Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 16
A week later, Apollo woke up to Bandit (His new raccoon friend) radiating a positive and happy energy (about 2 times bigger because of proper nutrition). Why was he so happy? It wasn't only because he really liked his new friend but also the fact that he caught a bunny for Apollo. Apollo stared at the raccoon with a concerned smile and said ,"Thank you so much" and thought to himself (I don't know whether to be scared or honored that he keeps doing this for me) as he took the gift of gratitude. Bandit and Apollo ate breakfast and went hunting, Bandit caught two mice and Apollo caught two wolves. Proud of themselves, they stored the meat and went out to train, funny enough, Bandit joined in after seeing him do the actions for a couple of days. They both began with a run, transitioned to calisthenics and then weights. Although because of the shape of Bandit he wasn't able to do some of the things. ,"I'm so proud of you" Apollo said in a baby voice whilst scratching Bandit's head (Bandit purring whilst he was being scratched with a smile on his face). Apollo was able to teach Bandit how to use Art: recovery with I.T. (Art: Information translation). Because of that Bandit became very tired and fell asleep. Apollo then picked him up and put him on his back.
While Bandit was asleep, Apollo then did some meditation and surveyed his surroundings enlarging his senses to stretch over a 100 meter area using Art: Sense Enhance (Which was also very good in battle). (2 bears, 6 wolves, 19 squirrels and OHHH a snakebird. That's rare) he thought to himself. He got up from this meditation fully recovered, ready to start his next expenditure, to kill a snakebird. This horrific creature has the body of a snake, the wings of a bird and a beak with fangs. This creature was about 30 meters long and had a diameter in width of 1 meter meaning the mouth was huge.
Apollo strategically thought out his plan, knowing that from the energy he sensed from the snakebird he could lean on his strength a little bit. The muscular structure was about 4 times stronger than Apollo currently but he had 3x the ki reserves and much more intelligence. He was ready to fight the thing and so he went off, running while making the least noise he could. He saw the monster from about 10 meters away, crunched on one leaf and then was heard, but it didn't matter. The snakebird was slithering towards him at 3/4ths the speed of sound, the ground shifting under it's body. Apollo saw the monster and stayed still waiting for it to come close, then about 3 meters away from the snake he dodged out of the way, then he shifted his weight to punch the monster. "SCREEEEECH" the snakebird screams out and Apollo just then jumped into the air, ready for anything. Then the snakebird swiveled around, flew up into the air to attempt to eat Apollo. Apollo smiled and put a Ki blade on his sword, but this time he wanted to try something, instead of just sending out regular ki blade waves, he sent them out whilst imbuing his sword and the waves with water. High pressurized water could destroy and chop almost anything and this was the time to test his theory out. He screamed out "Art: Water Wave." and slashed directly down, sending out a high pressurized wave of water that slashed through the skin, muscle and bone of the monster like butter that moved at 2x the speed of sound.
The monster now sliced in two fell to the ground and splashed blue blood everywhere, including onto apollo. "EWW… actually, whatever, It's gonna happen and keep happening." But what he didn't know is that whilst he was doing this also saw out of the corner of his eye, Bandit who was cheering him on from the sideline. Apollo talked to him calmly ,"What're you doing here? I thought you were still resting" he rubbed Bandits's back as he explained ,"we're eating him for dinner.". Apollo washed himself off and cooked the giant snakebird, the snakebird had a huge amount of nutrients and energy that Apollo absorbed making Apollo stronger with each bite.
Bandit was ready to play, so they roughhoused for a little bit, Bandit rolled around and showed Apollo his belly. Apollo scratched it and Bandit crunched to cover the hand, Apollo lifted his hand which resulted in Bandit sprawling his limbs outwards. They played for about an hour before a sunset crept over the forest, they stopped and looked at it, sitting down to look at the beauty of nature at its finest. They sat together until the sunset was gone, admiring it the whole time and then they went home. Apollo made a bed for Bandit but he still wanted to sleep with Apollo so just for now he agreed to it, both of them smiling till they finally slept.
The days passed by and Apollo's training session in the wilderness had ended…