Ruins In The End (We Three Mages, Book Two)

(4)Chapter Fifteen: To Use a Medium

"Yes! Yes! Good!" Messa cheered on her students. "Haha! You two are comin' along beautifully!" Mari and Nadia had their Books out and were currently casting quick spells as fast and as powerful as they could. Messa had explained to the girls that their Books have already been acting like mediums for them. Making their power easier for them to control, thought, it's only been helping them control the magic, it hasn't been helping them refine it into a stronger form.

"C-Can we take a break?" Nadia asked. The two had been at it since the morning and afternoon had already rolled around.

"Fine," Messa sighed. "Need ta check up on yer little friend Devin anyway. He's been doin nothin' but pouting since last week." Devin had hit a wall with his training. Since he had nothing to act as a medium for him, Messa had been teaching him basic spells that he would've learned his third year at the Academy. She refused to teach him anything but the basics and it was the basics Devin has had trouble with.

"Messa!" Devin ran over to her with a smile on his face. "I did it! I can cast one of each of the four elemental spells."

"Show me and you can break as well," Messa was far harder on Devin than she was with the girls. Devin nodded and sucked in some air. The first thing he did was ignite a flame in the palm of his hand, after that, he blew on the flame and had wind swirl around the flame which caused it to double in size. With his other hand, Devin took a rock out of his pocket and had it crumble itself into smaller versions of itself and dance around the flame. To finish off his little show, Devin had water rain down on the flame, extinguishing it and turning the rocks into mud.

"Not bad, not bad at all," Messa praised Devin slightly. "Least you know how to combine spells together in order to make them stronger."

"When I was training with Ross, she skimmed over the basics and went into the tougher things. She said there was no time to waste on something I can just learn along the way."

"Like I keep sayin' me and this Ross woman are two very different teachers. You gonna learn these basics before I let you handle the harder stuff." Messa scolded him.

She doesn't have to so hard on him all the time. Nadia complained to Mari.

I think she just sees a lot of potential in him. Coddling won't get him where he wants to go. Mari thought back.

Ross's lost is still a fresh wound for Devin though. Those two were closer than any of us. Nadia thought.

That may be true, but that doesn't have anything to do with what we're trying to accomplish now.

"You two!" Messa quickly spun around and pointed at them.

"Yes?" Mari was completely unfazed by Messa's attempts to scare them.

"Ye get ten minutes then it's back to casting! Ya'll aint gonna stop till it's second nature!" Messa shouted as she took Devin inside the house.

"I hope the boys are going through hell," Mari prayed.

Inside the house, Messa was going through a rather large chest while Devin ate a little lunch.

"Ah ha!" Messa stood up with a rather odd, large looking stick. It looked like three branches had been woven into one with a blue crystal on the very top of it. "Here's your new best friend boy."

"What?" Devin looked at Messa like she was even crazy than usual. She placed the strange object in Devin's hands to let him get a good feel of it.

"Them girls has those Books from the Legend. You aint got squat so you get this." Messa explained.

"This is going to be my medium?" Devin asked.