…NEXT MORNING…
…Chris's alcove had opened with a light gust of air as it had completely replenished his mental and physical health, Chris hopped out of the alcove with so much enthusiasm as he stormed out of the dorm room, and Every Instructor in the academy was provided with an Annex, each Annex designed with the aid of the nanobots, Instructor Ria the patriarch of the Scorpio academy had the final piece to his puzzle and he headed straight for her Annex…
…The Annex of all instructors in the academy was situated at the top left corner opposite that of the Academies, their annex resembled properly drafted castles and it all radiated with their aura, the synaptic energy{Simply the life aura of the nanobots}, constantly enshrouded the annex giving it a proper aura stability mechanism…
…Chris had reached the center of the Instructor's annexes but he spent a while searching up until he found it, it was at the upper left corner from the center and he slowly walked towards it, he approached it and he knew instantly that it was Instructor Ria's. The baseline color of the Annex was purple with the marque of the patriarch of the Scorpio academy being present, the annex resembled a castle, which a dungeon had been imprinted onto, the atmosphere around the annex was vicious and it radiated her energy…
…Chris calmly placed his hand on the door and knocked it the first time and there was no reply, he did so the second time and still no reply, he did so again the third time and still no reply, as he was about to knock the fourth time, Instructor Ria opened the door and his hands landed on her belly button, her dark skin radiated on him and he was amazed at how soft and smooth her skin was, he quickly removed his hands out of fright and he moved back slightly due to the high raging pulse which pumped through his chest…
"Hey Zodiacian, state your issue, I rarely see a Zodiacian take interest in this side of the academy". Instructor Ria said with a pulsating tone.
"I want you to Mentor me". Chris said abruptly taking a bow to show his respect towards her.
"Hell no". Instructor Ria said as her aura began swirling around her indicating her rage was gently building up.
"I have no interest in taking a Zodiacian to be my personal project, Go and find another Instructor they will do something for you". Instructor Ria said as she was about to slam the door, Chris held it and pushed it open making eye contact with her.
"I know why I want you Instructor Ria, you are the only unique Instructor in this academy, and that means I will certainly learn a lot from you, I do not want any other instructor, I want you". Chris said still engaging in a tug of war with instructor Ria at the door, Instructor Ria was getting pissed with every tucked and pull and she tried to overpower him, but surprisingly it did not work, Chris was dominating her and she got angry her aura spiked excessively and her eyes became bright purple, she was angry and her aura which she expected to repel Chris only attracted him, he came closer and closer while holding the door with his left hand and he placed his hand on Instructor Ria's face…
"I really admire you and I want you and only you to be my mentor". Chris said as he slightly caressed her cheeks. All the built up anger instructor Ria had been holding vanished and she let go of the door, she placed her hand on his chin and her sharp nails caressed his cheek.
"I love your confidence, and I may be willing to take you, but I need confidence and strength, so you will go to the Scorpio academy and show me your strength in the sparring session, If I see you are all strength and boldness you will become my student, if not you will remain in your step child". Instructor Ria said as she led me to the Scorpio academy, the electromagnetic wave turned my Chrono suit purple, I went to the space for Zodiacians and she went to the space for Instructors.
"Every one of you Zodiacians present here, I am looking forward to see your strength, you are to demonstrate to me what you are capable of and then we will proceed". Instructor Ria said as she clapped, the nanobots began swirling at a speed of Mach ten and transformed the Scorpio academy to its training field.
"Shit, I have to show instructor Ria I am worthy, but who am I going to s…" Chris's thoughts were interrupted as he bumped into the curly hair topped Zodiacian again, as the curly hair topped Zodiacian looked back he got pissed, his veins pumped through his cheek and he blitzed for my face with an outrageous punch, I had found my sparring partner, I held his hand with my right palm and redirected it using my left and I used the force of his punch to repel him back as I took my fighting stance.
