"Take this," Qylaa charged toward Fri. She performed many kick combos, only to have them dodged and be pushed backward by him.
"Come on, Qylaa. You can do better than this," Fri challenged, his hand gesturing toward her.
Qylaa tried again, this time she targeted Fri's lower body. She did back heel sweeping kick, Fri jumped and she got up with her feet charged to Fri.
"Got you," Qylaa grinned, looking at Fri as she thought he couldn't escape her midair kick.
"So fragile, your attack pattern is so easy to be read" Fri said while turned 90° his body to dodge the side kick. "Enemy can break your two legs if you fight like that. Don't be straightforward in your attack, use your instinct not your brain" Fri advised Qylaa.
Qylaa nodded, Fri then gave her a sign to tried again. Qylaa leaped to Fri right and raise her fist towards his stomach, he moved a little bit forward. Qylaa quickly turned her body and did back kick, but Fri was able to respond. Fri fell, lying on the ground, and quickly rolled his body to stand up.
"It's wrong, I said you need to believe more on information you get by your senses rather than expect your enemy movements" Fri firmly trained Qylaa.
Qylaa was confused, she asked Fri. "Can you show me what you mean by instinct?"
Fri nodded, he grabbed a leaf from the ground. "I want you to guess if I will be able to catch this leaf before it falls," Fri asked Qylaa.
Qylaa shook her head. "It's impossible to know the leaf's movement, especially with this kind of wind, where leaves are flying everywhere" she thought as a strong wind kept past them
Fri let go of the leaf, his eyes were focused on the leaf that was flew away from them. When the leaf was about 36 cm from the ground, he crawled on the ground. Then, he jumped and caught the leaf. Qylaa was shocked looking at that.
"How?" Qylaa asked, she still in disbelief.
"I will not give you an answer. You need to experience it yourself" Fri said and handed Qylaa the leaf. "From now on, I want you to train to rip that leaf. If you can't do it, I won't spar with you".
Fri then sat by a tree not far from Qylaa. Meanwhile, Qylaa still looked at the leaf.
"How am I supposed to rip the leaf without a weapon?" Qylaa wondered. She grabbed another leaf and bit the leaf Fri gave. "It would be easy if I could spin it with both my hands" she talked to herself and saw the rip leaf she made.
"Fri, can I rip it like this?" Qylaa asked.
"Yeah, you can, but you need to let the wind blow the leaf first" Fri answered.
Qylaa smiled, thinking she had a chance to complete the training. Fri grinned, looking at Qylaa.
"It won't be as easy as you think, cuda" Fri said to himself while focused on the targeted leaf by Qylaa.
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At the open area, Ariys' training with Kyle was going fine. Ariys had learned and understand basic aikido. She could deflect many of the attack, but still it was still too early for her to celebrate. When Kyle increased his tempo, Ariys could barely keep up and took many hits.
"I don't know which I should be impress. My quick learning ability or the fact that Kyle's attacks barely hurt" Ariys thought while training with Kyle, as she couldn't ignored the fact that Kyle's attack was felt like a fluffy marshmallow.
"I hope I can find someone like Kyle" Ariys whispered, but everyone there could hear it. She was really obsessed with being treated by a gentleman.
Kyle stopped and started to laughed and Ellie quickly came and hugged her boyfriend.
"No, you can't have him. He's my boyfriend," Ellie said while hugging her boyfriend tightly. Ariys realized she had whispered out loud.
"Sorry, sis, but you're misunderstanding now. I mean I want someone like him, not to steal your boyfriend" Ariys responded and leaned forward.
"Ooh, I see, but promise to sis not to said anything like that after this" Ellie reminded Ariys, being a girlfriend who got jealous easily.
Ellie felt someone tap her but couldn't find the source. She then looked on her boyfriend that was suffocated because of the hug that coated with mystic force without she realized. Ellie quickly freed her boyfriend.
"Kyle, are you okay?" Ellie patted her boyfriend's back as he coughed. Kyle showed thumbs-up.
"I think we can end our training now. After all it's going to be dark soon" Ariys suggested while looking at the beautiful orange sky filled with birds flying to the west.
Ellie and Kyle agreed. They then walked together to the camping area with Ariys walking ahead with a jealous look on her face as she can heard the two lovely couple been sweet.
"Kyle, my back hurts. Can you carry me on your back?" Ellie asked loudly to make Ariys jealous. Kyle sighed, looking at Ellie's childish behavior. He then carried his girlfriend on his back and kept walked behind Ariys.
"You're really the best Kyle. I love you" Ellie said out loud while hugged her boyfriend and rested her head beside her boyfriend head.
"Just you wait, sis. I'll pay this back when I get a boyfriend in the future" Ariys said to herself and closed her ears, she walked more faster.
After a minute, they arrived at the camping area, Kyle let his girlfriend down and he went back to the forest to search firewoods. As for Ariys, she was searched her best friend, but couldn't found Qylaa there. She then went to Ellie's tent. There she could saw Ellie had started to upgrading her specs on a small table.
"Sis, do you know where Qylaa training with Fri?" Ariys asked.
"At the lake. If they are not there, then they should be on the left side of the lake" Ellie responded while kept continued her works on mini table.
