After finishing fixing their stuff, the boys heard a knock at the door. Curious, Kian decided to open the door, "Hello, who is it?" On the other side of the door, there was a delivery boy, "Hello there, I have a few packages for Mr Isaiah, Kian, Jash, and Kian," said the delivery boy with a few boxes on a dolly with their names on them.

  "Oh, thanks you can just leave them here," says Kian, pointing to the center of the room. After the delivery boy leaves, the boys open the boxes, and they see just a few clothes, school supplies, and other items they left at home that their parents had sent them. Suddenly, a message was sent to their aether links.

  It seemed to be a message from the school itself. Once they opened it, they saw it was a schedule for their training at the Academy.

  "So, guys, what do you wanna do?" asked Jash, confusing the others

  "What do you mean by that?" asked Marv with a confused look on his face

  "I mean, we have the rest of the day to do anything, what do you guys wanna do?" answered Jash with a small smile

  "So, do you guys wish to walk around the campus while we have no activities for now?" asked Hope to the others. The others just nodded their heads in agreement.

  After that, they left the dorm room after locking it just in case someone was trying to steal their stuff, but little did the boys know they were being watched from afar by a man in a strange hood and mumbling something. As the boys walked through the hall of the dorms, trying to find the elevator they came up in, they saw a few students, maybe a year older than them, giving out fliers for the school's track team.

  "Hi, are any of you interested in joining the school's track team?" asked one of the students. Hope then took a flyer before saying, "Maybe I'll consider it," with a curious grin on his face. The others were surprised by Hope and started asking why he wanted to join the track team.

  "Track has been something I've been curious about, and since my father told me to try new things despite my mother," answered Hope with a smile on his face. As they walked around, they finally found the elevator and entered.

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  "So, where do you guys want to go?" asked Kian, about to press the buttons for the elevator.

  "Let's go to the courtyard," said Isaiah with a smile on his face. Jash and Hope agreed, but Marv and Marc disagreed with them.

  "Yeah, no, I think we should get something to eat," said Marv, with Marc agreeing with him and saying, "I need sustenance for the rest of the day.

  So to compromise, they decided to split up, with Kian, Marc, and Marv going to the cafeteria. And Isaiah, Jash, and Hope are going to the courtyard between the left Verspilliana tower and the Magic tower. And saying they should meet up at the front courtyard later in the day.

  As the 3 go to the courtyard, they notice that a lot of people are rushing over there. The boys follow them and see two students fighting, one seeming to have lion claws and a scorpion tail, and the other using wind manipulation to throw a gust of condensed air towards the other student. There was a whole crowd watching and cheering them on. Until a tall man with horns came out of the Verspilliana tower. Even though they were still far from the crowd, they could still tell it was Prof Dominic. He transformed himself slightly and yelled at the students, "NO FIGHTING!" scaring all of the students. "NOW FOR YOU TWO GO TO THE SCHOOL DIRECTOR'S OFFICE NOW!" The two students then stopped and were escorted by some of schools medical team to heal them and send them to the office.

  After seeing all of that, the three decided to sit next to a few trees in the courtyard they started to talk about what just happened. Until Jash noticed on the roof of the hallway two hooded figures talking, after he pointed it out to the other two, as they looked closer, they noticed it was the same robes worn by two guys in that alley ways. Then, suddenly, the two figures left so fast they didn't even notice. After that decided to go to the front courtyard to discuss it with the others.

  Meanwhile, the other three in the group walked as fast as they could to the cafeteria because of how hungry they were. After they made it to the cafeteria, they asked for as much food as they could get, and as they were eating the saw two students bullying another because he didn't want to give them his marks. They watched from afar; they said they would only get involved if they actually nearly killed the other boy. Suddenly, a huge gush of water came at the other two. The two bullies, getting angry, shouted, "Who the f@# did that!" Their angry shouts turned into a whimper as soon as they saw it was Prof Jackson who attacked them with just a stern look; they already knew to go to the office.

  After the 3 finished eating, they started to walk to the courtyard, but while walking, they noticed two people in hoods talking in an empty music room, but because of the room being soundproofed, the 3 couldn't hear a thing. Suddenly, they were seen by one of the hooded figures and hid, and when they looked again, they disappeared into thin air. After that scary situation, they decided to run to the front courtyard to talk to the others about what they saw