Sorry about missing last week. An avalanche of essays, projects and tests showed up and the network keeps kicking my ass out. Haha, there's also like a foot of snow just outside my doors so I was busy shoveling it away. Without further ado, the chapter!


Wilson takes an open seat and crosses his arms on the table. "We need your help to fight. We're tired of these empty claims of being the best season, so with your help we can prove who's better."

"Do you really think that we'll help you after what you did to Kai?" Veles looks Wilson in the eye to try and read the winter sprite's thought process, but it's just too cold in there.

Wilson puts the mask of sorrow on holds a plea on his tongue. "We're not asking for your help. We're asking you to lead us as the Season Spirits."


The arena is dead quiet as Kai takes the twin swords in her hands and practiced her stances. The swords danced in the air and fell in motion to the beat of her heart. Jumping around and fighting an invisible enemy, Kai felt at peace as sweat runs down her forehead. Not even the heaviness of the training armour could slow or control her.

She then hears footsteps coming towards the arena and she had to stop. She turns in time to see all of the season sprites going through the doors, all in battle gear. Flora, Veles and Jack come in last harbouring the same gear as their seasons. "Kai, get out of here. This will be a place for war now, and if you still want to live then I suggest you leave." Seth grunts as he spits on the floor, burning the dirt.

Kai does nothing and still watches them with a bored expression, "And what is this war about?" She places her hands on her hips and turns to face a wall, "If it's for a stupid reason like which season is the better one, then I suggest you all drop your weapons and leave this behind you."

Wilson takes a step forward and coolly answers. "That's not possible now Kai. Now that we have our Spirits we can finally have a leader to lead us to victory." He points to Jack and has a triumphant look on his face.

Kai turns back to look at the three mentioned, "I only see three of them. Where's the Spirit of Summer?"

Spyro laughs at Seth and the summer sprites being leaderless. "There is none. Or if there is then they're too weak to even fight." He hits his knees and the spring sprites laugh along.

"We don't need a leader. We can win without them!" Behind Seth, the summer group gave a battle cry. "We'll show you that summer is something you don't want to mess with. You'll just get burnt to crisps."

"I'm sorry, but Winter is the best."

"Autumn! We've been given two names anyway."

"Ya, and it's fall. As in you'll all fall to the ground by the power of Spring."

Kai stands there laughing at their idiocy, her hair changing from blue to yellow. They clearly look pissed off as she just continues to laugh. She finally calms down, wiping tears from the corner of her eyes, "You clearly are too young and dumb to see that neither of them are better than the other." She sheathes the swords back into their sheaths and straps them to her waist. "The earth has four seasons to keep it balanced and ordered. The four season are the four base elements, and the four stages of life. But clearly this message needs to be beaten into you." She stands there slowly giving waves of energy off for the first time, "Each season chooses one warrior to face off and whoever can defeat me in battle will have their season be called the greatest. You may work together and come at me at the same time, or wait till I tire out. Either way, all warriors must be present during the whole battle until they fall on their feet."

"You're full of shit. But this'll be very interesting. I'm in." Seth raises his hand and steps forward with a smug smile. "This'll be too easy."

"Seems fun, count me in to." Wilson has his axe already in his hands as he stepped forward.

"I'm not gonna miss this." Andrew takes a step forward,

Spyro jumps up and raises his voice, "Don't count me out yet!"

"Good, now whenever you're ready." She smirks at the four boys and they all charge at her. Inches from them even touching her, she disappears in a flash and appears behind them to blow them off with a strong wind. "Now it's time someone taught you to never become too arrogant. Always assume you're enemy has a chance of beating you no matter what."

Wilson is the first to get up, and he decides to charge at her while ridding on ice to gain speed. Kai met his axe with one sword in hand, and metal clashes having sparks fly. Without even a blink, she pushes him back hard and he hits the wall again. Behind her was now Andrew as he uses the wind to stay hidden, but before he could even load his arrow in his bow, she shoots a flaming baseball towards him and it explodes; leaving Andrew to land in the pool just under him.

With no second to take a breath, Kai found herself incased in hard rock, covering everything by her head. Spyro looked triumphant as he comes closer with his club in hand. Unseen by everyone, Kai moves her hands to crumble the earth just beneath her. Spyro stood tall as he raises his arms to strike the girl with his club, but she disappears through a hole just under her feet. Confused, he scans the area for any movement in the ground. Suddenly, he feels a hand wrap around his ankle and he finds himself, a second later, buried in the ground with his head still sticking out.

