Madonna was completely in shock at what she was witnessing. She looked at the two boys, then the men on the floor, then the destruction caused by them. Her mouth had been wide open the entire time and was now beginning to become swore.
"Hey now Madonna, I thought you didn't swear," Jude said while suppressing a laugh.
Madonna forgetting about everything and putting a pause on it turned angrily at Jude and stated,
"I'll have you know that it is perfectly normal to sprout out words that you don't mean in a situation as complex as this one."
"Wow, you cant admit your mistake can you."
Sammie walked by the two, pulling out his phone then dialling down a number and calling it.
"Hey, yeah there's been an incident. Send a cleaning squad over and send Alexa here too."
Sammie put the phone down and turned to face Jude and Madonna, who was still in a mental break down.
"Help is on the way. Get your things and—"
"What are you doing Jude. What is this situation that I'm seeing right now," Exclaimed a voice behind Jude.
Jude knew that voice and when he turned around he was right, it was Zetsuros. He was confused as to why Zetsuros would be here.
*ahhhh I guess it is late, so he came to my school to check if everything was ok* thought Jude.
"Oh Zetsuros. I don't really know what happened but random people started to attack us, they came here for Sammie."
Zetsuros not paying attention to Jude, even though it was hard to tell due to him being darkness its self, he was looking at Sammie. He floated to him with his dark black cloud like vapour coming out of his body endlessly as he moved.
Sniff. Sniff.
"Ughhh, you reek of Asphoras' stench. So where is the guy now." Said Zetsuros with a slightly disgusted face.
Sammie was now the one who was shocked, but only for a lit bit. He then tried to suppress a smile but gave in because he was way to happy. He looked at the dragon with pure admiration in his eyes.
"Um sor-sorry, but he isn't here right now and hasn't been for awhile, said he was searching for something," stumbled Sammie, barely keeping his excitement in check.
** looking for something, hummm, I wonder is he looking for that?** though Zetsuros.
Sammie quickly mouthed to Jude about how he knew this magnificent being but Zetsuros saw this and answered it for him.
"He is my companion."
Sammie's Jaw dropped hard. He had not been expecting that answer, but then again that is the only logical way to explain it, because there would be no other way Zetsuros could get out of his coffin without someone releasing him.
He looked at Jude with admiration as well, to be chosen by one the big three was a crazy big deal and biggest honour the universe could give you.
"I didn't choose him exactly though, it was more like he choose me," stated Zetsuros.
Sammie thinking about what this meant, was interrupted by the sound of a van parking on the side of the school that wasn't destroyed. An extremely attractive women wearing a business suite came out the front door with a clip board and a pen. From the back of the van the doors burst open, and out came 10 ripped grown men carrying tools with them.
"Ah Sammie! Look at the mess you made, how can you make it up to me for doing all this work for you. It's not easy to look this good and be a hard worker you know. Wait who are they," said the women pointing at the direction of Jude and the rest.
"Ah, Alexa you came and right on time to. The boy is named Jude he was chosen as a companion by non other then the dragon of Darkness, Zetsuros!" Exclaimed Sammie.
Alexa was stunned at the words that came out of Sammie. She slowly turned to look at the man that was hovering above the floor and cover in black clouds of darkness.
"Wait, thats really THE dragon. One of the three legendary dragons that stood at the pinnacle of the food chain. That even made the king scared out of his mind forcing him to seal them. That Zetsuros!" Said Alexa exited and shocked with the news.
"Wow, that's one hell of an introduction you got there Zetsuros." Said Jude.
Zetsuros annoyed with how things turned out, tried to end the conversation there and not have a fan community start and kill it before it began.
"Anyway, we have more pressing matters to attend to so if you don't mind we'll be off."
Sammie and Alexa looked puzzled as to what Zetsuros was saying, but when realising it, which meant they had to leave, they become more active.
"Ummm, if you'd please allow us to escort you to our facility we'd greatly appreciate it.
For I believe it benefits both parties." Stated Alexa keeping her formality as high as it could go but still trying to oppose the great being Zetsuros.
Zetsuros debating on if to go or stay and train the boy, eventually came to the conclusion that there were more pros then cons to go with them. He looked at Jude asking if he wonted to go and received a nod from the boy.
"Very well I suppose training can start afterwards."
