"Ready?..." Mrs. Cunningham said as everyone got into combat stances. "BEGIN!" she said as everyone dashed towards their opponents. Quickly the sounds of battle could be heard throughout the gymnasium as the espers clashed together.
In one of the rings, a young boy with black hair could be seen skilfully dodging his opponent's attacks. Punch after punch, he dodged every single one of them without even bothering to move his arms.
"Don't get too cocky just because the rules favor you. If I had my ability you wouldn't even be able to stand, you f*cking defective" Ethan said as he continued to throw unsuccessful attacks at Seth.
Pack!
As Ethan threw a kick Seth finally reacted and caught Ethan's foot.
Bang!
Seth threw a powerful punch to Ethan who had been left open. Ethan fell to the ground while holding his belly.
"If you can't win against me without using your ability in a fair match then you are worthless," Seth said as he threw Ethan a cold look.
"You bastard!" Ethan screamed as he got up and dashed again toward Seth.
Seth had already taken a combat stance as Ethan attacked him with a right punch. Seth parried the punch with his right hand. Ethan threw a punch with his left hand and Seth dodged, then landed a punch in Ethan's face. However, Ethan didn't stop and continued throwing attacks at Seth. In every case Seth dodged and parried the attacks, countering when Ethan was left open. Like this Seth landed multiple attacks on Ethan without being damaged. Until he finally dodged a kick and in a fluid motion he landed a powerful kick on Ethan.
Bang!
Ethan was sent flying out of the ring.
"Out," Mrs. Cunningham said to Ethan who was laying on the ground as she suddenly appeared next to him. Then she looked at Seth "Well done Seth" she said then she disappeared.
"Consider yourself dead Seth," Ethan said from the ground.
After some minutes everyone had finished their combat.
"Now that everyone has finished their first round we'll be proceeding to the next round." Mrs. Cunningham said as she looked at everyone. I'll be now announcing which will be the next pairs: Manda and Athryn, Ethan and Owen, Jake and Seth, Keneth and Yasmin,..." After she finished announcing the names everyone chose a ring and Mrs. Cunningham gave the signal to begin the spars again.
Bang!
After some minutes of trading blows Jake was sent flying out of the ring.
"Ow dude that hurt," he said on the ground from outside the ring.
"Sorry Jake," Seth said from inside the ring.
"Out," Mrs. Cunningham said to Jake as she appeared for an instant beside him.
After some minutes all matches had finished and new pairs were formed and Seth won again against his opponent. This continued a couple more times until the bell rang indicating the end of the class. After getting in formation again, Mrs. Cunningham dismissed the students, and everyone headed to the changing rooms to change into their normal uniforms again.
"What class are we having next?" Jake asked Seth as they left the changing rooms.
"Quantum physics" Seth replied.
"We should hurry, Mr. Voight is going to kill us if we're late," Jake said as he began walking faster. Seth followed him.
As they were walking through a long corridor they arrived at what looked like a long window that overlooked the interior of a large gymnasium. In the center of the gymnasium, a large square ring could be seen. Four espers were standing in battle stances while holding different kinds of wooden weapons and staring with concentrated looks at the center of the square, they were second-year students.
"Work as a team, coordination is the key. You have to..." began saying in a serious tone a tall and muscled man to the four espers from outside the ring.
In the center of the ring stood a sole girl, she had beautiful long pink hair and light purple eyes. She also had a concentrated look as she stared at the ground, her left hand resting on the handle of a wooden sword that was sheathed on her left side.
Seth and Jake stopped walking as they saw the scene.
"Stella Gunvald, even though she's a first-year just like us, she's the strongest esper among first-year and second-year students, she's even stronger than nearly all third-year students. I heard the school's board is even recommending her for the Rising Espers Tournament." Jake began saying.
"The other ones are step 5 integration stage espers, but I can't feel her stage" Seth muttered as he concentrated on Stella.
"That's normal" Jake looked at Seth "You didn't know? She's a manipulation stage esper"
Inside the gymnasium, the muscled man finished giving the four espers instructions and turned to Stella.
"Stella, you already know what to do, if they touch you, you lose," he said while smirking.
"This will be over quickly," Stella said
The four espers gritted their teeth in frustration as they heard these words.
"Ready..." the four espers tightened their grip around their weapons, "BEGIN!" the muscled man said and the four espers dashed at full speed towards Stella.
Stella didn't move an inch as the espers approached her, already channeling their abilities. As they were about to arrive they looked into each other's eyes and then nodded in agreement.
One of the espers that approached Stella from behind stopped running and reached for one of her pockets and took out what looked like three little wooden knives and threw them at Stella.
Even though the knives came from a blind spot, in a fluid motion Stella unsheathed her sword and blocked the knives, her arm becoming a blur. Just as she blocked the last knife she threw her sword, which shot at full speed at the esper who had thrown the knives.
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