Where the hell are you

John flew for a few meters in the air and dropped to the ground, he fainted straight away, the other kids stared at the scene with shock, wasn't john William's friend. William picked up his shield that he threw at John and walked towards the weapon rack without any hint of emotion on his face, when he arrived at the huge weapon rack he kept his shield and unwrapped the piece of cloth he tied from his elbow down to his hands, he also drops his short sword where short swords were kept. When he was done disarming himself, he moved straight to his room, opens the door and walked in, William jumped straight to his bed and closed slowly exhaled as he closed his eyes.

Some minutes later, Derek and Asher walked in, they both went to their beds and silence reigned for awhile before William asked,"do any of you have anything to say?'.

Derek slowly opened his eyes and said firmly,"he deserved it, his recent stupid behavior has gotten out of control; always looking for a fight with other kids, complaining way more than usual and I don't get the reason he always fights with Ulrich, when he knows he can't beat him!, Causing a scene everywhere".

Asher who laid with his face down turned and said,"without Alex and Ariana to control him, he gets stupid so giving him a warning was good enough".

William exhaled in relief, although he behaved like he didn't care he doesn't want Derek and Asher to see him as the enemy in John's situation. Derek glanced at William and sighed, since Alex left they became less communicative with each other, so to change the quiet atmosphere he brought out a topic that they previously talked about back when Alex was around.

"You two laughed at me when I said I would marry a fairy, so what do you think now professor Silas clearly said the fairies exists and they are a powerful race, their beauty is even higher than I thought", Derek said while changing his posture to sitting on his bedside.

"I still don't think you can marry a fairy, if they are that beautiful why would they choose you when their men are more handsome", Asher scowled at Derek's unchanged dreams.

"What do you mean, I am handsome!", Derek yelled.

"Don't tell me handsome Derek tell the faries, oh that's right they're not here, maybe they're extinct, professor Silas was speaking about the past, they may have all died", Asher sneered.

Derek had forgotten the reason he started the conversation in the first place, he took his pillow and flung it at Asher who was still rambling when the pillow suddenly hits his face.

"How dare you speak such words about my beloved fairies!", Derek yelled with red eyes, he came down from his bed and rushed to the table, he took a cup filled with water and poured it at Asher who just removed the pillow that covered his sight, SPLASH!.

William's face was fully red and his eyes bulged and he was struggling to hold it in, but when Asher glanced at him with disbelief in his eyes and his wet clothes, William couldn't hold it anymore and burst into laughter, Asher deserved it for rambling without control.

••••

"SHIELD!!", The loud voice of the commander rang in the kid's ears while they brought their shields to their chins, some kids had already fainted since the commander was extra mean today, the kids had stood for twice as long as they did yesterday.

"MAINTAIN YOUR BALANCE!!..... STEADY YOUR SHIELD ARMS!!".

The kids did as they were instructed, but a few minutes later some kids couldn't keep up and fell to the ground panting, they couldn't even move their limbs.

"I can't believe after all the stamina training these kids did, this is all they could show for it". The commander said with a frown, he forgot that he was the one who made the kids training much harder.

"SPEARS!!".

The remaining kids lowered their shields and placed their Spears on it. Maintaining their stance they marched forwards slowly.

"Increase the weight of their clothes", the commander said as the rune at his ear lit up.

The runes on the kid's clothes glowed brightly and subsided after awhile but the kid's weight had increased, the added obstacle brought 400 kids to the ground, with how exhausted they were getting up was a problem.

Seated at a close distance watching the torture the other kids were going through, Asher whispered to Derek.

"This is the first time I'm so happy that I did not awaken my phantom". He shuddered when he imagined himself training with the other kids, the path of Spartan warriors was much harder than he thought.

"If this is the training to be a Spartan warrior then how would the training for blood knights be?!", Derek questioned no one in particular, he knew that Asher couldn't answer but he had to voice this question. Ashers eyes widened, 'If the Spartan training was this hard then what about the blood knights'. Asher and Derek were not with their fellow kids because they were different, Derek his rare phantom and Asher his elemental Force rune.

William persisted with clenched jaws, sweat dripped from his soaked body but he kept on moving forward, he glanced at commander who was staring them with disappointment. He screamed and pushed his body beyond his limits but the weight kept draining his stamina at a rapid pace, after awhile William couldn't keep up and fell on his knees, he raised his head and saw the commander's dissatisfied gaze, William really hated that look and vowed to change the commander's gaze.

2 YEARS LATER

One thousand two hundred kids trained with their weapons, their expertise was wondrous for their age, they were all tall for their age with thick black clothes glowing with bright silver light, the training ground was covered in dust and the intensity of the sun was at its peak but the kid's trained like it was nothing worth mentioning. The girls had joined the boys at the beginning of the year and the boy almost every girl admired was the handsome Asher, Asher's feminine face was indeed a trap for the ladies, he was famous among the ladies of all young camps

During this two years Derek had the most shocking change, as his powers grew so did his attitude he change from his usual noisy and arguing character to a quiet and cold boy, he still talks to his friends but they had noticed his change, but the best part was that Derek's was almost breaching the 2nd stage, his control was outstanding and the commander continuously praised him. The group expected Asher to be the one with such change mostly because of his elemental Force rune but that never happened, Asher unlike the the rest elemental Force users they knew about did not have any change in his attitude, he was still a rambling nightmare as before. The group wished Alex's possible arrival would bring Derek back to his usual character, since his disappearance is the main reason for his change, as they thought.

Ariana has returned and her beauty was something else for the four boys including Derek, everything almost went back to normal with John regaining his job as Ariana's trusty protector as he calls it, but a piece was still missing and even after 4 years it could not be filled. Once again William faced the beautiful blue sky and thought,'where the hell are you Alex'.