After a brief warm up practice of hand to hand combat and utilising their weapon against an opponent of a different weapon Manji called everyone into the centre of the class room for the usual brief sparring bout. "Now is there any volunteers for a match" "ME!" a sophisticated British accent yelled out from the back as Erika jumped up. "So who wants to challenge her" "I demand he does!" she roared pointing directly at Tom "What the hell is she doing challenging Tom to a fight!" Sky thought to herself gritting her teeth together "Was this upper class snob of a girl making a move on the man she loved!"
"Ermm well Tom has already had a fight before but if he really wants to I suppose he could go" "Sure I'm willing to go again it'll be good experience fighting someone of a different fighting style" he jumped up walking into the middle of the classroom as Erika turned to face him flicking her auburn hair back over shoulder. "Do you recall who I am" "Umm not really" Tom bluntly stated as Erika's face turned red "How dare you a commoner forget someone like me after you rudely bumped into me!" "Ohhh you're the girl who wasn't watching where she was going" "YOU BUMPED INTO ME!" she screeched before stopping and taking a deep breath to regain her composure. "It doesn't matter after this fight I'll have you on your knee's begging for my forgiveness like every guy I've fought before me" "You've never lost a fight?" "Of course not every man that has stood before me has failed and you won't be an exception".
"Alright now begin!" Tom unsheathed both his katana's as he readied himself in a defensive stance waiting for Erika to attack first so he could gauge what her abilities and weapon was. Pulling out a bladed fan Erika flapped it open and waved it in front of her face laughing "What to afraid to attack me well I can understand that as everyone of my opponents failed to land a single scratch on me" "Does she have some sort of super speed or reflexes perhaps" Tom thought to himself guessing that if she wielded a bladed fan super speed would match hand in hand with the weapon.
Just as he was about to test that theory a blue barrier enveloped and surrounded her entire body as she floated up into the air laughing the entire way up "Let's see you try and break through my ultimate defence barrier not even the strongest male could create a single dent in it". "Woah that's Erika's ultimate defence I've never seen anyone break through it, man Tom is done for" one of the men sitting next to Mitch whispered to another "Huh is it really that ultimate in defence" Mitch thought staring up at it, sure it looked solid but looks were deceiving and he felt Tom knew exactly what he was thinking as well.
Tom stood still for a few moments staring at Erika as she smiled and laughed "In awe of my ability? I don't blame you for being astounded since as I said none have broken through this ultimate defence of mine." "Actually I see several flaws in your defence that I could easily exploit" he bluntly stated unsheathing his blade and running forward as Erika chuckled "He's bluffing like he can break through my shield…."
Her answer was soon met as his blade clashed against the blue bubble shattering it entirely as she was thrown violently against the wall while Manji raised his hand "The winner is Tom!" "Wait what I lost?" Erika screamed out jumping up as she readied her bladed fan "It must have been a mistake I haven't lost a single match out of the 20 since I began" "Well I'd count that as one" Manji said as Tom turned away "You're ultimate defence isn't as great as you seem to think" he called back to Erika as she stood there confused that a guy for once in their life wasn't effected by her charms.
Usually men would let her win saying she was superior so she was used to thinking her ability was the best and that none could best it and yet here was this student, this annoying lowly little man saying her ultimate technique had flaws in it "WHAT THE HELL!" he brain screamed at her as she vowed that one day she would face this Tom character again and defeat him, but until that day she'd stick close to him and learn everything about him and where these so called weaknesses were in her defence.
"Nice I figured you'd see that her so called superior defensive shield wasn't as strong as she thought" Mitch said to Tom who sat next to him "What so you saw the flaws as well" "What just because I act stupid doesn't mean I don't notice certain situations in battle" "To be fair I think a vast majority of us that aren't wooed by her upper class society charms can see that she isn't as strong as she thinks" Alan mentioned as Tom stared confused at him "How does her using these so called charms cause men not to notice how weak she is?" Mitch sighed "Look that's another lesson for another day from Ania now turn back around and watch who will be fighting next".
"Alright since I did a volunteer round for the last fight I'll pick two names randomly from the roll to fight" closing his eyes Manji waved his pen about before stabbing it down on the sheet twice. "So we have Alan taking on Dano" "Oh for the love of god…." Mitch was the first to speak out as Alan leapt up glaring at Dano across the room who had a huge smirk on his face "Come on then Mr Black Dragon let's continue this little feud that our families have been fighting on for hundreds of years" "Just remember that it's a practice sparring match and not an actual one so don't try to kill him" Ania yelled out as she realized her words had fallen on deaf ears as the anger and rage spread across Alan's face had appeared and he leapt into the middle of the ring pulling his bladed tonfa's Doragon Strike out while Dano already had his glaive at the ready.
Manji who seemed to be unaware of the tension between the two or just ignored because he could easily step in if the fight became to violent raised up his hand "FIGHT".