"Crazy Motherfucker, I am going to pummel you, I am Kaito and anyone who annoys me twice will pay for it". Kaito said in an angry tone as he accelerated towards me, his body moved with precision, Chris tried dodging the upcoming punch but as he lowered his upper body to make a smooth dodge, Kaito stop mid-way through his acceleration and landed a punch on the left side of Chris's body using his left palm which had been partially clenched into a fist.
…The impact of the last blow remained on Chris's chest, Kaito accelerated towards him again to give a full fledge head on assault, Chris remained in the same position, Chris placed his left leg forward and his right leg back and as Kaito headed towards him for a large scale punch, Kaito's fist struck Chris's left hand and in that split moment, using the force of his attack, Chris Pushed Kaito up, due to heavy impact of the punch and Chris returned the punch using his right hand, Chris punched Kaito in the center of his stomach which pushed Kaito back…
"I really did not expect you to be this good". Kaito said partially annoyed and amused.
"We are just getting stated". Chris said as he maintained his stand and used his right hand to make a come forward gesture towards Kaito.
…Kaito took a deep breath as he Ascended into the sky looking down on Rhys, The Zodiacian present in the Scorpio academy were duking it out and Instructor Ria was only focused on the fight between Kaito and Chris…
…Kaito had ascended about three feet and at that instant Kaito blurred that instant in Chris's line of sight, Kaito appeared at Chris's back, Chris's reflexes were sharp enough for him to see Kaito but as he was about to counter, Kaito vanished again and a cuff landed on Chris's chest, the cuff was so intense that Kaito managed to lift him up and smack him down vigorously to the ground, Chris laid flat on the ground and propelled himself back to his feet as he was bruised a little on his chin, Kaito appeared again at Chris's back again, Chris maintained his stance as Kaito appeared Chris dodged it with accurate precision, The punch Kaito had tried to land made a large sound wave above Chris as he had lowered his body to dodge the punch and Kaito had left himself wide open and Chris landed a strike so powerful it pushed Kaito back into the air, Kaito grabbed his Stomach as he balanced in the air signaling the strike made a significant impact.
…As Kaito was trying to regain himself, Chris's appeared in front of him and landed another massive strike on the same area and then it began, Chris began vanishing as Kaito was restricted in that same spot, Kaito tried fending of Chris's hits using his arm, but Chris easily maneuvered his way around it and kept landing punches in the same spot, with every punch Chris landed the restriction on his movement increased, each strike increased with force and the speed kept increasing, as Chris was about to land another strike…
*boom*
…A large wave was heard, Chris had sunk three feet into the field, the regolith of the field had imploded inside and the nanobots repaired them instantly, Chris held his chest and wondered what had happened, meanwhile instructor Ria was impressed with the reaction speed of Kaito, the skill Chris used was the advanced form of step, where one continually keeps hitting a particular spot repeatedly pouring bits and bits of their aura into that same spot and mobilizing the aura poured into the person to restrict their movement, it is an advanced grade form of step, but Kaito who had been restricted was awaiting the last punch and since he was restricted from his stomach, he used his aura to propel his arm forward, he kept imbuing his aura into his arm slowly and as Chris appeared to land the hit on that same point, Kaito imploded all the stored aura on his chest.
"Hey, it can't be over yet, we are just getting started, really nice technique you got there, but I was the one to draw blood first". Kaito said
…Chris stood up, with little drops of blood coming out of his nose, he uses his right hand to press his left nose and he squirted out the remaining drops of blood, cleaning his nose…
"Got to admit it to you there you got me but whenever you are in a battle, always keep your guard up". Chris surged towards him in the blink of an eye about to land a punch, his left hand dominated the punch and Kaito's right arm caught it, Chris's palm was stuck in Kaito's right hand, Kaito took the chance to try and land a strike with his left hand but Chris uses his left knee to push away Kaito's hand, Chris bent his left hand and used his right hand at the center Of Kaito's right arm pushing the arm up with a plexus punch and immediately Chris put some distance between them.
