Reborn 4

Back in Thornberry, time till departure was 18 days.

Kyle went to Claire's house the day after he got back, which earned both him and Claire a large amount of scalding. Kyle from Claire for making her wait all night for him to come back, because she expected him to come in the middle of the night, and then Claire from Kathy for staying up all night.

TTD: 17 Days. Nothing special happened, other than Kyle being with Claire the entire time she was home from school. Claire was happy when she saw Kyle was wearing the red string around his neck even while in the same city and already back together.

TTD: 4 Days. The money has been given back to Paul and Kathy, and Kyle's types were explained to them. There was a going away party for Kyle that doubled as a 'congratulations on the types!' party.

TTD: 3 Days. Kyle said goodbye to Mr. Reese and Miss Helen. It had only been a little while, but Miss Helen was looking almost like a normal person now. Mr. Reese is still an old man, so his vision is still good.

TTD: 2 Days. Claire has taken up a zero tolerance policy with Kyle. Zero tolerance for separation. It takes four of her friends to pry her off from Kyle when they get to the school in the morning. The same is in effect when Kyle get's Claire from school, and once Claire as fallen asleep late at night is Kyle able to go home.

TTD: 1 Day. Kyle said goodbye to everyone again, shook Claire off from him, and thought about casting dispel on her as if she was effected by a curse that had her overly attached to him. 'Might be a side effect of Resurrect' Kyle thought. When Kyle took Claire home they both cast many Flame spells and some Fireballs. Claire finally took to casting Fireball and they both made a fantastic show from it. After a while though, Claire was out of mana. Kyle was able to leave at night because of the mana fatigue Claire had, and was fast asleep. Kyle could cast a status effect on her, but he did not want to do that to his friend.

TTD: Now. Kyle got a ride from a passing carriage from Drunkroot that had 2 boys also going to the mage school. They were not very interesting, but they had Red, Brown, and Blue types.

Vegivile was much more busy this time of year. In just 3 weeks, the city gates have become packed and it took almost an hour to get in. Traffic was horrible in the streets, but it was better than walking so that Kyle would not get lost. The two boys that were in the carriage with him also stayed in for traveling to the school.

The Vegivile Mage School was located in the Vegivile 4th district equivalent, though Vegivile was not separated into districts. Outside the school property were large trees and thick bushes, and stone paths. The stone paths were all one peice of stone, and continued for the entire way. 'Probably made from earth magic' Kyle thought. The school was made into 9 parts. One for each of the 6 types of magic, one for staff to work and live in, one for the girl students to live in and one for the male students to live in.

Tents were setup in the courtyard and potential students were being taken to them to test their mana amounts. Though every student had to have a magic card registration from the ministry of magic, the school still did their own test. There were 3 lines of students separated by a small wall made from earth magic. There were over 200 people in line waiting to do the magic exam.

Kyle had the paper the headmaster gave him 3 weeks ago, and he tried to give it to someone, but was just told to wait his turn in line. Kyle did so and greeted a few people nearby. 'This is heaven' is what Kyle would have to say about the mage school. About 80% of the students were female.

"Hi, I'm Florianne, nice to meet you." A girl standing in the line Kyle just walked into said. She was short, obviously the same age as Kyle, and had bright blonde and straight blonde hair. She had on pants and a shirt like any normal person, but she had sandals on. Sandals were not common in this area.

"Hi, I'm Kyle, Kyle Mercer, nice to meet you too." Kyle said back. He smiled back to Florianne and two more people in front of him turned around.

"I'm Micky Jill"

"And I'm Jocelyn Charis"

""It's a pleasure"" They both said at once. It was then that Kyle could see that they were holding hands in line.

"So Kyle Mercer, what types do you have?" Florianne asked him. In her hand was her magic card, and in Micky and Jocelyn's they had theirs.

"I have all 6 types." Kyle said to Florianne. He was going to hide the 2 special types, but he could not hide the 6 normal types.

"Oh wow, all 6?" Jocelyn was surprised to hear that. "Hey, 2 types is good too." Jocelyn added when she saw Micky make a frown.

