We rushed towards the college and heard some screaming.

“Grace.”

“Got it.”

“Taury.”

“Understood.”

Brent and Amy stood back, and Aoi retrieved her fan weapon.

Me and Taury raised our hands and called upon fire, while Grace started summoning dirt to squelch the fire.

We opened the entrance and numerous students flooded out.

Then I saw Adeline.

“What happened here?!”

She coughed viciously.

“We don’t know, but Cherry heard a child, so she’s even deeper in.”

“Alright, Wings, Grace, keep stopping the fire, I’m going in!”

“Understood.”

Numerous students looked at us in confusion, then Grace began moving dirt towards it and they realized that now was not the right time to ask questions.

I rushed in and bent the fire around me.

I was getting minor burns, but I would live.

Then I heard a kid’s laughter.

I rushed towards it and saw Cherry, a massive metal beam pinning her.

“CHERRY!”

“I’m fine, it’s not hot.”

“Still.”

I picked it up, but Cherry didn’t get up, upon analyzing her with earth magic, I realized why.

“Your back is broken.”

“Really? Crap.”

“Here, I’ll hold you.”

I picked her up and rushed again towards the laughter.

Then, as we entered the auditorium, the roof collapsed.

“Sorry.”

“What?”

I dropped her causing her to yelp, then I used a massive amount of earth magic to hold up the ceiling.

“H-how are you-“

“Not the time.”

“Got it.”

I picked her back up and continued moving to the childish laughter, then I froze.

“The **** is that?”

It was an atronach. A flame atronach… no… it was different from flame… what was it?

It was a female atronach too, but really small and childlike.

“Papa?”

“Um… what?”

“Papa!”

It hugged me, deep frying my legs, so I winced and cast fire armor over my arm and picked up the child.

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“Alright, I think I found what caused the fire.”

“What is it, William?”

“It’s an atronach, I’ll explain later.”

“Papa! Liftees HEHE!”

“Should we really be taking it with us?”

“Well, she doesn’t seem to realize what she’s doing, so yeah.”

“Um, okay?”

I walked back through the auditorium, when the balancing of my magic snapped and the ceiling began to collapse.

I dashed then, causing Cherry to yelp and the kid to whoop and giggle.

I found the entrance.

“GRACE OPEN IT NOW!”

“Got it!”

I felt her magic snap and the door raised, but I saw her struggling deeply, so I slid out as fast as I could.

I sighed and put both Cherry and the kid down.

Then I looked and realized why Cherry was tired.

Half of the college was put out by dirt.

“Need help?”

“A bit.”

The child giggled and clapped and a few students backed up from the strange sight.

Aoi saw the kid and draped her jacket around her, since… well, she didn’t have much on, surprisingly, it didn’t burn, then I remembered that her jacket was silicone.

I reached out my hand and called upon fire, drawing what remained to me.

The fire spiraled around, steadily entering me and refilling my mana.

Then it ended and I sighed.

“Yeesh, that was a lot of fire.”

Then a student snapped.

“That’s cool and all, but what the **** is that thing?!”

Grace looked and raised a brow.

“What are you little one?”

I looked at Grace.

“Well crap, I was hoping you’d know.”

“No, it somewhat resembles a flame atronach, but… no it’s not.”

She approached the child, apparently trying to get marked to make the kid docile.

“Papa, can I melt the ugly rock?”

Grace took a step back at the threat.

“Uh… no?”

Grace and a few others looked at me.

“Why does it call you papa?”

“I don’t know.”

Then the atronach giggled.

“Because papa is my papa!”

Grace looked at me with a raised brow.

“How did you mark an infantile? Only other atronachs should be able to.”

The class was looking at Grace like she suddenly started speaking in tongues.

“Does it look like I know?”

“No.”

We looked at the kid.

“What?”

“No… no mark. Papa just papa. Just like Mama is mama.”

She pointed at Taury, who was now visible apparently. She flushed and flinched.

“Eh?!”

I also flushed and looked at the kid.

“Alright, please explain.”

“You combined power and merged, going whoosh, then I came out!”

Me and Taury got an even deeper flush. Some students began looking at us with more confused looks.

“Um… please explain simpler?”

The kid giggled.

“Papa dumb, okay.”

Grace snickered.

“Papa and Mama fight bad shadow, then you go fire and Mama go light, then it merge and woosh, I form!”

I dawned in understanding.

“OH, you formed at the facility during the blast?!”

“Yeah, Papa not dumb then.”

Grace raised a brow.

“Hold it. Hold it. A blast of magic shouldn’t be able to make an atronach, it has to be a shaking combined with a storm.”

Then Taury realized.

“Wait, didn’t his scream after it cause an earthquake?”

Grace looked shocked.

“You’re right… so… what kind of atronach are you?”

The kid snickered.

“I do flame and light.”

Then she half and halfed herself revealing pure light on one side, and pure flame on the other, then it mixed again.

“See?”

Grace thought for a moment.

“So… why don’t you mark?”

“Because I got Papa and Mama. Why mark?”

“Fair enough.”

“G-Grace? What’s going on?”

Cherry was leaning against a rock.

“Oh crap, what happened to you?!”

Grace ran over to her friend and checked.

“Crap, your back… it’s shattered.”

“Yeah, William said the same thing, guess my fighting days are over.”

I walked over.

“Not quite.”

I looked at Cherry.

“Grace, could you turn her around?”

“Why?”

“I’m going to heal her back.”

The class looked at me confused, then the atronach smiled.

“Papa using body magic again!”

“Body magic?”

I looked at her.

“That what I call your limb making, but you bone making!”

“That’s… actually an awesome name for it!”

The class looked at me confused, so I looked at all the dirt and realized that there was enough calcium.

I reached out and tapped Cherry’s back, causing her to flinch. Then, all the dirt surrounding the college lifted and separated the calcium.

It flew into my open hand and seeped through me, shaping as it passed through me into Cherry. Then, after analyzing one of her vertebrae, I formed the calcium to mimic it until her spine was reformed, then I removed the shards.

“Woah… What’s happening?”

Grace smiled.

“The same thing that he did to give himself an arm and a leg.”

I smiled.

“This is actually a lot easier.”

Then I reached out and summoned both fire and light before merging them into a single spark, then I laid it on Cherry’s back, causing her to flinch.

“And done, try moving, but not too much, I just mended your spine, you still have other injuries.”

She stood up shakely and looked at me in awe.

“Papa incredible!”

The kid giggled.

I walked over to her.

“Okay, so… what’s your name?”

“Name? No name yet. Papa and Mama needs to name me.”

“Um… okay?”

Then Taury looked at me.

“We should do it in private, we don’t know if she’ll be bound by name, she is made by a pixie’s light after all.”

I nodded.

“Okay.”

Then a few classmates began to shake.

“Wait, so magic is real? We need to tell people!”

I stood and smiled.

“Sorry, but you all aren’t telling anyone.”

Then a kid, Ethan I think his name was, smirked.

“Oh, and how do you plan to stop us?”

“Control.”

Thus, I removed the memories of all fey from most students.