…Both of them surged towards one another, both colliding head on, at the beginning of the collision Kaito had the upper hand, blocking all of Chris's punches and landing every one of his hits but as soon as Chris blurred out of his line of sight, Kaito found himself six feet deep in the regolith of the training field, a loud sound accompanied Kaito's fall…
…As Kaito landed into the Regolith, he instantly surged back up aiming to land a hit on Chris, but Chris was prepared for every outcome, as Kaito fleeted towards Chris, Chris managed to pull off a sharp and precise dodge, both of them had ascended into the air and their duel was taken place alight, both of them hastened towards one another, each coming with a fierce blow and the other coming with a sharp dodge, they were exchanging blows while the other was blocking, right up until Kaito managed to smite Chris's chest, a burning sensation ravaged through Chris's chest but he had no time to falter back and The slight moment Kaito let his guard down, he was struck by a buffet of punches by Chris, the punches were so fast he could not keep up with it, but his predator senses began to heighten and he blocked the next upcoming strikes, he smirked at Chris as he began to compress his arm, Chris showed no emotion as he followed up with a sharp side kick, the kick caught Kaito off guard and then Chris began an aerial assault, His body began to mirror and he had now appeared in ten places at once…
…Instructor Ria who had been seated on a Cathedra erected above the Scorpio academy's training field was impressed as the technique Chris ad used was called Flex, It is a technique which entails the user to drop bits of their aura in a particular pattern, the aura dropped with serve as a base line, which would be stretched and pulled and the recoil of the stretch and pull would allow the user move at enormous speeds allowing it to seem, they are in more than one place at once…
…Kaito tried pinpointing Chris as all ten mirror images of Chris was spinning around him, he tried punching and kicking any of the images he felt was close to him, as they were both midair, every method Kaito tried to hit Chris, the force of the Punch which Kaito had tried to land on Chris would be returned, Chris would use his high speed and catch the upcoming hand and twist the force through his back and land a hit on Kaito and he went on with a head on barrage, he kept hitting the same spot and now right from Kaito's left upper Chest he was restricted, Chris had combined Step and Flex…
…Countless percussions were being landed on Kaito's body, and the restrictions placed on him was getting stronger and with the next upcoming strike, in that split second…
*bang*
…Chris found himself in the Regolith of the field, he was about ten feet deep and steam was given off from the spot in which Chris had landed, the regolith of the field was gradually being repaired by the nanobots and blood began dripping from both sides of his mouth as he grabbed his stomach, he looked up at Kaito and what he saw gave him a chill felling, Kaito surrounded in his aura which was a mixture of Dark orange and brown, the aura surrounding Kaito looked like the claws of a bear being retracted out, his Veins solidified around his eyes, his eyes illuminated the color of his aura and the aura emanating from his sides swirled around his whole body, and his body emanated the complete energy of his aura…
…Clap, Clap, Clap, Kaito began clapping vigorously and let a smirk through to Chris, He kept laughing like a maniac as he clapped and he stopped and looked straight at Chris…
"You are strong, strong enough to make me use aura, don't worry your end is nigh". Kaito said raising his left eyebrow up and Chris could see his sharp fangs along his teeth, the veins on his eyes pumped even more and he gave of a vulgar smirk looking at Chris.
