Opening song: The walking dead of Dropkick Murphy's.

Fifth chapter. This is a bigger one, but I tried making it not too long. Much reading pleasure.

After the lessons, it was quite a rocky day for the hackers. They received a lot of death glares of the rest of the girls. However, none of the female students had the gut to go after them.

As soon they heard of guys going to their schools, these girls were over the moon, but as soon the hackers stepped on the place, they fell in despair. These guys were nothing like the boys from yaoi or shojo manga what was their only source of boys info. These guys were tough, trained and most important scary looking guys who had seen a lot. The girls were thinking of a label for these guys. They weren't like the MC's from their mangas, but they weren't bad guys either.

The guys on the other hand shrugged their shoulders on the gossiping. Thanks to the fact they had two months of summer in which they were free to go out and making contact with girls of their age, they got lessons how to integrate in normal society and that was interacting in a normal way with females.

Now, the hackers found it ironic. They were labelled by a lot of countries like bad guys, but they had more social skills than the girls. Well, they could behave like normal people. Most of the time, they acted a bunch of scoundrels who were friendly with each other.

The most important fact that the girls were too afraid to talk to them was because they saw how Anaton's gang dealt with the student council president. These guys were strong and very well trained.

In the lessons, they gave a short node to Ichika and they went on their seats. The rest of the midday was just boring Infinite Stratos technology. The guys were bored as hell when the lesson was finally ended. At the end of the day, they were lying on their desk.

Izolf stretched out. "They don't need to fight us. These lessons were enough."
"Yeah, it sucked like hell." Kashal replied. "I'm damn glad I'm a hacker. What guys?"
"Agreed." They answered in unison.

Ichika left a letter at Anaton's desk. On it was written were the guys had to come. "You guys got a lot of problems on your hand, challenging the student council president." Anaton looked to the letter. "Don't worry, Ichik. We'll see to it. Just go the arena. You'll see us in the given time."

The guys went to their dorm houses. Unlike the ISA students who stayed at the main building, the runners got a place some blocks away from the academy. They walked out the room, followed by the rest of the hackers. When they got at the place, they were pleasantly surprised. It was surrounded by woods and every group had his own houses.

"Nice, our luggage is already delivered." Tizof remarked as soon they entered the dorm house. "Dump our school books, grab a snack, take on your armour and start sparring. We can best use a warm up before we begin our fight." Anaton said to his friends. The guys ran in, got to the kitchen. "I'll clutch a few eggs, you guys, go changing." Erzof took a bowl and began to swipe the eggs. "Okay, you'll change after we're done." Izolf shouted.

It was a neatly house. It had a living room, where a few pc's were placed. It had also a telly and couches. Upstairs, there were four rooms. The brothers shared the same room and Anaton got a room for his own. In the hallway, a bathroom was placed and upstairs, you had an extra toilet.

After they got their armour on, they got downstairs. Tizof, Kashal and Izolf had armour that was a lot stronger than the long range fighters. It covered a lot of their torso. Tizof armour also covered his arms, while that part of Kashal and Izolf was left free.

Thazalof and Raton wore armour that was a lot more flexible. As a bowmen and gunmen, they had to move freely. Anaton wore armour that had both advantages. It was small, but a lot more easy to use. "Well, you guys look good in those things. Dig in. I'll be changed in a second." Erzof set a giant pan on the middle of the table. The guys started to eat and they enjoyed their meal. Erzof got upstarts and like the rest of the long range fighters, he wore a flexible armour.

"It's been a while since we got in this outfit on for a fight." Thazalof looked to the rest.
"True, normally, we got our everyday clothes on for a fight. I think that I prefer a sweater to fight in." Tizof grinned.
"I agree on that matter. Can't we ask Chifuyu if we can fight in our uniforms?" Izolf looked to his friends.

"I don't think we are allowed to do that. But we may be glad. We're allowed to wear our own uniforms and to be honest, those armours are a lot more comfortable than the swimsuits the girls have to wear. I pity Ichika." Erzof had joined in the rest.

