《The Single Lightning Elemental Magus》


 a change is coming....

    THE SINGLE LIGHTNING ELEMENTAL MAGUS


    My name is Lear-bane H. Selverbern and I come from a world different from yours. In my world countries wage wars frequently for numerous reasons such as wanting to see who is more powerful, trying to gain more territory and such. In order to limit the amount of wars we have, each country pick a candidate to fight for their country, and that candidate must fight other candidates chosen by the other countries.


    The countries¡¯ whose candidate won is considered powerful based on the candidate¡¯s rank in the championship. The candidate can also gain status and money if they participate. The championship [All-Star] is done every five years, and anyone of any age as long as they are older than 13 years old are capable of participating.


    In my world, we have something call Magicians. We have magicians for every element. The magicians that are considered powerful are those that have more than one elemental ability. Those like me that have a single ability are looked down upon, since we are only able to use one, no one expects us to win anything.


    The countries in the world places bet during the All-Star championships, the countries that win gets attention, fame, money, and win the bets they made. The countries are not limited in any form of restriction in the bets. They can bet whatever they so desired, money, land, even individuals if they so ever wish. They can even bet who will be the next leader of a country using the bet system [although they have never been a country that have done so, but they could].


    The All-Star championship is something I neither dislike nor hate. It is of no concern to me. All I ever wanted was to live my life the way I want, that is until something happened that forces me to participate in this year¡¯s All-Star championship.


    In an All-Star championship, you are brought to another country, in the middle of a field, surrounded by trees and violent animals such as lions and cheetah. You are then expected to fight your opponents until the last twenty standing (Of course you can kill then, but defeating them to make them unable to fight back is fine) then those last 20 standing are brought to a man-made area with a large stadium, and the last 20 fight in individual arenas verses each other. The 10 winners of this semi-final, then have to face against each other, until the last five standing. In the All-Star championship, there is a super computer that analyzes everyone¡¯s data and fighting statistic and calculate the five individuals¡¯ ranks.


    Before, in the All-Star championships, the last five used to fight each other to the death, but the powerful countries realized that was terrible and that they would lose such valuable assets that can be used for the future, so, they changed the rules again. To make the last five be considered the winners of the All-Star championship and they do not have to fight to the death, and the super computer would decide their ranks based on ability used and fighting styles, etc.


    In short, the All-Star championship can be regarded as a hunger games sort of tournament. Each country in the world is forced to participate in this championship by the other countries, or else, war will break loose. The reason why no one started a revolution and overthrow the government and change the system and do stuff like that is because, if we were to take away the All-Stars system, then countries will just go back to having wars.


    At least with the All-Stars system it is only a couple of people every 5 years. But there is a problem. A problem that will change my future completely. My country is a relatively small country, my country used to be part of a bigger country up until 4 years and 6 months ago. During the All-Stars championship one of the other countries demanded the country we used to be a part of to get rid of the bunch of islands in the west-end. That makes exactly 3 islands.


    We became separated from our big country. At first we thought, the other country that made that bet would just take us in their country, but what the other country said when asked was this:


    ¡°HAHAHA, I made that bet so you could lose some of your territory, Severd¡± said the country that placed the bet. ¡°I never said that I would take those islands for myself, besides why would I need more land, I got tons of them already, I just wanted to see your face as you make the announcement that you would be cutting those islands off your country, that they will no longer be considered a part of your country. I just wanted to see your facial expression¡±


    My country was shocked, or to be exact what my island used to be part of, was shocked, but there was nothing they could have done. Once you make a bet, you must oblige with it, or else the other country has a right to attack you, and other organizations might support the other country. So, what my island used to belong in, had no choice but to obliged.


    That is the current problem. Ever since that moment, no one have had the gut to become the leader of my island, or the islands [since they are 3 islands in total, counting my own]. We have no king, emperor, or even a president. No leader to speak of. You would think that if a seat of power became available, people would rush in and take the seat, but no, not this time.


    [have you ever heard of someone volunteering for more work and tasks to do if they are not getting anything for it, especially since taking the job will make everyone hates you], to explain, if someone become the leader of the island, he/she will have to pick individuals to fight for the country in the upcoming All-Stars championships, and no one wants to be chosen, if you are chosen, you must fight to the death.


    Of course, anyone may participate, but you will have to kill people to win, so, no one wants to pick people to go their death, and no one wants their love ones to go. The leader of every country in this world are hated, except for select few countries such as Lustavannia, Lokerdevern, and Voltermorn that do not pick individuals to risk their lives in the All-Stars championship, but let the citizens themselves sign up to participate and make it seem that it is the citizens duty to participate in order to end war and risk their lives for their country. Those countries that follow that method almost always loses the championship, but then, they always try not to make bets with the powerful nations even though if they somehow won one of the bets, it could rely boost their economy, technology and so on.


    Those countries are dying. Their economy is very low, technology and everything is in a declined. Sooner or later, they will no longer exist.


    So, the problem is, the new All-Stars championship is starting soon, yet no one from my island have signed up, no one in the two other islands have signed up. [the list of the participants can be looked online]. My island and everyone is hoping the world would just forget about us and leave us alone, but I don¡¯t think so. I don¡¯t agree with them.


    I think the other countries are just waiting for us not to signed up, to start bombarding us with everything they have, after all, it wouldn¡¯t be the first time they done something like this to a country that haven¡¯t signed up, even though my island isn¡¯t a country exactly, but I am pretty sure since we aren¡¯t a country, but we are still an island, that still classifies.


    That¡¯s the problem.


    Let me tell you something about me. I am not one of those big shot magicians in those other countries with triple elemental abilities. I am someone that is very smart, at least I think so. My parents make me go talk to a therapist about my self-esteem problems. I am someone with low self-esteem, high-anti-social behaviors, I have very few friends [I wouldn¡¯t call them friends, more like acquaintances that I see at school or I say hi to them, but we don¡¯t really talk].


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    That¡¯s my life. But there is one cool thing about my life, I take martial arts classes. I am in the top martial art dojo in my island, I won 2nd place in the martial arts competition that was held this year.


    People tell me I am really good, my parents tell me I have talents, but I don¡¯t think that¡¯s true at all. The truth is my magical ability that I have isn¡¯t in the known elements of this world. I have lightning elemental magic. I haven¡¯t told my parents yet, but when I was in the martial arts competition and I concentrate in my opponents¡¯ movements, my sight suddenly changed, and I could feel this electricity in my eyes and it¡¯s like this boost that I get in my sight, and I am able to see a couple of seconds in the future.


    While using martial arts to fight against my opponent, I could control the electricity in my body and send them throughout my body, making my body as hard as steel. [it¡¯s a form of defense that I named lightning defense]. And it is by using that, that I managed to get second place in the tournament. It¡¯s not that I was stronger than everyone, everyone had better skills and probably trained a lot harder than me, it¡¯s just that my body was turned to steel [more or less] and I could see the future of my opponent¡¯s movement.


    To explain my eye ability, I send electricity [or the lightning in my body, whatever you want to call it] in my eyes, and my sight changed, I am able to see the electrical impulses in my opponent¡¯s body, and by using that, I can see what movements my opponent is about to do before he does the action. That is how I got second place, I could read each and every one of my opponents like a book, and if I could read them, then it all turned into a matter of dodging and blocking each attack they tried to use on me.


    The reason I didn¡¯t get first place was because the last opponent majored in super-fast movements, and even though I could see the future of his movements, it was useless, because he could move so fast, I didn¡¯t have time to move to dodge or block, I was like a punching bag for that guy. But then again, he is someone with 7 years of training, so it was more or less expected I would lose, in fact, it was kind of weird to everyone how I even managed to get second place.


    I kept my mouth shut and didn¡¯t tell them, I can see the future. Thanks to that lost, I practiced my lightning magic until I could send it throughout my body to make me move super-fast, now, I am even capable of flight, and can even send lightning attacks.


    Since no one knows much about the lightning element, or to be exact [there exist a bunch of elemental magic in this world: Water, fire, wind, earth, light, dark, lightning, life (creation magic) and death magic. Those are the elements that make up the world.


    Water, fire, wind, and earth are the most common, most people get one of those, or double, triple of those. So everyone naturally knows more about those kinds of magic.


    Then you get light and darkness elements, those are slightly rare, some people get one of those, very few have both of them. But those elements are well study, and if you do research, you can find out what weaknesses they may have.


    Then you get the big three. The rarest of rare. The lightning element, not much is known about it except for its ability to control lightning, the world hasn¡¯t seen someone with a lightning elemental magic in 5 centuries. Life (creation magic) the ability to completely heal someone no matter how significant the injury, only one country has a mage like that and that¡¯s Lyrtherndan (One of the most powerful country with probably the most money, using their single mage with that element to heal people for the highest bitter. And death magic, the country of Syltern have a mage with that ability, and he participated in the last All-Star, he was ranked as number one. He dominated the world with his death magic, still, no one knows much about death magic and he have only used one spell technique in all the matches, and even though everyone saw what kind of spell it was, no one could overcome it, all his opponent turned to dust.]


    This is the extent of this world''s knowledge of the rarest of the rare, the big three. Even though, legends have it that these are powers capable of changing the world, we haven¡¯t seen that yet.


    In this upcoming All-Stars competition rumors are going around how Lyrtherndan¡¯s miss is going to be participating in it. By Lyrtherndan¡¯s miss I mean the young girl with the life elemental magic. [guess she learned a magic attack] and the rumors are saying she also have earth and light elemental magic as well.


    This upcoming All-Stars competition is going to be the most heated confrontation from all the previous All-Stars competition. It¡¯s going to be between life and death, which one will be number one? Or so they are saying on TV. On the internet people are saying how cool it would be to get a lightning elemental magus to participate and then the competition would really get interesting.


    Those people are going to get their wished come true, since, I am planning in participating in this year¡¯s All-Stars competition. I am planning on making my island a country again and I will make it connected with the other two islands, to form a country. I don¡¯t think anyone is going to sign up for All-Stars in any of the three islands except for me. Even though no one in the news is talking about my island, I am sure they haven¡¯t forgotten about it, and if my island does not participate, something bad could happen. That¡¯s what my common sense and feelings are telling me.


    My parents made me go see a therapist about my low self-esteem and I explain to my therapist that if I didn¡¯t have low self-esteem, I would be making terrible decisions and would be making a lot of mistakes. I always get 95 or above in all  my classes, I study a lot, my parents have never told me ¡°Lear-Bane get good grades and you can make your dreams come true¡±, my parents were too worried about me not having a dream to care about my grades. I did everything I thought a good son should do, I listened to my teachers, I participate in clubs (But I barely talked), I was only a couple of times late for school, I don¡¯t get home late, but my parents always tell me, if I could just wake up and just follow my gut even if it included not doing any of that (Getting good grades, listening to the teacher, worrying whether you are coming home late) , that would make them happy.


    My parents told me that even though I make a good son, I don¡¯t look happy, and that I feel lifeless, devoid of any energy and that I am only always serious and calculating. [which is true, but I don¡¯t find anything weird with that!!!!!]


