Reborn 5

"I'm sorry!" Beth shouted across the length of grass separating her from Kyle.

"What are you sorry about?" Kyle asked. If anything, he though he should be the one apologizing.

"I'm sorry for almost getting you killed." Beth said, and she started to cry.

"No Beth, It was my fault for taking you back to late at night." Kyle said getting closer to Beth.

"If I didn't come to Claire's house with you then you wouldn't be walked late at night, and if I wasn't there the bandits wouldn't have grabbed a guard's son. My brothers told me how they kill one kid to prove they will with the other too, so they would have killed you to sell me for more!" Beth was absolutely drowning in tears now.

'She wasn't awake when those bandits were saying that, but why would Berry and Cory say that to her?' Kyle thought as he finally stood right next to Beth and hugged her. "But when you don't talk to me, it's like someone killed you, and that's even worse than being killed by bandits." Kyle said over the shoulder of Beth.

"You're not mad at me?" Beth asked as she hugged him back.

"I'm just happy I was able to see you again." Kyle said as he pulled back from Beth and looked in her eyes. There were practically sparkles in the air. Whether it was immaturity or something else though, it did not go past hugging.

"What... classes do you have?' Beth wiped the tears off her face with her free hand and held Kyle's hand with the other as they walked to the girl's dorm.

"I have Ethics in the morning, Healing second, Earth third, and Fire last." Kyle said, walking closely next to Beth.

"Ethics, Lightning, Ice, Fire." Beth said as she walked. She then asked "Who do you have for Ethics and Fire?"

"I have Professor Genesis for Fire, and I don't think I will be awake for Ethics so I just made sure it was in the morning." Kyle said in an upbeat tone.

"Yeah, me too." Beth said back.

"You have Professor Genesis?"

"No, i'm going to sleep through Ethics." Beth replied and they both laughed just like they did when Kyle made faces at Skorva and drew pictures of her getting attacked by monsters.

"Then we might not see each other very often." Kyle said to her.

"Can't you come to the dorm with me?" Beth asked Kyle.

"No, boys aren't allowed into the girl's dorm." Kyle said back, unhappy about it.

"Well, you'll find a way right?" Beth looked at Kyle happily. She knew Kyle always found a way to do things.

"Yeah, if I could become invisible." Kyle joked.

'Become invisible.' Kyle stopped walking and starting thinking. Beth was pulled back and let go of his hand.

"I knew you would think of something!" And she ran off to the girls dorms. Beth turned around for a second and shouted out one more thing, "I'm in room 84!"

Like a mad scientist, Kyle used a silent Fly to get to the top of the clock tower and looked around the school. He could see almost everything, just not what was blocked by the buildings. Kyle was testing hypothesizes on the building as tried to replicate something like invisibility.

'Telekinesis, invisible hands! I just need to make my whole body invisible hands!' Kyle thought to himself. Kyle tried to force the mana inside of him, and tried to move around, but it was not working. He could still see his reflection in the shiny bell. It was going to be dark soon and too late to see Beth if he could not get it right in a few more minutes.

"I just need to move the mana, not from my mana pathways, but directly from the core." Kyle said out loud. He was not worried about people hearing him. Kyle used a gravity spell and felt inside his body for where the mana was coming from. Kyle felt certain that if he used up all his mana, he would be able to feel the mythical mana core that was only theorized about. Kyle made spheres of gravity in the air which used up large amounts of mana. Gravity was a rank 3 earth spells along with Meteor, and used huge amounts of mana, though being a hero he had huge amounts of mana to spare.

Kyle used more gravity and it started to make wind, so he started to space it out more. Kyle could use two spells at the same time with silent casting, which was something impossible otherwise. Kyle made two huge balls of gravity in the distance over the city and ignored the wind. Kyle could see birds being sucked into the gravity field and becoming paste, but he ignored it. Kyle was surprised at how much mana he had, as using such large spells for so long would make him completely depleted of mana several minutes earlier in his past life.

