"I can't believe this! I might be able to prove my father wrong and bring a good story to my family! I can finally be the of my family. This could happen for me, this is my chance" Lydia whispers to herself.
"Ahahahah I'm gonna be the pride of my village and the high priest will respect me! My older brothers will be so proud of me!" Europhian starts jumping around in amazement.
"I will be one step closer to getting my revenge," Yoshua says in a deep dark tone.
"Huh?!" Europhrian and Lydia reply.
"I told you he was weird.." Europhrian whispers to Lydia and she responds by saying:
"Yeah, I think I understand now."
"HEY! I Heard THAT!" Yoshua says with a grumpy face.
"What's the point of all this anyway? Why fight?" Lebanon says.
Everyone looks at Lebanon.
"We really need to get your memories back, Afterall we've been with you for so long that it made me forget that we need to bring to you, Shiloh. Ok, how about this." Europhrian says and he then moves over to Lebanon.
"If we can fight and win then we can be able to go to Shiloh and regain your memories" He states.
"So all I have to do is win in the tournament and I can remember who I am?" Lebanon asks.
"Yes. If you look at your chain it looks like a key which might be important to access somewhere in Shiloh in the future anyway." Europhrian states.
"Ahh that makes sense now," Lebanon replies.
"Hahaha you insects I hope you're ready to crush classroom 3 we have a lot of work to do to them and overtake them Ahahahah!" a student from classroom 2 states.
Others in the background begin to cheer them on and continue to support this upcoming rivalry. The tournament afterall nominates people who will be capable of going to Shiloh and even getting powerful ranks. Recognition, fame and anything you want, it's all to be desired in this tournament.
"So guys, how are we going to win this?" Leah asks.
"Well, if we really think about it, we have to accumulate the most points to win," Nathaniel says while folding his arms proudly.
"Points?" Lebanon asks.
"Yes points. You haven't been here even for a year so you wouldn't know although this year's tournament is changed." Lydia says.
"Well, she's right. But that's beside the point. In the tournament, there are different trials and battles you have to face to accumulate points." Europhrian says.
"So, what are these 'trials' and 'battles' about then?" Lebanon asks.
"So there are 4 different phases in this battle. War, Knowledge, Spirituality and Death." Nathaniel says.
"D-Death? Am I gonna die?! I can't die, I need to go to Shiloh-" Lebanon says but Lydia smacks him on the head.
"Not literally stupid," she says.
"Oh-" he responds while holding the swelling on his head.
"You didn't have to hit me so hard.." he mutters.
"What was that?!" she says viscously.
"Nothing ma'am," Lebanon says.
"Anyways, enough jokes. Time to be serious now." Nathaniel states.
"All four phases are important because they accumulate a degree of points. The max points you can earn for War is 100 points, the max from the phase Knowledge is 150."
"Hmm, I see." Lebanon states.
"Yes, but Spirituality and Death are different." Nathaniel continues.
"How so?" Lebanon asks again.
"Well, It's better for you to read this letter given out which explains each of the phases.
-Welcome to the upcoming Tournament Student to crusader!-
I King of New Israel am hosting this tournament! I am pleased to see that there are so many new people participating in this tournament to serve this kingdom! For that, I give you my full gratitude! Now, this letter contains all the rules for the tournament and how things will be different this year!
750 Points for Tournament! 250 Points for Exams!
As you know there are always new phases each year but this time there is only four!
Below are the phases and how they will operate!
Phase Number One: War - You Need to defeat as many soldiers as possible. The whole classroom included. 100 soldiers will be released out, and the fastest class to defeat as many soldiers win. No time limit. (Max points is 100) (Each soldier is one point, you need at least 50 to pass this phase.)
Phase Number Two: Knowledge - Scenario: There is an old woman and a young soldier. You have to decide which to save. Note that they are critically ill and one will die. You can only save one person, but you must decide which to save. The old woman feels like she gonna die while a young soldier is poisoned has and severe cuts. You only have time to save one. (Max 150 points for the right answer.)
