Avalar's Redemption Ch 13
Disclaimers: I do not own any of the Spyro canon characters, they respectfully belong to Sierra.
After hundreds of glares later, we found ourself to our rooms, carrying loads of clothes in our arms.
When I placed my clothes down on the bed, I took the time to look at my surroundings.
Looking down the hall outside the room, I saw only 12 rooms down the empty hall.
Turning back towards the door, I noticed inscribed into the door my name. Curious, I closed up my room and walked down the hall, glancing at the names that would be my neighbors.
Finding Zunde's room door open, I glanced inside to see a pile of clothes on the floor, sprawling about with a faint sound emitting from under it.
"Sh-, at least no one saw me" muffled Zunde under all the clothes.
"On the contrary, I'd say you were too anxious to try on all your clothes. Nice look for ya." I laughed out, nearly crying.
Hearing his muffled anger under all the clothes made me fall over, laughing so loud that I didn't hear someone sneaking up on me.
"What's going...hahahahaha, nice look for you Zunde!" Spyro sprawls to the ground beside me, crying just as much, with Cynder just falling over us, laughing too hard to stay upright.
Under all the piles of clothes and all the laughing, barely noticeable was Zunde cryin out, "You mind helping a brother out here?"
Laughing, we all got off of each other, slowly digged out Zunde, just to find him flat on the ground.
"Looks like you ran into a wall", I snickered as I lifted him to his feet.
"Hahaha, very funny..."
Holding back a laugh, "So, when will classes start for the young ones?"
"That has yet to be discussed with the elders, it has only been about 2 weeks since Malefor's defeat, many families barely settling back into their homes."
Thinking to myself, I then remembered all the glances we've received, "What about us? What kind of standing are we with the town?" I said as me and Zunde holstered our blades to our sides.
"Other than being a sight to behold, nothing until the towns threatened."
Breathing in a sigh of relief, we all walked out of Zunde's room so he could lock up. As Zunde was locking up, I saw Spyro and Cynder head down the hallway and lock up their respective rooms.
As we headed down the hallway, we approached Cynder and Spyro, "we're gonna walk around town and take in the sights."
"Alright, but still be careful. I'd hate to see you in the hospital again, and I'm sure Brisk as well wouldn't like it." Cynder told me
Placing my hand on Cynder's sholdier, "Alright, well, you two take it easy, you did after all deserve a break for saving your world."
Smiling, Cynder and Spyro walked off together towards town, with us following them out thill they waved at us and took to the skies.
"Well, I'm gonna walk around town, see if there's anything interesting I can pass my time with." Zunde stated, disappearing into the crowd of dragons, moles, and cheeatas.
Thinking through the possibilities that the town had around, I quickly walked down to the market center, hoping to find anything of interest for my room and anything that would be of use.
Through the crowd, I spotted children of every race, running through the streets, playing with some of the toys in the store, before being purchased by their parents, laughter everywhere and smiles on everyone's faces, something I haven't seen in many years.
I wonder how it would of been to grow up here, before Malefor's terror, and even now..." I thought, wiping away my tears, finally feeling at home.
Looking through the market, I noticed a single, large building not in use, with a sign saying "Availiable" out on the door. Looking inside, I saw that there was a decent sized arena center, composed of a sand floor, padded walls, and some equipment lying on the floor against the walls. After looking inside, I noticed the sign had smaller print "With the guardians approval".
Putting that to mind, I walked through the town, and came across a large field: dragons, cheeatas, and moles sparring or relaxing and watching the sparing event take place.
At the center of everyone's attention, was 2 dragons of teen age; 1 fire and 1 ice, attacks blocked and countered with so much skill and speed.
Siting down with the group on the grass, no one paying me any mind, as everyone's attention was on the duel at hand.
What seemed like 10 mins later, they both found themselfs in a stalemate, both having their jaws on the others neck.
With the duel over, the whole crowd broke into a loud cheer, whistles heard everywhere as the two bowed.
"Well done, well done indeed Flame and Jiro, another spectacular performance." Terrador boomed out over the crowd. "Anyone wish to take on Flame or Jiro?"
Quickly looking towards where Terrador was siting, I thought to myself, oh man, what did I get myself into...
As Terrador quickly examined the crowd, his eyes quickly fell on me.
