"You talk as if your superior, Vanrouw! But just know this, if it already isn't apparent enough, no student of mine has ever beat me first time! Bwa-ha-ha!"
"Then I guess I have the honor of being the first. Blitz! Move the Mackoy out of the way! It's my turn for the spotlight."
He ran towards the defeated Henry and began to drag him to the edge of the pit.
"Alright Hugo, show us what you've got!"
I charged at her with a pink energy trail blazing behind me. I conjured the whip I used to strike her out of the sky with and began twirl it, charging it for my next attack. She readied herself in a battle stance, but her guard was open. She wanted me to attack her, so I accepted her challenge. I swung the whip from my left side and struck her gauntlet on my right side. As my whip wrapped around the gauntlet, she began to mock me.
"Dumbass!"
She winded her arm and the wrapped gauntlet pulled me into the air towards her. As she winded her other gauntlet for another punch, I let go of my whip which caused it to vanish. She swung her readied gauntlet, but as it came at me, I twisted my body in a way so that the soles of my feet aligned with the oncoming attack. As the punch landed against my feet, I leapt off of it creating distance between me and my aggressor.
"Not bad! But try this!"
Suddenly a right-handed karate chop delivered from the gauntlets connected with the bicep of my left arm. It felt as if I was just hit by a truck two-fold, the force was strong enough to clear away all the sand in the air that had accumulated during her reign of terror. After a moment of being struck by the attack, I found myself hurtling into the balcony rail. When I had realized what had happened, I was already falling back into the sandy pit. I slowly turned my head to Velerouge, who had a great big smile on her face relishing her previous attack.
"Hugo Vanrouw! One of the children of the exclusive Vanrouw Clan! What a privelige that must be!"
"Don't talk.... as if... you know shit about... me."
"Oh, but I do! We all do, your family is notorious for-!"
"SHUT UP!"
Rage filled my mind as she tried to talk about my family's history. I slowly struggled to get up as she then looked down at her own bracer that had fancier appearance than that of the student ones. She began to read the following contents aloud.
:
[Name- Hugo Vanrouw
[Stat Types- Energy - Control - Healing - Psycho
[Stat Values- 81 - 44 - 28 - 100
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They were indeed the details on my Stat Types and Values. She only continued to grin as if she was trying to mock me.
"Don't get too angry Vanrouw! Need I remind you that you have a Psycho Stat?"
It is true that I have such Stat. It is in terms probably one of the weakest yet more powerful Stat types, granting the user the ability to create an aura that can enhance their other Stats. Though there is a heavy toll. The more the user uses the power of the Psycho Stat to enhance, they lose slowly lose their consciousness and eventually their own sanity. This discovery caused a lot of lives to be lost in the beginning of the Stat based era, but it's our rationality and knowledge that prevents those events from happening again. I had already thrown those two things out the window, prepared to do whatever I needed to take her down.
"Alright you damned shortcake, I'll show you what it means to be a fucking Vanrouw!"
With those words out of my head I began to call forth my aura. My broken disjointed arm began to violently shift before fixing itself. The aura continued to slowly envelope me, igniting the air around me with pink electricity. I sharpened the raw aura around me until it was refined, sharp enough to cause a paper cut by being touched it. Two long pointed ears appeared from the top of the aura around my head and the aura slowly tightened itself around me. This was my family's skill, a skill that no other could use.
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"Vanrouw Clan Skill: Cloak of Fenrir."
[Psycho Stat- 20% Active
Velerouge gazed at me with excitement as if this was what she was hoping for all along. She readied herself one final time, prepared to go on the offensive.
"Bwa-ha-ha! Thats it Vanrouw! Show me the Vanrouw Clans specialty!"
I charged at her once more, before she knew it i was already face to face with her. I opened the palm of my right hand, causing three sharp claws to form from the aura. I swung the claws at her, but instead of taking the hit as she has been doing, she dodged. I opened the palm of my left hand and began to violently swing both of the pink energized claws at her in a flurry of attacks. She was dodging each of my attacks as she stepped backwards after each one. She then held out her right hand in front of her and froze me in place.
"I will admit Vanrouw, that was more than I anticipated, but this ends now."
