A tall stick thin lady walked up to me, she's wearing a team jersey that has a baby atkinji on it. That team is meant for some of the younger fighters from ages five to eight, she must be their coach or maybe one of the mothers.

"So you must be the new fighters," she says, looking at my brothers acting like children watching a superhero movie. "I'm Ioah S… ," she cuts herself off, "I train the baby atkinji."

"Nice to meet you, I'm Troy," Troy says, getting up to shake her hand. "That's Des and the girl is Lexus."

"Yes I already know, your parents told us everything," Ioah says watching as Des gets up. "I will be seeing your strengths and you guys will be placed according to your skill level."

"What would you like us to do first?" I ask, watching some guys practice s.h.i.+tō-ryū.

"So your powers are death, fire and cold," Ioah said, "So you will be fighting people who have the exact opposite of that."

"What about us?" Des asks, smacking Troy on the back.

"Seeing as you both require each other," Ioah turns to them, "We will put you guys up against other people who can use each other and just tell them to not use their individual powers."

She gestures for someone to come over to us, "This is Hunter, he uses life, water and heat magic." He is tall, very tall, about two feet taller than me tall, his hair is brown, short on the sides like a fade and the top is combed over to one side. He looks about a year older than me, his eyes have a red border with black filling it in. He's wearing an elder Sholo jacket, that's one of the top teams in my age group fifteen- eighteen. I think I'm in love. What am I thinking? I just met him!

"Sup," he nods at me.

"H- h- hi," I studer, I'm so d.a.m.n pathetic. Des and Troy are probably already thinking of ways to embarra.s.s me afterwards.

"Alright, you two go into the containment training chamber," Ioah says pointing to one of the doors that are leading down a hallway. "Since we can't have the place burning down, even though we can just use our powers to extinguish it but still."

We start walking towards one of the rooms and I look back and see Des and Troy whispering to each other.

"Name?" Hunter asks, locking the door behind him.

"Lexus Deathchill," I answer, his eyes go bold.

Out of nowhere he traps me in a water prison lock, and starts making it warm, almost hot. Boiling hot. There are less and less air bubbles every second, I have to get out before I drown. Why is he trying to kill me?

I start cooling down the water until I'm almost frozen inside, I set myself on fire, I send my fire everywhere until the water completely sublimates. I don't care if I hurt him anymore, how dare he try to kill me, I combine my fire and death powers into a shooting stream and aim straight for him. Before the stream touches him he sends out a combination of his life and water powers at me, the streams look like the Moira's ultimate from Overwatch just different colours. Now it's a test of magical strength, and I'm too mad to lose.

My fire has already evaporated his water and his water has already extinguished my fire, now it's just a stream of life and death. An orb generates where the streams collide, it is bright, it resembles my brothers' powers, yin yang, we are making life, we are making balance. My current is falling behind, I'm getting too calm, angry, angry, I need to be mad, I'm not strong enough to defeat him when I'm calm.

He smiles and enhances his stream, he can defeat me any second now, he's most likely going easy on me. No I can't doubt myself, I will destroy him, I will increase the death until life is no more.

My stream goes further and further until it's right in front of his face, he's wincing from the pain of it just being near him. It touches his skin and the stream of life is no more, he's screaming in agony, he's kneeling on the ground and his hands are formed like a claw on his head. I walk towards him, drastically lightening up on the power but I'm still hitting him with it.

Ioah is banging on the door, she blasts it open, "Stop, stop, stop!"

I stop, but Hunter is still in pain, Ioah runs towards him to help him up, his legs aren't working. Des and Troy are outside the door watching in fear at what I just did, oh my G.o.d, what did I do? Did I go too far? He was most likely just checking my reaction time, why didn't I pick up on that sooner?

"What did you do?" Ioah yells at me. I don't know what I did, but I never want to do it again.

"I- I don't k- know," I studer, tears starting to pour down my face.

"Come on, Lexus, let's get you out of here," Troy says, pulling me up.

