"What can I do to help?" Aella said as she walked over to Tony and Nian.
Tony and Nian were cleaning the table and arranging the silverware and tablecloths. When they heard Aella's voice, they stopped what they were doing and looked at her.
"We're almost done, so we don't really need any help," Nian replied.
Aella looked around and saw the living room and the whole place was sparkling.
"I see," she said as she turned around and started to walk towards the Kitchen. Then she approached Junior.
"Is there anything I can do?"
"Ohh, there's our youngest!". Amari was helping Junior put everything in the fridge and smiled at Aella.
"We're all good over here".
"We're done and Kye's almost done with the food too."
"Go and sit down at the table. Dinner's almost ready," Junior hurried her out of the kitchen.
Almost half an hour later, everything was ready and served, all sorts of dishes and side dishes were on the table, everyone sat down ready to eat. Aella was at the head of the table, her mouth watering at the sight of all the delicacies that were on the table.
"Where should I start? Soft white rice with garlic, crispy fried plantains, roasted chicken, baked pork ribs, creamy pasta!! yum!" Aella looked at every dish except the vegetables.
Instead of starting to eat, they just stared blankly at Aella, who was serving herself a second large plate of food in a very short time. Kye was pleased to see Aella enjoying the food with such gusto.
Although Aella was the only one who seemed to want to eat in such a gloomy atmosphere. The rest of them were worried about something else.
"What are we going to do for tomorrow's meeting?" François asked. "Are we going?"
At this mention, everyone put down their forks and spoons with a collective sigh...
There is an assembly tomorrow where all the classes are going to meet. And none of them had any intention of going.
Amari took a sip of her juice, "The assembly we have tomorrow is to talk about the competition. Didn't they say: Class F doesn't have to go to any competitions? Why do we have to go?"
As Kathleen tried to pick up her fork to continue eating, it fell off the table.
"Yes, we are not allowed to go to any competitions, but for this meeting, the dean made it clear that he wanted all classes, including F class, to be present," she said as she bent down to pick up the fork from the floor. Then she got up and went to the kitchen to wash it.
Immediately, the air in the dining hall became a bit gloomy.
They didn't want to go.
"We're going".
Aella's firm voice interrupted their thoughts.
They looked at Aella without knowing what to say. Most of them didn't want to go, but they just couldn't not go, since the Dean asked all classes to be present tomorrow.
Actually, Kye, Kathleen, Nian, Adam, Adam, Sara, Nara, and Shion were all very calm and didn't seem to care about the meeting ''It's an important meeting.'' The teachers and students from the other academies will be there. So, we have to go,' Kye said firmly.
Besides, Aella has already decided for us, whether you like it or not, she will drag us there,' Nian leaned back in his chair.
Only Yui, Junior, Yun and Francois were scared.
"mmMhhaa" Adam yawned "If it was before, I'd be scared because we didn't have anyone on our side" he laughed "But now.... we have Aella. Why do I have to stand by and let them humiliate me when Aella can literally blow them away. They better be prepared".
Professor Tony had his head down. As their teacher and guardian, he couldn't even help or protect them. He knew they would be the target of everyone tomorrow. Especially since the meeting was going to be broadcast live. That means: The whole world will be watching.
Aella raised her gorgeous face. She looked directly at everyone and said with a firm voice, "So, are we going?"
"Yes," they all replied.
They swallowed excitedly. Despite the cold tone with which Aella spoke, they felt strangely happy because it was the first time that someone was encouraging and helping them.
" One more thing, last term when you awakened your abilities, what were they? The powers you had before they poisoned you all."
"One had the power of summoning, another had the power of nature, one had the ability to become invisible, and finally one who has the ability to communicate with different animals, who are they?" she asked. "I already know that Aisha was the one who had the power to summon, who were the others?"
Everyone exchanged glances, then Shion explained as he scratched his head, "Ahh the good old days!!." he tried to remember.
"Well yes, Aisha could summon any beast, I could control all kinds of plants, flowers and roots, although Amari wasn't with us at the time, but we were friends and we knew that her power was that she could talk to animals, and Junior could become invisible..."
"I see."
"Hm... I understand," Aella was lost in thought for a while.
Aella fixed her eyes on each of them and looked at their core essence. First she looked at Kye's, he has two small blue lights inside, one near his heart and one on his lower abdomen, next was Nian who also has the same small lights but his two lights were transparent, then she turned her gaze to Kathlyn, her two lights were of a violet color and one was on her chest while the other one was on her head. She looked at the others one by one, Aisha, Shion, Francois, Adam, Yun, Yui, Junior, Sara and Nara and Amari.
"Wow, look at that. You guys aren't as useless as people say."
"What do you mean?" asked Tony.
They have two core essences within them. These two cores are the sources of their powers and abilities, although they are not yet activated. But the point is that one of the two cores represents a special ability totally unrelated to the power of the elements, while the other represents the power of the element itself.
For example, looking at Yui's. She has two shiny grey core essences, one representing an ability and the other representing her elemental power, which must be the metal element because of its colour, even though they are still inactive and filled with poison, but with training she will be able to master the metal element. The same with Amari, she has the ability to communicate with magical beasts, but she still has her second power. ...which is the power of one of the elements,' Aella said, staring through their cores.
BANG!' something fell to the ground, everyone rushed to Aella in disbelief.
"Are you serious? Do we really have two powers within us?"
"You're not lying, are you?"
"How do you know?".
One by one they bombarded Aella with questions. They were amazed, delighted and excited.
"Is what you're saying true?" asked Kye, trying to calm his emotions. He refused to have any false hopes, but at the same time he couldn't resist wishing that what Aella had said was true.
And when he heard Aella say 'true' he stared blankly at F's.
"So does this mean that we'll be able to kick everyone's asses in the future..." Yun let out an evil laugh.
Nian sat back in his chair in disbelief, "I can't believe it!" he said in amazement, even though he is the quietest and calmest of the group, you could also see a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"In fact, you all have an amount of mana that exceeds the normal limits of humans, and it circulates through all the circuits of your body, so it is to be expected that you have more than one ability," Aella explained before getting up from her chair.
"The only problem is getting the poison out of you. And tomorrow we'll start training you".
Everyone's eyes gleamed with excitement.
"That's why we have to go to the meeting tomorrow".
But... Aella didn't want to go to the meeting herself, as she was too lazy to get up so early, but with the situation the F-Class are going to face. She can't let these people hang around here and do whatever they want. Everyone will start training tomorrow, so she can't let them get distracted by these people.
So the only way to put these people in their place is to show them that they are nothing more than ants who think they are lions in front of a giant.