Chapter 10: Mountain Training
(Helcomec's PoV)
I woke up at five o'clock to get ready to follow Issei and his friends to the mountain they are going to train on. I brought my new backpack and transportation device just in case there is a fight.
I left the house through one of the secret passage ways that led to the school's track. I used my invincibility ability to hide from them and I headed to the house in the forest. I went inside and I saw that everyone was there already and that they were standing on a red circle on the ground. I wonder what it is.
"That's a magic circle. We use magic circle to do a lot of things. Some ways of using them is attacking, blocking, and as a source of transportation. From what I can see, that circle is a transportation magic circle. They must be teleporting to the mountain." Explained Demonica. "I recommend that you jump into that magic circle because their about to leave."
Demonica was right. The magic circle started to flash brighter and they were engulfed in a red light. Just before it disappeared I jumped into the magic circle and ran behind a rock. Hopefully I didn't touch anyone when I jumped into the magic circle. I watched them from behind the rock and they started climbing up the mountain. I ran up ahead of them while I was out of sight. I made it to the top and I hid in the forest at the top to test if the burst crystals worked. I used the teleporter to teleport the Charizard burst Crystal to me and I tried to activate it if it actually worked like my dad wrote in his journal. I held it in my hand and nothing happened so I tried to use magic power to activate it and I felt the power of the crystal flow into me.
"I see so the way to activate these crystals is to open up the magic gates in your hands so that the power flows inside of them." Said Miranda analyzing what just happened.
"What are magic gates?" I asked.
"To put it simply, magic gates are like small points in your body that open up when you use magic and close when you aren't. An example is you regeneration ability. For the regeneration ability to flow your magic gate in your heart will stay open until you are fully healed. Right now you tried using some kind of magic but instead you opened up your gates and absorbed the energy of the crystal. But the only one who can absorb magic from people are copy dragons or people that have a draining ability. Another tip about magic gates is that in every part of your body there are at least five gates in every body part just in case one of them gets temporarily sealed due to an attack. And that's pretty all the things you have to learn about magic gates." She explained to me in detail.
I kept absorbing its power and orange armour started to appear on me. The helmet looked like the head of a Charizard and there were no wings but sword and shield appeared on my back. The shield had the same colour scheme of a Charizard's wings of orange and green. I took out the sword from it's sheath and it started to flame up to represent a Charizard's tail with it's tail having a flame on it.
I tried to return the burst crystals power to the crystal and the armour and weapons started to disappear. I teleported it back to my bag and I decided to walk around until I can find where they are staying. I walked until lunch time and I found some kind of mansion at the top of the mountain. This must be where they are staying. I knock on the door and Azazel opened the door.
"Your the guy that I saw yesterday. Oh you must be the last guest that Rias Gremory invited yesterday at the new neighbours party. She told me she invited the new neighbours saying something about sensing that you people fought before and you were missing on some training so she invited you guys. Well then, welcome to the training facility of the Gremory household." Azazel said leading me towards a big room with all of my friends sitting at the table eating lunch.
"Hey look he found his way here. Why are you always so late to everything we do, aren't you supposed to be our leader?" Said Carl stuffing his face.
"Wait, why is everyone here? No one told me that you would be here." I said with a surprised expression on my face.
"We tried to tell you but you left early so we told everyone else. I thought that they told you." Rias Gremory said.
"Well, we tried but his door was locked and he wouldn't respond when we called his name. So we made a note for him and put it on his door." Alice said to Rias.
I was playing video games with headphones on the whole night so I didn't hear her. I guess that I didn't have to wake up early then. I should have stayed back in the house and waited like they did. If only I had the ability to see the future events then I would be able to know if I should have followed or not. I sat at an empty seat at the giant table and started eating.
After eating we walked to an open area to practice some sword battles. There was enough wooden swords for everyone. Most of us took a sword and we gathered at the centre to find out who's fighting first.
"Okay so how should we do this? I think it's better if we use the strongest swordsman on both sides to start the match. Then we can do random battles after that. Does that sound good." Rias suggested. I agree with that option.
"Yeah, that sounds great we will decide on who our best is while you decide your best." Jessie said to her moving us away from them. "Okay guys who do you think is the best swordsman in our group. I think it's my little brother."
"Yeah I agree to that." Said Zoltar leaning against a tree.
"What do you mean he's stronger it was only a fluke that he won against me so I nominate myself and everyone else agrees with me right." Carl said trying to look cool again.
"Fine then since we have two people let's vote by standing next to the person we think is best and the one with most votes win." Jessie said walking next to me. And everyone else followed suit following her to my side.
"Fine but you'll see he's going to lose the first second he walks in there." Said Carl sitting down cross legged pouting like a child.
I walked into the plain area and saw that my opponent is the boy with blond hair that always has a sword beside him.
"Hey Helcomec, I didn't properly introduce myself yet right? My name is Kiba and I am the Gremory households strongest swordsman. Prepare yourself."
"Can I use more than one sword? Or do I have to use only the one sword?" I asked him.
"You can use as many as you want as long as it deals with your sword style." He told me.
I grabbed seven more wooden swords with sheaths and put four near my hips and two on my back while wielding two.
"Are you okay if I use magic or is that too much? I can fight without it too if you want." I told him.
"I see so you can use magic. I prefer to fight you at one hundred percent but I want to fight you without your magic." Kiba said to me holding his wooden sword getting ready to fight.
