Yo it's OK, Omega is here(I do not regret that joke in any way, shape, or form). This chapter includes a charcter trait that I find very interesting when it shows up in Manga, Anime, and other forms of media. Today's reference is from a anime abridged series that when I first watched it I had to pause the video, so I could breathe. Last thing, I promise, when September rolls around I will release a new story that I feel people will like a little more than this one. I have a lot of prep work for it already done just need to get writing. I may also release it if this gets any positive feed back whatsoever. Thank you to the eight or so people who have actually read the entirety of this story, I hope you enjoy today's chapter.
Cyan was by no means a cowardly person, but even he was nervous about fighting an entire team by himself. 'So, all I have to do is beat four huntsmen/huntresses-in-training, by myself.' Cyan thought as he and his team made their way to Goodwitch's class. 'I may have bit off more than I can chew.' Cyan's face fell at his realization, something that did not go unnoticed by his teammates. Cyan felt a hand on his shoulder, and saw Feirin smiling at him with his notebook in hand.
'You'll be fine.' Feirin reassured.
"He's right." Iris said. "You're the leader of the great and powerful Team CFIN. You killed three Deathstalkers in under four minutes."
"Yeah!" Nagami added on.
Cyan smiled at his team's endearing compliments. "Thanks guys," Cyan said with a smile. "I needed that."
The rest of the team copied his smile. Doubt no longer a part of his mind, Cyan confidently walked into the locker room to get change for his fight.
"Now to start off the school year. We will be having some sparring matches." Professor Goodwitch said, clipboard-sized scroll in her hand. "Does anyone like to recommend a match to start off?"
"I do." Cyan said, raising his hand to make himself more noticeable.
Professor Goodwitch typed somethings on her scroll, and Cyan's face appeared on a screen in the arena. "Okay, , who are you going to challenge?" Goodwitch asked.
"The entirety of Team JAKS." Cyan answered.
Excited whispurs erupted throughout the arena/classroom as Jasper stood from his seat. "We accept the challenge." He said.
"Alright, , you will be given a handicap due t-"
"No."
"Excuse me?" Professor Goodwitch asked, slightly annoyed from being interrupted.
"I don't want a handicap." Cyan said. "If I win, they could just say that it was because of the handicap. I want to beat them on even grounds."
"Very well, ." Goodwitch said. "The match will proceed with the following rules. The match will end when either or Team JAKS had their aura gauge fall to the red. For to win the match he must bring every member of Team JAKS to red. There will be a fifteen minute time limit, if the time runs out whichever side has the more aura will be crowned the victor. Are both participating parties satisfied with these rules?" Goodwitch asked the five participants who had all gathered on the floor of the arena.
"YES!" was the responding call by all five.
"Then, when the countdown clock hits zero, the fight will commence!" Goodwitch announced.
Cyan drew Dark Tyrant from his back, and observed his opponent's weapony. Jasper was swinging around a spiked a flail that seemed to be covered with red dust. Amber had spiked leather gloves on her hands, and what Cyan assumed to be flamethrowers on her wrists. Kiwi had bladed gauntlets on his forearms, along with two small pistols in his hands. Silver was weiliding a two-foot long cutlass that cackled with electricity. Cyan also noticed that Japser was wearing armor similar to his brother's, while the rest of his team mainly just wore workout shirts and some jeans. Cyan grinned at the challenge before him, while his opponents looked at him with extreme annoyance.
"You know," Cyan began as the countdown clock hit thirty seconds. "with this much firepower against me. I think I need to get serious from the beginning." With that, Cyan spun his sword around, and stabbed himself in the chest. Once again, the bizarre action caused almost everyone's jaws to drop. The four exempt from this reaction were Feirin, Iris, Nagami, and Goodwitch; who Cyan suspected was watching the initiation. Cyan's sword enveloped his body becoming his Pitch-black suit of armor.
"Conquerer mode engaged." Cyan said.
Team JAKS got over their shock as the clock began it's final countdown.
'5...4...3...2...1...FIGHT.'
Team JAKS attacked as soon as the countdown ended. Kiwi rose into the air using his semblance, and started firing his pistols at Cyan. However, the small caliber bullets did little to nothing against Cyan's armor. Cyan squatted down, and with a large bang he was in the air with Kiwi. Giving Kiwi no time to react, Cyan drew back his fist and slammed it into Kiwi sneding him crashing to the ground. As Cyan landed, he saw that his blow to Kiwi took out a third of his aura.