"Yeah, well I have 3 types. Red, Blue, and Green." Florianne said proudly. Florianne held out he magic card so that Kyle could see it and at the bottom she had medium red and blue, and a dim green. "Let me see your card."

Kyle held out his card so that it was facing himself and Florianne could not read it. "What, you don't believe me?" He said, mocking her.

"Hey, just give it!" Florianne said as she grabbed the card from Kyle's hands. She turned it over in her hand and just looked with shock. "It's real...." She said as she showed it to Micky and Jocelyn.

"It's okay Micky, I don't like you any less than before!" Jocelyn said to Micky as he took the shock from seeing six types, and bright on all of them. When Jocelyn spoke, Micky made the motion as if he had just been shot in the heart by an arrow.

"I actually got accepted without having to take the entrance exam, but nobody would believe me so I have to wait in line before giving them the letter the headmaster gave me." Kyle said as he felt his pocket. The paper was still there, sealed with stone.

"Wow, you even got to meet the headmaster!" All three there were excited about that. They all knew the headmaster was a hero descendant, Mr. Akira.

"Yep, too bad I don't see him now or else I wouldn't be in this line." Kyle said to them.

"But if you weren't in this line, you wouldn't have met us." Florianne said to him.

They waited in line for almost half an hour and then it was Jocelyn's turn. She stepped into the tent and and said her name to the person and then less than a minute later walked out the back of the tent, but Kyle could not see that. Then Micky went forward and next Florianne. When it was Kyle's turn, he went into the tent.

"Name." The person said, as if not caring about what was happening.

"Kyle Mercer, and I have a..." But kyle was stopped before he could finish his sentence.

"Oh so you're that Kyle Mercer. Do you have something from someone?" The man asked as he cut Kyle off.

"Yes, I have a paper from the headmaster." Kyle produced the letter from his pocket and handed it to the man. The man looked at it for a few seconds and then burned it to ask.

"You can go on ahead." The man said to Kyle and gave him a ribbon with the number 7 on it. Kyle said thank you and then walked out the back of the tent. Florianne, Jocelyn and Micky were waiting for him there.

"So you passed?" Florianne asked him.

"Yep, all 6 colors and was pushed right on through." Kyle said with a smile.

"Funny, I thought for sure they would stop you if you got all 6 colors." Micky was a little skeptical, but Jocelyn was the first to react to that.

"No need to be jealous!" Jocelyn said.

"I'm not jealous!" Micky said and stormed off. Jocelyn said bye and quickly followed him.

"Well what do we do now?" Kyle faced Florianne and asked her.

"I don't know. I wasn't expecting them to just run off like that." Florianne said, turning to look at where Micky and Jocelyn went.

"Want to explore the school?" Kyle said to Florianne. He had not seen so much as a map of the school, but he could see several large buildings.

"Yeah sure!" Florianne happily said and went with Kyle to walk around the school.

They went around the 9 buildings, and saw a few things on the way around. This night, dorm rooms would be assigned to every student, and in the morning there would be an assembly in the space that the test was done. Kyle learned that it was in the tent that 30 silver coins were required to be paid, and the ribbon was the symbol of acceptance into the school. There was a man in front of the male dorm, Roscoe, who was letting students pick a number from a paper in a hat. That paper would have a number on it and then it would become their room. The female dorm had the same thing being done, by a woman named Lydia. Kyle picked a number and was 167. Roscoe pushed his finger across the ribbon and the number 72 appeared under the 7.

Kyle continued with Florianne to the female dorms on the other side of the campus and she got her room.

"Do you want to come in and wait for diner time?" Florianne asked Kyle as she blushed a little.

"No boys allowed in the girls dorms!" Lydia yelled at them as a girl jumped while taking a number.

"I don't think we are allowed to do that." Kyle said.

"Alright, let's just go somewhere else." Florianne said.

They both walked around a little bit more before going back to the staff building to get something to eat. Meals were paid for at the school, and eating was done in the same building that the staff had offices in. The food was... low tier. It was worthy of being free at least.

"This is gross, we should get food somewhere else." Florianne said as she held the meat with her fork.

"I don't mind it." Kyle said. For him, the food that Fred could afford with his city guard job and Elena not working was lower than low tier. Kyle happily munched on the food. One thing has changed from 3000 years ago, meal standards have been increased.

