"Who is that?" said a few of the students as they stood in fear and desperation.
"I am the 13th commander of the wildfire empire, Sasaki.
I will not ask you to surrender, the sea will be your grave."
From his mouth a bright light, blinding everyone in the area. Like a dragon's breath a strong laser-like flame shoots from his mouth. With heat from that of hell and precision of a sniper he splits the battleship in two. The ship goes off in explosions, causing it to sink even more. Both friends and foe struggle to stay afloat, explosions going off everywhere and the heat scorches the skin of those on the deck.
"Were gonna die!" screamed a few in the back.
The students began to lose hope again, a power as great as this was too much to handle.
Sasha jumps onto Sasaki's ship to fight him. As Sasha dives to take him out, she is round house kicked by Sasaki unto the floor of the ship. The force of the kick was powerful enough to emit flames, the shockwave and power could bend metals. Unfortunately, Sasha was on the receiving end of the kick. She gets knocked out; bleeding from the side of her head and foaming in the mouth, it was impossible to tell if she was dead or alive.
"SASHA!" Kon yelled in rage as he jumps off his ship. His childhood friend, Sasha, had just been taking down. Blinded by rage he grips his blade incredibly tight, even his veins began to pop.
"Extend, black mamba!"
Suddenly, his sword grows 5 times its length. The black blade covered the sky as Kon's muscles grew ridiculously. This was a new technique of his and He was ready to take everyone out in one swing. (This sounds like something Asta from black Clover would do :). As he yells madly, he swings the giant blade onto Sasaki's ship and a loud thud followed. The ship sunk a few meters in the sea. The weight, size and power of the blade and that attack was incomprehensible. Some parts of the ship had shattered, and a few were bent.
The Schock wave spread across the area, even affecting neighboring ships and those onboard. Such a great attack Suprises those who did not know him, and a glimmer of hope is shown among the academy students.
"Did he get him?"
"What happened?"
"Wow, so strong"
"He would be a strong candidate for the revolution." The murmurs increased and so did the screams of victory; but something was wrong and the only one to notice was Kon himself. "I can't retract my sword" said Kon as he struggles. He plants his feet and pulls on the giant sword, but nothing happens. His sword suddenly became an immovable object. As he continued struggling to get his sword out of the ship, he had a spark of realization.
"Did you really think an attack as miniscule as that would be able to take me out."
"You are weak."
Holding the sword up with one hand was none other than commander Sasaki. He pushes the sword up in the air and begins to charge his dragons breath. Kon faced immediate danger. Kon let go of the sword but was unable to run away. He had realized that they were not strong enough to beat this opponent.
The laser beam twice as large as before destroys the ship. The explosion as big as that caused by a bomb, flames, and smoke stain the sky as the remnants of the battleship began to sink.
"Nooo!" yelled Sota who was still on the other enemy ship.
"My friends, you monster." Sota was in shock, the smile he once had disappeared completely.
Sota burst into tears, as the sea grew quiet.
"This must be part of the test, right? Where are they. Hey, what have you done"?
"Why?"
"Why did it happen again?"
"Annie, Kon, Israel, Sasha. where are you?"
"You bastard!" said a grieving Sota.
Their battleship was destroyed. Everything was going under. How did the night go from a peaceful travel to the death of his friends? Is this the world outside the island? Is this what they have been trained to fight? Were they just unlucky?
Sota is enraged. The sight of his friends and family blown to bits right in front of him was too much to bear. He stood up and stared Sasaki In the eye, peering into Sasaki's soul. Emitting an aura of killing intent, the only words he was capable of saying were, "I WILL KILL YOU."
"Za Za ha. Do you really think you can take me on"?
"Don't get ahead of yourself. your friends are dead, and we are in the middle of the sea."
"Just accept your fate."
Sota breaks a piece of iron from the ship and flings it toward Sasaki. Sasaki easily dodges the attack; as he looks back, Sota was nowhere to be find. With a surprise he checks his surroundings wondering where he must have gone. The smoke of the fire made the area unseeable; therefore, he was unable to see Sota's action clearly. Unexpectedly from the bottom of the ocean Sota gets unto the ship on which Sasaki was commanding.
"Let's fight, one on one" said Sasaki, dripping wet with a bunch of injuries.
He was unable to move properly; he was unable to breathe properly. The night was slowly coming and so was the rain. The thunderstorms roared louder and louder, the rain increased, and the tension rose. Sasaki saw the fire In Sota's eyes, it was the eyes of an avenger. Both men stared each other down, waiting for the other to make their first move.
"I like those eyes kid."
"you're not afraid?"
Sota was so enraged he could not hear was he said. At that moment all he wanted was to take him down. All he dreamed, wished, and breathed was to take him down. He took a deep breath and rushed Sasaki. He took the first move.
Sota went for a heavy right-handed punch and was countered by Sasaki with a punch to the gut. The punch had little to no effect on Sota. Sota went for a punch and a kick and was immediately countered but still suffered no physical damage. The fight went on for a while with both of them exchanging blows but, despite that Sota took no additional damage.
"Seems you're a moonlight, huh. I noticed a few others too."
"Seeing where you guys have lived your whole life, it's surprising your powers are as potent as this."
"You can't take blunt damage. Then how about this, I'm sure you're gonna feels this."
Sasaki's finger started glowing red and almost immediately Sota was shot through the chest by a beam of fire coming from Sasaki's finger. Sota fell on his knees. He started coughing up blood, felt lightheaded and felt immeasurable pain.
"Oh, that works. Za Za ha."
"I call this my pew pew gun. Za Za ha"
All his fingers lit up and were directed at Sota. Unable to dodge Sota still did not accept defeat. He still had those eyes, the eyes with no fear. Still determined to take him down, his hands in a fist while trying to stand up.
"Enough struggling"
"No matter how strong you are you have to know when to give up. Defeat comes a few times in your life you have to know when to accept it."
"It's over."
"SOTA! What do you think you doing!?" yelled a voice in the distance.
Behind the smoke was Annie and the rest of the students in two ships approaching the fight. Sailing the bigger ship is the captain wearing a weird hat waving at Sota.
"Why are you looking weak. You said you were going to take down the tyrants!" said Annie as she tries to motivate Sota.
"We are not dead, so don't you die on me now."
"Za Za ha. How are you alive."
"I am sure I blew you to bits." Sasaki was confused and angry. He could not phantom what he is seeing.
"I'll just have to kill you all again."
Beyond the horizon, slowing approaching them were tons of armed battle ships. They were surrounded and seemed like it the battle was starting all over again, at least only for Sota and Sasaki. Both Sasaki and Sota stared into the horizon each Expecting backup. To Sasaki's surprise the battleships carried the flag of the revolution, help had arrived. Standing on the deck of the obviously leading ship was a beautiful long-haired woman in jeans and a cool looking jacket. She had a sword on her waist and with a fierce look in her eyes she said,
"How dare you touch my children"