Elijah never saw women as weak, but that being said he still didn't want to fight a woman. After all she could end up being someone's mother or wife. Elijah would lose his s*** if someone were to harm someone that important to him. Within 5 seconds of Elijah starting his sparring match with Ms.Kingsman he was on his back. Her speed was crazy fast, as Elijah looked up she was standing in front of him, not even in a fighting stance.
"Was she underestimating me?" Elijah thought. While he was getting up Elijah tried sweeping her leg. Ms. Kingsman simply stepped back to dodge it. Elijah recovered off of the ground quickly and made his fighting stance.
"She is a lot faster than me so me actually striking her is out of the question" Elijah Said to himself. Instead of making fists Elijah opened his hands to be more reactive and prepared for some grabbing techniques. This was something he practiced with Solomon.
When Elijah did so, he noticed Ms.Kingsmen smirk. She still didn't make a fighting stance, just when Elijah was getting ready to make a move. Ms. Kingsman took a small step forward; then instantly appeared right in Elijah's face. Ms.Kingsman threw what looked like a left hook so Elijah protected his face. Once his hands were protecting his head Ms.Kingsmen threw a punch right at his ribs and said
"If I had a dagger that would definitely be a life threatening wound."
( Note the higher rank you are as beastmen the faster your healing factor. Although high ranking Spirit weapons can give enough damage to reduce that speed).
Even though Ms. Kingsman was smaller than Elijah, her jab at his ribs definitely cracked them so it was going to be hard for him to breathe for the next 10 minutes.
"Bad move" Elijah thought. "I needed to end this quickly before all of my stamina was gone. No matter what I need to catch whatever she throws. Elijah threw a kick to try to make some distance between them. Ms.Kingsmen switched her body towards the kick.
"How is she seeing through all my moves." Elijah thought about to get frustrated? He recovers from the kick and tries to grab her but he misses. Two minutes left and he'll be out of stamina and won't be able to react to anything. Elijah noticed that she switched the way her body was facing to dodge most of his attacks so he faked a straight left punch. She turned her body with the punch like he expected.
Elijah turned directly in front of her and reached with his right hand to grab her wrist and turned it in the opposite direction so she would go with it to the ground and she did. Elijah had her in a simple hold but she was definitely not getting away. Seconds later he got head butted right in the mouth and busted his lip.
"Alright I think that's enough you're definitely more than capable of being my student" said Ms. Kingsmen.
"So I earned your respect." Elijah asked.
"Yea ugh no because you didn't beat me" Ms.Kingsmen said. Giving a stupid look
"We didn't earn her respect either" Jason said standing next to Arthur.
"Yea you did a lot better than either of us did."
"I thought I needed to earn your respect in order to become your student", said Elijah.
"What? I never said that I don't respect either of these two yet." said Ms.Kingsmen.
Jason and Arthur waving in the background.
"So why join my class Mr.Pride? Your class system is a caster class, I wouldn't be able to teach you class power techniques that you don't have yourself" said Ms.Kingsmen.
"I understand that ma'am It's just my Anubis class isn't well known and not useful in combat,'' Elijah replied.
She studied Elijah's face to see if he was lying, he could tell that much.
"Alright then, first i would like to say that I am the only class system master at Predator rank all the others are at least Expert rank and that's why I don't have the nicest facility of the Academy. Does any of this bother you?" Ms.Kingsmen?
"No it doesn't i'm happy to just be here and I'm glad you are as humble as you are,'' Elijah said.
"Great since I can't teach you about your powers for now. I'll Focus on your weapons training." Said Ms.Kingsman .
"She's Cute!" Solomon Said from mindscape.
"Ask if she knows anything about how shadow-walkers' fighting style also tells her you want to use a one sided sword with a long grip". "Is that the kind of sword that's in the foxes territory" Elijah said.
"Yes sir, that is it's base form it's really convenient because it can shrink down to the size of a hand knife or extend into a spear" replied Solomon.
"Really!? That's so cool" Elijah said.
"Did you have a weapon in mind that you wanted to use?'' asked Ms.Kingsmen.
"I wanted to use a one sided blade with a long grip," said Elijah.
"So you want the option to be able to use two hands if you need." Ms.Kingsmen replied.
"Right and I want to focus on the shadow walker fighting style, do you know if it will be compatible with my weapon." "
Why the shadow walker fighting style?'' she asked.
Elijah paused for a second("could she know i had two class tree systems")? "It's just that I think that would be best to use since it's a lion infiltrator class".
Ms. Kingsmen made a face like she was studying Elijah again.
"Alight then she said I do know a bit but traditional Shadwalkers also use crossbows and daggers the sword you want to use would get in the way of your crossbows."
"I really didn't plan on using crossbows,'' Elijah replied.
"Infiltrator classes use long range weapons such as throwing knives, crossbows and bows and arrows," said Ms.Kingsmen.
"Not the Ninjas," Solomon said, "that's the fighting style we'll mix in. With that sword you'll just have to make up for it with speed".
"The ninjas don't" reply to Elijah.
Ms.Kingsman rolled her eyes "yeah that's because they can use elemental base power like water and wind how do you plan on making up the difference?"
Confidently Elijah said with "speed".
She made a face with "Speed?"
"Yes" Elijah replied.
"I want to match the speed of a fox beastmen and still have the strength of a lion beastmen".
"Smart kid" Solomon replied.
"that's what we're going for." Ms.Kingsman smirked.
"That is very interesting.I can tell you right now that Mr Shortfang and Mr. Savage are both faster than you currently are. Naturally Coyotes and Hyenas are naturally faster than lions."
(More often than not Lions rely on their physical strength even shadow walkers do even though there an infiltrator class.)
"I'll approve of this training method for you". said Ms. Kingsman. "Elijah will make good sparring partners for you two. I hope that you all will be a part of the last 3 teams when it comes to the tournament, it comes around in 4 months" said Ms.Kingsmen.
"The Ranking Tournament I almost forgot about,'' said Elijah.
"Yea barely gets you enough time to get the fighting style down. Luckily the way you fight in hand to hand combat complements the weapon type you want.
"Your welcome." Solomon said in the mindscape.
"I'll have the weapon you requested tomorrow for now spar with Jason." Said Ms.KIngsmen
Jason Shotfang was 5'7 sandy brown hair and tan skin. Typical Coyote beastmen features. Sparing with Jason made Elijah realize how much he needs to improve on his speed Elijah was fast for a lion beastmen but compared to a Fox or Coyote beastmen they weren't even in the same league. They parted ways once the Sunset.
Elijah didn't notice the pain unless he was fatigued, his tattoo started to hurt a little he already made it to his dorm room before the pain really sat in.
"We only got 4 months to figure out how to get this weapon before the Ranking Tournament" Elijah to said Solomon.
"Huh" replied Solomon.
"There is no way you're using a weapon like that in the Tournament first off once you get it you shouldn't even have it or let anyone know that you have it. This weapon will help with your growth if someone knew you had it before you could really defend yourself. All this effort would be for nothing if they took it. So just use the weapon the Class system Master lady gives you."
"What if it sucks,'' says Elijah.
"Then we will just train you to use you can use any sword but that's another topic for another day." Said Solomon.
"We need to scout the Fox territory tonight; you won't be able to Astral project far once this training starts,'' said Solomon.
"You think that Ms.Kingsmen well drill me that hard?" Elijah Asked.
"Definitely she only respects the strong regardless of status." "It is kinda weird how she's a teacher with that mindset but I think you can trust to some extent her."Solomon said. After recovering from today's training They headed out towards the foxes territory