    So, that is part of the reason I decided to risk my life participating in this All-Stars championship. Since my parents as well as myself realized that I have no motivation in life, I decided to fight in a life or death situation, to see if I¡¯ll fight with everything I have to survived or will I just give up, like I have done many times as I grew up. I decided that I needed to find myself, and I believe somewhere inside me, my heart and my mind, just wants me to wake up and feel the blood rushing in my veins, to feel alive, and I have only felt that feeling once. And that was when I was using my powers to win the martial arts competition¡­..

 Chapter 1: All-Star Commence....

    THE SINGLE LIGHTNING ELEMENTAL MAGUS


    Chapter 1: The All-Star competition commence¡­..


    As the days towards the date for the competition gets closer and closer, my instincts to tell my parents have been getting stronger and stronger. I know I should tell my parents, but I know how they are going to react.


    ¡°What? You did what?¡± my mom would most likely say. ¡°I am not letting you go anywhere near the All-Star competition. Over my dead body.¡±


    My dad would probably say:


    ¡°My son, I love how you are taking what we told you since you were young, seriously, about the fact that you are always  so serious and have no energy and you always look life-less and gloomy, but you didn¡¯t have to take it that far. We don¡¯t want you to think that the only way to make us happy is to go to your death, you do not have to sacrifice yourself for us, in fact, if those other countries decide to bombard us, let them, at least we¡¯ll died together, instead of me watching you go to your death in front of the TV¡± my dad would probably say. ¡°I will never allow such a thing, you are my one and only son¡±


    Things would get really annoying if this happened, which is why I am using a messaging app I made that will automatically send a message to both of my parents¡¯ phone, the moment I leave for the All-Star competition.


    The All-Stars competition is well funded and will send transportation to take me there [or to be exact, the All-Star competition doesn¡¯t like people getting cold feet, so they will send agents and military officer to make sure each participant shows up, of course they tell you when the transportation will be there, and they will come to your nearest location, and they give you 3 hours to show, or they¡¯ll start looking for you.]


    When the transportation arrived, I will sneak out of my house and go there, once I arrived at the meeting point, my computer [which is always connected to the internet and is always on] will send the message to my parents and other relatives as well as my acquaintances at school simultaneously [I am not sure my acquaintances would care much, since I only ever said hi and such to them, never really talked].


    I made the app to send the message if I haven¡¯t logged in my favorite website from directly my computer in 24 hours. Which mean, by the time I arrived at the meeting point, it would have been a good 24 hours before my parents realized what I have done, which will be enough time to leave the country and be on my way to the All-Star competition.


    When I was signing up for the All-Star Competition, the application asked many questions such as your age, social-security, what country/island are you located in, the city, what your elemental Ability is, but since everyone can see those information except for your social security, for elemental ability I used the system¡¯s: Surprise. Which is something the All-Star Competition system put for people that doesn¡¯t want the other participants to know what their elementary magic is, it is a way to not get a disadvantage off the bat.


    But there are many people that want others to know what their powers are and think with all their many different elemental magic, they are going to get famous and such, which is partly true, but that give the person a disadvantage.


    I also know that some people just clearly lied about what their elementary abilities are, just so they don¡¯t give anyone an advantage. But of course, at the start of the All-Star competition, every participant is tested to make sure they actually have elementary magic.


    The administrators there at All-Star have a device that can detect magical energy that is radiated from anyone with elementary magic. Fortunately, the machine isn¡¯t capable of knowing what elemental magic it is, it just detects whether you are a magician or not. I wouldn¡¯t like to get special attention before I even start the competition. [I don¡¯t like when people look at me, which is why I do not talk a lot, I also don¡¯t like being in room full of people]


    The All-Star competition have a wide variety of things I don¡¯t like, being in a room full of people, all the attention from the media and so on. But even then, I am still going to do my best.


    The next day:


    I received a call from All-Star Competition, they said that my transportation will come three days from now, and to prepare any things I might need to go. They should arrive in three days and the meeting time is 10:30 am. They will bring a private magically imbue plane to pick me up. Back in the old days, when the All-Star competition just started, parents who love their kids so much and didn¡¯t want them to participate so much, would go crazy and attack the plane that would pick up their child, because of that, the transportation planes are all magically imbue to strengthened its defense and offense.


    My urge to tell my parents have become really strong, so strong, that one time at dinner, I almost brought it up, it took everything I have not to tell them, to give them a heads up. I know they will be worried about me, but what I am doing is for the greater good, sacrificing myself for the people I care about I have never been the caring for other people type, but if my life and those I care about are in danger, then, I¡¯ll do what I can to save them.


    Three days later:


    It is the date of my transportation. I didn¡¯t even need to marked the date on my calendar, since it was on TV. Every country¡¯s participant is being transported. I know my parents, they are definitely going to use this time to check on the All-Star Championship website to check who is participating, I knew by 9 am, I would have already been caught by my parents, and they would do everything in their power to make sure that I don¡¯t go.


    So, the night before I told them I would be going to one of my friend¡¯s house. It made my parents really happy since I never mentioned having friends before. I am not good at communicating my thoughts exactly, I am not a talker, so you might go a whole day without hearing me say a word. So, when I mentioned I would be having a sleep over, it made my parents happy. But the truth is, I am not going to any sleep over.


    The moment you turned 14 you can reserve a room in a hotel, which is exactly what I did. So, last time, I packed a few of my stuff, and left home, with my parents being extremely happy. Little did they know by morning the next day, that smile will disappear completely.


    The morning of my appointment, I woke up at 6 am and took a bath [I don¡¯t know how long it could be before I can enjoy myself with a long bath and completely relax, for in the All-Star competition, there is no such thing as letting your guard down]. Afterwards, I quickly got myself dressed, and ate a well breakfast consisting of fried eggs, bread, bacon, strawberries, apple, and orange juice. Then the moment the time reached 8:50, I casually started making my way to the appointment building.


    By now my parents have already started to check the list of participants who will be participating, since the deadline to apply is today at 8:15. Knowing my parents, they will be checking the list of top 10 most likely winners, and checking the data statistics of anyone who already participated on the last All-Star championship. My parents won¡¯t check for participants for this island yet. [How do I know this? That¡¯s because my parents are always doing the same thing every All-Stars. I have great observational skills, since I don¡¯t talk much, I am always observing and watching everything]


    So, it took an extra 30 minutes than I expected to arrive at the place, but it was still in my margin of error, so, it¡¯s fine. I arrived early. It is now 10:00 am. I still have 30 minutes to spare. I arrived at the building, for the All-Stars. I push the front door open, and a lady receptionist started talking to me, and showing me around, and point me to the waiting area.


    The building was mostly vacated except for the military personnel that are there. Since my island used to be part of a country, there was almost never anyone coming to the All-Star office in this city, since there would be other All-Stars offices across the country and all the people in the country could go to one of them, so, my island never really had that many people that participated in the All-Stars, we never needed to, we always relied on our main land country to do the dirty work.


    After waiting for 15 minutes, a different woman came in, and started explaining where they were going to take me. They also check my I.D., my name, and check to make sure I have elemental magic, all in order to verify that I am the person I say I am, and that I am actually eligible to participate. This whole task was similar to what you would see in an airport, or when you enter a government office.


    The woman was dressed in a professional attire, she had a big smile.


    ¡°But of course she has a big smile and she is even trying to get me to laugh¡± I thought sarcastically. ¡°She is trying to ease the tension, to make it look like everything is going to be fine and that I am not going to have to kill people or even get kill. That it¡¯s going to be a fun walk in the park¡±


    The woman, still unsuccessfully trying to make me smile/laugh/ease the pressure, continue to explain the rules of what she calls the ¡°fun game¡±, as if it was a sport and not a survival game.


    ¡°When you are fighting in the forest, make sure to look out for the lions, gorillas, apes, cheetah, we had a lot of causalities on the last All-Stars, I am sure you were watching the game last All-Stars. So, just make sure to pay attention.¡± Said the woman. ¡°Also, when you are in the forest, it would be better to form a team, then as a group you can make a tent and one of you can keep guard, since after all, the forest competition doesn¡¯t have a time limit, sometimes it takes two-three days, for everyone else to be defeated so that only 20 can move to the next challenge.¡±


    ¡°I understand, thank you for telling me¡± I said with a nervous tone.


    ¡°Ah, no reason to thank me, just doing my job, sweetie¡± said the woman with a kind sweet tone. ¡°I hope the All-Star competition will give you what you want, money and status. Also, since you happen to be the only person in all of the three islands participating, the government (Well, what became of them anyway, since Ever since we became separated haven¡¯t elected a president or anything, everyone was just confused and since our population in all three islands is just 10 thousand, no one wanted to rule it and everyone was scared and didn¡¯t want to be hated to forced people to go to All-Stars) so, they decided whoever volunteer to participate in All-Stars would become the emperor of all three islands, well, of course if you survived.¡±


    ¡°What? They can do that?¡± I asked with a shocked expression. ¡°I mean did they just take a vote on it, and why didn¡¯t they tell everyone in the island about it?¡±


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    ¡°because if they told people, then a lot of people would sing up for All-Star which would further bring our tiny population down. We couldn¡¯t risk it, so we kept that information to ourselves. So, you have to survive, we need an emperor, someone to guide us, and by volunteering, you just happened to be that guy¡±


    ¡°What if I refused?¡± I asked. ¡°I can just refuse, right, I mean, have you ever seen a fifteen-year-old kid ruling a country?¡±


    ¡°In ancient times, it wasn¡¯t that uncommon¡± said the woman with a smile. ¡°Also, you can¡¯t refuse the offer, whether you like it or not, you will be the emperor and you will have to deal with all the messed up situations that this country is. In fact, it¡¯s a miracle that we even lasted about 5 years without a King/Emperor or a president. Our economy is already broken, we have no national figure to speak of, all our mayors don¡¯t show themselves anymore. If people in this whole island just didn¡¯t show up for work, it wouldn¡¯t have surprise me. It¡¯s only a miracle all hell didn¡¯t break loose, and everyone is pretending that everything is fine, even though, it¡¯s not. So, yeah, you got to do this, and thank you for volunteering.¡±


    ¡°No, I am not sure that¡¯s a good idea¡± I started to say, but it was too late, while we were talking, we were approaching the plane that would take me to the All-Star location to start the game.


    ¡°Good luck Lear-Bane, and if you were wondering, I think you would make a great emperor, I checked your information when you apply, you get good grades, you practice martial arts, even won 2nd place on the tournament, you are smart, you are a quiet kid that knows how to keep secrets, just like how you didn¡¯t tell your parents that you were going to All-Stars, I think you will make a wonderful emperor¡±


    ¡°How do you know I didn¡¯t tell my parents?¡± I asked, wondering how she knew.


    ¡°Because I just received a message that your parents are trying to get in this building and they are battling the security guards, trying to get you back. Don¡¯t worry, normally someone would go to jail when they tried to take back their kids from going to All-Stars, but since you are the future for the islands, we will make an exception, of course you have to survive first.¡±


    Then I got on the plane, the doors close. I took a seat in this beautifully well design planes [the kinds you only see in movies about some rich private plane guy] and I was asked what I wanted to eat or drink by the single flight attendant.


    ¡°Only a cup of water, please.¡± I said.


