"I an Leo, and I WILL RISE UP THE RANK!"
Legolas who was A-Ranked only scoffed as he spread his legs wide open, waving the beast sword in his firm but flexible grip. "You're just a D-Rank, boy. I'll kill you without breaking a sweat."
This was the beast-weapon combat class at Earth's Quirk Academy. Fong Yuk, the combat teacher stood outside the combat ground watching the two students with keen interest. Of course, Legolas was A-Ranked and he will most likely win even though the combat class didn't allow students use their quirks to fight. But he couldn't deny the level of determination and tenacity that Leo was showing even though he was a D-Rank. He loved to imagine where this is headed.
The two of them has an A-Ranked beast sword in their hands, so the match could be as fair as possible without the use of their quirks.
"Round two start!"
Leo immediately lunged at Legolas with his A-Ranked beast sword, throwing loads of attack at Lego and using the sword impacts to stay in the air, pushing Lego to the edge of the stage.
Easily, Lego parried all the attacks with simple waves of his own A-Ranked sword too. He moved back constantly to give him a little gap from Leo, but Leo wasn't stopping his attacks.
Fong Yuk, the combat teacher smiled at what he was seeing. To others, it seemed like Leo was getting the upper hand, pushing Legolas where he wants, but to Fong Yuk Legolas was skillfully showing Leo where to attack, so he was in fact controlling Leo.
Clang, clang, clang, the combat class rang with the noise from the clash.
Lego who was tired of defending, twisted sudddenly to his left and jumped over Leo as he landed. Now, he has more space behind him and Leo has been cornered to the edge of the stage.
"Let me give you some o' that too, boy."
Suddenly, Legolas' beast weapon began to glow in a deep orange colour, lighting the dim stage up.
The students watching gasped. "Why is his weapon glowing? But we are not allowed to use quirks, right?" One of the students asked, concerned.
"That's not a quirk. He's only activated the beast weapons' rage mode, so it will get stronger and faster. It's similar to when a live beast suddenly become more dangerous when wounded," another student replied the first.
Leo stood still, watching Legolas activate the rage mode. He'd have done the same with his beast weapon too, but he doesn't know how to activate it. Leo still has a lot to learn if he wants to really rise up the rank.
"Die!" Legolas screamed as he launched the glowing energy from the sword at Leo. The attack was too fast for Leo to dodge. Everyone thought the fight has ended, but at the last second Leo moved...
It was like the glitch in a game. Instead of moving left it right to dodge the attack, Leo appeared to have moved right through the attack, leaving his fading figure behind him and appearing right in front of Legolas with his weapon poised.
"WHAT?! A phantom evasion?! How did he learn that?! Only an S-rank could do that!" A student screamed.
Fong Yuk was enjoying this the more. He never expected a D-rank student to perform a phantom evasion. It has always been a thing for the S-ranked because they have more energy to perform it. It might not look like it, but the phantom evasion takes a lot of energy and only someone with a high level of stamina could perform it. "He should be getting weaker by now," Fong Yuk said to himself.
Leo has morphed so close to Legolas that there was no space for Legolas to react to the attack. "No, you die!"
Leo whipped his sword hard from the right straight at Legolas' shoulder. He had already know that Legolas was weak in defending from his left, so he was ready to spend his last energy into bruising him once.
A sword can up to block the attack, but Legolas' hold was too weak to block it completely. Leo's attack couldn't be stopped as Legolas' sword was knocked off his hand, and the sharp edge dug into his left shoulder, ripping both fabric and skin.
Legolas went down on his knees, furious.
"I am Leo, and I WILL RISE UP THE RANK!" Leo repeated after his victory.
Fong Yuk called on a B-Ranked student with healing quirk to come up on stage and heal Legolas as first aid before he is taken to the medics. The girl jumped on stage, eager to carry out the assignment but she stopped dead in his track at what she saw.
Legolas had dropped the sword and was now gathering some energy in his body. His eyes had turned white, and blood was coming out of his nose. He has started gathering his quirk against the wish of the teacher. "You must die," he growled.