I'm frozen in fear as Des and Troy drag me away, I see Hunter raise his hand at me and try to yell stop but he's in too much pain to do so, he just makes a high pitched squeak. I pull myself free from Des and Troy and sit on the ground, I watch him try to talk.

"Troy, let's try to help him," Des says nudging Troy. Troy nods and they walk over to him.

Ioah backs away from them and they tower above Hunter who's too weak to be able to even look up at them. Des steps over to the opposite side of Troy and they start to circle around him, going faster and faster until they're bodies change into a rotating yin yang. This isn't Destroy, not yet I don't think. What are they doing? Are they giving him a boost? Or are they maybe healing him, transferring power, what?

They start to slow down their bodies turning back to normal, eventually they've reached a complete stop. Dust is expanding around them, where did the dust even come from? This building's way too clean to have dust anywhere near it. Des and Troy open their eyes, they're yin yangs, Des's are yin and Troys are yang. They both look up and a slightly transparent yin yang appears, this must be one of the powers of Destroy. So cool! They slowly start lowering their heads to look at Hunter and the yin yang follows. Slowly lowering itself into Hunter, it looks so magical, like they're reviving him. Everything starts to glow around us, everything feels more relaxed, I feel as light as a feather. The mix of temperatures is now a perfect mix, all of the tension in the area feels absolutely diminished. A calm breeze is blowing through my hair, it almost feels like I'm on the beach, or maybe even flying just without the risk of death.

Everything flies like a gust of wind during a Canadian winter into Hunter, the temperature of the room is back to being separate, back to being sickening. Although all of the tension is still gone, it's most likely temporary though. Destroy both close their eyes, and collapse, I run up to them, Ioah is frozen in shock.

"Are you guys okay?" I ask as I kneel beside them.

Troy slowly opens his eyes, smiles and says, "I guess that Des and I need to work on not collapsing after that move."

"What did you guys do?" I ask switching my eyes from person to person. Ioah still hasn't moved.

Hunters eyes open, they're a yin yang for a split second then they fade back to normal, "They gave me back my life power."

"W- w- w- w- w- wait did I get rid of your life power entirely?" I ask as he starts to reenergize Des and Troy.

"Hey, Ioah, I think that Lexus here is perfect for the Elder Sholos," Hunter says, completely ignoring both me and her being frozen.

"O- okay, I'll let the trainer know," Ioah studers and leaves the room.

"Congrats, Lexus, I think we'll make an amazing team," Hunter says as he watches Des and Troy get up like they have a hangover. "Try to learn some healing magic, and let's have you train Kyokus.h.i.+n for more non magic combat. Welcome to the team partner."

"Congratulations, Lexus," Troy says with a tired voice.

"What about your guys' fight?" I ask, Des is doing push-ups for some reason.

"We were just waiting for them to finish their practice," Des says as he goes into a handstand and starts doing push-ups like that. What's wrong with him? That's Des for sure. "Then all this happened, we should start the fight soon."

"What powers do the people you will be fighting have?" I ask as Des starts doing sit ups, what the h.e.l.l? Why is he still working out? He should be resting!

"We don't know yet," Troy says as he throws Des over his shoulder.

"Let's get back to training," Hunter says and pours some water on my head. "And I have no doubt that you'll be allowed to join the Elder Sholos."

Des and Troy both leave to a different room and Hunter locks the door once again, "What should we call our combined streams?"

"What?" I ask is he talking about the yin yang?

"When we were fighting and our powers collided," Hunter explained.

"How about the Balance Stream?" I suggest.

"That's one idea, let's think of more as we practice," Hunter says, getting into a combat position. "Let's try it again."

"Okay," I say, sending a pure black stream of death out of my hands. I make sure to let him go first so I don't end up killing him.

Since I'm not as mad anymore my attack isn't as effective, so his life attack is more powerful. The Yin Yang still shows up but it's closer to me now, I can feel its power, it feels… Overwhelming. It hurts but it also doesn't at the same time, I want to be covered in but I also want it nowhere near me.

"You let yourself be controlled by your anger," Hunter said lighting up on the attack.

