Finding The Keys

Chapter 25(*)

After breakfast we returned to training, Guti helped Dem learn to control his new powers and teach him the basic rules of magic brawls, the only main rule is no spells or weapons that could kill or permanently harm a person. That rule was made after a student was critically injured durn a magic brawl.

*Dems POV*

Guti and I were in the mist of a practice battle, him only using the same spells I can. I am faster then Guti at dodging but his skills for using shadow magic are way too much higher than mine. I jump off the ground to dodge a spell ment to bind my legs together. I form a ball of shadows in my right hand and throw it like a baseball at Guti.
Guti smiles and holds his hand out, the ball coming to a stop inches in front of his hand, "ready for a new spell?" 
My eyes widen as the shadow orb flys back at me. I can't dodge so I try to do the same thing he did but it doesn't work and the shadow ball slams into my chest, sending me flying back across the yard, the snow breaking my fall. The shadow armor has a large crack on the chest and it shatters disapering into thin air.
"What the heck was that?" I say starting to try and stand. Guti helps me to my feet.
"It's called 'return to sender' it forces a orb or ball of magic to be sent back to it's sender this will be useful if you get far enough to face up against Maki, but she might stick to her blade and hand to hand combat magic. She's a force to be reckoned with in a fight, able to switch between types of magic in the blink of an eye, Icicle can do it as well, they have almost mastered switching between types but no one has seen Icicle at full potential, she's still learning what she can do."
I smile, "Looks like this is going to be fun"
"Just I have two warnings," Guti said sternly, look at him, "One return to sender takes a lot off magic energy and you cannot block it if you throw it. Second, Maki may sometimes switch between herself and Puppet in battle, Puppet will only see you as an enemy just look for a change in her voice and attacking style. Me or Icicle will step in if things get to out of hand."
"Ok," I say nodding my head, I look over towards the tree line and see Li sitting below a tree eyes closed, she seemed to be thinking.
"Hey Guti, what's up with Li?"
"She's planning, Li's a very good planner, she never misses a detail in her planning"
"Cool but why in the snow? Would it not be warmer inside?"
"Li thinks better in the cold," He said looking over at Li, "She is a great light user as well, basically our magic only weakness"
"So hopefully neither of us get put up against her? Right?" I ask.
"Yeah but something seems to be up, I never seen her so concentrated before"
"Well maybe she's thinking of ways to crush us" I joke.
"Very funny" he said playfully punching me in the shoulder, "ready for another round?"
"Let's go"

*Time skip to time of the battle*
*Li's POV*

I smile, it was time to pick our frist parnters the girls stood next to each other in our dresses. The boys just looked at us, "Umm" you hear from one if they boys.
Maki smiles, "opps, wrong outfit," she giggles. She snaps her fingers lighty, her dress sets aflame, changing into black pants, black shirt, and a fire red, winter cloak. Icicle and I change too, I get black pants, yellow shirt, and a yellow and grey winter coat. Icicle wore a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, her immunity to cold was coming in handy.
"We're ready" Maki says her hood to her cloak down allowing her hand to be shown held back in a tight braid, Icicle's work.
Thomas stepped forward, "the pairs for the frist round have already been decided," He held up his cell phone, "I used a number randomizer to pick who battles who. Each of us got numbers. Maki number is zero, Icicle's six, Li's was four, Dem's was one, Guti got three, Oliver got five, and my number is two"
Everyone looked around, waiting to see who they might have got paired up with.
Thomas hit a button on his phone, to generate the frist pair of numbers, the numbers of the frist battle pair, "the frist battle is between numbers six and...." Thomas paused and looked at his phone, eyes missing of emotion.
"Who is it Tom?" Icicle says, "who am I fighting"
"two," he says softly, "Your fighting me"
Icicle's eyes widen, "well it was going to happen eventually," she said putting a smile on her face, lightening the mood of the group by leaps and bounds,
I step forward, and so dose Maki, "we'll be the refs for this round" I say.
Maki nods, eyes glow red for a few seconds and a dome appers around us for a spilt second, battle feild lines are magical painted on the snow, one side was blue the other was red. "Ready"
"What did she do?" I hear Dem whisper.
I turn to face him, "She put a magic done around the battle feild, it prevents magic from leaving and hurting other who are not apart of the fight.  Oliver can do it to I believe" I answer his questions quickly before turn back to Thomas and Icicle.
"Red side ready?" Maki states.
"Yes" Thomas respond getting ready to start making his frist spell.
"Blue side ready?" Maki says turning to the other side of the feild.
Icicle only gave a simple nod, her focus set in. Only one of them could win.

"Ready..."

"Set... "

"Go!"