Leo's back was turned to him, so he couldn't see what was happening behind.
"Leo, watch out!" The girl screamed.
Leo turned immediately to see what the warning was all about. He saw Legolas standing upright with his head down in fury. "I SAID DIE!!!"
Legolas jumped a little and slammed his feet together at once. Immediately, a hundred large icicles was formed out of his body, with the pointy ends aimed at Leo.
With a rush, the icicles flew towards Leo at amazing speed. There was nothing he could do as he was already to perform another phantom evasion. He used his sword to misdirect some of the icicles and braced his body for impact.
About twenty icicles dug deep into his body as he fell down with a loud thud.
"I SAID DIE!!!" Legolas screamed again as he stood over Leo and another hundred icicles ready to attack.
Leos eyes began to dim, and head felt light. There was nothing he could do.
Fong Yuk saw the madness on stage, but he was too far to immediately stop it. So, he started running towards the students.
"I SAID DIE! DIE!! DIE!!!" Legolas combined all the icicles in front of him into one large one with a sharp and dangerous pointy end before throwing it at Leo's lying figure, aimimg to kill him in his blind rage. Leo closed his eyes in surrender.
"Please work is you're really there," Leo muttered silently to himself. "I can't die now."
Suddenly a purple energy started swirling around Leo, forming rapidly as the icicles edged closer. The large blue Icicle made impact with Leo's body but instead of piercing him, a loud explosion went up.
Fong Yuk who was already near the students was thrown back with a strong force before hitting his head against the wall.
Purple flames surrounded the classroom after the impact. The other students ran away to the other corner of the room.
Leo has an idea of what just happened but he has never really experienced it before.
Engulfed in the thick purple energy that has now surrounded the stage, he opened his eyes slightly to look at his attacker. Legolas was seen as the top wall of the classroom, hanging limp and probably dead from his own large icicle which had impaled his stomach and went out of his back, sticking him to the wall.
The Healer girl who was on the stage with them has been thrown further back into a corner where the beat weapons are enclosed. She appeared limp as well. Leo wished she wasn't dead.
This was the beginning of Leo's journey in conquering Earth's rank system... And this takes us 78 years back to when Leo was nothing but an ordinary earthling with no quirk, like every other person on earth.
Yes, this was where his journey began, and it must be understood why he was still alive 78 years ago...
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This was 78 years ago before Earth became awakened to the idea of quirks. This was when everyone was normal, and any signs of abnormality in humans is condemned.
And this was what led to the grand evolution of humans, as the scientists call it...
In the void of space, far off from Earth's atmosphere, a large otherworldly monster growled angrily in the enclosure of a large space ship. From Earth, the ship appeared like a tiny star which was sighted from afar by earth's observers. This was strange because the star has not always been there.
But in fact, it wasn't a star or a satellite or a luminous space debris, it was the Xollante ship, and their sole aim was to cause destruction on Earth.
The creature called the Xollante paced back and forth before its crew, growling and making irritating noise as a way of communication and motivation. The crew growled back, louder at the end of the commander's message.
The commander of the Xollante race was about 8 feet tall. To understand its facial features, One must imagine a green large lizard. It's eyes were deep red, with no other colour, and when it opened its mouth wide, four long fangs appeared, giving it a very dominant look.
All over its body apart from the head was steel gears and armour which covered its scaly green skin from the chest down to the toes. His steel whirred and clattered as he addressed his crew, and in his hand was an advanced tier beast weapon. These weapons are made from beasts that are alien to Earth. The cores of the beasts are taken and turned to formidable weapons that improves one's fighting abilities, depending on the type of beast it was gotten from.
The crew gave a loud, irritating cry after the commander was done addressing them. Then, they all set to action.
Surrounding the Mother Xollante ship were 1,000 other battle ships which hovered around like buzzer flies. They turned and sped and buzzed after the ship. These smaller ships are for battles in case of any obstruction from the planet they are planning to invade.
And the planet they are planning to invade is Earth.