How dare he go easy on me! "Don't make a.s.sumptions!" I yelled, strengthening my attack. "Okay, so what if I do?"

"It's not always reliable," Hunter shrugged, evening out my attack.

I guess he's right, but he is still going easy on me, "How do you expect me to change?"

"How about meditation?" Hunter suggested.

"Not my thing," I shrugg back, "I prefer fighting my anger out."

"Looks like we need to get you a duopo," Hunter suggested, a duopo is a mini smoke bomb that when thrown summons a human punching bag. It's meant for people to take their anger out on them or even to train with. People are actually hired to be punching bags, they get paid just above minimum wage and the death rate is very high. I have no clue why so many people even want that job but there sure is a lot of it.

The beauty of the yin yang is growing dim, "What's happening?" I ask.

"Our magic power is decreasing quickly, the yin yang is fading," Hunter explained. "It's best if we take a little break, are you hungry?"

"I could eat," I say, stopping my stream so he can stop him.

"I sure hope you can, I would be amazed if you lived this long and you couldn't," Hunter laughed as he unlocked the door.

"Hahaha very funny," I say sarcastically. "What are we going to eat?"

"How about some pizza, or do you want something healthy?" Hunter suggested as we headed for the door.

"Whatever you want," I say as we leave.

"Ice cream?" Hunter asks.

"Yes," I say as I stop in my tracks.

"Haha okay," Hunter laughs. His laugh is so calming, his smile is so warm.

We go to a nice little cafe that yells a wide range of different things, like bubble tea, hot fudge brownies with ice cream, scones, tea, hot chocolate, the list goes on and on. It's kind of like Meetup but a little smaller.

"This is where my parents and I work," Hunter mentions as he holds the door open for me.

"Do you ever go to school?" I ask, taking everything in. The cafe smells like espresso, the sun is setting, it adds a nice addition to the warm feeling.

"Five generations of my family were banned from every magical school ever," Hunter exclaims. A woman behind the counter notices us walk in and around the counter to give him a nice long hug. She is very beautiful, she does have some wrinkles but they only enhance her beauty, you can tell that she has spent her life smiling, I feel happier just by looking at her. It's always nice to see a mother and son have a nice relations.h.i.+p, a.s.suming she's his mother.

They stop hugging and look over at me, Hunter signals me to come over.

"Hey," I say in a very low voice.

"Hunter is this your girlfriend?" She says in a mocking voice.

"No she's just the newest member of the team," He rolls his eyes. "We're just taking a little break."

The woman takes my hands and starts to shake them, "Nice to meet you, my name is Quinlan Lifeburn and I am his mother. What's your name?"

"Nice to meet you, my name is Lexus Deathchill," I say, she is still shaking my hands, Hunter is clearly trying not to laugh.

"If you don't mind me asking," Quinlan says, putting her hands on her hips. "What are your powers?"

"Death, fire and cold," I explain.

She lets out a giggle, "So you two are exact opposites?"

"Yeah, but we get along pretty well," Hunter cuts in. "Mom can you get us the English set-up with a side of a hot fudge brownie with cookies and cream ice cream and peanut b.u.t.ter sauce?"

"Right away," Quinlan rushes into the kitchen.

"Where would you like to sit?" Hunter gestures to the whole cafe. I can't decide where to sit, I can sit at the front counter, by the window, in a little booth, in some bean bags, there's so many choices!

"How about in the high-chairs by the windows?" I ask pointing to the entrance of the cafe.

"Okay," Hunter says as we walk to our seats.

It pretty much looks nice now, the stars look especially close. "Hunter, what's the English set-up?" I ask. He's staring at the stars, I love the far away look in his eye.

"Four different types of tea, and a stand with the first layer being sandwiches, the second being scones and the top will be sweets like cookies, and some spreads go along with it as well," Hunter explains, I love the way he smiles at me.

