I woke up on the floor. I looked around and I saw Ace and Deon out cold on the floor next to me. Only a few other were awake and they looked sick. I shock them awake. “Get up.” I said. Ace sat up groggy and looked around. I stood and walk off to the side “HOLY SHIT!” he screamed. “We’re in the sky. The ground’s so far away.”

Deon and I ran over and he was right. We were in the sky. But it looked like we were on the flaw. “We’re on an earth dragon! Those are so hard to tame it looks like we are going to get into Sen Academy! We made it in!”

“Not yet! Don’t get your hopes up yet. You have only passed the first test. But I am not that harsh since we have people from Gaianta here with us on the test we will give you a brake while I speak to them and get them up to speed.” He pointed at us. The man had black hair and his eyes had a deadly glint. He urged us to get up and said “all three of you come here.” We hesitated as he looked at us angrily and he shouted “NOW!”

We got up and he brought out a crystal ball it was an element tester and I was shocked he was going to test their affinity with the elements before he tested their body strength. “Put your hand on this.” Ace placed his hand and it light up with a blue flash and you could see a few sparks of electricity “concentrate and let the magic flow into the ball” the man said. Ace complied. The sparks grew and they got brighter and brighter until it exploded and there was still electricity. It was surging with unfathomable power.

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He brought out another one and said to Deon “Your turn.” There was a hint of shock in his voice. It was obviously from the explosion earlier. Deon put his hand on it and I wanted it to not explode in my face again. I saw a tiny flame and it rose and it was more visible and it got warmer and brighter and the surface of the orb stated to boil and it melted from the inside out and it didn’t seem to bother the instructor.

He just got mad and pulled out another one and said “Your turn Zou Shen.” I placed my hand on it and there was a green light as a tree sprouted in the centre of the orb and it continued to grow and it didn’t stop. Soil formed at the roots and you could see rocks. Soon the once calming scene the tree got too big for the orb and the tree burst out of the orb and continued to grow as it suddenly caught on fire.

“All three of you come with me.” He said with a smile, it looked so wired on his face. It was like the top half wanted to kill you and the bottom wanted to be your friend. It was just unsettling. “You have been excepted into Sen Academy.