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It appears Seth sensei is much more then a puppet of the evil alchemists, he appears to have feelings, as he displayed earlier on during the day. It was when this happened, just after I had gotten into a fight with Harold, a dim witted second year (that’s what we call people that got here before us). Shadow didn’t look to well after training, he kept clenching his fists and tightening his jaw, I hope he isn’t angry with me…Even if he was he would of said something to me, that was our major rule, ‘We are never to keep secrets from each other,’ That is what we all pledged, exactly a day after our ninja sensei came to the school.

Robbie looked up at Shadow who was sitting on the ledge of the window, he faced the moon, and the light illuminated his face and made his high cheek bones stand out. He was quiet handsome that night, Robbie observed with a hint of eagerness, she liked him a lot, to bad she had to share the dormitory with three other girls and two other boys, one’s name was Krae. Krae was three years younger then herself and the others in the room, he had red hair and gray eyes, his face was splashed with freckles and he was two hands shorter then Robbie. He sat by himself on his bed, facing the wall, she looked at him and straightened her black collar.

She set her diary and quill down, walking over towards Krae she swept past Shadow and said, ‘ I want to talk to you later,’ that was also code for, ‘Meet me at the top of the school.’ Shadow didn’t stop looking at the moon but nodded in notion, he was to quiet for his own good. But she walked on; right now all she cared about was making this kid feel welcomed. Previously, they had all chosen which dorms they had wanted to sleep in, she had gotten her two best friends. But it looked as if this boy hadn’t chosen at all, he looked so alone, but he was the youngest in the dorm so it wasn’t unusual. For an eleven year old he was very quiet, great, Robbie thought, another Shadow in the making. As she got closer she noticed that he had the same pointed ears as her friends and herself, maybe he was another shape shifter like Shadow, Flameheart and herself. ‘Well you only find out if you ask questions,’ that was Shadows motto, but he never seemed to put that motto into practice. Maybe Robbie would test his theory; she always seemed to accidentally stumble onto things like that.

‘Hi, I’m Robbie,’ she said stopping in front of the petrified looking kid, ‘What’s your name?’ She already knew it though, he looked up at her, his grey eyes shining in admiration, ‘Oh, hello,’ he chanced a smile, ‘I’m Krae and this is my sister Stacey.’ Robbie looked around and saw no one else, no one that looked like him anyway. Then, as if on queue, a rising ghostly figure built up until it was looking straight at her, its watery eyes soft and sad. She looked like Krae, but only the fact that she was a girl was Robbie able to tell them apart, that and the fact that the girl was merely made of ghostly water, ‘Hello, I’m Stacey, I’m Krae’s twin sister,’ her liquid form smiled, making her look much happier and younger then 12, ‘But you can call me Streak!’ Robbie stared, mouth agape, what was this? Robbie blinked and the water spirit, if that’s what it was, vanished.

Krae looked miserable once more, he looked up at Robbie, ‘She couldn’t stay for long,’ his gaze dropped to his feet, ‘It’s too dry for her to communicate properly, that’s why she had to leave so quickly.’ The only sign of her ever being there was a single, crystallized tear drop, Krae picked the delicate tear drop up and did something amazing. He crouched to the floor until his palm was flat upon it, he spoke a single word, ‘Tsof!’, and a solid shoot of a tree ascended out of the hard timber floor board, only Robbie could see what was going on at the angle he was working. From thin to thick then thin again, until it fell to the floor, about as long as a 20cm ruler, he picked it up and pushed it to the tear drop. The tear drop almost melted, he forced the twig through it and it froze back almost immediately, as if nothing had happened. Robbie was entranced by what he had done and didn’t notice him walk behind her and wrap it around her neck, ‘A gift from my sister,’ Robbie started to smile broadly, ‘she thinks you are worth looking after these gifts.’

Shadow and Flameheart had watched at a distance, now they moved closer, more interested in what the little boy was doing. After the gift from Streak and himself, he and Robbie started talking, the necklace now had buds growing from the string like twig, tomorrow they would bloom and keep growing until they wilted and then started all over again. He was now explaining the function of the ever-growing necklace, ‘The teardrop,’ he noted towards Robbie, ‘keeps the necklace in bloom, feeds it a healthy amount of water every day and looks great.’ Robbie laughed, she had never learnt anything about element magic before, there were so many elements, that it was unbelievably difficult to control or name them all. Krae set a test for her; if she could grow a twig- she was listening in on how to do it- he would teach her more, ‘If you can grow anything larger, that’d be awesome!’ He smiled broadly and motioned with his fingers, Robbie’s necklace untied itself and fell into Krae’s hand, ‘Just incase,’ his smile broadened more, ‘You shouldn’t have to force the effects of the drugs away, this is natures magic, nothing can control or suppress it, only very powerful magic users can gain full control!’

Flameheart and Shadow were now only a bed away, watching and listening intently. Robbie crouched to the floor and lay her hand upon it, the oak flooring was cool on her palm, she wondered if this was what a real tree felt like. Just then a powerful surge of energy ran through her palm and into her minds eye, filling her body with a shocking power, this increased her shock and she mentally forced the invading power out of her body and palm automatically. A roaring sounded underneath her and the room started shaking violently, nether less Robbie held her ground until all the invading energy left her body. The ground beneath her bulged unexpectedly, Robbie fell back to the floor and a branch uprooted itself from underground and ensnared her, lifting her off the ground, she let out a cry of surprise.

The branch turned into a limb and the limb turned into a massive oak tree, everyone had been looking at her ever since the rumbling, the mass of tree now tangled up and around the door of the dormitory. The branch slowly released her, she now sat in the main branch, hugging the tree’s limb fiercely, and eyes screwed shut, arms tangled around it. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around cautiously, making sure no one was hurt or that her herself was, she saw faces, some shocked others were astounded. She smiled weakly and hopped down from the tree, it bent with her as if it was alive, ‘Stay,’ she said quietly, it creaked back into its original position, ‘Thanks.’ Krae was openly gaping at her and clamped his mouth shut as soon as she looked at him, ‘Well,’ he said, his voice cracking a bit, ‘I guess we’ll start on the little stuff, okay?’ Robbie nodded solemnly.