Chapter 18: Team Fight
(strong wind passing)
'whhhooossshhhh'
"1 minute and 30 seconds left before weapons spawn" big holographic words said in the middle of the town or training ground as it told the last two teams that they where almost near the point of having to have the weapons spawn in the competition.
And through the remaining time that there was left, Oz and his team where hiding inside a two story building that gave the view of the center of the town where the blue holographic words where being displayed at.
Also the holographic words that where in the street was the only thing that they could see thru the heavy snowstorm as they view it from the inside of the building.
"well it's almost time for the last fight, I wonder how's this going to turn out" Charlotte said as she stood next to the window as she look out the window and on to the streets below.
"well it's going to be damn cold when we fight that's for sure", Elliot said as he shiver a bit from the cold as he lean back against the wall.
"at the very least we have something to our advantage right?", Echo said as she spin one of her throwing blades in her hand while sitting on the floor.
"yeah but we aren't sure if 'they' have and advantage as well, for all we know we might be ending up fighting them on the same equal footing as us", Oz said as he look thru the same window that Charlotte was to look for any suspicious moments.
"yeah with all those 'boxes' hiding around the town there's no telling what they could have gotten. Especially if they collected all the parts to build a gun", Leo ho was on the floor said as he was finishing building a gun from what he got from the boxes that Oz Echo and Break had gotten.
"hmm so what are you making Leo?, to me it looks like one of those guns that have a burst effect that stuns people" Vincent said as he watch Leo build the gun that was in his hands.
"well your right on it, but it's only what I can build since I could have build something more effective if a had two other specific pieces for the gun but I don't have them to build it" Leo said as he attach some last finishing parts to the gun he was building.
"so what how are going to use this thing?, you don't have any ammo to use and it's a bit big" Vincent said.
"thru but there is something around us that can be use as fuel", Leo said with a smirk as he open a small patch at the bottom back of the gun where a small fan was rotating and it was taking air in.
"what do you mean?, what exactly can be use as fuel around us?" Gilbert said.
"well I am surprise you guys don't know, well I am talking about Hydrogen." Leo said.
"Hydrogen?, and how are you going to get that?", Elliot ask with a confuse look on his face as he heard what Leo said.
"well water has one hydrogen atom and two oxygen atoms, and snow 'is' made out of water so... with the constant snow falling all around us. I have made this gun to take in the snow thru the fan right there, and once it's inside it will split the atoms and store the hydrogen in this tank and then I will use the compress oxygen from the other tank to turn the small turbine inside witch will generate energy witch I can then use the hydrogen to shot out charges of electricity that can stun a person", Leo said as he told Elliot and the rest on how the gun worked.
"you sure did put a lot of thinking in to this didn't you?" Hunter said with a surprise look on his face as he heard how the gun worked.
"yeah but it's very easy to think about it actually that almost anyone could build one with the right parts". Leo said.
"well you are going to have to put it to use in a minute, we only have 58 seconds left before the weapons spawn and we might have to fight once it hits zero so get ready" Oz said from the window as he watch the countdown.
"so how are we going to do this?, are we going all at once or are we going to split up and take on the enemy team at the weapon spawn?", Charlotte ask.
"well I say it's best if we go in together, splitting up might not be such a good idea in the middle of the snowstorm." Echo said.
"yeah it's best if we go in together, we don't want to risk the chances of being taken down one at a time while being separated" Leo said.
"Leo I think it's best if you stick in the middle of the group when we move out, that way you can shoot while we give you cover" Gilbert said as he told Leo on where he should stand when they moved out.
"but what about you guys?, aren't you guys going to need something to cover yourself from something that the other team might ended up using on you" Leo ask.
"no need to worry about that, because I am pretty sure that nobody can use any type of weapons that you can throw at someone unless you are close up due to the strong winds that can move around thrown weapons" Zoey said as she told/reminded Leo that throwing weapons weren't that much a problem due to the storm.
"well it's almost time, better get ready to run guys" Oz said as he stood back from the window only by a feet behind before breaking it with his foot and letting the cold wind come in to the room that they where in.
"20 seconds left" the blue holographic words said as it was being displayed in the middle of the street as it told those ho where around that the weapons where about ready to spawn.