    Finally, the All-Star competition is going to start. It¡¯s going to be my first time putting my life in such dreaded danger, but if I do this, I am sure I¡¯ll be able to do something my parents would be happy about. Something they could be proud of, something that¡¯ll make me happy, and at the same time help this island.


    After a one hour and 45-minute flight. The plane landed. I was shown what way to go by the flight attendant, and I made my way there. I arrived in a building that look small compared to the other buildings that were there, but clearly I must be wrong, since after I entered the building, I realized it was full with people. Those are all the people that will be participating in the All-Stars, and many of them are going to die, yet here they are thousands of people, ready to defeat one another in a game bordering next to life and death.


    One of the 20 or so people standing all the way at the front in the stadium, then, using wind elemental magic, a spell known as wind amplification, started talking as normally as he would to someone next to him, but since he is using wind magic, his voice got amplified, and all of us could hear his voice as if he was standing next to us.


    ¡°Welcome ladies, and gentlemen, to All-Stars!!!!! Congratulations on volunteering for those that did, volunteering is always welcomed, and those that got sent here by their government, no reason to sweat anything, this is a game, yes, many people died, but just remember, all you have to say is ¡°I give up¡± and let your opponent beat you up until you are no longer able to stand and can¡¯t fight anymore. It is that easy to do, then, afterwards, a team will come and pick you up, but of course it may take an hour or two before we finally arrived at the scene to pick you up, so if any lions accidentally find you and eat you, just remember it was not our fault, stuff like that happened all the time.¡± Said the man, while removing a brand of his sliver hair blocking the sight of his right eye.


    ¡°Also, as you probably know, we will be handing out the ASD, the All-Star Devices to each and every one of you. Please make sure that there are not broken, even when you are fighting other opponents, you will be using those to contact us if you are giving up the championship. You can also contact us for food supply and health supply, but just remember, we only give those after you have defeated at least one opponent. The number of opponents defeated is the same number of supplies you get. Also, those supplies do not come in pairs, you have to decide which one you want, is it food/water or is it health medicine. For example, let¡¯s say you defeated one opponent, then you request for supplies, you can only pick one. If you defeated two, you can of course ask for two different supplies, if you wish.¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s how the game system works. Also, we only supply them only on the hours of 11 am -4 pm. So make sure to contact us as early as possible, since it might take an hour for the supply to get to you. And do not complain about the time it takes to get the supplies, we do not purposeful waste time, the forest/jungle is large, so it takes time. We can track you guys down via the embedded GPS trackers in the device. You can also use those devices to find opponents, but beware you can only do that once a day, so, I would only use that if I have to. And you can still other people¡¯s supplies, that¡¯s acceptable.¡±


    ¡°Any questions¡± asked the silver haired man.


    I raised my hand, but since the room was full with people, and I am sure the person couldn¡¯t see me, I had to yell.


    ¡°Yes I do!!!!¡± I yelled. ¡°Can you tell us if just like the last All-Stars, we can make teams?¡±


    ¡°Yes, you can, we actually changed the rules a little, I was just about to get to that. On the previous All-Stars, people quickly formed teams, but there was a team that was 40 people, and things got a bit chaotic, so the rule is only up to 20 people, since twenty is the amount that can win the forest All-Stars. Also, any member of the team is allowed to kill another member at any time, on the last All-Stars, the groups had trouble ¡°hurting their teammates¡±, so I am going to bring this up, only 20 winners, got that, you do not get disqualified or anything in the tournament, you can pretty much do what you want as long as you follow those basic rules¡±


    ¡°What about light during night time?¡± I asked again. ¡°We are not going to be able to see, right?¡±


    ¡°Well, that¡¯s your problem, people that have fire-elemental magic won¡¯t have to worry about not seeing in the dark¡± said the silver haired man. ¡°So, if any of you do not have questions, then, come on up and we will start giving you the ASD device. Oh, and as you can see when you activate the device, it has a map of the whole forest, be sure to study it, since it might save your life. Make sure you all get to know the device well, since the only thing you can trust is the device¡±


    Then everyone started to quietly get in line to get the ASD device from the twenty people that were now sitting on a chair, with a table in front of them giving people the devices.


    I got in line, and after a good 35 minutes of waiting and slow walking, I finally got my device. I turn it on, and a holographic projector appeared. I type my name on the holographic keyboard that appears and look around the menu of the device. I found the map application, and started to memorize the key points.


    "OK, now that everyone is here and everyone have received a device, I want to say the last few things¡± said the brown haired woman standing behind the silver haired man. ¡°As you probably know this is building area type A, this building is for those on the Eastern sides countries of the world, mostly from islands and small countries, which is why some of you are wondering where is that ''Death elemental magician'' or whatever. The other buildings that you probably saw as you entered this building contain others from different countries of this world. We have a total of six buildings. All the buildings contain 5 thousand participants, making a total consisting of 30 thousand participants in this year¡¯s All-Stars. This is actually an unprecedented record, usually we only get between 13-20 thousand. Each building type section will be sent to another area of the forest. If you check your map, you should see a blue dot on the map, it¡¯s in the vicinity around that blue dot you will get drop shortly. Of course you can defeat your own building type group, since after all only 20 can win this forest All-Star."


    ¡°So, get ready, and start exiting this building, and entered the plane that¡¯s in front of this building, it will drop you to the forest. And good luck¡± said the brown haired woman.


    As everyone started to leave, not one voice could be heard, it was as if everyone¡¯s will power have been destroyed. As if there was nothing they could do. Some people had panic expressions as they realize their death is near. Some people were crying, some people were trying to stay strong, but you could tell, things were about to get ugly, especially when considering those people with creepy happy expressions that make them look like some sort of psycho that love torturing and killing people.


    We got on the plane that was there, and in about 30 minutes, we have arrived. The plane then landed in the big blue dot area that could see on the map, it looked like a plane section [you know places that are prepare for a plane to land]. We all got off the plane [of course there were others who didn¡¯t want to leave the airplane and was making a scene, but they got forcefully removed with water-elemental magicians that were keeping an eye on us since the whole plane ride.


    ¡°OK, in about 15 minutes, a bell sound will ring, and the game will start, so run if you want, hide if you want, make teams if you want, just remember 20 or the game continues¡± yelled the brown haired woman as the plane starts to take flight and as the doors closes.


    The moment I heard that, I started to run at full speed, I sent my electrical magic throughout my body to enhance my speed, I was moving so fast that I don¡¯t think anyone could catch, and after running for miles to an area I found in the map, an area not too close to any of the other section dots in the map, the bell sound rang. And the All-Stars begin. Game Start.

 Chapter 2: Death & Destiny

    By J. TNANGA


    Chapter 2: Death and Destiny


    As I have finally arrived at the location I have been aiming for, the bell sound rang. The All-Stars commence¡­¡­


    I looked around me in a paranoid way to make sure no one saw me, even though I was certain no one was following me, but my paranoia instincts kicked in. My thoughts became fill with ¡°What if someone saw me?¡± ¡°I should hide better¡± ¡°What in the world did I get myself into¡± ¡°Is this really worth it¡± ¡°Is saving the island worth my life?¡±.


    As I sat wondering and pondering on those questions that popped in my head, little did I know of what was happening on the battlefield.


    ¡°What? Don¡¯t tell me you are already scared?¡± asked a man of age in his late twenties, in a menacing way. ¡°We are just getting started, li¡¯l boy¡±


    ¡°I am not a little boy¡± said the young boy that looks to be in his 16 years old. ¡°Get away from me or I¡¯ll used my wind elemental on you¡±


    ¡°Oh, now, now, we are just getting a little acquainted, you don¡¯t have to shut us down so fast, isn¡¯t that right guys?¡± said the man from before.


    ¡°Yeah, yeah, that¡¯s right¡± said the guys behind him.


    ¡°I am serious¡± said the young boy.


    ¡°And we are serious too, either join our team, or we¡¯ll hurt you so bad that you¡¯ll be begging us to stop, we don¡¯t have a wind elemental among us, so you would be perfect, lil boy¡±


    ¡°Get away from me, you creeps¡± yelled the boy as he activated his wind elemental magic, and created a wind tornado strong enough to lift the guy he was talking with and throw him a couple of feet away.


    ¡°If you don¡¯t want more, I suggest you stay away from me, right now¡± warned the young boy.


    The guys who by now have surrounded the young boy, all chuckles, because none of them were afraid of him. They were going to make him work for them and use him to their advantage.


    As one of the guys that was silently behind the young boy, prepared to use fire elemental magic to catch the boy off guard and capture him, something took his attention behind him. As he turned behind him, to see what it was, he didn¡¯t even have time to dodge or screamed, he was frozen. He was completely frozen from head to toe.


    ¡°Whoa, what in the world just happened to him?¡± asked in a worry tone one of the guys in the front of the young boy. ¡°He just got frozen, but the weird part is, I didn¡¯t see anyone behind him¡±


    ¡°Hahahahaha, you guys really are idiots¡± said the young boy with a wicked smile in his face that took away whatever innocence his face had a couple of seconds ago. ¡°You are all going to die¡±


    ¡°What? What do you know about this? What happened to the guy? Just who are you?¡± asked one of the guys that surrounded the young boy in panic and agitated movements.


    ¡°My. Sis. Is. Going. To. Murder. You. Lot.¡± Said the young boy slowly pronouncing each word and each syllable with a wicked grin and evil in his eyes. ¡°The name¡¯s Darwin, remember the name, not that it matters anymore¡±


    ¡°You¡­.You¡­..You are Darwin, that kid Darwin¡­..but I¡­ I am so sorry¡­please don¡¯t hurt me¡± yelled the man in front of


    Darwin as he peed his pants and started to run for his life with tears in his eyes.


    Then before the man could get fifteen paces away, he was also frozen completely in ice. As the other men that was surrounding Darwin start to run away with panic and tears of regret in their eyes as they realized they were messing with the wrong person, a beautiful lady with blonde long hair and a dress that makes her look like a princess but looked oddly weird since this is a battlefield not where you are supposed to see a princess, showed up out of nowhere as if she was invisible.


    ¡°That¡¯s what you get for messing with Darla and Darwin, sweethearts, have good dreams¡± said the young girl that look like Darwin¡¯s twin with a wicked smile and laughter almost as wicked as Darwin¡¯s.


    The remaining guys all turned to ice. The ice was blue in a crystalized form.


    ¡°Man, this was annoying, wish we would get anyone decent, you know¡± said Darwin as he approaches his sister. ¡°But good job, sis, you are learning that light magic well¡±


    ¡°I told you my light elemental magic especially my brightness invisibility skill would be useful, perfect to catch and kill morons, don¡¯t you think?¡± asked Darla.


    ¡°And that¡¯s why we make the best sibling team¡± replied Darwin as his face regained his youthful innocence for a couple of seconds, then switches back to a wicked malice displaying darkness and evil as he says, ¡°Let¡¯s go kill the rest and make it in the top 5¡±


    ¡°Of course, dear brother¡± replied Darla with almost the same malice in her face.


    In another battlefield:


    ¡°Please, let me go away, I give up, I seriously give up, I didn¡¯t want to mess with you, please let me go, I beg of you¡± yelled a woman with tears in her eyes.


