Both were now wearing their battle gear Tom consisting of his dust armour while Mitch wore his usual attire simply fitted with gloves as they both stood face to face weapons drawn and awaiting the start of the match from the Professor.
"This'll be the first time I've fought someone with more experience in fighting than me I should enjoy this" Mitch said as Tom assumed his fighting stance but noticed Mitch wasn't assuming any as Professor Manji raised his hand then threw it down yelling "BEGIN".
"Judging by our last fight against that Grimm I recognise Mitch uses a full forced frontal attack but perhaps I'll sit on the defensive and analyse some more" Tom thought as he saw Mitch already charging towards him as a slash came down which he easily parried away. A second swing came down with greater force and speed as he knocked the blow away and lunged in with his own counter attack only for Mitch to roll to the side avoiding his strike.
"Impressive his reflexes and skills despite being nowhere near fluent are technically correct work rather well" "I suggest you stop over thinking everything and simply fight" Mitch's voice came from behind as Tom looked over his shoulder to see him swinging a punch. In one fluent motion he turned around grabbed Mitch's wrist and pulled him forward before landing a solid knee to his stomach expecting that to slow him down but instead Mitch simply grinned "Is that all you've got?".
A head then collided with Tom's nose as he let go staggering back while Mitch stumbled back "I'm amazed you can even fight that way so brutish and uncouth" Tom said rubbing his nose "Yeah thanks for the compliment" Mitch sarcastically responded before lunging in stabbing Ashura straight forward as the tip narrowly missed as Tom dodged to the right but countered by slamming the bottom of his katana's into Mitch's back knocking him flat onto the floor. Raising his leg high into the air an axe kick came down as Mitch rolled over and blocked the strike with his elbows before a leg came sweeping out tripping Tom up as he placed a hand down steadying himself to flip straight back up.
"Well enough warming up I suppose it's time to get serious" Mitch said standing up and cracking his neck before rotating his arms as fire began to crackle all around him "I suggest you come at me with everything you've got". "Alright he can create fire from his blade but at the same time manipulate it with his body to do various things I have to be wary of his explosion technique as well" Tom thought as his feet glowed a bright white colour and he launched himself forward at a break neck speed "I'll end this in one swift blow" he thought black mist forming around his blades as he slashed both down only for a wall of fire to roar up blocking his strike.
"Like I'd go down in one strike" Mitch grinned slashing Ashura through the flames as Tom parried the strike away his gauntlets now glowing a bright blue colour as they became all wet and slippery like they were coated in water. A flaming fist came charging forward as Tom blocked the strike with his forearm but somehow the flames subsided as he leapt forward his fist penetrating through the flames somehow landing a solid punch to the chin.
The flames disappeared around Mitch as he flew back crashing onto the ground while Tom realising there was no time to allow his opponent to recover surged forward from his boots following his attack up with a deadly kick sending Mitch flying into the air before he finished it up with an overhead slam from his fists.
Crashing back onto the solid floor Tom landed gracefully as he turned around expecting the fight to be over only to hear laughter coming from the ground as Mitch slowly rose up, despite being covered in bruises and a cut lip he still was grinning as fire was burning brightly in his eyes "Now this is exciting" he said clicking his fingers as a huge explosion sent Tom sprawling face first into the ground.
"Thought I was finished come now I've taken beatings worse than that before" "I'll keep that in mind next time" Tom said standing back up before he turned around fending away a vicious strike from Ashura that sent him stumbling back as Mitch leapt up his foot connecting with Tom's head before he went to follow up with a flaming fist but a yellow shield deflected the blow as he was sent flying back.
"The one problem with having a great offense is that one doesn't have a defence to back it up I have a balance of both" the barrier dropped around Tom as he pressed the button on his katana firing two explosives out onto the floor as they created a smoke cloud. Silently moving through it Tom snuck around the back as Mitch blew it away with a simple flick of his fingers the explosion blowing everything away as he was standing there facing nothing.
