Pushing myself up, I see Ryanne trying to do the same. I get up and start to walk over to her, but Liam grabs my arm and pulls me back. “Let Colin work with her.”
Colin, who had also fallen from the blast, slowly gets up and helps Natalie stand. Together both of them walk over to Ryanne, who’s now looking around the room with a shocked expression on her face. “Ryanne, can you hear me?” Colin asks.
She nods and pushes herself fully up. “How do you feel?” Liam and I both step a little closer to hear them.
Ryanne looks around the room again. She seems very confused. “Umm, I don’t really know. I feel weird.”
I take another step forward to hear her better. “Weird how?”
“I don’t know. I can hear everyone’s thoughts and feel their emotions, but it’s not as annoying as before. I can actually ignore them.”
“You had to release the hold you had on your magic. Before, your magic was cramped inside you, building up pressure. By releasing it, you’ll probably start to feel better. You won’t feel the effects of keeping your magic down anymore, so you shouldn’t as tired. Keeping your magic inside probably would have been more dangerous than what you just did. You can push the thoughts out of the way and hopefully with Natalie’s help, you can control the emotions. Everything should be a little easier now,” Colin says. I turn and look around the room. Everyone is watching Ryanne, wondering what she’ll do next.
“Like what?” she asks.
“I don’t know. I don’t have all that magic coursing through me. Get creative,” he says.
“Uh oh,” I say right as Liam laughs. You don’t tell Ryanne to get creative. She smiles and puts her hand out in front of her, palm up. A ball of electrified blue light starts forming in her hand, gradually increasing in size. Colin’s smile falls as Ryanne’s gets wider. Adding her left hand, she expands the ball. Looking up at Colin, Ryanne winks at him as she sends the magic toward him.
Colin throws his arms up to shield his face. When the ball is about to hit him, the wind picks up and spins around, cocooning him. The ball collides the wind, uniformly spreading out. Colin is entrapped in an electrified tornado. Thunder rolls above him as it starts pouring inside the wind cocoon.
“What is she doing?” Chris asks as he walks up beside us.
“Getting her payback,” Liam answers without taking his eyes off of the scene playing out in front of us. Ryanne drops the tornado, but keeps the rain around Colin. There’s a chorus of laughter around the room when everyone sees him. His clothes are soaking wet and clinging to him, his wavy hair is sticking up in every direction, and he has a very obvious frown directed at Ryanne, who is trying to hold in her laughter.
“I don’t know of any Hobbits that can do that, do you Colin?” Ryanne asks through her giggles.
“No, Gandalf, I don’t know of any,” Colin mumbles.
“I’m surprisingly okay with that one. Gandalf was awesome,” Ryanne says as she heats up the room slightly and increases the wind, drying off Colin. Tom walks over to him and slaps him on the back.
“I probably should have warned you not to tell Ryanne to get creative. She takes it very literally. You can ask any of the guys in the room.”
A chorus of agreements ring out as we all shout our responses. Ryanne laughs, but apologizes to Colin. He just laughs it off. “It was impressive. Granted, it would have been funnier if it wasn’t done to me, but it was nonetheless impressive.”
For the next hour everyone trained. Ryanne put a shield up in the middle of the room so her magic wouldn’t affect the rest of us while we worked. Both Liam and I fought with all we had, neither one of us letting the other get away with anything. If I had to pick someone, I’m glad Liam is Ryanne’s protector.
“Hey, I think we’ve had enough training for the day,” Tom says. “We should let Colin and Natalie work with Ryanne using the full room. We’ll train again in the morning.” Following everyone out of the room, I look behind me once more. Ryanne is moving the magic around her, weaving water in and out of the air. It’s amazing what she can do.
“You don’t think she’ll pass out from using too much magic, do you?” I ask Tom as we walk downstairs.
“I don’t think so. I believe she only passed out from the magic use because it had nowhere to go. It was stuck inside her, using up all of her energy, and making her more tired. That’s probably why she was always falling asleep. I think Colin had the right idea when he asked her to unleash it. From what I’ve seen, she now seems able to do more. She already appears more powerful. With a little more training…I can’t imagine what she’ll be able to do.”