"alright at the count of 4 we go and head for the weapons ok" Oz said as he stood by the broken window and stood in a jumping position as he was ready to jump out and make a run for it.
And at the same time, the rest got in ready position as they broke the other remaining 3 windows and stood by them and ready themselves to make a run for the weapon spawn.
14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4.
And once number 4 was shown, Oz Echo Charlotte Break Gilbert Vincent Leo Elliot Hunter and Zoey all jump out of the windows and started to run as fast as they could to the middle of the streets where the weapons were to spawn.
But at the same time, on the other side of the street from the stores across them came out the other team who where heading for the weapon spawn.
And just like what they talk about earlier, the other team where also holding weapons in there hands.
But it wasn't time to stop and think since the moment the they where only 10 feet apart, the weapons spawn right in front of them.
And once the weapons had spawn right in front of them, both teams charge forward as fast as they could as they both reach to grave any weapon that they could grab a hold of.
Both with both teams wanting to have the weapons for themselves, the enemy team took out there pistols and started to shoot blindly at Oz's team ho where moving around as fast as they could to avoid the shoots.
So seeing that they where being shoot at, Charlotte took out hers and started to defend her team by shooting the one who started shooting at them.
Next it was Oz and Echo ho where the first to grave a hold of two weapons from the stash, Oz was able to grab a bow and arrows and Echo was able to grab a handgun with only one clip of ammo.
But even if they got the weapons in there hands, Oz and Echo had to move back and avoid being either stab or shoot at by the enemy team ho also grab a hold of some of the weapons.
The one ho was shooting at them was a boy with a shotgun that shoot small paralyzers that could paralyze someone and then knock them out from receiving to much sterilization. (remember no real lethal stuff that can kill someone)
But as much as the boy try, he couldn't get a hit on them because they where moving to fast for him to aim at them and also because he could aim very well in a snowstorm.
Meanwhile, the rest of Oz's team where either busy avoiding hits or trying to fight there opponent.
Break had to fight against a boy whit dark black hair ho was using a staff against him while he had to relay on his hand to hand combat to fight him off.
Elliot was trying to hold of his opponent while letting Leo try and aim at his opponent from a distance.
Vincent and Gilbert where fighting together to fight off against two opponents in a hand to hand combat. And so far they where holding them off just fine.
Hunter and Zoey where doing the same thing as Vincent and Gilbert, they where left with fighting two enemy opponents ho has blades for weapons while they only had there bare hands to fight them off. But even with them being left with no weapons for protection, they where able to hold there ground against there opponents.
But as the fight went along for the past few minutes, things started to pick up faster as both teams where able to grab a hold of some weapons from the stash.
Oz was now holding a staff that had a long 6 inch knife at the end of the pole. And his opponent was a girl with a sword that was colored black and golden. The girl has dark black hair and dark green eyes.
"you seem very impressing to be able to hold your ground against me" the girl said as she spun in his direction and aim a slash at Oz feet but he avoided it by jumping in the air and then putting his weapon in defensive to avoid her sword from hitting him on the chest.
"well I had a lot of practice and so as training so this is kind of normal for me" Oz said as he push back her sword with his Blade Staff to get a bit of space from her.
"hmm is that so, well then let me show you my skills of hard training" the girl said as she smiled at him before she took a stance with her sword by putting her sword in front of her with both of her hands on the hilt of the sword and with one foot in front of her.
And once she was in her stance, she dash forward at such a fast speed that for any normal person it would look like she was a blur. But for those ho train in the Pandora Academy, Oz was able to see her move in his direction in the fast approach and quickly place his blade staff in a horizontal angle to avoid another strike to the chest.
But as quick as the first strike came, so did the second one and the third and so on.
From afar it look like a show of fire as sparks where sent flying in the area that Oz and his opponent where fighting as they move there weapons in a speed that seem almost impossible for a normal person to do.
Meanwhile with Charlotte.
Charlotte was having a difficult time having to fight against her opponent ho was fighting her in a one on one gun fight.
She and her opponent where actually fighting with both there handgun's and there hands as they tried to shoot at each other from afar and then tried to fighting each other in hand to hand when up close.
