[From Connor's Perspective]
As Connor walks through the door, the door slams shut behind him. Before him was an empty room which has a single lightbulb in it. He turns on the light then suddenly a man dressed in formal clothing appears out of nowhere. This mysterious man stood there in silence glaring at Connor in the dully lit room.
"I assume you are one of the intruders, what's your name?" said the man.
"Do you think I will tell you my name, tell me your name rather and I might go easy on you," said Connor.
"How ignorant...Why should I say my name to someone who would be dead in a few minutes," said the man.
Suddenly, some sort of white mist began to fill the room. Connor was confused with what was happening then surprisingly the mysterious man vanished. Connor began to look around, searching for the man and in his mind, he was expecting an unusual attack. In a flash, the mysterious man stood behind Connor and whispered into his ears,
"You are clueless." He kicks Connor in the back which causes him to fly across the room hitting the wall in pain.
"I thought this would be fun or even exciting....Jeffrey, is my name by the way," said Jeffrey.
In the corner of the room there seemed to be a security camera recording their fight and behind the monitors was Pyro.
"It seems Jeffrey is enjoying himself. Let's check on the others," Pyro whispered to himself.
[From Ethan's Perspective]
As Ethan walks through the door, the door also slams shut behind him. Before him, was a training ground that seemed to be used a lot with cracks in the wall from sword strikes. In the same room, suddenly a man appears out of the blue, this man was tall, had a muscular body, and had a sword around his hip.
"From the looks of it, you are a swordsman," said Ethan.
"Hmmm...it seems your zen force is surprisingly high for someone your age…I think this will be interesting…..by the way, before we fight do you mind telling me your ability?" asked the swordsman.
"I'm not that stupid…..why should I reveal my ability and take away my only advantage," said Ethan.
The swordsman walked slowly towards Ethan and within a flash, he closed the gap between them. He stood in front of Ethan and stared into his eyes. The swordsman placed his hand on Ethan's shoulder then suddenly, they heard a slashing sound.
"Wait!! What!!....my shoulder, it has been cut….but when?…..he did not even unsheathe his sword," Ethan whispered to himself.
Ethan grabs a piece of cloth from the floor to rap up the wound to stop the bleeding. Now, the swordsman was not standing in front of him anymore but he stood at the original spot he appeared at.
"If you do not use your ability soon….you won't live long enough to understand my ability," said the swordsman.
[Back To Connor's Situation]
Connor gets up from the knockdown and stands up. "Wow…that had a lot of strength behind it," said Connor. He runs towards Jeffrey then jumps in the air and shouts out, "Ice Sphere" and a huge ball of ice forms from his palm and heads towards Jeffrey. Without even flinching, Jeffrey easily stopped the attack by simply striking the sphere with a single punch that broke the sphere apart.
"Is that all you have to offer?" asked Jeffrey. In a rage, Connor charges towards him and forms his usual ice gloves around his fists but then within that short time, it turned into a fistfight. Both of them were punching each other blow for blow with Connor landing sub-par hits and Jeffrey landing solid hits.
Suddenly, Connor's ice gloves broke apart then Jeffrey delivers a body blow which leaves Connor speechless and in pain.
"I guess there is nothing unique about you...you only possess brute strength and to defeat me you will need more than brute strength," said Jeffrey in a condescending way.
Still, in pain Connor gets up slowly and then Jeffrey says,
"It is too bad you have to die now....I wanted to see what tricks you have up your sleeve... but when my colleagues kill your friends, then they will join you up there," said Jeffrey.
Suddenly, the white mist that filled the room earlier appeared again and at that moment Jeffrey raises his hand then gathers a little bit of the white mist around his fist. Suddenly, he throws a punch into the white mist and half of his hand disappears.
"Wait what's happening?...where is his hand?" Connor asked himself. Suddenly, Jeffrey's missing hand bursts through Connor's chest and blood splattered everywhere.
"Wait!! What the hell!!!..... I'm going to die here?... To someone weaker than me....Ken and Ethan, I am sorry," Connor whispered to himself and then his body falls to the ground with blood spilling from his huge wound.
[Back To Ethan's Situation]
"Ok ….how can I effectively use my ability against him….… there aren't objects in the room and also I don't know his ability," Ethan whispered to himself.
"I'm now getting bored...since you are disappointing me, I will tell you my ability...In this whole fight, I guess you have been wondering when will he use my sword but in reality I have been using my sword ever since I arrived here….the case for my sword is empty and that is because my skin is the blade...yes, it's confusing right? ...when I demand it, the blade of my sword fuses with my skin allowing my whole body to be the blade," said the swordsman.
The swordsman stretched his hand and suddenly a sword appears in his hand,
"Take this…..it seems you don't know how to use your ability because you look weak and you haven't displayed anything that interests me but then also I don't like killing people who can't at least defend themselves," said the swordsman.
The swordsman throws the sword at Ethan and he catches it, he unsheathes the blade and it's a rare katana with a purple colored blade. Ethan takes his fighting stance and this time he had determination in his eyes.
Ethan runs towards the swordsman and swings the sword at him but then the swordsman blocks it with his right arm. But something felt different, as he blocks the blade the mass of Ethan's blade began to increase rapidly pushing back the swordsman but then Ethan's blade slices off the arm of the swordsman.
"Wait how can this be….my blade is strong but how can this little boy cut me ?" said the swordsman in tremendous pain.
The swordsman gets up and says to Ethan, "it seems you are formidable after all….let's fight to the death," then they both began to fight with Ethan swinging his sword trying to cut down the swordsman and the swordsman using his body fused with his blade to attack Ethan.
This exchange of attacks continued for a while then Ethan noticed something, when the swordsman has to use his body parts as a blade he has to gather zen to those parts which took him a minute to do. So Ethan steps back then throws his sword in the air but then still controls and increases the gravity of the sword to a ridiculous amount heading straight towards the swordsman.
The swordsman noticed the sword approaching him from above and he felt the extreme amount of zen force behind the sword. With that, he focused all the zen energy he had left into his left arm making it impenetrable.
Suddenly, Ethan shouts out, "Force punch" and delivers a punch backed up by an extreme amount of zen towards the swordsman's head which instantly smashes his head into pieces. Just as the swordsman's body falls to the ground Ethan says, "If my punch did not kill you then the sword would have killed you...…either way your faith was sealed," Ethan picks up the sword and cleans off the blood that was spilled on it and says," I truly like your katana….I think I will hold on to it,"
[Back To Connor's Situation]
With Connor's body looking lifeless on the ground his body broke apart as if it was made of ice and this took Jeffrey by surprise. Suddenly, Jeffrey could hear Connor's voice saying, "did you really think it will be that easy to kill me," then out of nowhere a sharp pole of ice struck through Jeffrey's chest from behind.
"How does it feel for your own trick to be used against you…..at first I thought you were really fast or you can teleport but then I noticed that if that was true…then why create the white mist? and that's because you teleport your body(said sarcastically) though the mist then reappear behind me. So I did something of that nature, I created a duplicate body made of ice and slipped right past you and then…..I guess you know the rest," said Connor.
At this point Jeffrey was slowly dying and asks Connor a question, "what is your name," then he responded, "Connor Smith...and if you don't mind me asking what stage are you?"
"I'm in the zen tone stage but I was on the brink of getting promoted to the zen prime stage," said Jeffrey whiles coughing up blood then falling headfirst on the floor.
"Hmmm….I guess that's why you were a little tough to kill which means Pyro might be in the zen prime stage.
TO BE CONTINUED