Arma Magicis

After I dress up as a guy, I knock to Rolando's room eleven minutes later. Yeah, I'm a hypocrite, you never saw Light angry, you don't want to see him angry... He is worse than Hulk, believe me. I shiver just thinking about it. I am afraid already because I'm one minute late. Every one of us has a room but we have human roommates so Rolando is a safe bet because he has the room for himself.

Takeshi opens the door for me. His outfit makes him look like a professor. With that long sleeve polo and that black slacks with his calm demeanor. His attitude is intimidating, he never smiles but he can smirks at you that makes you want to strangle him. I am not surprise that the nurse calls him the cruel angel of St. Augustine. His gorgeous face can't help a thing for him to be conspicuous.

When I enter Rolando's room the first thing I saw is the serious atmosphere inside. Except Rolando of course, his cheerful smile never waver. That's to be expected if you're an Etere. The free spirit of the air aids the personality of all the Etere. Every element has one, the free spirit of the Etere, the wild attitude of the Apoy, the flexibility of the Agua and the strong dependable trust you can expect to a Mondiale.

When Light saw me, he orders me to sit beside Rolando. I whisper a thank you to Rolando and his bewilderment amuses me. Everyone is here and they are looking behind Light. And then I saw it, weapons; a bow, magnum, sword handle and a flail. They have a unique feature. The Bow has an ivory color with a white cloth in the end; there is no bundle of arrows. The magnum as a small tube attached to a wrist collar. The sword handle also has a wrist attachment to it. And the flail, with a vine-like string, handle with a wrist collar and the end is a ball with spikes. Wrist collar and attachment has a thread like string that connects the weapon and the attachment. It looks like delicate.

"Everything that you all see is your possible weapon; every one of them has its own unique use to it by the help of your element. They are called Arma Magicis. They are made when Shadow and I appears, and we want weapons to the chaos that follows. " Light gets the bow wraps the cloths to his hand, he pulls the string and a white arrow appears. And then he grabs the flail wear the collar to his wrist and it transform into a glowing ball, it pulses energy.

"Our law dictates that the Diwata will own a one weapon for his entire life. The punishment for owning a two weapon is being banned for using it forever." Light grabs a bowl with a fold papers in it.

"I will give each one of you a weapon, now I don't want an argument so the paper you get on this bowl is your weapon, get one and open it." He gives us the bowl and we get one each. I'm the last one to get a paper, and it says ' The Handle'. Aw man, I want the magnum one.

Every one of us grabs our weapon, but nothing happen. We ask Light about it, he says that we have to train first before we can use it properly. Matt got the flail, Takeshi got the magnum and Rolando got the bow.

"Every 4 am in the morning—"

"What! 4 am! It is practically midnight for fudge sakes! We can do it every night." I interrupt Light, he is insane if he thinks that I will wake up at the crack of dawn. There's no way it is happening.

"You guys know that the morning wake-up call is 8 am, and you will start to work at 9. And the night is the sanctuary of the fallen; do you want them to see you train?" Light glares at me. Alright, fine but I don't like it.

"Now what am I saying before Kelvin interrupts me? Oh right, every 4 am we start your training to hone your weapon handling skills. We meet outside of the Institute, in the clear path at the further south outside of the rice field. . Every Arma Magicis power conforms to its master, so if you are powerful so are your weapon. We will train your handling skills as well as your elemental power." And Light dismissed the meeting; I followed Light outside so I can talk to him.

"Light wait, do you have a minute, there's something I need to discuss with you." Oh this is it, I going to meet my doom, by the name of Light.

As it turns out, I can't say it to him. I'm afraid to die of course. But I told him about the awakening personality of my element. Light said that it is not a personality but an instinct of a diwata if he met his Iroga. He looks at me accusingly and asks if I met my Iroga, and I chickened out and said no. I settled to sing nursery rhymes so he can't read my mid. I told him that the feelings just come and go. So Light concluded that my Iroga is in here and I need to be alert for me to find him.

He congratulates me though, because not every Diwata finds his Iroga. In the history of The Four Child, not all of them found their Better half. There is a certain occurrence that three out of the Four Child find their Iroga. This only happens once, a long time ago and never happens again. It is likely to be one or two of them who found their Iroga. And I am the lucky one, yay! No.