Kyle made a final push and finally felt his chest collapse. His mana core was running out, and he could feel it inside of him. But at the same time, Kyle could feel pain from all around him. Kyle had fallen off the clock tower and hit the top of the building it was on. Kyle could not move and his vision was going bad. He could not hear well either and was only just able to see as someone came running over to him and shook him. Kyle went asleep after that.

Kyle woke up the next day in a hospital like area. 'I didn't get reborn again did I?' He thought to himself as he looked around, but he could not move his neck. Kyle tried to move his hands, but that did not work, and he could not lift his legs either.

"Hello?" Kyle tried to say, and it worked. 'So I am still me. Or at least the new me. Or me version 2.0' Kyle thought to himself.

"Hey he's awake." Someone in the room said. At that moment, Kyle could see two people over the bed he was in. It was Beth and Florianne in their school robes and worried faces.

"Are you alright Kyle?"

"Did someone do this to you?"

Beth and Florianne were both obviously worried about Kyle, but it was Florianne who though someone might have attacked him.

"I've already told your friends how we found you, but they won't listen to anyone." The nurse said how came over and looked at a piece of paper at the foot of the bed.

"I was trying to climb the clock tower but fell off." Kyle said trying to make a smile. His whole body hurt and he wondered why nobody used healing magic on him.

"How did you even get to the roof of the central building? The doors to the roof are always locked." The nurse asked as she put the paper away.

"It must have just been unlocked on accident." Kyle said. "Why can't I move?" He then asked.

"We need to know if it would be alright for the advanced class healing mages to use spells on you, for practice." The nurse told him. "Well, would it?"

"Yeah sure. Beth, Florianne, you should get back to class." Kyle told them all.

"Now that I know you're fine." Florianne said to him.

"It's just ethics." Beth said.

"Oh, then I would really feel better if Beth stayed with me while the advanced class used healing magic." Kyle added. Beth told him she wasn't going to like Ethics just like him.

"No, you both have to go to class now." The nurse said and started to push them out of the room.

"Don't forget what you promised yesterday." Beth managed to get out before she was pushed out of the room.

"Yeah!" Kyle said. 'I never promised anything, but I know what you are talking about.' The thought.

20 minutes later a class of 16 healing mages came into the room which was just a re-purposed healing building room. The mages cast the spell Regrow on him, but after he was put in so much pain, at least they had the sense to hold the bones in the right places before casting the spell. Kyle waited until the Ethics class would be over before the used healing spells on himself and then leaving the room.

His healing class would be in the same building, and Florianne would be there, so he did not want to miss it. One thing he did miss, was what he should do concerning Florianne and Beth. He had two women now. Claire didn't count, she was like a younger sister. As Kyle thought about what to say to them about each other he came to the classroom. Kyle past many other students and because he was wearing normal clothes he got some looks.

Kyle entered the classroom and then remembered the 30 minute break between classes. This was different from the couple minute break at the school in Thornberry, so he had forgotten. Kyle quickly left the classroom and went to get his school robe on and came back to the classroom. By the time he got there, Florianne and some other students had gotten there.

"Kyle! Are you sure you should be walking?" Florianne asked as she walked over to him when she saw him come in the room.

"Yeah I'm fine." Kyle made a few stretches. "Where do you want to sit?" Kyle asked and he looked around. There was one other boy in the class.

"Let's sit over here." Florianne took Kyle to a desk in almost the center of the room. From here, Kyle would be surrounded on all sides by girls.

'Only 30% observable girls, this won't do!' Kyle cursed in his head. He wanted to sit in the back where he could look at anyone he wanted. "Maybe I should sit in the back?" He said to Florianne.

"No you don't have to do that, sit right here next to me." Florianne said as she took a seat and patted the desk of the one she wanted Kyle to sit at.

