Chapter 6

*BEEP BEEP BEEP*

I hear my alarm blaring throughout my bedroom. I reach out from under my blanket clicking the off button and sit up rubbing my eyes. My head hurts along with my body. My power really leaves a toll on my body. I stretch out yawning and crawl out of my bed checking the time. Ive got 45 minutes to get ready, just enough time.

I make my way to my bathroom turning on the light and brush my teeth. Today is individual training and Rivera said she would help me learn to control my power. Making the tentacles from different spots was already a lot of work, but Reggie made it seem so easy to make his.

I splash water onto my face and finish freshening myself up before heading into my bedroom. My mother had already done my laundry so I grab my black leather suit from the agency and pull it on. I pull on the black leather boots that come along with it and shove an extra pair of clothes into my backpack. I sigh heavily before making my way down the stairs and to the agency.

By the time I get there, people are already practicing there powers in the middle of the field. I see spots where I had burned the grass away entirely. A girl goes around restoring the grass. I feel a tap on my shoulder and quickly turn around.

"Oh, hey Rivera." I say preparing to wave before remembering she is blind.

"Today im gonna take you to one of our power enhancing rooms, so you wont have to worry about ruining your surroundings or hurting anyone." She says smiling while leading me down some stairs.

She leads me into the basment which is surrounded by enhanced concrete walls.

"This room should be free." She says pressing a heavy metal door open.

"Ill be on the other side of this mirror where I can be put in a simulator so I can see everything your doing while speaking to you." She says while pointing at the mirror then at a chair with a headset near it.

"This room enhances your outre by a lot so be careful." She says before closing the door. I see her walk over to the seat feeling around for it before sitting down and searching for the headset with her hands. She finally finds it and pulls it onto her head.

"Can you hear me?" She says through the headset.

"Yes, I can." I say while searching for where the sound might be originating from but it comes from all around me.

"Your a lot prettier than I was able to imagine." She says smiling.

"Thanks." I say blushing only slightly.

"Lets start out small, can you light a small flame on your fingertip and alternate it between your fingers?" She says. I nod my head and bite my lip while holding out my hand in front of me.

"Just like yesterday. . ." I whisper to myself. I stare straight at my thumb and imagine a small flame appearing. I close my eyes tightly feeling heat rise theough my body and race down to my thumb. A feel a wavering warm sense coming from my finger and open my eyes to see a small flame coming from my thumb. I smile and slowly make the flame hop finger to finger. I feel a sting in my head before the flame entirely dissapears. I grab my head wincing at the pain but it quickly dissapears.

"Great, now I want you to make those fire tentacles like you did yesterday." She says. I nod my head and close my eyes tightly ignoring the pain in my head. I throw three bolts on flame towards the ground but they immedietly disperse. I feel my power growing significantly making the pain grow.

"The same tactic wont work here. You need to imagine the tentacles sprouting from the ground on their own." She says. I bite my lip tightly while holding out both of my hands imagining how an octopuses tentacle waves in the air.

My head begins to ache as I feel my eyes begin to glow as they are forced opened. 3 blue tentacles sprout from the ground immedietly around me and I feel them grow under control as they hit the wall all around me trying to get out.

"You need to control it Hazel!" Rivera says sounding concerned.

"I cant!" I scream as I feel the body heat up as my hearts pace races. Its hotter than yesterday. . . The tentacles bang against the glass window leaving a small crack. I see her jolt from her chair and sit straight up.

"Hazel what is wrong?!" She asks converned.

"It hurts!" I yell clutching my own arms while kneeling down on the ground.

"What hurts??" She says pressing her hand against the mirror.

"It burns. It burns so bad!" I yell trying to stop my flames but they only grow more violent. Rivera flinches back as the tentacles start slamming against the window again.

"Hazel, you cant burn yourself. Just breath!" She says but I cant. I feel like im suffocating with no way out.

"What happened?!" I hear a familiar voice say through the intercom into the room.

"I dont know!" Rivera replies frantic.

"Hey Hazel, listen to me." I hear the voice say gently. I look up to see Azazael, our instructor.