"Oh hey guys, lucky we found you here." Micky was walking over with Jocelyn in tow. They both had trays of food and sat down with Florianne and Kyle.

"Did you get a dorm room yet?" Kyle asked them.

"Yeah, but neither that guy Roscoe or Lydia would let us be roommates." Micky frowned.

"What is your room number Florinanne?" Jocelyn asked her.

"Mine is 134" Florianne said.

"What about you Kyle?" Micky asked him.

"I've got 72." Kyle replied.

"So you were just a little after me. I got 64." Said Micky.

"And I got 118" Said Jocelyn.

The four of them finished eating and split up to head to the dorms. Micky had to get some luggage that he brought with him but Kyle did not have any so they went separately. It was a short walk to the boys dorm. The boy's dorm consisted of two buildings, each with four floors, and 200 rooms in each building for students. This made 400 rooms for male students because everyone had a roommate. The girl's dorm was much larger though, and had 7 buildings with 200 rooms each. That made 1400 rooms for female students.

Kyle and Micky were in Building A on the 2nd floor, and Florianne and Jocelyn were in Building D on the 3rd floor. Building A had a stairway in the center and a hallway going around it. At the ends of each floor was a restroom and showers.

Kyle went to his room on the second floor and opened it up. Inside was someone getting unpacked.

"Hello." Kyle greeted the person laying things out on the beds.

"Oh, I thought I might be getting a room to myself, too bad." The kid said, not really greeting Kyle. The kid was lanky and had glasses on. His hair was black and very messy.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Kyle Mercer." Kyle said. He was getting a little angry at the kid.

"Eh, my name is Tyler Peers, but you can just call me Tyler." Tyler said. As he did so, he straightened up and pushed his glasses forward. Tyler then went back to putting things on both the beds. Mostly clothes and such.

"Am I going to get one of those beds?" Kyle asked, getting even more upset with Tyler.

"Oh, suppose the roommate needs a bed too." Tyler looked between the beds and then took the clothes off the bed near the window and put them down on the other. "You can have that one."

"That sure is a lot of clothes you have." Kyle said as he laid down on the bed. It was almost comfortable.

"My skin is very sensitive to certain fabrics so I need to keep my clothes in top condition." Tyler said, adjusting his glasses again.

"But aren't we required to wear the school robe?" Kyle said, not really knowing if there was a school robe.

"..." Tyler was stunned by this. "I'll just wear it over these clothes." He said as he continued putting the clothes into outfits and putting them into draws of a dresser at the end of the bed.

Kyle tried to sleep as he laid down. He was really hoping that this kid would have to leave because he got sick from the robe or something. Kyle also wondered where a certain person was. 'She is probably in the girl's dorm right now.' Kyle thought to himself. Kyle had some magic spells for searching for things, but he could not lock onto an individual person. Also, if Kyle was caught searching the 7 girl's dorms, he might get in a lot of trouble.

'I'll need to find a way to sneak into the girl's dorms.' Kyle thought to himself as he went to sleep. The night was silent and easy to sleep in. The next morning, Micky woke Kyle up by banging on the door.

"Wake up sleepy, you're going to miss the opening ceremony!" Micky was yelling at the door. Kyle got up from his bed and looked around. Tyler was gone and light was shining through the window.

"What is it?" Kyle asked as he opened the door, still in his underwear.

"The opening ceremony! Florianne and Jocelyn are waiting for us right now!" Micky said, pushing the door open. "Get something on and let's go!"

"Alright, let me through this on and I'll be ready." Kyle put on his clothes from the other day and took his key for the door, locking it when he left with Micky.

On the way to the ground floor, Kyle did not see anyone else, but outside there was Florianne and Jocelyn waiting.

"Took you long enough, let's go!" Jocelyn said, waving her hand and starting to walk.

"What were you doing that you were going to miss the opening ceremony for?" Florianne asked.

"I've got a shit roommate." Kyle said, trudging along.

"I like my roommate." Florianne said.

"Oh my god, my roommate is such a goody girl. I wanted to brainstorm some ways to sneak boys in and she was not having any part of that." Jocelyn said as the four of them kept walking.

