Everything seemed so peaceful when it happened. I’m not quite sure how to explain it. But it has a sense of serenity and also emotionless. It’s something, neutral. It all happened the during the registration day. That was the day where I met her. The Snow Phoenix.

So I just got out of my parents transportation. My brothers were still playing with their video game devices. Both of them looked very serious. I figured that they might be in an intense battle of some sort. I talked to the youngest one,

“Sphere, what are you guys fighting right now?”

My youngest brother responded, “Don’t you see we’re struggling right now? Now is not the time to be asking question. I need to focus on this. Why don’t you ask Blaze?”

“Is it really that hard to answer a question, Sphere?” the other younger brother talked to Sphere.

“I’m trying my best here!”

So I asked them again, “So…are you guys fighting the same battle or something?”

Blaze responded while his eyes were still glued to the screen, “We’re in a clan war right now. We’re quite busy here, brother.”

“Hey, I’m going to be away for quite a while. Don’t you want to at least spend the day with me?”

Sphere then barged in and said, “Big deal, it’s not like you spend enough time with us in real life.”

That little prick ticks me off sometimes. That impolite little prick is Sphere, Cyclone Sphere. The youngest out of all six siblings including me. I’m the fourth youngest. My big brother and sisters aren’t here right now. They have their own errand somewhere. I’ve known Sphere to be the golden child of the family. Everything he asks, my parents will always deliver. No wonder he has gained some weigh. What ticks me off the most; it got even worse once he got a hang of his ability. He can put out a gateway of any size he wants and there he can grab anything he pleases from a distance. It’s kind of like how The Dimensional Inventory works. This ability is called, Connect. The difference is that he can grab anything from anywhere, not just from the Dimensional Inventory. I hate it whenever he sits on his sofa and uses his ability just to grab the remote control.

So, what's The Dimensional Inventory? It's a magic subscription service where you can have the ability to keep a boatload of items into your very own personalised inventory. This inventory is located in what they call a different dimension. I still don't really know how the company behind The Dimensional Inventory does this but I'm most likely interested to find it out. In any case...

What kind of brother do I have…At the very least, there is a decent little brother over here and his name is Blaze. He’s more bearable for me to withstand. At least I’m a bit closer to him compared to me and Sphere. Although his name is Blaze, his ability is the exact opposite of what he was named after. He can slow down the time of an area using the power of Ice. We simply called it, Slow Motion.

But that’s enough of those two. Once I finished registering myself into the academy, I decided to head to the front gate and talk to my parents who were waiting outside. It was over here where I met this girl. As I was making my way to the front gate, all of a sudden, snow began to fall.

“What in the heavens?”

The snow got heavier as time went on to the point where I couldn’t even see where I was going. Then, it happened. I saw a silhouette of a person standing by a few metres in front of me. I made my way to them to seek help and there they were. The person who stood still was carrying an umbrella. Upon closer inspection, it was a girl. Shorter than me. She then slowly walked toward me. We stopped in front of each other. She was a little shorter than me so she had to look a little bit above to see my face.

She then softly asked me, “What’s your favourite colour?”

A pretty simple question. I don’t really know what was going on. But I simply answered her without thinking much,

“I…don’t know…I don’t really have a favourite colour, you know. Do I know you?”

She nodded. But she didn’t say anything else after that. She kept on looking at me.

“What’s your name again? I might have forgotten people that I have met. Especially if they are only an acquaintance.”

“Zenith. That’s what you called me back then.”

“Zenith?” I was confused. “I haven’t even heard that name before. This is the first time I ever said that name out loud.”

“It’s the name that you gave me, master.”

“Wait. Master?!”

-

And that was how I met Zenith, The Snow Phoenix. Quite a mysterious girl. She’s also happen to be a classmate of mine. I told all of this to Hosuke, an ex-member of the now disbanded Team Stardust by the phone.

“I see.” Hosuke seems to understand the story. “Well I happen to meet her little sister, Astral through an online forum. She wrote down a story about The Snow Phoenix and the story was exactly as we both experienced back then.”

