I've never been a troublemaker before, but I'm not going to put up with anything from anyone. I'm not going to let her ruin school for me like some of my past teachers have. I refuse. The only thing working for me is the fact that a lot of dragon society works around a merit system. So if I can make my statements have merit, I can bypass some things. Like teachers who don't know how to teach advanced students.
So for this to work I have to over power a full grown adult will only using a single element. I may have some serious training and some extra tricks from the blue gems, but she has years of experience with her element and I've only been a dragon for a little over six months. So I may have bitten off more than I can chew.
It was almost time for the battle and I can't lie, I'm a little nervous. While I was with Ignitus I fought hundreds of enemies, but I've never fought another dragon.
"You sure you're going to be ok Sam?"
"Come on Cynder, have some faith in him. I don't think he would have picked a fight if he didn't think he could win."
"Thanks Spyro and yes Cynder I'll be fine, I'm actually more concerned about what'll happen if I win."
They both give me this really confused look, trying to figure out how winning would be a bad thing.
"C'mon guys. Wouldn't you think it's strange that the new kid, who showed up out of nowhere, takes down an adult in combat."
"Actually, we can't exactly say we've been through this, but we have taken down an adult of two, so I can get where you're coming from."
"Spyro's right, we may not share your exact situation but we can understand. When we had to take down one of the adults here in Warfang everyone started looking at us differently. So we can at least empathize and help you afterward.
"Thanks guys, I appreciate it."
It's nice to see that their bad situation hasn't turned them into bad people. I just hope that I can help them stay that way. That's also why I really want to win this. I have a real chance to get into their class and give them the friend they never had. So I resolve myself and start heading to the school stadium entrance.
When I get there I find Mrs. Bitch (yes I'm going to call her that now) and Mr. Parker waiting for me. She's Wearing a smug look on her face like she's already won. Before I could even think of something to respond to that Mr. Parker steps forward.
"Good you're here, I have all the preparations taken care of. However, there have been some changes. The staff and the other students are going to be here to watch. Mrs. Fig made a good point, this is going to be an excellent display of the wind element and a perfect way to show the other students what they can eventually accomplish."
No, this is just Mrs. Bitch trying to set an example by beating me into the ground in front of the rest of the students. Well I'm not going to give her the chance to.
We head into the stadium and the first thing I notice is that it's more like a colosseum then a stadium, I guess because it's small it's just called a stadium. We walk to the middle to the starting positions of the match and get ready while Mr. Parker goes off to the side to the referee stand.
"Now let me make this clear, nothing potentially lethal is allowed and the match ends if either side is incapacitated or taps out! Begin!"
With that, I quickly open my wing and launch myself backwards and kick up as much dust as I can. I want to see what she is capable of before I make a plan. She quickly used her wings to blow away the dirt and locks on to me. She charges at me with her claws wrapped in wind, she intends for this to hurt. I just have to play the evasion game for a bit. However, She gets tired of it quite quickly and starts changing her tactics. Now she's trying to knock me over from a distance with several different long range attacks. She keeps alternating between a wing flap and blowing at me. She keeps launching attack after attack and nothing is hitting.
Well here it goes. I laugh straight at Mrs Bitch, ready to attack. She's already got the look on her face like she's won. I can't wait to see her face after I kicker ass into next week. I can tell she is getting ready to just smack me out of the sky with a wind claw and just try and pummel me. However this isn't just some regular charge. Right before I get into her range I curl up into a ball and make myself a living cannonball. This move is normally done by falling from the sky and by earth dragons, but since I can build up a lot of momentum with my wind powers I can pull it off from a horizontal position. It's not so much a wind skill as it is a fighting skill, but it still works, as it sends Mrs. Bitch flying across the arena into a wall. I'm now standing in the middle of the arena waiting for her response. It didn't take long, and it was loud, she pretty much threw out a war cry and charged straight at me. I took to the skies, it's time to finish this.
She only seems capable of the basic wind spells and maybe 2 advanced ones, but those are lethal so I don't have to worry about then. So I begin my assault. She tries to take off offer me and I just buffet her back to the ground with a breath of wind from my maw. She tries it again with a little more speed and again I push her back to the ground.
"Give up Mrs. Fig, you don't stand a chance."
"Why you little welp!"
She tries to get off the ground again and this time she launched one of her advanced spells at me, wind daggers. That's it, I'm done with her. I use my wings and launch a massive wave at her and the daggers. The daggers just get completely dissolved in the strong current and Mrs. Fig gets shoved into the ground, I send wave after wave at her continuously.
