I Will Only ever Lived as a Side Character

The Revealing

"The majority of the population is born with these elements." The teacher said as she drew symbols on the board, "Earth, fire, ice, and light."

"Today we will be revealing what's elements you are born with to assign your designated classes. Please go to the courtyard in an orderly line."

The students who existed out of the classroom scrambled, not doing a terrific job of being orderly. So much so I couldn't help but chuckle, this is just like in high school.

The girls walking in front of me started to giggle and talk,

"What elements do you think you'll have?" The girl asked,

"Well, clearly I will be gifted with the most powerful elements out there!" She answered with such confidence and pridefulness that I looked over, curious to see who that person would be.

And as if I expected it, it was Rose Thormaine.

"The most powerful element? Is it the fire element then?"

"No!" She snapped, "The fire element is too unstable, ice is far more superior."

She does a point, even if fire is supposedly the most powerful in combat, it is too hard to control even in low mana. So much so that quite a few people born with fire elements rarely, dare say, never use it.

Unfortunately for her, she won't be able to use the element of ice. But that's probably for the best then.

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As my classmates eagerly set foot in the courtyard, filling the air up with their chatter and excitement.

The teacher, with a frustrated and tired expression, yelled, "Alright, everyone line up to the stage," she empathize, "behave this time, we wouldn't anyone getting hurt, would we?"

Ah..right..

When a person is born with an element, it starts to manifest quickly and early, and depending on how much mana they are gifted with...well it would have been disastrous, to say the least.

That's why by the age of 3 months, the cathedral church blocked our uses of abilities until there are free by a device that's only in the hands of royal families, church officials, and highly respectable schools.

Such as this school.

I was up next, and as I walk up to the stage, I could feel the numerous prying eyes staring so intently at me.

"Miss Enderson." The teacher said she held out her hand. The other held a wide sliver cuff with intricate little designs on the side, most notably a glowing white gem in the middle.

The teacher grabbed out one of my arm and cuffed my wrist with the contraption. Almost instantly I felt like a sharp needle pinched deeply into my wrist. I hissed at the pain but then I notice gem started to change color.

From the purest white to a forest green. Then sparks of green and pink burst out from the gem, and if I looked just close enough, in some way they resemble shades of leaves and flowers.

I was in awestruck as they fell to the ground and fades into nothingness, with the gem returning to its former color. That was the moment it truly dawned on me that the thing I believed to be all child play was real, magic.

"Element of Earth, Low Mana." The teacher noted as she shove off the stage and gestured to the next person in line, which was..Rose Thornmaine

Rose walked up to the stage and held out her hand with a smile that can only contain such certainty and presumptuous as the teacher trapped the device in her wrist.

Once again the color of the gem changed into darker shades of green. But instead of small sparks coming out of the gem, a rose sprang out of it.

Suddenly the rose grew taller and the thorns grew sharper until it burst into the size of a tree, with the thorns acting as dried branches and the petals large enough to cast a shadow over the entire stage.

And then it puffed into millions of shades of green and red sparkles.

The teacher's lips pursed in a satisfying smile, "Element of Earth, High Mana." She noted.

'The distance of power between the characters is astonishing in this world.'

But even with this blessing, Rose was not pleased.

"Earth? Earth!?" She was furious even, "This is outrageous! I will not be in the same element as hers!" She pointed directly at me.

"This is a cursed!" She screeched.

At this, I was distraught and in disbelief but most of all.

I was insulted.

"You cannot be serious." The words came out of my mouth before I knew it, "To even have a slither of mana you do as an earth elemental is a rarity. Unheard of even. That is not a curse, far from it!"

"Oh quiet!" She snapped back, "I will not be speak to that way. Especially from a criminal's daughter like you!"

I stumbled back.

'Criminal? Catherine's father? But that wasn't in the novel-'

"Girls!" The teacher screamed, and our head snapped back at her, "I will not tolerate this childish behavior playing before me, stop this now."  She rosed a brow and with a threatening voice she uttered, "Or is a punishment in order?"

"No Ma'am.." the both of us mumbled before begrudgingly leaving our argument to an end. Residing on the sidelines as the other students reveal their elements, only one thought occupied my head at that moment.

Just then a loud explosion blasted on the other side of the campus. The impact was so great I felt the ground snake beneath my feet and the ringing still in my ear.

The students were in shambled and their cries of shock and worry increased as the teacher tried to calm the situation but it was no use. An explosion like that in a high-end school like this was never supposed to happen.

But then again

Neither should a person have all four elements at once.

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Note: I just realized that last line is similar to Avatar
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But honestly, that's the only thing I could think of to differentiate Ashlyn from the rest. Anyway thanks for reading!