The Fire of Life

Chapter fourteen
The Tour

After lunch I went to my cabin to unpack. I had just taken out my communicator watch when Kellen walked in. "Whoa," he said as he walked up to me. "Is that a communicator watch?" "Ya, why?" I asked. "I have just about every kind of technology in the world, but that, that's very rare. How did you get one?" Kellen asked. "My sister made them, she gave one to me so we could always communicate," I replied.
"Your sister must be really talented, what is she, human?" Kellen asked. "No, she's not human. Aphrodite, my sister, is in the vampire cabin," I said. "The vampire cabin? Is your dad a vamp? Or is it your mom?" He asked. "My dad is human and my mom, well, she's the Ultimate," I said. "Whoa, evil mom," he said with a smile. "Why are you smiling?" I asked. "Well, my dad, he sent me here so I could beat the Ultimate," he said.
"What's your dad, a potions master?" I asked. "No, he's Mai's half tiger boyfriend. I'm the potion's master of the family. Oh ya, could I give you a tour?" he added. "No need, I was here last summer," I said, pulling out a pair of pants and putting them in my dresser.
"Well, in that case, everything has changed during the year. What do you think of a tour now?" he asked. "I guess it couldn't hurt," I said. As I followed him outside Austin and Gabe past, I heard them say, "Why is hottie following Mr. Lame?" I turned and said, "Kellen is not lame, if you want to know who is, you. Your lame." I left them both staring back at me as I followed Kellen outside.
Kellen took me all the way to the front gate before we began our tour. He turned to the right and started walking toward a 2 story building. "That cafeteria? C'mon, you can do better than that," I said. "Not the cafeteria, the potions building. The top is where the potion master's work, the bottom is where the kids learning to be potion masters learn," he said.
Suddenly there was a boom in the stables. "The horses made that noise?" I asked. "The unicorns did, we got rid of the horses two months ago. Mai's been there often, trying to calm them," Kellen said. Right when he stopped talking Mai exited the stable looking like she had just left an explosion. "Why do the unicorns have to use magic when they try to make me go away?" Mai said to herself.
Where Kellen took us involved following Mai. When I saw Mai walk into a building I looked up and saw it was 4 story's tall. "This is the Chambers. The first floor is practicably a garden, the second floor is the hospital, the third floor is where the host meetings, and do anything business like. The fourth floor is where we have assemblies," he said.
Then he continued to walk on. Next we saw the sports arena, there was basketball courts, football fields, soccer fields, even a volleyball and tennis court. I saw the battle arena next, there were swords, and other weapons, everywhere. Right next to that was the gym. There was a ton of stuff there that can keep a half-breed fit and ready for battle.
Then we came to a big building with a sign with a book on it, in front of it. "I take it, that's the library," I said, inching toward it. "I'll show you the inside if you like," Kellen said. I nodded thanks.

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After Kellen showed me the library I checked out a bunch of books. Most of them were books from a series called Warriors. It was my favorite book in the whole world! "That was the last thing we have time for today," he said. "It's time for dinner." "Well lets hurry," I said. I broke into a run, with Kellen at my heels.
To a human, or any other half-breed, we were going at the speed of light. We put my books away and ran to the dinning tables. We sat at our table and drained a bear, that was bigger than a normal bear, of its blood then we shared the meat. The only tables that didn't look at us disgusted were the vampire and werewolf tables. The only time the vampires didn't look was when we ate the meat, the only time the werewolves didn't look was when we drained the blood from the bear.