After the whole ruckus settled, Derek was still angry so he went to the school rooftop to blow of some steam.
As Derek was walking out of the cafeteria, each and every body was staring at him like he was some kind of celebrity.
When Derek got to the rooftop, he opened the door aggressively and a loud bang was heard, as he entered he saw Sage standing close to the wall.
"Sage how are you we really don't talk that much huh", Derek asked.
"Yeah I've been busy with the gang", Sage replied.
"Ok by the way am participating in the transporter tournament", Derek said.
"Good enough you seem to have gotten on my father's good side", sage replied.
"Well it just seem to happen, it's not like I tried anyways", Derek said
"Ok so how has your current job been", sage asked.
"I mean it's been stressful, but well paying", Derek replied.
"And also I would like you to teach me some you know self defense skills, you know for the job", Derek said.
"Ok I would love to, but for now am busy", Sage said as he walked to his class.
Not long after Sage left, the school bell rang, and this time around it's for the club activities to begin.
Derek remembered that he got some notification As he was in a fight with the twins, so he checked what it was.
[ + 50 Exp ]
[ + 50 Exp ]
[ + 50 Exp ]
[ + 50 Exp ]
[ + 50 Exp ]
[ + 50 Exp ]
[ Total: 300 Exp ]
[ Bravery shown ]
[ Reward granted: + 2 stat points ]
[ 6/6 Enemy defeated ]
[ Reward granted: + 2 stat points ]
After reading the contents on his holographic screen, Derek now opened his profile to check if he had leveled up already.
>> Profile <<
[ Name: Derek kale ]
[ Class: None ]
[ Level: 4 ]
[ Exp: 0/1000 ]
[ Health: 100/100 ]
[ Energy: 100/100 ]
[ Form: human ]
[ Heart rate: 42 BPM ]
Afterwards Derek left the rooftop and met up with his friend Freddy, he told Freddy about his plan to learn martial arts, but Freddy refused to accompany him to the martial arts club.
Derek went there alone and then he entered the dojo, as he entered he saw some kids practicing with one another, and they were all show verities of promising skills.
Seeing this immediately got Derek's attention, to the point he could not even blink.
He was dumbstruck by what he was seeing, until a young man walked up to him and asked him what he was doing here, he replied saying "I would love to be a part of this club, and I wanna learn self defense", the man took a good look at him, and said "no I won't accept you as my student.
Derek was shocked by his reply and asked " why won't you let me be a part of the club", the Man immediately frown his face and replied Derek "I heard what you did in the cafeteria not long ago, martial art is not for fighting but it's for self defense".
Derek replied him "sir it was self defense I swear, those boys have been bullying me for long, they deserve what they got".
"But when you fought them they barely even touched you, then that means you have no control over your rage but I have a way to calm you down if you're able to beat my second best student, I'll grant you membership", the man said.
Derek eyes shone with opportunity, as he replied "yes yes yes".
"And you'll be fighting Jack the second best", the man said as he smiled sinisterly.
Jack came out and right now he was feeling himself, because he saw Derek as a level zero threat.
Afterwards a fighting ring was set up for both Derek and Jack, then the man entered the ring and introduced him self as master Ozai.
He stood in the middle of the ring and said "may the fight begin", after saying this he went out of the ring.
[ Random Quest ]
[ An opponent is in front of you, fight him ]
[ Reward: 1 free level up ]
And immediately Derek ran with his current speed towards Jack, but Jack was far faster than him, Instead of Jack to fight him he started a conversation.
Jack stood in the center of the ring as he spoke, "you seem to be controlled by your rage, you know not how to fight, so you use your fist".
Derek cracked his knuckles as he replied, "no I just can't stand the presence of a self righteous prick like you".
Derek continued, "you trick people to start a fight with you and you use your knowledge of martial arts to beat them, and you say all you did was self defense ?, you are not any different from the Faye twins", Derek said as he activated [ beating heart ].
[ - 50 Energy ]
[ Energy 50/100 ]
[ 0:59 ]
After activating the skill all of his stats doubled, and now Derek was twice as fast, twice as strong than he was before.
