MELINA

chapter nine

Noe and I finished in the library late in the afternoon. We made a very late lunch and we started training. He took me to a garden which was at the back of the palace, it had a gate and Noe opened it up and I was amazed. I had never been there before. It then dawned on me that this was probably where my dad practiced all his skills. We closed the gate and started business.
We started off with the simple stuff. Noe told me to try and conjure up a little flower. I tried and tried but nothing happened. I sat on the floor dejected and frustrated. My brother smiled at me and said "Mel baby, you are not concentrating enough. Anything can fuel your power. It can be anger, sadness, happiness or just full concentration. In your case, I do not want you to use emotions yet. Just try concentrating okay? Now let us do it one more time", he said as he pulled me up.
I sighed and tried focusing once more. I locked out every emotion. I forgot everything I was passing through. I felt a little warmness building up from the pit of my stomach. It later transferred to my whole body. The intensity became very high on my hands and I felt something springing out of them and it really did not feel like a flower, it felt like something else. I loved the feeling, I never wanted it to stop. I had to snap out of it when Noe shouted my name. "Melina! Stop it! You have conjured a freaking tree! Open your eyes and look at it!". I quickly opened my eyes and lo and behold, a huge tree stood in front of me. My eyes bulged out in amazement and my mouth was opened.
I realized at that moment that the warmth I felt coming out of my hands was not conjuring a little flower, it was channeling itself into the ground and was making a tree. I became scared of myself because I have never heard of a beginner being able to conjure a tree in that little time. Noe was looking at me with something which looked like respect and adoration. "Mel, guess what? I just figured out another thing". I looked at him and waited for him to continue.
"You know, as you were making that tree, I noticed that it was not only the earth that was responding to you". He smiled and said, "baby girl, you controlled the air".

After Noe told me that jaw breaking discovery, I sat him down and told him to explain the reason why he said that. He started off with how he noticed a white light coming out of my hands. He said that the light shot into the ground and started forming a tree. As if that was not enough the wind stopped howling and the atmosphere became cool and serene. He said that it was as if the air knew that somebody very powerful was standing right there.
Noe claimed that he was able to recognize it because anytime mother was using her powers, it was always like that. I could not lie about it, I felt very special, good and important. I was so happy to know that I had powers. The sound of Noe's voice brought me back to reality. "Melina, I am just so happy. I can say that today is my happiest day since the day I have been born. I cannot wait to stick it into the faces of all those people that ridiculed you. I am promising you that I will always have your back and protect you no matter what".
I smiled and could not say anything. I told him goodnight and started going towards the attic. My brother called me and said "baby girl, this is the last time you will sleep in that god forsaken attic". I nodded and went into my attic room. I could not sleep that night. I was just tossing and turning around on the cold hard floor. I stood up to close the small window because, it was freezing like crazy and the wind was just howling. In an attempt to close the window, my index finger stuck out towards the sky. I noticed that the howling actually stopped. I smiled.

I went back and laid on the floor. I still could not sleep and I started thinking of different things. I thought about how my parents would react if they found out I had more than one power. I prayed and hoped that they will not see me as someone who wanted to overthrow them. I thought about how the people in the kingdom would feel, would they love me or would they hate me? Would they call me diabolical, and cast me out of the kingdom?
I thought about my brother and how he had helped me these past few days and I really could not be more grateful. I swore that I was going to repay his kind deeds someday. As I thought about all these things, the cold was killing me. I really wished I had some form of heat. As I turned to the other side and my hand touched the ground, I noticed that heat was springing out from my hands and before I knew it, the whole room became warm. I had only heard of fire power which Noe had and this was not even fire power. This was something different entirely.
I had ability to make heat?

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