Crud, THIS is what I got myself into...
"Ah, I see you happened yourself here. Would you care to show us a thing or two Manuel?" Terrador stated, the crowd silent upon singling me out.
Upon the crowd not occupied by the duel that took place or Terrador having their center of attention, all eyes fell on me, all looking at me, wondering who and what I was.
Pretty much not given any way out of this, I stood up, everyone watching my every movement and said out, "Why not? I just hope I don't send anyone or myself to the hospital, it would break my promise to Brisk." Sighing, I looked at Flame and Jiro, wondering if either of them would be any harm towards me.
"Alright Manuel, you'll be on a 2 vs 1 against them. Only rules are no lethal blows, no flying, for obvious reasons, pin, force them to submit, or knock them out, other than that, a clean fight." Terrador spoke out.
Sh-, THIS is what I got myself into!
Mentally slapping myself, I walked into the center, everyone's attention still on me.
Bowing to both Flame and Jiro, I pulled out my blade, placing it firmly in front of me, choosing tho handle it with only one hand, leaving the other free.
After the two got into their respective stances, I waited for one of them tho make a move, seeing as it was 2 vs 1, making my fighting style defensive.
In less than a second, I saw Jiro leap at me, aiming for a quick submission.
Seeing as he was the rushing type, I quickly sidestepped the jump and tried to slash at him with my blade.
Before I could make the slash, my sunglasses picked up a trace of red behind me, a ball of fire, approaching fast.
Kneeling down covering myself with my jacket as much as possible, to ward away the heat from my skin, getting shoved a bit, but not hard enough due to my stance holding me firm.
Flame thinking he scored a direct hit, left his guard down. With his guard down, I ran through the smoke as cover, the smoke taking up almost the whole field. Getting around Flame, I quickly leapt high enough to land on his back, being careful not to fall of as he felt me on his back.
When Jiro found out where I was, he tried swatting me off Flame, no clear shot with his ice without hitting Flame accidentally.
Flame tried turning his head around and biting at me, only to be swatted away by my blade every time he got close. Suddenly, he tried rolling, with me just barely kicking off him and into the air to keep from being pinned under him.
Although I got out of the pin, I was at the mercy of gravity, when Jiro used my momentum coming down by jumping up and swatting me with his tail, straight into the ground.
Barely 4ft off the ground, I was swatted off to the side by Jiro, barely putting my feet under me, skidding hard back towards the crowd.
Finally able to stop skidding, I spotted Jiro coming at me again, maw open, ready to bite while he pounced at me again.
Sering Flame charging another fireball, I prepared to strike at Jiro, backflipping instead of side stepping the blow, barely avoiding the bite and waited for the fireball to be sent my way.
When Flame shot the fireball at me again, I quickly dodged Jiro's claws and dashed into him with the blunt side of my blade, ramming him straight towards the fireball.
Upon impact, Jiro was sent back quite a ways away, straight into a tree a couple of yards back. Taking quite a hit, Jiro seemed dazed enough to be disoriented for a while, slouched under the tree that fell down on top of him.
With Jiro out, all my focus was on Flame. When I saw Flame charging another fireball, I quickly made straight for him, knowing that he can keep me at bay, firing in quick bursts, eventually landing a hit.
Right as he fired the shot, I faked dodging right and broke left right before the shot connected.
Almost upon Flame, he quickly shot after shot, barely missing by mere inches as I broke every which way to avoid being hit, the shots a little bit bigger than 5ft in diameter as opposed to the 20ft diameter charged shot that hit Jiro. Nearly being point blank to Flame, he shot off a shot that I wouldn't be able to avoid.
Placing my blade on my sholdier as if I was going to hit a baseball, I prepared to swing as I ran towards the shot blocking me from Flame.
Right before the ball would strike me, I tried batting the ball back with the blunt end of my blade. When the ball made contact, my blade was knocked out of my hands, landing fast being me, still burning hot as it landed on the ground.
As Flame saw his shot come back at him, it hit him square in the face, knocking him onto his back with the amount of force was behind me returning it and the sheer power behind the shot.
Seeing that he was knocked off his feet, I quickly ran up to him and stood on his neck, trying to get him to submit, keeping him on the ground.
After struggling for a few seconds, he submitted, loud enough for the crowd to hear.