Sammie delighted, began leading them to the car before remembering that there was another problem to deal with. He looked back and saw Madonna scared out of her mind cowering in the corner of the broken half of the corridor. Jude was the first to react. He strode towards her then began a small conversation finally ending it with him extending his hand for her to take and she did. Though hesitant, she walked with Jude and gradually became normal as Jude started pestering her and she telling him off.
Sammie enjoyed the spectacle, he truly thought of them as friends he just didn't tell them the truth that's all. The feelings he had were real then anything he had felt before, he was sure of it. However now was not the time to focus on such things they need to go before people came to the scene.
Once almost everyone was inside they were about to leave when Zetsuros held Jude from entering. Jude looked at him and tried to read his eyes and sadly came to the conclusion that Zetsuros wanted him to do some exercise.
"You don't really wont me to..."
With one more look from Zetsuros, Jude knew that he was not one to second question.
"Hey, what. Where you going?" Asked Sammie confuses as to why Jude was not getting in.
"No time to explain I'll follow you guys so don't worry."
Sammie still having no clue tried to ask Zetsuros but he knew with just a glance at those eyes he should just go and shut up.
Sammie giving the signal for the driver to hit the gas, the car started to move rapidly as if it was already on constant speed.
They were turning at every corner, right then left then right again. It was all over the place which made it almost impossible for Jude to keep up. He had exceptional power which he turned into speed with his extremely strong legs. But now he realised just how uncontrollable his strength was, he was hitting against walls for having too much force in a single stride. Due to the ridiculous amount of turns, he barley had time to change direction before hitting something, with the amount of power he turned to speed he could not just throttle it down in one stroke but rather try to do multiple small strides.
* so this is the training he wants done. I even said it was easy, wow what an idiot I was.*
After what felt like a centuries worth of training they finally arrived at their destination. It was an over sized abandoned warehouse in an isolated area. It had three normal sized buildings near it and a field that was 5x the size of the warehouse.
When Sammie, Zetsuros and the rest came out of the van, 5 people came out to greet them, all of different age and race.
"What's up Sammie, what you got for us today," asked a tall boy the age of probably 19 or so, who looked like a basketball player.
He had long spiky blonde hair and dark blue eyes and a light tan on certain parts of his body.
"No time to explain we need to get inside we have business to attend to." He said while glancing at Zetsuros making sure he didn't loose interest.
It was then that Jude arrived only a few seconds afterwards. He was injured all over and was sweating rivers of blood. He was clearly not use to the power and found it difficult to not be harmed while going at that speed.
Sammie held his hand giving a sign to a girl and she moved closer to Jude. Facing her palm out in his direction, Jude instantly felt normal again, as if he never got injured to begin with. He stared at the girl, who smiled at him. When facing her he knew that she had a kind heart and was really pretty inside and out. However, he knew that most main characters in a book or movie or anime would automatically go and fall for her but this was reality and he didn't trust the girl at all. He felt uneasy about her so he stood and walked past without even saying thanking to her.
As he did walk past her smile of innocence left and was replaced by a smirk of pure evil intensions.
"My, my I thought I just helped him. So ungrateful," she mischievously said with a smile she didn't bother to hide this time.
Sammie staring daggers at her, turned his gaze to now face Alexa. He whispered something to her and she nodded then went inside the warehouse.
"Ok. So this is my five comrades other wise known here as the five generals of earth." Sammie said pointing at the five people that were present in front of him including the twisted girl.
They were all so different in every way, there was a grown man the age around late 30s who had short messy black hair with pitch black eyes. He wore a long overcoat that came to the ground, his shirt that was mostly in the shadow of the overcoat and so were his trousers. There was also the girl that had healed Jude, who had pink hair tied in a bun but messily done right and clear skin reflecting the sun of. She wore a short dress that came to the top of her knees and shoes that were a combination of high heels and trainers.
There was also the blonde long haired boy who spoke to Sammie, he wore a normal t-shirt and jet black baggy track suites that were three sizes bigger then him even though he himself was a giant. Standing next to him was a women who wore a samurai cloths and katana on her back. With her black hair tied to a bun and her feminine appearance and masculine aura she looked the toughest of them all. The one who stood at the back had a shadowy appearance to him , like he was all most transparent. He had no real appearance to him but he was visible to see but not to describe. The man was almost invisible and almost visible.
"The one that healed you and has a messed up personality but hides it, is named Festia. The old ass 37 year old man with the black hair that needs a hair cut is called Zenith. The samurai female is Mihox. The blondes Andrew and the transparent one is Infislow."
The one named Zenith came closer the Jude, inspecting him throughly. He walked slowly around him analysing every feature about him and he came to a conclusion.
