging from the ceiling. He waited for hours of shooshing and burning. Then the sounds faded away. Some master gave the okay signal to go, and the mages streamed out. There were scorch marks everywhere. He suddelnly heard a rustling. There was a snout. Jack looked around to see if there was anyone who could help him. Everyone was talking or repairing the benches. He looked back and saw a... baby dragon. Jack's mind suddenly went blank. Why was there a baby here? Then he saw the egg shell and made the connection. The dining place was their hatching area.