Daemon and jolly arrived at their first class of the day, entering and taking their seats.
Each class held up to thirty two students and there were only six classrooms and two floors.
Each student only had three classes to attend. the first floor held three classrooms and the second floor held three classrooms.
Ages sixteen through seventeen were on the first floor while ages fourteen and fifteen were stationed on the second floor.
Most students were present and chatting with friends and their respective groups waiting for the teacher to arrive.
Daemon and jolly seats were opposite to each other on different sides of the classroom so they really couldn't chat together much, not without people hearing their conversation anyway.
Chatter goes on for at least ten minutes before laughter erupts in the back of the classroom.
Feeling a sudden hot sensation on one of his feet and seeing a thin layer of smoke slowly rising beneath him.
Daemon looks down while hopping up and jumping around screaming. "Ahh shit,shit,shit." trying to kick off his boot while flaying around like a chicken on fire.
"oh, you ass hole" he screams finally kicking the boot off.
Without hesitation he grabs his chair and hurls it with ki enforced strength. The chair flew straight at the culprit at great speed.
During this time everyone in the back of the room was cracking up and joking.
" watch out Taylen one of the students yelled".
"too slow you homeless tree oaf" he confidently says while smirking. he quickly tried to move but, boom!
grrarrrr! Taylen screams in discomfort.
some of the class gasped, while others quietly made comments to themselves, or whoever was next to them.
chatter chatter!
"holy crap,oh fuck,Damon's dead for sure now"
"serves him right" some people spoke about taylen.
Taylen fell back on the floor grunting in pain.
"he was too careless thinking he could simply dodge and when that failed, it did not register to him to just use his power to deflect the large projectile. too confident" Damon thinks to himself analyzing Taylen's situation.
Damon naturally had a knack for analyzing situations.
Looking around while on the floor Taylen was sure he could see the chair and calculated its speed clearly, but yet he couldn't move.
looking at his feet he noticed very thin vines wrapped around his ankles that resemble a simple greenish desert brown string. He turned to look at Jolly with his mouth twisted up in anger.
"you ok there buddy". Jolly says with a smile.
"infera taylen says while pointing his finger like a gun at the vines shooting out a marble size fire ball burning them to ashes and jumping to his feet.
"you orphan brat. how dare you, I'm taylen goldsheer". he says.
taylen was the youngest son of the city head. He's five foot ten inches and seventeen years of age with light brown skin and Sandy dark brown curly hair. His muscles on his entire body were lean and chiseled with a pretty boy face.
Taylen's light green eyes flash with anger, while Jolly stood up with a puzzled face.
"of course I know who you are, who doesn't know the girly looking spoiled brat that's been bullying his way through the academy for the last year."
"All because his father was elected the city head four years ago." Jolly retorted sarcastically.
"chatter chatter"
the chuckling from a few students pissed taylen off even more.
"who you calling a girl you weird looking freak." said Taylen.
the surrounding chairs started to shake, red fiery Aura flash beneath Taylen's feet, yellowish orange Sparks appeared out of his aura as it rose from the floor surrounding his body.
some of the class backed away while most of the class headed for the exit.
Damon stood there gritting his teeth and clutching his fist debating if his ki will actually be enough or not to beat taylen.
"Damn it, I've been fooling myself everyday thinking I can compete with bastards like him."
" every time I see an awakened power it reminds me of how weak I am despite my size and ki."
The fact that they also could have powerful soul beasts, also rippled into Damon's mind.
"Fuck even if I did well enough to hurt him, he can just summon his soul beast and I will be at a greater disadvantage."
Something Damon's father mentioned to him resurfaced in his mind once more.
"that's right my son, feel the ki throughout your body, push small pieces around back and forth and over time, make those pieces bigger."
"ki is both internal and external my boy, but first we must focus and master within and then the out." He pictured his father telling him.
"external"
"what did he mean, external " Damon thought. was it something to do with my father being an awakened soul and ki user." he asked himself.
"Damn, I don't know. ki hasn't been around long at all, my father was the first that I know of to learn of it."
"I don't even know how he came across this type of power. this shitless power is not even known by other kingdoms that I know of."
"even if it is, it's too inferior compared to an awakened power." He thought.
Damon continued to curse himself about his lack of knowledge about the power of ki.
"in and out, in and out, external, external. " Damon whispers to himself.
following a gut feeling he gripped one of his daggers at his side, and focuses on emitting his ki through the dagger.
