Vyrut let off the fiftieth arrow. It flew and landed on the red section of the target. He's getting the hang of it. It's a bit hard to maintain his posture all the time. He need to keep his posture before he let off the arrow. Different from fencing that involves your whole body.
A man wearing a royal blue jacket was standing under the roof path while looking at him. He's actually shooting right now. He said he didn't want it before. He walks to him and stop two meters away.
"What are you doing here?", said Vyrut as he turned toward him.
"Sir Noah told me to protect you", he said as he gives a bottle of water and a towel.
"Brother did? I can protect myself you know", he wipes away the sweat.
"I know that. But you can't do that if there is a lot of enemy, right? Besides it's part of my duty"
Vyrut just silently drink. He knows that he can't change his mind.
"Should I told him about 'that'?", he's talking about Adam. He was here since the first day so he knew about it. He took a liking on him as well. Adam is so different than the others.
"No need. I'll do it myself", he look toward the hall. It's been an hour since the training started. I wonder if he is doing well.
Ray and Adam switched places to the training hall. It's empty. They are the only one using the hall right now.
"We're gonna start the double reaction test. I'm gonna use a small fire ball. You just need to dodge or attack it", said Ray. He is holding a stopwatch to record how many he can dodge and attack at a certain time frame.
"One... Two... Three... Go!", ten small fire ball flew toward him. He used a small fire ball to avoid unnecessary injury since it's only a test. Adam dodge the first few and attack the others with a flat bat.
'His reaction is better that i guessed', he tap the iPad button. He hit six fire ball out of ten.
"I will use it for one minute this time", said Ray as he prepared a lot of fire ball.
"I'm ready!", he took position.
He hit a few and step back a bit while looking at the other fire ball. He only hit the necessary and dodge the rest. One minute felt so long while he kept hitting.
When the times up, he took a breather. His cloth got burned a bit. He wears the uniform that's given to each candidates. Or else his cloth will be ruin.
"Take five", said Ray.
Adam reached the water bottle. He just sit on the concrete floor. He look at the back door that leads to the archery training grounds. He wanted to train with Vyrut actually but that will be for next time.
They continued the training with a four session this time. Each session is divided into different time limit. One minit, five minutes, ten minutes and fifteen minutes. He wants to test how long Adam can endure a long fight. On the fourth session his movement slowed down. He panicked a bit after getting hit multiple times. Adam look at each fire ball. His backside uniform got burned a lot. Although it can be fix later.
After they're done, he sat down and unzips his uniform. He quickly took a drink.
"Let's take half an hour break", Ray sat beside him. He put the iPad away.
"Can you still continue?", his white t-shirt is covered in sweat.
"Sure. The test is fun. What's next?" he lied down on the cold floor.
"We're gonna do this morning test but I want you to get used with 500 degrees", he look at his watch. That's weird. It's five but no one's coming. The silence is unpleasant.
Suddenly their sight turn dark. Adam sat up. He look toward the front door. There's a silhouette of people running outside the hall.
"Don't move", he reach his wrist. Could it be...
He fired a baseball size fire ball to his right when he heard the sound of a sword being taken out of the sheath. He got up while still holding Adam and took a position. He can't let him got hurt.
Vyrut is suspicious of the silence. He put down the bow and they both rushed toward the hall. He pushed the door. From the dim sunlight he can see Adam and Ray has been surrounded.
The man in blue quickly went to them. He punched the nearest person that's covered in black. Before the other get to attack, Ray puts up a fire barrier around them. One of them uses water genshi to take down the barrier. Ray fired a dozen of arrow from inside.
Rays attack help the other man takes down the enemy. One of them realize Vyrut presence and run to him. He just casually used a water rope to tripped him, then use a long water needle and shot to his arm and leg to stop his movement. He just groans on the floor and stop moving.
Vyrut tied down the others with water rope. Ray is having difficulty maintaining the barrier and attacking in the same time, he also need to protect Adam. He is low in genshi at the moment. Six people are attacking them continuously.
The barrier is getting thinner as they keep attacking with water genshi. Ray gets ready before the moment the barrier is gone. He immediately launch a huge fire cyclone surrounding both of them. They backed off from the intense heat.
Adam covered his face with his arm. The heat was so intense he could feel his skin burning. He look at Rays worn out face.
They continued attacking when the cyclone is completely gone. One of them used ice arrow towards Adam but Ray pulled him towards him as he spin his body to act as a shield. Luckily it only grazed his upper arm. Blood was oozing from the wounds.
He fell on his knees as the pains creep up to his shoulder. The man and Vyrut runs infront of them as he faced his palm to the floor. Waves of water swallowed them and filled out the entire hall.
Vyrut runs quickly to Adam and Ray. Adam looks shocked. He look toward Ray and instantly realize the bloody sleeve.
"Ray!", he take out his white towel and tied his arm before he lose more blood.
After the water begins the recede, Vyrut and the man tied them up. The security went inside and bring them to the cell. Both of them were taken to the infarmary while Ray need to receive immediate treatment. The wound need to be stitch. Adam only got some minor burned.
"Don't worry. They're treating him right now. You should rest", Vyrut grasped his hand.
"Brother... Is it my fault?"
"No. Adam. The culprit is the real mastermind behind this. Don't think too much about it"
"But... he got hurt while protecting me"
"That's his decision. He already knows full well of the risk"
Adam sleeps soundly. He must be having a hard time right now. He's exhausted both physically and mentally. He never experience something like this. Vyrit caress his hand gently with his thumb.
"Their target is Ray right?", he managed to see their organization logo on their uniform.
"I'll go report to Sir Noah"
The girl wearing black hijab walks in. She looks around till she sees them and walk to them. She stands at the bedside. Vyrit looks up. The sky blue eyes reminded him of someone.
"Is he okay?"
"He only have some slight burn. My friend are having his wound stitch up"
"Who are you?", she must be from that Kerabat, judging by her eyes.
"I'm Ephriem Raphael Agnes. Just call me Raphael. We both graduate together"
"Ahh.. Right. Same class too right?", he smiles.
"Yes. You're Vyrut le Ciel from Kerabat Artorius right? How are you feeling?", both his friend got hurt. He must be worried.
"Thanks. I'm fine"
They both turned their heads when the door slide open. Two nurses push the bed besides Adams and hang the blood bag on the metal stand. After they left, he went right beside him. Can't believe this is his second time seeing him like this. This kind of event is nothing new to them since they are no ordinary people.
Raphael looks at his red hair. Lynx huh. This is not going to end well.