“So you’re saying this girl that I saved is now studying the same thing as I am?”

“Basically.”

“But what’s behind the reason to her calling me, Master?”

Hosuke explained, “Look I’m not quite sure what’s going on. But I asked Blax about this. He looked into it and found out something related to what’s inside of your body.”

“My body?”

“The Infinitum Crystal.”

“Oh you mean the dragon inside of me? Have you guys found out something?”

“I don’t know if this is the same dragon but it has some similar background. This dragon had a guardian of some sort. This dragon guardian was an Ice Dragon. Do you happen to remember about that one Ice Dragon that reincarnated into a phoenix?”

“So you’re saying. That might be inside Zenith?”

“Yes. But I’m not 100% sure. It might be a fake story to hide from the truth. I mean it's an Ice Dragon. Not snow.”

I gave a little thought about it and then remembered something. I told Hosuke about it,

“Hey, you remember that one theory where it says that ‘A dragon keeper attracts other dragon keeper’? That could be a possible theory to her meeting up with me.”

“I guess so. But isn’t she supposed to not retain any memory of the dragon she kept at all?”

“Then I think we have a problem…How about you ask Leviathan. Maybe he knows something.”

“I’ll try to talk to that sea dragon if I can. For now, just keep an eye on her.”

We hung up our phone.

That was something alright. What kind of dragon is hiding inside of me? Having a bodyguard for itself. This dragon must have been important during The Dragon Time. The Dragon Time is exactly as it says. It points toward the time during dragons reign upon this world. The time where Dragons ruled and govern the world. The Dragon Time or DT had lots of different ages. They had their renaissance and they even have their own civil war. Lots of infighting happened between these Dragons. Dragons were known to be a greedy beast. It is no wonder that they would always end up killing each other to the point of being extinct.

The night ended with me wondering what’s in store for me tomorrow. The next day, I had class. I couldn’t help myself from noticing that someone was eyeing on me. It wasn’t Yumiko. She is in a different class from me. This time, it was Zenith. If I were to believe Hosuke’s story. Zenith is basically my bodyguard. Great, just great. Now I have someone who is spying on me and someone who is protecting me. Am I supposed to be a leader of a country?

“White. Do you understand what’s the lecturer was talking about? I couldn’t quite grasp what she was trying to say.” Ziggs asked me.

As much as I notice that I was being watched, I was still able to focus a little bit in class.

“I think what she’s trying to say is that one magic can actually have more than one version of its typing.”

“Like?”

“Hmm…for example, when you are thinking of Super Strength it is most probably an offensive type magic.”

“Well that’s obvious, right?”

“Well what our lecturer was saying is that there is even a Defensive and Utility type version of Super Strength.”

“What? Really? How would that work though?” Ziggs began to wonder.

I tried making a guess, “Maybe the Defensive Super Strength is used as a large shield. While a Utility Super Strength is used to carry heavy things. Basically, ever since the system has been drastically changed. All three types have been interchangeable among each other. The difference between Offensive, Defensive and Utility has been blurred out thanks to the creativity of the current generation to produce an ability that is interchangeable.”

“That is correct, Mr. Cyclone.” Our lecturer agreed to me. “Although the three types are starting to fade away very soon. It will in fact never be forgotten for as long as someone who is too stubborn to adapt to the change of time. And that will be forever because we humans are a very stubborn species. That is all for today.”

“But what about the three types of magic origin?” Ziggs asked.

“Ancient, Old and Modern Magic. All three of that still remains intact in the new system. Because that three types has a huge difference between each other. We will be studying more on that next week. Class dismissed.”

I guess that’s that. We learn something new each day. I decided to get some lunch but then I felt someone was pulling me. I looked behind me and saw Zenith was pulling my hoodie.

“Lunch?” she said in a very soft voice.

I was a bit surprised when I saw her suddenly appeared behind me. I thought she was sitting way behind the room. Oh whatever.

I politely replied to her, “Sure. Let’s go.”

And so, together, we went to get some lunch. You'd think it would be a normal and quick lunch, right? Well it wasn't a normal lunch for me...

TO BE CONTINUED