Yohan and Gwen had already gone to bed. The others were still talking.
Once I entered their line of sight Gert shot me a fierce glance. I wasn't in the mood to start a fight with him again. So, I ignored it.
Allenya smiled at me. "And? Did it go better this time?" I shook my head.
"Can you show us how far you have come?" Alex asked in an energetic tone and nearly dropped the sword he was polishing. In a desperate attempt to prevent it from falling he grabbed the blade cutting his hand in the prosses. The blood quickly spread over the clean steal. With panic in his eyes he tried to clean it up. But only managed to get more blood on his blade. Allenya rushed over to get Alex a bandage to stop the bleeding.
When it was over Alex asked again if I could show my progress.
"Fine."
For the tenth time this day I focused my consciousness on my hand with the will to make it look human.
Slowly the image appeared again.
"Wow, that is so cool. So, you can really do magic now?"
I growled. "Stop pointing out the obvious. It gets annoying!" but I still smile to clarify that it wasn't meant to be a treat
"Sorry man I."
Gert jumped in front of me trying to hit me. I swiftly dogged to the right. This time it was a close one. Moving became hard after using magic.
"Wat was that for?!"
"Whose blood is that?!" He screamed at me.
I growled at him ("This fool attacked me again! How dares he?! I must punish him for his insolence. No, if I harm him the others would no longer trust me, plus the deal will break and I will have to leave them. ")
I clenched my fist and bared my teeth in anger, but I couldn't do anything to him.
"For your information. It was a deer. I was in need of energy after using magic for too long."
Gert lanced at me again. And again, I dogged.
"Like hell I would believe that!"
He gave another series of punches. Al of which I dogged. Gert's main focus was on strength, he simply lacked the speed and precision to actually hit me.
However, this couldn't go on forever. I was already relatively tired and I just used magic which didn't help at all. I let out my consciousness and broke through his mental barrier. His was a lot stronger than that of Elisa so it took me a few seconds to successfully enter his mind.
("Gert, stop!")
He froze. "W, what was that?"
He shrugged it off and tried to hit me with a spring back kick. Meanwhile I heightened my control over him and stopped him dead in his tracks.
I could feel the fear and surprise he felt when he realised that he couldn't move.
("How come you didn't hear me? I said stop!")
I gave him a wide grin. Then I shifted my gaze to Allenya. "Can you please calm him down? He won't listen to me."
She looked confused but shrugged it off. I released Gert and found a nice place to lay down. My energy wasn't as repelled as before, but after using so much magic it didn't take long for me to fall asleep.