[Previously]
"Copy me." Chiron ordered. Icarus obeyed.
They flowed through a hundred of styles and kept slashing and piercing till his arms feel heavy and dead at the same time.
At the end of the day, Icarus was barely able to walk. It isn't a suprise as he's still a child and among other reasons.
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ChPter 27
Classic Greek, it seems my beauty is going to be a problem
Two years later
A clang of two steel metals meeting echoed in the area as a silhouette of a person with shining green eyes flashed around, his green glowing eyes leaving a trail of green smoke like energy behind. Another silhouette of a person with brown hair and purple glowing eyes flicker to meet the other silhouette in a fury dance of swords.
The person with brown hair and purple glowing eyes kicked the other person in the stomach. The person with green glowing eyes was pushed back as he rolled and glided to stop. As he stopped, his appearance was finally revealed, he's a teenage boy with brown hair and has a pair of two green glowing eyes holding a xiphos blade in his right hand. His constitution is on the smaller side of his age as despite the training he had gone through he didn't even gain a single muscle on his body. His frail and delicated appearance can fool a person as despite his seemly weak constitution, he can pack quite a punch for his small size.
The boy —Icarus— heavily panted and sighed, he stood up and sheathed his blade with a sheath strapped around his waist. "You went easy on me, Chiron." He regarded the centaur with a non threatening glare as he took out a bottle skin and took a gulp.
The man called Chiron slightly panted and wiped off the sweat building on his brows and regarded the young youth before him. "I don't want you to get exhausted. There's something we still have to do."
The teenager grimaced."Learning hand-to-hand combat."
"Correct. You're extremely excellent with the blade now, we have to move to other things. We still have one more year before you begin your quest."
The youngin blew a sigh, his green glowing eyes had stopped glowing and returned to their original glacial blue color and the green magic outline around his body faded. He looked at his soft, delicated hands full of calluses and he clenched it hard causing his hand to shake. He knows full well that Chiron won't teach him the martial arts he was taught by Apollo— Pankration
"I won't get to learn your fighting style—Pankration— do I?" He said bitterly. Chiron's martial arts is a mixed martial arts, it's a part boxing and part wrestling.
It is called the 'perfect hand-to-hand combat techniques' it consists of strikes and throwing techniques, grapples and hooks. Because of this he knew that his weak constitution won't allow him to learn it. His physical strength isn't weak by no means but it isn't great either, his body is fragile, brittle, delicate and all manners used to describe a glass. Sturdy but can break at any moment.
It doesn't really help that he's slim and petite, he isn't short or anything but he's small. Like how American healthy diet instagram Idols are, his waist is slim like that of a women. He can't help but feel like he was originally made to be a woman then the gods changed their minds and gave him male genitals. Even his voice is feminine!... Well at least he think so, his voice is airy, light, smooth and silky soft. Lacking any baritone, hard or tense undertone. He's a teenager at that age were his voice should be cracking and his body should be full of hormones as he's going through the adolescent stage but... The Gods are cruel.
Nevertheless he's going to soldier on.
His thoughts were turning onto the dark path but Chiron broke him out of his reverie.
"You will be correct." Chiron confirmed his worst nightmares. "We've tried all we can do to put muscles on you.. but we know where that has landed us. Pankration is a martial art meant for hard, fast blows. This is only achieved when your strength is at least acceptable." Chiron certainly tried to explain without hurting the child, it's a weird situation he found himself in. A person who had dipped in the River of Styx is seemly fragile like a flower, one wrong step and could crush it without noticing.
"So...what should I learn?"
"For now.. let's build a new martial art entirely, one that doesn't require heavy strength to use."
"O-oh, okay."
"Yes." Chiron responded, he lowered his center of balance and clenched his hands into fists. "Now, come at me. I shall evaluate your current fighting style and your strength."
" Right!" He placed his right leg forward and slided his left backwards to support his body, he brought forth his hands in a open palms towards his teacher, with that the familar green outline appeared once again around his body —A/N: you know the typical Hyuuga style in Naruto— known as Gentle Step or Baguazhang is the martial art he learned while traveling to China.
"Good foundation, perfect for defending and attacking at any moment. Now, let's see if you can hold it like that." With that teacher's brown eyes glowed purple and launched himself at him with a breakneck speed.
His eyes also followed suit and glowed green, he braced himself for his teacher's fist that has the strength of a mountain behind it.
With his still open palm, he deflected the fist to his left side and surged forward. Their forms flickering and leaving their respective magic color behind —purple and green—
If people were to see this, they would've seen green and purple trailing lights that clashed with a force that left shockwaves that destroyed trees and left craters in their awake.
Green and purple met in the middle of the area—
And the world was bathed in grey
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A/N: ey wassup? Anyway I got the feeling that I should've just skipped the entire 6 yrs that was Icarus training montage... but I wanted to give you an insight into his training. A little insight but an insight nonetheless. anyway, about Icarus beauty and seemly fragile body, well all I gotta say is... it's going to play a huge part in the story, it's going to start the next chapter, so you're going to know if it's useful or not.
The next chapter is the next volume. Everything gonna go brrr