"Of course it is," I say as I look at the other people here, some cuddling up on beanbags, sharing a milkshake at the front counter, sharing a Sunday in one of the booths, and others holding each others hands as they stare at the stars. Wait a second, is this a date? Aren't things moving just a bit too fast? We just met, no way it's a date! I hardly know him! Oh my G.o.d is the brownie going to be one that we have to share? I hope not!

"What kinds of tea?" I ask.

"Green, black, white and milk tea," he answers.

"Hey, uh, earlier you said that your family isn't allowed to go to magic highschools," I can see that he's getting a little bored but he still smiles for me. "Why is that?"

"It's because he is a non magic user that somehow found a way into a magic highschool and accidentally killed thousands of students," Hunter explains with a straight face. Well at least he didn't smile during that.

"How did your parents meet?" I ask, now I have millions of questions. How did he get into the high school? How did he kill all of those people? When was this? Where is he now?

"She met him at a non magic school," Hunter started. Sounds like I'm about to be told their entire life story. "One day she was acting a little off and my father got worried about her. He offered to walk her home and since she couldn't let him know her secret she immediately said no of course making him even more worried. So he followed her back, then he broke into the school. He ended up losing sight of her and found himself in a chemistry lab, he b.u.mped into some stuff and caused an explosion. As some kids were teleporting the explosion went with them and ended up killing everyone. My mother was the only survivor, and tried her best to hide him from his death, but he was still caught in the end. Anyways something happened and he's been allowed to stay around ever since, just no magical education for a few generations." I was correct, although it seems that he has done a long story short. I have even more questions now, but I think it would be better to not talk about his father, just in case.

Quinlan brings us our order, there's the English set-up and one giant fudge brownie, oh no are supposed to share this?

"I will bring you guys the rest of your orders," Quinlan says with a cherpy little smile.

"That's really big," I say, wide eyed.

"That's what she said," everyone in the room said in unison. Hunter quietly laughs.

"So any new ideas on the power?" Hunter asks as he b.u.t.ters a scone.

"Nothing here, you?" I ask, grabbing a m.u.f.fin. Quinlan exits the back kitchen with some tea and a second plate of giant brownie, good we're not sharing.

"Nope," Hunter responds.

"Here is the rest of your order, if you need anything just scream," Quinlan says jokingly. I really want to scream right now just to see what happens.

"Thank you very much," I nod as she puts the plate in front of me. How do I not have diabetes, I eat like this all the time.

"What kind of people do you think you work well with?" Hunter asks me as he pours us some green tea.

"I wouldn't really know," I say, inhaling my m.u.f.fin. "I pretty much spend all of my time with the same people."

"Well as you most likely know, there's fifteen people per team in highschools," Hunter starts, "Well in the teams outside of school the amount goes up by age range."

"So what's the amount for about age range?" I ask, pretty much absorbing my brownie and ice cream.

"Sixteen," Hunter answers, "And everyone has partners that train together on their own time and then we all come together for the team."

"So I'm guessing that I'm your partner?" I ask, sc.r.a.ping my plate clean.

"I was asked to come here because I'm your exact opposite and I also needed a new partner," Hunter says, staring out the window. Now I'm certain that this is not a date.

"What happened to your last partner?" I ask, downing my tea. I forgot the honey.

"Can we change the subject?" Hunter asked, pouring us some milk tea this time. I never had this kind of tea before. What kind of sweeteners do I use? Do I even need to use sweeteners? I'll just copy what he does.

"Sure," I smile, watching every single movement that he made.

He pours the tea and goes straight to drinking his tea, I guess that I don't need to add any sweeteners.

He looks up and notices me staring at him, "Everything okay?"

"Hm? Oh yeah, yeah I'm fine," I quickly grab my tea.

"Okay good you don't add any sugar to your milk tea," Hunter sighs with relief.

It's already sweet enough, "Why would I do that?" I scoff.

"I don't know, I've just seen so many people add sugar to it," Hunter takes a bite of a sandwich.

"What's the team's ranking?" I ask crunching down on a cookie.

"I think like second or first?" Hunter says staring at the ceiling. "Maybe third."

"Nice," I nod.

