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((I'm too lazy to wait for you to post, especially since you're supposed to be working on ur project. This post will have nothing to do with anyone other than my character, so you dont need to read it...))

Sterling walked in after leaning out and checking the room number again. "You're the teacher?" He asked, pointing to the man in the front of the room. The man nodded. Sterling walked up and handed him his 'new student' papers.
"This is an AP Holy Magic class. You shouldn't start here is you are new," he said, looking at the packet of papers. Sterling sighed, and pulled his schedule back out from his butt pocket.
"Look, it says this is my homeroom, and I'm here," he held his hands out as some kind of gesture, "So, whatever."
"Okay, I'll talk to the Head about it later. Well, take a seat wit the rest of the students. We're starting the healing unit today." Sterling nodded and sat next to a girl who had her platinum blonde hair in a high ponytail on the top of her head. Her brown eyes looked warily at him, then brought her attention back to the teacher. Sterling did the same.
"So. You want to focus your energy on your hands, and bring your hands over the injury like this. The teacher put one hand on the other and held them in front of him. Try it now." He picked up a large cage that was covered with a black cloth. He removed it, and a few animals that looked like they had been injured were laying in it. A few rabbits, and even more foxes were separated inside the cage by a separator that was made of finely woven metal. The teacher opened one side of the cage and put a wounded Rabbit on each of the Student's desk, including Sterling's.
The other students looked unsure of how to do it, so Sterling did exactly as the teacher did, putting one hand over the other, focusing his energy and putting it over the wounded leg and then the torso of the Rabbit. It opened it's eyes and hopped out from under his hands, headed for an open window. No one moved to catch it before it fell the six floors down outside the window, and died. He looked down at it. That's so sad He thought. Everyone stared at him.
They started chattering. "Is he really new?"
"Did he really do it that fast?"
"I want to try to!" Everyone did the same as Sterling, only with less better results. The animals' wounds heal slowly under their hands, and after about twenty minutes, the students were wiped out from healing the rabbit to full health. The window had been closed, and they now hopped happily through the room of exhausted kids.
"Okay, everyone, break, I guess," The teach said, trying to catch a rabbit that was peeing in the corner of the room. He looked up at Sterling, "Let me see you after class, okay?" Sterling nodded, confused as to why the teacher would want to see him. He had done it perfectly, had he not? The class went on, him healing the Foxes easily while the other students tired quickly from each session. Sterling stood, perfectly fine, not feeling drained at all.

((I hate your demented computer... makes things so hard to read))

"Really?" John asked, surprised that he hadn't noticed before. He was one of the kids who payed attention to the teacher and no attention to his classmates. Though, he thought that if his crush had the same homeroom as him, he should have noticed.

~*~

Sterling stayed after class, as he promised. He thought that he should of hurried on to his next class, but the teacher had said that it was important and that he had to speak with him privately. They stood at the front of the room, and started talking after all the other students had left.
"So, Martin, was it?" The teacher; who Sterling now knew was called Gregory Jamison; said.
"I usually go by Sterling," Sterling tried to say politely, afraid that he was in trouble for something on his first day.
"Okay, then. Sterling. Have you ever used magic before?" Greg asked.
"No- oh, well there was the first time, last night, but I don't think that should count. It wasn't healing, it was just a ball of light." Sterling said, shrugging his shoulders.
"You materialized your magic into light?" He asked, incredulous.
"Yea, is that really amazing?" Sterling asked, confused.
"That's a high level skill that I can barely do. And you did it, what? after realizing your skill and practicing a little?"
"No, I just read a book about Holy Magic and figured I'd give it a try. The first chapter taught how to control energy, and then the second said what the basics were, and the light ball was in there." He shrugged again. The bell rang and he looked up at the clock, realizing that he would officially be late for his next class.
"Could you do it?"
"What, right now?" Sterling asked, looking back down at his teacher's face.
"Yes, right now. I just want to see exactly how you do it." So sterling did the same as he did the night before. He gathered his energy into his palms and shoved a sudden burst of it out. It lit up his hand brightly, even visible in the bright sunlight coming through the window. Greg Smiled and put his hand through it, not disturbing it at all, though casting a shadow on Sterling's hands. He turned and grabbed a book off of the book shelf behind him. Sterling lowered his hands and the light, trying to read the title. "Advanced Mastery of Holy Magic," he read aloud.

((I guess John's and Emma's classes start a period after Sterling's XD ))

John looked up at Gina as she walked in, not really caring about what the teacher was beginning to pass out or that his girlfriend's roommate/his roommate's girlfriend was late.

~*~

"You think I can learn things from this?" Sterling asked, incredulous. Greg simply nodded. Sterling took the book that had suddenly been shoved into his chest. Sterling's next class was called something like Holy Magic Practice, and Greg told him that he could basically do anything he wanted as long as it had to do with Holy Magic. Greg also old him that he would tell the head of his skills and try to get in more one-on-one practice with him. Sterling tried to speak, but he was already immersed into reading. He thanked Greg for whatever he was going to do and walked out of the room and to his next class while reading.

((totally. XD ))

John looked up at the teacher, trying to not pay attention to Emma who had decided to sit next to him. He took out his textbook and headphones, and the teacher didn't even seem to notice. Even if she did, she would know that John could just read the book and catch up, or read someone's mind for a re-cap of the lesson. Not exactly the nicest way to do it, but it worked.

~*~

Sterling slipped into his class, which had been outside on a grass field. There was a dome over the grass, with several animals who had wandered in, either because they were hurt, or they were predators of those hurt animals. The instructor said they could follow her lesson, or just practice. She said that her lesson consisted of trying to either heal the animals that were hurt so they could get away from their natural predators or to kill the predators. Either way, you had to ensure the injured animals were not killed and eaten. Sterling had stumbled upon a chapter in his book that described a sword technique. He wasn't sure how to do it exactly, as the book only described about half the process, but he decided he would try it anyways.

John didn't even notice that Gina had spoken. He went on doing his work from the night before while ignoring everyone except Emma.

~*~

Sterling carefully projected the image of the sword he wanted in his head. Most of the other students had already started their exercises, but Sterling was set on getting this spell right. he held out his hands again and carefully said the mantra he had memorized. There was a flicker of light in his hands, and you could vaguely make out the shape of a sword, if you looked close. Then it disappeared. The teacher was looking at him then, as if she wanted to tell him something. She didn't and let him go on trying helplessly to do the spell.
He finally sat down, tired. She walked up to him. "Maybe you aren't suited for that technique. That's a fighting one, right?" Sterling nodded. "It seems you have a lot of magic energy left, even after all of that. Try to heal a large area at once." Sterling wasn't sure what she meant. She sighed and sat next to him. She showed him what she meant, putting her hands out in front of her, only not on top of each other. They were spread out, and the three animals that could fit under her reach were slowly healing. "You may be able to do a larger area, what wit h the recommendation I've already gotten from Greg," She held up her PDA, whose screen was on an E-mail. As Sterling looked, he noticed that the recipients were all of his teachers, whose names he only vaguely remembered from the list, and the head of the school.
"O...kay?" Sterling said unsure. He stood, thinking about how e was going to do it. He spread his arms out as far as he could, and at an angle that seemed it would cover most of the area in front of him. Maybe up to 0 feet in front of him. He concentrated, as he did with the first healing, and a glowing sheet of energy seemed to fall around the area in front of him, extending into the forest. Animals came scurrying out, rabbits, snakes, foxes, stray dogs and cats, even. A few bears (probably what the teacher had referred to as the dangerous Predators) came out too. He smiled, and the teacher smiled, happy that one of her students was so powerful.