I awoke as I rocketed from my bed, the night sky and stars greeting my violently spinning vision, my body impacting into the ground, the concrete breaking as I ragdolled along.
sitting up annoyed I brushed myself off, spitting a piece of dirt from my mouth.
[HP:268/275]
the nearby dorm balconies were lined with students as I finally got a view of my attacker, a man dressed in all black tactical gear, bits of glowing metal armor plating on the front of the joints and on his chest, not stomach.
"cool outfit, mind telling me why you decided to Interrupt my sleep?"(syn)
I thoufht it was Amira or someone she worked for or with but one small turn of my head and i saw her frantically talking through a radio and running towards the dorms, was she confident in me, or worried that I'd lose bad enough to where others would be in danger?
the man never answered, dropping down from the buildings new hole, landing and running over.
he definitely means business, maybe I've pissed off too many people!
I limboed under his fist and used that to launch a knee at his exposed stomach, he flew airborne quietly, no sounds were made.
this dude takes hits like me, this might actually be fun!
channeling that white ish energy again I could feel my body tighten, it was opposite of what I thought would happen, my movements were a bit freer too.
he landed gracefully as we both charged each other, one close enough his fist soaring at me, I blocked it then countered with a blow to the stomach, before he flew off I grabbed his wrist with my left arm and yanked him back, him flying over my left shoulder and impacting the ground behind me pretty hard.
his neck crunched as he landed on it funny and his body rolled, he stood back up nearly seconds later.
fuck.
he came at me again and unlike all my other fights I was on the defense, my dodges while still looking refined were rushed and my blocks hurried, there wasn't any time to send out attacks.
our momentum was definitely building, the air seemingly exploding as we collided time and time again, our speed was increasing as we fought on, my stamina holding for now.
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school student pov...
our new combat teacher was holding his own, from what I'd seen of his attacker I wasn't sure since I'd never had a class with him yet, from what little martial training I've had this fight was built on the backs of monsters, the basics being used as if they were earth shattering techniques, I guess they're called the basics or the framework for a reason.
this fight was truly impressive, my room mate woke me up when he heard the teachers building explode, I was awake in time to see our strange teacher fly out, brushing off flying out of a building and tumbling violently along the ground like it was nothing.
"dude the combat teacher is supposed to be the strongest teacher here, what happens if he doesn't win?"(roommate)
I was too scared to start thinking about that, my eyes still glued to the fight between the unknown man and a teacher.
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this asshole!
he was too strong to be human, just what the hell is he?!
I had thought it was subject 6 but he was beside Amira and Raya as they began setting up a perimeter to protect the students.
my form was slipping as the white energy was dwindling, guess not learning to fight was gonna get me fucked over in the end.
I blocked one final attack and the energy disappeared in a puff, my body feeling weaker.
I was barely able to dodge his fist as he sent another attack.
how long has this been going on?!
[39 minutes]
that's not good.
[STA:245/275]
oh.
why the hell do I feel tired then?!
[skill energy depletion]
fuck!
his fist impacted as I felt a rib crack, I grit my teeth and kept myself grounded as I got him in a bear hug with one arm, not the most martial artsy of moved but it let me keep him in place as I pummeled at his armored and unarmed section of his torso, the armor denting and bending, cracking and groaning ad my fist soared faster and faster.
I released my arm and sent a punch, blasting the man back over a hundred feet virtually right next to the perimeter.
cursing myself out in my head I ran over and kicked the man back to our battle zone, his body bending a bit as he flew, his landing did not sound pretty.
it took him a minute but he finally stood, his limbs all crooked, but mending, his healing only second to mine, holy shit!
his helmet/mask type thing was now broken on one side and his face was revealed, he looked like a mix between Luan and myself...
heavy feelings of guilt and doubt were building ad I walked over to the battle zone, the man not moving at all, just staring me down.
my eyes watered as my legs wavered with every step, my brain saying one thing and my emotions screaming another, my reason and logic smashing into a wall of once dead hope, hope that my kids were alive, I'd buried it deep ages ago but it was aggressively dredged back to the surface.
his helmet repaired and he moved again, back on the attack as I was back on a shaky defense, several attacks easily slipping through as I felt myself slipping in my control, my inner beast happy for a chance to come out, pushing against my defenses, already near their breaking point.
but they would shatter, my aura exploding out as it whipped at the air and clawed at the man, my body taking over and my face going emotionless, my eyes glowed as I was forced to passenger seat in my own body.
my wings ripped through my shirt as my body flew airborne, several hundred (blood bomb)s (elder sanguine energy blast)s filling the immediate sky.
[BP:170/275]
every single attack flew like bullets at the man, almost impossible converging onto the one target perfectly, the sheer force of the explosion alone without the shockwave shattered the glass of all the nearby buildings, the shockwave rocking them, the buildings threatening to collapse as some partially did.
that was when subject 6 leaped into the fray, building up several energy attacks and sending them to me, my body swatting them away with discontent.
you morons don't corner an animal that's afraid!
right now my body was in control of my inner beast, my inner primal, an animal, one that reacts not well to being cornered.
a primal roar escaped my throat, one I was not aware I was even possible of, students and teachers alike backing away in fear as they were unaware of what was going on.
the man had ignored subject 6 as my body kept deflecting all his attacks, sitting somewhat high up in the air.
but one made it through, a hole opening on my wings before immediately closing, holy hell I can do that?!
this wasn't some limit break ability this was just my body not holding back, I have to be able to do that, right?
it would make flying alot safer for me.
GAH! OFF TOPIC!
the man bent down a bit before leaping, his body vanishing for a second before appearing in front of me, a downward angled punch sending my body rocketing to the ground, the impact sending vibrations through the ground, the remaining intact glass on the schools campus shaking.
my vision fading as I felt several bones shatter.