"Okay then." Kyle said as he sat down. He was secretely envying the boy who sat in the back and would be able to look at any girl he wanted. 'But I do have one that is really friendly with me to my left...' Kyle weighed the pros and cons, and decided sitting in the middle of the room with Florianne was acceptable.

"Here comes Professor Riz." Someone said in the classroom. A few people stood up as Riz walked in and Kyle imitated them.

"Sit down, this is not the knight school." Riz said as she came in. "Everyone is hear for beginner healing right?" She asked as she looked over the classroom.

"Yes, it is a privilege to be taught by you." Said one of the students.

The class went with Riz talking about how noble of a magic type healing is and all the practical applications of it. The class ended with the call for the basic Heal spell being written on the board at the front and everyone copying it down. Florianne did not talk to Kyle very much, but occasionally turned to ask him if he was getting everything, or if he was still fine.

"I really hope I can be a great healer." Florianne said as they walked to the cafeteria. It was only an hour break and they would not have time to go into the city for lunch. Florianne said they were going to meet with Micky and Jocelyn there too.

"Will Beth be in the cafeteria?" Kyle asked. He made a decision. Beth over Florianne.

"Who?" Florianne asked, not looking at Kyle.

"The girl who game with you to visit me, her name was Beth. Didn't you talk at all." Kyle was stupefied. The nurse made it sound like Beth and Florianne had been in the room for a while, but they didn't learn each other's names?

"Oh her. I think she said her name was something like that." Florianne continued towards the cafeteria without slowing down.

'Are all women going to be like this?' Kyle though as he remembered how Claire reacted to meeting Beth for the first time.

They entered the cafeteria and scanned over the room to find Micky and Jocelyn at a table talking to a couple other people.

"And then I said, "Close you mouth before this turd find's it's way in it." and you know what he did? He says to me, "What turd?" right I know, so I punch him right in the teeth and shove his fingers in his mouth. "That turd" I say to him." Micky is telling a story to the people at the table and Jocelyn is firmly attached to his arm, admiring his story telling abilities.

"Micky, you're so tough." Jocelyn said.

"Hey you, make room tough guy!" Kyle said as him and Florianne came closer.

"Whaa..." Micky said as he turned around. "Oh, it's just you two. Sit down, hey how was the view?" Micky then said. Micky was referring to the view from the clock tower.

"Hey, who told everyone about the clock tower?" Kyle asked. He understood Beth looking for him after he did not show up, but Florianne was unexpected. Micky was even less expected.

"It was the Ethics professor. He was taking attendance when he came to your name, then he said, "Kyle Mercer. Oh looks like it says he fell from the clock tower and won't be coming to class for now." and then some girl asked where you were and she ran out of the room and Florianne followed her." Micky spoke loudly to everyone at the table, then he leaned over to Kyle so only he could hear, and maybe Jocelyn who was firmly planted to his arm. "Kyle, you dog. You've been holding out on me."

"..." Kyle did not say anything to Micky. "Me and Florianne need to get something to eat, so save us these spots and we will be right back. Kyle and Florianne went and got in line for getting food and as they did Kyle looked around. He then remembered something and turned to Florianne. "You thought someone injured me?" He asked her.

"Well, I just thought sense you are pour you probably don't have fighting training, and someone might have seen your magic card and gotten jealous." Florianne said looking away from him.

"Hey i'm not poor!" Kyle said back to her. He might be on the lower class side of things, but he was not 1st district poor.

"I didn't mean it like that! Let's just get something to eat quickly" Florianne said turning to him. But Kyle could see Beth sitting down and eating lunch so he had to go up to her. She was alone at her table and was not talking to anyone.

"Save my spot in line, I'll be right back." Kyle said as he walked over to Beth. As he got closer, Beth had already eaten the food and was making lines in the reminiscent of some potatoes. "Hey Beth, fancy seeing you here."

"Oh Kyle, you are already better?" Beth looked up and went from sulking to overjoyed when she heard Kyle.

