The Elemental Sorceress

Chapter Twenty Three

CHAPTER — TWENTY THREE

The Thunder Legion

In the following weeks, Nova pushes herself with physical training. Loke tends to come by every other day to practice with her ballet and gymnastics. Titan focuses on her sparring and hand to hand combat. The others help her with a series of different things as well;  Darago works on helping her relearn teleportation magic, and Brünnhilde helps her train more with sword fighting.

Neptune takes on a special role, due to his water magic he has an array of healing abilities. This helps him go over her previous memories and lifetimes with her. He uses his magic to soothe her and help things fit back into place. It was a work in progress, but so far it was going well.

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"Alright, we're going to practice teleporting to specific people now. You have distance down rather well, along with places you know." Darago says as they stand in a wide forest clearing.

Nova nods, "I can tell the difference between energy signatures pretty well."

"Yes but now we need to expand your range for that. We'll start with meditating." Darago gestures for Nova to sit down.

Nova gets into position and begins clearing her mind.

"Reach your magic out... and start locking into everyone nearby. I've had the group scatter around the kingdom."

Nova breathes in and slowly lets her magic release and searches for the energy signals. "Neptune is in the kitchen."

"Teleport to him."

In seconds she appears beside Neptune who jumps. "Give me some warning!" He screeches brandishing a frying pan at her.

"Sorry, Neptune!" Nova says before popping back to Darago. "Alright... what's next?"

"Each person is a bit further away, so work on finding them and getting to their location."

Nova works on this for the rest of the day.

After roughly two weeks she's able to teleport across the continent. Her learning was much faster than a normal person because she'd already learned this ability in the past. It was more so rediscovering it and training it.

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Nova lays on a grass hill staring up at the clouds. Her thoughts were a mess. There was so much that had happened and it was difficult to process. It didn't help that her magic was limited due to the cuffs. She felt repressed and chained, but she knew it was for her safety and everyone else's.

She doesn't move when someone sits beside her. From the energy signature, she knew exactly who it was. "What are you thinking about?" Orion asks leaning back on his elbows.

"I'm not sure," Nova says brushing a lock of white hair from her eyes. She slowly shifts herself upwards and mimics his position. "Have you found any leads?"

Orion shakes his head. "No, and I don't think I will for a while. He's most likely gone into hiding to recover. You did a lot of damage."

Nova smirks slightly. "Damn right."

He laughs at her and wraps an arm around her shoulders. "How are you doing?"

"Training is rough, but I'm making progress. Darago still isn't sure when I'll be able to take the cuffs off though." She leans into his side soaking up the comfort of his embrace. "I mastered teleportation again, so now she has me working on healing with Neptune."