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Currently Jaune Arc was in no small terms fighting for his life! It was been a week since he was set free in Aokigahara, the largest forest in all of Japan!
Jaune has been fighting for his life against his next instructor who happened to be the super soldier Gaia!
Gaia was the master of the environment and he was certainly making that true as he has been figuratively and very literally hunting Jaune over the last seven days!
"Ha...Ha... got to keep running as this guy's trying to kill me!"said Jaune, finding it hard to keep his breath as he has had little food and sleep over the last week trying to survive the relentless onslaught Gaia has delivered on him!
Gaia wasn't like his last two instructors, this one used weapons and anything else like traps and cheap shots in order to subdue his prey AKA Jaune Arc!
Jaune has almost been stabbed, shot, arrowed, and drowned multiple times over the last week and honestly it was starting to take the toll on his mental state!
"A...so tired... but I have to keep moving as I know he's close behind me..."said Jaune, feeling like the exhaustion was going to get to him at some point!
'I have managed to survive so far by living off the land. I feel so bad for that rabbit I ate but I was so hungry I couldn't help myself...This Gaia is definitely the ultimate survival expert as I've been running from him for days and yet I feel like he's just playing a game of cat and mouse with me, and he's the sadistic cat playing with its food!' thought Jaune, who noticed the nearby mud hole and decided to use it to mask his scent.
Jaune removed all of his clothes and covered his body head to toe in mud, and soon he noticed that Gaia, in his full military fatigues came by a few minutes later and started looking for him, sniffing into the air.
"I see you managed to mask your scent, Jaune. I'm very impressed as I can tell just a few more days of this training and you'll definitely know how to be the ultimate survival expert!"said Gaia, as Jaune was wondering if he was being mocked or not.
'I have to defeat this bastard or I'm going to be stuck in this forest for the rest of my life!' thought Jaune, feeling like he was literally in between a rock and a hard place.
Gaia was right in front of him and behind him he could swear that something was crawling up his back! Luckily for Jaune, he didn't have to wait long as Gaia made his way elsewhere while Jaune got the giant centipede off his back and headed into a nearby waterfall to rinse himself off!
"Ahh! I'm so glad I didn't wear my clothes when I covered my body in mud. Can't exactly move around when I'm covered in mud or wet clothes."said Jaune, who was getting tired of going on defense and decided to go on offense!
He learned a few tricks while on that island and while being in this giant forest! So he figures it's time to give Gaia a taste of his own medicine!
Jaune proceeded to dry himself off with some nearby leaves before placing his pants back on and covering his cheeks with dirt marks! Jaune ripped a sleeve off his shirt and turned it into a makeshift bandana as he can feel the adrenaline in his body begin to change him as his muscles began to bulge more!
Jaune then proceeded to start making makeshift traps everywhere with whatever he could find around him as he knew sooner or later Gaia would come back to look for him! Now it was time to show the ultimate survivalist a thing or two about combat in the woods!
And this time he would use the environment to his advantage!
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A short while later, Gaia came back and started looking around for Jaune with his M16 assault rifle. But just as Gaia was about to take another step for he stepped onto a trap that at least a barrage of heavy stones at him!
The mercenary quickly got out of the way but his rifle was knocked out of his hands but he proceeded to pull out his p26 semi-automatic pistol from its holster! Jaune then proceeded to start screaming from different directions while running in a zigzag pattern all around Gaia!
Gaia started shooting at him as he went to go pick up his M16 assault rifle! But before he could Jaune activated another trap that made a large log start rolling down towards Gaia! The ultimate soldier quickly jumped out of the way but his M16 rifle was crushed!
"I see you're using the environment against me! I'm impressed as it's clear you're learning! But let's see how you can handle me when I'm on ultimate adrenaline!"said Gaia, who began focusing the adrenaline into his body and soon he could feel his muscles bulging as his speed, stamina, agility, and most importantly strength increased by tenfold!
Jaune meanwhile pulled out a knife he made out of a rock and cut another makeshift rope to activate a trap, causing the ground beneath Gaia to fall out as it was revealed to be a tiger trap! Gaia quickly caught himself and managed to get himself out of the trap, but he was quickly kneed in the face courtesy of Jaune Arc!