As she held her hand out, both of the gauntlets flew into the air. They position themselves in the attack formation they used during Henry's pummeling. If I couldn't break free from her Contol over me in the next few moments, I was going to end up the same as Henry. I focused; I needed more power. A subtle rumble began around me before a burst of aura was emmitted from my body, I had broken free.
[Psycho Stat- 34% Active
"Impressive Vanrouw! But that stunt won't last you much longer!"
She pulled herself into the air away from my reach, as she did the gauntlets began to rain down onto me. They pummeled the ground with the same force they had used on the Mackoy.
"Bwa-ha-ha! Victory is mine!"
A crackle of what sounded like lightning occurred before I leapt out from the sand cloud as I leveled with Velerouge. I then performed a series of spins with my whole body and struck the unguarded Velerouge back to the ground with a wolf like tail that I had conjured from my aura.
[Psycho Stat- 40% Active
My eyesight was starting to get a little blurry I continued to call forth my aura. As I fell back to the ground, I performed a series of front flips to generate force for my next tail attack. As I landed, I noticed she wasn't there. Through the sandy cloud I had created on impact came one of her gauntlets. It backhanded me and sent me flying backwards once more. As I flew through the air, I rotated my body so that it aligned with the ground below me. I then used my energy generated claws to dig into the ground to slow me down. I looked up and saw her levitating in the air, her giant human sized gauntlets floating just above her shoulders.
"Vanrouw, I will admit you are more than what I had in mind. For that reason, I will no longer hold back on you."
She no longer spoke with the brazen brashness she had been doing since the fight began. She had reverted to the stern collected teacher we had all initially met in the class. She then formed to fists and combined them horizontally in front of her. Her gauntlets performed the same actions as she did, but after which they began to shift and transform. After a few moments they had turned into two levitating mechanical canons.
"We're done here."
She spoke as if it was my final moments. She crossed her arms and the canons revved up. I began to get a running start before I could leap up to her, but before I could even attempt anything I was blasted by her newly transformed weapons. Their yellow-colored energy continually rained down onto me as I struggled to resist their force. I needed more power.
[Psycho Stat- 51% Active
The world around me was starting to slowly fade into darkness as I was beginning to lose my sense of self control. It felt as if something else had begun to control my body. I tried to reverse the increasing aura but couldn't. I was on the borderline to entering a psycho state, a state where you begin to surrender your own body and consciousness for more power.
[Psycho Stat- 62% Active
I felt my possessed body charge forward at the teacher, breaking away from her canons rain. As my newly possessed body leapt forward at the levitating Ms. Velerouge, I had finally lost my sense of sight to the new possessor of my body. Shortly after followed my hearing, then my touch, smell, and finally i could no longer taste my own saliva. What was happening out there? Were these my final moments as myself before it started to eat away at my mind? I could hear someone calling my name. It sounded faint and was slowly getting louder before a light began to shine through my dark prison.
"Hugo! Hugo! You good!?"
It was Blitz. He was violently shaking me as if he was trying to bring a corpse back to life.
"Blitz... what's going on...?
I asked with confusion, I felt a sharp pain in abdomen. I think one of my ribs were broken.
"So, you did go psycho! Man, what show you put on. I mean you still lost but still!"
"I... lost?
"Yeah~, but don't worry about that too much, once you went psycho Ms. Velerouge started doing some crazy attacks and beat the shit out of you!"
"Thanks for the emotional support..."
"No worries!"
I began to look around and noticed I was in the stands with the other beaten students.
"So, is it over then?"
"Actually, there was a turn of events while you were out, you see-"
"GYAAAAAWD DAMNIT!"
The screaming was coming from the pit, it sounded like Ms. Velerouge. I got up and slowly limped my way over to the ledge to see what her screaming was about. As I looked over the ledge, I saw her standing in the middle, pointing her left giant mecha-gauntlet at the opposite side of the stands. In her line of sights were Sheeva, Phobos, and Ronan. She took a deep breath before screaming once more.
"You three! Come down here and face me!"
The three of them stood there looking at her as if they heard nothing at all.
"DAMNIT! Can't you guys hear me!? I SAID-"
The moth masked Ronan then leapt over the ledge and down into the pit. He kneeled at his landing spot. His mechanical arms making sharp subtle adjustments before standing.
"I will face you."