I get up from the bed and turn around. She gives me a small smile. I should hold out my hand, but decide not to. “Lets go back. We still have to watch the video.” She gives a small nod. I open the door and leave the room. I hear her sighing. Under her breath she say “dumb boy, can’t take a hint.” She walks past me. Once again, giving me a small smile. I do not understand what to do. I follow behind her. I had to give her room because she was swinging her arms wildly. “ha haha, wow and I thought the shadow was dense. This is something else. I know the shadow isn’t having as much fun as me.” I look at her hand swinging wildly and wonder should I grab one. I look at my own hands. They turn red and become sweaty. No, I can’t grab her hand it would be rude. I slow down. Wendy slows down. She even swings her arms even wilder. “Wendy, can you stop swinging your arms like that and walk a little faster?” She turns around and grabs my hand. She then pulls me along. “Stop being so shy and let’s go.” I wasn’t being shy. I don’t think so. Wait, this isn’t the time to think about holding hands. We are watching videos on fairies users beating the crap out of the elders. But we are alone. We arrive at the room. I look down at our hands lock in place. I look up up at her face. She gives me a smile. My face grows hot. I let go of her hand and stare at it. The door hits me in the face. I got lost in my thoughts and Wendy went ahead of me.
I open the door and walk inside. As I was walking inside, I rub my face. I shouldn’t have done that because I could see my team faces. They were holding back laughter. There were two people in the room openly laughing at me, but I can ignore them. Wendy was sitting down not looking at me. Erica did me a favor and set everything up. The projector was on and on the screen where water crashing into the rocks. Wait, a second I think I have seen this before. I can’t remember where I have seen this location. Suddenly, I remember what took place here. OMG, I cannot believe she would put this on. Yes, it is a great example of our overconfidence, but this is still too much. I look back at Erica and give her a glare. She rolls with laughter. Before I could do anything, the temperature drops a few degrees. Everyone looks at me scared. Don’t look at me. I’m not the one doing this. Erica was already protecting herself from me. I have to ignore her. I turn back to the screen and ask, “Do anyone know about this event and our crushing lost to the fairies?” They all shook their heads no. Erica stops laughing. It is time to get to work, but no this is too stupid.
I walk to the wall and start banging my head against the wall. These stupid elders are hampering our growth with their stupidly. No wonder my team is stronger than the avg Jeonglyeong. With the right training and motivation, they blossom like wild flowers. After this I should ask how the elders train us. This is embarrassing and this video I really don’t want to see right now. Erica is evil. She knows this is the prefect video to prove my point, but it also makes my head hurt. I hit my head into the wall harder and faster. Between each hit, I hear laughter and gasps. Ok, alexander calm down. We can do this. I know the Elders are dumb but that doesn’t matter here. I need to show my team why the Elders are dumb and they should instead listen to me. I slowly stop hitting my head and move away from the wall. I brush off the drywall from my head. There was a hole in the wall, but who cares someone will fix it later. I would but the Elders can just pay for it. I turn back to my team.
I take a deep breath and look around. Some them have worry look on their faces and others look at me like I’m crazy. We have to ignore them. I have seen this video many times growing up. Learning about the fairies fighting style and seeing our losses. Yet, the only other person here that has watch this video is Erica. It makes sense. They wanted to specialize in one element instead of training all 6 of them. It might be because they don’t know morons like this one have lost fights he shouldn‘t have also that he shouldn’t have taken this fight. I reach over and grab the remote. Without saying a word, I press play.
The video starts. Waves are hitting the coastline. There were drones flying around the area waiting for a fairy user to arrive. We see 1 person running on the video running to the water. While carrying his fairy in his arms. There were 10 Jeonglyeong following him and a moron was in the lead. “Oh, wow we are watching a video of the great fire master Leo.” “Look at Elder Leo, he looks so handsome, I wish he was my boyfriend.” "He is the reason I want to be a fire user. I wish I could command a blue flame like him. Be one hand full of people that can control a blue flame." "I bet he roast that fairy user look at his blue robe. One of the few elders that gets to wear a robe that isn’t black. To show everyone his strength and how you know he can use a blue flame.” Nope, I cannot handle this. I stopped the video and went back to the wall. I bang my head against it again.