But so far it seem that Charlotte was winning the fight since she was able to deliver fast and heavy blows to her opponent, and it seem to be working as her opponent seem to be slowing down a bit in his moments.
"for a girl that looks like she's worry about her looks, you sure aren't worry about fighting aggressively" the boy with the hand gun said as he stood afar from her and reloaded his gun with the last remaining bullets that he had left on him.
"was is that suppose to mean?, are you saying that looks is all that girls care about?. Especially for those are in the military and those ho are in the pilot training" Charlotte said with curious buy angry look on her as she hold quickly reloaded her gun with both hands and then aimed at her opponent.
"well no not really, you just seem like the type of girl that dose care about it though. After all you seem very attractive" the boy said a in flirting tone as he tried to flirt with her.
But that didn't seem to work for him as it only seem to anger Charlotte ho seconds later came out of nowhere and appear in front of the boy ho was flirting with her and send a straight and powerful kick to the boys stomach causing him to fell speechless and out of breath.
"sorry but your not 'my type', and I already have someone in mind" Charlotte said right before she punch him square on the face and knocked him out while leaving him on the snow with a broken nose.
Next we have Leo and Elliot.
Elliot was trying to hold of his opponent ho was a brown hair boy with brown eyes ho was fighting him on a hand to hand combat with no weapons at all.
And so far they where both almost equally in par with each other but Elliot was the one who was winning the fight since he manage to deliver some heavy blows to his opponent while he only receive minor ones.
Meanwhile, Leo was a bit far in the distance as he was waiting for a chance to shoot at the opponent that was fighting against Elliot. And once he waited for a short time of Elliot and his opponent fighting rashly for a few moments, he was able to lock on the opponent ho back away from Elliot to avoid a kick to the chest from Elliot. But the moment he step away from Elliot it was the moment that he was shoot in the chest by a electrical pulse that shocked him for a bit before he fell down from 'over sterilization' from Leo ho shoot him twice in the same area.
But right after he took down there opponent, and unexpected girl from there enemy team came from behind Leo and ready her self to strike him on the back with a throwing knife.
Leo ho turn around to see ho it was only had mere seconds to roll to the side to avoid the knife that had invaded it's self on to the floor.
But he didn't step his moments there as he quickly jump on to his feet and used his gun like a shield to block a hit by the girl ho reused her knife to try and strike Leo again.
"your fast at avoiding but are you good at fighting?", the girl with the dark red hair and reddish brown eyes said as she swipe Leo's legs with a swipe from her leg and then took his gun and attempt to shoot him. Leo was only able to move to the side again to avoid the hit but he was then slow to avoid the next one that hit him on the right leg causing him to go limb and then fall down on his bottom.
"this is a pretty good gun you made, but I think it suits me more" the girl said with a smirk as she aim at him with his gun and ready herself to shoot him, but before she could pull the trigger and take him down.
Zoey came from behind Leo's opponent and strike her on the back of her neck with her hand, and it was strong handed strike that it knock the poor girl down.
"you ok there Leo?", Zoey said as she help Leo back on his feet.
"yeah just a bit dizzy is all", Leo said as he got up while wobbling a bit from feeling the electric pulse still on his right leg.
Other side of the street.
Echo was fighting a girl with short brown hair ho was fighting her in a duel blade match.
Both her and the girl where throwing blades and trying to slice each other up as fast as they could move in the snowy street.
"I never knew I would meet someone this talented in blades as much as me" said the girl ho was moving from the left and to the right as she avoided Echo's fast blade strikes that where aiming for her arms and chest. The girl has black short wavy hair and red eyes.
"well fighting up front with blades is something I am fond of, so it's only natural that I learn how to master it." Echo said as she panted slightly in the cold air as she took a moment to catch her breath before dashing forward with both blades in front of her.
"well I can see from our fight that you indeed are a worthy opponent" the girl said with a smile of excitement as she dash forward in the same fast speed that Echo was and both began to clash both of there blades together at an insane speed that both of them look like blurs in the street with a few bright sparks going off every time that they collided there blades together.
Next up was Vincent and Gilbert, unlike the others in there team both Vincent and Gilbert work in fighting together as one.