    ¡°I am sorry but I cannot give up, I am deeply sorry when I say this, but you all have to die, it is not my fault but your inevitable fate¡± replied a young man of age twenty years old, as if he was reading a scripture from a holy bible, with a sad but dutiful tone, he continued. ¡°It is your destiny, I am sorry, but the moment you came across my path, only one thing awaited you, and that is death, blame yourself for your insolence and bad luck, blame God for your fate, and blame me as the taker of life¡±


    Then as the old lady continued to run with speed that exceeds any normal person¡¯s by using wind elemental magic to create wind tornadoes at the bottom of her feet so she could use them as propulsion to fly at really fast speed, she suddenly stopped moving and stay in mid-air. She was just stopped in mid-air, her eyes widen as if she could see death, she looks like she was trying to move but was unable to, as if death was holding her strong, as if she was stopped in complete animation.


    After about what was three seconds but felt like an eternity, the black-clouded twenty-year-old man with a hood hiding his face, wearing all black as if to symbolizes death and darkness, made a 180 degree turn and went to the opposite direction that the old lady was going in.


    The old lady¡¯s body that was suspended in mid-air even now, starts to turned into dust slowly but surely, every inch of her body crumbled and turned to dust, leaving nothing but the clothes in suspended animation. Then, as if it was a swift wind acting as some-kind of premonition, the clothes the old lady was wearing got pushed by the wind, and fell to the ground, leaving no evidence but the clothes remaining. It was as if the old lady was never there.


    Lear-Bane:


    With my paranoia getting worse and worse, I decided to hide myself underneath this large hole that I found in the forest. The whole is big enough for an animal as large as a bear or a gigantic panda to enter. I knew that wasn¡¯t a smart thing to do, I also knew the other participants could find me if they used their GPS, but I also know that no one according to my research would waste it on the very first day, since you can only use it once a day. Even though, I know there might be idiots that just don¡¯t care and are looking for some easy lonely fries to kill, I still decided to take this risk.


    As I use my electricity in my body to make my impulses get enhance and move even faster, I approach the black and fearsome whole fill with mud and soil, upon closer inspection, it looks similar to a cave only on the ground and have mud. I hope there isn¡¯t some really dangerous animal in there. I took glance behind me, and then went into the whole.


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    Battlefield: In the building type A (The blue area that Lear-Bane was dropped from the plane along with the others from the same building)


    ¡°Hahahaha¡± laughed a group of three guys with laughter that show they are looking down at everyone on this particular battlefield. ¡°Man, this is way too easy¡±


    ¡°Yeah, I know right, no one can defeat us, except for maybe that death guy, the D & D siblings (Darla & Darwin), and that life miss, besides that, that leaves just three. We are definitely going to be in the 20. After all, we just more or less annihilated everyone here, we should just finish up and go to another area¡±


    ¡°Yeah, well said, most people thought we were weak and that we were pretending to be strong, they never saw it coming¡± said the most muscular one of the three.


    ¡°And you were just grinning and laughing there like an idiot during the whole time at the building, and even in the plane. Because of you, people avoided were we were, now, we have to walk where they are to finish them off¡± said the tallest of the three.


    ¡°It¡¯s not my fault for laughing during the whole time, Marcus, it was just I couldn¡¯t control my blood-lust¡± said the shortest one. ¡°And you aren¡¯t one to talk, you look like a psychopath, Marcus¡±


    ¡°Well, that¡¯s what the doctors at my mental institution said too, but guess what? I killed them. Now, let¡¯s go¡±


    ¡°Let¡¯s have some fun!!!¡± said the muscular one


    As those particular three move to another direction, behind them could be seen nothing but corpses, blood, body parts and gore laying everywhere in the ground.


    Those three just destroyed everyone they saw that was alive in the blue area, and they are moving further from the center of the blue, heading south (unknowingly heading to Lear-Bane¡¯s location). Only the power of imagination could deduce what would have happened if Lear-Bane had remained with the same people that was in his area, he might have been killed by those three as well.


    Yellow Zone:


    ¡°They were not kidding, this really is the bloodiest battle in the world, the All-Star. I can¡¯t believe I am here, but I got to do this, for my family¡± thought Lyrtherndan¡¯s miss. ¡°I shall use my creation magic to heal myself if I am in danger, then use my light magic to make myself invisible, and I can kill my opponents with earth elemental magic. That¡¯s the plan.¡±


    Lyrtherndan¡¯s miss continue to observe the battles taking place from her location, she had no reason to participate in any of the battles. She was going to save her strength, and kill the easy fries that are either weakened from the battles, or let their guards down. She was patient, as patient as a tiger, if she didn¡¯t have to engage in a one-on-one prolonged fight, then there was no way she could lose. It was all moving according to her plan.


    ¡°Damn it!!! Where is she? I was planning on teaming up with her, damn, where did she go? My arm is freaking bleeding, I am starting to feel dizzy, damn it, and I thought I was getting along with her since we talked during the time in the building and air plane, but I was wrong, she doesn¡¯t care at all, shit¡± said someone badly hurt and blood coming out of his mouth and from the wound in his left-arm.


    ¡°Hahaha, told you, no one was going to protect you kiddo, now say your freaking prayers and die an slow agonizing death¡± said a person with a slight mocking tone to his tone. ¡°darkness elemental magic, make him suffer a fate worse than death¡±


    The man with a purple sweater that makes him look unusual since they are all in a forest in humid temperature but he is still wearing a sweater (dark purple). The dark energy spiral out of the purple-sweater man¡¯s two hands and go directly to the man with the wound in his left-arm, but instead of attacking the man directly, the dark spiral of dark energy spiral and then form a thin line similar to a thread and enters the large cut in the left-arm of the man.


    Then the man scream, and continues to scream times and times over.


    ¡°Make it stop¡­..pleazzzz, make it stop, pleazz¡± repeated the man with the wound, as tears and snots came all over his face and as he wiggle in pain and turn around and around on the floor and pressing his left-arm with all his strength on the hard forest ground, yet the pain still did not cease.


    ¡°I can¡¯t really understand what you are saying with all those tears and snots, you will have to do better than that¡± said the purple-sweater-man.


    ¡°Pleazzz stupp, pleaz¡± repeated the wounded man.


    ¡°Hahaha, is the pain so bad, you can¡¯t even talk properly, I am not going to stop until you go mad with pain, until you beg for death, only then will I stop¡±


    ¡°Plaezz help, spombody help¡­.heppllppp¡± cried out loud the wounded man, but no one came, everyone was either too busy with their own battles to pay attention to what was going on, or they just didn¡¯t care.


    6 minutes later:


    ¡°Juz kil me, juz kill me, pleaz kill¡± said the wounded man as if he was mad with pain with a crazed facial expression as if he has been to hell and just wanted it to end.


    ¡°Exactly, well said¡± said the purple-sweater-man. ¡°DIE¡±


    The purple-sweater-man, then turned around, and as he turned, the wounded man as dead. His body fell as if he was lifeless before his body even reach the ground, he was already dead.


    ¡°Pathetic, kids, these days, can¡¯t even take a little pain, seriously, when All-Stars first started, it was worse, he only lasted 6 minutes, man, what a bummer, at least I got to see his beautiful facial expression, guess it was worth it, I wonder what my three friends in the blue section are doing, I guess it¡¯s about time I go and meet them, then, we can start taking over this game¡­.¡±


    ¡°OMG¡± said lyrtherndan¡¯s miss in her hideout. ¡°I was thinking about helping him, he seemed like a nice guy, but right when I was about to help him, my body froze with fear¡­..such dark energy¡­.so much darkness and death, and to make it worse, he isn¡¯t even the death elemental magi, he is just darkness¡±


    ¡°Can such a thing be, how can death and darkness be so similar yet different. Darkness controls shadows, mind, pain, anything dark, and death is just death, nothing more, nothing less¡± thought the little miss. ¡°I need to hide myself completely, with my life magic I don¡¯t need to eat, anytime I get hungry, I¡¯ll just heal myself, then the hunger will go away and I¡¯ll be fine for a while, so long as I don¡¯t exert my life magic, I¡¯ll be fine. I am not going outside with someone so dangerous lurking around the corner¡±


    Blue Section:


    ¡°When is big bro going to come?¡± asked the muscular guy.


    ¡°Ah, you just can¡¯t wait, now can you, we are just like one big happy family even though not related by blood, but anyway, we should be meeting him soon, he decided to sign up on behalf of another country in the west, that¡¯s why we didn¡¯t see him in the type A blue building. He wanted to see how the miss looks like, and play with her a little¡± said Marcus.


    ¡°Hey, I want to mess with her too¡± said Lordandy with a wicked smile.


    ¡°Stop smiling like that, you¡¯ll scare the children away, and we need to kill them¡± responded Marcus as he looks at Lordandy. ¡°But don¡¯t worry, big bro Orcantz have a plan, he always does, and we will be enjoying ourselves with death and life on this championship, Orcantz said he learned some dark spells similar to death but different, it¡¯s going to get real soon¡±


    ¡°I want to see life magic¡± said the muscular guy.


    ¡°You¡¯ll get to see it soon enough, Orland, we¡¯ll take our turns¡± responded Marcus.

 Chapter 3: Lightnings Potential

    By J. TNANGA


    Chapter 3: Lightning¡¯s potential


    I finally entered inside the underground tunnel, I guess you could call it. Mud was everywhere, and as I go deeper, I started to feel more or less in control of myself again. I finally started to cool my head. I have never experience such tremendous fear and paranoia before.


    ¡°Maybe I should see a therapist for a lot more than just self-esteem problems¡± I begin to think. ¡°I was really acting paranoid like someone was after me and that people were completely annihilating everyone and my life (even with my lightning elemental Magic) was at risk¡±


    I laugh darkly and decided to take a nap next to the tunnel wall, but before I take a nap, I decided to to activate my lightning defense (It turns my body like steel, making it so strong that no one could deliver a punch at me, it only hurt the person that tried, and not even a knife can pierce me when I am in that mode) and then went to sleep. What I realized is, even when I am asleep, my lightning magic is still activated so long as I do it before I fall asleep.


    Magic in this world, if you use it and you fall asleep, then the spell will deactivate, but there are exceptions such as mind-control magic. Even when you fall asleep, the person you mind control will still continue to be mind-control so long as the person who use the mind-control is alive and he¡¯s body is still supplying magical energy, then the mind-control will continue.


    In my world, scientists have realized that, magic come from an invisible element found in our universe. The element is called: Ethereal. It is not solely on earth but everywhere in this solar system, and we magicians take that energy and sent it in our bodies, which allow us to use magic. Scientists have discovered that as we grow older, our mantra (it is what we call the part in our brain where magical energy is gathered) will no longer increase as we grow older, it will stay the same once we reach a certain age.


    Somewhere along our late thirties and mid-forties, our energy quantity will no longer increase. That¡¯s why, every magician is told to train and train, to rapidly increase the amount energy they can contain in their mantra, so as to increase the volume, and by the time they reach their early forties, they will have triple that of a regular magician.