After the submission, the crowd had gasped, something I hadn't expected them to do.
After gently getting off of Flame's neck, I quickly
looked over him and asked, "Are you alright?"
Slowly rising to his feet, he slowly said out, "Yea, but that blow to the head is causing a lot of pain, but I should be fine."
Patting Flame on the sholdier, "We should really take you and your friend to the clinic and get your injuries treated."
As Flame and I walked over to Jiro, we found him slowly becoming conscious.
"Uuugghh, what happened?" Jiro slurs out.
Laughing out loud, they both looked at me, "That's where you need improvement, keeping an eye on your surroundings. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll learn that soon enough."
After everyone's shock had passed, the crowed erupted in cheers, everyone going nuts on what they just witnessed.
With Terrador and Hunter almost upon us, he spoke out loud for everyone to hear "Again, well done Manuel. That was another superb display of combat skills." Standing next to me, he spoke to the crowd "This here is Manuel, a human. He was recently discovered by Cynder and Spyro, as well as another human named Zunde, who's here in the town as well. Manuel will be holding a few classes that will be required at Warfang Academy that will be reopened for students. Zunde will also be teaching classes at his side, and they will be your instructors, for every race. Registration will be open this afternoon in the academy. Classes will begin when registration and placement classes are done.
With all that said and done, we told Terrador we were heading down to the clinic.
As we were telling Terrador where we were headed, Hunter walked to the field, and tried picking up the blade as if it were light. After trying to pick up the blade with 1 hand, he tried both, managing to lift the blade by the hilt, but not after accidentally touching the blade's edge.
"Dear ancestors! That's hoooooot!" Hunter cried out, recieving laughs from the entire crowd.
Laughing to myself, I received a glare from Hunter, waving his paw around to alleviate the pain after handing me my blade.
"Sorry, but I told you how heavy my blade was vs traditional longswords. As for the blade being that hot from the tap, the metals I used absorb a lot of an impact, including elements. If I tried swinging a regular sword at Flame's fireball, it would of just exploded on contact. A prime example of the metals potential, is if electricity was shot my way, not only would it absorb the shot like a conductor, but it will also release its charge on the next strike. So if even it was blocked by, I don't know, let's say Flame were to use his tail tho block my blade. Even if the blade does no damage, the current would be released on him, recieving a may shock baised on how much power was behind the initial shock, plus any extra shots hit before its next contact wil then add up.
"So your saying if your blade absorbed 5 charged electric shots, or any other shots, it will all be released at once?" Flame asked.
"Yes, so anyone who's against me better think twice about using elements. Even if you were to dislodge my blade from my hand, the leather my clothes has almost the same affect, but just minimizes the effect of the element, hence why when your fireball hit me the first time, I was fine, other than getting the wind knocked out of me and being shoved hard from the impact. Even if I didn't have my blade, my clothes will minimize the damage and I'm also proficient in hand-to-hand."
"Aye, that you are, you managed to best the hardest training regiment with nothing but your hands and using your opponents weapons against them, especially beating the Gaul dummy with nothing but your hands." Terrador laughed out.
Getting dumbfounded looks from Flame, Jiro, and Hunter, lauging at their faces they made on what they just heard, "Yea, too bad you don't have one of Malefor, that probley would show more of what I could do than Gaul."
"Well young one, we have such a training recreation of Malefor, but it isn't supposed to be known by the public. Its the same training that Cynder and Spyro take on often, seeing as they just about would wreck all the other difficulties too easily." Terrador chuckled. "If you like, we could test you and Zunde in there when your fully recovered."
Recieving a glance from both Flame and Jiro, they asked "What do you mean fully recovered? He looks perfectly fine to us."
Laughing, Terrador stated "No, both of them just got out of the Hospital about 9 hours ago. Manuel is still recovering from nearly dying along side his brother; their bodys still exhausted from surviving combat for about 5 months or so, without so much as a proper meal, much water, or much rest."
"If you like, I could tell you what I told the guardians down at the clinic, seeing as we are going to be there for awhile" telling both Jiro and Flame.
Heading off to the clinic, we were joined by Hunter, as well as Spyro and Cynder, seeing as they watch the event take place.
Walking into the front entrance, we were quickly "greeted" by none other than Brisk...
Uuuhhhh, this is goona be "fun"...
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