Ok, Alexander, they don’t know. Propaganda is powerful. Clam down, you have been hitting this wall for five minutes. Everyone must think you are crazy by now. Erica has stopped laughing and is wheezing in the corner. I turn back to the video. There was no way that I wouldn’t stop it again. So, I threw the remote at Erica’s head. She catches it while coughing in the corner. Man, I was hoping it would have it her in the middle of her forehead. But this doesn’t matter the video keeps on playing. I can’t stop it now, and I have to pay attention to it just in case people have questions.
I look at the faces of the Jeonglyeong chasing the fairy user. They had the look of people playing tag. They didn’t want to catch the fairy user. They wanted to play a game. Elder Leo could have easily caught up to the fairy user by now, but he was lollygagging. The fairy user had a look of horror as he ran to the ocean. The fairy user didn’t even look back as he was heading toward a cliff. It was a 40 meter drop. The fairy user threw his fairy into the water and dove after it. Elder Leo was to the edge of the cliff does a pose and dive after him. He must have told his subordinates ahead of time the fairy user was his prey and no one should get in his way.
What a moron. He is a fire user that is diving into the ocean and is against a fairy user with a water fairy. Yes, the fairy is only tier 5, but he was fighting out of his comfort zone. The moron wanted to show off that he learned how to make a flame that can burn underwater. Other fire elders have been trying to have a flame that can be used underwater to help against their biggest weakness. Elder Leo succeeded somewhat, but he picked the wrong opponent. He was facing a fairy user was in his mid-30s and still using a tier 5 fairy. I bet he thought the fairy user would be an easy target practice. They destroyed his arrogance in this battle.
Once the drones dove into the water after Elder Leo. The fairy user was nowhere to be seen. Elder Leo conjuries a flame to see his surroundings. The water was empty and vast. There weren’t any fish nearby. It must have been because he was so close to the cliff. He looks around and starts swimming outwards. Leaving the land behind and swimming deeper and deeper in the ocean. It was close to twilight, and the ocean was a deep dark blue. As he was swimming, the drones pick up a signal of a living being close by. Elder Leo swims in the signal's direction. As he got closer, we see a fin. If he wasn’t a moron, he would know there was no way for this to be the fairy user or if it was, then it was a trap. There is no way for a Jeonglyeong to catch up to a fairy user that controls a mermaid. Even if they specialized in water. But this moron was happy to see the fin and start swimming faster trying to catch up to it. As he got closer, the fin turned out to be a shark. Well, at least this shark was human size, and he wasn’t that dumb. I wish the shark was a 30 footer. So, I can laugh at this moron.
As he got closer to the shark, he tried to touch it. When a fist punch him right in the chin from below. The fairy user was moving too fast for the drone to detect it. Elder Leo was stunned, and the shark tried to bite his arm. The mermaid fairy has a secondary ability. They can control some underwater life. This one has amazing strenght, being able to control a shark. Elder Leo punched the shark in the face, causing it to swim away, but that gave the fairy user time to get behind Elder Leo. The fairy user rammed into the back of the elder. They go deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean. The ocean that was once dark blue is turning pitch black. The drone was having a hard time keeping up with the speed of the fairy user.
The drone switches the camera. It turns to sonar. It sat and watched helplessly as the fairy user dragged away the elder to the depths of the ocean. It took a few moments for them to disappear from the sonar, but the drone kept going. This next part was nothing but darkness as the drone search for the elder. “You know if this was another planet that drone could have helped. The shadow didn’t want you guys to be fighting with technology against each other so he made them use when fighting you. It is funny watching this drone do nothing but watch. I have seen drones dive after a person and 2 to 3 of them drag them out of the water. The fairies power couldn’t do anything to them. Watching this is so much more satisfying than technology winning the war by itself.”