8th August

"Now! Let's begin the exciting part! Y'all start fighting and I'll sit back and enjoy it!"

Who the heck gave her the teaching licence? If that thing actually exists here!

"What are you trying to say ma'am?" Arnold argued anxiously. The other two boys just stood there while sweat ran down their nape.

"I wanted to make the losers fight against each other but there are quite too many here so it will be the other way around!" She exclaimed then pointed her finger to the three of them, "Y'all will have a triple threat fight using your magic skills and I'll rate you, the one who comes out on top receives a gift from me." She winked at them and then looked at all of the losers. "As for y’all ankle-biters, after these three boys are done with I'll have y’all all fight one on one so be ready for it hehe." Iva made everyone except the three to stand near the edge of the training grounds.

Ankle-biters?

“So, before we beginー" She took a pause and opened up her hair then removed her trackshirt, underneath was only a white tank top that stuck to her sweaty skin and exhibited her muscles. The riling sweat pearls refracted the light falling on her definitive muscles while the sun shone above her head. Her brown hair looked like the soil subsequent to a rain and the glimpse of it was as exquisite as the smell of the soil. Bewildered by the sight, many students found themselves gazing at it. That was when Yuki realised what John had actually seen.

Holy shit I didn't think she would turn out to be so hot!

"So as I was saying, let's begin with the triple threat you boys!"

The three of them were staring at each other intensively without saying a word. The only one who showed no intentions to fight was Arnold.

"I'll explain ya the rules of the fight. First, you will take your stance at a distance of 17 metres from each other and begin only when I order you to. Second, your attacks shouldn't be lethal and you won't be the one to decide the meaning of that word. Third, ya won't come within a radius of 15 metres of the indefensible students.

Break any of those and ya will face severe punishment."

The three of them without saying anything took their stance at the said distance and were ready for the command. "START BRAWLING BOYS!" Iva gave her command with the excitement of a mischievous child playing with its new toy.

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Rusty ran towards Arnold with a provoked expression while Lin didn't show any signs of moving but rather stood there with his hands folded and his silk black hair wavering in the winds. As Rusty neared Arnold, the latter realised he had no option but to fight, he placed his feet at shoulder width, positioned the left side of his body in front and raised his arms to his chin while keeping the chin low. He bent his knees and raised his heels a bit, all ready to take a blow.

Rusty drew back his right arm and created a fireball and when Arnold was in his range he manoeuvred his arm towards the latter by leaning in, Arnold ducked down and avoided his attack, then he covered his fists with hard ice and tried pulling off an uppercut on Rusty. Rusty realised what was coming for him and had a narrow chance for escape with his prevailing position.

"He can't lean away as his body has a lot of momentum, nor can he tilt to one of his sides; he won't be able to change the direction of his momentum in time." Miss Iva determined the situation.

Everyone was awestruck after witnessing the following events. Rusty applied all his weight into his feet and pushed himself backwards, but that was not to dodge the punch. As Rusty was falling backward he grabbed Arnold's wrist with his right hand and cupped his elbow with his left and then applied more force on his legs to throw Arnold backwards. But after all those efforts the attempt turned out to be half successful as Rusty himself fell to the ground with Arnold.

"That was an interesting tactic, but it was bound to fail. The core of the technique was to use the enemy's momentum against them, and that was just a small uppercut." Miss Iva ascertained, observing the whole turn of events.

Rusty and Arnold both got up quickly, and Rusty's expression changed from provoked to cold, as if this was only to test Arnold. Arnold hadn't realised what Rusty was trying to do and decided to ambush him.

This time Arnold was the one who took the lead, he zoomed towards Rusty while producing ice on his palms. Rusty didn't move an inch and observed his moves. Arnold charged forward like a feral animal and threw his punch at Rusty, but Rusty just rolled with his attack and grabbed his wrist. He then pushed him forward, throwing him off balance, grasping his elbow as he shifted his weight back to lift him off the earth before throwing him to the ground a few metres away from him.

But that wasn't enough to bring him down, Arnold stood back up still willing to fight Rusty. "This kid is tough, but I doubt if he can last long." Arnold had now realised what Rusty's technique was and took a different approach. He placed his arms on the field and started creating ice, the ice spread till Rusty's legs and covered them. Rusty still hadn't moved since the attack, he didn't provide any response and after a few seconds of the ice building he finally spoke, "You're weak." And with that he simply walked out of the thin ice shattering it into nothing, and then manipulated Crux Particles in Arnold's close atmosphere to form flames. "And so are your flames." The latter replied, he tried to extinguish them by the flick of his hand but he immediately realised that it was a facade, Rusty came in on him with a cross punch straight to his chin. Aronld tried evading but the punch still managed to connect to his jawline. The punch was strong enough to knock out Arnold in one blow sending him flying back and his eyes rolling upwards.

"That kid only had good endurance to him, nothing more than that, I got excited for no reason." Miss Iva sighed.

"I thought this guy would be strong, turns out he's weaker than a faggot." It was the first time Yuki heard Rusty speaking, he had a strong Californian accent, he opened up his neck length red hair which started wavering in the winds.

With Arnold out of the way Rusty now faced Lin. They both stared at each other intensively as though they were arch-enemies from long back in history. Rusty had revealed his tricks but Lin hadn't moved an inch yet. Everyone knew their fight would be grandiose. The winds took their pace and the clouds stifled the sun as if to witness the fierce contest. A can could be crushed by the tension in between these two. Both refused to jest the others' capabilities and range. But that was no battle in The end one had to make a move, and the one to take the call was—

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