"Everyone you are now going to start practice, you are all to select partners whom you are going to spar with and thus emulating the skill which I demonstrated, The nanobots on the field and on your chrono suit will prevent anyone from dying or having a life threatening injury but they will be shut down so as to allow the sparring have more effect, allowing both partners feel the pain of one another when he or she is hit, the synaptic hand chains and the leg chains have healing functions in them, so feel free to go all out if you feel like it" Instructor Brandet said.
….. Everyone began pairing up and I paired up with Rhys, everyone spread throughout the field so as not to interfere with one another... Thus everyone began sparring, different waves of aura and energy spilled throughout the field, but Luis{The guy who disrupted the class earlier} had a large and exponential amount of aura, his aura spilled round an I sighed as I took my stance, and Rhys did the exact same thing.....
….. I took a deep breath and I focused my energy throughout my body and a brown imbued aura began swirling around me and I concentrated the aura around my body and this formed an invisible form of armor around my body, Rhys clapped and let out a light chuckle, His aura spiked up so high, it was possible on the level of Luis or Higher and at that point everyone felt his aura spike and they turned and stole a few glances of him. He let out a Smirk like chuckle.
"Hey Chris, Just because we are friends don't think will take it easy on you, one of the principles in the Drack clan is we crush everyone of our opponents", his aura felt chill and it felt like it was about to crush me under the mere pressure, but I knew at that point that I Aint holding back.
"I will admit it, you impressed me, but simply thinking you can crush me just like that means you are underestimating me, Don't do that CUS that is the biggest mistake you would ever make..... As I replied him, I focused my mental health on my Virgo, my surroundings felt quite for a while and then I released my Virgo Aura, I was not used to using Virgo, I had trained with specific signs and I knew this was my time to improve on all sides. The aura I had released was mid average but I knew that the amount of aura did not determine strength, but rather how you use it.
"Hope you are ready Rhys, I am going to dominate you". I said with a midrange amount of aura swirling around me.
"I would like to see you try, I wont be beaten so easily" Rhys said, his aura swirling round him and spilling around him, we both took our stances and then we dashed towards one another. Rhys tried hitting me with an uppercut , but my reflexes were sharper than he taught, I had dodged the punch and ducked below at an astonishing speed, I reinforced my legs with my aura and as I was about landing a kick through his legs to disrupt his balance, but he was faster than I expected and as he dodged it he reacted so fast that the punch which I had felt on my face felt on my face felt so unreal, I Had not completely reacted to the last punch and as I was still brushing of the pain, another ferocious punch landed on my chest, the force was so much that it had sent me flying, I managed to grab my ground and I barely managed to brush of the last punch.
"Man that was one hell of a punch, I really underestimated you" I said coughing annoyingly
"And it seems I overestimated you Bro". Rhys said laughing
…..I brushed of the punch and maneuvered my way around him I imbued My brown aura into my right arm and a dark Brown orb appeared, I feigned a shot and instantly vanished from Rhys's line of sight leaving behind only a trace of my aura, he was a bit to slow to react and I slammed him with the dark orb, the force moved him back, the force of the orb slammed him backwards, drops of saliva forcefully pushed out of his mouth, I vanished at that moment once again leaving behind a Large vestige of aura, which helped me get to Rhys's Blind spot, I immediately siphoned and refined my aura, Rhys's was slower by a large mile as I was in his blind spot, I transmitted the aura surrounding my arms to the palms of my hand, it formed a sphere emitting dense lightning, as I released a large beam of dense brown energy towards him, but at that span of time I shot the energy beam, I was cuffed at the back with a huge dark brown chain whip, Rhys barely escaped the attack and at the instant when I shot the beam, I let my guard down giving him the chance the escape and counter.
"That's a special counterattack move used by the drack clan, The split second our opponent lets their guard down we leave the residue of our aura in place making them think we are still in place, but we would have slipped between them and as they put up their guard again they are hit". Rhys's said feeling proud of himself.
"I have to admit, that counterattack was good, but you were hit, you were about dodging it, but as you were shaping and crafting the residual aura you want to leave in place, you were a bit slow paced with it and that allowed my beam to bruise your left shoulder, so its not as flawless as you say." I said still feeling the impact of his whip.
… Rhys concentrated his energy around his body and Four spiked dark brown whip chains surrounded him, each one exuding deeply condensed aura, they began spinning round him as their aura splashed round him...