Phase Number Three: Spirituality - We are checking to see how much access you have to I AM's power. This year, students must be capable of calling down fire from heaven. We will see how much they can call down. Note that the person with the purest heart gathers most fire. (200 points max depending on how large your fire is. {If you can burn a cattle or leap of wood to ash - 200 points.} {Burn till its black- 100 points.} {Burn slightly. Slight colour change - 50} {No change in colour to object or thing - O points.}
Phase Number Four: Death - Tournament where there is a 1v1 between students. Classroom 1 and 2 will fight. Classroom 3 and 4 will fight against each other. As per usual, a ladder will be implemented and to be able to fight you must win. Winners of each battle will progress until it's a 1v1 situation. There will be 4 representatives from each classroom. (Winning your opponent is 75 points FOR EACH END BATTLE.)
"Woah, so that's the tournament of Crusaders right?" Lebanon says.
"Yes, this is the tournament of 'Student to Crusaders'. Only the strongest win. To go to Shiloh Lebanon, you have to beat everyone there." Nathaniel says.
"W-wait we already decided Lebanon will be a representative?!" Leah says.
"Yup. I mean, he did punch Rako into some trees. that power could come out again." Europhrian says.
"Yeah, and plus if you want to go to Shiloh we can't hold your hand, you got to do it yourself," Lydia says while grinning.
"I see. Well, when is this tournament coming up?" Lebanon asks.
"In 2 months from now, and it'll last a month," Ryan says.
"ROARR! I'M READY NOW TO FIGHT!" Ryan continues after he was sleeping previously.
Everyone yells: "SHUT UP!" While Lydia, Europhrian and Leah smack him on the head.
"OW!" he whimpers while retreating in a corner.
"Damn you demons..." he mummers.
"What was that..?" Europhrian, Lydia and Leah all say angrily.
"No-thing," he responds.
"Anyways, let's work out our plan and begin training. This tournament is filled with so many different strong people who are out to win. We have to defeat them." Nathaniel says.
"Who are we watching out for?" Europhrian says.
"Aaron, his name was?" Lebanon says.
Everyone seems a bit shocked, they were surprised that Lebanon had enemies he wanted to fight.
"Didn't know you were the fighting type Lebanon? I mean, you did punch some dude into some trees but I didn't think you'd pick someone out." Europhriansays.
"He picked a fight with me..?" He responds.
"DID YOU SAY AARON?! ARE YOU CRAZY HE'S FROM CLASSROOM 1 AND TRIBE OF JUDAH!" Lime yells.
Everyone was shocked because it was quite out of character for her.
"My point is, he's strong and people say he's a prodigy! We're playing with fire here!" she continues.
"I mean, he's only labelled the strongest because he's beat 'strong' people right? So all I have to do is to beat him and become the strongest." Lebanon says nonchalantly.
"After all, Shiloh is much bigger of a goal than this tournament. Something is calling me there. I can't be stopped here." Lebanon says while his eyes are filled with determination.
"Well okay. We know have established who's fighting Aaron in the last fight. We have to make sure we don't lose points in any phase. This year is harder because we need 70% of 1000 to win." Nathaniel says.
"70%? THAT'S 700 POINTS!" Lydia yells.
"All the more reason we have to take this seriously. Classroom 4 is considered the weakest out of all the classes so we gotta work our way up. After all, we have a trump card right?" Nathaniel says while holding Lebanon.
Everyone sighs.
"Well, the best thing to do now begins training right!?" Ryan says while his eyes are filled with excitement and determination!
"Yeah!" everyone responds yet Euphorian's 'yeah' wasn't so enthusiastic.
"So how are we going to divide this training regiment then?" lime asked anxiously.
"Here is what we are going to do. First of all, we have to train physically for the next two months and as well as that we also have to consider the fact that we have to work on spirituality too." Nathaniel says while sitting
back down.
"Let's do this then let's get the show on the road!" Ryan said while jumping in excitement.
"Settle down everyone you Gotta listen carefully. In this tournament, we have many different goals and many different objectives that we need to accomplish. First of all, we have to accumulate a minimum of 70% of 1000 that is 700 points. In each of the phases, we have to make sure we get a minimum of 75 points each that way we can rock up more points and then move onto the progressive of finals." Nathanial said seriously.
Everyone became indignant and serious as they all admitted to the fact that Nathanial was saying the truth. Lebanon, although was not bothered by this as he was already prepared for what was to come shortly.
