Chapter 3: A weapon and its master
Shane woke up early, as his usual for normally waking up at six AM daily for class. The sun wasn't up yet, heck it wasn't even in sight. It wouldn't be up for another hour he thought. He dressed up and walked out of the cave and back onto the plateau he ran off yesterday.
He stood there for a few minutes just looking at the scenery. It wasn't often that people get to do this, especially in a city Shane thought. Just a few moments later the first spec of sunlight appeared over the horizon. It's was time.
"So you're awake?" Shane turned around to see Edge Master at the center of the plateau looking at him, on the floor there were two great swords of enormous size. "Shall we begin?" he asked calmly.
"Yeah, but one question." Shane said walking over to one of the giant swords. "How…"He began trying to lift one of the swords with little success "am I supposed to lift these things?"
"With this little item" Edge Master answered holding up a small purple orb the size of a large marble. "This item will allow you to use your maximum strength, as I knew that most of the tasks ahead of you would be far too difficult. The one who I got it from calls it an Exsphere."
Exsphere!? Wait a minute, that's from the Tales series! Maybe when I got sucked into this place maybe several of my other games were included!? Oh please don't put me into the Smash Bros World of Trophies or I'm dead meat…!
"Uh… wow, amazing" Shane said with fake enthusiasm. Edge Master walked over to Shane placing the Exsphere right over his chest.
At that moment the gigantic sword which Shane was trying to wield became much lighter, no heavier than an aluminum baseball bat. It felt good.
Time to rock n roll Shane thought in excitement, but then saw that Edge Master had also picked up the second gigantic sword, and that this was going to be far from fun.
"Oh boy…" Shane said "Let's go…" The training had begun.
Training with Edge Master was more exhausting than Shane could imagine. Every single day, they would spend hours training on one single weapon, and the next day they would change into a different one and practice some more.
Shane was new to battle but Edge Master, true to his name was trained to use these weapons as if they were his own limbs. If Shane was lucky a weapon he preferred or have practiced with before would come up in a day of training and he would be much more comfortable that day.
As weeks and months passed Edge Master soon was impressed by the amount of skill Shane developed over a short amount of time. In about a month Shane had excellent control over the giant and unorthodox zweihander as Nightmare and Siegfried were his favorite Soul Characters, and a few weeks later the movements became faster and the attacks more precise.
Edge Master during the course of practice began to think more and more as Shane trained harder and harder each passing day. Who is this child? And what will he do when the right time had come? Only time could tell.