This is a disaster; if Light finds out that I nearly sabotage our mission by acting on my own he is going to kill me. But I need their help to get Eric cured. I don't want to live a miserable life when my Iroga is afraid of me being a guy. But I don't have the courage to tell them, I know they will help me, but I don't want them to be disappointed to me if the outcome is not good. I want to be heartbroken alone.

And I told Light about my concerns on the mission. About the one being possess is a fallen. Light said that it is a possibility but for the brujas only. Because when the Diwatas became fallen only the brujas retain the human like form. The aswangs now have wings, the lobos has a dog like ears and the danags have this pale translucent skin. The only thing that will indicate our suspect is a bruja is we have to find a cauldron that the witch always brings. I never told him about my one suspicion about Shadow knows about my Iroga because he will ask question about him, and I don't want that.

4 am in the morning, I'm still sleepy. Heck my eyes can't stay open for 5 seconds. We are at the training grounds provided by Dr. Caday. Apparently it is a wasteland, because the soil is dead and plants will never grow here. Dr. Caday planted a barbed wire fence with a No Trespassing sign so people don't come here, even if their hear explosion. We brought our designated weapon with us, the three of them are excited to try their weapon but I'm still yawning.

I splash of water came at my face. Takeshi! I glared at him but he only smirks at me. That guy... I summon my fire that envelope my hands, I form a fireball to throw at him. He also summons water and spray it in my hands, but the water evaporated leaving my fire ball in my hand. Oh I'm stronger than that, bring it on. I just raise smile at him evilly, he smirks at me too and he start to summon his water. Our stances are on preparing to shift to a Diwata when Light intervenes.

"Will the two of you stop acting like a fool? Release your element so we can start!" We release are element and our training begins.

I grab my Arma from my bag, it is lightweight and easy to handle. Light ask me that I wear the wrist attachment to myself, and concentrate to my element. I notice that we just don't hold the Arma Magicis, it needs to be attached to the owner's body. The weapon must have a connection to its owner. And then we ask to concentrate our element into the weapon. First nothing happen, it strains me to command my fire to flow into the handle. My forehead started to sweats and my arm started to feel numb, then all of a sudden a fire erupts from the handle but it was gone before I remarked on it. When I look for Light my vision starts to spin and my knees tremble that I started to fall. When I saw others they have the same problem as me. We are struggling to breath and our body is shaking with exhaustion. What the heck happen?

"It will always happen to the beginners. Your element is not accustomed to flow into an object, so it always hard for you to concentrate. But when you did, the element immediately coil inside you that your body experience a shock that can kill normal humans. Our training for today is for you to control your element inside of an Arma Magicis, we can't start your weapon handling without this. For a normal diwata, it will take a year to do it but a decade to master it. But for you guys, I give you a month or two." Then Light shows us his own Arma, a magnum. He asks Matt to summon a big stone for him. After Matt creates a stone that's bigger than me, Light aims and shoots it. The light that comes out of the magnum impacts into the stone, the light stays into the stone and started to swirl consuming the stone until small gravels are left. It doesn't explode but implodes.

"Did you see the tube in my magnum, and how my element flows into it?"

"No, we are blinded of the awesomeness of your weapon, wow!" Rolando said to Light, his face betrayed his awestruck for him.

"Is my magnum going to be strong like that?" Takeshi asks looking to his magnum with new respect. Dang it, I want that magnum.

"No it is not going to be like that, every Arma conforms into his master's elemental power and strength. Your magnum will be different from mine." Light explains to us more the complexity of our weapon as we rest to the shock we endure. We spent the entire four hours listening to Light about elements, energy and the weapon. Our body still tired from the shock but we need to start the day as a normal human or people will become suspicious.

We train every day, 4 o'clock in the morning. Our energy always depleted from training. Four hours of hard training for two weeks and our element still doesn't improve. But Light still pushes us into the limit and gradually our element flow safely inside our Arma without recoiling inside us. This is happen for a month before we realize that our element can now flow freely from the Armas. But we still can't properly use it; it is still useless for us.