Ryuuji walks outside and comes around then turns towards Mia.
"Hey Mia, can I come train with you?" Mia turns to look at Ryuuji and smiles.
"Nope, I don't mind, I was hoping to train my sword skills against someone else." Mias smile turns into a smirk as Ryuuji gets in a basic stance.
"Good, I've been training and watching videos online, I'm ready to attempt this!" Ryuuji holds his hands out and closes his eyes as his body gets encased in his purple armor. A few seconds pass as a purple mist in the shape of a sword forms in his hand. The make-shift sword was partially in form and wasn't fully complete.
"I did it Mia! I finally manifested a sword… sorta" Mia takes a deep breath and grabs the wooden training sword.
"Let's see how well it holds against a wooden sword!" Mia gets in a base stance and closes his eyes. He thinks to himself reviewing everything he learned before opening his eyes.
A few sparks fly from his eyes as he bolts forward and uses both his hands to hold the sword beside his right waist. Ryuuji takes a step back as Mia swings a sword up to over his shoulder, his form resembling Requiem during their fight in the abandoned storage facility. Ryuuji managed to block Mia's attack before swinging the sword up and towards Mia who uses his own sword to block it. Mia jumps back and forward again with the same move putting the heel of his foot on the ground and swirling around at an angle hitting the wooden sword against Ryuuji's neck. There was a silence as Ryuuji fell over onto the ground and his armor evaporated.
"Nice fight Ryu" Mia put the wooden sword down and held his hand out to help Ryuuji up.
"I could say the same for you… Mia" he slapped Mia's hand and Mia pulled him standing in front of him. Ryuuji stood up and headbutted Mia, almost knocking him over but Mia caught himself.
"Oh, sorry about that Mia" Mia shook his head and dusted himself off. The two stood in silence before bursting out into laughter.
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"Something's not right… if they were only attacking the SSUDSJ for the kid's bounties… they would've put more planning into it knowing Anthrax" Another man continues.
"He's right… Anthrax wouldn't send one of his 3 strongest commanders into a zone with Professional agents… We know he's smarter than that… so what's his plan!?" There was silence.
"What if he's trying to start a war with the Government?" Everyone scoffs at the idea.
"That's impossible!... there'd be no reason for it!!" There was more silence.
"We don't have enough evidence… we just need a stricter surveillance on those kids… cause that's probably who he's targeting for easy money… or to upright start a war with the Awakened World Agency"
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A few days pass and Mia jolts awake from a dream that he can't remember anything about. He sits up in his bed and yawns as the room is pitch black. He turns and sits on the side of the bed stretching. He stands up and leans against the window sill looking out at the starry night in front of him.
He sighs and sits back down looking at his arm which is wrapped up after he got slashed on the arm during the SSUDSJ attack. He lays down, his head hanging over the other side of the bed.
He thinks to himself about Nohan. He was still wrapping his head around it. His friend was now a world-feared bounty hunter. On top of that Mia is being chased by bounty hunters because he's an AWA student.
"What's going to become of us this school year?" Taking a deep breath he stands up and exits out the bedroom door into the small lounge and sits on the couch. He grabs his phone off the side table and pulls up a sheet music site. He starts putting in patterns of melodies trying to decide upon his favorite one.
"Let's try this…" He plays the same first chord again starting with C then playing a series of keys to figure the next chord ending at Em7. he kept going playing the keys in order Em. he finished off the chord progression with Gmaj7. He put his phone down and ran over to plug in his piano. He plugged his headphones in, then turned on the computer playing the same chord progression and recording it to a simple computer he brought to school with him. C - Em7 - Em - Gmaj7. He played the sample from his computer before setting up a mic and grabbing his acoustic guitar.
He took a deep breath and played a simple chord progression. He liked it but decided to change it a bit. He changed one of the chords to be 'm' while the next to be 'M' resulting in a guitar chord of 'D - A - Cm7 - Gmaj7'. He pauses and looks up at the ceiling. He yawns and shakes his head. He looks down and looks out the window at the small forest beside the dorms. Images of blue fire pouring from the forest shoot through his mind.
"What was that?" he shook his head before playing the guitar loop and adding a bit of reverb and turning the volume down to make it a bass. He turns the echo and pan up on the piano and puts it on a loop adding a different note every so often. He turns up the volume on the computer and plays it. A loop of soft calming music flows into his ears as he hums to the beat of the music. Mia gets ready to keep playing more chords but stops as a faint smell grazes his nose. A scent of pumpkin and syrup in the fall under trees of orange and red. He takes off his headphones making sure to save the audio sample to his computer. He unplugs the piano and microphone before standing up and pushing in the chair under the piano stand.
"That smells… really good… smells like pancakes"