A Burning Rune, Shining Blade, and Rusty Sword Chapter 9
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Job Classes~
Elsword-Infinity Sword
Rune-Rune Slayer
Aruji-Lord Knight
Aisha-Void Princess
Raven-Reckless Fist
Rena-Wind Sneaker
Eve- Code:Empress
Elesis-Blazing Heart
Ara-Sakra Devanam
Chung-Iron Paladin
Add-Mastermind
Elsword picked up Angkor and looked into Angkor's blank eyes first thing in the morning when he got out of bed. Angkor took one look at Elsword's bed head and then spat a letter at Elsword's face, Angkor then struggled out of Elsword's hands and exploded on the spot with a loud BANG, making purple gas spew out everywhere. Raven woke up abruptly when he heard the mini-explosion.
"The hell?!" Raven growled, sitting up in his bed and grabbing his sword while looking around wildly through the aftermath of Angkor's exit.
Elsword coughed and waved out the gas while taking a look at the letter. "Nothing major happened Raven." He reassured his roommate while giving an irked look at the letter when he realized who sent it. Elsword flipped open the letter and read what was inside while Raven went back to sleep grumbling after realizing there was no danger.
Hey Elsword! It's Aisha here! I hope you're fully awake by now! If you aren't then Angkor will be your alarm clock, you won't be sleeping in this weekend!
Elsword's left eye twitched in an irritated manner as he read this.
After you get this letter I'll be waiting in front of Praus's classroom at 9:00 sharp, better be there or else you'll face the wrath of Angkor for making a girl wait!
Underneath the writing was a hand drawn mini-Aisha and Angkor with a very menacing smile, how Aisha managed to draw a menacing smile so…menacingly was beyond Elsword. Elsword, though, was gritting his teeth in annoyance and shakily gripping the letter in his hands. Elsword abruptly stood up and threw the letter onto the ground.
"Why couldn't you just wake me up with a regular messenger instead of sending in the demon bat that hates me!? Why did you to make Angkor blow up in the middle of my room?! What was with the strange drawing at the end!? You know we should've discussed our plans before we separated yesterday!" Elsword breathed out all of his pent up anger about all the ruckus Angkor (by Aisha's command) caused in the morning.
"Elsword…I'm trying to get some extra sleep, I've still got prefect duties even on weekends." Raven grumbled, also clearly annoyed by the commotion within their room.
Elsword let out an exasperated sigh and went to change into his regular armor and clothing and headed out of his dorm door yawning at the 8 AM rising sun coming in from the windows of the corridors within the boys dormitory.
"God damn it, I'm so tired, and hungry." Elsword yawned, stretching his sleeveless, but armored, arms in the air as he walked into the familiar grand halls of the academy. "I guess I'll go to the cafeteria and grab some-" Elsword's monologue was cut off by a familiar smug redhead.
"Hey, Els! Els!" Rune called over to his brother and casually slid an arm around Elsword's shoulder. "You know, saying you're hungry first thing in the morning will make you look like the main protagonist of a book series. Anyways check out what big sis just informed me about!" Rune shoved what looked like a flyer underneath Elsword's face.
Elsword felt like he was grabbing pieces of paper more and more nowadays as he held the flyer to a readable position.
"Ah, it's a flyer for a battle competition." Elsword muttered after reading the whole flyer.
"You gonna participate?" Rune asked Elsword.
"No, you?"
Rune chuckled cheekily and grinned confidently like always. "Yeah, I'm gonna be the one to beat my way to the top here! I have the best fighting style out of all of us after all!" Rune laughed while flipping his bangs. Suddenly a fist came down onto his head.
"You won't be able to participate if you don't get your supplementary lessons done. I can't believe you got into detention yesterday, you should've just fled from the Taranvash." Aruji, being the mature one he was, scolded Rune.
"Damn it Aruji don't kill my groove! You would be happy to have me disqualified first because I would completely smash you and humiliate you if we clashed blades huh?" Rune taunted the Lord Knight.
Aruji smiled, trying to maintain a calm posture at Rune's antics, though his eyebrows and twitching mouth clearly showing that he was annoyed. "Come on Rune, I have a duty to make sure you don't cause any trouble on the weekends so let's go to your supplementary lessons." Aruji struggled to say this kindly to Rune.
Rune grabbed Aruji's shirt underneath his armor and pulled him forward. "I don't like being ordered around man." Rune smirked at Aruji.
Aruji nearly snapped, he grabbed Rune's shirt and glared with a toothy grin at Rune's eyes. "Hey bro, try not to anger me right now. I'll do to you what I did to the guy that was making crude graffiti on the walls of the school I saw just awhile ago when I walked back from the cafeteria." Aruji threatened, which he rarely ever did, though Aruji was feeling rather aggressive this morning when Rune continuously tried to run away from important lessons.
