Chapter 8
Silver Hale
Is this really happening? I thought to myself as I lay on my bed relaxing before going to bed. It has been 2 day since Coach had told me that I was an Aeros and explained all the things that had been happening and why I had seen that weird creature. And that night of the day he told me he came into my dream to train and help me hone in on my skills. My ability was to be able to sing a melody and have it do damage to the person sung to. The 3 melodies I came up with on instinct were “Melody of dominance”, which put a spell over a person and allowed me to control their every move, “Melody of awareness”, which took away a persons vision and hearing temporarily, and “Melody of shift” Which allowed me to change into any animal I could think of, real or not.
Coach also taught me the basics of a katana and a bow and arrow. Personally I was better at the bow and arrow. Tonight we were going to go over everything once more before we had to leave for the Nivanna Friday night.
I had decided to make up the excuse that I was going on a college road trip with my friends for the whole summer. I was a little disappointed that my plan to take custody was postponed but I had planned on having my siblings go to our grandmother’s until I got back. I didn’t want to take the risk of leaving them with our father. As I was thinking of all these things I slowly dozed off.
When I awoke I was in my dream training ground. Coach Jackson was sitting off to the side hunched over reading something. He was in his spirit form which I had come to know well. His Nive’s name was Kimwaw Taibel and he was about maybe an inch taller than he normally was and he had on a tight red shirt with black, metal shoulder pads on over it. On his legs he had loose black, silk pants with a white silk belt. He also had a white leather sheathe hanging loosely on his waist. His hair was black with one white highlight which he had pulled back in a pony tail with the white part braided. His face was always sophisticated looking with high cheekbones and narrow eyes the color of sand. His ears were elfish looking with 3 gold earrings, two on the bottom and one on top.
“Have you been here long Coach?” I asked him as I walked over to where he was and sat down across from him.
“No, not really…I was just kind of browsing the library of Nivanna for books on you singing abilities. But so far I have only found one but that has a couple melodies you can use on stronger opponents.” He said handing me the book. I leafed through the pages and saw several new melody names, some for attacks, some for controlling time, and others for controlling the elements like earth, fire, air, and water.
“Wow…Coach, thanks…” I said still looking through the book. I got up and walked a little bit away from Coach. I found what I was looking for and sung the sweet melody. His hand stopped still above the book he was holding. I walked over and looked at my now frozen in time coach. I set the book down and grabbed Coaches torso and picked him up and then set his frozen body upside down on his head still sitting cross legged with the book. I then walked back to where I was with the book in my hands. I sung the rest of the melody which unfroze time. I then watched as coach collapsed on his head now in a very odd looking position. I doubled over laughing.
“Haha, very funny.” He said sarcastically. He bent over and grabbed his book. He held it up on his hand kind of like a tray of food. It then rose up above his hand and started spinning very fast. He took a few fast steps forward and then launched the book at my head. I ducked right at the last second and it narrowly missed me. I then ran over to where I had placed my bow and quiver. I quickly pulled them on and poised an arrow. By that time Coach had already gotten another book ready. I pulled back on the bow string and got ready to strike. He then threw the book and I ducked and released the arrow it also just narrowly missed his head.
“You’re getting good Hale.” He said making another book appear with a snap of his fingers. “But are you good enough?” He launched another book then another and another. Each I dodged just barely but he didn’t leave enough time between each launch for me to get a clear shot. I know what to do I thought to myself. As I continued dodging his books I hummed the time freezing melody under my breath. When time stopped I walked over to Coach and took of his silk belt and positioned him in a hog tie position. I then tied his wrists and ankles together. I backed away and the finished humming the melody.
He wasn’t exactly expecting to be tied up so his weight was unbalanced and his face hit the ground with a loud thud. He turned his face to the side and said, “Good job. For now, but don’t expect that move to be your only because some Nives are immune to it because of how high their Uri level is. Now could you untie me, it may not seem it but this position isn’t very comfortable.”
“Are you going to throw more flying books of doom at me?” I said squatting down by his head.
“No.” he replied.
“Ok.” I said as I untied him. He then let his arms and legs flop onto the ground. He stood up and then walked over to collect all the books he had thrown at me.
