Breath of Fire

Chapter Ten

    "See I told you that she was the one controlling fire in that alleyway!" was the first thing I heard when I next woke up. I sat up and frowned when I realized I was in professor Pyrion's office. Someone must have carried me here and laid me down on the couch. I glanced over to see Terrence looking at me and guessed it must have been him since he had my legs propped up on the top of his lap so that he was able to sit on the couch as well. As soon as I sat up, Caspian swooped down and joined us, sitting to my right as Terrence moved over to give us all more room.       "What is going on?" I asked as I straightened myself up to sit properly. I was met by silence. None of the brothers seemed to want to answer my question. I looked over at professor Pyrion to see if he had anything to say since the boys weren't willing to reply.      "It looks like your abilities have finally made themselves known. It appears that you are a fire dragon and possibly air as well. If you could kindly explain to me what happened earlier today, I can make a better assessment since as far as my knowledge goes, there are no fire and air dragons who are missing a kid, and as you mentioned your parents are no longer around to help explain," professor Pyrion said as he looked me over with a gleam in his eyes. There was something about the way he looked at me that made me think he knew exactly who I was without a shadow of a doubt, but for some reason, he was keeping it to himself...      "Not much, other than Penelope taking my change of clothes after fight and flight class and Blaise being his normal irritating self, I said with a frown as I tried to recall earlier events."      "Yes, but how did you get back to your lodgings without being seen? Caspian tells me he and Eios were waiting outside for you and never saw you leave." I could tell from the way professor Pyrion was staring at me that he knew exactly how I had escaped notice and I groaned. This all seemed like some sort of test and one wrong answer would get me sent home with no memory of anything ever having occurred.       "I have no clue, I never saw them waiting outside...I had other things on my mind. I was trying to escape the locker rooms unnoticed and suddenly realized that my reflection in the changing-room mirror had disappeared. And then I had to make my way back to the cottage clad only in my underwear and a towel and then Blaise pissed me off and then the rest is a blank," I said, summarizing as fast as I could and keeping my fingers crossed that I wasn't going to say anything that got me kicked out of school. I had a feeling that the professors didn't look well upon students who couldn't control their magical abilities or affinities or whatever the hell they called it.      "As I said, it is now clear to me that you have control of air and fire but it is too dangerous to have you learning with the rest of the students here so from here on out, I will be assigning Elios and Blaise to be your private tutors until you have a better grasp of your abilities, how does that sound?" professor Pyrion said, peering at me over the rim of his glasses. I nodded my head, deciding not to mention that I sometimes controlled water and earth as well since he hadn't asked and I didn't need to give Blaise or anyone else more reason to believe I was nothing but a freak.                                                                                                *****      "Try harder," Blaise said, circling around me like a hawk does their prey. I gritted my teeth and stayed silent. I had just spent the last half hour of remaining daylight trying and failing to bring up another wall of fire for Blaise. He was worse than his sister and I do mean in all ways! He had been shouting at me nonstop. Not the best teaching strategy in my book...it's not like I could just force the magic out of me! It came when it wanted and left of its' own free will as far as I was concerned.       "This isn't working!" I exclaimed as I tried and failed to create a ball of energy in my hand as Blaise had instructed me to do. The most irritating thing was, I already knew I could do it, having created balls of fire in the past but for some reason, now that I actually wanted my magic to work, it was just out of reach. Or maybe it was my teacher. Blaise wasn't the most relaxing person to be around...one minute I was angry at him and the next, strangely aroused. My emotions were never calm around the guy!      "You need to calm down and relax," Blaise said as if he could hear my thoughts. No, thats Elios, I reminded myself, glad that he wasn't also present at the moment. These boys were gonna be the death of me if they didn't stop recking havoc on my emotions soon.       "You're not trying hard enough, a hatchling can do this!" Blaise sniped as he continued to walk around me in circles. I huffed in irritation.      "I am trying, but how am I supposed to concentrate with you looming over me every few seconds!" I retorted.      "That's what the meditation is for! You humans refer to it as yogi - yoga? I don't quite remember but try it. It's not that hard to breath fire! In layman's terms, we call it the breath of fire. Inhale through your nose and exhale using your lungs to expel fire! It's not that hard! Even the dumbest fire dragons can do it! In fact every dragon can breath fire even the non-fire dragons have the ability to breath fire!"       Rather than sitting there listening to him hint at how stupid I was for not being able to create a fireball or breath fire, I got up and walked back inside the house and stomped upstairs and slammed my bedroom door closed. I can't believe professor Pyrion expects me to learn anything from Blaise! Ugh!                                                                                            *****One Week Later      "I'm never going to get this!" I complained as I sat crosslegged in front of Elios in the backyard of the cottage. He was trying to teach me yoga as Blaise had first suggested about a week ago, but I just couldn't get myself to relax. Every time I felt at peace in the past, something had come up that broke said peace and I kept waiting for the imaginary ball to drop here as well.

Author's Note -       Okay reader's sorry about the shorter chapter I'm getting a bit of writers block since I don't want to just keep writing about her trying to use magic and failing i want an epic reveal scene but not sure if ive waited long enough yet since I tend to skip over details, so please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions if so feel free to like follow comment and subscribe!