They were finished at the meal. "Your cooking still is the best, Erzof."
"Thanks lads, Izolf and Thazalof have to clean up. We start already outside." The two boys gritted their teeth. "Okay, but don't you dare leave without us."
"Like we'll do that."

Outside, the hackers watched the five boys. "How's our warm up?" Anaton asked. "I propose one on one. Kashal, you and Tizof spare, meanwhile, Raton, you fight against me." The guys placed themselves in front of each other. Between the two camps, there was fifty meter.

Kashal activated his fists and Tizof got his swords out. Erzof got a giant mortar on his back and Raton made a machine gun from his hands. Anaton stood in the middle. "Begin."

Kashal ran to Tizof and a few meter before him, he jumped, leaching his fists towards the swordsman. Tizof blocked his left fist with his right sword. Tizof advanced with his sword, but at his turn, he found that his friend has blocked his sword. Kashal flipped over and worked his heel towards Tizof cheek.

The boy nearly avoided the kick by a few centimetres. "You've still sharp reflexes, Tizof."
"As for you, Kashal." The two flew back at each other.

Tizof slashed his sword, Kashal ducked, Tizof aimed at his feet nearly a second after the last attack, Kashal jumped and moved his fist toward his sparring partner. Tizof avoided the punch, grabbed his friend wrist and threw him over his shoulders. In an unbelievable speed Kashal flew to the threes, good for him, that he turned his feet towards the three and jumped with the same speed to Tizof.

Tizof did not turn around, but blocked him with the sword that he turned pivot behind his back. In a flash, the two men were thrown back to the other side. Tizof slided over the ground while Kashal bumped a few times. The two shook their heads and got up. When they walked towards each other, they began to laugh. "Good fight, always nice to spare with you." The two gave each other a hand and looked at Erzof and Raton. They didn't waste their time either.

At the begin of the fight, Erzof aimed his canon towards Raton who had to run for the flying objects. Despite having a gun in his arms, he could run quite fast. Eventually, he made a skateboard and Erzof found it more difficult to fire at him. He outmatched Raton in fire power, but the boy was a lot faster and agile than him, so he would use that to a full potential. Raton turned around and fired a few shots from his arms. He had deactivated the machine gun and made a shotgun from his arms. While Erzof braced himself for the shot, Raton switched in a mere second to the machine gun and he began to fire at him.

Using an upgrade replica from the MG42. It was a lot faster and this time, Erzof activated a skate board and got up. Raton saw him coming and flew away. He turned around and saw Erzof firing. He turned back and aimed at him, but because he had to focus on flying and firing, he flew to a three with quite some speed. It didn't hurt a lot, but the boy was startled. In a flinch, he deactivated his weapon and fell to the ground. "Got you." He heard. Erzof captured his friend. They landed back at the ground. Raton grinned. "You won." Erzof landed at the place.

"You guys are done as well." They saw Thazalof and Izolf standing. Izolf was swinging around his grappling hooks and Thazalof had his bow activated. Kashal walked to Izolf. "You to me a match."
"Suits me fine." The two walked away. Thazalof shot an arrow to Raton. "You and me." Raton walked to the sparring ground. "Well, you and me against Anaton, Erzof."

"I don't think that's a good idea. Better one on one. You first. If we have time, than the two of us." Anaton looked to the giant. "Why, I can easily take both you and him on." Erzof walked to the boy and rushed through his hair. "Aye, but I looked up some details. Byakushiki is a close range model, but I think you best fight against Tizof. You can have an idea how Ichika fight. He wields one sword who has more output than Romulus and Remus, but it's just to block off. Uchigane Nishiki is a close range model with long range output, but I looked it up. Her fire power doesn't even come close to Raton's and she can't use it as well as his. You just have to make sure that you stay close and take her out first."

"Well, it doesn't matter. If you lose, well, we can have one loss." Tizof grinned.
"That's really a good way to motivate your friends, Tizof. Just begin. In one hour, we have our match." Erzof shouted at his friend. Tizof only nodded.