Gilbert would work as distraction for Vincent ho works as the one who would deliver the attacks when he sees and opening and then when both of them see an opening in there opponents, both of them would do a combo of attacks to fight.
So in there fight against there opponent ho was boy with short black hair and orange eyes ho was using a sub-machinegun, they both had to work together in order to confuse there opponent so that they could attack him when he was in there range.
But it wasn't as easy as you think it was since there opponent always shoot in there direction when they where in hands reach.
So getting close to there opponent wasn't easy, until... there opponent finally ran out of ammo.
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"dang it I'm out" the boy said as he try to reach for his last clip of ammo that was in his back pocket. But before he could reload his gun and start shooting, Gilbert came first at the enemy by sending a dive kick to there opponents stomach witch send him back a few feet. Vincent then came behind the enemy opponent ho sent a horizontal kick to the enemy's side from the behind.
And that sent there opponent rolling on the ground for a few moments before he started to get back up but only for a short period of time before Vincent came at him and punch him hard in the stomach and cause him to black out and be out of the fight.
And finally it was Oz and his opponent ho where the farthest out on the field or 'street' as they where both now inside of a store where there fight has taken a more aggrieve and serious fight between the too as they where both moving even faster and sending even harder attacks to one another.
One example could be that when both Oz and Kelly (the girl's name) collided both of there weapons at the same time with the power that went with it. A large just of wind follow afterwards as they then went back to delivering a large number of strikes and blows to each other.
"y-you know, so far you have been the only one in the whole school ho has ever lasted this long in a fight with me. I'm very impress" Kelly said with a amuse smile as she stood a couple feet away from Oz as both of them took a moment to catch there breath.
"really well thank you, I could also say that same to you" Oz said as he spun his blade staff around his hands.
"well then, let's so ho is the best then" Kelly said as she took a fighting stance and ready her sword to continue there battle.
Oz did the same with his sword staff as he spun it one last time before putting it in a fighting stance and staring down Kelly in the eyes as both of them stood on the other side of the store and stood in silence.
But right after just standing in silence for about a minute and a half. Oz and Kelly move towards each other and pointed there weapons at one another and made sparks fly everywhere as they slash multiple times at each other with there weapons.
Kelly being more aggressive then Oz, she attempts to try and stab Oz mostly on his chest where it's the most easy part to get and the most dangerous for Oz.
When she manage to make Oz move his staff upwards from a downward slash from her, she would then pull back her sword and thrust her sword full speed to the left side of his chest.
But as quick as she was, she wasn't as fast as Oz ho manage to move to the right and jump two feet away from her before he came at her and attempt to strike her at her left side of her stomach.
But she quickly block it by putting her blade in a vertical position causing it to stop the blade of the staff to stop from advancing any further.
Kelly smirk as she saw the surprise but careless look on Oz's face as he moved back from his attack and took another stance with his sword staff and began his next move witch was jumping in the air and move down on her position in blinding speed to strike her down.
Kelly didn't seem to want to move as she wanted to go against Oz head on by putting her sword in defense in a horizontal position.
And when both of there weapons collided together, it cause a large amount of sparks to fly out and a gust of wind to come from them.
"..." "..."
Both Oz and Kelly didn't say anything as both of them put everything that they had to pushing each other back with there blades.
"I like it that you are strong, most people that I fight with aren't as strong as you" Kelly said as she was holding off Oz's sword staff from advancing towards her direction.
"thanks I work out a lot, but mostly in tactics and strength when I'm fighting. Can't fight with just bare strength and no knowledge at all" Oz said as was holding off his side in pushing back against Kelly's sword.
"I see, my dad always says the same" Kelly said with a smile.
"is your dad a pilot?" Oz ask.
"yes and he is the reason why I am here, he inspired me to be here where 'I' can be someone more then myself" Kelly said.
"well it looks like we both have something in common, both my parents and my older brother are full on pilots. So are my two younger sisters ho are still in the 10 grade in pilot training" Oz said.
"so your whole family is dedicated in being pilots, that makes you all the more interesting to me" Kelly said as she licked her lips and smiled warmly at Oz ho got confuse by the sudden change in attitude in Kelly.