"Feel the fire around you. If you were going to set on fire, it wouldve happened by now." He says while motioning towards the flames that begin fogging up the room. He mutes himself and I can hear him mumbling something to Rivera. She nods her head and races out of the room shortly returning. The room entirely fogs up blurring my vision. I close my eyes tightly and shut everything out.

I feel the flames die around my slightly as the oxygen dissapears until I hear the door open suddenly bringing in a strong gust of freezing air. I feel all the heat leave from around me as I shiver and stand back up. I rub my eyes gently seeing Reggie racing towards me. After that is all dark.

I wake to a cold cloth being pressed against my head. I open my eyes and see a strange woman motioning for other people to approach. I sit up straiht seeing Rivera, Azazael, and Reggie.

"Hazel, how are you feeling?"  Our instructor asks me while waving off the person whom im guessing is a nurse.

"Fine." I reply while pulling off the wet rag that somehow stuck to my forehead as I sat up.

"Its as I thought. Hazel, you have a rarity in your power. Rivera sensed it first on the field and we saw it but we were testing you in the room to make sure." Azazael says.

"Were you trying to have me kill myself?!" I yell frustrated remembering how light headed I felt in the room.

"No no, listen to him." Reggie says only enraging me more.

"Your hormones escalate a situation making your body go into a self protection which is why your power is uncontrollable." His words register slightly and I try to make sense of them.

"Reggie show her." Azazael says. Reggie kneels besides my bed and blinks before opening his eyes showing they changed to a glowing crystal blue. He opens his hand to show a dark rich blue shard of ice circling in the palm of his hand.

"All our bodies are adapted to withstand the our powers at there best overtime. Normally, our powers increase as our capability of witholding them does, but not for both your cases." He goes on. Reggies eyes fade from there crystal blue color to a dull ocean blue.

"Your eyes glowing signifies your body letting out a burst of power. Reggie can control that burst of power and choose how much of it he uses. You on the other hand arent even used to using your power let alone controlling a small portion of it." I nod my head trying to understand everything he is saying.

"Aaand?" I ask getting confused.

"This means I cannot instruct you as I have no clue what your going through." He says plainly.

"Well shit, hows that supposed to help me?" I say while rolling my eyes.

"It wont but Reggie will." He says while patting Reggies back.

"Wont ya?" He says smiling at Reggie. Reggie smiles back before looking to me.

"I dont mind." My eyes widen as I lean forward slightly.

"Did I hear right? Reggie is gonna be the one helping me??" I say in dissatisfaction.

"Awe, no need to gawk over me." He says while fluttering his eyes open and close and waving. I clench my fist and droo it down on his head annoyed. Rivera giggles at his comment.

"I will help assist to the best of my ability." Rivera says smiling.

"Since you are gonna be training with them from now on, you can join there legion. No missions until I give you the okay though." Azazael says. Legion? Reggie recognizes my confusion and begins to explain.

"A legion commonly has two advanced and two beginner trainees who go on rescue missions or in rare cases, join the police in combat." Reggie says smiling.

"Though our team has three advanced and now only one beginner." He adds on.

"So the team is you, Rivera, me, and who?" I ask wondering who the spare person is.

"Her name is Cytra. She can control the wind." He says smiling.

"I dont remember seeing her at combat yesterday though." I say confused.

"Oh, she always skips those. She hits the books instead." He says. Rivera nods her head and all three of them stand up.

"Anyway, you were only out for like 10 minutes. Lets go start our training." Reggie says heading out of the room.

"You guys take it easy." Azazael says before leaving. Rivera pushes her braids off her shoulders before heading out of the room.

"Lets go." She says while looking back at me and smiling. I nod my head and climb out of the bed following her and catching up to Reggie.

"Come on slow pokes." Reggie teases while continuing to lead us to a new room.

"Alright, this is Cytra." Reggie says motioning over to a girl with light skin and blonde hair.

"Hello." She says blatantly without looking up from the multiple books she is studying.

"Hi." I return the same boredom making Reggie clap his hands.

