Chapter Two – Greetings Amelia sat in a seat to one side of the Assembly hall. Her roommate, Molly, had kindly helped her find a seat in the row reserved for the lower sixth, before heading off to join her own year a few rows behind. Amelia was truly […]
Chapter Three – Mud Karissa Brashmoore had never been quite so filthy in all of her sixteen years. She suspected even birth had been cleaner than she was right now. Despite the class having lined up with lightning speed after Coach M’s threat, she’d still caused a torrential downpour […]
Chapter Four – Pain Ash and Derek lay on their beds, each trying not to move. Despite being just as filthy after their second PE class, neither boy made any move to get up and shower off the filth. They both hurt far too much to move. “I think […]
Chapter Five – Battles Ash really hated Mondays. His first battle, of all the luck, had been against a wind manipulator and as soon as the battle started Ash had found himself blasted into the wall behind him. He thought about using his power, but he didn’t know what […]
Chapter Six – Surrender There was no one in the combat cell when Emma entered the room. A quick glance showed her that the room was as empty as it had appeared on the screens in the waiting room. With any luck she wouldn’t have to head back there […]
Chapter Seven – Blind Bethany Parks watched as the remaining fights from the second round concluded. She was mildly impressed by some of the fights she saw on the screens. In her mind she ran through the strategies she could use to disable, defeat and even kill the fighters […]
Chapter Eight – Rankings Once again Ash was late arriving at the girl’s assembly hall, although this time he was only off by a few seconds and, luckily for him, the coaches hadn’t yet begun their speech. As quickly and quietly as he could, Ash slipped into one of […]
Clarification and Rankings Hi, So thanks to the wonderful corrections and questions of some of you guys I’ve realised that I really needed to clarify things a bit more. In case you haven’t already, go read my foreword, that should help with some of it and I’ll be updating […]
The jostling impact of the plane’s wheels hitting the tarmac woke Kyoshi. In the seconds before she got control the thoughts, judgments, and trickle of emotions bombarded the young advanced mind from all sides. Mostly, people were irritated. It was a five hour flight from Atlanta to San Francisco and […]
Chapter Nine – Friday It was the night after the ranking matches. In the girls’ common room laughter sounded, most of the dorm had turned out to see how the Lower Sixth matches had gone, both here at St M’s and Brashmoore and up North within the other HCPs. […]