The grounding that came for the week along with the required counseling sessions the school made the group go through had them fully booked. Their training and school work took up the rest of their time but led to them gaining a huge change in their super powers and training.

Jackson had found a few training methods that allowed him to better understand his strength. He also began to book hours at the school weight room to find his upper limits with strength. He found that he could easily break many records that were set by average humans. This was just another benefit of his super power.

Between this and the training with the group, he found that he was no longer too afraid to use his full strength. On the contrary, he used his abilities much more and started to outpace everyone in the group physically. However, this didn't help him against the others in their sparring since he still ended up losing most of the time. This was mostly because he didn't like to battle against anyone.

Sammy has started to be able to hover in one place for a few moments. She had been trying to make the air more controlled. This was a challenge but she had started to get a better idea by watching videos on natural weather phenomenon. When she saw a tornado videos she saw that it wasn't just the wind making a vortex but hot air chasing the cold air.

Sammy had many realizations and was able to manipulate the different temperature minds to move around her. These two coming together got her closer than she had ever been to flying in the sky. Even if it was just floating, for now, it was a major difference.

Louis had been the odd ball out of the group over the last week. He had been doing a lot of meditation so that he could work on understanding the muscles in his body. He would flex and twist each one along with using new stretching and muscle focused weight lifting. This combination had helped him understand just how to make the lightning move in the way he wanted it to.

This all came together to show that he was able to control the lighting as long as it was in his body. Something that really surprised him was when he learned that the lightning could enhance his physical strength slightly by making his muscles tighten and expel more force. It was a tough trick to use but it was one that he would be able to use as a trump card in the future.

The foot work skills that Layra had been learning along with the many mental strengthening games she had been playing at all times were paying off. She was big in to the styles of fighting that let someone dance around their opponent.

With this motivation and learning, Laura was soon able to somewhat replicate this. She was able to see her opponent moving and attempt to predict what they would do. From there she was faster than just about everyone and would dodge. She had become the biggest challenge to land a blow on while sparring. Yet, she could still be caught by surprise and beaten in that moment. It was her next goal to improve upon.

Art still trained his super power in secret since it was better that there were fewer people that knew about it. No one pushed him to show it off but in Asher's house, he would train his super power. He was finding that he was able to cha[e and ben metal easier every day. However, he found his strength still lacking because the harder metals would make him exhausted much faster.

He accidentally tried to manipulate gold one day thinking it was bronze due to the old coloring. Instead of the normal mental resistance, he would fin, he found that it molded like clay. This pushed him to find many different soft metals and begin to experiment. He ended up collecting a ton of tin and aluminum cans so that he could use them freely.

Asher and Jane were surprised the day he started to do this because Art first started by making pieces of defensive armor and shields. It was a brilliant use of his power so that he could make sure civilians were protected when fleeing a dangerous situation. This showed every of his strength even though he was supposed to be focused on his familial issues.

Jane had the hardest time making progress. She had to boost her stamina and strength while not overdoing it. Her shifting would always take a lot of her energy and body's stored nutrients. This being the case she had begun to add much more vegetables and fruits to her diet along with a massive calorie increase. This started to cause fewer side effects after shifting.

From there she started to have her friends taunt her or say things to glean an emotional response from her. This wasn't to torment her but when she was in her shifted form from even an accidental joke could send her in to a rage. She had to control herself as best as possible and this form of training seemed to be the best and was helping her make massive improvements every single day.

Cara had not realized just how stagnant she had become. She had become recognized as one one the top students in the school and that was it. She had not pushed herself to go above that and somehow become complacent. She had the potential to be the top but why did she stop? She had asked herself this multiple times and had been amazed at herself for stopping.

Now with the push of the group she was able to test her control over sound instead of how she used to alone. Not only this, but Cara also was able to spar against all of their developing styles causing her to tighten her own movements and push her physical training. She was getting closer and closer to the pique of endurance running every day. It was safe to say that almost no one could compare to her endurance.

Asher was the most limited in the group. He couldn't just work on improving his use of his super power. It was just always on and influencing the others, himself, or everyone. He had no idea on what range it had or how to turn it off even if he wanted. This led him to focus on martial arts and his sparring along with school work.

He had been able to push all of his knowledge to the farthest it had ever been. In class he had moved on from forest fires and slowly begun to learn about flash flooding. He was told that after the next week that the students would have a live test to see how they were able to handle a forest fire rescue. Of course, this was a mock forest fire and would be done in the back training grounds of the school.

Asher wasn't sure how he felt about this but made sure he studied and practiced what he needed. He had no idea how valuable this training would be but could easily say that it would be a great benefit to any growing hero. On top of this, there was also the fact that the modern technology class was paying off.

The class itself had been focused a lot more on the upcoming end of term tests in other classes. Yet, when Asher asked around for help he only found more and more of the students accepting whatever he asked. This was mostly because he had been testing many of their inventions and it put them in a position where they felt they owed him.

The day before the Riktor tournaments were going to happen was the most stressful day for everyone. They all felt that they were not strong enough to properly compete because in their training they continued to find things to improve. The only problem with this was that none of them had realized that they were well beyond their classmates.

Many of the students in the school had begun to gossip about them. It wasn't in any malicious way. The students had seen the rapid pace at which the group was improving along with the fact that they even seemed ahead of their teachers when it came to the classroom subjects. This brought many students asking questions and such to only be turned away because the group didn't have the time due to their packed schedules.

The group alone had become well known as an unapproachable top group in the school. Their fame even spread a little outside of the school to some nearby high schools who were also going to be participating in the local Riktor tournaments since it was a great way to get more exposure. Naturally, the gossip painted a huge target in the groups' backs.

The tournament was going to be their first official step in to the public world of young heroes on the rise. It would also be their first practice in tournaments before the school sanctioned ones.