"Enough of this jokes, Yo Chris we are bros from now on, so anything that happens now, don't take it personal, but I am going to crush you." Rhys said with a dark smirk of happiness over his face.
"I accept, I am your bro from now on, but I disagree with you on something and that is that you would beat me, that is impossible, When I pummel you into the ground, don't hate me." I said with a smug look of happiness on my face accompanied by a sharp grin.
… I released my energy and concentrated it round my wrist up to my elbow and immediately they began rotating at high speed forming a high rotating force blade around my arm, my aura condensed the blades making them bigger and sharper, I blitzed towards Rhys with my both arms spread apart driving forward, as I was about landing a punch on his face, His rotating whipped sniped my back as I rushed back to reinforce my guard, he suddenly appeared in my front as he was about landing a punch with his left hand, I blocked it with my right hand and he repeated the same action with his right hand, I immediately blocked it now having both hands in my possession while we were slightly meditating mid air, leaving my chest wide open, I forcefully pushed both of his hands back and tried to set some distance between us, and I was immediately expedited at my right side by his third whip and It was followed with a smack from the second whip which sent me from mid air to ground level, I crashed into the ground after being struck by the second whip and the ground was impaired upon contact, but the nanobots instantly repaired it.
"Shit Bro, You keep amazing me, but don't let your guard down, I am coming for you" Chris said with a chuckle of relief.
"I don't plan on giving you that leverage, I am going to emerge victorious, it would be disgraceful to my brother if I did not go all out" Rhys said with a grin of joy
"look at us first day, and we are already this close, So lets do this" Chris said standing up from the ground vanished and immediately appeared in front of Rhys who was a decent level above mid range and that split second Chris appeared Rhys had let his guard down and was confronted by an impulse punch which sent Rhys flying, he was about crashing into the ground but managed to maintain his balance below mid level of the field.
"HOW, what did you do you were so far away from me, how did yo get so close" Rhys said pissed but in a good way
"I told you not to get ahead of yourself, whilst talking to me, you felt I was too far away to do anything right, and you assumed I could nor escape your line of sight with that time of distance you set, I admit it was a good plan, but I was able to decipher it, when I was struck down by your second whip, you slowly moved away, it was so well polished, it seemed like you did not move at all. immediately we started our discussion the mirage you had set up was now triggered and the distance between us doubled. amidst our discussion I used a mirage technique called STEP{ a technique where you plant aura in a straight line and immediately you trigger it it takes you to the end of the line faster than anyone can notice}." Chris said smirking and calmly flew towards Rhys.
"Shall we continue." Chris said blatantly
'Yes we shall." Rhys replied with the same energy
…They began exchanging punches mid air, the force of each punch accompanied by their corresponding Auras, As both of them exchanged punches, pulses of wind flew across them each emitting their Auras, they both increased the speed of their punches, each being repelled and deflected by the other. Chris flew back and set some distance between them and then he made use of step, as he triggered step, Rhys brought up his guard to deflect the attack, but the instance he set up his guard another impulsive punch with a massive amount of aura which had surrounded Chris's fist had already landed on his chin, he tried to reduce his reaction time, but Chris did not give him space to recuperate from the last punch, he followed with another punch to Rhys's left cheek with his left hand, Rhys tried setting some distance between them, but as he tried flying away, he was accompanied by another round of step, as he went farther away, Chris's step was triggered each with a sharp follow of an aura blazed punch, the speed at which step was happening, was increasing time after time. Rhys nose began bleeding profusely, but Chris did not give him space to breathe, Rhys flew at a high speed towards the ground and immediately step was activated, Rhys whom was very close to the ground had moved back by about four inches and Chris step was disrupted, Chris had moved farther than Rhys which had shocked him leaving him wide open, and Rhys made use of Mirage once again and appeared in front of Chris, both each slightly above the ground and Rhys in that moment grabbed Chris's left hand with his right hand and instantly slammed Chris to the Floor of the field, the field had Dented, but the nanobots quickly repaired it.....
"How did you see through that" Chris said coughing drops of blood out of his mouth
"It is quite simple I realized that your STEP uses the principle of Push, Drag and Pull, you set your aura at a specific point, You lock it On that area forming a small, tiny like invisible emblem, then you Drag the aura by setting the the other end of the emblem in the middle of your chest and when the other party moves they pull the other end of the emblem triggering your step and pulling you at astronomical speed through the line you set, I concentrated my aura in my eyes and began analyzing the technique and I got you good." Rhys said laughing hysterically
… Chris stood up still holding his chin, he rolled his tongue round the inner parts of his mouth and spat out the drops of blood on the field...