>> Stats <<
[ Strength: 10 ]
[ Agility: 8 ]
[ Stamina: 10 ]
[ Perception: 10 ]
[ Endurance: 2 ]
[ Charm: 2 ]
[ Saved points: 13 ]
With his new stats he charged towards Jack, and he caught Jack by surprise as his punch connected to Jack's face.
Jack staggered backwards a few times but he finally regained himself, as he too sprung into action with a kick that made contact with Derek's face, the impact was great that Derek spin and fell to the ground.
[ - 10 hp ]
[ Health: 90/100 ]
Jack walked around the ring as he spoke to Derek,"you seem to have suddenly grow stronger and faster, but without adequate skill you're still weak...."
Derek was already up, he springed up into the air as he performed a spinning heel kick, and before Jack could complete his sentence, Derek kick connected to his neck, and this made Jack to fall to his knees.
Immediately Derek followed up with a knee to his face, and completed his combo with a heavy punch to his throat, this caused Jack to choke and cough a couple of times.
Derek stood in front of him and said, "close that trash of yours you call a mouth", Derek slapped him hard that his five fingers were all showing on his cheek.
Jack started laughing at Derek,"you just can't help it, your anger it has fully consumed you", Derek kicked him directly in the face.
"Stay down the fuck down or ..."
"Or what huh what are you going to do, you weakling", Jack said as he stood up from the floor.
This got Derek angry and before he knew it, Jack was giving him barrage of kicks, but he quickly blocked the attacks with both of his arms in an x shape.
Immediately Jack stopped attacking, Derek tried to punch Jack, but immediately Jack grabbed his hand and twisted it to the opposite direction Derek screamed in agony.
[ - 20 hp ]
[ Health: 70/100 ]
{you've been injured badly, and your energy will be used to conduct emergency healing}
[ Energy - 20 ]
[ Energy: 30/100 ]
He looked at the top of his holographic screen, he saw his how long it took for his skill to be active.
[ beating heart ]
[ 0:10 ]
After seeing that his skill still had just ten seconds left, he elbowed Jack in his face twice so that Jack would lessen his grip on his broken hand, as he freed himself, Derek wasted no time as he gave Jack an upper cut, but Jack wasn't knocked out.
So Jack retaliated with a kick that was aimed for Derek head, but fortunately Derek grabbed the leg, twisted it and grab his head and he slammed Jack head to his knee and Jack was on the floor knocked out.
[ Quest Completed ]
[ An opponent is in front of you fight him ]
[ Reward granted : 1 free level up ]
After he went through the notification, he opened his profile.
>> Profile <<
[ Name: Derek kale ]
[ Class: None ]
[ Level: 5 ]
[ Exp: 0/1000 ]
[ Health: 80/150]
[ Energy: 30/150 ]
[ Form: human ]
[ Heart rate: 50 BPM ]
{ System upgrade available now }
As Derek was wondering what a system upgrade was, Ozai came into the ring and pronounced Derek the winner of the fight, after which he spoke to Derek, "well kid I don't say this often, you surprised me greatly, and if you learn how to use your strength properly, you could be the best fighter they've ever been.
While he was still looking at Derek he said,"well the new member of the martial arts club", most of the people cheered for Derek, while some others were looking at him with pride and jealousy, because now he had defeated the number two fighter, so right now he is the number two fighter.
Ozai gave Derek some martial art clothes, and he also gave Derek a book, and on the book was written " SELF DEFENSE ", Ozai urged Derek to study the book well, Derek collected the and thanked Ozai.
Not long after, Jack woke up but to his surprise he saw his master behaving all friendly towards Derek, seeing this got him pissed, he then walked to Derek asking for a rematch, but Derek refused him straight up.
And Derek avoided him through out the whole lesson time, Derek then asked lucky a boy that was sitting close to him about the number one fighter.
Lucky looked him in the eyes and said, "believe me you don't wanna mess with her, she is the master of kicks, and lastly she's Gorgeous but deadly", as lucky finishes his statement he pointed at Tracy.
Derek gaze followed his hands as his eye met with her's, and the first thing that crossed his mind was, "How can someone be so stunning and deadly at the same time".
Not long after the bell rang signifying the end of school and club activities for the day, Derek got to his feet quickly as he planned to approach Tracy, but before he knew it she was no where to be found,"she's gone".
So Derek decided that he would talk to her the next day, he wore his school bag and exited the dojo.