"Heheheh, looks like you're finally feeling it!" Rune grinned excitedly and unstrapped his sword from his belt, or maybe belts, and held it behind his back.
"I don't feel like doing this today Rune." Aruji growled. "Just play the good boy today and get done the lessons you missed while you were in detention yesterday being whipped by Assistant Headmaster Vanessa."
Rune for once flinched at the mention of Vanessa's name. "I just let my guard down and went easy on her!" Rune made an excuse nearly every rookie knight that suffered a humiliating defeat says, putting him on a mentally low level in Aruji's and Elsword's minds.
Elsword waved a hand. "Well, you guys have fun then. Good luck Aruji on getting Rune to go to his lessons, good luck on escaping Rune." Elsword gave his salutes and turned around.
"Hold on Elsword," Rune stopped Elsword. "Big sis has a message."
Elsword turned his head around.
"She said, and I quote…." Rune coughed and leaned in close, trying to mimic Elesis's intimidating look. "Elsword better participate or else…" Rune leaned in closer to Elsword's ear and whispered. "I'll rip him a new one." Rune receded back out and smacked Elsword's arm twice and grinned cheekily at him. "So you better participate." He told Elsword.
"A chance," Aruji yelled, and dashed at Rune, swinging his sword down. Rune simply turned around a blocked the slash with his sword, which made Aruji recoil at the impact.
"Counter chance!" Rune yelled smiling and swung his steel sword at Aruji's side only to miss due to Aruji dodge rolling out of the way. "What kind of person yells if he gets a chance to attack, that just kills the fact that you have a chance!" Rune told Aruji with a disappointed look.
Elsword checked his watch; he only had 20 minutes to meet Aisha. He walked hurriedly away so he wouldn't have to skip his breakfast. A knight's strength depends on his stomach after all.
Elsword's head was immediately smacked by Aisha's staff when he arrived at their waiting spot outside of Praus's classroom.
"What took you so long? You know you shouldn't make a girl wait! If you ever intend on becoming a knight you should try to be more courteous to girls! I waited here an extra 15 minutes!" Aisha scolded the redhead.
Elsword gritted his teeth as he rubbed his head where Aisha hit. "You could've just scolded me you know, there's no need to hit my head with your staff! It has edges that are dangerous you know!" Elsword scowled at the purple garmented girl.
Aisha put a hand on her hip and put one finger into the air with her other hand, waving it back and forth. "It's like that saying you know! Um, oh yeah, 'No pain, no gain,'" Aisha told Elsword.
"That doesn't really apply to this does it?!" Elsword argued, slightly swinging an open hand as if to prove a point.
"Of course it does, if I hit you like so, you'll remember the pain and don't commit the same actions once again!" Aisha justified.
Elsword rubbed his teeth on his lower lip and looked to his left grumbling. "Sometimes you can be such a-" Elsword stopped his sentence when he saw the dangerous smiley expression on Aisha's face and her tight grip on her dark purple staff.
"A what?" she asked menacingly, Angkor suddenly expanding behind her.
"A-a-a-a-an excellent and kind friend, no, a teacher in my life!" Elsword corrected himself in panic.
Aisha put her staff on her shoulder and turned around towards the door to Praus's classroom while Angkor shrunk back down. "Well you don't have to go that far, ehehehe!" Aisha giggled.
"The Void Princess is scary and so dominating…" Elsword shivered as both of them entered through the door.
"Yo Praus!" Aisha casually called out the extremely friendly teacher's name.
"Good morning." Elsword greeted.
Praus smiled that warm, friendly grin at the two students entering. "Heya kiddos, you're here for the translated skill book right?" Praus confirmed, holding up a red binder.
"Skill book?" Elsword asked.
"Yeah, turns out it was a whole book that teaches skills and enhanced versions of skills for users of the Conwell." Praus looked at the binder again. "This book though, it looked like it was made quite recently though, not now recently, but it was definitely not made 1000 years ago or something like that despite its battered form." Praus chuckled and threw the binder towards Elsword, who barely caught it in surprise. "Well, good luck on learning those skills Elsword. By the way, it looks like I wasn't quite able to translate the whole thing last night, so bring it back to me once and a while so that I can update the skill book okay?" Praus told Elsword and Aisha.
Aisha grinned and nodded excitedly. "We've got it, though you already done a lot for him already!" Aisha replied, pointing at Elsword's arm.
"Not 'us'? Well, I guess it makes sense since this is more just for me to learn these skills." Elsword thought, flipping the binder open. "…doing this for me huh…" he finished the thought and closed the binder.
