Ice Band

A day had passed since the battle between Doji, Ethan and the three bullies.

Ethan had been exhausted to the extent that he wasn't able to walk well, he had to sit on Ravu's back to recover his strength, his overpowered sword aura came with a price, it depleted his body. strength in a very fast pace. His body which had been stressed by the Mystical warrior coupled with his sword aura had made him frail.

Ethan even after recovering to his peak didn't dismount from Ravu's back, he wanted to use the opportunity to gain an insight in the band of weapons, the might of the bands unleashed by Alex and Zack had left a deep impression on him so he planned on creating one of his.

"I hope you wouldn't take long" Doji sighed. He stared at Ethan who with all seriousness rubbed the sheath of his sword which he had been doing for a very long time.

"How close are we?!" Questioned Doji to nobody else but the dejected looking Zack who led the group.

"It should take us a day and half more!" said Zack as punctual as he could be.

"I thought you said the location of the Red tree wasn't far!" yelled Doji, he was beginning to get frustrated.

"Yes indeed Sir. I dare not lie to you, it is just that we are in a forest"

Doji understood, a forest was a large expanse of land some place which may appear short would take days to reach.

"I wouldn't warn you not to lie or try to trick us, just know that Ravu is curious to know how your flesh tastes like!"

"Grooowwwwl" Ravu let out a cold low roar which made Zack tremble and unconsciously increase his pace.

Doji chuckled on seeing this..

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Darkness enshrouded the earth and the bright stars came to live each showing off its glorious silver light.

The journey had been uneventful and easy, they didn't encounter any beast which didn't come as a surprise to Doji, but he was entirely worried about Ethan the second day had passed and the lad hadn't showed any sign of movement he just sat on Ravu's strong back like a statue, Ravu somehow even in his sleep still carried Ethan with the lad not falling or slipping, probably one of its awesome powers.

If Ethan failed to create a band this night, then they had to give up the Red tree simply because he couldn't take Ethan who in this state was entirely innocuous and vulnerable to a place where humans and beast would engage in a bloody massacre.

Not only would he be dissatisfied, Ethan also would be sad if he missed such a one in a blue moon opportunity, the time which Ethan would spend in creating his band wasn't under his control, he wouldn't stop until perhaps he finally formed a band.

Doji rested his head on a tree rubbing his belly which had only been feed with fruits which he plucked from a nearby tree, he didn't bother to monitor Zack's who sat from distance away from him curled up like a snake, Ravu would do the monitoring.

He was about entering the door of wonderland when suddenly Ravu's voice resonated in his head "Doji".

He frowned at Doji wondering why he had to wake him up from sleep, it was at the moment when he was about to spill some words that he suddenly noticed that Ethan had stopped stroking his sword and had raised it towards the heavens.

Doji was excited. It appeared that Ethan was about to create his band.

And it appeared as though such was the case as Ethan who had been immobile for two days suddenly leaped into the air and landed on the ground gracefully with his eyes tightly shut.

"The blade of a sword is cold, merciless and sharp" Ethan began to mutter under his breath as he began to stroke his sword with some basic sword moves.

"Cold and sharp"

"Freezing and Deadly"

Ethan began to strike the air more forceful, every strike he made was stronger than the other, making Doji the more curious to know which type of band Ethan was comprehending.

Ethan suddenly halted has though he had being hampered by a barrier, he placed the sword facing the ground and suddenly yelled " The sword is COLD!"

Immediately Ethan spilled out this words, his black sheathed sword was suddenly covered by a faint layer of Blue-icy light which was emanating a cold energy which spread around the sword like a circle, but that wasn't all the blue light on the sword began to grow denser and brighter and so was the icy feeling that it was emanating.

Ethan began to slash the sword around and every where the sword passed a Blue-icy icy light would follow.

"Is that a two star band!" Doji's jaw was widely opened at this sight, he had always regarded himself as a sword genius who those who could match him were only few, when he had created his own band it had took him only half a day compared to Ethan who spent two days.

But on the creation of his own band he formed a star one band which was what every weapon warrior was meant to form, but right in front of him was a freak who just created a two star band in one shot!!

"What of if he makes use of his sword aura?!" this thought suddenly struck Doji's mind, as if in response to Doji's thought Ethan's sword aura suddenly burst out and the layer of Blue-icy light began to increase with it almost becoming solid.

Three stars..

Four stars...

His aura had pushed his band directly into four stars, two steps ahead.

Amazing...

Ethan opened his tightly shut eyes which sparkled with a decisive light, he sped towards a nearby boulder which was two feet tall and weighed at least 3000 Pims (one Pim=one pound).

One should know that an average level one Sedron beast weighed at least 500 Pims, a level two weighed 1000 Pims, a level three measured 2000 Pims, while a level four beast weighed 4000 Pims!

One could see how freakish Ethan was to leap such strength gap, humans though didn't posses the same body strength as beast on the same level as them they weren't far behind.