"Like I said we have to be real. It doesn't matter what your goals and objectives are. Whether you want to go to a certain place at a certain time, it's about racking up the points. I know that Lebanon wants to defeat Aaron and we all agreed on this - fair enough, but we also have to consider the fact that Aaron as an individual is extremely strong and not only Aaron but the whole of classroom one." Nathaniel continued while looking around at everybody.
" it's just as lime said, Everybody in classroom one has the potential to completely wipe each and every single one of us. Now I do realise some strong people in our group have experienced in the battles for example Europhrian and Lydia, but that doesn't necessarily mean that everybody else is as experienced as them. Even though you said that Lebanon punched some guy into some trees we can all agree that even Aaron is capable of doing that. I don't know how strong Lebanon really is as I've not seen his full potential myself but based on your reactions, I believe he can put up a good fight. But as I said, a 'good fight' isn't enough we have to win."
"Fair enough you're giving us all these points, solutions are what we need," Europhrian says while folding his arms.
"Yes, I'm getting to that point. So here's the plan: first of all, for the next three weeks, we are going to work on our bodies. Physically training each of our muscles to take punches and give powerful punches as well. You know the saying, you must be durable as what you produce so, we need to make sure we are all capable of at least punching through a tree." Nathanial says.
"Punching through a tree?! You're speaking nonsense, and even if people like Lebanon and Aaron can do that why should we have to do that as well?" Lime says.
"Everybody in classroom one can do this with ease. If even the least of us can't do 10% of what they're gonna do then we are hundred per cent going to lose." Ryan states.
"Physical training is good at all, but I don't think we can neglect the fact that the exams are important too. Just because they give us 250 points, doesn't necessarily mean we should just ignore the academic side right?" Lydia questions.
"I hate to say this because even I hate paperwork, but Lydia is right. I mean not everybody here is physically strong as the other person if you know what I mean." Europhrian states.
"What's that supposed to mean?! Are you saying that we are weaker just because we're girls?" Leah says quite angrily.
"N-not necessarily I'm just trying to-"
Yet Europhrian is cut off by Leah shouting:
"Don't underestimate us!" While clenching her fist.
"Settle down Leah. If you really think about it he does have a point after all it was lime disagree with our training regiment anyways. Like I said we want to win it doesn't matter who is weaker or stronger if one were on that field and they are incapable of providing us with The points that we need to succeed and go to the next round then that person just failed the whole team. We're not playing around here we're actually fighting people fighting to become Crusaders." Nathanial states.
"Listen I don't know much about all this fighting in this tournament in general, but I want to beat up the Aaron guy no matter what. You guys can trust me and you can count on me too. I said this before but for me to go to the place I need to go, I can't be stopped here by some random dude I've got to be everybody and get to the place I need to go so I can regain my memories remember who I am. "Lebanon says we're getting up and looking at everybody.
Everybody is surprised by Lebanon statement and is also astonished by the courage and determination that he is bringing up. Motivated by his words, Nathanial says:
"Yes, he's right. There's no point finding each other like we're just wasting our time and energy we've got to go out now and start working on our own training regiment."
"I have a proposal," Europhrian says.
"What is it?" Lydia asks.
"Well since people do not want to participate in physical training, and Lydia's point before was right about the academic side I believe that we should segregate ourselves." he continues.
"How so?" Ryan asks.
"Well, people who do not want to do the training can work and study for us all to pass the exam. So even if worst comes to worst and we can't get as many points as we can from the physical side, we have a backup plan and we can still gather more points from the educational side if you know what I mean. " Europhrian says.
" oh! That is kind of smart I agree with you. "Nathanial responds.
Everybody then proceeds to look at lime.
"Why are all you idiots looking at me?! "She says.
"I mean, you said it yourself right? You called us idiots so if we are dumb, The only person you can teach us is you." Lebanon says.
Lime went all red with embarrassment and anger at the same time. She began clenching her fist and walking away angrily saying:
"I'll get you back for this!"
"Okay so since we've all established what we're going to do, I believe we should get started." Nathaniel states.