    Such new found research is why the All-Stars Competition is so teen-friendly and why most participant are teenagers. The more energy you hold in your mantra, the better your life can be, and a good practice is life and death scenarios. Usually, you would think a parent would tell their children to just practice their magic at home and that will eventually lead them to great lengths, but that is wrong, being at risk of possible death, puts pressure on the brain to work harder and produce more and more magical energy and gather even more ethereal energy.


    Only being at such grave circumstances can magicians truly grow in leaps and lengths, which explained why crazy parents would allow their kids to go to All-Stars. Anyway, magic spells once activated would naturally turned off once no ethereal energy is being supplied (Either the person that activated the spell is dead, or he/she stops supplying the spell with energy, thus spell stops, that¡¯s actually how magicians stops their spells, they just giving out energy) but for some reason, my magic is different.


    Once I activate my magic spell [Lightning Defense] the spell automatically absorbs a great amount of ethereal and then continues to be active. I tested to find out if that was true with video camera and such, and it stays active throughout the whole time I was asleep until I woke up and decided to turn it off. Also, while I am sleeping, my [Lightning Defense] does not continuously absorb ethereal energy from me, it just stays exactly the same, which is really weird, since a spell continuously absorb ethereal until the magician decides to stop.


    Another interesting thing I learned from my magic is, you know how I said, all a magician have to do to turn off their magic spell is to stop supplying it with ethereal energy, well, mine is different, since after absorbing a certain quantity of ethereal from the moment I activated it, it no longer absorb anymore, therefore, you are probably wondering how do I stop the spell then?


    Well, it is an annoying but effective way, I activate the same spell I am currently using, and the moment it tries to gather ethereal energy from me (again), I merely don¡¯t supply it, and for some reason that cancel out the previous same spell. (I know, it¡¯s really annoying, imaging having 20 spells activated, all the other magicians would just stop supplying spells to all of them, but for me, I have to do it in a whole other round-about way, I have to once again activated all twenty spells and be really careful about it since once spell activated, it will begin to absorb energy, and that 3 second pause when I activated the same spells right before it starts to absorb ethereal, I stop supplying, then all the previous same spells will be cancel).


    That¡¯s the only sure-way I found to deactivate my spells, really bothers me, but I have to endure. So, I activated my [lightning Defense] and went to sleep. I know I should be well protected.


    Red-Section:


    ¡°I was wondering what everyone was doing¡± said Darwin sarcastically. ¡°Seems they are doing just fantastic¡±


    ¡°Wow, this is a perfect setting for us, don¡¯t you think¡± said Darla. ¡°We can enjoy this battle at last¡±


    ¡°So, your ice feet limit is 40 feet right, anyone within 40 feet, right?¡± asked Darwin with a plan in mind.


    ¡°Yes¡± replied Darla quickly. ¡°I can see where you are going with this¡±


    ¡°HAHAHA, they are so not going to see this coming¡± laughed Darwin.


    ¡°Hummm¡± said Darla at first quietly, then said in a casual tone. ¡°They will know something is up though¡±


    ¡°Exactly, we will use that¡± added Darwin as if it was more of an after-thought then anything else.


    The two twins then approach the battlefield that was a 2 miles or so near them, and did what they do best.


    ¡°Use light magic to heal the people Darla¡± said Darwin with a straight face full of innocence, purity, and youth. ¡°Don¡¯t keep them waiting¡±


    As soon as Darwin said that, Darla started going from people to people that were fighting and started using light magic to heal them.


    Two men that were fighting with both darkness ability and fire momentarily stops fighting to look at their wounds disappearing. Out of all the things that could have taken their attention, it had to be healing. Something they did not expect at all. So, they stopped fighting and look at the girl sending ethereal energy at them.


    ¡°What do you think you are doing, girl?¡± asked the bearded one of the two fighting. ¡°Why are you helping us? We don¡¯t even know you¡±


    ¡°Because we are good people, wanting to form a team¡± said the girl so casually that it made the two men laugh at her purity and innocence.


    ¡°What is a cute girl like you doing here? Did your parents or government pick you and made you come?¡± asked the one without beard.


    ¡°Something like that¡± said the girl with tears forming from her eyes.


    ¡°Ok, sorry, did not want to hurt your feelings, but this is the All-Stars, and you know how it works, and we are having a battle of men, of honor, so please leave us to it, we do not want any distraction¡± said the man with no beard.


    ¡°Ahh, come on, we can battle later, we were about evenly match anyway, don¡¯t see a little harm taking a break¡± said the bearded man.


    ¡°Ok, fine, but don¡¯t forget our battle of honors¡± added the beardless one.


    ¡°I will not forget¡±


    The little girl then in quite a cute way, go to other people that were in battles, and heal them, and using her pretty and innocent looks, made them stop fighting to take a break. After a good half-hour, they were all gather in the same area more or less with a couple of feet apart. They were all keeping their guards up since no one knew the others magic. So, when the two siblings came and started talking about teams and stuff, they all tried to listen attentively.


    ¡°We understand where you are coming from¡± said one man that look like he is in his fifties. ¡°But this is All-Stars, stop wasting your ethereal to heal us, you know it takes time for your body to naturally absorb the ethereal energy from the atmosphere, you should be watching out for yourself¡±


    ¡°Yeah, exactly, like the old man just said¡± said one of the younger individuals there. ¡°You should just be keeping your eyes open and don¡¯t do the things you just did, that¡¯ll get you kill, and also, I feel like I know you two, or at least seen you somewhere¡±


    ¡°No, I don¡¯t think that¡¯s possible, this is our first time in All-Stars¡±


    ¡°Is that right? well, that kinds of make sense, but still doesn¡¯t changes anything¡± said one of the middle age men, as he raises his guard and is keeping his distance from the rest.


    The rest of the group starts to distance themselves a little bit noticing the body language of the person that just talked and remembering this is the All-Stars competition and not a game.


    ¡°No, no, don¡¯t worry, even though we can kill teammates like they said at the building, I don¡¯t think any of us is going to do that, I am willing to trust all of you, and as sign of us trusting you all, we will do a group healing¡± said Darwin with the brightest, purest, and holy smile you have ever seen, making him look benevolent and angelic as if he was God-Given and God-Sent.


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    The moment that Darwin said that, because of his smile, everyone felt at ease, the tensions in their muscles ease greatly, they felt relaxed and was even starting to clear away any thoughts that those two might bring malice to them, and completely relaxed as they wait for their complete light-ethereal-heal.


    Magicians are remarkable individuals, they are able to sense when ethereal energy is gathering from someone, they just can¡¯t tell what spell is being used, unless it is a voice chant spell but those are rarely used, except in the case of highly effective high-rank spells. (Which is why that individual from last time, that was behind Darwin and was about to use fire-elemental Magic to capture Darwin, turned around behind him because he sensed an ethereal energy gathering behind him).


    So, when Darla started to gather ethereal energy no one kept their distance and kept their guards up, because of that, they all turned to ice. It was as if they were blue-ice-sculpting. Their facial expression didn¡¯t even have time to change to a look of worried, since for water elemental magician, the closer they are to the target the faster the spell works, and the spell is Darla¡¯s favorite, one she trained with constantly, so before anyone realized it, they were all dead (well, frozen is the technical term, but yes, dead, no coming back from being frozen unless you are a dark elemental magician).


    In the group there were three individuals with dark elemental magic, so they naturally became unfrozen after being frozen for two minutes. But Darla and Darwin were waiting for them, and Darla merely re-used the same spell on them. Naturally, those individuals after two minutes started to use shadow to melt the ice off their body slowly but surely, from the top of their head to the rest of their body, but as fast as they start to melt the ice off the head, it was frozen once more.


    ¡°I can¡¯t keep going, you know that, don¡¯t you?¡± asked Darla. ¡°What are we going to do?¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, my spell is right about finish now, since after I finish my speech with them, I started to recite in my mind this wind-elemental and darkness curse I memorized, I was fussing the two together, it will take time, just give me 30 seconds more¡±


    ¡°Ok¡± said Darla weakly as her face starts to turn pale. ¡°Just hurry, I am right about out now¡±


    As soon as Darla said that, one of the three individuals¡¯ head started to melt the ice, the ice them starts to crumble and turn to water, then water vapor, then he could start to blink, and was looking at his kidnappers with a questioning expression, since he doesn¡¯t know what just happened. To him, it felt like less than a second have passed, and doesn¡¯t realized that his darkness elemental magic automatically activated when he was frozen multiple times by now, which would explain why he was feeling so tired.


    ¡°What just happened? You were about to heal us and then¡­.then¡­I am here frozen right now, what¡¯s going on? Only my automatic unfrozen darkness that all darkness elementals learn saved me from dying in that ice.¡± Said one of three men, still uncomprehending.


    ¡°There were some complications¡± said Darwin with a straight innocent face. ¡°Some guy came and froze us¡±


    ¡°What? Then you know darkness elemental magic, then?¡± said the man.


    ¡°Ul Cardwitch¡± said Darwin.


    ¡°Wait¡­.that spell is¡­.no, no¡­..no..¡± responded the man with panic in his face.


    Darkness energy left the hands of Darwin and gather in mid-air next to the man¡¯s face, and the dark energy then continues to gather from Darwin¡¯s hands, and form a dark circular pitch-black orb, with a tornado wind surrounding it to make look like it¡¯s capable of destroying and of causing massive obliteration.


    As the man, still haven¡¯t finish being completely unfrozen, and his melting of the ice was right at his shoulder level, he tries to move and break free with panic showing in his face, but the ice was too strong.


    Darla and Darwin starts to move away from the group by using wind tornado magic at their feet (Or to be exact, Darla already ran out of energy, Darwin is the one using magic to carry his sister with him). After reaching a good mile away in less than 7 minutes, Darwin then, turned his face to the direction the three individuals were at.


    ¡°Obliterate,  Ul Cardwitch¡±


    As if on cue (which it was), the dark orb with wind swiftly moving around it in a circular motion, then, completely change shape and the darkness then covers everyone both frozen and those currently in unfrozen process, then, exploded. It was a big explosion, with pile of lands being lift up in the air, and body parts falling. Leaving no life left.


    ¡°Wow, so beautiful, you can see the explosion all the way here, and it¡¯s red, or is it the pile of earth that got life up (the soil) that makes it red, the blood, or just the explosion itself¡± asked Darla with a wondering facial expression. ¡°It is so beautiful, brother, I¡¯ll do something as amazing to show you too¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t wait to see it, oh, right, guess it¡¯s about time to order some food even though it¡¯ll take them a hour or two to bring it. We should take a break right here, I¡¯ll use wind elemental magic to create a camp (well kind of, I¡¯ll just cut some trees and see what else I can find, maybe we¡¯ll run into a lion, that would be delicious)¡± said Darwin.


    ¡°But you use a lot of magic to create that orbie thingy thing?¡± asked Darla. ¡°You shouldn¡¯t exert yourself¡±


    ¡°Darla, you always knew I had more ethereal capacity than you since birth, for some odd reason even though we are twins, I am so strong now, I should be able to use that dark-wind-orb at least twice in 24 hours, and as long as I don¡¯t use it again, using regular wind-elemental magic is just absorbing a little of my ethereal, so no problem, I am good¡± explained Darwin.