Suddenly he felt a dull pain throughout his body. a black orb appeared in his subconsciousness, the same giant snow globe size Stone that he would see in his subconscious space appeared in a different area of his subconsciousness.
Damon didn't understand completely what was going on, but at that moment it didn't matter.
He subconsciously reached for it, in reality his body wasn't moving, but through his mind he felt his arm,his hand, and his fingers reaching to touch the giant snow globe fixture.
The closer his hand got to the boulder the smaller the boulder appeared to be, it was gradually condensing itself as Damon reached out for it, until it was the size of an orange.
Damon could fully grab the orb and so he subconsciously did. He inspected the orb, and this time for the first time something had changed.
inside the clear glass looking orb of dark clouds, a powerful and strange sensation engulfed him.
He could feel the connection between him and the orb grow. heavy rain came pouring out of the dark clouds while lightning flashed wildly.
A dark cloudy substance began to wrapping around the dagger producing very small bolts of electricity striking around it. all of this was happening in seconds.
Taylen's lackey's and the few people that didn't run to the exit were solely watching jolly and Taylen.
Jolly had taken a defensive stand against Taylen. he too was surrounding himself with his mana, a mix of yellowish gold and fluorescent green was moving calmly around his body with small grains of sand that sparkled resembling light reacting with a crystal.
All but six students had bolted out the room not risking getting hurt or killed by a stray attack. Three of the students were taylens friends.
They calmly stood behind him with smug faces acting unbothered by the situation. Jolly and Taylen didn't take their eyes off each other for a second.
Raising his hand taylen created three flaming small swords. one hovering his left and right side and one above his head.
The swords were small short swords. the flames instantly heated up the entire room itself as they flickered an orangish red.
The nearby desks were being charred slowly by the pulsating pressure of the flaming swords. Taylen's friends had to back up a few feet. The heat from the swords was too much for them to bare, standing directly behind him.
"now die you orphan idiot" Taylen says with veins popping throughout his face.
Jolly creates a seven foot tall and seven foot wide wall made of twisted roots, vines and sand to defend off the attack.
The vines,roots and sand crafted together perfectly. the wall glowed desert yellow for a few seconds and then hardened in the areas of the wall with sand.
Jolly knew his wall wasn't going to be enough to completely stop the attack because it was fire, but h knew with him incorporating the sand within the vines and roots it would be enough to slow it down at least.
"No"
In an unusual deep aggressive voice Damon chimes in while opening his eyes.
his eyes sparked a small electrical current that crackled every few seconds.
"you die"
swish,swoosh!
Damon threw the dagger as hard as he could. It sliced through the air dragging a faint whistling sound behind it.
The dagger electric coated aura travel to the hilt of the small blade propelling it and increasing the speed.
It happened so fast no one seen what was thrown, all they were able to see was a blur of Damon's hand making a fast throwing motion.
Boom!
The entire room shook like a small explosion went off, chairs flew and multiple directions, the windows shook but did not break.
A dark cloudy fog covered half the room on impact. no one moved an inch or made a sound, the air was so still it was like all the oxygen had been sucked out of the room and not a soul was breathing.
The three students across the room standing far behind Damon were awestruck their jaws were dropped to the floor trapped in confusion and disbelief.
Damon dropped to his knees breathing heavily as the Dark cloud began to thin out. Now looking like a thin layer of black smoke which started to disperse. When their view became clear Damon gasped with wide eyes.
"Miss Gray" Damon shouts
Miss eliss grey, their weapon arts teacher was standing on Taylen's right side with her hand straight out shielding them both with a transparent light dome.
Miss gray was a head turning beauty with dark black straight long hair and nicely curved body. Her perfect size breast were hypnotizing to most men.
Everything she wore would show some part of her cleavage, mostly the top of her chest. her light brown skin looked soft and smooth and her face was just as seductive as her breasts.
Full luscious lips that could for sure trap a man's heart one would imagine. Her eyes were sky blue, she wore a black and sky blue leather top that exposed the top of her breast with all black leather tights that enhanced the shape of her hips making her curves pop out even more, along with black low cut boots.
She carried a long and short sword, they both were very light and well made with a gold and white trim on the hilts. they both were one sided blades with a slight curve at the end.
Everyone's eyes were glued to the dome, not because of the dome itself, but because there was a dagger trying to pierce the dome spiraling in circles like a drill with and electric current at the hilt.