The next person to attack was Silver, who had tried to blind Cyan with his semblance. Keyword being "tried". As silver was about to slash Cyan with his cutlass, a armored hand grabbed his wrist.
"You think that with this pitch-black armor that I wouldn't have a tinted visor?" Cyan said, throwing Silver towards his team.
Jasper dodged his incoming teammate, and along with Amber charged Cyan. Hoping to get an advantage by double-teaming him. Jasper swung his flail at Cyan's helmet. Cyan threw his arms in front of his face, blocking the hit, but stunning him for a few seconds. Not even Cyan could take a hit from red dust and come out unscathed.
'Well, at least I know my armor can take a hit from red dust.' Cyan thought, still trying to escape his daze.
Amber did not waste the opportunity given to her, and started pummeling Cyan with punches. Bursts of flame accompinied each blow, due to the flamethrowers attached to her wrists. Cyan finally overcame his stuppor, and threw a punch at Amber's chest. Before the attack could connect, a orange barrier appeared in front of Amber, blocking Cyan's attack. Considering that he most likely wouldn't be able to break the barrier, Cyan jumped away from his opponent to rethink his strategy.
Cyan looked up at the scoreboard and saw that he was down a fourth of his aura. 'Not bad, considering the beating I just took. Now how much time is left?" Cyan looked and saw ten minutes left on the clock. 'Looks like I have five minutes left to finish this.'
In the few seconds Cyan took to think, Silver and Kiwi had gotten back up and where about to attack him. Cyan barely managed to dodged Silver's attack, realizing the electricity would be bad for his metal covered body. A quick punch to the gut dropped Silver's aura down to yellow. The attack to Silver left Cyan open to Kiwi, who was striking slashing at Cyan's back with his bladed gauntlets. Cyan spun around aiming a kick at Kiwi's legs. The attack hit home, causing the green-haired boy to fall backwards. Before Kiwi could hit the floor Cyan grabbed the boy, and headbutted him. Cyan's eyes darted to the right, and saw that Jasper was about to strike again. Cyan quickly the dazed Kiwi at Jasper knocking him to the ground.
"Who says nobody wins with a headbutt?" Cyan grinned.
Cyan suddenly felt a lot of pain radiate throughout his body. He turned around to see that Silver had gotten him with his cutlass.
"I had a feeling electricity would be bad for that metal armor." Silver said with a cocky grin.
Before Silver could strike again, Cyan used the guns on his armor to increase the momentum a kick aimed at Silver's head. Cyan's attack sent Silver flying through the air, Silver's aura dropping far into the yellow. Cyan looked at the scorboardto see what the current standings were. Cyan had half of his aura left, Silver and Kiwi were a hit away from red, and Jasper and Amber had nearly all there aura. There were only seven minutes left in the match.
'Damnit!' Cyan cursed mentally. 'I need to end this now!'
With renewed determination, Cyan ran at Jasper who was about to take his own charge. Cyan threw a punch at Jasper's gut, but he was hit by a wave of pressure and the punch slid into the ground.
'Shit!' Cyan thought. 'He has his brother's semblance.'
Jasper swung his flail down at Cyan, who rolled out of the way at the last second. As Cyan jumped to his feet, he saw Amber charging at him from the right. Cyan met her attack with an accelerated punch to the gut. The blow connected this time, but a second attempt was foiled by the orange barrier that was Amber's semblance. Cyan punched again, hopign to break the orange barrier, but the barrier held. Cyan tried to continue his assualt, but he was once again hit by a wave of pressure.
"We made this combo during the initation," Cyan heard Jasper say from behind him. "Amber block the opponent with her barrier, and then I increase the gravity to weaken and immobolize them. Why don't you just give up now?"
Cyan tried to turn towards Jasper to retort, but instead he saw the timer. There were twenty seconds left until ten minutes had passed.
"NO!" Cyan shouted. "You all need to run, now!"
"Why, is someone scared of facing defeat?" Jasper snarked.
"You don't understand! You are all in da-"
Cyan's words were cut off as the ten minute mark passed. Cyan's arms dropped to his sides, completly devoid of the urgency he had previously shown. Although unseen beneath his helmet, Cyan's mouth curved into a large, twisted grin.