"I will admit it you got me good but who told you that was the only technique I have up my sleeve, if you taught that, kindly rethink your strategy, cause this fight is far from over" Chris said giving a quite disappointed sigh.
…The moment Chris finished speaking he triggered STEP, Rhys laughed thinking he had figured his technique out, Chris appeared right before Rhys eyes, but a light smirk was given off by Rhys as he triggers his mirage step{ A technique using step and an illusory mirage with the aid of ones aura as a stepping stone in front of the user in five places} moving smoothly away from Chris, He activates it again and moves closer to Chris, than when Chris moved towards him, He was about following with an uppercut, but Chris managed to dodge it with a huge pulse of breeze flying upward accompanying the punch, Rhys left no time for Chris to React and immediately sent another punch with his right arm still erecting up into the sky, As the punch was bout hitting Chris, Chris used his left palm to maneuver through the breeze, dodge the punch and raise himself above Rhys hand which was in-between his legs ,Rhys smirking frustratingly he reacted quickly with his falling right arm and tried landing a punch on Chris, but as the punch was approaching Chris, his reflexes made him activate Step and He immediately appeared two feet away from Rhys, as he vanished, the pulse of the punch which Rhys wanted to land on him made a huge thump accompanied by a huge wind flow...
"Awww, Why did you have to dodge that, I was about to end thus fight, that dodge was lucky, you wont be next time, watch your back, we aint done yet." Rhys said putting his right palm above his left palm in a spherical shape mid air in an attack style stance, huge gush wave of dense unstable aura began assembling in between his hands, brown dense lightning surrounding the spherical orb, pulses of breezes surrounded his spherical orb, pulses of energy thumped through his hand.
…Chris had already taking a defensive stance, awaiting his energy emission...
""Chris Mind''{Immediately I block the energy emission, I will use a double mirage step, and evade his guard, after which I will slip into his blind spot and slam an energy orb to his back}
…Rhys Energy's Emission became more dense with the passing second and the wind pulses swirling around it, were used by him to keep the rotation quality of the ray active, as he released the beam, his stance shifted slightly as a result of the recoil of the beam, the ray was so dense in energy that the pathway which it followed began emitting steam as the nanobots repaired it, the wave was a straight beam surrounded by dense lightning and slight pulses of wind, The Beam was heading straight for Chris and Chris tried taking it head on, as the beam headed towards him, He took in a deep breadth, focused more on his mental health, his Virgo aura swarmed round his whole arm making a wavy, curved zigzag pathway with sharp pointy concentration at both ends, the pulses of aura swirled through the pathway and he immediately smashed his aura pathway against Rhys energy beam, He immediately dispersed the aura as the instructor had said and he did it in his own way, as he dispersed the energy the dense waves of lightning which came out scattered through the field and across the beam it pushed and swirled round the beam, the aura densities both collided and the resulting aura was so fierce, it let out a screeching sound through the whole field which affected weak Zodiacians, but mid average above did not pay attention and continued focusing on sparring.
…During the aura collision screech, Chris amidst the chaos activated step and concentrated a large amount of aura throughout his whole arm, Rhys was so distracted by the screech that he did not notice when Chris had gotten to the lower half of his body, as Chris approached, a massive aura based punch had landed on Rhys stomach, the wind pulse which accompanied the punch was massive, he flew about twenty centimeters away due to the impact of the punch, Chris activated step and immediately appeared at his side mid way as he was in motion after the first punch giving him another fully based aura smash punch to the left side of his face. the punch was so strong that , it maneuvered Rhys in a scattered pathway and he could not regain his balance, Chris activated STEP, one more time and appeared above him, as the sped which he was moving after the last hit was slowing down and a huge lower kick was stumped on Rhys's chest sending him crashing to the ground with a loud impact, the field lower platform had a dent about thirty centimeters deep and the nanobots took effect repairing it.
… Chris hands but scarred from the attack, they were scalds on the lower parts covered in blood, due to the overheating of his aura...