"I don't get it. Why would someone like this be able to be chosen by none other then Zetsuros himself." Said Zenith debating on if he made the right decision or not.
Black smoke went right through Zeniths body and it materialised into a human form, showing Zetsuros. Zetsuros stared at the man like he was a child to him.
"Don't question my decision child. This boy has more worth then all of this organisation combined, so don't stand their looking like your better. I don't want to see you insulting him because that means your insulting me and I for one don't think you want to insult me do you."
Zenith with a face scared out of his mind nodded vigorously. He was sweating all over within seconds he was drenched, however he wasn't the only one, the other four kept their heads down really low as if exaggerating their respect.
Sammie cut in to stop the situation before it escalated even more.
"Anyway, Jude we'd like for you to take a test before we go in, please follow us."
Sammie led Jude and Zetsuros along with the others including Madonna, who was extremely quite, to inside the warehouse. When Jude stepped inside he saw what looked like the armies home base. There were professional dangerous obstacle courses that looked insanely hard, on the side was an archery or range field, but instead of bullets or weapons they tested out their powers. Smack bang in the middle was a wrestling arena that had two people going head to head full use of their unique power against each other. The other places where more or less normal training such as a track field, however even though it was normal the people running weren't. They ran a 40metre track 10x in five minutes and some were less then that, one was even done in one minute and did the track 13x.
"So this is what that Asphoras has been up to all this time, I'm actually impressed, but this isn't enough if he is doing what I think he's doing." Said Zetsuros.
"Ahhh, about that," Sammie replied grinning at Zetsuros, but still keeping his head down to show respect.
"Asphoras actually has built multiple organisations and this one isn't even in the top ten biggest and strongest."
Zetsuros looked at the boy and saw the admiration he had for Asphoras and snorted. He felt pity full for the boy, because he knew what kind of monster Asphoras truly was and he wasn't someone to look up to.
Sammie turned his attention to Jude, who was now making Madonna feel better, and said.
"Jude your test begins now. All you have to do is pick a partner out of anyone here and fight them in the arena, however your not allowed to pick Festia since she is a healer not a fighter. All power is allowed, your allowed to go full out however since your fighting with the generals or me we will take it to half our strength."
"Don't mock him I think I recalled saying. Use all your strength and I'll know if you don't." Exclaimed Zetsuros.
Jude knew exactly who to choose and didn't hesitate.
"I choose you. Sammie."
"Don't be an idiot, I like the fact that you chose the person that you thought was the strongest but you can't beat him. He is 5x stronger then you, probably even more if he takes it seriously. Plus I already want you to fight with Zenith, I think his name was. I didn't like the comment he made early so if you'd do me the favour of destroying his ass and spilling his blood and remains everywhere I'd really appreciate it. Oh and losing is not an option because if you do I'll be your opponent and I'll use what little strength I have to give you a beating."
Zenith hearing this and smiled a bit and looked at Jude pitying him. This only added to the fuel of anger that Zetsuros was containing, so he pushed Jude to the ring. Jude not interested on the fight for he wonted Sammie, was now motivated because of the threat placed on him.
He hopped onto the ring and looked down at where Zenith use to be standing but did not see him there anywhere.
"Look for something. If not, start!" Shouted Sammie declaring the beginning of the match. He smacked onto a bell that vibrated loudly in Jude's ear.
* how are we supposed to start when he isn't even-* Jude thought being cut of by the painful feeling he had in his stomach.
It was a knife that pierced into Jude's stomach making him throw up blood. He slowly lifted his head up showing Zenith a few metres away covered in black smoke around him with his hand in the direction of Jude. He throw the knife at a ridiculous speed so much so that Jude with his new powers could not even get a hint of its presence.
When Jude throw the knife away after taking it out, he took of his shirt and belt to apply pressure on it so he didn't lose anymore blood. He looked up at Zenith and when he did Zenith reminded him of what Zetsuros kind of looks like. He had black vapour endlessly coming out of his body and a gloomy aura but not as intense as Zetsuros'.
"Oh that's not good. Hey Jude there's no way your winning this fight your up against a manipulator of the dark arts. In other words that man is much stronger then Sammie." Explained Zetsuros slightly taken back by the discovery.
Though Jude heard this, he did not seem to care much about it, but when he heard this man was stronger then Sammie he couldn't help but smile widely.
"Well he may be the manipulator of darkness, but our power IS DARKNESS!"