The crackling of the electricity could be heard throughout the room as it drilled in place.
Miss grey looked very calm, but her heart was beating like a drum. Taylen stared at the dagger in disbelief.
His jaws clenched together so tight as if they were wired shut, while his eyes were wide open like a deer caught in headlights.
His face and hands became sweaty. He didn't understand what was happening. His legs started to buckle slightly as he realized the dagger direction was pointing right at his lower jaw and upper neck area.
He pushed himself to snap out of the fearful mindset he was in .
" what the hell just happened" he subconsciously thought.
" That tree oaf has no power. he,he,he can't"
he says while stuttering a bit.
" he's not even an awakened soul, this aura,that dagger. I didn't even sense it. impossible! it has to be some clever trick. that's why he used some kind of smokescreen cover. "
These were the only thoughts surrounding Taylen's mind. Miss Gray's heartbeat started to settle down as she sensed Damon's ki releasing the dagger.
The dagger eventually stopped spinning while dispersing the ki and fell to the floor.
Ting! Ting ! thud!
Raising her other hand, two smaller domes cages encased Damon and Taylen. she then canceled her dome shield.
"Everyone out" she said fiercely with her eyes glaring like a crouch tiger about to pounce on his prey.
Most of the students scurried out like dogs with their tails tucked in.
"but miss grey" jolly says while at the doorway.
Miss gray turned around slowly with a pressurized piercing stare that sent shivers down his spine.
He instantly got hot and little spots of sweat formed on his chest legs and feet.
"uh uh nevermind" he said while backing out the door in a hurry.
The pressure coming off of her was a little scary as she waved her hands moving the two dome cages right in front of her side by side.
Adding any more intent to her aura would turn into bloodlust so she calmed herself down, closed the door.
Both Damon and Taylen had their heads down with sweaty palms.
"now what is the meaning of this" she asked while giving them a stern look.
Taylen wasted no time. "this big tree oaf, I mean Damon threw a chair at me because a girl he likes was all over me."
"what that's completely bull, he's lying Miss Grey. this clown set my boots on fire just take a look "Damon says while trying to find where his boot blew away to.
Miss grey didn't even try to look for the boot, she dropped Damon's cage dome and with one swift motion had him jacked up pinned against the wall clutching his throat.
Taylen slightly grinned while Miss Gray dropped the dome cage over him and politely asked him to leave.
"speak of this to no one, also find the other students and tell them to keep their mouths closed about this entire situation or I will give them all bad reports to the ASR (awakend soul recruiters) arriving tomorrow.
"yes Miss Gray"
Damon said nothing, he was too busy trying to focus on breathing.
" now go" Miss gray said sternly, I'll be putting this trash in his place myself.
Taylen turned around walking out while closing the door with a heavy weighted grin. Miss gray Tightened her grip for a second then let go.
kwak! kwak coughing !
Damon fell to the floor grabbing his throat spitting up trying to breathe.
" what the hell is wrong with you people" he yelled while grabbing his other dagger stumbling up to his feet.
"Damon wait it's not what you think, I'm sorry I did that to you, I had to put on a little show before I spoke with you about something rather important."
"as you know, Taylen along with his father and their family holds great power, I was just fooling that spoiled brat, it's okay, let's talk" miss grey says in a soft, but convincing tone.
"Damon, Damon look at me "
Currently Damon was still as a statute, his head was hanging down loosely as if it was broken looking at the room floor.
" you,them,you....all of you people" Damon whispers to himself.
gasps!
"oh my, Damon " miss grey said taking a step back being caught off guard.
Damon's eyes looked completely void of life as he looked up at miss grey. they were completely cold, sunken in a bit and pale looking. his bright sun orange eyes were no more.
His aura spiked suddenly, electric currents wrapped around the second dagger, only this time it was a more fierce amount of ki.
" from now on I'll kill anyone that gets in my way" he said softly looking at miss grey.
His ki pulsated beneath his feet giving off a pausing hovering sound.
wooa,wooa,woooa.
Damon's feet lifted off the ground levitating around 8 inches off the floor and his eyes began to crackle with static.
Miss gray was astonished, but it seemed like she wasn't worried. To be on the safe side she casted a dome shield over herself four times stronger than the domes she used to trap Damon and Taylen minutes ago.
The electrical current began to spark and crackle all over his body. black fog seeped out beneath his feet covering the floor. it didn't rise in the air,but remained low spreading throughout the room.