Succumbing To The Darkness Within (Previously The Gift)

Chapter 28

~Mara's P.O.V~

"You ready princess?" Ryan asks standing in his fighting position.

"What did I tell you about calling me that?" I don't like being called that it makes me sound weak and dainty.

"Not to. But it's amusing when you're angry." He grins and I just roll my eyes.

Missing another day of school for training. My mom's going to kill me when she wakes up, for not going to school. At least I get the notes from my classmates and study a little when I'm not fighting for my life.

Once again, I find myself in the backyard in this death trap we call training. I am up against Ryan, who is so much tall than me. But I can use it to my advantage. Me being shorter, would make me a bit faster so I have to use that to my advantage.

Ryan is medium built. He has brown hair with light brown eyes. He skin is naturally tanned as I can see and he looks like a overly confident, smug person. Which is pretty spot on.

"You sure you wanna go all out?" He asks.

"Yeah. The people after me are going all out also aren't they? So no holding back..." I turn to Chloe and Dylan. "No helping either."

"Doubt you'll need it sweetheart." Chloe says.

"Oh yeah. Well I know a challenge when I see one." I mutter under my breath.

I get into fighting position myself. I begin calculating. The only thing I have against him is speed. He is bigger and probably stronger than me, but I might be smarter.

"You ready?" Ryan asks. I nod.

"Go!" Dylan shouts.

Ryan begins to circle me, with that stupid smirk on his face and I go in the opposite direction. He's stalking me like his prey. He then stops, and lunge towards me. He's very fast.

I barely had time to dodge his attack. I side stepped him but he recover quickly and come a me once more. This time I wasn't that lucky. He sends a powerful punch in my stomach and I groan in pain.

He removes his hand from my stomach and sends any other punch, which I wasn't ready for. The punch connected under my chin, it sends my head and my whole body backwards, colliding with the ground with a loud 'thud'.

I think I broke a rib or two cause I heard something break when I crash landed. I think I bit my tongue or bit it off.

Getting up trying to recover, I wince at the pain at my back, my stomach and my chin. And we just begun to fight.

It's not this first I'm fight Ryan, the last time it was so bad I dislocated my shoulder. The doctor had to pop it back in before if healed.

"You sure you wanna continue?" Ryan asks. I nod in response and stand up.

"I'm ready again." Some part of my is bleeding, I'm sure of it but I've got to finish this.

We've been training for a week now and I haven't beat him yet. Robin and Cassie beat him already, so I'm behind. And it's been a week and no sign of Emily or whoever else is after me.

So I have to beat Ryan here and now.

It's been a week, so I know some of his tricks.

He waste no time to begin again. He was there one minute but the he was gone in a blink of an eye. Ryan used this same thing on Cassie Wednesday. He uses his speed to disappear then reappear somewhere else and attack. Okay, I had to be ready. I have to sense where he is.

"Behind you!" Caroline shouts.

In quick motion, in bring my right leg up, ready to kick, around, which leaves my left leg on the ground. I use my leg to turn my body. But Ryan caught my foot in mid air.

"You almost got me. Almost." He teases.

He then twists my leg so hard, it causes my whole body to spin in midair and I land on my stomach. I feel like I got whiplash in my body. All of my organs are now out of place.

I see his shadow hovering over me, this is not good, so I move quickly so I'm laying on my back and I scramble to my feet. My ankle is fine but I hurts a little, it's bearable.

My turn. I give him a small devilish grin and speed towards him. I sweep kick his feet, when I was close, with such force, he face plants. He jumps to his feet and his eyes were pitch black. His finger touches under his nose and he looks at it then growls. He obviously saw the blood. His nose is probably broken.

With speed, once more, he's in front of me. He sends a punch, square on, in my face. I stumble backwards and something rose up inside of me. Anger.

"How dare he!" Caroline screech.

My whole body is shaking and feel like it's on fire. I feel like it's a thousand degrees out here. My whole body was burning.

The anger is too much it needs release. So did.

"What the fu-" He sentence was cut short, when I see him and everyone around being flung backwards by a red wave of hot energy.

I look down at my hands and I see... fire? From what I can see, it's acting like a glove except it's hovering over my skin like a force field. My body looks like Goku's for Dragon Ball Z Kai, when he powers up.

Looking around, everyone was on the ground, groaning in pain.

"Sorry. Is everyone okay?" I shout.

"Yeah I think so." Dylan says sitting up.

"That hurt like a bitch." Chloe says sitting up also along with Michael.

"Agreed."

"What the hell?" Robin say rubbing his temple.

"That was unexpected." Cassie says.

"Could you warn me next time please." Ryan says getting up. He had to know I was a White Wolf or else he wouldn't be here.

"Sorry. I didn't know that was going to happen." I smile sheepishly.

"Mara try and calm down, you're still on fire. Fire is mostly triggered by emotions." Cassie says to my calmly.

"Okay." I say calmly as well. I take deep breaths and calmed. The fire disappeared instantly.

"Congratulations Mara! You have the Fire Element."

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