Late Afternoon - Late Fall : Ho
"If she’s anything like you, I'm sure she'll catch on quickly."
"Does that an I've been doing well?"
"Haha, yes. Very well."
We continued down the hall, eventually making it outside.
"Ilios, you've grown so big!" Krystallo quickly ran up to Ilios and started fluffing his fur.
"Haha, before long he might get bigger than you."
Krystallo looked back at . "Well.." She paused as she tried to co up with a coback. "Hmph.."
Failing to think of anything, she just pouted. -How cute..- "Well don't worry, size isn't everything. Even if he's bigger, you can still be stronger!"
Her mood imdiately brightened. "Right!" She quickly turned to mother and plopped herself down. "Can we start now?"
"Haha, yes sweetie. First, we need to figure out what attribute your nodes are."
Krystallo was staring at Mother as if in a trace, already in an incredible focus.
"So let's start by pulling out so of that energy from your reserve and dragging it through any attribute node, then move that energy from the node to the palm of your hand." Mother put out her hand and created a small fireball. "Like this."
Giving a reluctant nod, Krystallo closed her eyes and moved her hand out.
*Blub* A small ball of water began to form in her hand.
Mothers face was filled with excitent like a kid opening gifts on Christmas. "So your first node is water, which one was that?"
"One of the two next to my breath gland! Does that an I have a really good water affinity like you?"
"Yes! Now try the other node next to it."
"Alright!"
Even after watching for a mont, it looked like nothing was happening, but my aura noticed it. "It's wind!"
"Awe.." Krystallo wore a slightly saddened expression.
"What's wrong sweetie?" Mother looked a little worried.
"I wanted fire.."
"Well you still have two other nodes, and it's not like they're bad affinity either." She had a node in her mid chest and one in her upper abdon, which are by no ans bad affinities.
Seeing her looking a little sad, I decided to give her a little motivation. "Wind isn’t weak if that's what you're thinking."
"What do you an? So what if I can create a weak breeze."
"Who said you could only do that? Wind is far more versatile than you'd expect." I turned to Mother. "Mother, hit with a really hot breath."
She was caught off guard by my request but followed through anyway.
*Fwooosh*
"Mom isn't that too hot even for him?!"
Almost imdiately after, Mother stopped the breath revealing sitting there, unscathed.
Krystallo looked at with wide eyes.
"See? All I did was create a small barrier around my body with wind magic and I was immune to the heat!" (A Vacuum)
Krystallo's mood imdiately brightened. "So cool!"
-Mission accomplished.- I wore a proud smile since I managed to cheer her up. "So let's see what your other two nodes are."
"Right!" She quickly sat back down with enthusiasm and held out her palm.
*Crackle*
A small ball of orange flas appeared in her hand.
Mother's prediction was right on the money.
Krystallo looked around with an unbelievable amount of excitent before locking eyes with and giving her attempt at an intimidating look. "I shall surpass you in no ti!"
"Pffftt." I tried my best to hold in my laugh, but her pure confidence was just too funny.
"Hmph, you just wait!"
"Haha, calm down sweetie, let's see what your last attribute node is, then we can get onto magic."
Krystallo imdiately straightened up and focused again.
Almost imdiately, a small ball of light appeared.
"Its light attribute!"
Although Mother acted all excited, even I thought light magic's use was minimal. -I guess it has a few uses though..-
"Well I got fire so I'm happy!" The ball of light in her hand quickly changed back to a ball of fire.
"Alright.. since you seem so enthused to use fire magic, let's try a breath. Gather fire attribute mana in your breath gland and blow it out."
"Hehe, you should stand back in case you all get caught up in it!" She quickly readied herself and bent her knees.
She slowly opened up her mouth and..
*puff*
A tiny fla popped out of her mouth for a mont before quickly dissipating.
I had to hold back a laugh with every fiber of my being. -Hooh.. it's not funny.. I cant laugh..-
"Don't laugh!" She quickly looked back at like she was about to cry.
"Haah.. Here, let give you a tip. The more you compress the flas in your breath gland, the larger your breath will be."
Her expression quickly cald down as she changed to a serious expression again, looking far less cocky this ti.
After she prepared for a bit, she let out a much bigger fla.
*puufff* But it still dissipated nearly imdiately.
-It still wasn't big or hot enough..- "See if you can weave so wind magic into the fla. If you can pull it off, not only will the fla be bigger, but it'll be hotter."
Krystallo sat there as if in a trance and did her best to follow my instructions. "I'm not sure I can-"
"Just try. You got this!" With a little motivation and commitnt, she could do it.
"O..okay.." She got serious again and took her ti readying her mana.
*Fwooosh*
A fla several tis bigger and twice as hot as the last one ca out of her mouth.
It was a fla nearly as big as Ilios and hot enough to char the ground, leaving a fairly large burn mark in the field.
"See! I knew you could do it!"
A wave of excitent washed over her as she looked towards Mother. "Did you see that!! That was AWESO!!"
"Great job sweetie! To think you can use two attributes at once already!" She ran up and gave Krystallo a big hug. "I knew you were going to be talented with magic!"
"Hehe.." Krystallo wore a smile of excitent and confidence.
"I can give you one more tip if you'd like." I gave her a smug smile.
Imdiately tensing up, she got out of Mothers grasp and ran over to sit in front of .
"With your breath this ti, instead of just weaving the wind magic into the inside of the flas, spin the wind around the flas as well."
"That's too.." Mother quickly chid in with a worried expression before she stopped herself.
"Whenever you're ready, aim for that tree over there." I pointed to a tree on the treeline not too far away.
"That's a bit far.."
"Co on, have so confidence! You've got guiding you. Try to use the wind to compress and spin the flas."
"Hooh.." After being in a deep focus for a bit, she kept her eyes closed and opened her mouth.
*Fwoo-oosh* *Crackle*
Like a compressed beam, the fla crossed the opening and hit the tree.
The fla wrapped around the tree and once the smoke cleared, showed a small hole that was burnt into the tree.
Both Mother, Father and Krystallo sat there stunned at the sight.
"I.. I did it.." Slightly out of breath, Krystallo's face filled with excitent. "I DID IT!!"
"See? I told you to believe in yourself." I walked up and lightly patted her head.
She looked up at with a childish smile. "Hehe"
Her smile truly lted my heart. -She's so cute..-
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