"Okay that's fine." I said to him getting ready to fight him too.
There was a loud bang and Kiba started running up to me. I started off by being on the defensive to test out his fighting style first and then I will go on the offensive once I know his fighting style.
He swung the sword at me but, I blocked it with my left sword and countered with my right. Kiba dodged it and approached swinging his sword faster than before so that I can't get a chance to counter him. He's not swing randomly either, he's aiming his swings. At this rate he's going to hit me sooner or later so decided to use two more swords. I grabbed two swords in between my ring and pinky fingers on each hand and put the other two swords in between my middle and index fingers.
Kiba kept on swinging at me with the same speed but, I caught his sword in between the two swords on my left hand and swung at him with my right hand. He didn't dodge it so he took the hit of both swords. He pulled his sword away and began to swing at me again but this time he blocked against both of the swords. He keeps one upping me so I pulled out two more swords and put them in between my index and middle fingers to represent the superhero Wolverine. This time I caught his sword with three of the swords and it will be tougher to break out of this so I swung at him twice. This time he dodged it by jumping onto the hilt of his sword and pulled the sword upwards which was the easiest way to remove the blade of the sword.
I started to get impatient and started to go on the offensive. I took out the remaining two swords and placed them in between the hilts of the other swords and my hand with both os the swords' blades facing forward. I started of by swinging towards him and he blocked every single one of my attacks. Then I attacked him by swinging the three swords towards him at the same time and he blocked both attacks at an amazing speed making my arms retaliate in the opposite direction. Then at an amazing speed I used the other swords that we in my hand to trap his sword again but this time I used the three swords to close in on Kiba's sword and his sword shattered leaving him open and unable to attack.
Without his sword he rose his hand up in the air and gave up. "Wow man I did not expect you to use them at the same time. I thought that you were going to use them as extra or something like that. Either way I lost fair and square. If it's possible I would like to spar against you again using real swords." Kiba said extending an arm out.
"Sure we can spar again if you want to but next time it's going to be different. Next time I'm going to fight you with even more tricks than just my claw style." I said to him grabbing his hand and shaking on it.
After that everyone else fought and of course Carl lost to the blue haired girl whose name was Xenovia. After everyone was done it was almost five o'clock and most of us headed into the dining room to eat. Or so I thought.
"Okay so everyone here that can use magic can you come with me into the kitchen, I'm going to teach you how to use and control magic." Said a girl with long black hair that was tied back in a ponytail. "Rias you can stay here and practice your own training."
"Thanks Akeno, I'll be in the library so call me once dinner is ready." Rias said walking out of the dining room.
We followed Akeno into the kitchen which was pretty big. Inside there was a lot of potatoes and carrots with pots and pans.
"Okay since you guys can use magic I want to see if you can manifest it so that only raw magic comes out like this." She told us holding her hand out and a green light came out of it. "Like this now you guys try and Issei and Asia you can start on dinner while I train these guys."
Issei and a girl with blonde hair that was dressed as a nun started to cut up the vegetables using the green light and they were also heating up the water with it. All of them tried doing what Akeno said but instead of a green light coming from their hands there was more destruction than green light. Andr tried it and a purple light came out and landed on the ceiling and she teleported there and fell into the boiling water making her teleporting away from it, Cupa
tried it and she kept on making explosions, Zoltar tried it and a rotting arm came out of nowhere, Silk tried it but spider webs kept coming out, Skelly tried it and aromas shot out of her hand, and the only ones able to do it were Darkness, Norne, and I. Akeno told us that we can help with the cooking and put up a barrier up to protect us from the destruction going on the other side.
"Hey Helcomec, your bleeding a lot you know. You have a lot of cuts and cut on you you know that." Said Issei. "Hey Asia can you heal him up a bit so that blood won't get on our food."
"O-okay, Issei. I'll heal you up right away." She said walking up to me holding her hands on my back using the green light we saw before. But she stopped healing me because I was already healed before she started healing me.
"Thank you Asia I'll help with the cooking now."
"O-o-okay, I'll leave it to you then." She said nervously as she went back to her station.
I used my telekinetic s to help with the cooking. I brought four lots to my station and I filled them up with water from the sink and placed them on the stove. I brought the potatoes ontop of the pot and cut them up into small pieces using about eight knives and I just kept on doing that until my pots were fully cooked with curry. I tasted it and it tastes like the curry that Jessie used to make me when I was sick. I brought my curry out into the dining room by using telekenasis and Darkness and Norne both came out with two rice cookers for each of them. While Issei and Asia came out with their soup. Akeno shortly followed with the beaten and battered mob princesses and prince. Everyone started to eat and Akeno just remembered something.
"Helcomec can you go and get Rias. She's in the library thank you very much." She said to me.
"Okay" I said getting up and looked for the library.
There are a lot of rooms in this mansion so I used my Phantasm to search for it faster. I found it and went inside to see that Rias was asleep at a table. I woke her up and she followed me but she was so sleepy that she kept falling over so I gave her a piggyback ride towards the dining room. We arrived and there was almost half of what used to be there. I dropped Rias of at an empty seat and we started eating.
"Okay now that we are finished eating we will now take a bath and Issei this time I don't want you to be seen peeking over the wall." Said Rias to Issei with a stern look in her eyes. But the way she sounded just shouts out 'look all you want.' Oh well we'll see what happens when the time comes.