The Successor Games

Training the Summons

Chapter 3 Training and Summoning

We’ve been training for a little over 4 months now and today we practiced magic and we summoned a beast. After learning that the goddess has blessed us with the ability of each but we both have different strengths. I am stronger in darkness, fire and earth magic while híroÿ is stronger in light lightening and water magic. We both step outside to the garden. A dark purple circle and a bright goal circle has been drawn on the ground in front of us and the goddess kokono stands before us. “Shiro you have the strongest darkness attribute so you have this one” she says pointing to the dark purple circle on the ground. I nod and step forward feeling a presence of dark energy. “So the light gold circle must be mine then” stepping forward híroÿ says looking at the bright gold light before his eyes. “Now then put your hands over the circle and concentrate on the strongest beast that you can think of” our instructor says and we both then concentrate and the magic circle fills with the respective power each. A big black smoke forms in mine while a shiny bright light shines from híroÿs circle that is almost blinding. After a little while a loud roar comes from each and the form of a huge black dragon shows in mine and a large white tiger forms in the híroÿ circle. “Does a lowly human summon me into this realm I will render your bones to ashes” the black dragon says in a loud roar sending a shockwave throughout the garden. “I feel as though these humans have a different spirit within them, don't take them as a likely black monarch” says the white tiger looking over at híroÿ her head c****d lightly. Looking over at each me and híroÿ looking at kokono with a puzzled face. “These are your summon beast you must see if you can earn their respect each is a híroÿ yours is a heavenly beast while shiro yours looks like a demonic beast it’ll be tough for you to earn her respect” she says taking a seat on a bench then looking at us. “Do you really believe you can defeat me human I and the great dragon that has ascended to that of God hood and I will not be disrespected” she growls at me. I smack my lips slightly and chuckle a bit feeling underestimated. Looking at híroÿ he appears to be having an easier time; he must only show how powerful his attributes for the light and wind categories are and they are already pretty strong because of training. A big bright light gathers and shoots towards the sky sending a big shock knocking the white tiger back into a wall. Laughing slightly I look at the black dragon, her mouth dropping open and I laugh. “So what’ll you have me do black dragon, must I fight or will you surrender here?” I say with a light smirk among my face. “Just because your companion has amazing magic doesn’t mean...” she starts talking but I release my magic power sending her back sticking her to a wall laughing slightly before she can finish. “Now then what’ll it be I’m up for a fight I’m sick of losing to my instructor” I say but they both know us. “We have seen your prowess and we deem you worthy, please mark us and make us your summoned companion” they say their heads to the ground. “Well you both have gotten some strong companions and now all you have to do is give them your mark and name them by marking them you after giving your thumb a little cut and place it on their head” she says handing each of us a little knife. We take them cutting our thumbs placing it on their forehead a bright red mark appears on the black dragon's forehead. “I hereby name you Kyoko,” I say and the black dragon flies out of the circle and lands next to me. After placing his thumb on the white tiger a bright gold mark appears on his forehead and híroÿ gives her the name Syrah. After summoning we are given the day off to work with our companions to see how we could improve ourselves and incorporate them into our attacks. After learning that each of our companions are the head of their class, we can summon any monster of that class and without forming a contract we can control them. Testing out different magic and abilities I’ve learned that using kyoko to make it to places faster. After being called back to the summoning area we were told to summon another companion each for when we go out into the world it might be hard for us to fight alone. Híroÿ summoned a Pegasus and named her shura and I summoned a Cerberus and named him sangui after that we went back to training on how to interpret them into our party.