Once everyone was in their pairs the professor moved each group to their own circle. "Right then, can everyone please turn and face me." All the students turned around from talking with and sizing up their opposition. "Today I want you to show me your basic fighting capability. If you have any experience in marital arts or any type of fighting style could you please raise your hand." Jacob and a few other students raised their hands and scared their partners.
Sasori started to feel a headache coming on like the one he had during the assembly. He rubbed his temples while closing his eyes as the light from the Sun had become incredible bright. He started to hear a faint voice as if it was very far away from him, but it seemed to be so close. "ma…er...mast...er…Master. Can you hear me." The voice said to him. He jumped back frightened scaring his opponent and the students around him.
Jacob saw him distressed so he quickly ran to his side as Professor O'Brien noticed the culprit behind the commotion. Sasori had sweat running down his face from his head and his back was soaked in sweet. "Are you okay young man." The professor said as Jacob made Sasori sit down. Sasori was as white as a sheet and sweating profusely. The professor picked Sasori up and moved him off the platform to the nearest tree.
He lay him against the tree and placed his hand on Sasori's forehead. He pulled his hand away as Sasori's head seemed to be on fire. He opened a pouch at the back of his pants and pulled a bottle of water out. He manipulated it with a Tier 1 spell 'Even Spread'. The water flowed out of the bottle and covered Sasori from head to toe in a thin veil of water that soaked into the skin. As soon as he sweated the moisture was collected and the liquid was added to the veil to continue to cool him down.
What would have taken a non-mage a few minutes to complete was done in seconds by the Professor. He brought Sasori's temperature down to what was normal for humans and then called Jacob over. "Please keep watch of him and give him some of this when he is conscious again." He handed Jacob a bottle of water. "Don't tell or let anyone see that I gave you water otherwise I may be killed by the rest of the students."
Jacob nodded and lent against the tree next to Sasori. Professor O'Brien ran back over to the platform with the clueless and worried students waiting for him. "Do not worry everyone he is okay. It seems the heat got to him pretty badly. We will continue with class and those two will sit out which means their two partners." Two boys raised their hands. "Yes you two. You will be together for this lesson until those two young men rejoin us. Everyone in to position please."
Everyone returned to their own circles and waited for the professor's next instruction. "Right then, where was I? Ah yes I was about to tell you what you will be doing. Today I want you to show me how you fight so that I can make the appropriate schedule for each of you to follow to improve your physique and hand-to-hand combat skills. Each group will have 5 minutes to fight unless your opponent gives up or you get too tired to continue."
"For those of you who do have experience as I was saying before must not go all out against your opponent unless they also have experience because I don't want anyone getting injured and not being able to continue because of pain. I will change pairings after this first round so that those with little to no experience compete with each other so that you can grow together and improve together."
"For those with experience I don't want to hold your potential back so you will compete with each other, even if it is boy vs girl, I don't really care as long as both competitors are able to learn from their loses and wins. Right then you can begin, I will stop you if you are in danger of an injury or if you are outmatched by your opponent."
Those with experience were easy to identify as they sprung forward the moment he said go. 'That girl over there is good' Professor O'Brien was thinking about a young girl with dark black hair that was very curly. She had it tied up behind her head in a bun with a band. She had a darker complexion compared to the rest of the students present. Her name was Nobuhle, it had a significant meaning behind and the reason her parents gave her the name. It meant beauty as she was their beautiful little girl who still resembled the meaning behind the name.
She had been trained by her father and his friends as they were all ex-military professionals that were sent on top secret missions by governments to take out terrorists. They were the best of the best and were infamous for it. They were an unknown group that to their country didn't exist and weren't given medals and prizes as normal military individuals. They had been disbanded after the threat of monsters had reached an all time high and governments decided to put aside their differences and work together to save their fellow countrymen.
None of the individuals in Nobuhle's dad's unit had any significant magical power so they were side lined and now lived calm lives in the tropical islands. Nobuhle's dad had taught most of what he knew as she was interested in how her dad fought. Her mother wasn't very pleased with her decision but let it be once she saw how happy her daughter was. Nobuhle had trained hard since the age of 10 to keep up with her dad's expectations and soon surpass him.
Professor O'Brien jumped in and stopped Nobuhle's hand before it hit her opponent square in the jaw. She jumped back into a fighting stance before realising who had stopped her. She was a bit annoyed at the fact that he had stopped her so easily but decided to ignore that and calm down. Professor O'Brien helped the other student up while looking at Nobuhle. "Well done young lady, may I ask your name." The professor hadn't seen someone fight like that at such an age in a couple of years, back when he was in the academy, and was intrigued as to why such a young lady was so good already.
Nobuhle walked up to the professor and stood up straight like a soldier, "My name is Nobuhle sir, and I am 13 years old before you ask." Now that Nobuhle was up close the professor could see all the defined muscle along her arms and shoulders. He also noticed her pretty face after he looked away from her shoulders. "Could you please not look at my body anymore, you are definitely more then twice my age, sir."
The professor stepped back in embarrassment. "Oh, I am sorry. I just noticed how defined your muscles were and was wondering how such a pretty young lady had gained such a perfect physique at such a young age?" Some of the other students that weren't focusing properly on their fights looked over to see the stunning young woman. Some got so distracted they lost their bouts.