Pyro of the Craven

Chapter-2: The First Team Mission!

"You said you felt it the other day, didn't you?" asked Zerak after Ramaraju failed to sense his Odic-Force.

"I did. I don't know-how, it just happened. Later, when I tried to talk to my friends about what had happened that day up on the mountain, all they could ask was, "Did you drink something? Did you fell asleep?" They were even more clueless than I was of this new dimension."

He tried for a few more hours, but there is no result at all. Zerak's sister, Sayuri, arrived after receiving a call from Zerak.

"Big sister Sayuri. How are you?"

"I'm good. But would you care explaining why you didn't bother telling me about your admission into the school?" she said as she pulled his ears.

"Ouchh, that hurts..."

"Anyway, Why did you ask me to come here, Brother Zerak?"

Zerak told about the issue Ramaraju is facing and asked Sayuri if she could check him and see if there was any problem. Sayuri hones in sensory skills. She is one of the youngest who mastered such skills, including those of the top rank difficulty. She closes her eyes and works on sensing Ramaraju's Odic-Force.

It's been over 30 minutes with absolute silence.

"Any leads?" asked Zerak.

Sayuri opens her eyes and shook her head.

"It's okay, we'll check about this later."

Ramaraju gets disappointed with himself as he left for his home. As Zerak and Sayuri walk back to their home,

"Brother Zerak, There's something I sensed in him," Sayuri explains after Ramaraju left.

"What is it?"

"I saw the Odic-Force in him. But it is very small. Almost negligible."

"You mean, he can't?"

"That's not it. His mind, emotions, and physical body along with the Odic-Force aligned differently. They are repulsive to each other."

"That's unusual. Everyone has these aligned together, that is how each of us function. But that explains why he lost control of himself the other day. It was his mind that made him see those dimensions he was speaking of."

"That's right. It might be risky if he knows about this, which is why I didn't speak in front of him."

"I understand. But what could cause him to see such things?"

"We don't know that."

"You have any solutions for this?"

"No. There's nothing we could do to change one's alignments. There were such cases, but people used their Odic-Force to fix it. But this is very different. The Odic-Force is present, but it is almost null. Perhaps we just need to wait."

"I see. He's in first grade, so there isn't any problem. However, once he enters the second grade and above, he can't go out without using it."

"That's true."

It's another routine class and Ramaraju didn't care about it. He is still thinking about that day. He tried to meditate for a while, which of course isn't helping. Siya, beside Ramaraju, poked him to see if he was sleeping.

"What are you doing?" asked Ramaraju.

"I was just checking if you went asleep?"

"No. Why would I sleep in the middle of the class? Are you out of your mind?"

Siya comes a little closer to Ramaraju and looks into his eyes wide open.

Ramaraju blushes. He moves back from her, yelling, "Hey, why are you looking at me like that? You just came so close to me."