Hey everyone so with my new job I travel alot which means I don't always have a steady source of WIFI but I'm always writing new chapters so if I go a while without posting just know when I do post there will be a new chapter for every week I missed

Chapter 8

Point of view- Benny

I looked around my empty living room my heart unhappily filled with the feeling of no longer being surrounded by all of my loved ones. I turned toward the kitchen before shouting to Grandma. "Are we going to be needing anything from my room for the next few days?"

"Yes dear, will you grab any illusion spell books you can find from your room and I think I might have a few in my room as well," Was her quick response.

I did as I was asked, also making a pit stop by the Supernatural Studies Room- which, depending on who you were talking to, was also the guest bedroom. By the time I was walking back downstairs. I had collected a pile of books that went over my head. I heard the door shut and went to peer around the books but as I did my foot missed a step causing me to loss my balance sending both myself and the books toppling down the stairs. A split second before my body clashed into the ground I heard someone shout. "Levitatetion aireum."

An invisible force slowed my fall until I landed softly onto the floor. I looked up to see all of the books that had flown in the air when I fell float gently down into neat stack next to me. Turning my head slightly my eyes landed on my savior. She was a

thin woman, looking to be in her late thirties, blonde locks tied into a neat pony tail that dropped past her shoulders, I looked at her face with a smile of gratitude only to be returned with a harsh scowl from her. "So you are supposedly related to the most powerful earth priestess in twenty generations."

Walking past me without a second glance she strolled into the kitchen. I heard her start up a conversation with my grandma. I was curious to hear what she had to say- and find out who she was- but before I could get to my feet to follow her, the front door opened and closed again. I turned to see Ethan and Jane walking in, bags in both their hands. Ethan gave me a sideways grin and teased. "So, does training start out with taking a nap on the ground?"

I quickly sprang to my feet brushing the dust off myself as they set their bags onto the sofa next to mine. Waving my hand toward the kitchen, I silently told the duo to follow me to see if we could hear what Grandma and the women were talking about. All three of us pressed our bodies against the wall near the entrance of the kitchen. I didn't hear anyone speaking until I heard a voice whisper, "Vinea a controlea."

Immediately thick jungle like vines erupted from the floorboards encircling my legs, crawling further up my body at a rapid pace. Panicking, I began thrashing my body around in an attempt to get away but to no avail, worse was it seemed every movement I made caused the vines to travel faster up my body. Within a second my arms were pinned to my sides. My mind went blank as to any spells that would help me at this point. The vines had now made their way up to my neck causing my brain to go into survival mode, I thought of a fire spell that could help me, the beginning of the spell was about to leave my tongue when the vines covered my mouth turning my words into a mumble. Just as they were about to cover my eyes the plant suddenly stopped then abruptly recoiled back into the ground, along with any evidence that they had ever been there.

The women who had rescued me from falling walked out of the kitchen entrance her fury filled eyes aimed right at me. "Are you honestly trying to tell me that a Caster with as much training as you've had can't even muster up a basic spell to get himself out of a simple magic trap? I knew I should have put thorns on those vines because I sure as hell know the enemy would have." She turned her head fixing her attention on Ethan. "And you couldn't think of anything to do, other then stand there with a stupid look on your face while your friend gets crushed!"

Silence filled the room as she took a few calming breaths. Her face slightly relaxed, a few more seconds passing until she finally managed to introduce herself. "The name is Melinda and I'm here to train you idiots to not be complete and utter screw ups." She took a couple steps forward grabbing Ethan and me by our shirt collars dragging the two of us back to the living room, throwing each of us in a seat before sitting cross legged right on top of the table in front of us continuing her introduction. "Listen, before working for the right side of things I was known though out the magical community as being one of the most mighty destruction casters of my time... but that was before your grandmother put me on the right path. Now I'm here to help here out by kicking both your physical bodies and supernatural ability into shape. You're grandma might be more powerful then me but she doesn't have the cruelty in her to push you as hard as it will take to get you ready for this upcoming battle."

Ethan was the first to speak, he slowly raised his hand and asked. "So wait a second why does Jane have to be here?"

