Valor: The Crystal Of Valimor

VII

-Valorie-

  After what seems like an eternity in the depths of hell, the weekend had arrived. School was now a hotspot for entertainment—mostly due to Kat. The girl just seemed to blow away the clouds hovering over Valorie's sky, letting the sun shine down on her for once.

  It was different, though Valorie wasn't sure if she liked it or not.

  Since Kat would simply shift into Schist when Valorie and Cody reached home, the alien found a great deal of enjoyment 'breaking and entering' her house.

  Therefore, since the purple-eyed girl could enter the house at her accord and go anywhere she pleased, she had been waking Valorie up everyday for the past week to train—occasionally dragging Cody out of bed as well—at ungodly hours.

  Even on weekends, including Saturday mornings.

  "Oh, quit ranting," Kat snapped at Valorie's hazy eyed brother.

  "But it's the weekend," Cody whined. "I need to sleep."

  "You need to train," Kat eyed the two of them. "You both do. We need to keep this ordeal as classified as humanly possible."

  "Smooth," Valorie drawled sarcastically. "Very smooth."

  "No pun intended," Kat rolled her eyes. "Imagine if your powers, just, suddenly activated or something during a math test. Or a migraine starts up in P.E.," she smirked at Cody. "Wouldn't want you throwing up all over Lucy, would we?"

  "I still don't get those weird side effects though..." Cody grumbled, red in the face.

  "They are pretty inconvenient," Valorie agreed.

  One con of being exposed to the Valimor was the insane aftermath effects that it harbored.

  Cody would start feeling sick when he moved around, Allie saw black lines in her vision when she stared at a screen for too long, while Nick would sometimes echo the emotions of the people that he felt—something quite inconvenient in a school full of hormonal teenagers.

  For Valorie, since it was technically impossible to not be exposed to the light and shadow, her brain would start to... cramp up. It was a strange concept that she had a difficult time wrapping her head around. Randomly, her mind would shut down, and she couldn't think. Literally everything would be blank. She couldn't process, interpret, or analyze anything. They only lasted for short bursts, but they honestly scared her. She couldn't stand feeling dead and useless. 

  "I agree," Kat nodded. "But just know that I'm learning too. A human coming in contact with Valimor is unheard of. At least to my knowledge it is." She paused, "Although I don't know much, to be honest."

  "Anyways," she took a breath. "Valorie, you first."

  Valorie nodded. She held out her right hand, scrunching her eyes as she narrowed in her train of thought.

  She forced herself to mesh with the sunlight surrounding her, trying to become one with it.

  A few beads of sweat formed on her forehead when she opened her eyes. A wave of satisfaction flooded her when she saw the little swirling ball of light that had gathered in the palm of her hand.

  "Good job!" Kat smiled. "It takes a lot more effort to manipulate this light, since it is Earthen. Valimor is from a different solar system, so the light is slightly different."

  "No kidding," Valorie grunted, slight strain in her voice.

"Well, Valimor is named after the star our solar system is built around." Kat rolled her eyes, "Other hand now."