Gaia tried to shoot Jaune with his pistol, but the young Arc knocked it out of his hand and tried to cut Gaia with his makeshift rock knife, but the ultimate soldier pulled out his Ka-Bar hunting knife and intercepted the rock knife in mid-air!
"Impressive! Not only did you make a bunch of traps with only things you found around yourself! But you even have managed to make a makeshift knife out of stone in the few hours I left you alone here! Now let's see if you can handle that knife!"said Gaia as he charged in!
Jaune and Gaia proceeded to get into a makeshift knife fight as both tried to stab and cut one another with their respective knives! Gaia went for a roundhouse kick, but Jaune proceeded to jump and use Gaia's leg as a foothold as he launched himself and kicked the ultimate survival expert in the chin with his foot!
Gaia could feel his world spinning around him as as Jaune managed to mess with his equilibrium and his sense of balance! Jaune quickly tried to use this opportunity to attack Gaia with a jab, and the punch connected by sending the ultimate soldier into a nearby tree!
This unfortunately knocked Gaia back to his senses as he quickly recovered and charged towards Jaune, but not before throwing a smoke grenade at Jaune!
Jaune quickly grabbed it and threw it in between them as the grenade went off and released a whole bunch of smoke, causing the young Hanma to begin coughing as he tried to look for Gaia.
"Five...four...three...two...one..."said Gaia as he jumped under the smoke and struck Jaune before disappearing back into the smoke.
"Five... four...three...two...one..."said Gaia before he tried to attack Jaune with a kick to the family jewels but Jaune manage to avoid it in the nick of time.
'He's trying to use psychological warfare on me by counting so that every time he goes to zero he attacks. I can't see him at all because of this smoke, but I know the exact moment when he's going to strike so I won't let him psych me out!' thought Jaune as he closed his eyes and began to use his other senses to listen for where Gaia was.
"Five...four...three...two...one..."said Gaia as he went in for the attack!
But to his surprise he was grabbed by Jaune and thrown onto the ground with great force as the young Arc got on top of him and began to try to pin him to the ground! But Gaia wasn't making it easy for him as he threw Jaune off of him and allowed Jaune to disappear into the smoke!
"My turn!"shouted Jaune, as Gaia got up and looked around for the young Hanma!
"Ten...Nine..Eight...Seven...Six..."said Jaune, as Gaia was trying to look for him as the smoke began to clear.
"Five...Four...Three...Two...One..."said Jaune as the smoke was clearing.
"Zero..."said Jaune into Gaia's ear, as Gaia tried to attack him with his knife only to be shot in the forehead with the p26 pistol that Jaune had picked up!
"Ow!"said Gaia, revealing that it was full of rubber bullets as he was struck with a rubber bullet.
"I saw where it landed when it fell onto the floor and when the smoke gave me the perfect cover I picked it up. I guess that means I win as if this was a real gun you would have been dead!"said Jaune, as Gaia looked at him with surprise before laughing.
"Kid, I have been on more battlefields than I can count and I have never seen anyone get the drop on me like that like you did! You are like a sponge for learning new techniques as you quickly mastered my use of the environment and used it against me. I'm impressed as you're certainly Baki and Jack's brother all right! I can't wait to see how much you'll grow in the future."said Gaia, deciding to admit defeat like a good sport.
"So... can we get some proper food now and maybe a proper toilet as I've been cleaning myself with leaves these past several days and it's really starting to chaf."said Jaune, as he felt like he had indigestion after eating nothing but what he could find in the woods the last seven days.
This made Gaia laugh as this unknown son of Ogre was certainly an interesting combatant as he was a beast when he was in combat but he was a complete goofball in a normal setting!
Now all he needed to do was finish his intense training that Mr Tokugawa came up for him!
All he needed to do was that and mate with a woman and he would surely be a force of nature!
After all it was through mating that Hanma's can really become more powerful!
Jaune on the other hand just wanted something to eat like ramen or curry as he has had nothing but berries and bugs combined with that rabbit over the last several days.
Add to that a proper shower and he would be happy till his next part of his hell training!
Jaune could only wonder who his next teacher would be!