Kai remerges from the ground as she faces Seth, who just stood there to watch the others fall within only a few seconds. But he wasn't scarred. How can he to this Halfling? He takes careful steps towards her, and every step he takes, he could feel power radiating off of her. Seth smirked as he found that she wasn't as strong as him so he intimidated her with his aura, which was the worst mistake of his life.

The moment he released all of his aura to show off, Kai's exploded. For the first time in a long time she actually let go of all the seals and let her aura run loose, causing it to make the air heavy with humidity and pressure to push down on Seth. The moment he was ten feet away from Kai, Seth could barely stand by how much power was coming off of Kai. He could feel the ground start to shake, the humidity intensify, the world getting hotter and the air run slashes through his skin leaving small cuts here and there.

Seth blinked and the girl standing infront of him transformed into something he could actually fear. Her left eye wasn't a match as her right, her iris was pure white as her sclera were pitch black. Kai's aura was suffocating him and if he needed to breath he'd be dead by now. "What are you?" He gasped out weakly, too scared and weak to take another step. Here he was, one of the strongest, losing to a Halfling. Someone who couldn't even hold a sword properly just a few hours ago. Someone who didn't show any form of power, someone who should have been a no one. Defeated him!

Kai adopted Seth's smirk as she motioned Seth to come closer. He was actually being lifted into the air and dropped centimetres infront of her. Kai bent down low so that she could whisper her answer right into his ear, "I'm your worst nightmare. I'm not even trying." In an instant, all that power disappeared and Kai turns towards the back door.

The moment she steps through those doors, the Ancients run in with panic written on their faces. "What happened!?" However there's no one who could answer what happened. They all just witness four great fighters fall in a matter of seconds and no one could hold an explanation as to why that happened.

One of the ancients takes a step forward and her eyes glow pure white. She stands there in the silence and her eyes return to its grey hue. Her next words come out in the ancient language that has never touched the ears of a living creature for the past couple thousand years. "It is her. We have to start to erase their memories before it gets in too deep." The other Ancients nod and start to head to the other students still standing in awe.

Eros found Veles, Flora and Jack and takes them away from there. Without a word out of their mouths, they follow him to the garden again. They walk through the decorative doors and the calm of nature eases their nerves. The garden is the same as when they first walked in that day, but the animals were different. The animals all met at the middle of the garden were biomes crossed with one another and in the middle of the grouping of multiple species is Kai with a small smile on her face.

Kai is too distracted with the animals that she doesn't even notice that there's a group of people looking at her. Eros gives a sign for them to stop as he takes a step further. "You and I both know that you can't hide it from them anymore." Eros motions to the confused season spirits behind him, "Just tell them. You know full well that it's harder for us to remove the memory from their minds."

Kai visibly lets out a ghost of a sigh and she turns to them. "Then what are the questions?" She wasn't addressing Eros, she's addressing the three behind him.

Jack takes a step and instantly feels that they've already met before. The way Kai's standing and the feeling of the exact calculating stare he felt yesterday made him feel confidant about his answer. "You were with North yesterday. There's no mistaking that short of power." He got his answer when the air started to get hot again like when he first went through the doors of the workshop. As suddenly as it came, it left and he can tell that it was that hooded figure he saw at North's workshop. Instantly Kai doesn't look like a regular Halfling to him anymore, in his eyes he can see in her eyes that she has a vast knowledge of whatever is going on and calls for the highest of respect. He just won't tell the others he knows just yet.

Kai can see the confusion on both Veles' and Flora's faces so she decided to start over again. "It might be a bit more clearer if I were to reintroduce myself." Kai's aura pulses and she bows down, her hair covering her face. "I am Kai Gaia, I am the Summer Spirit."

Flora and Veles couldn't hide their shock while Jack starts to fit the pieces in one by one. Questions filled everyone's brains and each open their mouth to give the thoughts sounds when Eros chooses to speak. "Before you start the game of twenty questions, I suggest we go somewhere a bit more private to talk." They notice that now there are soft whispers coming from behind the bushes, and agree silently to Eros' decision by following him back inside.


