I awoke slowly, an odd weight on my chest, looking down I saw the dragon girl, great another nuisance I'd have to deal with for a while, Raya was already somewhat clingy, especially during that items effects but this could be so much worse of I play this wrong.
why the hell must emotions be so damn complicated?!
sighing and pushing the sleeping girl off me I just got dressed, the clothes Amira gave me were average and casual, no bright colors.
after putting them on I looked even more like a highschool kid, I rolled my eyes and put on my teachers thing directly onto the collar of my shirt, in plain view of everyone.
I figured I'd deal with any headaches as they arose and made my way to Amiras office, I hated to say it but I need some help.
knocking on the wood door after the short walk from my housing unit to her office a "come in." was uttered tired before I opened the door.
"I need help."(syn)
"I figured."(Amira)
"look just have em all spar and point out what they're doing wrong, maybe even give tips on how to survive or minimize damage."(Amira)
maybe this would be easier than I thought.
"don't fuck this up Syn."(Amira) told me as I was leaving her office.
once out of there I followed the map she gave me, a bit old school but easy for me, towards my room, something that felt odd even to think.
walking inside I saw weapons lining the walls as large painted circles were on the floor, an almost dojo like feeling in the air of the room.
the sensation filling me with an odd determination, my feet moving and me finding myself sat cross legged in one of the circles.
my eyes closed as I breathed deeply, some kind of odd energy in the air that entered and circulated through me, I followed the energy for a bit, letting it flow freely before it escaped through my next breath, an intense sensation growing.
[skill:evolving primal martial arts acquired- you're once animalistic nature is refined and directed into your attacks as they take on a beautiful form, meditation increases the efficiency and power of attacks]
absolutely stunned by the message I missed the group of kids walking inside.
finally noticing them after they called out, wondering why a kid was here, standing up and brushing off my clothes I told them I was their new teacher.
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Syns student.....
he did not look like a teacher, he looked like a popular kid from a highschool movie, there was no way he was a teacher but the air around him was definitely one of combat experience, I could see a refined primal energy swirling wound him with bits of dark red flares that were trying to break free, this dude was dangerous.
"alright I'm gonna be honest this is my first day ever doing something like this so...yeah...let's just start off with sparring, pick a partner and find a ring you're free to use any weapons."(syn)
the newbie might actually get us killed, weapons?! what is he thinking?!
"but isn't that dangerous?"(female classmate) asked the new teacher.
"oh incredibly, that's why I suggested it."(syn)
she looked bewildered at his answer.
"don't worry I'll step in if anything seems top dangerous for someone to handle."(syn)
and with that it seemed the debate was closed, the students walking over to the weapon wall and picking a weapon, he observed us carefully, studying how natural we looked with a weapon, maybe he does have some experience after all.
he walked over to a guy I knew, Ryan, he'd been training with the sword ever since he was a kid but the new teacher just shook his head and gave him a battle axe instead, telling him to give it a few swings.
the difference was incredible, he looked more natural than he'd ever looked before, his form was even adjusting on its own!
I'd never seen anything like this before, that shouldn't be possible.
after he had made the rounds and checked to see everyone had a weapon he told everyone to group up into twos and form a line in front of a ring, there were three In total and 36 kids here so that's 18 groups and 3 rings, would we have the time for this?
he nodded at the first groups, all of them entering their ring, how the?
we're not doing one fight at a time?
the matches didn't last long, our teacher would call a winner when someone would make a mistake that he claimed would get them killed, it was almost my turn when the bell rang, I was kinda getting excited for this.
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the day went on and on for me, eventually the dragon girl had shown and was helping, but I'd done the same thing every class, this should be the last one and I was wiped, I had almost no energy left, and that odd energy in the ring that's still wisping about is intriguing me to no end, I need to do what I did earlier!
and eventually I had the chance to, the last student leaving, the dragon girl just standing nearby staring, awesome.
doing what happened before and sitting cross legged I imagined that energy again, but instead of it coming from outside it was from in my body, the mostly white mixed with flecks of dark red, there were odd lines traveling all over my body that led to a central place, or places, nine central places that the energy was located in, unmoving.
using my full concentration I lost all track of time, the energys hypnotic movements in these lines through my body and the feeling it gave were enough to make me ignore my growing exhaustion as I pushed on moving the energy, a notification breaking my concentration.
[skill: evolving primal martial arts-stage one, you have entered the first stage, there are 5 remaining]
this was gonna be interesting.