Like usual, Grandma entered the living room just at the right moment, with a quick answer as always. "Because Melinda won't be the one training her, I will. Jane please grab a few of those books at the bottom of the stairs and come with me to the back yard." Jane nodded before running over and grabbed two of the books running back to the kitchen. I listened to the back screen door slam shut which made me gulp since that meant they had just left us with this she devil.

"You two get your stuff and follow me." She walked past our chairs as both of us scrambled to pick up our bags since neither of us wanted to get on her bad side we sprinted down the hallway to the closet where she was standing with her hand on the door handle chanting in a language I didn't even know under her breath.

When she was done chanting she turned to door handle and opened the door stepping aside and motioning for us to follow her. I stepped in front of the door only for my jaw to drop at what I saw. Instead of my normal closet full of coats and brooms in it, I saw what looked like a cave so massive I couldn't see the end of it. Melinda shouted from behind us. "Get into that portal this second idiots!"

Ethan and I ran through the door. As soon my feet touched the stone floor of the cave it felt like someone cranked the gravity switch on high. My body fell to the ground feeling as if I had ten times as much gravity pushing down on me. I heard footsteps beside me and looked up to see
Melinda looking down at me with one of her looks of disappointment that I found myself already starting to hate. "So not just your casting abilities are weak so is your physical body."

Melinda waved her hand and I heard a scream of pain come from the other side of me. I quickly turned my head to see that it had been Ethan who had screamed. " You see then two have walked into my personal training room which I control everything in. Such as the amount of gravity in here. So it's time for our first test. I'm going to keep increasing the amount of gravity on your friend here every ten seconds. Now you can stop this if you are able to cast a spell strong enough to cancel the effects."

She flicked her hand again and I heard Ethan scream out in pain. Turning my entire body toward him I found the strength to force my body to my knees. I held my arm pointing my hand at Ethan trying to force some of my energy out of my body and surround him to take some of the pressure off him. It looked like it was starting to work as the look of pain began to leave Ethan's face. Just as I thought I was winning I felt the pressure increase even more causing my energy back into my body and Ethan to let out another cry.

I whipped my head back around facing Melinda. "You're crazy you can't keep hurt him like this!"

"You are the one that is able to stop it. By the way I would recommend you stop wasting time yelling at me." She waved her hand and yet another scream from Ethan. I turned my body back to Ethan when an idea popped into my head. Instead of pointing my hands at Ethan I raised them above my head forcing all of my energy against the force above me. Slowly all of the pressure shot off me. Keeping one hand above me I lowered my other hand in Ethan's direction this time instead of trying to waste all of my energy struggling to push the gravity back away from him I concentrated every single ounce of strength I had into a small bubble surrounding his figure to protect him from the effects of the gravity.

I shrieked in pain as I felt all of the pressure Ethan had been suffering through hit my body at once making me collapse to the ground smashing my head into the stone ground making everything go black.

Next thing I knew my body was floating in pure darkness. I saw a small light headed toward me becoming brighter and brighter as it came closer. I had to shield my eyes as it got within a few feet of me. My jaw dropped for the second time in five minutes once the light receded. Standing in front of me was an older version of me. "Son you have grown into such a strong young man and I need you to know that I am so proud of you. But our time together is short so I need you to know something. When you were born the magical world was a dangerous place for newborn casters especially one as powerful as you so when you were an infant for your safety your grandmother and I put a seal on your magic limiting you access to your powers. That seal has no use now so with your permission I would like to remove it from you."

I looked at him with tears stinging my eyes. How could grandma not tell me about this seal did she not trust me enough! This memory that was meant to be filled with pure joy of seeing my father had turned into a painful memory of knowing that two people who had supposedly cared for me took something away from me without even telling me. All I could feel was hurt as I said. "Do it."

His figure floated close to mine as he held his palm over mine then placed my other hand so that his hands were laying in between mine. He closed his eyes before chanting a language I didn't know. My hands started to burn as they started to admit the same light I had seen when I first arrived here. This time I didn't close my eye's even when I saw that my fathers figure started to become transparent. I felt pressure start to build from inside of me feeling like I was expanding. Just as I felt as if I were about to burst my fathers form flashed in and out rapidly before he was completely gone. It felt like a rubber band snapped inside me and all of the pressure that had been building inside of me turned into a wave of energy that burst through me crashing into my brain. After that wave surged though me another one shoot through me this one made of pure rage.