    ¡°I am so happy¡± said Darla with a kind-hearted smile.


    ¡°You are strong too Darla, freezing a total of 150 people in the first 3 hours of the game, if that¡¯s not strong, then I don¡¯t know what is. And you are probably stronger than me Darla, since all you need is a couple of hours to regenerate your ethereal magic completely, you really are abnormal¡± explained Darwin.


    ¡°But you managed to fuse together both wind and darkness to create a spell mixed with both, even hard-working Ph.D. magic professors can¡¯t even do that all the time, you can do that 2 times in 24 hours and probably can use regular wind-elemental magic after that, you are too powerful, there¡¯s noway you¡¯ll lose, brother¡± explained Darla.


    ¡°well, I am a genius, seems to me I have become too famous, even random people are starting to know my face these days¡±


    ¡°well, you are Darwin after all, the 16-year-old genius that have managed fuse three spells together¡±


    ¡°Yeah, but the moment I fuse three spells together, I am completely depleted of magic and will take 12 hours before I start to regenerate, so it¡¯ll probably take me 24 hours to fully have 100% ethereal magic again¡±


    Lear-Bane:


    ¡°Whoa, what in the world is going on? Was that an earthquake? Maybe I should start to make my way out of this cave, do not want to end up locked in here, like the tunnel crumbling and rocks blocking the exit¡± I said as I was startled awake by the big vibration.


    I awoke and exactly as I knew, my [lightning defense] was still on. I got up and started to make my way outside, except I couldn¡¯t see anything, it was completely dark.


    ¡°Has it been this long already? A whole day passed?¡± I begin to think as I check my ASD¡¯s time.


    [Connection lost, time cannot be display, map still available, but exact location unknown, signs of life: Alive and healthy]


    ¡°What in the world?¡± I began to panic once more. So, All-Stars know I am alive, but I just can¡¯t communicate with them, so, technically, if someone was passing by and they do a scan from their ASD device to check for any participants (players), I will not come up? Wait¡­..That¡¯s kind of cool, I don¡¯t have to worry about that.


    As I begin to calm down and think this was probably a good thing and that I just needed to find a way out and that I needed light, I remembered one thing. Food. I was really hungry, now. I only ate that breakfast I had before I left my island, only that cup of water at the airplane, and that was it, and that was about it.


    My fears that started to disappear, started to reappear, as I create an electric light by using lightning elemental magic from my hand. I am using my right hand as a flashlight by using lightning. I named this technique flashlight (And yes, I know, it is exactly like a flashlight and it is made from lightning, by creating lightning in your body, then send it to your hand, then continue to condense it until it glows, that¡¯s my flashlight).


    ¡°OMG¡± I said as I start to see who or to be exact, what was in the cave with me. ¡°I am so screwed, so this is what the cave (tunnel was for), damn¡±

 Chapter 4: Did Someone Just Call Me, Death????

    THE SINGLE LIGHTNING ELEMENTAL MAGUS (TSLEM)


    By J. TNANGA


    Chapter 4: Did someone just call me, death????


    ¡°Please don¡¯t kill us, we don¡¯t want to hurt you, we¡¯ll stay out of your way, please forgive us¡± repeated a man that looks tired, as if he has been fighting his opponent for hours, but it has actually been only 15 minutes.


    ¡°I know you don¡¯t want to die, but your fate is seal, it is no longer my doing, but fate itself, it is not me you should be begging forgiveness but God, for I am nothing but a lonely taker of life, death is what they call me, for anyone who approaches all inadvertently die. It is a sure way to death, for death is my middle name¡± said a young tall man with a hood still partially hiding his face.


    ¡°But you don¡¯t have to take my life, you can leave it just the way it is, I know my fate, but you can change your mind?¡± asked the other man with panic and worried entering his voice.


    ¡°¡­¡­.¡±


    ¡°Please don¡¯t do this, I have a family¡± said the man, as he becomes unable to continue talking or even move any longer, as if something was holding him with a huge magnitude of strength, and his eyes widen as if he sees his own inevitable death.


    ¡°Be gone from this world, for you have crossed my path¡± said the hooded man, as he turned around and look ahead, noticing a small group of 20-30 individuals ahead, and with a sad facial expression, moves towards them.


    The man that was begging for his life was already forgotten by the hooded man, since after all, the moment the hooded man said the word be-gone, the other man was already turned to nothing but dust with solely his clothes remaining.


    ¡°I have a promise to keep. And miles to go before I sleep, I do not have time to rest, I must continue until there is nothing in my path¡± said the hooded man.


    With still some distance between him and the 20-30 individuals in on-going battle, the hooded man then lift his hand and stretch it towards the direction of those individuals, and without a single smile or happy expression in his face but with a look devoid of any emotion, said the following using a monotonic voice:


    ¡°Death has no companion, for in death everyone is equal, it doesn¡¯t matter how/where/when you die, everyone no matter how rich or poor are equal in death¡±


    The hooded man then turned around as well, and continue in his slow, sad, and lonely path, as if he was lost and had forgotten that all 20-30 of the individuals that he was facing a couple of seconds ago, have all turned to dust, with only a pile of clothes remaining.


    ¡°I need to¡­¡­need¡­.to¡­..s¡­..¡± the hooded man started to say but never finish his sentence, for a teleportation portal appeared near him, and even though he looked at the teleportation portal with disgust in his eyes, he still went inside.


    ¡°I¡­.need¡­.to¡­.sto¡­..sto¡­.¡± repeated the hooded man acting more and more as if he lost his memories or as if he have memory impairment or that he was blocking something from his brain.


    ¡°Control is key¡­..Control is power¡­.right?....right?....right?¡± said the hooded man as if he was a completely different person and was trying to reassure himself, except for the fact that the voice he used to say that, was completely different from his earlier voice, as if someone was trying to take over.


    ¡°Right¡­.right?¡± said the hooded man with that dark voice that just doesn¡¯t fit his face and facial expression, that makes him look insane.


    Little did the hooded man know that thanks to the teleportation portal, he was at a looking distance to the tunnel that Lear-Bane is in. And to make matters worse, the hooded man seems to have noticed the tunnel as well and is heading there.


    ¡°¡­¡­Tunnel¡­..good¡­¡­control¡­..need to¡­.sto¡­.stop¡­¡­tunnel¡­.good¡­.control¡­.myself??¡± repeated the hooded man that say his middle name is death.


    Lear-Bane:


    There was a gigantic sleeping bear right at the entrance.


    ¡°No wonder it became so dark¡± I thought. ¡°How am I going to survive now?¡±


    The bear was gigantic, a couple of meters tall. It was breathing hard and snoring a little. I continue to look at the bear to observe its sleeping patter to see if I can make my way around it, but every couple of minutes the bear would just change side.


    ¡°I don¡¯t think I can get out of this¡± I calculated. ¡°And if I don¡¯t get out, this bear will wake up and notice me in its territory¡±


    With no hope in sight. I remained sitting down and starts to formulate a plan. Those are my options:


    1)      tried to mind-control the gigantic bear (If fail, the bear will surely wake up from the electrical impulse)


    2)     Wait for someone to come and save me (unlikely, that¡¯ll only happen if I was one of the 20 left)


    3)     Fight the bear (even though I am strong as steel, I am sure the bear can destroy me)


    4)     Wait¡­.until the bear naturally wakes up and become it¡¯s dinner (not a good idea)


    5)     Punch myself in the face for deciding to participate in All-Stars (Sounds like a good idea right now)


    My therapist told me that I was always too tense, as if I felt like someone was always watching me or after me, and that I should stop being so serious and tell jokes to laugh and try to be humorous and that sometimes being humorous can help in severe situations.


    (Well, Mr. Therapist, it isn¡¯t helping right now, and I am pretty sure this is a severe situation, so, I think you just wasted my parents that four hundred dollars a week subscription).


    As I was still (Unsuccessfully trying to see the positive side to all this as my therapist recommended) something interesting happened. The bear then suddenly woke up, and my heart started to beat faster and faster as I thought it was my final moments and that the bear was going to eat me alive, the bear¡¯s eyes widen in complete fear, and then started turning into dust???


    ¡°Wait¡­..that¡¯s¡­.dust¡­.and eyes widening¡­.there¡¯s¡­only one person this could be¡­..damn I have bad luck, don¡¯t I?¡± I thought really quickly. ¡°I saw those same exact spell being used on the previous All-Stars, the death kid¡±


    ¡°I¡­..can¡­.see¡­you¡± states the hooded man as he look directly at me. ¡°Do you know who I am?¡±


    ¡°Yes¡± I said in a low voice.


    ¡°Well, that makes it easier¡± said the hooded figure. ¡°Nice meeting you¡±


    As the hooded figure continue to walk deeper and deeper into the tunnel, reaching to where I was standing, but not even looking at me, as if I was no longer a person, as if I was already dead and of no importance to him whatsoever, as if he already forgot my very existence, the hooded figure then stops in his track.


    He then turns around to my direction and look at me with surprise in his eyes.


    ¡°How¡­.are..you still alive?¡± he asked. ¡°You should have turned to dust completely a couple of seconds ago¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know¡± I lied. ¡°Are you sure you did it right?¡±


    ¡°Stop lying, just who are you?¡± asked the hooded figure. ¡°Maybe¡­.you¡­can help me¡±


    ¡°What? I don¡¯t understand¡± I said with a worried face. ¡°You are planning on asking someone you just tried to murder to help you?¡±


    ¡°Yes¡­..and I know how it sounds¡­.but¡­don¡¯t have too¡­much time¡± said the hooded figure.


    While the hooded figure was trying to explain whatever he was trying to explain to me, I was not just sitting there and listening like a good boy, I already sent electricity throughout my whole body, and at a moment¡¯s notice, I could run with super-fast speed, leaving nothing but a blur.


    Then as the hooded figure open his mouth to say something, I ran.


    I ran and continue running until I was a good distance of two miles away. Then I look behind me and there he was.


    Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.


    I was really shocked that my opponent was so fast, it was like he was there before me, as if he knew where I was going and where I was going to stop. So, I run again, this time three miles. I finally stop to catch my breath, and guess what I hear and see?


    ¡°You just don¡¯t understand, do you?¡± asked the hooded figure. ¡°Since the moment you met me, your fate was sealed. Curse yourself for your insolence and bad luck, curse God for your fate, and curse me as the taker of life¡±


    ¡°What?¡± I subconsciously said.


    ¡°I don¡¯t understand, you should be unable to talk and move, you should start to turn to dust, but my powers are not working on you? Just what are you? Can such a thing be? You might be the one I¡¯ve been looking for¡± said the hooded figure. ¡°Help me¡±


    The moment I subconsciously said ¡°what¡±, I already began to send even more electrical power throughout my whole body, and I ran again, only hearing half of what the hooded figure said. I ran two miles in the west direction.


    I finally arrived there. I found myself in a forest with trees and such. I turned behind me, and he wasn¡¯t there. Thank God, seems that I managed to get away from him somehow.


    ¡°Help¡­¡­..me¡± said the hooded figure on my left.