He placed him in front of Anaton and the two flew at each other. Tizof slashed a few times, but Anaton avoided him, he got at the boy's head, got himself up and pulled him down. Immediately, he let the guy go and placed himself towards him. Tizof grabbed his sword, flew towards the boy, but his arm was blocked before he could even get close to him. In a flash, he removed his arm and slashed his sword. Anaton caught the sword and pulled it away. He pushed his fists towards the swordsman, but a second before he could hit him, he stopped. Tizof sighed.

"You won. Now it's your turn Erzof."
"Just a second, I want to see the rest." He sat on the ground looking to the four others. Thazalof had taken cover after a wall where Raton relentlessly fired on. Thazalof only got a few times to fire an arrow. "That's not gonna work, Thaza. Just give up." Thazalof sighed. "Athena, grant me power." He whispered.

In an extremely high speed, he pulled an arrow on his bow, pulled it and while he got up, he aimed at Raton, he fired and the bullets flew around him. When he released the arrow, he sat back. The arrow flew at high speed towards Raton. "Not cool, Thaza." He said before he was thrown away by the explosion. The fire stopped and Thazalof got up. "You got it yourself, Raton. You know that my fire rate is lower than yours. Than I have to do something of my own."

"Can you guys please practice without that I have to heal one of you two every time?" Anaton asked when he started to heal Raton. "Can't do that, captain." The bowman walked to his friends. Izolf and Kashal joined them. "We're done as well. So, let's go the arena?"

"Yeah, it's almost time." The group looked to the rest of the hackers. Anaton sighed. "Come on, you're allowed to join as well. Look lively, runners." The boys shouted at the remark and left, running through the threes or the path. They were fired up. Not any hacker knew Anaton and his gang, but they certainly made a name for themselves. A fight like this was one of a century. It had to awesome.

When they got at the arena, they saw the girls sitting in the stairs. Almost every student was assembled. After they got the support of their friends by a handshake and good luck, they walked to the arena. When they got in, a lot of booh's and shouting came from the girls. The only ones who were enthusiastic were the rest of the hackers. "Show of what we're made!"
"Kick their arse!"
"Don't take a quarter!"

"Well, your supporters are optimistic." Tatenashi said. Just like the rest of the girls and guy, there IS'es were activated.
"No, they're just realistic." Anaton responded. He threw his left fist in his right hand. He gave Tatenashi a handshake, because both were the team's captains. "We've decided who's going to fight. We gave it to the teachers who're sitting upstairs."

They looked to the electronic screen where the names appeared. The names of the pilots were in kanji, while the guys names were written in English. Chifuyu placed her mouth at the mic. "Normally, I wouldn't accept this, but because both the student council and the hacker responsable agreed on this, we're going to do this fight. These are the teams. In the consecution I say this, so will the duel's be fought" She paused for a second when she took the list.

"Tatenashi Sarashiki and Houki Shinonono versus Thazalof and Tizof.
Lingyin Huang and Cecilia Alcott versus Erzof and Izolf
Charlotte Dunois and Laura Bodewig versus Raton and Kashal."

"The last duel will be two on one. Ichika Orimura and Kanzashi Sarashiki versus Anaton. That's all. For the time being, the rest of the competitors have to wait in two secluded parts of the arena. The pilots have to wait in gate A, the runners in gate B. The pilots I called have to stay here for the first fight."

Tatenashi winked to Houki. "Let's do our best, Houki-chan." Houki still couldn't believe she was the strongest student of the whole academy. She nodded. "Yeah." She answered silently.

Tizof shook his head, loosening his neck. "Well, I suppose it's show time. You ready, Thaza?" Tizof threw his arms off and immediately, two swords came off. "Romulus, Remus." His brother forced his energy in a similar way. He made a long bow.

"I don't think that's very impressive. We have a full armour and you only have your weapons and conventional armour." Tatenashi turned her spear a few times.
"Just a second, Sarashiki." The two boys made a skateboard from their legs. Chifuyu sat at the mic. "Fighters ready, go!"