'Wait, we are all 8 right? Why are you sneaking boys in?' Kyle thought as he followed her. The four of them came to a large crowd in the field where the testing was being done the day before. Kyle looked around, but he did not see a certain someone who we wanted to see.

"You looking for someone?" Micky asked as he looked over at Kyle scanning the crowd.

"Yeah, my roommate so I can hit him." Kyle angrily said back.

"Well what does he look like?" Micky asked.

"Are you really going to attack someone the day before classes start?" Florianne asked him.

"Yeah, that snot nosed, four eyes and black hair kid didn't tell me anything about the ceremony and left without me. He deserves it." Kyle said, still looking around.

"You'll teach him a lesson, right Micky?" Jocelyn asked him, pulling his arm close to her.

"I need to assert my dominance somehow." Micky said, push out his chest.

Kyle kept looking around but could not see Tyler anywhere. As the speech from various professors at the school continued, previous year students were walking along the sides of the crowd of 1st years. The oldest people in the school as students should be 14 years old. 14 year old kids were giants to 8 year old Kyle.

"Once I finish, follow the directions from Roscoe and Lydia to get your measurements taken for your mage robes. Boys on the left and girls on the right." The headmaster finished his speech and walked off the stage. From the back, Roscoe and Lydia came forward along with a few workers. The girls lined up on the right and the boys on the left, and measurements were taken and the names and dorm room numbers written down. The robes were on display and blue and had a spot for the ribbon that was given the day before to be put through. Kyle was worried that the red string he wore would not go well with the blue robe.

As Kyle was looking at the stage and mentally evaluating the girls getting their robes, he saw her. The person who had not spoken to him in almost 4 months. He wanted to yell out her name, but he knew she did not talk to many people, and even now she was not talking to the people around her.

"Hey Kyle, you like the way that one looks?" Micky said. He was also looking at the girl's getting measured and making mental notes.

"Micky, I don't know what your play is, but that one is absolutely mine." Kyle said, turning to Micky.

"Fine fine, but I get the 3 behind her." Micky said, laughing.

"Alright, but I get the two over there." Kyle said back.

They continued like this for a little while before they went to get their robes measurements taken. The robe was measured to not be too long, to not have too long sleeves, and to rest on the shoulders. The red string would be completely hidden from view.

After getting his measurements taken, Kyle was told to go to the classrooms to select classes. Kyle and Micky both went to the fire building and looked for classes.

A total of 4 classes could be taken, and Ethics for a Magical Occupation was required. That left 3 classes they could take. Classes went from 7:30 to 9:30 for the first one, 10:00 to 12:00 for the second, 1:00 to 3:00 for the third, and 3:30 to 5:30 for the last one. 2 hours for each class with a half hour break between them for mana to recharge. A one hour break for lunch.

Because Kyle would not be paying attention to Ethics at all, he chose it for the first one of the day. It was in the healing building because healing was the least had aptitude. Florianne had it though, so she was special.

Micky did the same as Kyle because he was a little jealous about the 6 types. Fire with Professor Genesis was chosen for 4th period. Earth was chosen for 3rd with Professor Toto. Micky only had the two types, so for 2nd period Kyle chose Healing with Professor Riz.

Kyle and Micky then made a mad dash to find Jocelyn so she would select the same classes as him, and Kyle waited at the healing building for Florianne and would stop Jocelyn if he saw her. Florianne and Jocelyn were far back in line to get the robes, and the girls took longer to get them made than the boys.

"Hey Kyle, are you taking a healing class?" Florianne asked him as she came to the building.

"Yeah, but do you know where Jocelyn went?" Kyle asked. He quickly saw a small frown develop on Florianne's face. "Because Micky started running off saying he was looking for her." Kyle added, and the frown disappeared, and was replaced with laughter.

"Haha, she ran off to find him to coordinate their classes." Florianne said, clutching onto the rail outside the healing building entrance.

"Let's do the same thing. I have second period open for a healing class with Professor Riz." Kyle said as he opened the door to the building. Florianne followed him and entered the building.

