Like a spell has charmed them, the crowd of students have their gazes fixed in the fight happen in the arena. At each move and phrase made by the duo fighting, the crowd thrill in response. Even those who didn't like fights and violence are excited watching it, they are cheering for one of the duo when blood is shown.
Korvaurora looked besides her and saw the forty or fifty student scattered on the grandstands, what left over more than two third unoccupied. Yet their voices are like all the gym's grandstands was crowded. Even her friends are with their gazes fixed in the fight.
Jamil, and mainly, Yasmin the martial artist fan she could understand, but even the ever calm and cynical Orfeu is vibrating with the fight. When the tension grow between Martre and Zaaz, Orfeu even stand nervous.
"What f@@# is happening here!? Everybody besides me drink rotten milk??", thought Korvaurora.
"Woooooww!", celebrated the crowd in union, because of a punch that Martre defended himself, by hold using only his hand to catch it.
"This fight should be stopped, they are really hurting each other! What that rat is doing?, thought Korvaurora. She looked at a arena corner and saw the person who she mentally called a 'rat'... a pretty racist thought. He was Mike, the p.e teacher, and he is just there standing, like everything was normal. When a move violent enough that a student could lose a tooth is made, he just nod his head approving, like he was proud of his student boldness in battle.
"Ehhh? He doesn't planning stop the fight? Early Tales just hurt his opponent knee and he founded it a good reason to stop the match. What f@$@ is happening?", thought Korvaurora.
Hearing the deafening sound of crowd cheering and meat hitting metal sound of the fight, that even the crowd couldn't overshadow, Korvaurora hold tight her sit armrests, feeling alone and small in the middle of madness sea. In a need to have someone to talk, she stand up and come near Orfeu, who was cheering too, she hesitate to call him. Looking everyone around her in acting crazy, Korv Aurora running from the felling of lonyness, got enough forces to call Orfeu, "Hey!! Orfeu!! What's Happening with everyone?!".
Orfeu looked at his side and saw his friend with a lost look in her face. He put his hand on the side of his head, doing with them the closest format of a cone that he could. Orfeu shouted to Korvaurora trying to make his voice louder then the crowd, "What!?".
"What's Happening with everyone?", Korvaurora shouted back.
Orfeu looked at the crowd around him and the fight bellow, returned his gaze to Korvaurora and said with a confused voice, "My thirteen years of life experience told me that those two are fighting and the rest is chewing. That solves your doubt?".
Korvaurora listening her friend response, relaxed, she sighed and said, "Haah... at least you still being you, not some alien".
With his confused look becoming a little more one of concern, Orfeu said, "Of course that i am myself! What made you doub...".
"No you didn't give me the answer to my question! Why is everyone crazy?", said Korvaurora interrupting Orfeu.
Being interrupted didn't made Orfeu very happy, "They are excited by a good fight! The one that you are doing me lose it!".
Korvaurora appointed at the arena and shouted, "All this because of that fight?! They should be stopped not encouraged! Those two lunatics are killing each other!!!".
Orfeu looked to where she appointed, and shouted, "Came on Korva! It is just a spar between classmates! Didn't you saw those amazing moves!? How they do that!? Da#@ that must hurt!!".
Korvaurora put her hands in Orfeu shoulder to call his attention, he was small to an entomo so she was in his eyes levels. Orfeu returned his attention to his friend, she was shouting, "Exact Dumbass!! How the hell Zaaz that last year was just two levels better than me in fighting, and now is jumping 3 meters in the air and running five times quicker!!!"
"I don't know!... Puberty!?", shouted Orfeu.
"Puberty? What with him change his scales have to do with this!?", shouted Korvaurora.
Orfeu stared deep in Korvaurora eyes, he can't tell that she was truly concerned, and that didn't matched her character, something has changed, he shouted, "Korva, i think that you are too prideful. You can't conceive someone be much better than you in something, so you are trying to escape reality".
"I'm too prideful!? You and everyone who found normal a fight like that, are crazy!!", shouted Korvaurora.