Immediately after the signal, Tatenashi left Houki behind and flew towards Tizof. She didn't expect that Thazalof's arrows were having such an impact. She looked up. "I'm your opponent." He said. "Well, than I have to take you out first." She got after the boy, but he flew away. "What the?"

"Oh, what's this?" Kaoruko Mayuzumi shouted as commentator. "Thazalof fired a few arrows and got Tatenashi Sarashiki after her. Is he afraid of her power? Of course, she is the strongest student at this school." Thazalof grinned in his head. "Did these girls ever heard of strategy?" He turned around and flying he shot a few arrows to Tatenashi before he flew up to the sky. She got after him and came a little too close for comfort, but he had no problem keeping her off his back. "Tizof, please, hurry up." He thought."

In the meantime, Tizof and Houki were clashing. Their swords blinked a few times at each other. Houki was shocked of the speed and accuracy the guy wield his sword. She never saw such a fighting style. This was an European style, but it had as well traces of Fare Eastern and Mid-Eastern tactics. It was something to be afraid of. "You, don't think, you'll win this so easy."

Amatsuki let a few lasers towards the boy. "Missed me, missed me." He evaded it with ease. "That's the best you got. It's my time." He flew towards her and got his swords up. "Eat this." With an enormous power, the boy slashed at her. The two swords hit her equally hard and she felt the energy slipping away. She parried him off.

"Karaware" She shouted. Chifuyu tensed up. Houki had to activate both of her best weapons and the hacker had showed off on of his own. Houki made a crescent moon and when she threw at the hacker, she got a full hit. He catched his breath when he flew away.

"You're good, but it takes more than that to get me off your back." He was wounded and his armour damaged, but nothing of the boy revealed he was willing to give up. "Now, it's my time to attack." Houki stood ready for his attack and she parried his swords. "Was that your idea?"

"No, but you walked right in my trap." He grinned and lowered his swords, revealing at both swords a gun mechanism. He aimed the guns at her and let it go. Houki got off his attack. It did quite some damage. "Shield damage. 40% lost."
"Do you permit anything to win?" She shouted at the man.
"I told you. I fight how I see fit."

"You'll not win this fight. Thousand Pierces." She aimed her crossbow towards the guy and he had to search his hope in fleeing. She relentlessly fired at him and followed him, but couldn't get close to him. Despite being a lot faster, she wasn't nearly as manoeuvrable as Tizof. He went with his hand to his ear. "Yo, Thaza. I'm in a pinch. Help me out."
"Do you think I'm the only one?" Tizof looked to his brother. "Find something yourself, I'm busy."

Thazalof arrows didn't manage to do anything on Tatenashi. She cut his arrows off her and she had no problem coming closer. "Why don't you give up? You're weak, that's all. You can't fight close range. You suck" That triggered an effect on the bowmen. "Don't look down on me." He shouted.

He aimed his bow and let go. "Fool, my shield will wear that off." She activated it and the arrow just pierced in. "I just hoped for that." He clicked his fingers and the nanites spread over her. "It's a Flame arrow. It spread his nanites over your IS, making it venerable."

Suddenly, he felt a touch on his back. "Tizof." He didn't even have to turn around. "That's not enough to take her on." Houki had followed him. "What do you propose? You can't be serious to activate our Nature?"
"Do we have a choice?"
"Fair point."
"Weapon switch!" The two shouted.

At Thazalof belt, a knife appeared which he took with his right hand, before turning it pivot. "Senus." On Tizof's right wrist, a crossbow much like Houki's appeared. "Artemis."
"What in the world?" Chifuyu got a call for Anaton. "That's their nature, I didn't expect that they showed it here. Their nature is unique, because it has an effect on their brother and not on them. By Weapon Switch, they both gave each other a weapon for their weak sides. Thazalof gives Tizof a crossbow on his wrists. Thazalof's weapons are based on Greek Mythology, Tizof's on Roman. The crossbow is named after the goddess of the hunt, so she uses a bow."

