CH. 5 EXHIBITION MATCHES
“The matches should start in about 5 minutes.” Said Blossom, “Or at least that's what is written here. Oh, I’m sorry, where are my manners? I’m Blossom Levine. My Brand has the ability to control plants and make them grow,” she said, extending her hand. I shook it and said “Cool, nice to meet you. My name is Isaiah Blade and this is my friend Blaze Stoll. He’s mute. I can control metal and make weapons, he can manipulate fire.” “That's really cool,” she said excitedly. “With those abilities we are basically guaranteed to win these matches. It says here I'm fighting Ashley and-”
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I would never expect something like that to be done by a girl named Blossom. Ashley didn’t give up and hid in the deep tropical forest behind the plants. while Blossom backed up against the cherry blossom tree. I couldn’t find where she was until she sprinted at Blossom with all her speed from the shadow of a tree. Ashley tried for a barrage again. But Blossom created a wall of roots. Ashley didn’t even slow down a bit, she charged her blade with momentum and hit! She sliced right through Blossoms roots like it was nothing. With the wall Ashley also hit her opponent in the arm, even though Blossom tried to dodge. “YES FINALLY GOD DAM!” Shouted out Ashley. “What you nicked me? Good job,” said Blossom sarcastically. “Yeah, and now my toxin does its job” replied Ashley. “You're what?!”Said Blossom.
“My toxin, you idiot. That’s my Brand ability, I can create very poisonous toxins that will make you hallucinate and paralyze, about…now!” Right when Ashley said that, Blossom started hallucinating. Everything started to blur, and she was seeing copies of Ashley as she fell to the ground. Ashley quickly jumped towards her opponent, and started beating her up badly.
Everyone was already thinking that Ashley won, but suddenly, all of Blossom's roots turned into flowers that started spraying some kind of gas around the arena. Ashley stopped, because the whole arena was filled with pink mist. Then Blossom just disappeared from Ashleys sight. Suddenly Blossom said, still not being seen,“My second ability is automatic, it uses flowers to heal myself, it’s still a little slow because I don’t have enough experience, but at least I got rid of all the side effects your poison had.” “OH WELL THAT'S JUST BULLS***! WHAT THE HE-"Ashley didn't get to finish before Blossom attacked her with her roots again, she created 3 huge roots that rose from the floor, and pointed at Ashley, causing the roots to start targeting her. Ashley was a pro in swordsmanship, I could tell. She got her blade ready and parried all the attacks of the roots. She sliced one of the roots in half, dodged the second one, and jumped right over third. She did a sideflip to dodge all the attacks that the roots did again after retracting back to Blossom. Ashley finally had enough and counterattacked, she sprinted at Blossom as fast as she could, she hit a barrage of swings with her poisonous blade successfully right at Blossom. Blossom knew she probably couldn’t heal this amount of poison, so she immediately grabbed Ashleys leg with her smallest root that she still had energy to control, and launched her straight up, almost hitting the fake sky that the virtual reality generated that was the roof of the building. After which she pulled her down as strong as she could which knocked out Ashley and her right after. After that the Arena turned back to normal, the jungle disappeared.
Cole rushed down to the battlefield and grabbed the two girls “We Have to Put them to the nurse room!” shouted Cole, <
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Kane just continued to stand there, while the arena turned into a hot Sahara desert. Blaze used his fire jets to launch himself towards the opponent. He got ready for a kick right before he approached Kane. Blaze kicked so hard that a huge sandy mist was found all over the place. The center of the mist became hot red soon after. After a few seconds I saw the students silhouettes. Kane had blocked Blaze’s kick, and tanked his fireballs straight into his face. Kane didn’t even have a scratch on him. Blaze started a flurry of punches on Kane but he still didn't flinch. Finally Blaze flipped back and charged up a massive heat beam and let it go. This time Kane did move and before anyone could see he was behind Blaze. “I'm so sorry to say this but you are done.” Kane said with a guilty tone in his voice. “It just doesn't seem like you can really hurt me and I want to give the other students a chance to fight.”
Blaze spun around and tried to kick the opponent in the head, but Kane just caught it and said, “I guess I don’t have any other choice. sorry” In a blink of an eye Kane punched Blaze in the face, sending him flying right into a sandy hill and knocking him out. Kane then picked him up and took him up to the stands.
“Who is this kid!?” I thought, even if he did train his power to this level, his durability and speed is higher than the Brand user I met at the start of this whole thing in the school, also he could fly, and the strangest thing was when he floated up to the stands I could finally see his left eye that had no visible Brand under it.
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The arena turned into a big stormy winter region. Snow was everywhere, for a second I thought it became cold. But that was just my brain thinking that way, because of the sudden change of the scene that tricked my eyes. Anthony started playing on his guitar some strange melody, and then suddenly when he finished, I couldn’t hear anything, nor see anything. I was disoriented by his melody?! I couldn’t do anything, but I sensed that Anthony was running towards me with his sharp purple energy guitar. He punched me straight into my face. From that hit, I came back to my senses. I saw a spit of my own blood coming out from my mouth. That piece of crap just uppercutted me with his big a** guitar! I turned my steel pipe into a not too sharp sword, so I won’t hurt him much, even though I wanted to. I was 1 foot in the air, I switched to the defense stance, because he already jumped to attack again. I blocked his attack in mid-air. When we both landed on the floor I jumped back to analyze my opponent.
