The Prihuman Chronicles: Book 1, The Elite 8

Chapter 7: Training Time

Walking over to train with Adam was possibly one of the most nerve wracking things I have other done. I was so scared that I was going to kill another person by accident, I just didn't want to hurt anyone. Adam beckoned me forward multiple times, but every time he did I felt my heart rate go faster and faster. I looked around to see what everyone else was doing. The first person I saw was Noah, he was just leaning against the wall, still levitating his two magnets. Also leaning against the wall, was Kim. The girl who took me, I wasn't to happy to see her. I wasn't a big fan of hers. The more I looked at her, the more upset I got. So I just turned away to look somewhere else. My gaze was caught by two guys that were having a fight with wooden swords. The one guy was completely owning the other guy, he was going all out on the fight. I continued to watch as the winning guy delivered a final blow, knocking the other guy down. The one who was knocked didn't seem fazed at all, he just got back up and the two started to fight again. "So..ready to train?" Adam asked, I jumped up and turned around. Adam was standing right behind me, looking at the two guys fighting. "Or are you just going to watch them the entire time?" he asked, I turned to look at the two guys fighting. "That one guy is really good, he must be like the best of the best" I stated, I continued to watch them spar, over and over again. "Eh" Adam blandly said, I ignored him. I continued to watch them until I noticed that the guy who was winning, was wearing black leather gloves, but the other guys wasn't. "Umm Adam, why is that one guy wearing gloves and the other guy isn't?"  I asked. Adam looked at me, and smiled. He didn't reply. He just turned around and started to walk away, waving his hand for me to follow him. "That's a story for another time..now it's time to train." He insisted. I focused my gaze away from the others and towards where Adam was standing. He stood tall right next to an archery target, I walked over to where he stood. "Sooo are we going to practice my archery?" I asked. Adam chuckled, "No, I want you to try and focus your power, see I believe that your ability to manipulate portals...may be used for offensive measures." I raised my eyebrows. "How?" I asked, looking up at Adam. "Well portals emit energy, I think that you are able to control that energy and use it as energy beams, blasts, and maybe more" Adam claimed, I shook my head. "There is no way that I can do all of THAT stuff! I mean that just seems....a lot don't you think?" I asked, he shrugged his shoulders. He pointed to an archery target, "See if you can try and blast that. Do what you did earlier, when you were in the hallway" Adam suggested. 'Wait, you saw that?" I asked suddenly. Adam nodded. "We have security cameras in the hallways, I was invited by Ms Haymond and Kyley to watch. We were all very impressed that you were able to handle your powers so quickly" Adam said. "It takes most people 2-4 years to be able to control their powers, yet you were able to manage yours within almost a week! I think you'll be alright here" Adam continued, "Now, do what you did earlier with the portal in the hallway, and try and blast the target." I looked back and forth between him and the target. I closed my eyes, and focused on the memory of my eleventh birthday. I took a deep breath and extended my hand out..I cleared my head, except for the memory and the target. I took another deep breath and let it all out, my mind now completely focused on the target. I shot my arm and hand forward and I felt a surge of something leave my hand, I stumbled away. There was a loud BANG. I opened my eyes from the loud noise, and looked around. The target had a dark black spot right in the middle of it. I looked over at Adam, who grinned at me. "Well done! That was great!" he exclaimed, I laughed. It felt oddly good, to be able to what I just did. "Great! So that was an energy blast, wanna try again?" Adam asked, I nodded. I did the exact same thing over and over again. Focusing on a certain thought then continuously shoot energy blasts from my hands to the targets. We did this for about a 20 minutes until I was used to it. For some reason the energy blasts that I were shooting were in the shape of balls, and they were my favorite colour, teal."Your doing amazing Zack!" cheered Adam, "Now, lets try an energy beam, it's just like energy blasts" he said. I nodded at him. I listened to Adam's advice and focused again on the memory. I extended my hand again. "It might be easier to use both hands" suggested Adam. I did as he suggested, I pressed my hands together and focused more on the memory and the target. I took a deep breath and shot m hands forward. Instead of feeling the quick surge of energy shoot through my hands, the energy feeling lasted. I opened my eyes, and was in complete disbelief from what I was seeing. There was a teal beam flowing from my hands all the way to the target. "That's great! Right now your energy beam isn't doing anything but being a source of light. Though I'm sure that when you battle your beam will become way more powerful and destructive" Adam mentioned. I chuckled, it was amazing what I was doing. I couldn't believe that I was a real life superhero. Though I needed to think of a 'code name'. "Well I think that should conclude our training today, we'll train you for the next two days then you guys will have to go confront Hallucination" said Adam. I nodded, still looking at the energy beam that I was creating right now. "Just concentrate. That should help you retract the beam" commented Adam. I listened to his advice, and I repelled the beam. I laughed. I was so unbelievably happy, that I couldn't contain my happiness. Adam chuckled. "It's always fun to learn your first lessons. You must be hungry. Lets go eat" he said. I replied, "Yes, I'm hungry." Adam smiled and we walked together out of the training hall, I was still so happy about how things had gone...I couldn't wait for the next training sessions....

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