Draal, Blinky, and I behind in the Hero's Forge so that I could train while Jim and Claire left. While Draal is my trainer, Blinky is here to cover anything that Draal might miss. Draal and I met in the middle of the arena and charged towards one another. I was taking a more defensive option to attempt to tire him out before I strike.

On the side lines, Blinky said, "Now, you have already accomplished changing the bow into the daggers. Daggers are more of an offensive weapon not a defensive. We have already stated in the past that the Thriskule has abilities that are still not yet known to us, but we are to focus on is to improve your usage of the daggers and the bow while trying to unlock on how to turn the tides of a battle."

"Wait. What?" I exclaimed turning towards him forgetting about Draal who slammed into me while I was distracted. I fell to the ground and groaned. Draal came over and helped me up while stating, "You need to stay focused, Monica."

"You try focusing when Blinky suddenly announces that I have the power to turn the tides of a battle." I retorted.

"We already explained that you have the power to turn the tides of a war." Draal pointed out.

"I didn't think you meant literally!" I exclaimed. Great. Now I see while the Wielder is held in such regard. Everything is making much more sense now. Don't panic. Don't panic. I pressed my hands to the side of my head in an attempt to calm myself.

"Monica, I know that this is a huge responsibility, but we're going to take this one step at a time. The more experience you have, the easier it will be to understand these things. I know that you will accomplish great things as the Wielder of the Thriskule. While you help us in many ways already, you'll help us even more when you unlock this power. To help your brother. In the fight against Gunmar. It may even be possible that he doesn't know that the Thriskule has chosen another Wielder. So, we may have a surprise advantage." Draal said.

This managed to calm me down as I did my best to make sense of these things. Draal was right. While this may have been a complete surprise and a rather terrifying power to wield, we will need to fight Gunmar. We resumed fighting now this time, I was attempting to channel this supposed power of the Thriskule.

Draal charged towards me and I side-stepped out of the way. I threw my daggers towards Draal, but he easily dodged them. I barely managed to roll out of the way. I saw my daggers towards the other end of the arena and wondered. I held out my hand focusing on the daggers while keeping an eye on the charging Draal. Suddenly, the daggers disappeared in a green puff of smoke and reappeared in my hands. I held my daggers in a cross form and barely managed to block Draal's strike with his ax. We both breathed heavily for a moment and Draal said, "Good. You're unlocking the secrets of the Thriskule. Now use it."

He kicked me in the stomach, which sent me flying backwards and rolled as Draal's ax came crashing down. My back was turned from Draal and I was near the exit of Hero's Forge. I gripped my daggers and steadied my breaths closing my eyes. It almost felt like a switch. I felt a surge of incredible power and I turned back opening them to see that Draal was coming straight for me once more. His eyes seemed to widen, but he kept his charge.

It was like I suddenly knew what to do. Seconds before Draal slammed into me, I dropped to my knees, rolled out of the way while tripping Draal in the process. Draal stumbled and fell flat on his face. The power that I had only seemed to grow more as Draal charged once more and I ran towards him, but before anything happened, we heard Blinky yell,

"Aaarrrgghh, you're back!" The both of us got so distracted that the surge of power that I felt vanished and we managed to collide into each other.

"Ow." I groaned.

"Sorry, Monica." Draal said helping me up.

"It's fine, but what..." I never finished my question as it was answered when I turned to be face to face with Aaarrrgghh.

"Aaarrrgghh! You're back! I'm so happy to see you, but why are you here? What about your wound?" I questioned.

"Must fight Gunmar. This is family. This is home. Must go see, Wing man." Aaarrrgghh said. He left us to go find Toby.

I couldn't stop smiling and Draal chuckled, "That stubborn brute." I embraced Draal because I was just so happy in that moment. Draal stiffened and I instantly let go saying, "Sorry. I was just so happy that I needed to hug someone..." I was cut off by Draal hugging me with Blinky joining in as well. We were all just grateful to have Aaarrrgghh back.

"You don't need to apologize. I was just taken aback for a moment." Draal said with the softest smile that I had ever seen. Once more, I could feel my cheeks burn.

After that, I seemed to have an internal battle with myself. Seriously, why was I getting so flustered? Do I... No, I refuse to go there... but... Monica, girl. We need to get our priorities straight. I couldn't be crushing on him... could I? Monica, girl... But, he's so brave, self-less, caring... Monica Lynn Lake!

"Monica," Blinky said catching my attention, he continued, "While you were fighting Draal, I noticed a change come about you. A green aura seemed to surround you and I noticed that battle seemed to turn in your favor. Do you agree with this, Draal?"

"Yes, I think you could've had a fair shot of beating me if the battle wasn't interrupted with such a welcomed surprise." Draal confirmed.

"I could feel it too. I felt a surge of power come over me, but I have no idea how I unlocked it. It was like a light switch." I explained.

"You have scratched the surface of the power that can turn the tides of battle. This is very good, Monica." Blinky said. We begun the training session once again and lasted for about an hour before I realized how late it was getting when I checked the time on my phone. I was disappointed because I wasn't able to unlock that power again and I now know how Jim feels when he has his training sessions with Draal in the early mornings, but I knew that I needed to return back home.

"This was a good training session, but I need to return home. My papers need to be graded and I would love to not lose more sleep than I have to while grading them." I said.

"I shall come with you, Monica." Draal said. I nodded and we made it back home through the tunnel that Draal had made a while back. When we arrived home, I was surprised to find Strickler tied up in our living room with Jim protecting him.

What was going on?