The Fire of Life

chapter seven
Training


In the morning the next day I had to wake Brooklyn up. Which, surprisingly was very hard. I tried everything a normal human could do, to wake her. Nothing. She was still asleep. So, I mixed fire and water, which creates humidity, and made the humidity circle Brooklyn. She sat up so fast its as if she was just suddenly sitting.
"What was that for?!" Brooklyn said angrily. "Hey, whoa! Don't blame me it's the only thing that can wake you up." I said. "Anyway, mom made pancakes. Your going to come eat with us so you can focus on training today." I took her down stairs and showed her to the dinning room, a big room with fancy lights. "Now let's eat!" I said.


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When we finished eating I took Brooklyn upstairs so we could get dressed. "Here," I said tossing her a T-shirt and some jeans. "Your going to wear these today. And I'm going to wear these," I continued, pulling out a blue T-shirt and jeans.
After we got dressed we went to the back yard. "So, we're supposed to do training in the backyard?" Brooklyn asked. "No," I replied. "we're going to train in the training arena." As I spoke a door appeared. Brooklyn's eye's widened. "Where does that door go?" She asked. "To the arena," I answered. "Let's go."
Once we were in the arena I said, "OK, the first thing we're going to do is water. Now, to use water you must have some in your system. Think water, now, I want you to put your hands in front of you. Palms facing the floor. Now turn your palms up and move your hands around to control the water." Brooklyn looked amazed that she was actually doing it.
"This is so cool," Brooklyn said as she made the water go all the way around the room. "OK, Brooklyn, this next thing I call the water of dance. How you do it is-" "Dance?" she interrupted. Suddenly the water she was controlling fell to the floor and she started doing the disco. "Stop!" I said, but she kept dancing. I did my best to control my anger but I just couldn't, so my hair burst into flames.
Brooklyn froze. "This is what happens when you make me so mad that I can't control my anger." I said with clenched teeth. "Now, your going to train, not dance, or else my anger might get way more out of hand. Got it?" "Got it," Brooklyn said shakily. My anger calmed and my hair went back to normal. "I'm sorry about that Brooklyn," I said. "It's just I'm different from other witches."

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I had only had enough time to teach Brooklyn how to speak to me in her mind, control air and a little bit of earth when things went wrong. "OK, Brooklyn next we're going to mix earth, water, and air. That makes clay." I said. So we did. Then I heard her say, Time to sculpt in her. I tried to stop her but it was too late. She was already sculpting like crazy.
"STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I yelled. "Training is over for the day got it! If your going to keep doing what your not supposed to while I'm teaching, then training is done for the day. Let's go!" When we were back in the house I showed Brooklyn to the guest bedroom and then went to my room to think.