Capítulo 7: Chapter 7
(Magic Training)
It wasn't long before Josh got off his ass and was ready to fight Trisha.
"Do not be so stupid this time." Terrance demanded
Reskeme sighed, he wished he could fight Josh instead. Both fighters got in the ring and got ready. Josh was favouring his leg it was probably still in pain. And waving his hammer awkwardly. After that last fight, Josh was now slow and in pain, making the fight against the quick fighter Trisha very one sided.
To Reskeme it didn't even look like a fight, It looked like she was hitting a training dummy. Trisha took rapid steps around Josh, dodging his slow swings and using her dual swords with brutal efficiency. She hit his leg, causing him to stumble. He straightened up and swung his heavy mace at her, but she dodged easily. Her next hit was a lunge. She propelled herself with that astonishing speed.
She came in after his swing and hit his stomach, making his breath whoosh from his chest. Trisha was stepping aside and pivoting as she followed up with a backhand slash to the back of his head. Josh crumbled to the ground, gasping and cursing Trisha while trying to take deep breaths.
She raised her sword to strike and asked, "Do you surrender, or do you wish to continue being my practice dummy?"
"I surrender you stupid! Ugly-" before he could finish that last part Trisha kicked him in the chest, Josh sputtered and coughed.
"Trisha wins, The next two are Reskeme vs Eliya!" Terrance shouted.
The trainer grabbed Josh and dragging him out of the ring. Terrance glared at Josh as though the boy had failed him.
"If you don't work your ass off josh for the next month. I'm sending you down to Jarcies class, and trust me all they do down there is beat up boys like you." Terrance said. Josh smiled at the comment..
"Run 100 laps, The boy started running with a dejected look on his face starting his laps." said Terrance scowling.
Eliya gave Reskeme a look. It wasn't the malice she had shown to Josh, though it most certainly wasn't kindness. Eliya was in the ring, looking like a beast to the now extremely nervous Reskeme. It was like as soon as he had seen her battle she went from a tall girl to this tall warrior woman. Reskemes hands were sweaty on his weapon and his body sensing the danger was pumping him full of adrenaline.
Eliya watched, cocking her head at his hesitation. Reskeme tried to act confident as Eliya studied his step. He was shaky, beads of sweat running down his back. Eliya's legs spread shoulder-width with her staff in between her. Following Reskeme as he entered the circle.
Reskeme Entered the ring trudging as a hangman to the gallows, he knew he would surely lose. Upon this thought, he realized what did he have to lose? Maybe getting some lessons from an accomplished staff wielder would benefit him? With renewed confidence and some excitement, Reskeme moved forward. His change in stance made Eliya take a step back. She clearly thought he had given up, but now he was offering a smile.
Reskeme waited for the call to start. He focused, trying to ignore that nagging feeling that this was going to suck. His Naginata was ready. Go!! The moment Terrance shouted, Reskeme Pressed off his back foot in imitation of Trisha. The lunge astonished him as he used the tip of his spear to push Eliyas staff aside. Before ducking low in a quick sweep with the butt end of his staff. The speed and ferocity of his attack took Eliya completely off guard. She moved to block, but her surprise cost her a glancing attack to her knee. Elya grimaced.
Being no complete amateur, Eliya did three steps to the side. Followed by a deflect of the thrust Reskeme had pointed for her side. Reskeme over committed to the thrust. He was off balance when she capitalized on his mistake. Pushing his spear point away, Eliya slammed the butt end of her staff into his gut.
Winded Reskeme could block the follow up. She struck him again with a back sweep of her staff to his other side. Reskeme retreated, wincing, and finally got himself under control. Reskeme remembered he needed to keep moving. He stepped to the side, monitoring the grim faced Eliya. Eliya was already doing the same, The smooth calm she had at the beginning was gone now she had a wide smile on her face.
She clearly loved sparring, In a move that was slowly becoming his move, Reskeme leaned into the lunge and jumped forward in another copy of one of Trishas moves. Alright, it was a poor copy, Reskeme thought. Right as she was going to deflect the thrust, he went for a slash at her head.
She wasn't ready for this attack and only got her weapon in the way by sheer Reflexes alone. Reskeme tried what the trainer recommended. He stepped forward for a thrust after the slash. Eliya's staff was parallel with the ground for a block. So his thrust caught her cheek as his point was in line with her face after the slash.
Eliya grinned at him, hitting his hand. Reskeme winced, letting go with one hand. Realizing her opponent was weakened. Eliya struck at his staff. Reskeme was only holding the staff with one hand when Elya struck, that's when the staff went flying out of his hand. Eliya wasn't an idiot she hit the back of his leg throwing him off his shaky feet and onto his back.
Reskeme held up his hand before she could do her execution move, and in a gasping voice said," I surrender."
Eliya was breathing evenly, she was wasn't, even winded from the duel. While Reskeme gasped, his cloths sticking to his skin. He had hit her twice, although only a couple glancing blows.
"Well done, you both did well. Congratulations Eliya, you and Trisha are fighting two students of Rufus in a team fight." said Terrance, smiling proudly.
Turning to Reskeme, Terrance said, "And you. Nicely done, you actually learned something from that fight."
Reskeme sighed with relief. A compliment, followed by a dejected sigh upon Terrance's next words.