I screamed in pain as I felt my body being crushed by something. I opened my eyes to see a ceiling made of dark stone. Memories flashed through my mind overwhelming me. One clear thought came out of the confusion. It was the rage I felt for being lied to. That same wave of fury traveled throughout my body the force that had just been crushing me was taken off immediately. I stood up and looked over to see my best friend in agonizing pain I lifted my arm out as I sent a eruption of my energy toward him knocking the force off of his body before concentrating it all into a small orb of mass. I rotated my body around to face Melinda redirecting all of the force I had trapped straight at her.

Melinda's body was slammed against the wall behind her smoke shooting out a cloud of smoke that covered the area where she crashed. I turned to Ethan whispering. "Floata."

Ethan's body floated beside me I leaned down next to him making sure he was okay. His breathing seemed to be normal as well as his heart rate even though his eyes were still closed. Feeling a new wave of that rage I turned my attention back to Melinda.

The smoke had settled back to the ground all I saw was her staring at me with a smirk. She leaped into the air crying. "Teleportium!"

She was next to me in a flash but instead of attacking she held up her hands with a mirror in it. I looked at my reflection and was scared of myself. My eyes were pure black while my body was surrounded by a black translucent mist. Somhow she must have enchanted this mirror I couldn't handle her tricks anymore I bit my finger and placed it to the ground somehow casting a spell I didn't even know I knew. "Summona familiara!"

The ground around us started trembling as a black smoke cloud appeared where my hand had struck it. As smoke cleared I saw a bat two times as big as me appear where nothing had just been. The bat locked eyes with Melinda for a second then flew straight at her. She jumped up dodging the the bats attack with ease. In mid jump her body flipped as her feet smacked into the roof of the cave. Squatting down she propelled herself off of the ceiling while grabbing at her belt loop and pulling out a small metal pole that she held above her head shouting. "Windyum sword!"

She slashed at the the air in front of my bat sending a tornado like gust of wind at it causing it's body crash into the hard floor. As if she was a cat she landed on the ground with grace and in a fluid motion pointed the sword at me. I felt a blast of wind hit my body I speedily reacted and threw my hands out in front of me yelling. "Shieldum!"

I was getting ready for my next attack when I heard Ethan gasp beside me I waved my hands above me casting a small dome shield around us before leaning down next to his form. "Ethan are you okay?" His eyes had pure fear in them and I started to panic. "Ethan I need you to tell me what hurts so I can heal you."

I reached down to check if he had any wounds that I could see but he quickly crawled backward away from me stuttering out. "Ge... get away from me demon." He sprang up to his feet with his fist raised ready to fight me, his best friend.

"Ethan I don't know what you're talking about. It's me Benny."

Instead of responding to me he just looked over my shoulder yelling. "I don't know what kind of trick this is but it's not okay!"

That's when my brain began to make sense of everything and I started to put everything together. The mirror that Melinda had pulled out wasn't a trick it was my actual reflection, this sudden new found strength that I had never felt in me and how me feeling such intense rage had changed the very way my magic work. That's when I realized what I had become once the seal was broken, a monster that found it's strength from hate. I reached my hand to touch my cheek feeling they were wet as I noticed I was crying.

I closed my eyes and dropped to my knees as my body was drained of this new energy as well as the rage I had felt, but it was promptly replaced with another feeling, regret. How had I been so stupid to let my father break the seal without even thinking about the consequences of it. I felt like my life was destroyed as my mind was filled with sorrow the likes of which I thought I would never be able to overcome.

Before I knew what was happening the darkness that had taken over my mind was replaced with images of Ethan and I's childhood. The time I had falling out of a tree while we were playing in the woods and Ethan carried me on his back for two miles to my grandma's house and didn't leave my side till he knew I was going to be okay or all of our overnight video game parties and every single time we scarfed down a single pizza in a minute. Then came all of the loving memories I had with everyone I loved Rory, Grandma even Sarah and Erica as these memories flooded though my mind all of the negative thoughts I had just been feeling were expelled from my mind.