"C'mon! More enthusiasm!" He says while smiling and closing his eyes.

"Oh hey gurl~ I totes love your hair!" She says sarcastically. Cytra, Rivera, and me break out laughing as we notice Reggie pouting. She closes her books after placing a bookmark in them and stands up walking over to us.

"Hmm. Really skinny, no muscle, but flexible." Cytra says while analyzing over my body.

"Uhm, excuse me?" I ask.

"She doesnt mean it to be rude." Reggie says.

"This is the new girl, isnt it?" Cytra says while staring me dead in the eyes. Her eyes pierce through the space between us but it doesnt scare me.

"Geesh, you guys give me the heebie geebies, stop that." He says while trying to push Cytra away from me to assert her gaze.

"Yes its the new girl Hazel, please try not to scare her away like you did the other one." He says while continuing to try and get her to look away from me.

"Im not so easy to scare." I say smiling while crossing my arms.

"You let a dead weight win a combat battle against you Reggie?" She laughs out and I scowl her in response.

"This dead beat can beat you too." I say smirking while raising my head.

"Mhm, sure." Is all she says before returning to her seat and contuing where she left off.

"She wont be much help in your study so lets just find you some books." Reggie says while heading down the aisles.

"I thought we were gonna practice?" I ask while Reggie looks the aisles uo and down.

"The best practice comes from not just combat strategies but knowledge." Rivera says while holding up her finger.

"You are great at combat but it doesnt matter if you dont do your fair share of studying for situations that might not involve combat as well as situations where you cant win by sheer force." She says smiling. My eye twitches at all she just said. These people are gonna make my head explode from all they are giving me at once. Reggie comes back from an aisle with only two books.

"These are the only two books youll be needing. Be lucky im your teacher instead of Azazael, he gives the beginners a stack of books a week." He says while handing me the books.

"Wont I be missing out on some important information?" I ask feeling like this is gonna be a bad idea only reading the two books.

"The other books I didnt give you were combat strategies. Whatever yours are, work perfectly fine and should not be tainted with." He says motioning for me sit down. I open the book to the first page and immediately start reading.

Rivera grabs a book with brail and slowly slides her finger across reading it. Reggie also has a book and silently reads its. The atmosphere is calm and quiet relieving my head which had been hurting for a while now. I take a deep breath and finish reading the two books within the next two hours. By the time I finish, training for the day just ends and we are sent home except for the few who decide to stay back instead.

I pack up my stuff in the locker room not bothering to change and I hadnt really had a workout today. When I walk out of the building, im greeted by a gentle cool breeze and the very warm sun. I take in a breath of the fresh air and relax my body. I thought working for the agency was gonna be a lot worse than it is.

"Hey Hazel!" I hear Reggie yell from behind me ripping me from my calmness.

"What is it now? I wanna go home." I say while rolling my eyes.

"Sorry, but I was wondering if I could come over maybe tomorrow finish our sketches of each other. Im gonna be busy during the week and wont be showing up to school." I sigh and rub the back of my head awkwardly.

"I guess, but if I find out this is just for you to come over, im gonna roast you like a chicken." I say while smiling. He smirks and nods his head.

"Alright, see you later." He says smiling while waving goodbye. Something seems wrong with him. He hasnt seemed as duchy today as he usually is. Eh, whatever it is isnt my problem. I wave goodbye and make my way down the street walking to my house. Oh. . . I didn't check what time he wanted to come over.

I hesitantly look down at my phone and open up his contact. I sigh heavily before pressing call.

"Hello?" He says.

"Hey its Hazel." I reply.

"Oh~ I thought you would never call or text me~" He says. I roll my eyes already knowing what the smirk he is wearing right now looks like.

"What time are you coming?" I ask.

"What about one o'clock? We dont have training tomorrow."

"Yeah sure, that works." I say.

"Alright, goodbye."

"Yeah, goodbye." He replies before I hang up.

When I get home, I inform my mother that Reggie is coming over tomorrow around one. She replies saying she will make us a meal. After, I head up to shower before going straight to sleep.