Private Finished With These Powers Combined

Rachel used her flight to bound off of the walls, being careful to avoid the windows. Her gaze traveled across the room. There were twenty desks at the back of the room, each with plenty of space between them to move, and none of them in the front of the room except for the teacher's desk. Cassandra was behind that desk. She was aiming her bow in Rachel's general direction with an angled arrow nocked.

"I still can't believe we have so much room!" Rachel said. Her words echoed slightly.

"It's only natural for the type of class we have," Cassandra said. "However, you shouldn't get your hopes up and think that we're going to get a lot of students. You might be disappointed."

She fired the arrow, and it flew to meet Rachel. Rachel delivered it back with a spinning kick. Cassandra caught it just before it was about to hit the desk. The two shared a smile.

Just then, someone entered the classroom. Rachel gasped and quickly landed not too far in front of him, and Cassandra stored her bow in her pocket dimension and placed the angled arrow on the desk.

"Oh, hello there!" Rachel said. "Welcome to power synergy! I'm so glad you've decided to join us."

Cassandra raised an eyebrow. Before she could say anything, Rachel made a discrete gesture with her hand. Cassandra remained silent.

"It's nice to meet you, Alexis," Rachel said. "My name is Mrs. Lochland, but I don't mind if you'd prefer to just call me Rachel. And she," she pointed to Cassandra, "is Mrs. Tiller. We are, indeed, the teachers for this class. You'll find that you're the only one here, and may be the only for a while. This class just started today, after all."

Rachel hovered just slightly off of the ground and positioned herself next to Cassandra. "I'll let you take it from here," Rachel said.

Cassandra picked up the arrow that she had shot earlier. It disappeared in her hand. "I'm sure you already know the basic premise of what we're going to be doing," she said, "so we won't dilly dally. Can you give us a basic description of what you can do? Or, you can show us if you prefer that." Cassandra gestured to the large space in the front of the classroom. Rachel picked up a notepad and pencil from the desk.

As Alexis listed off his powers, Rachel nodded and wrote down paraphrased versions of the explanations. Cassandra was already thinking of potential combinations with both herself and Rachel. "Rachel, can you gather energy?" she asked. Rachel nodded and flew over to a window, where there was a little bit of sunlight streaming through.

"We're going to test something in a minute," Cassandra said. "You seem to have a lot of different abilities, so before we try to improve them or make new discoveries about them, we have to see how efficient you are in using them together. We'll conduct a short sparring match. However, you won't be sparring with one of us. "

Rachel realized what Cassandra was going to say before she even said it. She flew over to Alexis. "I'm just gonna touch your shoulder," she said. "A clone of yourself is going to come out of you when I do. I'm just telling you now so that you don't panic. It won't hurt, or anything."

She placed a finger on Alexis' shoulder, and almost instantly, an exact replica of him emerged from the front of his body.

"We'll see how you fare against your own powers," Cassandra said. "This is just going to be a standard sparring match. Nothing too crazy, and it's just going to last for a minute."

As Alexis sparred with his doppleganger, both Cassandra and Rachel took notes. Rachel had flown to the other end of the classroom to get a different angle. They watched the fight intently, taking note of moves he did particularly well and things he could have done better. As each fighter performed a particular action, Rachel would fly to a different part of the room to get a better angle. She glanced at Cassandra's face and saw that her expression was neutral.

The alarm on Rachel's phone went off, signifying the passing of a minute. She deactivated her Gemini and Alexis' clone disappeared.

"Hm...." Cassandra said. "Good. We'll address everything we've noted later. For now, let's talk about the specifics of your powers. If you want to use your powers more efficiently, you have to be aware of all the small nuances. For example, what is that mist made of? How strong are those nails that you created? Things like that. Anything helps." She and Rachel prepared to take notes again, and the latter flew back to the window to gather more energy.

Rachel already knew what to do. She absorbed a few more seconds worth of sunlight, and when she was finished, activated her Aquarius form. Her skin took on a blue tint.

"I assume that you have pretty good control over that mist," Cassandra said, "considering that you can control it with your mind. However, like I said, that's just an assumption. I'd like to see how good that control is myself."

Rachel moved her arms and a sphere of water emerged from behind the teacher's desk. As she spread apart the fingers on one of her hands, the sphere split into five pieces. The pieces mirrored her fingers' motions.

Cassandra summoned her bow again and created two normal arrows. She nocked one. "I'm going to fire two arrows," she said. "You have to hit both of them with your mist. This will not only show us how fast your reflexes are, but it will also give us a sense of any type of destructive power that the mist can be used for."

She had Rachel go to the other side of the room to help demonstrate. A few seconds passed without anything being said. Without warning, Cassandra fired her nocked arrow, then immediately nocked the other and fired it. Rachel sliced both arrows with two orbs of water.

"Like that," Cassandra said. "I'll fire at a random time, so pay attention."