"Yep," Hunter sips his tea, "Oh yeah, we also have to get you an oru."

An oru is the name for the orb that I got earlier from my school team, "When will I get it?" I ask.

"Either tonight when we head back or tomorrow," Hunter chucks a scone at me.

"Alright cool," I smile and chuck a cookie at him.

Quinlan looks over and yells, "Don't you dare start a food fight, Hunter!"

Hunter laughs, "Yes, mother!"

Just two cupcakes left, we might as well start getting ready to go now. Hunter looks up at me, "Almost ready to go? We can grab some bubble tea on the way out if you want."

"I'm way too full for bubble tea," I groan and slap my stomach, "Let's grab the cupcakes and eat them on our way back."

"Want to grab some stuff for your brothers?" Hunter asks me as he waves down his mother.

"Sure," I shrug, "Grab what you think would be best."

"Alright," Hunter shrugs and heads to the back room with his mother.

I walk around checking out the cafe, there's still two remaining couples one on the bean bags and one at the front counter. They look so cute together, the one on the bean bags look like they're around highschool, the one at the front counter looks like they are in their early twenties. This looks like an amazing place to go to every day, it's so calming. There's a movie on a few of the TVs, and certain speakers are playing the audio for them, others are just playing some form of pop music suggested by the customers.

Hunter walks out of the kitchen with two bubble teas and a box of sweets, "Think this will be enough?"

"You're certainly generous," I laugh.

"Goodluck you two!" Quinlan waves us goodbye.

"Have a goodnight!" I yell back.

"See you later, mom," Hunter says as he holds open the door for me. How kind?

It looks like it rained a little bit, it adds a nice fantasy feeling to the area, the moon is in it's waxing gibbous phase. It's so bright and beautiful, Messier 31 is looking so much more s.h.i.+nier today.

"Nice tonight, isn't it?" Hunter asks me.

"It really is," I look around.

"Let's hurry back to the gym," Hunter speeds up.

"Alright," I match his speed.

We're back at the gym, it looks like Des and Troy are almost done with their fight. I can tell this because everyone else here is looking through an opening into their room.

"Looks like they made an impression on everyone," Hunter laughs as we head to the room.

Right when we get to the group the door opens, Des and Troy are carrying the other two people out. One's a girl that looks around my age and a boy that looks around Des and Troy's age. The guy is staring at the girl, making sure that she's alright and the girl is completely unconscious, completely limp. I hope she's alive.

"Hey Des and Troy, we grabbed some stuff for you," Hunter says so casually. "So what happened here?"

Troy stops, "Destroy."

"Is she alive?" I ask, not a single thing is casual in my voice.

"She should be fine," Des says as he grabs a donut. "Some rest and she'll be even stronger tomorrow."

"What? What's that supposed to mean?" I ask.

"It's about time you guys are back!" Ioah yelled at the sight of us. "Where did you guys go?"

"We just went and grabbed some snacks," Hunter responded. "Want a donut?"

"Okay," Ioah shrugs. How is everyone being so casual? There is literally an unconscious girl being carried home.

"Des, Troy, we got you guys some bubble teas as well," Hunter says, handing them the bubble teas.

"Sweet thanks, dude" Des s.n.a.t.c.hes the bubble tea.

"Do you have only donuts?" Troy asks as he sips on his bubble tea.

"There are also cupcakes, cookies, m.u.f.fins and brownies," Hunter faces the box towards Troy.

"Thank you very much," Troy thanks Hunter and grabs a cookie.

"So I'm guessing you guys won?" Hunter asks as the two opponents and the people carrying them leave the building.

"How are you all so casual about this?" I yell, watching everyone enjoying themselves.

They all stare at me, holding their bubble teas, donuts and stuff.

Troy laughs and throws me over his shoulder, "Nice, Lexus, let's get you home."

"See you guys tomorrow!" Hunter waves us goodbye. "Have a goodnight!"

"Thank you!" Troy says as we leave the building.

"You too," Des yells at Hunter and bonks me on the head. What the h.e.l.l just happened?