"Yeah, they had a whole class of healing mages try and fix me, but I had to end up doing it myself." Kyle said, not sitting down. "Listen up, I haven't let anyone else know what I already know spells, so just pretend that I haven't taught you anything and I don't know anything either."

"Yeah, I figured that would be best from how your friend's mom acted." Beth said.

"Well, come sit with my other friends over there. I still need to get a lunch but i'll be right over when I am done." Kyle finished saying and back to the lunch line.

"You know her or something?" Florianne asked Kyle. Florianne had her hands on her hips but still kept his spot in line.

"Yeah, she is from the same town as me. We went to the same school too." Kyle said while looking forward at the line that was getting very small now.

"So, she is a childhood friend?" Florianne questioned.

"Well, it was only 3 years ago that we met, and we are still children, but I guess so." Kyle did not think much of it. They were very young before, and are still young now.

"Did you tell her to come to our table?" Florianne was a little irritated that Kyle was inviting other girl's to the table, but she did not directly say that.

"Yeah I did. She was all alone over there and I wanted her to be at our table with us." Kyle did not want his oldest friend (not counting Claire) to be excluded from his circle of friends.

"But nobody likes her." Florianne spoke as if it was something everyone knew.

"What do you mean?" Kyle was taken aback. He knew she might not make friends quickly, but to already be at the 'complete outsider' stage came too fast.

"She just had her head on the desk the entire class time and didn't talk to anyone."

Kyle thought for a few minutes and then laughed.

"That's exactly what she did the first day of school in Thornberry too!" It was exactly the same.

"Ugg, you two must be perfect for each other then." Florianne faced the line for food and did not say anything else until they came back to the table.

"We made some room for you on that side Kyle." Micky said as the spots to the right of him and Jocelyn had been filled by people from the other side and now Beth was sitting down.

"Thanks Micky." Kyle took a seat to the right of Beth and Florianne sat on the right of him. Beth saw Jocelyn holding Micky's arm and did the same to Kyle, and then Florianne saw Beth doing it and copied her. Kyle had his arm to his side for a second and was now in a predicament.

"Florianne, I can't eat if you hold my arm like that." Kyle said as he turned to her.

"Oh, sorry." Florianne said as she let go and started eating her own food. She still did not like it very much.

"It's okay." Kyle ate his food with his now free right hand.

"You really like this cafeteria food huh Kyle." Florianne said as she could barely stomach it. She then stuck a piece of meat and held it in front of her. Kyle leaned over and ate it directly off her fork.

"Yeah, it's good." He said munching on it.

"Hey!" Florianne said as she put the for through a piece of meat on Kyle's plate.

"I thought you said you didn't like it!" Kyle said as he tried to battle with her fork.

"I changed my mind."

"You can't just change your mind in one day."

"Sure I can!"

With about 3500 students in the magic school and 4 lines for food, most time was spent waiting to get food. Kyle finished eating his food and Florianne took his arm again like Beth had been doing the entire time and Jocelyn had been doing to Micky. Lunch ended and everyone went to their next class.

Kyle Micky and Jocelyn had Basic Earth Magic for their 3rd class, and neither Beth or Florianne had the aptitude for it. Earth was a mostly male magic type, and Jocelyn would be a rarity in the class. When they got to the class, Jocelyn was one of three girls there, surrounded by 17 boys.

"Good afternoon Professor Toto." A few students spoke as Toto entered the room.

"Good afternoon students!" Professor Toto had a large smile and a large body. He could have been a bodybuilder. Toto took attendance and everyone was there, then he went onto introductions about how useful earth magic is. Most of the buildings at the Vegivile Mage School were made by earth professors over the years, which made them able to stand inordinately high. Earth magic was also high valuable for adventurers, and when fighting with the dwarves.

