"Are you crazy?" Tem said, following Zack inside, leaving Axonn outside alone.
"Nope, far from it, last time I checked at least," Zack, said with a smile, heading to the kitchen to make breakfast.
"Why would you make me face my own brother, all we have done so far is fight you and test dummies."
"Because," Zack as he grabbed some eggs from the fridge, "As a hero you'll have to do things you won't like. Things that will be hard to do, like meeting someone new who you befriend, only to find out he tricked you, if that happens you might have to fight him, a person you thought was your friend. It all comes down to being able to fight people who you don't want to fight when you have to." Zack said as he turned on the stove and started to make scrambled eggs.
"But," Tem started.
"No buts, you know I'm right," Zack said, getting a serious tone in his voice, "Now, your shoes."
"Yeah?"
"What you need to do to use them is find a source of electricity, like an outlet, lamp, or anything that uses or gives off electricity. Use your powers to take the electricity out of it and transfer it to the shoes."
"Ok, I'll get right on that," Tem said as he leaned against the wall in the kitchen, "You know, this battle seems like it will be a little one…"
Tem stopped his sentence as a sword flew past his head and stuck into the wood right next to his head, only an inch away. Tem looked to see Axonn standing at the entrance to the backdoor, "Don't take me lightly bro, I can still take you on, powers or not," Axonn said walking in.
Zack started laughing at the look on Tem's face, who was still a little in shock. "You two are not to kill each other, what would your father say if I had to go tell him one of you were dead?"
Axonn walked in and grabbed his sword out of the wall and said, "Depends which one of us it is, if its Tem dad probably would say, 'I knew he was hiding at your house, don't ever lie to me again,' and for me he would say something, 'Don't worry, I'm surprised he lived this long anyway."
Tem and Axonn made eye contact and paused for a second, than burst out laughing at the thought of their father, no longer fearing him like they once did. Tem slowed down his laughing and turn to walk out of the kitchen saying, "Let me know when breakfast is ready, I'm going to try out using these shoes for a bit."
As Tem left he heard Axonn say, "Same for me, I'm going to go dull my sword so I don't kill Tem."
After breakfast, Zack stood out in the back of the dirt, wearing a ref's shirt. He yelled out, "Times up you two get out here!"
Tem came outside, now energized from his practice with his new shoes, "I'm as ready as I'm ever going to be."
"I am too," Axonn said as followed Tem outside, holding a one-handed long sword, it had a sliver blade with an average style black hilt, and a large two-handed sword covered by a dark black sash making it hard for Tem to identify which sword of Axonn's it was, "My swords have been dulled down so that it won't kill you Tem, only hurt like hell."
"Thanks…I think," Tem said giving a weak smile, still not wanting to do this battle.
"Good, now both of you get into position," Zack said, acting like a real referee. "Here are your rules! Rule one, no between the legs or headshots, rule two, no stabbing or trying to draw blood, rule three, no…"
"Uncle!" Tem and Axonn yelled at the same time.
"We know the rules, they are the same every time," Axonn said.
"Fine, fine," Zack said shrugging his shoulders, "Can't say I didn't warn you guys."
"No, because you warn us every time," Tem said, putting emphasis on 'every time'.
""Let's just start this fight," Axonn yelled out, getting annoyed.
"Ok! Let the battle of Tem 'Light' Ki'blade versus Axonn 'Donatello' Ki'blade begin, FIGHT!" Zack yelled, jumping back to get out of the way.
Tem immediately dashed at Axonn, transferring electricity from his shoes to his hand in the form of a sword, slashing at him. Axonn blocked the slash with his own sword, creating sparks from the contact of the blades. He swung his sword down at Tem's sword, sending it into the ground silently, giving Axonn an opening as he brought his sword around and slammed it into Tem's stomach sending him back, with his sword disappearing in a light blue light.
Tem slowly got up and said, "Dang it"
"You should know by now that you can't match me in sword play," Axonn said walking closer to where Tem was.
"You may be right, but I can out match you in a different way," Tem said as his hands started to glow light blue.
"Crap," Axonn said as he put up his sword as a defense knowing what was coming.
Tem pointed one hand at Axonn, sending a small light blue blast at Axonn. The blast connected with Axonn's sword and took so more energy from the blast it became electrified, causing Axonn to let it go in pain, leaving what was left of the blast to hit Axonn, making him fall backwards into the dirt.
Axonn got up and looked around and saw the Tem was nowhere to be found, "Where did he go," he said, looking at Zack.
"I'm right here!"
Axonn turned around to see Tem standing right behind him. Axonn jumped far backwards to put distance between him and Tem. Axonn than proceeded to stick his sword into the ground and pulled out his two-handed sword. The sword with made from the same metal as the previous sword but it had a small clear gem right above the hilt. "Try to get through this sword."
"Fine I will," Tem as he once again charged up electrical energy in his hands. This time Tem used both his hands creating a blast that was twice the size of the last one. It flew towards Axonn, who wasn't didn't even flinch this time as the blast connected with the sword. What surprised Tem is that he started to feel himself being drained as the blast continued to hit the sword. It continued to hit the sword yet Axonn didn't flinch at all, as if he didn't even feel it. Seeing this, Tem stopped the blast and panted to catch his breath. Axonn started laughing as he switched his stance to an offensive position. "What's so funny?! Why didn't that blast work?" Tem yelled.
Axonn pointed at the gem that was previously clear and see through, and realized that it was now light blue. "This gem can store elemental energy, just like your shoes can, but this doesn't last long so I have to use it before it disperses."
"How do you plan to use element energy?"
"Like this," Axonn said as he started to spin his sword at his side until it looked like a giant wheel. The fast he spun it the more sparks it gave off. Axonn moved it to point towards Tem and the gem started to glow. When the glow got blinding bright the light disappeared and the blast Tem had just sent at Axonn, came right back at him.
Tem was caught off guard and wasn't able to defend himself in time and was engulfed in the blast. It sent Tem back into and through the wooden fence surrounding the arena. "And the battle is over; Tem has gone out of bounds!" Zack yelled as he walked to Tem, who was now unconscious from the hit into the fence, and picked him up and took him inside to his room to rest.
^. ^ End of Chapter 2 ^. ^