After finding out about each other's groups small factions started to from. Groups of the kids who felt like they could get along. The group Grey had ended up in was no different. Soon after their talk about their backgrounds and races the instructor had taken them back to the Training Hall. He had even asked the Elder to come down to the training hall to give Grey a good one over. The instructor seemed a little worried that the incident with the magical web might have a lasting effect on Grey's physical condition.

The Elder took his time looking over Grey's body. He even mumbled some weird words that made no sense to Grey. Sometimes he would poke his body with glowing fingers as if testing for something. Evrytime he got poked by these magical, at least he assumed it was magic the Elder was using, fingers he felt a slight jolt on the skin to which he could feel a slight sensation in his eyes. He thought that he could see a little bit better each time he was jabbed by those fingers but it could just have been his imagination.

After the elder had finished his examination he told Grey to come to the Plate room when the rest of the group started their weapons training. Grey although a little confused as to why he would have to come with the elder just nodded his agreement slightly curious as to what the elder had in store for him. The instructor soon told the group to form into the lines they had used when doing the push-ups. He then made them do another 5 sets of 20 push-ups after which he started to move on to different muscle training exercises. For instance one where their partner would hold their feet while they where lying down on the ground and had to touch their elbows to their knees. Or the one where they where lying face first ont he ground but then had to keep their chin, arms and legs of the ground.

When they had finished the series of muscle training exercises they moved on to muscle stretching as the instructor called it. They were made to do these difficult poses that Grey's muscles aching within no time. The ache started to settle in muscles he wasnt even sure he had before.

Before long the muscle stretching had finished as well and it was time for them tos tart practicing with their weapons. The instructor nodded to him and removed his ankle from the chain and sent him to the Elders office. Grey started walking down the hallway leading from the training hall and ended up in the dimly lit Plate room. He enjoyed the smell of this room it smelt like parchment. A scent somehow soothing and familiar to him.

He made his way through the messy room filled with book to the desk that formed an oasis in the middle. Behind this dark wooden desk was the Elder. He seemed to be writing down things in the leather-bound book he had before him. The feather he was using was black and could have been from a crow or raven as far as Grey knew. He patiently waited till the Elder was done with whatever he was doing. It did not take long before the Elder looked up and motioned him to come closer.

“About that incident with the magical web you had.” The elder said looking at him with wat seemed to be curiosity. “Although it has changed your hair and eye colour not much else has changed. The most significant change however is in the properties your eyes have gained.”

The Elder then moved on to explain to him that his eyes had absorbed most of the magical energies the web had stored in them. And this magical web he was told was of a very high rank. It was at the very least made by a gold level 9 magician. All of this energy had moved themselves to his eyes. According to the elder he should have noticed some slight changes in his eyesight when the elder poked him with his fingers. He had done this to activate the power in his eyes for a brief instant. His eyesight would start increasing soon but that was not the most notable of changes he would go through.

He made a joke about being sorry that Grey would not be able to shoot lighting from his eyes after they had adjusted to the change. More than a change he said his eyes where evolving. Maybe the more appropriate word would be fusing. The fusion with the magical energies would soon alow him to be able to see the magical power. Most importantly was that he would be able to see sounds once the fusion was complete.

“I will be able to see sounds?”Grey asked speculative. “Yes” The elder answered simply. “ The fusion for your eyes will take 6 months at the least. We do not however have such time so i will be using some magic to activate them now. Be warned however it will hurt!.”

“I doubht it will hurt a tenth as much as the beam did” Grey muttered. The elder smiled with a little amusement showing on his face. “No i suppose it wont hurt that much”

The elder then motioned grey to stand in a part of the room the elder had just cleaned up. He was told to stay still as the elder started drawing another complicated magical circle this time. Grey noted to himself that this time it was a circle instead of an octogram. He wondered if it being a circle instead of an octogram made any difference in the use of magic. He soon decided not to care about it however. Because of his previous experiences with magical circles he did not want anything more to do with magic and vowed to himself to never ever learn any magic. After all the 2 times till now he had been involved with magic was when he was teleported here and forced to become a slave or maybe more acurretly a gladiator in training. And the second time he had gone through more pain than he had thought was possible to have.