"ok this is getting weird" (-_-) Oz said as he had a blank expression on his face before he used his staff to forcefully push Kelly's sword up in the air and having her be defenseless.
But at the same time, Kelly having to lose her sword, she quickly move towards Oz and landed three straight punches to Oz's stomach causing him to fall.
"nice move there but even without a weapon, I'm still stro-" Kelly was about to say something until her sword came from above and hit her on the top of her head and knocking her out.
"(O_O)" Oz was surprise to see Kelly get knock out by her own weapon that he couldn't even think of what just happen, but at the same time he was laughing from the inside while looking surprise from the outside.
Time skip
After 6 more minutes of continues fighting from the two teams, "Yellow Phoenix" ended up winning the match between them and "Green Tigers" (the team that Echo Oz and Break took down) and "Black Knights".
And now that it was only "White Lotus" and "Yellow Phoenix" that where left to compete, both teams where set to fight against each other in 1 hour so that they could recover before they went up against each other.
So at the moment Oz and his team where seated in there previous seat whit either a bottle of water or towel.
"well that was a good fight" Oz said as he drank some water while wiping some sweet of his forehead.
"yeah same here" said Vincent ho was dapping some water on one of his injuries that he got on his right arm when fighting,
"I didn't thing it would have been this serious, I almost felt like I was in a real life mission or something close to real combat" Elliot said while he was leaning back on his spot with the towel over his face.
"yeah some of them even tried to really use killing tactics that are only suppose to be us in real life combat not 'training'" Charlotte said as she was leaning on Oz's shoulder with a tired expression as she tried to get some rest.
"yeah one of them tried to use the '4 strike death punch' on me, luckily he didn't master it or else he would have broken one of my ribs" Gilbert said as he laying down on the floor whit his left arm going over his eyes.
"lucky you, one them was a girl and she tried to break my neck with a steal pipe" Hunter said as he drank some water whit his towel around his neck.
"well at least you weren't fighting up against someone with a gun while you have nothing on you" Vincent said as he was seated with a towel over his head.
"so anyways, now that it's just us and 'White Lotus' that needs to compete. What type of fight are we going to get ourselves in once we have to fight again?" Zoey said as she ask what type of fight would it be once them and the other team had to fight against each other in the last match of the day.
"eh I don't think we should really want to worry about it, all I can imagine is us being place in some hard difficult environment that Yui might put us in when we are set to compete" Oz said as he drank a bit more of his water.
"true, the first match was just easy because Yui wanted to see if we are capable of fighting in different environments that might be either hard or hazards to us. And know that Yui knows that we can fight in a hard environment, I can only guess that she would like to put us in a even harder environment" Leo said as he told Zoey that Yui there teacher/instructor wouldn't mind putting them in a even harder place to fight in.
"so I guess we are going to have an even harder time in our next match..(sigh) this is already getting hard" Gilbert said from his spot as he drank more of his water.
"yeah I guess, so Oz Echo and Charlotte I heard that tomorrow we will be getting our details as to where we will be posted as security by tomorrow" Leo said ash he told the three on when they will be mention on where they will begin there second job as security.
"really and where did you hear that from?" Echo said from behind Oz as she sat in her seat while wiping away sweet of her face.
"from the lady at the desk, I ended up seeing her again when I was walking to my 5 period this morning when I saw walking down the hall while carrying a few boxes in her hands. She said that by tomorrow we will be sent an email of the details of our job as security, and that by tomorrow we will be given our uniform and equipment" Leo said.
"wait 'equipment'?, what do you mean by that" Charlotte ask as she was confuse as to what she meant by them receiving equipment.
"well since we are security, she told me that we will be given the 'equipment' to be work like actual security" Leo said.
"so you mean we will be given like guns and weapons and other materials for our job as security?", Oz said as he was curious to know if they where really going to be given that type of material.
"yeah and she also said that we will need to learn how to use them properly so that we don't cause any mistakes or any harm when using them". Leo said as he told Oz that they where going to be getting those type of materials and also telling Oz Echo and Charlotte that they were going to have to know how to use it.
"well that's normal to hear, I mean we can't be given the equipment if we don't know how to use it" Charlotte said.
"yeah well we do use technology that's a bit more advance then other countries around the world so, weapons are a bit different here then in other places" Leo said.