    ¡°OMG¡± I said really loud in a shocked expression. ¡°How can you be so fast?¡±


    I ran again this time for a straight 5 miles west. After I finally stop, the man was also there, and he doesn¡¯t look tired at all, as if he walked here, or was teleported here. I was out of breath, but the man is just standing there like this much running is nothing. He finally responds to my previous question.


    ¡°It¡¯s not that I am fast, more like your fate is sealed, and I will never be able to leave your side until I stop supplying ethereal to my death magic that is on you. So, where ever you go, whenever you go, how you go, I will always be there, but of course there are exceptions¡± said the hooded man with a calm monotonic voice. ¡°If I die, then I will no longer be with you, or if I stop supplying ethereal to the death magic surrounding you¡±


    ¡°Then stop¡± I said with impatience. ¡°You said yourself that you cannot kill me, then stop¡±


    ¡°I cannot until you help me¡­.need¡­.help¡± said the hooded man. ¡°mind control¡±


    Somehow I felt a connection with the person in front of me, like his voice sounded familiar, as if I knew someone with that voice.


    ¡°Maybe it¡¯s my imagination, there¡¯s no way I know someone with death magic¡± I thought.


    I quickly understood the gist of things, and used my electricity to tried to control this person¡¯s mind, and even though it was my first time using my elemental magic like that, I managed to get into his mind.


    ¡°It feels too easy¡± a dark thought came to my mind. ¡°No one has this easy of a brain to get into¡±


    When I entered his brain, I could feel another presence inside. A very dominating presence.


    ¡°So, that¡¯s what he needed help with¡± I thought, as I gather more and more of my ethereal and focused on destroying the presence that I feel shouldn¡¯t be there.


    ¡°I hope I am not destroying something I shouldn¡¯t be¡± I said out loud, but of course no one answered, since I was inside the other person¡¯s mind, he couldn¡¯t exactly talk right now.


    After 10 minutes of doing this:


    ¡°I am done now¡± I said, as I take my ethereal out of his mind. ¡°You should be clean out now, and I even put some mental electrical defense in your mind, the next time someone decided to take over your mind, he¡¯ll probably end up taking days maybe even weeks before successfully controlling you again.


    ¡°Thank you¡± said the hooded figure as he removed his hood. ¡°I owe you, Lear-Bane¡±


    ¡°You¡­.do I know you?¡± I asked as his face remind me of something important, especially his voice now that was no longer monotone but more of an actual person¡¯s voice.


    ¡°So, they did the same thing to you as well¡± said the hooded man but he was no longer wearing a hood, his hair was the same as mine, and his face even bear a resemblance to mine.


    ¡°I am you¡± said the man.


    ¡°What? That makes no sense¡± I said. ¡°What in the world are you talking about? You are crazy¡±


    ¡°But you are looking at me right now, aren¡¯t you?¡± asked the man that called himself me. ¡°Don¡¯t you see how much we look similar¡±


    ¡°No, we don¡¯t¡± I lied. ¡°We don¡¯t look similar at all¡±


    I decided to get away from this guy and ran 4 miles away. There I found myself deeper in the jungle, except there was an area that looks like trees have been cut and someone was trying to build a small camp or something.


    ¡°How did you two get here without us noticing?¡± asked a girl that looks 16-year-old with blonde hair and wearing a pretty dress. ¡°What do you want?¡±


    ¡°I am so sorry¡± I said, not knowing what else to say since I was the one who stumble unto them. ¡°Wait¡­.did you say two?¡±


    With no warning what so ever, the blonde girl disappears and the boy that was with her takes a stance. I recognized the young boy instantly. Darwin Marvellus.


    The young sixteen-year-old prodigy rumor to have a total of 5 elemental magic but no one really knows for sure since have only used three on T.V., but that¡¯s not even why people are talking about him, he is famous for managing to fuse three elemental magic together, thanks to such an accomplishment, he is one of those people that will forever change the world as we know it.


    Even Ph.D. professors that study magic in full depth have trouble just fusing two magic spells, but this 16-year-old manage to do three different magic spells as if it was as easy as making pancake. (I actually wrote a 10-page essay about this kid in magic theory class, so of course I know about this guy).


    I also heard rumors about his personality, that he has killed many people that works with him in his laboratory and that he has blood-lust and enjoy manipulating people and killing them. He views himself and his sister as both being superior to all others even to the big three rarest. I did my research extensively about this guy, and heard a lot of nasty stuff about him.


    I knew I shouldn¡¯t be messing with him if he has 5 different elemental magic as the rumors say, I ran in the opposite direction for about three miles, then I came to a complete stop as I ran out of ethereal.


    ¡°Whoa, that was close back there, you could have died, you really got lucky, I could sense death coming from those two back there, they were going to kill you¡± said the man that said he is me.


    ¡°OMG¡± I said in a loud surprise voice. ¡°How do you keep doing that, it¡¯s really scaring me, appearing out of nowhere like that¡±


    ¡°Well, I am fated to be with you¡±


    ¡°I am sorry, but I am not into guys that way, dude¡±


    ¡°I am not a dude but you, once connected you¡¯ll come to understand everything¡±


    ¡°I am not you¡± I said with a loud serious voice. ¡°You are just saying that because you are trying to kill me¡±


    ¡°We must hurry, my death magic is saying those two might find us, and as you are now you might die¡± said the man that called himself me. ¡°Besides you know I am right¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know what you are talking about¡±


    ¡°Are you really going to deny the evidence?¡±


    ¡°You just look similar to me, that¡¯s all¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s because I am 5 years older than you, five years from now, if we haven¡¯t met, you would have looked the same as me¡±


    ¡°You are crazy¡± I said but was too exhausted to argue with this guy, I used all my energy to do all that running and since I am keeping my [lightning defense] on in case this weirdo tries anything.


    The weird crazy man then approaches even closer to me, and I move away from him, but since I am exhausted, I end up falling in the floor. It didn¡¯t hurt since my body is in lightning defense mode.


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, we¡¯ll finally be connected as one, again¡±


    ¡°What?¡± I asked as the man touches my shoulder and everything went black.


    ¡°Is this death¡± I wonder. ¡°Where am I?¡±

 Chapter 5: The Truth....

    THE SINGLE LIGHTNING ELEMENTAL MAGUS


    By J. TNANGA


    Chapter 5: The truth.....


    I couldn¡¯t see anything. No matter where I turn my head, there was nothing but darkness. I found myself in a dark endless space, floating in mid-air. I could go anywhere, but I could not see anything. It felt empty, old, even ancient at times. There was this feeling of misery and loneliness but also of duty and will.


    ¡°Welcome to my mind palace, Lear-Bane¡± said the older version of myself. ¡°I am glad you made it hear un-harm¡±


    ¡°Wait¡­.was there a possibility that I could have gotten hurt?¡± I asked slowly trying to keep my guards up with this guy.


    ¡°¡­.......¡±


    ¡°So, there was no way I could have gotten hurt, right??¡± I repeated again.


    ¡°¡­¡­¡­no¡­¡­not¡­hurt¡­..maybe¡­.dead??.....¡± said the older version of myself. ¡°Anyway, glad that you are here, let¡¯s get to business¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t try to change the subject!!!¡± I yelled. ¡°I know what you are trying to do. You are trying to torture me until I give up this championship¡±


    ¡°No, not quite¡± the older me said.


    ¡°Yeah, and you are trying to scare me to death as well¡± I continued.


    ¡°No¡± said the older me softly as if he was anti-social.


    ¡°Then, why did you bring me to your mind palace, as you called it?¡± I asked


    ¡°We shall merge¡± he said.


    Before I even had time to react, he grabbed my head, then memories begin to fill my mind.


    My name is Lear-Bane H. Selverbern. I was born on a particular summer day, just like any other summer. I was born two weeks later than the doctors thought I would be born, but that wasn¡¯t too rare. I remember when the doctors took me out of my mother¡¯s womb, and handed me to my mother. I remember the feeling of comfort as my mother held me with her arms, and held me so closely as if I was a bird and she was afraid I was going to suddenly try to fly.


    I remember then, that a dark clothed man came into the hospital room where I was. His ethereal energy was gathering in his hands, and I awoke completely. I turned my small head and looked at the man that just killed the doctors that were there. He looked at me and I looked at him. I saw malice in his eyes, and death radiating from him.


    I knew he¡¯ll kill my parents that had no magic and he would take me. I knew I had to protect them, but I was just born, I couldn¡¯t exactly do anything. The man then walked closer to my terrified parents, and knowing he was going to murder them, I opened a teleportation portal and using all the strength I could muster tried to get inside.


    My parents were confused, a man wearing all black with a mask in his face hiding his identity, came out of nowhere and started to attack us, then out of nowhere a purple circle of massive ethereal energy came in front of them, they didn¡¯t know what to make of it.


    My parents didn¡¯t know whether the man that was trying to kill them was the same man that opened the portal, or if it was someone else, but at any rate, my parents decided even if they died, they would give me a chance of survival. They started to throw anything they could grab and throw it at the man. But the man was too strong.


    He merely used magic to destroy any objects that were sent flying at his directions. And even those he didn¡¯t have time to use magic for, he merely dodges and block. The man was smiling now, and his smile was wicked.


    ¡°After all this time, I have finally found you at last and even though you are just one of them, I will find the rest, really soon, then it would be complete¡± said the man with laughter and madness in his voice.


    The man then approaches us, and my parents with sudden desperation and even with the wounds and their bloody shirts from the cuts they attained from the man¡¯s dark magic, threw me into the portal with tears and blood.


    ¡°I hope we did the right thing, hopefully that ethereal gate will take you to a better place¡±


    ¡°What? What did you do?¡± yelled the man with a loud voice, as if this is the first time he noticed the portal. ¡°But it doesn¡¯t matter, I still left my dark trace in that child, it doesn¡¯t matter where he goes, as long as I still exist, I will find him, for I can find anyone with my dark magic trace and can control them¡±


    The man then in a furry that his plan so far had come to a miscalculation, killed the two married couple that were trying to save the child and left.


    Since I was thrown into the portal I could only hear half of what my father said about doing the right thing by sending me in the gate. That¡¯s when I came to this world. When I went into the portal, it brought me in front a house. It was early morning at that time, so naturally, at such a time, people will be leaving for work, a man that looks exactly like my father.


    (No, to exact, it was my father) opened the door to make way to go to work, leaving home, but the moment he looked at the ground, there I was.


    ¡°What in the world?¡± said the man. ¡°What is a baby doing here? Did someone just leave a baby in front of our doorsteps? What is wrong with me people? Now, what should I be doing? The police, right?¡±


    The man then took me in. After he called his wife (That looks exactly like my mother) and explains everything, they called the Magus Police. When they came, they brought to see a doctor and the doctor said according to DNA results that is your son, Mr. and Mrs. Selverbern.


    ¡°I am not sure as well¡± said the doctor. ¡°But he has a 99.9% match, it is a fact that this child is the son of the both of you¡±


    After many more conversations took place at the hospital, my parents decided to adopt me into their family (Technically I was already a part of their family, but let¡¯s leave it at that). So, they adopted me and named me Lear-Bane.