"Okay, show me where Professor Riz's room is." Florianne said as she followed him. Florianne signed up for the same class and so now for the next 8 months, Florianne and Kyle would share the 10:00 to 12:00 time frame.

"We should get something to eat now, but I don't want that cafeteria food." Florianne said, looking at a clock tower above one of the buildings on the campus.

"But I don't have any money Florianne." Kyle said, pulling out his pockets to show the fact. He really had nothing on him and was relying on the school to provide everything for him.

"That is okay, I have some extra money for you to get something too." Florianne said, pulling a few copper coins from her pocket.

Florianne and Kyle left the school and went into town. It was a large town but Florianne was able to find a place for them to eat. The food was only a few coins for the both of them and the drinks came with it. Kyle had not eaten out many times, but this food was great. It only cost a few coins, so he wondered why fresh bread costed so much.

"Do you really like it that much?" Florianne asked Kyle as he ate the food furiously.

"Yeah, it's the best thing I've had in years!" He said eating it all down. From the soups and stale bread concoctions he had at home almost every day, this food was god-send.

"Then we will have to come out some more." Florianne said, elegantly eating a piece of meat.

"If we go out more, I will need to get a job." Kyle said, eating the food in a messier way than Florianne.

"Does your family not have money to give you?" Florianne asked, honestly thinking he did have money.

"Not really, if it wasn't for the headmaster letting me in for free I wouldn't have even come." Kyle said through bites of food.

"But if you have all 6 types, you must come from nobility, or have elvish background right?" Florianne asked him.

"Nope. Father is a city guard and mother doesn't work. As far as I know, our family has never even left the empire."

"Well... That's really lucky then, to have 6 types and not even be elvish or noble."

"Why would it?" Kyle asked her, putting down the food.

"Well, people with multiple aptitudes are usually married into noble families or have elvish background. I heard that all the elves can use at least 2 types." Florianne said, matter of factually.

"Oh, so you thought I was nobility..." Kyle frowned and looked at the plate. 'She just wanted to be friends because she thought I had a good family.' He thought.

"No, that's not it, we are still friends right? Eat up!" Florianne stuck her fork into a piece of meat on Kyle's plate and held it up for him. Kyle looked at it for a second and then bit down on it.

"Yeah." He said as he made a big smile.

Kyle and Florianne went back to the school and walked around for a little while longer before separating. Kyle, Micky, Jocelyn, and Florianne all had the same Ethics class, so they would see each other every morning. Kyle was going back to his dorm when he saw someone from the corner of his eye. It was that sneaky bastard Tyler.

"Hey Tyler, thanks for waking me up this morning." Kyle said as he walked over to him. Tyler quickly walking towards the dorm like he was going to be late for something.

"Oh, hey there roommate." Tyler said as he kept moving. He glanced at Kyle and then kept going. Kyle was certain nobody would see him do it, so he cast a silent Bog spell on the ground in front of Tyler. Kyle pretended to be fixing his hair when he pointed, and Tyler fell in the mud. "Blugh!" was the sound Tyler made as he fell face first into the mud.

"Hey Tyler, you alright?" Kyle asked, faking sincerity.

"Yeah, I think i'm fine." Tyler said as he pushed himself around and got out from the mud. "It hasn't rained for a while though, why would so much mud be here like this?" He asked as he looked at the ground.

"Maybe it was a giant beast that pissed here?" Kyle joked. Tyler took it serious though and looked down at his clothes and then ran to the boys dorms. 'Hahahahaha' Kyle was laughing on the inside as he walked back to the boys dorm.

But then he saw someone else. It was a girl his same age who he knew for about 2 and a half years but then stopped coming to school after a certain kidnapping incident that he may or may not have caused and he had not seen or spoken to for about 4 months.

"BETH!" Kyle yelled over the campus and he moved towards her. When her name was called, the girl stopped moving and looked over at Kyle. She did not say anything and looked down, but did not move away. Kyle continued advancing on her position.

"Why didn't you come to see me after school let out?" Kyle asked as he got closer. The girl looked up and then looked down several times. Unlike most interactions with her where she acted like this, her face did not turn red.

"I was really worried something happened." Kyle said as he came closer. The girl looked up and acted like she was going to say something, but no words came out.

"Beth..."