…A dark orange and brownish ray of effulgence appeared at his back, the effulgent ray spiked at Kaito's edges and Kaito directed them towards Chris, the effulgent rays surged towards Chris aiming to land a piercing Burn on him, Chris still in immense pain blitzed on the Regolith of the field to avoid being hit by the rays…
…Instructor Ria was edified as she watched and she was amazed at the counter Kaito had done, As Kaito was restricted and was being smitten by all of Chris's blurred images, Kaito had been compressing his aura in other parts of his body spaces away from that point which Chris had restricted, Kaito's aura was not released up until that point and as Chris approached him for the next strike, It felt as if he matched a land mine and Kaito's aura busted out repelling Chris to the ground, Kaito instincts were sharp enough to decode that as Chris's lands a punch every bit of stored aura must be shut out to repel him away and prevent his attack from connecting, and as the aura was expelled a full-fledged punch was struck on his stomach along with his repelled aura…
… Chris began speeding on the fields Regolith, Kaito was still ascended midair and Chris who had been sent to the ground by Kaito's aura could not find any opening to ascend and he was still bruised by Kaito's impact, he maneuvered his way on the ground at high speed to evade the effulgent rays and Kaito looking down on him smirked and increased the speed of the effulgent rays…
"Shit man, that hit has greatly reduced my efficiency and the speed of this rays won't allow me get midair and that gives Kaito an advantage on long range attacks". Chris thought as he kept thinking of a way to avoid the rays and get back midair.
…The effulgent rays got faster and faster and finally an idea popped into Chris's head, although still bruised from the Kaito's hit, Chris dodged the upcoming rays and put distance between the rays and himself, Chris maintained his stance and hid light monochromatic grey aura surrounded his palm. He concentrated his aura's energy on his palm and as the effulgent rays headed towards him Kaito clenched his arm through a fist signaling that all the rays scattered out should fuse into a single beam and the single beam headed for Chris, Chris awaited the beam and his aura concentrated even more at his right palm, as the ray was heading towards Chris, Chris using his aura Concentrated palm clenched it into a fist and punched the Ray head on, The ray and Chris's fist collided head on and the energy pressure released by the collision astounded Instructor Ria and at that split moment during their collision…
*Thud*
…Kaito had been hit and he had been pushed back and the left side of his lip drew blood, Chris held his stomach with his left hand panting in front of Kaito as he had landed a hit, the Regolith of the Field was imploded and the nanobots began repairing it, Kaito looked at him surprised, as his the left side of his lip kept dripping blood, which dropped midair to the regolith of the field, the bleeding did not stop until Kaito used his right thumb to forcefully compress the injury stopping the bleeding…
…Instructor Ria who had been watching from her Cathedra smiled in amazement and was impressed with Chris's Control over those measly skills, Chris had clenched his palm into a fist and he enshrouded it with aura concentrated enough to take the rays impact head on, as the rays collided with his fist head on, the energy pressure released and the wind waves flying around gave him a chance to use Step and Flex at once, He used step on his clenched fist and as the rays collided head on with the fist his aura which Is meant to be restricted was being pushed into one another by the rays and the aura being collided over one another allowed for its increase in its density and the moment the rays began to overpower him he activated Flex, his running around on the field's regolith did not stand for nothing, he had been dropping bits of his aura to propel him forward like a rubber for him to land a hit on Kaito and it worked perfectly as he envisioned…
"How do you like that, I am not done and this fight is not over". Chris said and with the end of that statement he vanished and Kaito who was still recovering from the last hit was thwacked with another aura infested punch at the center of his back, as the hit landed a gush of blood spluttered out of Kaito's mouth and his position midair did not change, Chris had sent a sharp pinch of aura through his back and punched it, sort of like hitting a nail with a hammer, the force of the punch had pushed his body into a state of shock and he was stunned and Chris used that point to land a barrage of punches on him all of which were aura infested and with the last smack, his arm, his mouth and his chest, had burst out drops of blood, his Chrono suit had begun to drip blood and with each punch he was stunned the more and Chris positioned ascended midair in front of Kaito about five inches away from him, Chris compressed his aura infested punch once again to land a massive strike, as Chris's fist approached Kaito a large gust of wind accompanied it and a it was about colliding with Kaito's Chest, the bloodied Kaito blocked Chris's upcoming Left aura imbued punch with his right hand and as Chris's fist landed in the center of Kaito's palm, a large sound wave thumped around a two meter radius, Chris immediately followed With another aura imbued punch not giving Kaito time to recuperate and Kaito's senses were as sharp as ever and Kaito using his palm elongated out through the force of his knuckles redirected the Chris's fist by hitting his wrist…