"How did such a disgusting person get a teaching job! You obviously are under qualified and when things don't go your way you try and beat one of your students. Then when they resist, you try and KILL THEM! Unacceptable!" I send torrent after torrent of wind at her, I may be going overboard but I am absolutely livid. She' can't even move at this point, she is being held down by the wind storm I'm sending at her. I want to just hit her with something to finish her off but I can't think of anything non lethal at the moment. I'm getting ready to ask her to give up again when all of a sudden Mrs. Fig screams in pain so I stop my onslaught.
"Are you ready to surrender Mrs. Fig!"
I get no response. I'm a little concerned, but I'm not dropping my guard. I'll just let Mr. Parker check on her first. She was willing to break the rules, I don't put dirty tricks past her. So after a few moments of no response Mr. Parker goes and checks on her.
"Get her some crystals!"
I know she deserved it, but I still feel bad for beating her down like that. I just hope I didn't hurt her too bad. I'm back on the ground now and I'm waiting to see if she's going to be ok. Someone is grabbing some crystals for her but somethings wrong, she's not breathing right. I walk up and gently put my paw on her to try and heal her if I can. When I tried to heal her I could feel what was wrong, Ignitus had told me about this, but it made me feel bad, I had broken her ribs and one had punctured her lung. I may not like her but I don't want this. So I do my best to fix what I can on my own without anyone noticing. I've never done this before so I'm not sure I'm doing it right, but from what I've read, the simplest thing and easiest for novices, is to just provide the body with energy to keep them alive until proper treatment can be administered. Thankfully it has no visual effect so no one will notice but I can feel it working. Her breathing is steadying and she doesn't look to be in as much pain now either. I feel terrible that I put her life in danger. I need to be more careful from now on. I just really didn't think I had gotten this powerful. I hope blue gems aren't like steroids, I don't need to be known as the most powerful dragon with the smallest Dick. Well my paranoia aside, Mrs. Bitch is going to be ok. The gems are here and doing their work. So I can move on to some more important things.
"So does that mean my transfer has been approved?"
"Excuse me!?"
"That is what we agreed on Mr. Parker, in fact it was the main reason I offered the challenge."
"Ah yes, you can start tomorrow."
I immediately take off into the air and rush over to tell Spyro and Cynder the good news. However, my fears about the match were well founded, because back at the stadium the staff were discussing what to do with me.
"We can't have a student like him on campus, if he doesn't get his way he is more than capable of disposing of one of us as you can see"
"Why did you even agree to this fight Mr. Parker? Now he thinks he can go around picking fights with the staff."
"I originally agreed to it to allow Mrs. Fig to get her self out of trouble and to discipline her student on her own."
"Well seriously injured her, I think he should be immediately expelled and put on trial!"
"I agree"
"That would make the most sense"
"Fools! If he wanted her to be in pain he wouldn't have bothered healing her"
"What!?"
"There is no way he has healing magic, he's only a wind welp!"
"Then how did she Recover so quick, even though it took several minutes for gems to be administered on a wound that normally takes several to heal?"
"That is strange now that you mention it, and how come no gems where on sight anyway. That's the normal procedure."
"She wanted him to do a walk of shame on his way to the nurses office"
"That is extremely unethical"
"She needs to be removed from the teaching staff"
Everyone nodes their agreement.
"So what are we going to do about Sam?"
"I still say he needs to be expelled and put on trial"
To this, all but one agree, that would be Spyro and Cynder's teacher. He stuck up for me, but he could do nothing on his own. At this point my fate is sealed, but I am none the wiser.
I had just landed when all of a sudden I'm flooded with questions.
"One at a time guys I can't answer two questions at once."
Spyro speaks up first "So did you win!? What happened!?
"I won"
"Aaaannd?"
"I kinda pummeled her into the ground" I'm drooping a little just from remembering it, but I can at least say I tried to make amends.
Cynder finally takes her turn, "so why do you look like you lost, you should be excited!"
"I hurt her Cynder, I hurt her bad."
"Oh"
"Is she ok?" Spyro has a slight look of shock on his face but I shoot him a little grin"
"Ya, but I wouldn't be surprised if she felt that for a week."
We share a light chuckle but Spyro had a serious question to ask.
"So why did you do it? Hurt her I mean."
"She threw some wind knives at me, so I just let loose."
Cynder has a look of disgust "Serves her right then. That match was supposed to be a regulation fight."
"I know, but I still feel bad."
"That's a good thing." I raise my eyebrow at Spyro "don't get me wrong, she totally deserved it, but it's good that you don't take joy in hurting others"
Heh, I was supposed to be helping them, but they're helping me. I'm glad I came here, I can be happy as I am with them.
At least that was the plan.