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So Anthony Smith, a music note Brand user, I’m not sure what his Brand is called. But I know that he creates a special guitar that has certain powers. But to use those powers he needs to play the melody first. That’s right! If I won’t let him finish his melody on the guitar, he can’t use his powers. Right after I analyzed my opponent, his guitar turned into a dark blue still sharp electro guitar. He got his hands ready to play the melody. I suspected that the guitar's power was different now, because the color of the guitar has changed. I immediately blitzed towards him. I approached even before he could play one note on the guitar. I thought that it was over for him, but oh I was wrong. He just barely touched his guitar strings, but a little noise was heard. Immediately after, his guitar sent a big shockwave towards me, I couldn’t react. I got hit with a big soundwave that surrounded me. Everything I could see at that moment was a blurry silhouette of Anthony, that was because the soundwave was so strong I could literally see it. After a millisecond, I heard a burst of sound so loud, that I felt like my ears popped. I tried to scream, but the soundwave was so loud, I couldn’t even hear my thoughts. A few seconds later the soundwave got stronger, because Anthony played again. It got so strong that I got sent back into a pile of snow. I think Anthony said something, but I just could not hear it. I looked at the snow near my ears and it became red, blood red. My ears actually got injured, it hurt.
I wanted to give up badly, I wanted the pain to go away, I wanted to go home! But I just couldn’t, not after what happened to my friends. Blossom fought against Ashley, even while poisoned, and Blaze tried his best against that kid. They both got beaten up badly, they both got SERIOUSLY HURT! I CAN’T GIVE UP! I got serious, I got mad, I got ANGRY! So I stood up. Blood droplets were still coming out from my ears. I can’t stop now! I wanted to win, WIN NO MATTER WHAT! I could see Anthony's face filled with horror, when he saw my face. My eyebrows came closer to each other, I bit my lip to forget about the pain, and my eyes lit with anger. I pulled my sword back to me. I split the sword in half. I turned one half of the sword into a boomerang, and the rest into a medium size blade. I could tell that my rival was not happy with the boomerang I made. He was ready to attack me with his soundwave again, but I threw the boomerang to his right shoulder which disrupted his attempt to play on the guitar, even though he dodged the attack by ducking to the left. I ran towards him, with almost no energy left to fight. While I almost approached him he tried to play on his guitar again, but by that time my boomerang had circled through the whole arena, and was going straight at Anthony’s back. But I still had to dodge the soundwave that Anthony did before the boomerang hit him, I wouldn’t be able to withstand another attack from him. So I threw my blade to the side and it hit right into the ice floor in the arena, which made a crack in there. I pulled myself towards the blade, which saved me. I probably would have been damaged by the noise that was coming from his guitar again, if my ears were still responding, even though I still heard a pisk near my ears. At that point the boomerang reached Anthony, and he collapsed from the hit to the ground dropping his guitar while screaming so loud that even I heard him with my injured ears “Not Fu**ing SECOND time!” This was my chance, I can’t miss this one. I pulled myself to the boomerang that was still behind Anthony. Right before I was near him I magnetted the blade to my hand and hit my opponent in the head with the handle of my blade. Which finally knocked him out. But I did not stop. I threw my weapons away and kept beating him with my bare hands. I kept on beating him until my hands were all in his blood, I stopped, I was stunned. Was this me? Why did I keep punching him? Why are my hands in his blood? I then felt a hit from the back and lost consciousness. I don’t remember what happened next.
I woke up in the Nurse room, Hunter was sleeping on a chair beside me. Something reminded me of this. But I didn’t want to wake him up, because I was an embarrassment. I beat up a classmate like he was my enemy, not my opponent, in front of the whole school. My ears were in bandages, I still barely heard anything. I could tell that I was here for more than a few hours. I was in a room filled with a soft orange light from the oval window in my room. I sat like this for a few minutes. Then I tried to stand up, but Hunter said, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you. You haven’t healed fully yet.” I did not answer anything and continued to slowly stand up from my bed. “Hey what’s the matter?” Asked Hunter with a worried tone behind my back. I couldn’t ignore him. I wanted to cry, “I beat up a kid in front of everyone”, said I with my eyes in tears still with my back towards him. “Hey It’s okay, don’t worry about that. It was my fault, I should have stopped the match earlier.”, “So it was you who knocked me out?” I asked, “Yes.” replied Hunter, “Thank you for stopping me.” “I didn’t stop you, you stopped yourself when you were angry. That’s the most important thing, I’m proud.”Said Hunter, “You are proud of me?” I said finally turning around. “Of course, I am. You were angry, because you didn’t want your teammates to fight for nothing, I respect that. Just promise me that this won’t happen again, you have to control your emotions alright?","Alright " I said calmly, looking at the floor.