3rd period ended and Kyle went to 4th. He had this class with just Micky while Jocelyn and Florianne had Ice Magic. Beth was taking Fire but with another professor. Professor Genesis was in his 30's and was using fire magic the entire time during class. He told his students about how fire was the most powerful magic over time because even though lightning was stronger in a single blow, lightning could only hit one thing and took more mana. Genesis was very confidant about his fire skills and showed the class his spells, including Flame Cloak what wrapped the body with fire. He talked about how fire was made and then class ended.

Kyle and Micky parted ways outside the classroom and Kyle went to Beth's classroom. Beth was standing outside waiting for Kyle because he said he would come when they spoke at lunch, and now Kyle was walking with her to the girl's dorm.

"You are in room 84 right?" Kyle asked her.

"That's right." Beth said.

"I'll come by in just a few minutes, wait for me in your room and leave the door unlocked." Kyle said and then went to the boys dorm and into the bathroom.

Kyle felt around where his mana core was located and used the same magic he used for telekinesis on himself. Kyle was vomiting blood because he was actually moving his insides around, but he was eventually able to move the mana outside of his body without using the pathways he had been using his whole life. The mana was filling his bloodstream and then seeping out in all direction. If mana had a color, Kyle would be clouded in it.

Kyle suddenly lost grip of the mana and it exploded inside of him. Kyle could feel himself fall on the floor, but when he looked his legs were invisible. 'Success!' Kyle thought and he cast Regrow on himself and got up. His body became visible when he cast the spell, but he was able to make himself invisible again with less effort and didn't even fall on the ground. Kyle practiced a few more times and then made a note of how his robes were also invisible. Kyle touched the bathroom stall door to try and make it invisible too, but it did not work.

Kyle walked out from the boys bathroom and it was getting dark out, so he hurried to the girl's dorm with his invisibility. In addition to invisible hands telekinesis, Kyle had created the new magic, Mana Form invisibility. At the front door to the girl's dorm, Kyle checked his invisibility again and walked inside. His shoes made a little noise on the ground, so he cast a Silence status on himself and moved silently. His feet did not make noise, and he could not make calls for spells, but he did not need to make calls for spells.

'Maybe I should assassinate that Akira like this...' Kyle thought. Beth's room was on the inside of the building and the door was open a little bit and unlocked like he requested it. Kyle pushed it open a little bit and saw Beth sitting on her bed. The room looked very similar to his own. As the door creaked open, Beth went over to it to close it but then Kyle closed it behind him and turned off his invisibility.

"Ah!" Beth was scared a little bit and jumped at Kyle apearing from thin air.

"..." Kyle tried to speak but forgot he was silenced, so he cast Dispel on himself and then spoke. "I found a way."

"I thought you were doing to climb in through a window or something, not become invisible!" Beth said as he went forward and locked the door.

"Well I saw something I wanted and a way to get it, so I did." Kyle spoke honestly.

"... Can I become invisible?" Beth asked Kyle after a little pause.

"I don't think you will be able to. Remember what I said about being able to feel a pulse when I first taught you magic?"

"Not really."

"Well I did, and you would have to feel that pulse to do this." Kyle said as he turned just his arm invisible. A little more arm than sleeve was made invisible.

"Wow." Beth touched Kyle's arms that had become invisible. "I can still feel it."

"Being invisible doesn't make it stop existing."

"So... what do you want to do?" Beth asked as she laid down on her back on her bed. Kyle went and laid down on the other bed and Beth got up. "Don't lay there!" She said quickly.

"Okay," said Kyle as he stood up. "Why not?"

"That is Kristen Alymer's bed. She's a bitch."

"Oh a bitch you say." Kyle laughed at the language Beth was using. 'quite mature for an 8 year old.' he thought.

"You can lay on my bed with me." Beth said as she scooted over a bit and was now on half the bed.

'A little too mature' Kyle thought as he moved over to Beth's bed and laid down. "So, what do you want to do now?" Kyle asked her.