    I was raised properly and my parents loved me. I had everything a good child would need, but my heart just wasn¡¯t in it.


    ¡°I still lack the understanding of what happened that night, maybe it was my imagination, but I hardly doubt that¡± I thought. ¡°Then, what happened?¡±


    I begin to try to comprehend my powers even though I was only three years old at the time. While I thought I was narrowing to the most likely possible explanation of my powers, something that brought great joy happened. My mother was pregnant.


    We celebrate the new baby¡¯s arrival, and this time it is a girl. I was overjoyed to have a little sister in the house. I was helping my mother decide a name for her. My family and I have been closer. Soon, the day came, and my little sister was born. That day was the happiest and saddest day of my life, for the day my sister was born is also the same day that¡­¡­¡­¡­.


    As more and more memories flooded my mind, I opened my eyes to notice that the other man-the other me- was no longer standing there. He had disappeared. In fact, I should not say he disappear more like he was originally me and merely went back¡­¡­.


    As the memory current starts to slow down and came to a complete stop, tears filled my eyes and fell down, times and times again. I felt a sadness I didn¡¯t even know existed, a sadness so heartbreaking that I felt like the pain was too much and it needed to stop. I felt sadness just pure sadness, a sadness so strong that thoughts about committing suicide came but I know I couldn¡¯t and that I had promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep. My sense of duty came back, and the inner struggle of sadness and pain and duty came back to me (or to be exact, it was always there I just didn¡¯t notice it until now).


    My sense of duty is telling me to be strong and to continue my mission, but my sadness makes me want to give up, makes me want to avoid anyone and everyone, the pain that it brings make me want to kill everyone that crosses my path¡­¡­¡­and my loneliness ever grew exponentially¡­¡­.and I realized the malice of this world, the deaths that surrounds people¡­¡­¡­.and I came to recognized just how much people love control and power, how much they would do and give to have such a key¡­¡­¡­..


    After what felt an eternity of mental suffering and pain, but was actually 3 hours, my sense of control came back slowly and slowly. I finally understood everything¡­¡­I also realized how the way I was treating myself (The older version of me) was wrong after everything he (I) went through. After, I finally had the courage to control myself, I clean the tears away from my face and tried to stay strong. After a couple of minutes, I got up and left this dark space.


    I found myself laying in the cold ground on my stomach. As soon as I got up, I sensed the presence of two individuals (Darwin & Darla) approaching. (I didn¡¯t used any magic spells; I just knew what direction they were going to come). I got up and sat down on the ground, and patiently waited for them to come. I just had a feeling that it would take them 5 minutes or so before they finally arrive.


    ¡°Ha!! We got you now, you punk, that¡¯s what you get for messing with us¡± said Darwin. ¡°You are so dead¡±


    ¡°Seems like the rumors were true about your personality¡± I said with complete seriousness. ¡°Well, then, be a good sport and die then¡±


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    ¡°What-----?¡± Darwin started to say but was suddenly unable to finish his sentence, as if something huge was holding him in place with humongous strength. His eyes widen in fear, he started to breath harder and harder, then he turned to dust, slowly but surely. And in less than 5 seconds, there was no Darwin to be seen any longer, just a pile of dust and the clothes he was wearing, where he should have been.


    ¡°What did you do to my brother?¡± asked Darla with a loud voice, as she comes out of invisibility.


    ¡°¡­.Nothing really, just did what he was going to do to me¡± I said with a serious face, like that was all there is to it, nothing more nothing less. It was just death; death is the same for everyone.


    ¡°What? What kind of spell was that? No, not even, what kind of elemental was that? Stay away from me¡± yelled Darla, as she got on her guard and turn invisible.


    ¡°¡­¡­Really,¡­¡­.. turning invisible and pretending you are running away even though you are slowly approaching me to slit my throat with that knife you are currently holding in your hands right now?¡±


    ¡°?????!!!!¡±


    ¡°small talk¡¯s over¡± I said with a casual attitude, as if I was no longer interested in conversing with her, as if I lost complete interest in her. ¡°Just die, ok? I have things to do¡±


    Without even realizing anything, Darla jumps towards me and leap to my location, trying to slice my throat, but before she could even get to slitting throat distance, she was unable to move. And just like her twin brother, she died as well.


    ¡°Well, now this is over, time for me to do some things¡± I thought. ¡°Maybe I should really start to use my lightning ability and test it to its limit¡±


    ¡°Maybe I should mind-control anyone in a 120 kilometers, and make them use their magic on themselves, just not to kill them, but make them unable to participate in this All-Stars anymore¡± I wonder. ¡°Will I get points for that¡±


    ¡°Technically, no one knows I have lightning elemental magic¡± I thought. ¡°And now that the guy that have death elemental is gone even though he was right next to me, and I suddenly look like I gone from 15-year-old to 18-year-old in an instant, and my face looks even more closer to the death guy, I will have a lot of explanations to answer to¡±


    ¡°When the merge happened, I grew taller, my hair is also longer, it reached all the way to my shoulders now¡± I thought. ¡°I feel stronger and I now have death magic (Not that I didn¡¯t have it before, merely¡­¡­..)¡±


    ¡°Everything makes sense, I understand everything now, so this is what has been going on for all those years¡­..¡± I murmured out loud, and without a second to waste, I ran so fast I was nothing but a blurred and arrived at a battlefield of about 50 combatants.


    With everyone on the battling with each other, and I even noticed a couple martial artists, I decided to join this fight.


    ¡°Martial Artists participating in All-Stars, what are the odds of that? Even though, some mages know martial arts, why would they bother to use it when they can kill someone with just a spell?¡± I murmured out loud to myself.


    While murmuring to myself out loud like a crazy person, one of the combatants that was knocked out during a previous fight when I wasn¡¯t there, got up from laying in the ground, and notice me. He then grabbed his staff and started chanting a very powerful earth-elemental spell at me.


    Unfortunately for the guy, I can now sense the presence of everyone in my vicinity, and even if I didn¡¯t have such a power, I could have easily realized someone was using earth elemental magic to attack me. How do I know? Well, I can feel the ground underneath me moving. Seems to me, the attacker is making some quicksand under my feet, guess he didn¡¯t realize I can shoot lightning or kill him with just a word, but whatever.


    As the ground underneath me open up and revealing a big whole big enough for a person to fall into, I pretend that I never notice the person that use the spell and I pretend I am falling in the quicksand inside the whole, and right when the opponent let his guard down, thinking he got me, I jumped out of the whole. (Only it looks like I jump, I actually flew up using lightning).


    ¡°What? How can someone jump so high, the whole was at least a couple of meters deep¡± said the earth-elemental mage.


    ¡°Oh, it wasn¡¯t that deep¡± I said casually. ¡°You should have made one bigger, or maybe even better, you should go back to earth-elementary school?¡±


    ¡°Curse you¡± said the man.


    ¡°Well, don¡¯t mind if I do¡± I said with my smile disappearing and a gigantic bolt of lightning summoned from the sky came crashing down on my opponent.


    ¡°That¡¯s what you get for saying curse you to lightning¡± I murmured. ¡°And I thought everyone was afraid of lightning, seems we have a man among us. Now, what should I do with the rest of those people? Kill them? Let them live? Make them kill themselves with their own magic? Or better yet, turned all of them to dust? So, many options, should I electrocute them (I never tried it before, seems interesting enough)?¡±


    I then created a portal and went through. In less than the time it takes you to blink, I found myself exiting the portal in the middle of the numerous numbers of people that are battling, with magic spells being thrown left and right and me in the middle with a bright smile in his face.


    ¡°Seems like fun, guys, let me join too!!!¡± I said out loud for everyone to hear. ¡°I currently have anger issues and my therapist isn¡¯t here with me right now, and you-know-what-they-say, taking your anger out on the world is the best medicine¡±


    ¡°Who the hell are you?¡± said one rather rude guy with one of the world¡¯s ugliest mustache, on my right. ¡°Get the f- out of here¡±


    ¡°And what if I say no?¡±


    ¡°Just die¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t think that¡¯s possible¡±


    ¡°Why is that, huh, punk¡± said the ugly mustache man, as he sent 4 different magic spells of water, fire, dark, and wind at me.


    ¡°It¡¯s just that you¡¯ll die first¡± I said as I suddenly appear behind him.


    The 4 different spells then went hit four different other magicians that were fighting someone else and didn¡¯t notice a spell behind them. All 4 magicians fell to the ground (I can just tell that 2 of them are dead, the other two is just knocked out).


    ¡°How the hell did you do that?¡± asked the ugly mustache man, as more and more people stopped fighting to look in my direction and starts to stare at me.


    ¡°Well, let me show you what element I just used to run so fast just now¡± I said with a wicked smile appearing in my face.


    ¡°I definitely think you are going to enjoy this¡±


    Before anyone knew what hit them, a strong wave of electricity hit their body. They all started to tremble and wiggle around and around as they scream in pain.


    ¡°Oops¡± I said. ¡°I forgot I am not a sadist guy, just have anger issue¡±


    I stopped my lightning attack, but seems that it was too late, about 80% of them have already died. The other 20% won¡¯t be continuing any battles in this All-Stars again, at least that¡¯s for sure.


    The distant combatants from far far away:


    ¡°What was that gigantic energy wave just now?¡± asked Marcus. ¡°That was huge¡±


    ¡°Probably Darwin & Darla, don¡¯t you think?¡± asked Lordandy.


    ¡°No, I don¡¯t think so¡­..this felt different¡± answered Orcantz. ¡°But anyway, no matter who it is, no one can survive the technique I learn and I went through hell to get it, I specifically got it to utilizes on the big three rarest¡±


    ¡°Oh, really? I want to see it¡± said Orland excitedly. ¡°Please show it to us¡±


    ¡°Ahh, why ruined the fun, and we have finally been reunited after so long¡± said Orcantz. ¡°We should enjoy ourselves and go to the other battlefields¡±


    ¡°Yeah, you are right, Why waste time? Let¡¯s kill a couple more people and then order food¡± said Lordandy.


    ¡°Yeah, I feeling a bit sleepy, a little exercise would be just what I need¡± said Marcus. ¡°And stop grinning like that, Orland, Lordandy¡±


    ¡°If we continue east, I think we¡¯ll find more people¡± said Orcantz.


    ¡°Oh, right, did you find out where the life miss is hiding?¡± asked Marcus.


    ¡°Kind of, since the game started she been in hiding, I think she is going from battlefield to battlefield and killing the small fries that are already weakened from countless fights. We should find her if we go here¡±


    ¡°I see¡± said Marcus. ¡°Did anything awesome happened while you were fighting?¡±


    ¡°Not really¡± started Orcantz but then stopping immediately as he remembers something. ¡°Oh, right, there was this guy I killed, I kept on torturing him with my darkness elemental magic, he was crying in pain, there was even snots coming from his face and everything man, by the time I was done with him, he was begging me to end his life, LOL¡±


    ¡°Wow¡± said Marcus as he gulped a little. ¡°Sounds like something you would do¡±


    ¡°And that¡¯s not even the best part, he only lasted a couple of minutes before he begged me to end his life¡± laugh Orcantz and everyone with the small exception, Marcus looks like he was faking his laugh a little.