The Phoenix's Maiden

Motivated

Five days had passed since Amaterasu’s attack happened, the goddess completely recover as well as Arthur and Kamandag, and almost immediately they are back in their own training. Kamandag talked to the goddess about doing her own training for her own good, and since the goddess sensed the confidence in her she approved of it. She only wants confidence to appear inside the fairy’s heart, and yet Arthur was still under the supervision of the goddess, training his stamina and endurance. While Amber still remains under observation of Amaterasu, still hiding the truth about the intention of the dark king to retrieve the crystal from her hands.

It only means one thing, that Amber needs to master her craft before a much worse attack happened, they are lucky for the first time since Kamandag spotted the army early on that’s why their ambush is effective. From that day and forth, Kamandag was tasked to patrol the whole region as part of her stamina training and Amaterasu is performing her meditation where she can sense all the life forms electro magnetic waves on the whole region.

This is to keep them prepared at all times and to prevent the enemy having the advantage on them, since that unexpected attempt. The goddess is extremely cautious since Cain knows where the crystal is, and there is no stopping him right now. All she can do is to fight back to the army that he will send towards them and she hopes that by that time, Amber is fully prepared to fight them.

Right now Amber is progressing much faster than she could ever imagined, that is why she had high hopes that Amber will be prepare before that happens. All she is going to do is to help her to advance in her path giving her the help that she needs to figure things out. In this way, it is effective for her to mold her power. Soon she will master her hidden power and she is ready to protect the crystal from the dark king.

“Hey,” Amber called to the goddess and she snapped out of her deep thinking and blinked repeatedly to give Amber the attention that she needed.

“What is it?” she asked.

“What am I supposed to do? Is it tiresome to practice the same skill over and over again,” she complained towards the goddess.

“I did not say about limiting you to one spell, all I said is you show me your power, it’s your decision to cast one spell repeatedly, I’m just an observer,” she responded to her complain. As usual Amber is wondering with her words and she just scratched her head wondering what that could mean.

From her training, she knows that the goddess’s words have other hidden meanings to it for her to figure out, so on every word Amaterasu says, Amber cannot help it but to think what that could mean for her.

“That’s it?” she asked to make sure.

“Yes, that’s it,” Amaterasu calmly responded to her question and Amber smiled.

“If you say so,” she turned around having something in mind, casting fire bullets in different speed is becoming boring to Amber since there is no challenge anymore unlike that time where she is just learning it.

“Just go and express yourself unless you make some errors,” Amaterasu said and Amber just continues to think of other spells that she can cast in a more creative way. She closed her eyes picturing the spell, as the goddess told her to help the spell to take its shape. Creativity is the key as the goddess mentioned.

While closing her eyes, Amber pictured herself producing fire ball but when fired it will spread in different directions. A multi shot in one shot, that’s her concept and it’s for tight situations and its main reason is to conserver energy since Amber is not that experienced in power management. She opened her palm to let her aura flow freely to make that decent size fireball and clenched her fist once the ball is as the size of a basketball. She pushed the fireball and since the goddess told her earlier that she can manipulate fire, that means she has pyrokinesis. Where she can control the fire on her own free will, it’s like psychokinesis but with fire.

She opened her eyes and her palm once again still pointing towards the fireball in mid-air. She tried to concentrate on that one point and did her best to stop the fireball from hitting the target. Her goal right now is to master her pyrokinesis and to master it. In the goddess’s point of view this is Amber’s another step forward to being the prophesized protector of Fernis. The last phoenix that will give rise to another generations of gods that will reshape the whole realm and eradicating the evils from the underworld.

Amber failed her first try and the fireball did not stop even an inch and flew towards the target and created a big explosion that sent the targets into pieces. Thanks to the spell that the goddess putted into that target, it rebuilt itself from that same moment. The spell is rewinding the state of the host.

“Ah sheep! That’s harder than I expected,” she said to herself.

“Well better than sticking on one spell,” the goddess told her and the maiden looks at her.

“You are right,” she said smiling. “I will take one step forward from here and on,” she added and a smile formed on Amaterasu’s lips.

“That’s more like it,” she whispered to herself and the maiden went back to the same concentration that she did earlier. Forming yet another fireball the same size like the one she produced earlier. But now she did it with eyes open, and the goddess was surprised that she mastered controlling her aura. In that one tries she got the hang of her another spell, and that is great news for her.

The maiden shoots it again towards the targets and she failed it once again, from mastering the art of controlling her aura, the skill is not the only thing that the maiden gained but also the self confidence for herself. That’s why she is not feeling down or sad whenever she fails an attempt and that is great news for the goddess, because she can hear her thoughts.

If this continues, she will be prepared before another attack rises from the underworld or at least she is ready to fight them. Another helping hand is a game changer in fights, if only Amber is prepared that time, maybe no one will come back injured, and they flawlessly defeated the enemies.

“People are weak,” she said capturing the goddess’s attention. “But they know how to recognize that weakness and turn them into their strength,” she added and Amber turned her head towards the goddess. “I am very happy that I got that trait from the humans who raised me!” she said smiling. “I will not give up!” she said motivating herself to train even harder and with this she can protect her friends at least and herself, but the maiden is selfless and she will choose to save her friends’ live than hers. With her power it’s not impossible for her to accomplish such feats.

“I know that you can do it,” she told the maiden.

Amber used that motivation to create another decent size fireball and she immediately shoots is without closing her fist, in mid-air she clenched it making the fireball stop its motion mid-air, she was shocked and looks at her clenched fist. She was given another idea how she can make it easier for her to manipulate flames movements. She tried opening her palm and the fireball dropped down and exploded.

“So that’s why,” she said wondering. “Is it usually like that?” she asked the goddess.

“I don’t know,” she answered cheaply which made the maiden to look at her blankly. “It’s on you and how your brain responds with your aura,” she added. “Remember the body, the mind, and the spirit must be merged in one,” she reminded the maiden of the concept she is giving the maiden. “If your pyrokinesis responds to your hand gesture or movement then use that to improve yourself,” she said. “Over time you will discover the main cause of it, there is no need to rush,” she lied on the rush part. The truth is she needs to rush to master her abilities but in the same time she doesn’t want to put pressure on the maiden’s back. As she can learn much faster if her mind and body is both relaxed.

“Okay,” she said cheaply. “Let me try it once again,” she said. She produced and shoots another fireball and she closed her fist like she did earlier, and the fireball freezes mid-air once again. Amber observed her hand and she slowly opened her closed fist to see what form, she loses grip on the fireball. She opened her fingers one by one starting from the thumb to the pointing finger and so on.

She loses grip on the fireball when she opened the fourth finger. She learned that the limit of her grip is three fingers opened while the other two is slightly opened since her joints can’t help it. With it she produced yet another fireball and she used that form in her hand where only three fingers are opened to control the fire.

Unlike earlier, it was easier for her to control the fireball in mid-air and that gives her more aim for shooting. Now how can she make a spread shot from that fireball, she needs to think more carefully to save time. An idea pops out of her mind and she uses her other hand with the same form and she makes sure that the other hand can also control the fireball. She released her left hand which is the controlling the fireball earlier. The fireball did not fall and that reassured Amber that she can control it with her right, she points it again towards the fireball.

“I hope this works,” she tried to separate her hands in hopes of tearing the fireball in half. To her surprise in just first try she did it.

-The Phoenix’s Maiden