"I understand that, I learned that as well, but what is that with Tizofs?"
"I suppose you know after who his two swords named after?"
"Of course, the legendary founders of Rome."
"Well, most people don't know, but by the legend that's told, Remus had a son, Senus. Senus is the founder of Sienna. A village in Northern Italy. Not a lot of people know that. Well, just enjoy the show. If these guys has their natures, they transform for kickass to badass."

The two grinned at each other. After a look they flew back at their respective opponents. Tatenashi clenched. She knew that she better had taken out the boy earlier. He flew at her and despite, he still had the bow in his hands, the right hand flew at her and she found herself forced to block the spear.

"What kind of power? It's impossible to be so strong when you have weapons like that." She blocked him off and fired with her spear. He nearly evaded it and she found him aiming his bow again. "You have forgotten one thing. Why do you think we don't have so much armour? Because we focus on something else. The strength I shot my bow with had nothing to do with my nanites, the strength I wield my knife or my brother his swords, it was not a machine, but our own strength and you're going to find that out the hard way."

Again he advanced at her, she flew away, but before she was away from his reach, he showed an extremely amount of skill. He pulled his arm back, pulling the string of the bow and releasing the arrow. It hit target and when he clicked his finger, the arrow exploded. Tatenashi suffered a lot of damage. Before she even had a change to calculate, she found his knife slicing her IS open. "That focusing on your weapons is your doom."

He said when the two sat on the ground. "I lost? That's unbelievable." She looked to him. "You know why you lost? Easy. Because you don't have the gut to hurt someone. I do. And besides that, you're more skilled than me. I won, thanks to a lot of experience. A older brother need to protect a younger, even if that's just a few seconds."

Meanwhile, Tizof advanced to Houki. Her Thousand Pierces lost it to Artemis. "You're not used wielding a weapon. Well, I have to thank Kerlongsj and my brother for that." He shouted. When she focused back on her swords, she saw for her eyes. She pulled both her swords away with his left sword that he turned pivot and his right sword threw he through her. When she dropped her swords, he did the same thing with his left. He let the gun mechanisms work and he shot her off clean of his swords.

"Well, that 1-0 for us." He said when the two were on the ground.

"What did you say about being merciful? Giving me the least pain? Let me tell you something, you may be a kendo champion and I'm a full 100% scoundrel, but at least, I only use my sword when I have to fight for what I see fit." He pulled her up at her hair.

"If you're going after me, my brother, the kid or any other hacker, today's beating will be nothing if what I'm going to do with you." The two brother walked towards each other. They gave each other a hand while medics walked in the arena taking both the girls with them. Tatenashi could walk, but Houki suffered a lot of damage. Luckily for her, Tizof didn't put his swords not on full power, that would be killing her, but she could feel the pain very well.

In the gate A, they couldn't believe what happened.

In the stairs, they had their mouths fell open, except for one part, that shouted, made noise and threw color powder over the hackers when they flew back to their friends. Immediately after they landed there, their friends got to them. Izolf and Kashal gave a fist bump to Tizof, while Raton and Erzof gave Thazalof a high five after they left. "Good job. The two of you." Anaton said. "I didn't except you'd use your Nature."
"We had to. They were strong and without it, we might have lost." Tizof got to his young friend who started to heal while Thazalof sat down. "Erzof, Izolf. Go show off and take those two down. Your odds are higher than ours."

The two nodded. "Yeah, let's show off." The two left and jumped in the arena.

"Did these guys just jump from 50 meters above ground?" Kashal asked. "No worries, look, They're up." They saw the two boys circling around. Rin and Cecilia got in with less enthusiasm. Two top students have been defeated by two of their friends. The two they were going to face were a lot more scarier. And how they looked at it, Houki and Tatenashi clearly had an advantage. Something they didn't have.

And that's the end of my fifth chapter. If I'm going to pull all the fights in just one chapter, this will be way too long for reading.

Update normally coming days.

Greetings from Flanders.

Kerl.

Could you guys please review this? I don't mind writing and stuff like that, I still suck at fighting.