Aikoki is standing on the beach with his back to the water, I am standing opposite on the edge of the sand, there is a slight drop down to the sand. The Coans and Dr Rath are standing to the side about 10 metres away so they are out of the way from the fight.
Aikoki’s rules for this fight are simple:
Michael can use all his Powers as needed.
Aikoki can only use a single Power (His untouchable power.)
Go all out but try not to maim or heavily injure.
Michael wins if he can knock out or incapacitate Aikoki.
Aikoki wins if he can knock out or incapacitate Michael.
Shaking my arms to loosen then I watch as Aikoki is just standing there with arms by his side. “You gonna do something or just dance there Michael?”
“Just thinking, why is the sky bl-” and at once I punch forward, interrupting myself and shooting pillars of stone from under me horizontally toward him, I can feel the stone underneath the dirt move at speed.
The twin pillars of rock and stone shoot forward and are caught in each of his hands, being deflected and redirected away from him to each side. I jump down and bring my hands up and my fingers into a plus sign.
4 clones of 100 MP appear and move around the side of Aikoki, clones 1 and 2 who are moving behind him launch burning fire from each fist, punching forward. Aikoki dodges the hot flames and moves toward number 3 to his right.
Number 3 brings his arms up to the sides, punching both arms up and moving sand and stone upward into a wall. He starts to back off when Aikoki instead spins away and moves toward me, grinning and sprinting right at me I reach out and pull a water jug from my inventory.
The jug drops to the ground as the water stays in my hands, coating my hands in water. The tips of my fingers become ice, the other clones move behind him with 1 and 2 closest to the sea pulling in water to form long water whip arms.
Aikoki comes in close as I try to scratch him away with the ice claws, just before he reaches me I inhale a deep breath and breathe out fire point blank. He hasn't seen this trick before!
Flinching back he has no damage from the fire but from past experience he can feel the heat, I turn the ice back to water and shoot forward toward his face. I want to scare him some and get him to back off.
As he flinches back from the fire 3 and 4 move up and punch their arms up as if moving into a boxing stance, pillars of hardened sand and stone shoot up, I don’t want to hurt him so flattened tips only.
The pillars of sand explode on contacting Aikoki’s back, pushing him forward into the water I’m shooting out. The water wraps around his eyes, turning to ice and blinding him. I made sure that the water was shaped around the eyes so the water in the eyes are also not frozen.
Blinded and off balance I move forward bringing my knee into his stomach, it feels slippery like a goop and I don’t know if any hurt was caused. As he’s bent over 1 and 2 bring their water whip arms forward and reach toward his arms and body, the water wrapping around him and turning to ice again.
1 and 2 turn the water on their arms to ice and pull, the water whips twist and move back, throwing Aikoki toward the ocean. The water whips reach their maximum length and snap, with Aikoki flying over and into the ocean.
All the clones and I rush forward toward the ocean, this fight is not over yet.
The clones poof out and return their mana to me, I pull on the water and it rises up toward me wrapping around my lower legs and pushing me up into a water column, a waterspout.
The water lifts me into the air 5 metres up and moves me towards where Aikoki landed, I can see him bobbing in the water looking up at me. I wave my arms in a circular motion and soon his entire body is covered in ice, except the head of course.
Bobbing in the now quite a lot colder water he asks “So, two out of three?”
Moving my arms again the waterspout slowly lowers me back down and the ice moves back into water, that was exhausting. We both start laughing and swim back and walk off the beach to cheers and clapping from the Coans and Dr Rath.
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Aikoki claps me on the back, “Well done, tactics like those will be excellent against other people. And that move with the jug was inspired!”
“Cheers, I think I’m ready then.”
“So, you’ll be going to Oghqoa soon then Michael?” asked Malter, “Yeap, I want to head out in a couple of days.”
“You really want to go so soon?” Asks Coan,
“Yes, there was that meeting with Lord Head, and that close call on the docks. The timeframe of the Institute finding yours truly might have been moved up. The sooner I get signed on as a member of the Adventurer society the safer I will be.”
“Michael is correct, which is why I’m going with him.” said Dr Rath “Woah hold on, I thought the plan was for me to go solo?”
“Yes, but I had been asked to visit the medical conference there in Oghqoa, apparently there are some new Powered equipment that is being shown off and I want to get my hands on them. And besides, it’s more likely they will notice you walking instead of us travelling by Powered carriage.”
“And also, where were you thinking of staying?” Ah yea, that would be handy.
The Powered carriage is basically a short range train network, it’s normally used for moving freight between cities but normally has a small compartment where people can sit. A few small one time payments (bribes) and we could get on board.
It should be a straight shot into the city, it’ll even slow down a bit before it reaches the city so we can jump off and walk in through the gate without people asking questions.
“That’s actually a good idea, alright let's do it.”
“We’ll have a big dinner before you go! Upni Steak!” “Hells Yea!” Coan and I cheer, it’s both our favourite foods. It tastes like some of that A5 wagyu I had once.
We walk back to the house and relaxed for a few hours, my mana at the end of the fight was down to 154 MP so I will either need to find a way to increase my MP storage or fight more conservative.
After our dinner of steak and salad we were talking about interesting Powers when I asked Coan,
“Oh by the way, I have an upgrade to my Gifted Power, it's called “Character Sheet”, it allows us to see things about the people in my Parties. You wanna test it, see what it looks like?”
“Sure, send the invite”. “Give me a second, and you should also see a Permissions window as well, you guys want in on this?” I ask the others.
“Sure”, “Why not?”, “Go for it” says the others. A few invites later and the Party is created.
You have been invited into “Temp1” Party by Michael Hayes
You will be able to view your current Powers, Potential Progress, Map Mode, Voice Channel, HP and MP.
Permissions:
Share Powers with Party? (Y/N)
Share Progress with Party? (Y/N)
Custom
Accept / Decline
Leave Voice Chat
“I’d prefer not to share the knowledge of my Powers” said Aikoki, “Same here” said Epego and Malter. “I’ll share it” said Coan, “I’d like your opinion on it anyway.”
Character Sheet: Coan Coan
MP: 123 points HP: 134 points
Map Mode available.
Voice Chat available.
Auto-Translation available.
Make Screen Visible to Party Members (Y/N)
Powers:
None.
Potential Progress
Creation Power 67% Completed: Ynuei (Argonaut)
Caution: Translation of Potential Power may not be absolutely correct, translation based on Party Controllers understanding of similar Powers. (Currently, Michael - Earth.)
Well that's interesting, “Uh Coan, what Power were you trying to make?” “I, um, I’m not really sure. I didn’t realise I was making one.”
“Ynuei, I believe that means hero, or group of heroes?” said Malter, “Do you know what, that says Michael?”
“Uh, kinda. If I remember my ancient history correctly, was it a group of Greek heroes? Dr, do you know if Creation Powers could be created without the normal conscious effort?”
“It can happen, but it’s quite rare. I think we should not worry about it.”