{Across The Cosmos: The Solar System}

{Chapter 7: The Beginning of the Test}

Nori went over with Andromeda to a more secluded area. There were target symbols drawn small chunks of asteroids, which had previous damage from other training in the past.

¨Before you came to be, I held training for other troubled guardians. Surprisingly, I even trained Hyperion for a bit." Nori explained as she adjusted some of the asteroids to be straight.

Andromeda looked surprised. Hearing that someone as collected as Hyperion also needed a bit of help was interesting, as she assumed he might have just done it himself with how he was.

¨Do you have any questions before you start practicing, Andromeda?"

"I was most curious about my chronokinesis..don't we get that ability from Lord Callisto?" Andromeda asked, an intrigued tone in her soft voice.

Nori nodded her head. One of the most crucial things to know about Lord Callisto was that he was responsible for all of the guardians having stable abilities, or as stable as they could have, anyways.

Andromeda then looked forward to one of the targets. She wanted to try her weapon manipulation first, as it intrigued her just as much as changing time. A method she had overheard was to imagine the type of weapon in her mind, and then it would come to be when she focused on it.

Nori watched as Andromeda performed said method, looking intently. Andromeda imagined summoning a handful of spears, and aimed her hand towards the target.

Behind her, a group of black-and-white tinted spears came to be from what looked like out of nowhere and flew towards the target, causing Nori to step back and her eyes to gleam. Andromeda looked worried at first, but then calmed down as she realized Nori was proud of her.

"It's great to know you can already perform that method." Nori remarked, patting Andromeda on the head.

Andromeda smiled and retracted the spears, noticing she had left a dent on the side of the asteroid. She chuckled and dusted herself off.

"Well, while you're performing your manipulation, maybe you could combine it with your pyrokinesis?"

Nori's question made Andromeda ponder. Seeing swords engulfed in flames was always a cool fascination to her, so Andromeda wasn't at all against Nori's vision. If anything, she endorsed it.

"Yeah! Yeah, I wanna try that." Andromeda said excitedly, much to Nori's amusement.

But first, Andromeda had to hone her ability of pyrokinesis before she could do so. Both she and Nori considered how it would work.

"Nori, do you know if my dad used his pyrokinesis? Has he used it before?"

Nori looked as if she didn't know how to answer the question. Yes, Andromeda's father had used pyrokinesis before, but she didn't get a glance of how he had got his working. She only knew that he used it when she noticed there were multiple pieces of debris on fire.

"Uhm, well.." Nori stuttered. "Yes. Yes, he did use his, but I'm not sure about how he did it."

Andromeda seemed to understand. Her father was an open book to some, but a diary with a padlock to others, so only so many knew about his ways.

All of a sudden, Nori took out a blank piece of paper and held it up to Andromeda's face.

Understandably, Andromeda was confused. "Huh? What are you doing?"

"Paper is quite flammable, according to what Avani told me after what she learned about on Earth a while ago. Try thinking of something like a lighter and see if that does anything for you."

Andromeda thought of a lighter like Nori said, specifically as to how to work one. She flicked her thumb as if she had one in her hand, and caused a little flame to come out of her thumb, burning the bottom of the paper.

"Oh!" Andromeda exclaimed, a delighted surprise for her this was.

Nori looked pleased as she let go of the paper, watching the rest of it burn and turn into nothing but more dust in space.

After thinking, Andromeda summoned one of her spears from before, and managed to set it on fire just using her thumb trick, smiling a bit to herself.

Nori looked astonished as Andromeda now had not only a spear made from some kind of odd space matter, but it was also now constantly on fire.

"You would think things like that wouldn't work from how cold humans describe space to be.." Nori thought to herself as she inspected Andromeda's spear.

For a bit after that, Andromeda practiced slashing asteroids that Nori would toss over to her as practice. While this was going on, Hyperion saw from afar, looking proud of her.

"You love that girl like she's your daughter, huh?" Diana said as she flew over to Hyperion to check on him.

"I wish nothing but the best for her, Diana. I suppose if that's what a fatherly figure does, I do love her like she's my daughter." Hyperion said, looking fond of mentioning his platonic love towards Andromeda.

As Hyperion turned for a moment, he was caught by surprise when Andromeda teleported behind him and hugged his legs.

"Ah. You are getting better at that, little one." Hyperion said, smiling as he looked down at her.

"Well, she's doing great regarding pyrokinesis and weapon manipulation, so that's good to know." Nori said, having followed behind Andromeda.

"What about her chronokinesis? How's she doing regarding that?" Avani curiously asked."

And her heightened senses? Does that apply to all of them?" Diana added on to Avani's question, just as intrigued.

"I suppose we will find out when the time comes." Nori responded.

Andromeda glanced over her shoulder as everyone else was speaking, noticing something in the distance.

An arrow that was on fire was coming her way, specifically towards her neck. And no one knew but her since she was the only one that could see it.