Leading the young pink haired girl, while carrying the remaining two blueberry pancakes on a plate, Phoebe pressed a specific circle on the circular pattern frame that held the large family portrait of the kids and their guardian. Once pressing the button, the wall opened up to reveal more steps that went down. 

Phoenix and Ursa trotted down the steps as they heard the secret doorway close up behind them.

After finally reaching the marvel floored basement, the girls called out to their guardian to grab his attention as they heard the familiar sounds of his aggressive typing.

Turning himself from the varies large screens that displayed the many locations of the mansion and the rest of the property that Chandler owned.

"Pancakes!" He gleamed, causing Phoebe to scoff teasingly.

Chandler chuckled as he took the plate. "I'm kidding, Phoebe, you know that I value you two more than two blueberry filled fluffy and scrumchus breakfast desserts." He looked down at the pancakes lovingly.

Ursa and Phoebe sweat dropped at the middle aged man's behaviour.

"Is Chandler undressing those pancakes?" Seth asked as he hurried down the stairs in his full body swim suit, instead of the pastel green that he wore earlier.

"Isn't that some type of food harassment?" Pryce added with his own quip, him too with his own outfit change.

"Well glad to see you two aren't suffering from waking up on the wrong side of the bed." Chandler grumbled, "And there isn't such thing as 'food harassment', just an enthusiastic appreciation for good food." He quickly added before folding his pancake and not wasting another moment to stuff it into his mouth.

"You clearly can't tell that he's a basement shut in by the way he eats." Seth commented sarcastically.

The other kids laughed, before Phoebe decided to not waste anymore of her or the others' time.

"So what's the plan for training today?" 

Still chewing on his first pancake, Chandler typed a few buttons on his keyboard and up on the screen popped four different pictures of scenery.

One of a volcano, one of the ocean, a blue leaved forest and tall mountains that the points were hidden by the clouds.

The kids looked at the pictures in awe, stepping closer to get a better look at the pictures before them.

"What are these for?"

Shallowing his food loudly, Chandler cleared his throat.

"Even though you older ones have a better grasp and control of your powers, Ursa you are not far behind, you all remain at a standstill of improving you those powers." Chandler explained. "After reading the research that the lab had conducted and received over the years, I've decided that to better improve your inherited powers, you need to be training in locations that your mythical counterparts thrived and lived in."

There was a short moment of silence for the kids to take in and process the information that Chandler was giving them.

"So you hacked the lab's mainframe, the lab that was so secure and hidden that we were forbidden from ever interacting with anything from the area of-" Seth attempted to point out what part of the conversation that bothered him, only to be cut off by Chandler.

"Well you aren't a certified computer hacker like myself, so it wasn't an issue." 

Phoebe glanced at Seth, whose facial expression showed him internally begrudgingly let go of the subject. She understood the frustration of the lab, being that it held significant information of who they all were, but Chandler refused to acknowledge the events and how important it was to them. 

"Anyways, since you all have some type of elemental control, we'll have you each train individually in each setting that benefits your specific training demands." Chandler continued.

"Question." Phoebe spoke up, raising her hand to better get Chandler's attention. "This seems really amazing, but strenuous and time consuming. So when is this all happening?" She questioned.

"Yeah, summer vacation is almost over and I don't wanna spend my last few days of freedom training like some athlete. That'll suck." Pryce whined, catching what Phoebe was trying to say.

Chandler sighed, "Well maybe you all could miss out on a bit of high school for a year and return to home schooling, like Ursa." He suggested.

The three eldest gasped in shock. 

"Are you kidding?! I'm so close to being the Captain of the track team!" Pryce cried, completely contradicting his previous complaint.

"Chandler, we literally begged you to let us going to at least high school for years! You can't just go back on that now!" Phoebe detested.

"You can't just pull us out now, this'll be the toughest year for me and Phoebe! You know how one of us struggles with the disciplines of online courses." Seth argued, while motioning and hinting to Phoebe, who only sent him a rough nudge to his arm with her elbow without turning her attention away from Chandler.

"Okay-okay!" Chandler shouted, then rubbed the corners of his tired eyes. "My apologies for disregarding your wants. I'll plan this type of training differently, perhaps sending one at a time for different time periods.." His voice then becoming quieter and less legible as be began murmuring and muttering ideas for a compromise.

The teens looked at each other in relief that they were able to convince Chandler to reconsider for their sake.

"Go-go and do your usual training while I think." Chandler shooed the kids away, making motions with his hand, while his other gripped his stubble covered chin.

"Thank you, Chandler." Phoebe thanked with a smile on her face and followed the others out the door to the training gardens.

+++++++++++++

"Why is going to high school so important?" Ursa questioned, turning her head away from the dead rose bush that she was attempted to rejuvinate back to life with the pink glowing aura that she admitted from the palms of her hands.

"It's not so much the learning aspect of it." Phoebe answered, as she twirled a flame between her fingers and moving it with the smooth and circular motions from her hand and wrist. "It's more of the once in a life experience with meeting people, and having friends!"

Gasping for his breath as he emerged from the pool not far from the two and flipping his bangs to the side. "It's all about the intellectual challenging part, Phoebe just likes seeing more people than just us." He teased.

Phoebe shook her head and chuckled, "At least I've made friends, Seth."

Seth scoffed at her remark, "Oh please, I have plenty of friends."

"Books don't count, ya loser." Pryce joked, as he landed from flying. He picked off a loose feather from his pale blue wing on his left. "Freaking ducks, can't they understand to share the sky?" He grumbled.

Ursa giggled, but her sudden distraction from her task caused the bush that was so close to coming back to life suddenly returned it its depleted state. She noted and pouted as she whined in disappointment.

"Sorry, Urs." Pryce apologized sheepishly. 

"It's okay, big bro." Ursa huffed and restarted the process more annoyed.

"It'll be your first year in high school, Ursa. I expect you to be a little more excited for it." Phoebe commented, amused.

"I am excited, but after seeing you all come home super exhausted and worried about finishing homework and stuff, the looking forwardness is kinda not there." Ursa shrugged her shoulders.

"That's just me and Pheebs, Pry doesn't do homework." Seth teased, as he sat on the ledge of the pool.

Pryce shot a glare at the tanned male, "You wanna go, Serpent Boy?" He challenged.

Seth scoffed, "You want to fight? Not likely you can win without flying away."

"Oh yeah? Well you can't control water or something!" 

"Sea serpents can't control water or 'something', but that won't stop me from drowning you!"

The two made quips as they butted heads.

"Good lord." Phoebe sighed and extinguished her flame with the flick of her wrist. "You two literally could find a better time to squabble." She scolded the boys, who ignored her.