Orfeu took out Korvaurora hands from his shoulders, and shouted to her, "You lost to the new guy, saw how good he is, and are trying to escape from reality because you feeling worthless! Korva feeling like this is normal, just relax. I will return to watch the fight! They are tied, seems that something will happen to change it soon!".
"I am trying to escaping reality!? Everyone one are chewing to teens brutalizing each other down there! And I am the one out of reality! Hey Orfeu! Orfeu!...", shouted Korvaurora.
Orfeu didn't moved when Korvaurora called him. Realizing the he will not answer her anymore, Korvaurora snorted and returned to her sit, to watch the match.Down on the arena Martre and Zaaz are in a close quarters confront. Zaaz made a large move with his right hand clws where Marte was, but his opponent avoided it taking half step aside. Martre took advantage of Zaaz oppens created by his last move and stabbed it, what almost landed, in the last second Zaaz who was unbalanced with only his left leg on the ground made a backflip, and landed three meters away from Martre. Unlike previous fights, every move that they do, they makes with confidence and high technical level.
Zaaz was a speed fighter, he has a smaller stature, and take advantage of it. He is fighting with a lower mass center and doing acrobatics so it's difficult to Martre hit him. Zaaz moves are quicker than his opponent, and they have some ferocity on it, many of his claw slash made cuts in Martre body. On the other side, Martre was a balanced fighter, he never felt that he was slow, but Zaaz capacity of avoid his attack with room for more are frustrating him quite a bit. But by no means Zaaz is having an easy fight, Martre swordplay was a real deal, turning difficult to him land a good hit.
Korvaurora can't understand, how what's happening there on the gym's arena for Orfeu and everyone else is normal. In this situation she did most people would do, when the world demonstrates to be different of what she thought that was, Korvaurora accepted that she is the weirdo, she murmured, "Apparently I was the one who drank rotten milk... hm... I need discover what Louis is putting on my coffee... Well i may be overreacting... They are just teenagers trading punches, there is not special on this".
Like he had heard Korvaurora murmur, Martre who the body was full of bruises and cuts took some distance from Zaaz, he grinned and said, "I thought that everyone on the city was weak. But you opened my mind, thank you weird red guy".
Zaaz moved his head in a position where his chin appointed to the gym ceiling, and his head was in a 90 angle from the front of his body, what made his opponent only see one of his eyes, and he bursted into laughter. To anyone in Martre position, and even himself, Zaaz looked pretty disconcerting, "Haaahahhahahaa! Dont compare me to those three thugs from early, i am a martial artist."
Martre hold his sword tighter and appoint it to Zaaz assuming a battle pose, saying, "I will maintain this fact in mind. But now is time to me end this".
At the end of his phrase, all damaged parts of Martre body start to regenerate, in the bigger cuts can be seeing more clearly what is happening. Green threads from inside his body are join the meat, tying the skin up and disappearing by became one with the skin. From his right hand holding the one- handed sword, small vines with dark green colors grew from it until the sword point, using mainly the non-cutting of the sword as a support.
Watching Martre transformation made Zaaz stop smiling, he gazed it with a curious yet serious look, and said, "Wow! Newbie you must have trained really hard this good nature... tree? Ahh whatever! This plant like Samana technique."
Martre made a smug smile and said, "If will know what it's, why you don't giv...".
Zaaz howled,it can't be telled if was because excitement or pain. Excitement because in the end his howl, it became a laugh. And pain... well he contracted all his body muscles, at response to this, his scales became thicker and sharper in the edges and his two hands and tail became larger and more muscular, "Arghha! Hahahaha! . I am a martial artist! My father is the owner of a martial dojo, didn't i mentioned it before??! Haahahah!"
"I underestimated your skills city boy. I don't will do this a third time", Martre in a restricted tone, but the smile on his face tell that he was excited too battle too.
Zaaz shock his fists and assumed a battle pose like Martre, "I agree with you. It's time to end this". He kicked the ground and runned in Martre direction.
Korvaurora was thinking about what Orfeu said early, reflecting about if she was running from reality and was normal that level of fighting skill and violence in her age. But she throwed away of her mind what Orfeu said seeing the duo last exchange.
"Come on!! Phase two! really!?", shouted Korvaurora.