"Okay, thank you, sis" Ariys said before left.
Ariys looked on the lake, she saw a perfect image of the beautiful orange sky on the surface and not a single person was there except fish that jump out from the lake. She then went to the left side of the lake. After trekking the forest for a short distance, she finally heard Qylaa's voice that was muttered something. She approached there and saw her best friend was scolded a leaf and the wind.
"Why she is scolding a leaf and the nature?" Ariys wondered herself, a little confused after saw her best friend.
"Oh, that because I tell her to train to rip the leaf when the leaf is flew by the wind and she must do it before the leaf fall to the ground" Fri's voice suddenly could be heard by Ariys.
"I see. Eh?" Ariys said, turning her face to the right. She screamed, surprised after saw Fri's covered face by head buff. She even jumped out of the bush.
"Ariys, why are you screaming?" Qylaa asked when saw her best friend fell from the bush to the ground.
"Because of me," Fri answered as he emerged from the bush. He opened her head buff.
"Oh, Fri you have return" Qylaa said while welcomed Fri. She grabbed some of the firewoods from Fri's left hand.
"Let's go, it getting dark here" Fri said and walked away.
"Wait a minute, I'm still at here okay. Don't ignore me" Ariys said like everyone at there was forgotten her, even though Qylaa was still right beside her waited to walked with her.
"You sure like to make a ruckus when you're with us, huh?" Fri sighed and went to Ariys.
"I want you to apologize first because make me sca..." Ariys stopped talked as Fri casually lifted her like a sack.
"Okay, okay I'm sorry, so let's hurry, or Ellie will scold all of us for returning late" Fri said and quickly walked with firewoods on his left hand and Ariys on her right shoulder. Qylaa followed right behind them while smiled looking at her best friend.
"Hey, do you not learn something from Kyle about how to be a gentleman?" Ariys asked as she angry with how different Kyle and Fri treated a girl. She even hit Fri's back.
"You know what. I think I want to take revenge on you because you kick me in the face this morning" Fri said and threw Ariys to the lake as they arrived at the camping area. He then grabbed firewoods from Qylaa and left them two.
Qylaa waited for her best friend on the shore. The sky was turned dark.
After a while Ariys arrived and lay beside Qylaa. Her breath came quickly and heavily.
"Damn that cold hearted man, I almost drowned back there" Ariys voice sounded exasperation. She untied her hair tie letting her hair fell down to dried.
Qylaa laughed heard that. Ariys smile seen her best friend looked happy.
"I'm really lucky to have gotten to know Fri. He don't just change me, but Qylaa too. Without him, our days might have remained the same" Ariys glad she had encountered with Fri and got to know with his other friends too.
"By the way Qylaa, how can Fri be gentle when he is with you? I want that kind of treatment too" Ariys asked out of curiosity.
"I don't know" Qylaa answered quickly and hide her red face as she thought Fri acted gentleman because he liked her hair. She then lying on the ground too.
"Hmm, maybe if I sign a peace treaty with him. He would treat me like a gentleman too" Ariys made a conclusion.
"It can be" Qylaa responded.
Then, for a few minute, they were quite. All of their exhausted from training came and made they yawned sleepily while looking at the crescent moon and shining stars in the sky.
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When dinner time came, Ellie, Kyle and Fri was eating rice and a fried egg with a mineral water.
"Where is the other two?" Kyle asked.
"I don't know, I'm busy upgrading Ariys' specs since we return. Ariys has come to my tent to ask where Qylaa, so Fri should know where they two" Ellie answered.
"Ariys, I throw her into the lake after we arrive here, and Qylaa wait for her at the shore" Fri answered casually.
"Maybe they two are enjoying on the lake right now" Kyle gave an opinion. Ellie agreed with it and Fri just kept ate peacefully without feeling disturbed.
Ellie and Kyle then conversed on how they should train Ariys and Qylaa after done ate. As for Fri, he went to a tree that he always sat on looked to their camping area. He spotted the two girls was lying on the ground. He thought, should he checked on them or not. He then made a decision if they were still not moved after Ellie and Kyle done conversed he will go there and checked.
A hour passed, Ellie and Kyle had finished talked they two now went to cook section to wash dish. Fri then jumped and went to the shore.
When he got there, he saw the two princesses were already fell asleep.
"Wow, how can they sleep peacefully?" Fri a little bit surprised, as they acted were dangerous actually.
"It's lucky that I'm the one who find you girls. If Ellie maybe you guys has be splashing with the lake water" Fri talked to himself.
He tried to wake them up, but neither of them woke, Ariys even kicked him in the face when he touched her.
He sighed, he wrapped Ariys in his hoodie to prevent her from catching a cold because she slept with a wet clothes. He carried Ariys first and put her in her tent. When it was Qylaa's turn, he took a moment before lifting her because he wanted to touch her hair.
"It's really pretty" Fri said when he touched and looked closely at the hair. He then untied Qylaa's hair tie and carried her into the same tent Ariys slept.
Fri went back to his spot and rested at there. His mind still played image of Qylaa face when her hair down. Suddenly his head showed an image that was blur. It was about conversation he had with someone in white and black place. He could hear an unclear voice from the memory. He touched his head and managed to resilient it.
"What is that?"