Chapter 2: The Aptitude ceremony
Even though everyone can wield the power of fire the ability of their fire vary. So the aptitude test is conducted to know the nature of the fire. The nature wa divided into 5 categories.
Knight - the person how wields the knights fire has more offensive capability. They go on to become soldiers.
The Healers- their flame has the ability to heal people and they mostly become doctors.
Craftsman- they have a very high control over their fire, even controling the temperature to a very high degree. This make them best suited for skilled works as blacksmith or goldsmith etc
Then comes Merchants- their flame has the ability to apprize an item and this is really helpful for a merchant.
And at last there is Farmers- their fire has the ability to give life-force to plants making them grow faster and at the wielders whim.
It is not necessary that one should go into the profession which their aptitude directs to but there is a high probability that they follow that path.
The aptitude test also finds the level of the fire wielder. There are 10 levels and most people in their life reaches a maximum level of 3. Most kids start at level one, very rarely some starting at level 2 and they may even go on to become level 6 or 7 and are considered geniuses. Level 10 wielders are only spoken in legends. No one had seen a level 10 welder for centuries.
Today is the aptitude ceremony. I was so excited that I couldnt sleep yesterday. As you see in anime, people get transported to new world gets huge new powers and saves the world. Tomorrow is the day I get that power. Hell I may even become a level 10 warrior. Yes it would be great I will get so much respect, I will be a hero.
It was a chilly morning and soot coloured clouds loomed over the sky. An ominous silence was sheeting the area only to be pierced by the distant cry of a lonely crow.
Its about to rain, I must run.
The aptitude test we held in the main assembly hall where the students have gathered. Then the principal arrived at the podium and started giving a speech. I was too excited to listen to what he was saying. Then the class teacher announced now the aptitude test will be beginning, student please come to the stage as your name is called now first is Anandu come to the stage and hold this sword and concentrate on it.
Then the sword turned red and an engraving appeared on it said level 1 healer and then came Anusree, then the sword turned orange and the engraving said level 1 knight. This went on it turned black for craftsman, green for farmer and violet for merchant.
Then came my turn, I got up and started walking. I feared that I would collapse and die again it would be comical. I reached the stage and held the sword & started concentrating. But the sword never glow, I concentrated harder. Then I heard my teachers voice saying don't push it you might shit your pants, we also didnt expected it to glow as you dont have the hessonite eye, you are not blessed by the fire goddess leave the sword and got off the stage.
I was thunder struck I didnt realized what was going on; I subconsciously put the sword down and walked down the stage and walked towards my classroom.
No one had yet arrived at the class everyone was in the hall. I sat in the back bench, as I sat it struck me a chill ran through my spine. The fact that I couldnt use fire in a world where everyone can use it, the emotion where so strong I was sad, angry, embarrassed at the same time I didnt know what to do? And then all the emotions coalesced into one massive emotion of sadness. Tears rolled down from my eye at the same the rain started falling pouring, as if it was morning for my sorrow. Staying in the class had become unbearable. I started running as fast as my legs could carry me in the rain. The rain masked my tears and I ran, I ran home.
One year has passed after that incident and many things happened that year.
On the day after the incident the clan leader came to our house and my dad that he and his family is no longer part of the maya clan and they are cutting all the ties with their family.
The embarrassment of this news was so unbearable to my father that he started drinking. He drank and came home and started betting me, my mom couldnt stop him. After sometime I got use to it. One day he never come home people say he left village.
Mom was a healer so she started working in the village hospital. I worked as a helper in a local book store after school and we get by with that money. I still went to school and I stayed in all class except the fire class. The other time I spent in the local library and the book store. I got bullied a lot. But along the year something happened I lost something my emotion I dont feel a thing. It is like I forgot how to feel.
I was living just for the sake of living.
Until on the day!
I worked in the local bookstore in the town and the way to the town to my house was along the great Kishkindha forest.
One day while walking along the path, I heard something. It was someone crying for help and it came from the forest. I ran inside the forest to take a look as I neared I could hear it more clearly it was the cry of a girl. She was chased by a group of thugs. They were armed and throwing fireballs at her and she was running for her dear life. I stud there dumbstruck what should I do? I cant fight them. I should call for help.
When I was about to run to the village one of the thugs spotted me. Hay boss there is another kid here what should I do?
He has seen us kill him too
I started running but tripped over some bushes ad fall to the ground. Before I could get up the man was near me and was welding a huge axe. He raised his axe and it swiftly came to my neck. It was as if I can see it in slow motion. I could see that the girl was also about to be killed. My whole life flashed before me. I was born a loser and Im going to die a loser.
Then within me an intense fear was generated the first emotion I had for a long time. It was not the death that scared me but the fact that Im going to die as an insignificant worm that scared me. Within me a tremendous desire to live came and I closed my eyes and yield I what to live.
After sometime I opened my eyes. Am I died no Im still alive. Then I looked the thugs were turned into frozen into Popsicle and the girl was sitting under a tree trembling with fear. There was a distant forest fire erupting, may be one of the fireball caused it.
There was no time to think. I ran to the girl and took her hands and started running to my home.
Many questions baffled my mind. Who was this girl? Why was she been chased? And how did she freeze the thugs?
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