Hunter then helped me to stand up. After showing me the way to the Cafe he left for some business he had to take care of. I entered the cafeteria. All of the students were already sitting in the cafeteria for dinner. While I just looked around. The cafeteria was illuminated by countless bright lights, with rows of highly reinforced and anti-magic warded tables neatly placed around the room. I walked over to the menu, “Welcome to ‘Culinary Heaven’, where we serve mouthwatering meals in record-breaking time! Enjoy our classic spaghetti carbonara, or our Spicy Garlic Shrimp Tacos!” I chose the Spicy Garlic Shrimp Tacos, and went to sit. I saw Blaze in the corner, with a broken arm and a thing that supports your neck when it’s broken. He still was pissed about losing to Kane, he refused to interact with anyone. I decided to go and sit with blossom and the 4 other kids I hadn't met yet and talk to him back in the dorm. When I sat at their table all the kids stopped talking and quietly continued to eat their food, but I didn’t care. I was very hungry. The Spicy Garlic Shrimp Tacos featured succulent fried shrimp tossed in a zesty garlic marinade, nestled in crispy and crunchy corn tortillas and topped with creamy, ripe, and organic avocados. There was also fresh cilantro, finished with a drizzle of zesty lime crema. I hadn’t even taken a bite to know that this stuff was gonna be good. As soon as I took a bite, the myriad of delicious flavors flooded into my mouth, nearly overwhelming my taste buds. The spiciness of the garlic marinade and lime crema helped reduce the fishy smell from the shrimp, and the corn tortillas made the texture absolutely immaculate. I finished my meal in a few bites and drank a full glass of crystal clear mineral water. Blossom then said, “Pretty hungry aren’t you?” I looked at her when she just smiled at me with her face full of little scars. “Yeah.” I replied. After I calmed down my appetite, I looked around. I couldn’t see Kane, Ashley and . . . Anthony around in the cafeteria. I guess they all are already finished with their dinners. I then looked at Blossom again and said, “What happened after I got knocked out? Is Anthony okay?” with a worried look. “Yeah he is fine, don’t worry about him right now. Well, what happened after you got knocked out . . . Umm, so Hunter announced over the speaker that the match is over, you won. But you didn’t stop, you ignored him. Hunter immediately rushed to the arena. My bet is that you didn’t ignore him, you couldn’t hear him. Your ears were still red. Then I saw you stop for a second and look at your hands in . . . blood. Right after that Hunter knocked you out with a light tap in the neck. At that moment the Nurse finally arrived, so she and Sage started helping everyone with their injuries. When Blaze woke up, he saw you. He pointed at you, so that we started helping you, after which he fell asleep again.” Finished Blossom. After hearing all that, I turned to the girl who helped us, “Are you Sage? Did you help us?”, “yes” she said so quietly that I could barely hear it. “Thank you! Thank you for everything.” I said in a thankful voice. “It's okay, I wouldn't have done that much without the nurse.” She said while blushing, “I will be sure to thank the nurse too when I see her. Thank you again.” She just slowly smiled and looked at me with her gentle green eyes. We finished our dinners and I finally got the chance to meet the other 4 students. First about Robert, he's a skinny white kid with blond hair and gray eye’s and he has the lightning Brand. His mark under his left eye was a yellow lightning symbol. Essentially he has the ability to shoot lightning and use super speed that is faster than any normal Brand user is likely to obtain. Next is Shade. I can’t say anything about his facial characteristics because he always wears a dark jacket with a big hood over his head which covers his whole face in a shadow, which also covers his Brand mark. He has beautiful dark toned golden eyes which peek out from his shadow face. Robert, his roommate, told me that he doesn’t like to talk a lot, so Robert explained to everyone Shade’s abilities with Shade’s approval of course. Shade’s Brand allows him to teleport in between shadows, no matter the size. He can also hide items in his own shadow basically giving him infinite storage. Then it was Joshua, he is also a white kid with brown hair and had a pair of glasses on, he is a bit of a know it all type of kid, he also talks a LOT. He has the light Brand, which allows him to shoot concentrated light beams from his eyes and his hands. He can also change how light reflects off his body, which makes it so basically if he concentrates allows him to be invisible or become a flash bang. And last is Sage. You already know her but she is a black girl with long curly white hair and green eyes. Her Brand is the healing Brand and it can heal people and fix broken objects to a perfect state but currently she is not great at fixing objects and can hardly heal people. We all started to leave the Cafeteria after saying thank you to the chef who cooked this wonderful meal for us. Outside near the dorm there was a little park with a fountain and flowers in the center. I told my classmates that I will catch up later. I sat on one of the benches and stared at the fountain, I didn’t notice how it started to get dark outside. The fountain was so chill and quiet that I forgot about all the problems in my head for a few hours.
Later in the dorm, I tried to talk to Blaze, but he ignored me. I wanted to try again, but something just told me not to, it would be better for him to be a bit alone right now. I understood what he felt, I felt the same way when I couldn’t do anything to help Hunter against that guy in the school, except getting beaten up.