Team Peregrine, now realizing the situation at hand, gathered together at a hiding spot as they were avoiding clashes with Team Petra - the team that stole their banner- to discuss their next move.
"What's the plan?," Jason asked Vincent, who was thinking of a way to beat the enemy and trying to analyze their weaknesses.
"As far as I know, that fat dude is a Fire Elemental user. I don't know about their leader -a loudmouth- and the other dude, who is always quiet and resembles something that came out of a horror movie," Vincent replied, thinking deeply with his hand in his chin.
He then had an idea and said, "Alright, listen up! Here's the plan——" and started explaining his idea in full detail.
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"Look, brats!! Just show up, so that we can finish this and we can go on our way!! And by 'we', I mean my team!!," the leader of Team Petra shouted from his spot out of impatience.
"Eat crap, turd-face!!," was the reply, most probably from Jason.
"Turd-face?! That's it!! You're dead meat!!," he replied in anger and looked towards the direction of a big redwood tree and nodded.
The individual there -Kumo Aburame- then nodded back and made hand signs, after which, he yelled, "Death Mist!!," and released a huge foggy mist that began to embody the surrounding area.
Vincent then noticed some birds actually decomposing from the mist and yelled to his teammates, "Don't breathe the mist!! It will kill you instantly!!"
"I need to find the person who activated this ability or we're in big trouble!!," Vincent thought to himself as he was struggling to think deeply and holding his breath as hard as he could.
He then held his breath and his eyes started glowing bright red, bearing resemblance to his escapade earlier on two days' prior.
Vincent then started scanning the area and spotted the third member, hiding
behind the redwood tree east to his direction.
From his vision, the person was holding a star-shaped blade and was aiming at him.
Vincent then exclaimed to himself, "Gotcha!!" and vanished, much to the confusion of the individual planning to attack Vincent.
No sooner had he vanished than Vincent appeared before the individual and bit him on the neck while holding his mouth in the process until his victim stopped moving; finishing him off immediately in the process.
Dobbo -who was close to the incident and filled with rage- launched a huge fireball towards Vincent.
But the young vampire dodged and with one hit, kicked the large individual but it didn't work.
"Duck!!," a voice in Vincent's head rang and he did so accordingly; suddenly a figure, who turned out be Jason, with a massive tree branch came out of nowhere and struck Dobbo out of the forest upwards.
Vincent was stunned about the voice, thinking, "Is it just me, or did I just read Jason's move before he did it?"
He then noticed an object flapping at the backside of Dobbo; realizing the attack earlier cleared the most around him, he then got up and yelled -still with a flap around his face- "The banner's are on the fatso!! Get it!!," and flew after his opponent, with Jason leaping after him.
But the leader then caught of the situation and shot a sticky substance out of his mouth on Vincent's leg, stopping him mid-air.
"Jason, grab the fatso and toss him to me!!,"
Vincent shouted and Jason nodded.
He took hold of Dobbo by the sides of his trousers and started turning him midair to gain momentum.
But all of a sudden, Dobbo countered Jason's motion and started turning him instead!!
"This is for calling my friend a turd-face, animal!!," he grunted and tossed Jason into a huge tree.
He then yelled, "Tank Armour!!," which made his blubbery body harder like steel and more compact and he lunged towards Jason and hit him with a barrage of blows until he became unconscious.
Dobbo then released his hardening and jumped, yelling, "Whoppy!! I beat the annoying kid!!"
But then a familiar voice said, "You didn't beat anymore, fatso!!," which made Dobbo furious.
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Oblivious to Dobbo and everyone else -except for Vincent- the Jason that was beaten was a doppelgänger clone Jason made earlier on before their battle.
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"Who said that?! Dobbo will punch you into a squashed fly!!," Dobbo yelled.
"I'm right here!!," the real Jason yelled and he leaped towards Dobbo and punched him really hard.
Nothing happened since he activated his Tank Armor.
"Hahaha!! Nothing can beat my Tank Armor!!, Dobbo started laughing hysterically.
But Jason jumped back and his hand began glowing bright yellow.
"I'm not done yet!! Aura Punch!!," and he lunged towards his opponent and puched again, this time having a strong impact than before.
That knocked out Dobbo instantly and tossed him higher in the air and Jason quickly grabbed the banners and hurled them towards Maki, who summoned a miniature Earth Golem to carefully catch them.
"Finish them!!," Maki yelled after retrieving her team's banner and taking the enemy's own.
"One fatso, coming up!!," he said and tossed him in Vincent's direction.
The leader then grinned and said, "Seems your friend's the fool, not knowing that you're in Dobbo's pathway. The impact will surely kill you!!"
"It seems you don't understand the situation. We planned for a situation like this!! And also, I'm not in the impact path. You are!!"
Vincent then suddenly made his left middle and index fingers in an upward motion and suddenly, the leader was in his place!!
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Vincent had mastered a teleportation technique which he called Shadow Step. It requires a fairly large amount of Mana to be used and can only be used once for a certain period of time, after which can be reused.
The drawback is that he becomes a bit sluggish after a few minutes from using it and will most likely be inactive for about an hour.
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The leader of Team Petra was stunned but was not expecting a 350-lb pound man hurling in his direction.
He received the impact and both members crumbled onto the ground unconscious, knocking the mist away from the environment.
Vincent then landed, spat his opponent's blood from earlier and cleaned his mouth; and Jason and Maki met Vincent with a basket full of red star-fruits and the banners of both Teams Peregrine and Petra.
"Wait a minute. I thought they were three," Jason said, searching for the last member.
Oh you mean him?," Vincent pointed to where the other member and both Jason and Maki were terrified of what they saw: a man bleeding profusely and with blood stains coming from his neck.
"Oh my goodness, you killed him!!," Maki replied in shock.
"How could you?!," Jason yelled at Vincent.
"Relax!! That's just a Blood Paralysis technique I know of. He's not dead. He'll be fine in a few hours," Vincent explained, much to his teammates' relief.
Feeling the drawbacks of his new ability drawing near, he then grabbed the banners and said, "Let's hurry up and finish this!! Who knows whether we didn't make it or not," and started flying back to the Knight Academy.
"Hey!! Wait for us!!," Maki and Jason yelled at Vincent as they both covered their opponent's full basket with theirs and started running back to the Academy.