"I've brought the swords I have made the other day. Take a look. I think we can practice today already." Allan said.
Keith picked one and swung it a couple times. "The balance is good, this is a very nice work."
"Thank you. I watched many videos on swords before attempting to make it." Allan said.
"We can go to the park to practice or we can go somewhere else. Any ideas?" Keith said.
"Let's go to the park, it's closer to everybody I guess." Said Jasper.
After finishing eating breakfast. They all headed to the park. Keith took the leadership since he was already experienced with swords and other cold weapons.
"Let's do it like this. Since we have the whole day. Let's first practice a few moves in the morning, and try dueling in the afternoon. What do you think?" Keith suggested.
"Seems nice, we're pretty much noobs when it comes to fighting in real life." Jasper answered.
The others nodded. Then Keith and Sasha began teaching how to use the sword and some moves. They spent the whole morning only practicing a few basic swings and stances. By noon, everyone was starving, so they headed to a restaurant nearby.
"I think we can begin sparring in the afternoon. It's gonna be a very cool experience for you guys since you practically never been to a fight in real life before. Let's change opponents from time to time. Trust me, you guys learn will learn someone's pattern and the fight will get boring really quickly. So at every half an hour let's change sparring targets."
"Let's spar like this. You'll try to fight each other until you hit a body part. When there is a clean hit, let's break, reset positions and begin again. You might be wondering why we are doing like this, the answer is simple. With sharp weapons a hit to a body part with pretty much cut it out, result in death one way or another. So the exercise is pretty much to train both defense and attack." Keith explained when they got to the park again.
So they found themselves a partner for sparring and began fighting. Tory and Sheila decided to partner together since they were both women and had no prior fighting experience. Jasper partnered up with Sasha and Keith partnered with Allan. Allan was feeling mind very sharp lately, he wanted to test this faster mind of his with the best fighter here.
"Let's begin, I won't go easy on you, I'm kind of frustrated since I couldn't breakthrough yet." Keith said to Allan.
"I want to fight you for real anyways, let's give it all." Allan replied.
"Let's begin." Both said at the same time.
Pla pla pla pla pla. The sound of the foam swords hitting were echoing in the park. They were fighting really hard. At the beginning, Allan was losing to Keith quite often. This was due to the lack of experience. But at around fifteen minutes into it, the fight got very even between the two of them. Allan pretty much learned Keith's style, and so did Keith.
Soon, the half hour timer sounded. "Time to change partners."
"Allan, spar with me, you're fighting fiercely with Keith, I wanna fight you." Said Sasha.
"Sure. Let's go." They began to clash swords on the spot.
The others were quite tired, so they took some time and kept watching how Sasha and Allan fought.
Allan was faster than Sasha, he could predict her actions from her body language. Soon he began dominating the fight. He didn't let her land one hit, he parried all of her attacks and did an counter attack in a trick angle. He was getting very used to the sword. Soon everyone forgot they had to spar and kept watching Sasha and Allan's fight. She began to adapt to Allan's style and after some time the fight got even, she managed to overcame her speed deficiency with technique. Allan noticed this and began to improve his style by reducing unnecessary movements and making the swings faster and shorter.
"Damn this Allan. What is with him today? He is evolving too fast, doesn't he get tired?" Said Keith.
"I don't wanna spar with him. I know he'll have to go easy on me, and it'll suck." Said Jasper.
"I just don't want to be humiliated by him in the spar, that all." Said Tory.
Sheila only nodded. After half an hour passed Sasha and Allan were wet from all the sweat. They had been fighting nonstop for a whole hour. Sasha was already tired and began making mistakes due to her body not catching up with Allan's, and Allan punished her severely for this.
Allan sat beside a tree for it's shadow and closed his eyes. The others had been taking half an hour rest since they only watched the fight from Sasha and Allan, they began sparring themselves and let Allan and Sasha rest.
Allan did something out of instinct. He begin meditating [Mind Waterfall] when he was resting and it worked. But Allan didn't pay attention to it. He only focused on meditating the technique. Soon the half hour timer sounded again.
"Let's rest for five minutes." Said Keith, and everyone else was so tired that they only nodded.
Allan was back to his peak condition again. He didn't know how, but he felt full of energy again, his muscles were aching a little but it was normal, but much less then when he just began the resting.