"What the?" looking around he couldn't spot Tom anywhere but then the sound of a high pitched whistling noise came from above as he looked up to see Tom standing on mid air with his boots glowing white as he was hurtling down at an increasing speed. "Alright let's see you break through this then" Mitch said grinning as flames surrounded him "Already taken that into account" Tom yelled his entire body slick with water as he passed harmlessly through the flames his foot crunching into Mitch's face.
"It's finished" Tom said as Mitch managed one last grin "Fine but I'll still not go down without a fight" as he was falling backwards Mitch managed to bring his foot up kicking Tom square in the face as he was violently thrown backwards slamming onto the ground while Mitch landed flat on the floor as well. "Ha that's the second time I've managed to lose" Mitch said as he looked over towards Tom who had picked himself up despite the bloodied nose he had sustained "I under estimated you" he said looking down at the burn marks and bruises he had sustained "I thought this would be a one sided fight since I was perfectly trained compared to your brash method of training but seems I was wrong there's much I have to learn on the different fighting styles and how they suit others".
"Alright the match is over and Tom wins by TKO" Manji said dinging a bell as the class erupted in cheers immediately rushing over to Tom and frantically talking to him about how awesome that fight was and all the different moves he was capable of using. "Ha seems he managed to make friends using brute force" Mitch laughed slowly standing up before he winced "You know I had you completely ridden off" Ania's voice came from behind as he turned to face her "Way to have faith in your team mate" he sarcastically responded as she grinned "Aren't you just full of surprises" "Well I can say the same for you we're both enigma's to everyone".
The bell rang to signal it was lunch as everyone filed out still frantically talking about the fight as Mitch walked off with Ania towards the cafeteria while Tom finally managing to escape the crowd looked around to find his friends had already left. "Guess I'll go to the cafeteria by myself then" he thought and walked out the door only to find a girl leaning against the wall waiting for him.
He hadn't noticed her in the other classes previously and was surprised she was waiting for him since she to hadn't introduced herself before now. In most males eyes she would be considered incredibly attractive but of course Tom being oblivious didn't really notice, she stood a few feet shorter than Tom was and had dark brown hair with some blonde highlights through the bottom and sky blue eyes.
The clothing she wore tight black fitting jeans with a white tank top and thigh high black boots showed off her voluptuous figure which rivalled the likes of Ania and Yang. He noticed she had a tattoo on her right wrist along with silver wrist jewellery while there was a silver necklace hanging down her neck stopping just above her cleavage and she had two gold earrings in her right ear.
"So that fight you had with that guy was pretty awesome" "Well I kind of figured I'd win experience and patience triumphs over brute force every time". "My aren't we awfully cocky of ourselves" "Not really just a mere simple observation" Tom said as he noticed this girl seemed different from Ania, Ruby and Weiss who were the only girls he had talked to so far.
She seemed to be smiling in a slightly different manner and there was a different tone to her voice, also her body stance was strange "Hmmm I wonder what she wants?" Tom thought to himself as the girl walked towards him "So want to head to the cafeteria and grab some food" "Sure why not I was heading that way and company is always good" "Great I'm Sky Tensai" "Tom Sai Leng" "Well it's a pleasure to meet you Tom Sai Leng" "The feeling is mutual Sky".
"Huh so seems Tommy boy has a girl flirting with him" Mitch said as he both Ania and himself had been standing only a few feet away watching the entire ordeal unfold as Ania shook her head "Although I don't think he had any idea she was flirting with him". "Probably doesn't know what flirting is or how to do it" Mitch laughed as Ania sighed "Perhaps I should educate him on the ways of women and how to deal with them" "I suggest you do or he'll wind up breaking many hearts".
Ania turned to glare at him "And what about you" "Huh me?" "I've seen some of the girls fawn over you what are you going to do about that" "I don't even notice or care…" Mitch grumbled as Ania whacked him over the head "Owww what was that for" "Don't go leading any of them on" "Yeah I'd never do that now can we eat I'm starving".