I opened my eyes to see Ethan hugging me he looked me me straight in the eye's I saw he was crying as well he gave me a the most heartfelt smile before saying. "Never for a second let yourself think that way again. I'm sorry I went into your memories but I needed to show you how much you mean to everyone." I cried even harder before returning his hug.

We hugged for a few more seconds before hearing a clapping come from behind us. "Okay ladies this life time moment is over. It's time to learn."

Ethan and I let go of each other before sitting on the ground turning our attention to Melinda. "First of all I'd like to congratulate Benny since by the looks of that powerful magic hissy fit he had back there he was able to break the seal on true powers." She waved her hand making a boulder appear out of no where as she took a seat on it giving us a smile. "What a girl can't take advantage of having her own pocket in reality. Now onto more serious business for this next part Ethan please make sure Mr. gets his feelings hurt by everything stays calm." Taking breath before continuing. "The spell that created the seal that was placed on you was created by yours truly but took three powerful casters to actually pull it off the other two being your grandmother and father." Taking a pause to let me absorb all this information in.

I shook my head in shock. Again wondering how my grandma could keep such an enormous secret from me. Needing to know as much as she did I hurriedly told Melinda. "Please continue!"

"Okay okay sorry for giving you a second. Even though I wanted to make the seal unbreakable so that you could never unleash your full power your father and Grandmother insisted that we make sure there was a way for you to be able to break it if need be. So they created a sort of loophole in my spell so that two things had to happen for the seal to be broken. Number one you had to feel as if you or a loved ones life was in danger and number two being that at the same time one of us had to cast a release spell. Which thanks to me you were able to meet both."

I stood up and looked to her knowing that part of her statement was wrong. "You may have done the first part but my father was the one to cast the release spell."

For the first time I saw the confidence leave her face just for a second that is. "Listen kid I'm not sure what you're talking about but I was the one to cast the release spell on your unconscious body."

A smile formed on my lips because I knew she was wrong. "Sorry but your wrong my father did it."

A frown crossed her lips before her face filled with confidence again. "Well whatever you say." She looked to Ethan. "Now it's your turn to have a revelation. You my boy are not a regular seeir you're an Empath as well which means on top of the basic Seeir abilities like visions and being able to tap into others minds. You are able to feel what others are feeling as well as push what you are feeling onto others. Also I should mention some Empaths have minor mind reading abilities."

Ethan's point of view

This chick doesn't kid around when she said I was in in for a revelation she wasn't was exaggerating. Although everything she just said made so much sense ever since I developed my Seeir powers I've felt them evolving especially as of lately I felt as if they were getting stronger and stronger everyday. "So wait a second how do you know all of this?" I asked

"Did you think Miss. Weir and I were exchanging cookie recipes in the kitchen when I got to her house. She was telling me it was time to break the seal as well as giving me an updates on you and your sister." She clapped her hand together getting pumped up. "Okay now that class is over time for the fun part. We're going to play a game it's called dodge ball."

Benny stood up interjecting. "Come on it's summer! No gym class."

Melinda let out a laugh. "Trust me you'll like my version even more. Ethan walk over to that side of the cave and place your hand against the wall." I did as she told. "Now until I work with Benny on controlling his new powers he's on a no magic basis."

She waved her hand as a large pile of apple sized rocks materialized next to her. Next she snapped her fingers and Benny let out a cry. " Ethan I can't see anything!"

She barked to him. "Calm down it's temporary." She turned back to me"Now is where you come in you're going to have to stand against the wall and try to use your visions to predict where I will throw the rocks so Benny can dodge them."

Four hours later

I looked to Benny as a pang of guilt hit me. His body was covered in bruises for the first three hours I was only able to tell him how to avoid about two out of three of the rocks the rest of them hitting almost every single part of his body. But I finally figured out I was able to get a vision from the pile of rocks and could see the trail each one would take so I was able to give Benny the proper directions. Melinda picked up the last rock from the pile this one was going to be hurled straight at him and if he dodged it would ricochet off of the wall and fly toward his legs I yelled. "Duck then when you hear a pang jump as high as you can."

He did exactly as I said and it work just as I had thought. Melinda snapped her fingers again and I heard Benny let out a sigh of relief I was guessing he got his sight back. "Well I hope you're happy it only took four hours to get down a basic skill down great job guys." She said letting out a fake cheer. "Now let's all have a seat."

