It's now the second week in the academy and Cronus has learned that Eridan and him are not really welcomed. Many of the fellow wizard students treat them with disrespect and threats actually. It was terrible, but both of them seem to have at least one person who cares enough for them.
Whenever Cronus needs someone to lift him up, Jake seems to be there to help him up. Even though Jake has a boyfriend in the Magic Aspect Heart, he still spends time with Cronus. They talk a lot, and they share interests. Jake shows Cronus some of his favorite movies, which is all the movies, and Cronus lets him listen to some of the music he composed on his guitar.
Jake's boyfriend tagged along at times, and that was fine. It was like a really small circle of friends, but other people judged Jake and his boyfriend Dirk for hanging out with Cronus. They started to pick on them, mostly Jake, but Cronus and Dirk would help him get through it.
There was strangely a lot of free time in the academy, but Cronus quickly got into the hang of it. They mostly just train early in the morning and spend the whole afternoon with friends. Some people say that the afternoon is free for them because of higher level students that need to train.
When Cronus found out about this, he wanted to see them training. One day, he was able to convince Jake and Dirk to come with him to see the training. They sneak out of the compound and go through a hidden trail to the training area. When they got to the edge, they could see fighting. There looks to be at least 3 people from each Magic Aspect, but most of the outfits are different from each other.
"Wow, they are doing some really intense fighting out there," says Jake, looking over to a group of people who happen to be the famous Knights that everyone loves to talk about. It's the same 4 people as on the first day of Cronus's and Eridan's training. They are still fighting with each other, but now it doesn't matter if they get hurt or not, they just tear each other apart.
"I can't wait in till I can join my bro in there," says Dirk.
"Which ones your brother?" asks Cronus, looking over to him.
"He's the Knight that has the time symbol on him," says Dirk, slighting pointing out to him. Cronus looks also, and he notices to blonde haired kid with big sunglasses. "He's lucky to get into the Knight class. I heard it's really hard to be one, because you have to give up some emotions to act tough," Dirk talks about that, as Jake and Cronus look around the training area.
"What about those guys without the pants?" asks Jake, and Dirk looks over to where he is looking.
"Oh, those are Pages. I heard from my bro that they are usually the people who had the most difficulty in the beginning, but when they advance to the higher training, they are very powerful," explains Dirk.
"Really? So I could be one?" asks Jake, turning to look at Dirk.
"It's highly possible that you could be one. You did have a pretty rough beginning."
"Which one do you want to be?"
"I want to be a Prince. Being able to destroy with your aspect sounds pretty cool," says Dirk, nodding his head over to the Princes that are currently fighting also, "What about you Cronus? You seem to be looking at the Bards."
"Oh, haha, it's nothing," says Cronus, snapping out of his small daze to look back at Dirk and Jake.
"That's fine, if you become a Bard, then you will have to tell me what it's like," says Dirk, gently elbowing Cronus playfully.
"Why's that?"
"No one outside of the Bard class knows exactly what they do. It's been speculated though that Bards allow destruction of their aspect to happen. Or there's the way that I think Bards do, which is they allow destruction happen because of their aspect. That they are merely guides to allowing destruction of other aspects to occur, mostly of their opposite aspect," Dirk's face shows a bit of happiness in it, as if he is enjoying explaining about the different Classes.
"Opposite aspect?" Cronus hasn't learned that yet, but that's understandable. Most people don't know about it in till they are almost ready to move onto the higher level of training.
"Every Magic Aspect has its opposite. It's simple really. It's generally seen with the different groups. Haven't you noticed how most of the people that pick on you and Jake are in the Rage aspect?" asks Dirk, a smiling trying to form it's way on his mouth.
"Now that you mention it, yeah."
"That's because Hope and Rage are opposites. They are meant to collide and fight. Generally in a fight, Hope wins because it is the positive aspect, and Rage is the negative aspect. They are the only ones that are clear cut which one is positive and negative. Do you understand everything?"
"Yeah, I get it."
"All right, now with my Magic Aspect, Heart, it's unsure if it's positive or negative. A lot of people see it more negative, because the opposite, Mind, is hard to see as the negative aspect between the two…"
"Excuse me, but maybe you could clarify what you mean by positive and negative," says Jake, interrupting Dirk.
"Oh, sorry. By positive, I mean that it supports happiness and good choices. Negative means that if the Magic Aspect is to lead your life, then you will be making the wrong choices to help others. Generally with my Magic Aspect, Heart, people do good choices, but a lot do terrible choices too. People under the Mind aspect generally do the right thing, because they think about their decisions before doing it," Dirk ends there, trying to force a smile to not appear on his face.
"Now that you are done Dirk, how about we go back? Someone might notice if we are gone to long," says Jake, and everyone nods their heads in agreement.