"yeah well I can't wait to be a security officer and be able to see what the seaport of the city looks like at dawn" Oz said as he told his friends how he was excited to see how the city would look like when he was to be posted or place in the city's seaport.
oOo Scene Change & Time skip oOo
"alright were here" Martin said as he drove his car in the parking lot of Pandora Academy.
"so this is where Oz goes to school?", Ashely ask as she got out the car shortly after her dad parked the car.
"yup this is where he learns on how to be a pilot for the military, he is 'one' of 695 students that go to this school to join the military in 5 separate groups" Martin said as he locked the car after everyone got out and the four of them started to walk along the entrance of the school.
"it's very big" Ashley said as she saw how big the school was that to her it looks like the size of 3 story tall building that extend as long a 3 football fields in both sides.
"well they need to fit all the students inside and so as all of the equipment that every group and class needs to educate the students" John said as he told Ashley the main reason why the school need to be this big.
"yeah and besides, you still haven't seen the inside of the building" Martin said.
"eh is it that big in the inside?" Ashley said with confuse and surprise look on her face.
"yup, but I guess you haven't see the 'city' that Oz is in, even tough you know about it I am sure you haven't seen it in person" John said.
"yeah I haven't seen the place in person, my aunt Madison said that's something worth seeing in person. Is it really?" Ashley ask.
"you bet it is, just wait until we get there" John said as he Samantha Martin and Ashley walk thru the school's door.
And when Ashley came in thru the door and look at the inside of the Academy. "wwwwooooowww" was what Ashley said as she look up and down and left and right to look at very single detail that was inside the school Academy.
"this is amazing" Ashley said as she started to look around and look at the school that look like a neat and mid-futuristic type of school with everything looking like an advance tech building with everything being made out of the newest material of technology.
"pretty cool isn't" Martin said as he look at the interior design of the academy.
"man this place bring back memories, I reminds me when I use to teach at this academy a few years back" John said as he told them on how this place brought back memories of when he use to teach.
"what! you use to teach here?" Ashley said with a surprise and shocked look on her as she ask John.
"well of course, before I become ho I am I use to teach students technology in this school. I had a great time teaching for about 6 years until I started working for the government" John said.
"wow" Ashley said after hearing John tell her that he use to be a teacher at the Academy.
"ok in of about history lessons, let's move on" John said he told Ashely that they needed to keep walking to where ever they where heading.
So they continue walking and made there way to the auditorium of the school where it was left empty with only the inside.
And when Ashley saw that they had enter the auditorium, it immediately made her confuse because she was confuse as to why they enter an auditorium instead of going to where they needed to be in order to get to the 'city' that Oz was in.
"dad why are we in the auditorium?" Ashley said as she ask her dad Martin why they where here.
"well this is how we are going to get to the 'city' that Oz is in, just do what we do and you will see what I mean ok" Martin said as he told Ashely to do what they do and then she would see how they where going to get to the 'city'.
"o-ok" Ashley said still being a bit confuse as she walk behind her dad and follow him to where he took a seat in the row of seats and then sat besides him with John and Samantha doing the same.
And before she could say anything else as to ask what was going to happen next. She heard what seem to be a countdown be heard in the large auditorium. And at the same time, all the seats had seatbelts appear on them and go around ho ever was to be seated there. For them, the seatbelts went around there stomach and lock it's self once it had gotten around them.
"ten seconds until drop" a program female voice said as it told them that there was ten seconds until 'the drop'.
"hmm dad what dose that mean?" Ashley said with a worried and nervous tone as she ask her dad what was happing while she looked at the seatbelt that had been put on her.
"just wait and find out, also try not to move much" Martin said as he gave his daughter a reassuring smile as he lean back on his seat whit Samantha and John doing the same.
And once the counter was at 3, the light's in the auditorium turn dark and blue neon light's on the side of the wall where turn on making a horizontal strip pattern.
And now this made her even more worry then before as she started to get a bit more nervous as to what was going on, and again she was about to ask her dad what was going on but...
"...1...0" once that was said, the platform of seats immediately went towards full speed down at an alarming speed and in scary way that Ashley went screaming as they went down while the three adults just laugh.