"Oh yeah, I really wanted to talk about something with you guys." Praus motioned for them to come closer and leaned in. "What we're talking about here is strictly for our ears only so don't go blabbing okay?" he whispered to the both of them.
They nodded, sweat dropping. What was so secret that they had to do a sacred huddle up to discuss about? Demon invasion? Dangerous teachers? Plot to kick out the care free headmaster from the academy?
"I think I'm going to…." Praus muttered.
Elsword and Aisha gulped.
"…propose to Hanna." Praus finished.
"…" there was silent until Aisha clapped her hands together.
"That's wonderful!" she cheered with a grin, "When are you going to do it?" she asked.
"Th-That's…" Praus turned away with a slightly red look. "Well you see I may not want to do it in fear that she might reject my proposal since she may not be ready yet.…"
Elsword coughed and turned away. "With how she reacts to your letter it would be hard to think she would reject it…" Elsword muttered, walking over to a wall and punching a crater in it. "Sorry, I just remembered something I shouldn't so I had to punch a wall to get my mind back." He said to the staring Aisha and Praus.
"Anyways," Aisha continued, ignoring Elsword's actions.
"Hey, I just did something dynamic! Don't just ignore it!" Elsword exclaimed, smalls pieces of the broken wall falling out of the fist-sized crater.
"You should definitely try it out! How long have you guys been together?" Aisha asked, getting all excited.
"I-I asked her out when we were 18 and we've been together for a few years now…" Praus said, blushing with an embarrassed. He moved his hand to the back of his head. "Geez, I'm telling you guys such embarrassing things…"
"Are you a maiden or something!?" Elsword retorted, only to get a hard punch to the gut by Aisha.
"Don't interrupt the talk about their precious relationship." She growled dangerously. "Also don't look at the book without me okay?"
Elsword fell to the ground groaning and holding his gut. "Y-Yes ma'am." He groaned and looked back up to see Aisha already back to discussing Praus's love life. He smiled. "I guess Aisha has a girly side to her as well…" He thought and felt more pain to his stomach. "….though she can still be quite a brute."
After half an hour of Praus's and Aisha's chat, which Elsword had to sit on a desk and stare at the wall daydreaming or summon Conwell and clean him, Aisha and him finally left the classroom.
"Good luck Praus, I hope it goes well!" Aisha waved to the cordial teacher.
Praus smiled back and waved. "Yeah, thanks for the confidence boost! If she does reject my proposal I'll just build our relationship back up!" Praus waved back.
"Ah, that was a good time spent." Aisha sighed and swiftly swiped from underneath Elsword's hands, sending a folded piece of paper falling out of Elsword's unbuttoned mini pocket that was on the side of his belt.
"Ah…" Elsword bent down to pick it up but Aisha, who was wearing no extra armor so she was much more quicker, swiped at it first. She looked at it.
"Oh hey, this is a flyer for the academy's battle competition. You're doing it?" she asked Elsword with a amused look.
"Yeah, big sis is kind of forcing me too so…" Elsword put a hand on his shoulder, massaging it. "I'll probably lose within a few rounds though." Elsword muttered.
"Hmmm, that may not be true…" Aisha murmured to herself. "Anyways, I'll be joining in this competition too! I might as well join in as well!" she declared.
Elsword looked at Aisha and then back away. "I guess the Void Princess can fight for herself very well." He said.
"Hey, at least show some worry for me!" she pouted and then flipped open the red binder and put the flyer into the side pocket of it. "Well then, now that we've got that business out of the way let's go to the training grounds outside!" Aisha exclaimed.
"What? Why?" Elsword asked, surprised at this sudden suggestion.
"We're going to teach you these new skills right now, duh!" Aisha laughed.
"We're not gonna look them over?" Elsword asked.
"I've sat down and read for a lifetime, let's go 'do' more than sit around analyzing!" Aisha grabbed Elsword's arm and dragged him outside into the weekend sun.
"Hey, hold on! Don't rush! My body's not physically ready yet!" Elsword yelped.
"You're one of the Sieghart bloodlines that serve the Red Knights right? You should always be prepared for training and battle!" Aisha exclaimed, as they stepped into the training grounds where all the Training Monkey wooden punching bags stood.
Aisha pushed Elsword towards one and then floated onto one of the Training Monkeys and opened the binder.
"Infinity Sword skill training start!" she declared with a big amused smile.
"Someone seems to be having fun…" Elsword chuckled.
I feel as if I've switched Elsword and Aisha's canon personalities in this story. Like, Elsword's the calm and polite one whereas Aisha's the active and happy-go-lucky type. •_•
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Anyways, this is the chapter 9 for the story with an insanely long title! So, how did you like this chapter? I appreciate you all for reading it! So we shall now wait for next time! (Flips hair and disappears through a flurry of Infinity Sword's hyper active)