"Now the compliment is out of the way, for losing both of your fights you get to run around the yard fifty times. Feel lucky I'm only making you do half." said Terrance.
Trisha and Eliya were smiling like they had won a prize until Terrance turned to them.
"You two think you get to slack off? Oh no, I think you also get to run fifty laps. Get going you slackers," Terrance shouted!! Go! Go! Go!
Reskeme crawled to his knees, everything hurt. The bruises were going to be painful; he had to shake the sand off his shirt and fetch his staff. That hurt, he thought! Bending over to pick it up was unpleasant. The staff was in Reskeme's hand as he started his laps. The two girls were carrying their weapons on their run, so he figured he would get punished if he set it down. The trainer was strict, but he was fair, Reskemes respect for Terrance was slowly growing. Reskeme was breathing hard and drenched in sweat. He half walked, half jogged around the yard.
It took him five times longer than the others, but he finished his fifty laps and not a moment too late. It was time to go to magic training. Reskeme hung his weapon on the training rack. The damn Naginata made his arms feel like rocks from carrying it the whole run. That was probably the purpose of doing it, to increase his strength, Reskeme thought.
Reskeme shuffled towards the door. Reskeme had never been this tired physically and was sure his body was going to stop working. With a pained smile, he moved outside the door. Luckily, the door opened easily. He made his way down the hall to his hated enemy stairs!! After overcoming his biggest opponent, he finally arrived. Although now he had some scuffs on his knees. Okay, maybe he crawled up the stairs. Reskeme had to take a deep breath before he opened the doors to the mage's training grounds.
Reskeme entered the training grounds. It was well lit from the noon sun. Rufus and to his surprise, Enis was there with a pig. Reskeme was contemplating why there were three pigs in this yard.
"Get over here boy, we don't have all day." said Enis Impatiently. Limping over, Reskeme did as he was asked.
"We are going to see if you can heal this pig. First, sit down." Rufus demanded.
Reskeme sat down. He was too tired to complain about it. The mage took a yellow flower out of his robe and gave it to Reskeme. The flower smelled musky and sweet at the same time.
"What is this flower for?" Reskeme said.
"Shut up and focus. Shut your eyes and feel as I pull mana through the plant and into you." said Rufus..
Reskeme gulped, this was probably dangerous to his health. But the thought of it being life mana made him feel better about his odds. Rufus put his hand over Reskemes, the man's soft hand cradling his. Reskeme could see the Bright glow as Rufus channelled mana. The glow was bright green. It felt like something was being filtered into Reskemes hand, up his arms and into his entire body. The mana flowed through every limb, Reskemes entire body was tingling.
The master said, "Good, can you feel it?"
"Yes, it feels like I have a sunburn inside my body."said Reskeme.
"Now follow my commands, channel your mana to your hands. Push it back out into the world focus on the plant." said Rufus.
"Good," Rufus said. Reskeme did so his entire body felt on fire, it was hard to keep the mana flowing through his veins.
Reskeme focused, trying to push the mana that Rufus had channelled into him back out. His mana slowly leaked from his hand into the plant. Reskeme wasn't accurately putting it all into the flower. Some mana was leaking around the flower.
"What the hell?" shouted Rufus.
Reskeme, startled, opened his eyes. The flower was burning, drifting to ash. It had decayed and was turning to dust. In only a few seconds, the flower went from green and lively to dead. The master stare agape, and Enis took a step back.
"What just happened," Enis asked.
"He must have just channelled too much mana into the plant." Rufus said.
"We will try on something alive" said Rufus standing as he walked over to the pig.
Rufus took out a little knife with some salve. He put the salve on the pig's back and its shoulder before making a cut the length of a finger. Reskeme's eyes widened at what Rufus had just done? The pig did not seem to notice anything, oinking happily. Reskeme wasn't squeamish around blood, this wasn't his first time seeing the red substance. The cut was just so unexpected.
"Alright, try again to channel your life mana onto the pig's shoulder." said Rufus.
Reskeme was hesitant, The two mages seemed like they knew what they were doing. So he followed their instructions. Reskeme tried on his own to channel his mana. He failed the first time, the second time. Again he tried and failed again. The third time he tried to imagine himself pulling in the green magic of life and still nothing.
Rufus had to guide him through it, only this time he didn't do it for Reskeme. Slowly but soon mana was in his veins, circling his body. It was a lot less than when Rufus was channelling it for him. The mana thin, his body burning from the inside.
Sweat flowed down his face, the pig that was in front of him stood and patiently waited as he was channelling his mana.
"Good, now channel your mana into the wound." said Rufus.
Reskeme stare in wonder as he put his hands just over the wound. Light green mana covered his fingers. His body vibrated as he pushed out all his mana, forcing it into the cut. Reskemes gasped, the light changed, glowing dark green, the glow flickered like a flame.
The magic poured into the wound. A moment later the pig screamed, Reskeme stared in horror as the pig's wound turned grey and peeled while turning to ash. The pig flailed, screaming in pain on the floor. It was kicking and flopping around as the dark green fire covered its body. A vile plume of smoke drifted to his nose, Reskeme gaged bile rising to his throat. For twenty seconds Reskeme, Rufus and Enis watched in disgust, fascination and horror. As Reskemes efforts to heal the poor pig ended in it dying in horrible agony.
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