'5 minutes is up Jade,'Odette murmurs from the bottom bunk. I sigh, and switch the light on with my electricity divine. "Ode, I'd like to focus on my blood and deterioration divines today please"
"Of course, just switch the light off."
She grabs a jar of a deep red blood, handing it to me like a medal. "See if you can keep it levitating until we reach the gardens." Ode opens the window and closes her eyes: a large thick green vine appears, she sits on it beckoning me over, I sit behind her as she grows the vine and we slowly but surely reach the garden.
The blood divine lies awakened in my stomach, begging to be unleashed to ravage the whole orphanage. But i can't do that, otherwise it would mean murdering many in cold blood and revealing who i was. Everyone else knew me as Jade Gin, a weak girl who belongs to the class zero but the blood in the jar starts to shake; I was losing focus. We walk to the corner of the garden and my thoughts consume me. The jar explodes. A small piece of glass makes a home in Ode's wrist. "Ouch." She glares daggers at me. "I am so sorry," I exclaim, "let me fix that for you." I take her wrist and count to 3, I twist the glass out of her wrist. "Fuck that hurts"she mutters. I concentrate on her blood flow, her pulse slows, blood that she had lost seeps back into her skin and she clenches her fist as I close up the cut. "there". I was no healer but I did control blood, and that gave me an advantage. "again really sorry". She rolls her eyes and flicks her black glossy hair. "Moving on, I want you to pick up all this blood and turn it into a weapon of your choice". I breath in deeply and focus on the blood on the floor, Ode had purchased this with her own allowance of 5 zicies. The sky overhead had turned into a blood red sunrise like it knew what I wad trying to do. The blood raises up and it quickly forms into a dagger. "Good, now make it cut through the trees, dont worry I'll regrow them afterwards". With my hand I mirror the movement that the dagger does, it cuts through the trees with an ear peircing whistle: most of them fall down and Ode hurries over to fix them.
"Now for your deteriorating divine, I want everything in this garden gone in 30 seconds max". My mouth gapes open as she says this. "But Ode-" "No you can do this" The deteriorating divine lies waiting for me to unleash it, so I do. Within ten seconds everything had gone apart from the blood dagger and me and Ode. Her eyes widen in shock, she knows what I can do but most of the time it's as if her mind refuses to see what her eyes do. "You can just do whatever you'd like now whilst I regrow everything". I laugh and make little electricity balls come out of my fingers, I juggle the little white balls and play catch with them too. I decide to make an lightning storm above our school, bringing lightnting down around its perimeters. There's a few yelps in the distance and Ode tells me to stop.
When we reach our room Ode plaits my brown hair and I do hers into a tight bun. The uniforms for school the orphanage buys us are fitted to the average height of people our age. Mine is 15 years and hers is seventeen years, but we swap uniforms so I, the fifteen year old wear the seventeen year old uniform, as it fits me better and Ode, the seventeen year old wears my fifteen year old uniform as it fits her better. I'm a good 3 inches taller than her through she is 2 years my subsequent. I ask her to put flowers in my braid, so she intertwines little daisys into my hair.
"GET UP TIME TO GET-" Mrs.Maybank the girls warden shouts into our room. Ode grins at her. "We're already up miss", I say with a sly smile. Mrs.Maybank raises an eyebrow and then says, " Why am I not surprised you two are already up, breakfast is in 20 minutes be down when the bell rings"
Breakfast is cold porridge from yesterday, it's burnt as always, the putrid smell fills my nostrils and it makes me want to use my silencing divine on it. As always, JJ the attention seeker tells the story of how he went blind and deaf for 20 seconds straight. The fault was mine, as it was the first time discovering my divine to silence, and he just wouldn't shut up about getting the top mark at school. The elders - 12-18 - get to walk to school by themselves, or get lucky and ride the 1 Zylon (breed of horse) the orphanage owned but the younger kids had to walk with Mrs.Maybank.
Odette and I get lucky, we finish our breakfast before everyone else and get to ride Talia, the Zylon. I'm better at riding Talia, as I'm taller so Ode holds the bags and I take the reigns.
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The numbers we're called *DONT READ THIS IT IS DISCONTINUED AND BAD*
FantasyThe zeros~no power~ slaves~50% The ones~1 power~powerful enough then you get into the high houses~40% The twos~2 powers~ high houses~9.49999999% The threes~3 powers~~the royals~0.5% The fours~???