"Something like this..." Beth said. 'She can't be thinking...' Kyle thought as he looked over for her to be rolling over, but she stuck out her hands. "Great and Eternal Sun, send thy power unto us, Light!" and a small orb floated above Beth's hands. "Maybe you can teach me more magic?"

"Uh, yeah I can do that..." Kyle was talking and then cut off by someone else.

"Hey Beth open up, it's me Kristen." A voice at the door said after knocking.

"Quickly, go invisible and go in the corner!" Beth whispered to Kyle. "Sure, i'll unlock it." and then Beth went over to the door to unlock it and let Kristen in. Beth looked over the room before unlocking the door and Kyle was gone, so she let Kristen in without stalling.

"Gosh, what did you even need to be alone for?" Kristen asked as she game in the room and took off her robe to reveal other clothes underneath. It was about 7 at night and only a little dark.

"I had stuff..." Beth said as she pushed herself against the wall on her bed, and looked at the corner where she wanted Kyle to go to. She looked around and could not see anything on the hardwood floors.

"Well whatever, I just hope you don't expect to get the room to yourself for a few hours every day." Kristen said as she laid down on the bed like Beth was doing before, with her legs over the edge. "It's so tiring having to sit in those classrooms all day."

"Yeah." Beth said, looking up at the ceiling. "I have to use the restroom." And Beth got up from the bed, shooting a glance at Kyle in the corner.

Kyle was in the corner Beth expected him to be in, and he cast Silence on himself again and walked closely behind Beth as she opened the door and took a step back.

"You'll be here when I get back?" Beth asked, making enough room for Kyle to get out of the door.

"It might look like I am a busy person, but I just want to sleep!" Kristen said as she stretched out on the bed.

Kyle moved out of the room and deactivated Silence. "Thanks Beth, I would hate to have to spend all night stuck in that corner." Kyle said while still under invisibility.

"Well get used to it because you have to come after class every day now." Beth said, not knowing where to look.

"Every day?" Kyle asked. He was expecting a few times a week, but he could not sneak into the girl's dorm every day, and what if he had things to do?

"You have two classes with that one girl, so you need to make it up to me after classes end." She said, finally finding the source of the talking from Kyle.

"Alright, but I have to leave now or someone will think it's strange, you talking to yourself in here."

"Fine, but we'll talk in Ethics tomorrow."

"I sure wasn't planning on studying." Kyle left the girl's dorm after casting silence on himself and taking a peak into the girl's bath. It was... disappointing. He didn't even get a nosebleed. 'Maybe I should try the other dorms...' Kyle thought to himself as he walked back to his room.

Room 72 was a total mess. Tyler was there, moving clothes over onto Kyle's bed again.

"What's this Tyler, I thought you were going to stay on your own bed?" Kyle said to him, slowly feeling the rising anger.

"Roommate, it's you. I didn't think you were going to come back so I took over your bed. Are you still staying in this room?" Tyler asked as he looked over at Kyle and pushed his glasses up.

"Tyler, don't put your shit on my bed." Kyle said as he pushed the clothes to the floor. He needed to teach Tyler a lesson somehow.

"Hey! Those are my clothes!"

"Yeah, and this is my bed!" Kyle pulled off his robe and jumped onto the bed. Tyler walked around the bed and started picking up the clothes Kyle pushed to the floor. "Don't put your shit on my bed." Kyle repeated.

"Then you shouldn't leave suddenly and not come back without saying anything."

"If I was going to move out, I would take my things with me." Kyle had a second outfit in his draws and the stick Dave gave him. Under the clothes was the training sword. This was the end of his worldly possessions.

Tyler went out of the room to take a shower and Kyle did the same, hoping to get back before Tyler did. Fortunately for Kyle, Tyler took over 30 minutes to finish his shower. They did not have soap, but Tyler had a very coarse rock to scrub himself with.

That was the end to the night before, and the first day of magic school. 'I'm not going to learn anything.' Kyle thought to himself as he went to sleep.