"How'd you like …,Chris coughing as his hands were filled with excruciating pain
…Rhys stood up with a light stream of blood from both sides of his mouth, his whole face was slightly bruised and he coughed up blood, using his right palm to clean the streams of blood from both sides of his mouth, as he gradually stood up, both of them were about twenty five inches far from each other, both on ground level....
"Wow you got me good, I am impressed, you took good advantage of the situation and manipulated the use of your aura, I just confirmed my hypothesis, but that is not a priority right now, right now all that matters is defeating you" Rhys said rollicking
"Well... *cough* I am not going to lose no matter what, I have a purpose and if I lose my first match ever *blood splatters*, it just means...I was never meant to be, It will never leave me, it keeps haunting me day and night, I aint gonna lose here, this is not my stop, we just got here, I aint gonna lose here" Chris said bawling all his emotions toward Rhys.
…Chris darted towards Rhys trying to land a weakly framed, aura blazed punch, Rhys still feeling the impact of the last few strikes, made a weakly dodge ad was braised by the punch slightly scarring his chin, he managed to keep his feet on the ground and he rose Forty inches slightly above mid level, Chris triggered step one more time and instantly arrived two inches far from him and then he set off a triple step skill, that instant he appeared in front, at the back and at his left side, Rhys had tried to focus on each one of the movements, leading to him becoming unguarded and that was Chris's opening, Chris managed to braise his skin, Chris movements became sluggish and his whole body felt like an empty vessel, Chris was running low on aura, Meanwhile Rhys had a bit to spare...
…Rhys kept dodging each and every attack, his movements had become so sluggish, his strength had been depleting and he was running low on energy, Chris managed to stay in the fight refusing to give up, he kept exchanging punches with Rhys but Rhys was dominating him.
*WHOOSH*, A dense amount of aura repulsed from the other end, Luis{The class disrupter and Idris{the guy who Chris had pinned down the day before} were sparing, their fight was reaching its climax and a slightly mid amount of aura clash was going on, the technique which Instructor Brandet had taught was being used at full throttle in their fight. The technique was called FLEX: an ability which brings on the density and condenses one aura to increase the output, it is operated on the principle of expansion, where the aura is stretched and it keeps being reformed inside out and this allows the density of the aura to be three times the aura output, and here it was being shown in an intense battle, the battle was so vigorous that the nanobots were constantly repairing the slight damages around them, they were both bruised but they showed no signs of faltering, they hit with accuracy and precision. Their fight was so outrageous that some of the Zodicians began to watch them...…
….Chris's energy felt like it was sinking and going down the drain every time he manipulated aura, his body was bruised, aura depleting and he looked like he could collapse at any time, meanwhile Rhys looked still energetic and he was erring to go on.
"Bro are you sure you want to keep going on, you know we are sparring right, you don't need to push yourself to this level, it is just a practice match" Rhys said out of love for his new found friend
"Don't say that, I may not be as strong as the rest of you, but I am not going to lie down and let you all match all over me, what I have seen and felt even my parents don't know, I am not going to let it....., I refuse to give up before it has even started, I WONT FALTER" Chris said with an emotion that felt warming to Rhys.
"If that's what you want I will respect you and keep fighting with everything I've got." Rhys said with a new found respect for being standing before him.
…Chris bolted towards Rhys, with his last ounce of energy, their practice fight was nearing its end, Chris tried punching Rhys with his left arm but Rhys uses his right arm to defend himself with a swift counter with his left arms both quite a decent height above mid level, the counterattack directly landed on Chris's jawline allowing him experience an excruciating amount of pain, but he shrugged it off going for another punch at this point their fight as basically all defense and counterattack by Rhys and all attacks by Chris, Chris managed to hold his own out, His body had not been suited for that kind of strain, but he kept pushing forward, he tried his best to land a punch on Rhys and although his punches kept getting blocked, he kept at it, his determination was unwavering it began inspiring Rhys, Rhys gave out a chuckle of pride directed at Chris. Chris mouth began bleeding when Rhys landed a forceful punch on his chin, as a counterattack for the jab he was going for, Chris eyes became blurry and his whole eyes dimmed right, his vison became obstructed, His Mental and physical health had taken a huge toll, Rhys saw thus and flew closer to him, the punch to his chest was a slight jab as if it was a knuckle bump meant for his chest, Rhys carried his left hand and put over his shoulder and brought him down to ground level holding him down until the fight between Idris and Luis would be over, as everyone except for them were done sparring. their fight was coming to an end with Idris faltering behind Luis...