"Well, well it's been a while, since Cy had a fight that took so long." Cyan said, his voice taking on a tone different from regular sounding almost euphoric. Cyan took in his surroundings, and saw the four people standing in front of him, he then started laughing hysterically. "HAHAHAHAHA! These idiots are who he was having trouble with, old Cy must be getting rusty."
"The hell you talking about, Cyan, you asshole?!" Jasper shouted, pissed from being talked down to by the boy he had beating seconds ago.
"Oh, dear me, it seems I have forgotten my manners!" Cyan said with a fake amount of shock. "Sorry to dissapoint, but Cyan isn't exactly in the building at the moment. My name is Joker, a pleasure to meet you." Joker took an exaggerated bow. "But, now there's no need to wonder where your god is, because he's right here, and he's fresh out of mercy." The last words were spoken in a very sadistic tone. Seconds later, after the words were said, Cyan disappeared, reappearing next to Silver and Kiwi.
"Huh!" "What the!"
The two boys exclaimed in surprise. Joker punched both of them in the gut, simultaneously. The blows quickly dispatched the boys, not only putting them in the red , but also depleting any aura they had left. They both spit up blood from the strike to their stomachs.
" and 's aura has entered the red, they are both unable to continue." Spoke an uneasy Goodwitch.
"Too easy, but don't worry we'll have more fun when I finish off the other two." Joker said, as he started laughing like a his bout of hysteria, Joker turned towards Amber, who was in a small state of shock. Joker pointed at the girl, and ran towards her with his fist drawn back. Amber immediatly put up her barrier, hoping to block the incoming attack. Instead of the sound of a fist hittinng her barrier that she was expecting, she heard the sound of bones cracking. She looked to her left and saw that Joker had dashed around her barrier, and had hit her in the ribs. She screamed in pain, as Joker simply started laughing once again.
"Sorry sweetheart, but unlike Cy I'm way too fast and smart to fall for a such a petty palor trick like that." Amber fell to the ground in pain, her aura had been completly destroyed by that one punch.
" 's aura has entered the red, she is unable to continue." Goodwitch announced.
Joker turned to the last person left standing other than himself, Jasper Winchester. "Oooh!" Joker exclaimed. "Cyan really seems to hate you. I guess that means I get to be a little more rough."
Jasper gulped, fearing whatever was about to come. Joker lunged at Jasper, but instead of aiming for the torso like he did the others. Joker threw a low kick aimed at Jasper's left leg. Jasper let out a yelp of pain as he felt the bone break. Jasper threw another kick, and another leg was broken. Still with a sadistic grin on his face, Joker pulled a knife from the sheaths on his stomach, while pulling Jasper up by his armor. "Time to finish this." Was all Joker said as he pulled back the arm that was holding the knife. Joker tried to thrust his arm foreward, but found that he couldn't move it. He looked at his arm and saw a purple glyph keeping his arm in place. Joker struggled against the glyph as Goodwitch called out to him.
"I think that is quite enough, ." Goodwitch said.
"Did you not hear me earlier, lady?" Joker asked with anger. "Cyan's not in control right now, Joker is."
"Whoever you are, I would prefer it if you dropped ." Professor Goodwitch said in her usual stern tone.
"Fine."
Joker dropped Jasper, letting him fall onto his broken legs. Earning another yelp of pain from the boy.
"If I can't play wiht him, I guess you'll be a good substitute." Joker lunged at Goodwitch, but five if her glyph's restrained him before he could throw a punch.
"Now, now," Goodwitch said. "No need to get violent. I do need to get rid of this armor though." With just a flick of her riding crop, Dark Tyrant was in pieces on the floor. "Now I can do this without any trouble." Goodwitch then raised Joker into the air, turned him upside down, and then slammed him into the ground. WIth Joker/Cyan no longer conscious, Goodwitch pointed her crop at his team. "Two of you get down here, and carry him to the infirmary. I need to get the other four."
As Iris, Nagami, and Feirin jumped down into the arena, Goodwitch faced the rest of the class. "Class is dismissed for the day."
Iris and Feirin each grabbed one of Cyan's arms, dragging him along. Nagami picked up the pieces of Cyan's armor, realizing he would probably need them later. And as Goodwitch levatated the four injured students, Nagami said what was on everybody's mind.
"What the hell was that?!"
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