…Chris soared away from Kaito and surged towards him again, Kaito had placed his fighting stance ready to defend himself, but Chris stopped in front of him, there was only an inch of space between them and they maintained eye contact for a split moment as Chris had vanished again, Kaito's instinct knew that nothing good could come out from Chris's vanishes and all of his senses were heightened, as Chris appeared at Kaito's back, an aura imbued punch was approaching him, but Kaito instantly dodged it putting some distance between them, still proving inevitable, Chris had followed his steps and managed to land an uppercut with the aura imbued fist causing Kaito an excessive nosebleed…
"What the fuck, you are like a mosquito that won't die". Kaito said with scratches along his voice and a bleeding nose, Kaito placed his left hand on the right edge of his nose and squirted out the excessive drops of blood from his nose…
"I am not going to falter, I am going to win and winning I shall". Chris said as he surged towards Kaito with another aura imbued fist as he got close…
*splash*
…A huge gust of blood spilled out from Chris's mouth, as Chris surged towards Kaito, Kaito had straightened out his left palm and pressed the palm forward into his abdomen taking the structure of a blade, Chris held Kaito's arm as it was still being forced in through his abdomen, Chris grabbed Kaito's arm with both of his arm and he stuck his nails into his arm, Kaito laughed…
"Your petty nails cannot harm me, my skin is as thick as fiber". Kaito said forcing his arm through Chris's grip.
…Chris looked up at him and gave a smirkish smile…
"Who said it was to overpower you". Chris said as his palms glowed with his monochromatic grey aura, his eyes lit up with his aura as he looked Kaito in the eye, Kaito who had the instincts of a predator was surprised at what those instincts were telling him, his instincts were telling him to RETREAT.
…Kaito tried pulling his arm back, but Chris had already gripped it, Chris aura imbued fingers became sharper with the denser concentration of aura, his nails now took the structure if a pin as it pierced through Kaito's arm, Kaito's arm opened up various holes as Chris's fingers pierced through it, it sent an excruciating pain through his body, he struggled to get free, but It proved inevitable, Kaito looked at Chris, he wondered how someone so small and slender compared to him could trap him, Chris pierced his arm with more force and Kaito tried using his right arm to smite Chris away from him, but Chris dodged it no matter the number of time he sent those punches flying, Chris did all that while piercing his arm and as Chris pulled out all ten of his fingers from the holes which they had created on Kaito's arm, He imbued both of his fist's with aura and landed buffet of punches on Kaito…
*sputters*
…Kaito bleed profusely from his nose and mouth, his left eye had swollen up a bit from the buffet of punches, his face was bruised and his blood dripped everywhere, Kaito's aura dimmed and immediately a large surge of aura sprouted up from him, his aura became sharper and Chris could feel the aura's gust of air, the aura felt like a blade that could pierce through anything and anyone, the aura took a definite form like the petal of an hibiscus flower swirling out from his back, his eyes got darker with a brownish color prevailing over the orange…
…Kaito stood at that distance and looked at Chris as his aura swirled around him…
"The only thing more dangerous than a hungry tiger is an injured one". Kaito said as he smirked using his tongue to caress his lower lip, Kaito's teeth had sharpened and all his dentition began looking like fangs, fangs used to consume and destroy…
"Come Chris, this is the climax of the fight, we give it our all now, and the fight ends NOW". Kaito said and with the utter of that last word, Circular darkish orange motes appeared at Kaito's back, each mote spherical in shape, it exuded an aura density so large that it spiked around each of its sides, the motes began spinning around their axis at high speed, the motes began exuding Kaito's aura the motes were five in number, the motes were a slight distance from his back, one on his upper axis, one on his lower axis, one on his left side, the other on his right and one in the center, and all the motes each spinning on their axis began to align and they began revolving in alignment…