We all sat so our bodies were in a triangle pattern no one said anything for a few minuets till Benny broke it. "So are we just going to sit here in quite?"

Melinda smacked the back of his head before replying. "No smart ass you and Ethan are going to be practicing controlling the flow of magical energy though out your bodies." She turned to look back at me. "You need to work on pushing your energy into objects that you need visions from. Once you've mastered that we'll be working on your Empath side by instead of pushing your energy into objects you push it onto living things." She faced Benny again "You have more Magic in you then anyone I have ever met but you need to learn to control it or else you will hurt yourself and others."

I raised my hand. "Wait how are we supposed to do all of this in a week?"

She put her hand to her forehead. "I don't know how you haven't realized this yet. Things here don't work like how they do back home. This whole place is a powerful spell of mine which means I control everything in here which means if I want a day in here to equal one hour in the the real world then we could be in here for twenty years but I hope it doesn't take that long to whip you into shape."

Six months later

Point of view- Benny

My body was being hurled through the air at incredible speed I looked ahead to see my body was seconds away from colliding into the wall. I finally had enough energy focused to hold out my hands yelling. "Canceleum spellas"

I tumbled to the ground my head only a few inches away from the wall. Melinda came over to stand over me holding her hand to help me up I grabbed it jumping to my feet.

"Again! You should have been able to focus enough energy twenty seconds early!" She shouted at me.

"Oh come on we've been at this for two hours now can I have a break." I said falling back onto the ground in defeat thinking I had finally impressed her.

"No now come on Ethan has almost completely mastered his Empath abilities and yet you still are having trouble controlling your flow of energy."

I started to get pissed. "Oh come on I have come such a long way. I've learned every spell you've thrown at me this whole time I've passed every single defensive hand to hand combat lesson you've given us. This is the last thing I have to learn so I'd have to say I'm not doing to bad!"

She glared at me. "So what happens when the enemy casts a spell that kills Ethan and you could have stopped it if you just had enough control."

I got even angrier. "We'll I won't let it get to that."

"What if you can't Benny and you have to watch every one of your friends die."

She waved her hand at the wall as I saw what looked like a movie start to play on it. It was all of my friends laying on the ground dead. I felt the rage in me surge at the sight but took deep breaths knowing if I lost my temper I could put everyone in danger. I quickly suppressed the rage inside of me before calmly replying. "I won't let it come to that."

The movie stopped as I looked to Melinda and swear I saw a tear coming down her eye. She speedily turned around moving her hand across her cheek before yelling to Ethan to get over here. "Sit down boys." The three of us sat in a triangle formation as we always did when Melinda had something new for us to learn. She looked back and forth between us before letting out a sigh. "We're going to be headed back to Benny's house after this little speech of mine."

We both nodded our heads before saying. "Okay."

"Both of you should know how proud I am to have be the one to push you to come as far as you have. I will be bragging about how much I taught you for a long time. That being said I can no longer teach you anything. From here on out everything you will need to learn will have to be by yourself of course Benny's Grandmother and I will be here to help give you the little pushes here and there when you two get lazy. But I feel completely safe in saying if I send you back today you won't be the two idiots that walked in here now remember to everyone else outside of here only a week has passed since you left so don't be freaks and go hugging everyone you see."

Me and Ethan stood up both giving her a group hug before she was able push us off but not before giving us both a quick squeeze. She walked over to one of the walls in the cave put her hand up to it and started chanting what I'm assuming was Latin. A door that look exactly like the door to my closet formed into the wall of the cave. Melinda looked over to us shouting. "Get your stuff together and let's get out of here."

Within two minutes Ethan and I had gathered everything we brought and were at the door. I couldn't wait to see everyone again plus tasting food that Melinda hadn't created out of nowhere will be an amazing change. I turned the handle ready to see a house with Grandma and Jane waiting for us but as I swung the door open all I saw what looked like a burnt down building. I looked around only to see charcoaled remnants of what looked like a house. I stepped through the door way taking in the scene then I saw something that made me shiver it was almost completely burnt and if I hadn't seen it everyday of my life I would never be able to recognize it but unfortunately I did. It was grandmas ugly green couch.