After finishing the circle the elder started drawing some runes around the circle before drawing another circle around those runes putting the runes between 2 lines. He then told Grey to not move and started mumbling some more of those strange sounding words. This time however he could feel the effect of the words on the room and himself. The temperature dropped and their seemed to be a soft wind present in the room even though they where completely cut off from any outside contact.

His skin started to get goosebumps and he felt himself starting to shiver. The shivering soon began to intensify with the same pace that the words the Elder was speaking started to intensify.

His hair started to float around him coming free of his shoulder's and upper back. His feet came loose from the ground and he started to levitate a few centimeters off the ground and then suddenly his body was spread wide with force. His toes pointing to the floor as hard as they could legs pressed together by an invisible force and his arms where spread as wide as an eagles wingspan.

Then his body started to throb. The throbbing spread throughout every fiber of his being giving him a sense of a dull pain. His mind soon started to lose its focus and the only thing he could notice was the throbbing that grew stronger and stronger in his body and mind. Then suddenly Poof it stopped.

He landed on the floor with a smack unable to keep straight he ended up on his hands and knees gasping. “Magic is very bloody unpleasent” He muttered to himself. But as soon as he spoke the words he noticed it. he could see that he had spoken. Small ripples in the air appeared where he had spoken he could see them spreading through out the room and bouncing back of the walls and ceiling giving form to everything in the room.

He stared around amazed and noticed he could see so much more than he could before. His vision somehow spread to all around him. He could see the stack of books behind him he could see wat was behind the stack of books aswell. The ripples that the sounds made illuminated every nook and cranny in his mind and he was aware of everything. He saw the ripple bounce off the Elder and could see a foreboding black sludge being pumped through wat he assumed were the veins of the elder.

He clapped his hands and saw the ripples spread out around him. The elder smiled at the amazed look in Grey's eyes and with a swipe of his hand the room darkened. Grey looked around him and could still see the room clearly in a somewhat grey light. The sound of his and the elders breathing was more than enough for the ripples to be able spread around the room.

“This is amazing...” He whispered. “Yes as far as abilities go this is quite a useful one” The elder said with a small laugh.”You may now go back to the rest of your group and let that small partner of yours know that i would like to see him in my room when the rest starts to practice with weapons tomorrow. Grey nodded confirming that he would do so and set out to the training hall.

Once he came back to the training room he saw that other where already swinging around their weapons and trying to get a feel for them. Oak was wielding a huge tower shield that could cover almost his whole body. He carried the thing around as if it weighed nothing he even managed to use another equally oversized mace in the other hand. The instructor was surprisingly throwing wat seemed to be logs at oak and oak would just catch these on his huge shield and deflect them.

Luniera way of fighting was completely different. She wielded a slim looking sword with a slight curve at the edge and her movements where fluid yet sharp. Her body moving from one pose to another as if she was made of some kind of liquid. Tatt's was swinging around dual axes of about the same size in each hand hacking away at a poor training doll that was the victim of his viscous onslaught.

Pebble's was using unsurprisingly the quarterstaff of his people. Which he was twirling around with practiced expertise he had obviously used the weapon plenty of times before and was already used to its movements. Six wielded an axe and a buckler which he was just swinging around a bit. At least that was wat it looked like to Grey.

Sansieri was using no weapons at all going through some martial fighting poses while mumbling some words that made some web's that he hadn't noticed on her hands before flare up causing the air to create a slight tremor. Snowflake was trying his best to use his weapon but seemed to have no control over it yet and while he was watching he almost got the knife in his own face.

Flinching at the near death of Snowflake he moved to the wall and grabbed his own Naginata and started twirling it around a bit before asking Pebble for some advice on how to wield it. Pebble soon enthusiastically started showing him how to use the Naginata as a quarter staff. Grey thought he should first get a feel for the weapon and learn to use it as a quarter staff before finding ways to utilise the blade properly. The Instructor told them they had 3 years to prepare before they would be sent out in their first fight.

everyone was soon sweating after using their weapons for a while but for some strange reason none of them stopped using them untill their arms where to heavy for them to lift their respective weapons anymore. Even Oak who seemed to have unlimited muscle strength eventually ran out of energy and had to return his weapons to one of the stands near the wall.

Having been bathed in sweat so often today they were told to use the showers. Showers! The kids where extremely pleased that they even had showers in the arena and the instructor lead the way to the shower through one of the seemingly endless branches of the training hall.