…Kaito punched the center of the spinning mote with his palm and the revolving mote appeared at his front, as he imbued more of his aura into it, the revolving mote became bigger and he looked at Chris maintaining eye contact as he gave Chris a smirk…
…The revolving mote began exuding Kaito's darkish brown and orange aura shot out a large beam about eight meters in width surged towards Chris, The beam moved so fast and was so large and due to the excessive bruises Chris had received his movements and reflexes were dull, Chris managed to dodge the first one but his right arm was struck by the beam and a large gust of steam shot out from his palm as blood dripped from his arm, he bit the right side of his lip enshrouded in pain, as Kaito readied another blast, the revolving mote moved faster and another beam shot, and Chris still basking in the pain of his right arm was going to be struck head on, the beam headed straight for him and then…
*boom*
…The beam landed on the regolith of the field, Chris left arm was emitting steam and it began bleeding…
…Instructor Ria watching from his Cathedra, gave off a smile of amazement as she had never witnessed anyone used Step and Flex, so wonderfully, Chris had elongated his palm, and his palm was straightened out, with both fingers joined together, he imbued a large amount of aura into his straightened palm and he compressed his aura into the palm, he exuded aura to form a circular lined orb like chamber around the straightened palm using Flex, he pushed his aura to a point that Step began to restricts its release and as the beam came towards him, it hit the circular orb which triggered step to combust the stored up aura and flex strengthened the circular orb around his palm and with the aid of the strengthened orb he was able to send the beam away…
…Kaito still in shock of what just happened, widened his eyes in shock as his Mote's beam was deflected, the shock allowed him drop his guard and Chris blitzed to Kaito's front slightly avoiding his mote as he landed a sharp kick at the left side of Kaito's body, Kaito was pushed back and as he tried to recuperate from the attack, it started again, His movements were restricted by step and a large barrage of aura imbued kicks were aimed flying at him, Kaito bled and bled profusely from his nose and his chest bruises began to increase, Kaito looked for a loophole to escape the large barrage of kicks but Chris was relentless, with each kick the other responded with speed two times that of the other, Chris finished of the barrage with a stunning edge sharp kick to his upper face sending him down to the regolith of the field, Before Kaito crashed into the regolith, he balanced himself mid-way through the fall and accelerated towards Chris..
"Hey Chris, this is it, this will be the pinnacle of the fight". Kaito said bleeding from his nose as he accelerated towards Chris.
"I agree with you, Predator, your prey will be the one to end you". Chris said as he sped towards Kaito, both of which they clashed in the air, cuffs of blows and buffet of punches were thrown at high speeds, Kaito dominated Chris and With each punch of Kaito that landed blood gushed out from Chris's mouth, Chris imbued denser aura into his injured arms and he was not ready to let off yet, he endured Kaito's punches and repaid them with aura imbued jolts, their fight was like that between a bear and a gazelle, in which the gazelle was not ready to yield to the claws of the bear…
...Barrages of punches from both sides shot out and no one of them, neither Kaito nor Chris with their countless number of bruises were willing to yield to the other the punches were getting faster and stronger and their energy shot up as both of them exchanged punches like their life depended on it, Kaito was about landing his final strike as Chris used his elongated palm to push his arm, by tapping his knuckles across his wrist and then…
*crash*
…Kaito laid in the regolith of the field eighteen feet deep, with steam of energy radiating of the hole, the nanobots repaired the regolith as Kaito laid on the ground unable to continue, Kaito bled profusely from the side of his lip, Chris came down to the fields regolith bleeding profusely from his arms, he offered his blood stricken arm to Kaito and lifted Kaito off from the ground, even Kaito could not deny it, the winner of this bout was Chris, Kaito grabbed Chris's arm and stood up and Chris gave a smile of satisfaction towards Kaito…
"I enjoyed this Kaito". Chris said with a weak Voice and a swollen right eye, as all his bruises were taking a toll on him.
"This time you won prey, beware a predator will never let his prey win twice". Kaito said smiling at Chris, Chris raised his injured right hand and Kaito raised his left and they clenched their palms into fists and stumped them together signaling the end of their fight…