Everybody agrees by saying 'Yes. They all begin to walk out of the door from the room they were in. They continue to walk and it appears as though everybody is following Nathaniel. Startled, he says:
"Why are all of you following me?"
"I mean, where else are we going to go I thought we were starting the training right…?" Ryan says.
"Just because I said let's get started that doesn't mean right this second! all of your muscle for brains?!" He responds.
"Don't you dare follow me!" Nathanial says while walking away.
Nathanial then reaches his home, after opening the door by using a key, he shouts' I'm home!' He begins to hear some voices and says:
"Mum do we have visitors?"
She responds by saying:
"Oh yes dear there is so many of your friends here!"
(Friends? Which Friends could she be talking about? Or it could be my cousins.) Nathaniel thought to himself but then realised who it really was.
Running to the door in one of the rooms which his mother was in, he yells:
"That better not be them!"
Opening the door, he sees Lebanon, Lydia, Europhrian, Ryan, lime, and Leah all sipping tea with their bellies full of the food that his mother fed them.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING MY HOUSE, YOU FREELOADERS!" He yells.
They all begin to sip the tea at the same time and say with a happy smile on their faces:
"Your mom has good herbs, this tea is nice…"
"PAY ME RIGHT NOW DAMMIT! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE ASWELL!"
But his mom responds by saying:
"Don't be so rude to your friends! They came over here and helped me on the street when some groceries fell on the way!"
"Tch" Nathaniel responds while sitting down angrily.
"Anyways, don't be too loud guys, mommy is going to go upstairs now! Also, Nathaniel is nice now, don't fight everyone." She says while pulling his cheeks.
"OW! Mum I get it already!" He responds while holding his red cheek.
She walks out of the door and Nathaniel sighs in relief.
"Just don't mess up the place too much you guys-" he tried to say but the place was already a disaster.
After Everyone ate they all slept everywhere and anywhere, Europhrian was on the table, Lebanon sleeping on the couch, Lydia was sleeping next to him, Ryan just passed out on the ground, Lime sleeping peacefully off the table and Leah was just sleeping off a wall with one leg up.
"WAKE UP NOW DAMN YOU ALL!"
Everyone jumps up immediately and Lydia shouts:
"IS THERE A ENEMY?!"
"YOU'RE THE ENEMY DAMMIT!" Nathaniel shouts back.
"Nathaniel knocks everyone on the head cause each of them to have a bump. After waking up they all clean up and sit down at the table in front and next to Nathaniel.
"Since everyone is here, it makes it easier to explain. So, as I said about the training regiment we can just go over it again." He states.
"Okay let's do this!" Leah says.
"So, for the first 3 weeks, physical training. Doing runs in mountains, Physical exercise and training in martial arts taught by our ancestors. I will say though, it won't be perfect in fact far from it. Heck, we only have 3 weeks anyways to do this." He says while look at the paper below him.
"Why only three weeks to do physical training?" Leah asks.
"Weren't you listening before? The second most important section is spirituality. I will assume that not everybody will win in the death phase so we have to catch up by getting as many points as possible in the spirituality phase. Plus, the only way to call fire from heaven is by being right with I AM." He says.
"Ohhh. That makes sense Leah." Leah responds.
"I'm still confused, I don't know why we spend so much time on this though," Lebanon says.
"Well, it doesn't take 2 seconds to be able to connect with God, unfortunately. After all, all the prophets from ages past stayed in I AM's presence for 40 days and 40 nights. Of course, we don't have that long but we can still make do with what we have."
"I see…" Lebanon states.
"Okay, so 3 weeks physical training, 5 weeks Spirituality." Nathaniel states.
"Which one is going first?" Ryan asks curiously.
"Spirituality of course. I mean once we can call down a decent amount of fire from heaven we can also implement that into our physical training and use that as abilities to perfect our new skills. Am I right?" Europhrian asks.
"Yes, you are. So let's get started from tomorrow everyone can rest today." Nathaniel says.
"YAYYYYYY!" Everyone responds while going back to their sleeping positions.
"You little-" Nathaniel says but smiles faintly because he enjoys the company. They all sleep and morning comes.
2 MONTHS BEFORE THE TOURNAMENT OF CRUSADERS WILL BEGIN.