I now faced against those who would be in my team, proving myself to become their captain was a little more challenging than I thought. I had not really fought against so many skilled and powerful talisman wielders at once, but I had confidence I could handle it, my faith in my own talismans would guide me through.

Ibiki remained the main attacker of the group, much more aggressive as he tried to push me into releasing more of my power. The male Tigris and Smilodon backed him up, coming in when Ibiki pushed me back.

The male Tigris’s sword burned with fire. I quickly neutralised his first attack with water, engulfing him in it, sending him in the opposite direction, he left himself too open.

The Smilodon’s strikes were powerful I could feel the air being cut with each strike. Even when I summoned water to slow him down, he cut through that too. I crossed Raziel and Arata over each other as the Smilodon thrust forward making contact with them. I was pushed back two feet.

“Got you.” The male Tigris came from behind with Ibiki.

I smirked, calling forth Larana’s wind, pushing them all away. “Air cutter.” The wind turned into a thousand blades flying out in every direction, I made sure not to hurt them too badly, just enough to push them away from me.

The female Tigris held up her dagger, changing it into throwing knives. She smirked as the blades all glowed, she threw them into the air. I watched as they landed around me. They were all connected with lightning, sparking, and sealing me within a weak barrier.

I glanced at Arata, who stepped forward, knocking the daggers away, but they were simply to slow me down for a moment as a bolt of lightning came from above. I saw it coming, holding Arata’s sword, absorbing it like a lightning rod.

“Not bad.” I released the lightning back at her in a beam of energy, straight from Arata himself.

“He’s a monster,” she commented. “Need a boost.”

“I’ve got you.” The green gem on the Pardus’s choker glowed as he summoned forth its power. Gleaming as he gave them all boosted stats, such as speed, plus elemental enhancement and I even felt my own movement being affected. His sync rate must have been pretty hight to affect me to.

“Mila,” I said her name as my body glowed blue, instantly negating the effects put on me, preventing me from being at a disadvantage at any point.

Ibiki smacked his hands on the ground, freezing the ground all around me, trying to make me slip up, but Raziel’s heat melted away the ice where my feet touched down.

I jumped back as flaming fire balls fired from the male Tigris came at me. They were fast, but Larana’s wind shifted quickly devouring their oxygen supply.

I twisted around to the left as a boulder was thrown in my direction, attached to it was one of the female’s throwing knives. As it got closer it exploded. I only just had enough time to summon a barrier from Larana’s wind.

“That was too close,” I sighed, this was getting a little dangerous.

“Another one,” warned Mila’s voice.

I went to move but the earth under my feet began to vibrate. The Smilodon had placed his polearm into the ground, creating a small earthquake. I lost balance for a second, but quickly summoned Larana’s wings, ascending upwards, flipping over the boulder, then engulfed it in water, preventing her power from detonating.

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“He can fly, what?” The male Tigris was shocked.

More boulders came in my direction, each one with the female Tigris’s daggers, then the last one came, where she was on it. She smirked, kicking off and engaging me in combat. She had a tight stance, swiping accurately. I dodged most of it feeling the air around me electrifying, she was about to unleash a large amount of lightning energy.

“Let’s see whose spark is stronger!” She shouted as she swiped. I brought Arata’s sword forward coming into contact with her. I felt her lightning shock through my body, but it was just a faint tingling. I grinned as she was sent flying back; the male Tigris came in to catch.

“You alright?” He asked.

“Fine.” She gazed at him, were they related? “He is too strong; his power is like nothing I have ever felt.”

“Do you submit?” I grinned.

“Never.” Kiba came out of nowhere slashing at me. I had been using far more energy than I thought to combat the others that the portion restraining him had dispersed. “Don’t give up yet.”

The temperature dropped as Ibiki came in behind Kiba, he’d been waiting. “Together!” He shouted and they all attacked me at once, getting a second wind.

The fighting continued on for quite some time, they were not giving up easily, but their energy would never out last mine.

I watched as each one started to slow down, their attacks getting weaker until I had worn them down completely. They were still standing, but not for long as I sent out a pulse of electricity finishing them off as the stumbled to their knees out of breath. I had won.

I had been impressed by their skills; they just needed a little more refining being their captain I would make them the best, just like dad had once trained me.

“Do you wish you continue?” I asked the question I already knew the answer to. They lowered their heads one by one. “That was a nice warm up.”

“Warm up.” The female Tigris laughed, she glanced over at King Alton and Master Lance. “You knew we wouldn’t stand a chance, yet you set us up against this monster of a Feles.”

“You needed to understand his power and skill, so you could more easily put your faith in him as your captain,” responded Master Lance.

“Well, introduce yourselves and your talismans,” ordered King Alton.

“Ibiki.” He started off smiling. “Look forward to working with you again.”

“Kiba,” he bowed.

“Lin.” The female Tigris was next. “This is Boom.” A small lightning dragon appeared, flying above Lin’s head.

“The names Edge, Lin’s brother,” said the male Tigris. He pointed to his shoulder as a yellow and gold bird appeared there, its tail was long with the occasional red in its feathers. “Rampage.”

The Smilodon was next. “Rex.” He smirked as he flipped his polearm. “This is my partner Janko.” He appeared next to his master. “Earth crystal wolf.” His fur was brown, glistening in the sun light, a crystal on his chest and forehead, his eyes were a stunning amber.

“And I am Finn,” introduced the Pardus. “Nana is my partner.” As he spoke a little fairy very similar to Larana appeared, her clothes more like leaves than Larana’s flowers.

I smirked quite the verity of talisman types. “I’m sure you guys have already heard about Larana, Mila, Raziel and Arata.” Larana and Mila appeared to say hi. Raziel bowed and Arata snorted at them making his feelings of distrust clear.

“Whoa,” gawked Finn. “I’d heard rumours about someone capable of summoning four talismans, never imagined it was actually true.”

“We are at your mercy,” said Lin.

“Good,” I smiled. “After a little break I would like to throw a little exercise.”

“What now?” asked Finn. I dug into my pocket, pulling out the sphere dad used to train me.

“Not that.” Kiba’s eyes widened at the sight of it, almost like he held a fear towards it.

“Don’t worry, I’ll deactivate the consequence setting,” I said having a feeling he’d had a bad experience with it.

“What’s with the sphere?” asked Rex.

“All you have to do is avoid it.” I found it quite strange using similar words my dad once had for me.

“We’ll leave you to it Fang,” said King Alton. I looked over at him, he held the proud expression I saw dad have. It almost felt like he was right there. “Don’t kill them off too quickly.”

“I won’t,” I responded as him and Master Lance headed off. “Twenty minutes and we’ll get started.” I looked back at my team; this was going to be fun. I wondered how strong they could become.