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26
Luka
Raven winkedat me from her place in the circle of students gathered to watch another combat session in gym. Coach Miller had taken to doing them every few days. Drawing two random students and making them battle it out. So far, I’d avoided it and so had Raven. I wasn’t sure why but I was grateful.
I had a feeling Professor Halifax would have some choice words for the coach if we showed up to our training session later today with black eyes. She kind of scared the shit out of me. She was far more powerful than I realized before. But she was helping us, so I supposed that made up for a lot.
Our last two sessions with Professor Halifax had gone better, Raven was quickly learning how to adapt to finding our magic and weirdly, I was starting to feel the magic from her other mates.
I swore I could feel Ben’s energy during breakfast. It was weird. Not necessarily in a bad way, but it was different. And a little hot. Every session finished with me needing a cold shower.
Raven and I had managed a few meet ups in the library the last few weeks and our encounters seemed to super charge my magic. It was wild. Just her and me was the same amount of energy that I’d get from a whole orgy.
I sort of wondered what it would be like for my magic if she invited her other mates. It had to be something extraordinary. But I wasn’t about to ask her for that. Not with Ben still glaring at me when I got too close to her. The twins might be more amenable to it.
“Luka, in the circle,” Coach Miller called.
Fuck. It was a matter of time before he was going to toss me in here. Shoulders slumped, I shuffled in, using my body language to let whoever the competitor was know that I wasn’t into this. With any luck, it would be someone else who would half ass it until the coach got bored.
“James,” Coach Miller called. “In the circle.”
I lifted my chin in greeting to the ice demon entering the circle. His dorm was on the same floor as mine and when we were first year’s we’d shared booze in our rooms a few times before we got too invested in our studies. Well, before we both found girls. We hadn’t talked in a while, but I knew he was a tough opponent.
“Shake hands,” Coach Miller said.
I walked up to him and we shook. James looked focused, his jaw set. Guess he was going to take this fight seriously.
“No physical touch in this round,” Coach Miller said. “Magic only. Let’s see what a couple of demons can do.”
I frowned. This had to be a trap of some sort. Or he was trying to get me to show what I could do before the trials. Based on what Professor Halifax said, Coach Miller was out to get us.
“Ready, go!” The coach shouted as he backed out of the circle.
James launched a ball of ice at me right away and I lunged to the side to avoid it. I had to think fast. The coach was expecting a show here but I’d never fully shown my magic to anyone. Sure, I’d done the basics to pass classes and complete assignments, but I never let it all out.
And I knew my magic was charged more than it ever had been after all those librarystudy sessionswith Raven. I craved her touch again just thinking of it. But now wasn’t the time to imagine Raven’s lips on my cock.
I dodged another ice ball, and another. Noting that James already looked frustrated. I had to do something.
If he was going to throw ice, I’d throw fire. That was what was expected of me, right?
I conjured a fire ball and hurled it toward James. Of course he moved out of the way and the fire landed on the gym floor. Another student threw water on it, leaving a charred black circle that sizzled and smoked.
“That’s all you got?” Someone in the crowd called.
I frowned. I didn’t want to hurt him. I didn’t want to use my full magic. Even Raven didn’t know the true destruction I was capable of. In a weird way, my own magic wasn’t all that different than Raven’s. It just wasn’t illegal and it wasn’t pleasant.
James circled me, then sent a shimmer of ice across the floor, right under my feet.
I slipped as I tried to move away from the attack and landed on my side. My hands heated, responding to the attack involuntary. As I pushed myself to standing, my heat melted the ice into a puddle of water.
A few murmurs sounded in the group around us. They seemed to like that trick.
“Come on, man,” James said. “Quit holding back.”
“Oh, trust me, you want me to hold back,” I said.
“I don’t think you’ve got it,” he said. “A few fire balls? What else you got? You going to seduce me to death?”