The door closes behind them and the three season are amazed at the new landscape. On the walk to here, they learn that they're not in the same realm the school is in; this one belongs to Eros and they can see why. Flora loves the scene and is jumping around through the field and examining the flowers blooming. Kai is slightly behind the group and silently smiles as she watches Flora like a mother would. 'She's grown so much,' Kai thinks as Flora runs further ahead of the group, 'Even with centuries passing, she's still the same bright eyed girl who loves beauty.'

Veles notices Kai's small smile and looks to see what's making the usual stoic girl to smile. It confused him a bit when he sees that it's Flora being Flora that's making the girl smile, and in Kai's eyes holds the stare of a mother watching her child. Curiosity got him and he slowed so that he could talk to Kai. Suddenly, a image passes through his eyes and a forgotten names passes his lips. "Carleton." Then a wave of memories come flooding in as he sees a battle play before his eyes and a sword get too close to his throat, only to be blocked by another and the man holding the sword gets his arm cut off.


The owner of the other sword let out a joking tone, "Veles, you seem to be out of it like always." Veles turns to see his good friend Carleton stand there and give him a hand, "What are you think about now?" Typical Carleton, he's confidant enough on the battle field to hold out a conversation like there isn't an army surrounding them ready to have their blood sucked out of them. Their friendship is questionable, but they have each other's back so that they both come out alive the next day. Veles opens his mouth to answer, but Carleton takes his sword and swings it close to his neck. Blood flies from the sword and everything turns black.


"Veles?" A voice chirps and he's faced to face with Flora's crystal blue eyes. Veles jumps from being knocked out of his thoughts and looks around to see that they now stood on a small island in the middle of the lake they saw not that long ago from the shore. "Are you ok? You seem a little pale."

Everyone's looking at him now with worried expressions, but he waves it off. "Sorry, just thinking." And he just unconsciously rubbed the front of his neck. Flora still looks worried so he gives her a smile and pats the top of her head. "I'm fine Flora."

Flora brightens a little and Eros couldn't help but unconsciously reach for his bow just under the table. Kai noticed this and slapped his hand, "Nope." Came the words in a forgotten language. "Just let it play out on its own."

"I've gotten better." Eros pouts a little, him feeling a little trigger happy. "I've gotten a lot of practice."

Kai shakes her head, being dead serious. "Remember the last time you tried to shoot a pair of immortals?" Eros paled at the memory, and Kai nods while turning back to the confused season. "So, what are your questions?"


The sun grows lower to the horizon as they got their answers. They learn that Kai has been the first one created and has always been half mortal and they seem to not know why she's been created differently. The reason she kept it silent is because people want the power that's been given to them by Manny and she loses energy quickly whenever she uses her power so she keeps it hidden. She's been in the school to learn everything she can so that she wouldn't be useless just incase someone tried to mess with the balance of the planet.

Both Eros and Kai explained in greater detail about the balance of the Earth and how the balance has to be renewed when the seasonal solstice or equinox comes. There are four towers hidden in the sky that hold the core for the season and as long as the leader light hits the core at the peak does the core get powered up again and the season would play out. "There's always two towers at the same time being powered on the same day, but different time. Fall and Winter are ruled over the moon while Summer and Spring are ruled by the sun. The last equinox almost didn't make it, and that's why we decided to gather everyone because the only people who can easily pass through the seal and get into the tower is with Mother Nature's power for the season. But there's also people who can absorb your power when you get to a certain weak state, so you must watch that you don't get too exhausted." Kai thinks for a minute on what else but nothing pops into mind. "I think that's all that's really needs to be said. Unless you guys have anymore questions."

The three are still a bit overwhelmed with all the new information they've been given, but they feel well informed and stayed silent. Eros looks up at the sky and calculates that it'll soon be time to go to bed. "You guys better go back to your room before curfew comes. It's good to sleep off the day." With that, the four seasons left Eros' realm and went to their respected rooms.

At the end of the day, each season has different thoughts about the fruits of the day. Flora is excited to finally be able to be friends with Kai. Jack can't wait to see the what the other day holds. Veles is worried about what his memories are showing him. And Kai tries her best to hide her worry as she talks to Flora. Little did anyone know, there's still a lot of things not even Fate would know.


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