RAY/TROY

{ ON THE SURFACE - 11 January, 2021 }

The Breeze coursed through my half conscious carefree self, while I slacked off and enjoyed the wind at the top of the hill and rested on the dark green feathery grass as it soothed my back I thought that nothing could be better than sleeping here, and the wind on the top felt the best with all my heart.

As I was pleased by the wind and rested with my mind at ease, suddenly I heard footsteps of something that approached swiftly in my direction, as the distance lessened the footsteps became louder and louder and came near me stomping the grass, suddenly the footsteps stopped and something seemed to obstruct the sunlight that came directly to me, and then I felt something rigid pushing through my stomach which destroyed my intestines.

Gwaahhh!!

As I shouted after experiencing extreme pain in my stomach, I was forced to open my light blue dragonish eyes, I saw an annoying pale looking black haired person with the same eyes as mine and about 170 cm tall who gazed straight at me pissed off like hell, it seemed like it would be my last day, If I angered him more.

"Hey, what was that for, why did you punch me, you bastard?"

I covered my stomach with both hands in order to ease the pain and gave off fake tears, I moved some distance backwards.

"Well... I thought you were asleep, I couldn't help myself, y'know."

The moment he said those words my pain and tears were gone and my expression showed off how pissed off l was, with my light and normal voice I rebelled.

"What the heck!! Troy..... You couldn't help yourself, what kind of reason is that, don't kid with me, and I was awake, you did it intentionally, hufff."

I slowly stood up lifting my 168 cm body after being beaten on the stomach, well I was hardly hurt, I just acted like it was painful to make him feel some remorse.

He smiled and showed off as if he was trying to control his laughter within himself as he covered his mouth with one hand and the other one on the stomach.

"Whaatt!!" I spoke loudly after being embarrassed.

He kept his left hand on the back of his head and smiled aimlessly and spoke in a hard tone.

"Umm.. sorry, sorry, and it didn't hit you that hard, you don't need to act that much.

So what's the plan."

He looked at me smiling like he was my mother or something and ruffled my chest-nut hair and removed the grass that was stuck on it, I tried to avoid the question and looked sideways.

"Well, it's nothing, I just don't want to take any classes currently, it's boring y'know."

"Ohh.... is that so? are you sad?"

As he asked me whether I was sad, In response I averted my eyes and spoke in a very light tone.

"Well, y'know, who wouldn't be, it's natural."

"Hmm... well, that's right, sorry for asking such a question, but it was your grandpa who died, are you holding back your tears, if you are, then Ray you can cry, y'know."

As soon as he said those words I swiftly moved my eyes directly in front of him and while gazing strongly in his eyes I said--

" I CAN'T, and I don't wanna."

I turned around and he also moved forward and we both feasted our eyes upon the view in front of us, the tress of the <> that danced beautifully on the rhythm of the wind, and next to it the <> that surrounded the <> from the three sides and shined from the rays of the sun and sparkled as if white glitter was placed on the ocean, and the sea breeze passed by activating all our senses and opened our inside-outs from the view and the breeze made our hair to dance on the will of the wind, we closed our eyes, and took a deep breath to comprehend the extent of how magnificent and exquisite the nature could be, and exhaled with all our might, while we relaxed and stared at the beauty in front of us, I started speaking in a light and confident voice.

"Well, I can't dwell on it forever, and also I can't cry, if I cry then he will blame himself for growing me into such a weakling who can't even fight his grandpa's death."

The words I spoke brought back memories from a long time ago and reminded of his smiling face and blue gentle eyes that soothed the heart in an instant, he once said--

"Ray, if I were to die someday, then remember that I will always die with a smile, so don't ever cry, your grandpa will always be watching you, so don't fret or accept defeat for such a thing."

And I kept looking at him, and promised him.

"Hmm.. I promise, I won't lose."

Well, it was in the past, so I didn't want to break my promise and lose here, that's why I said him that I can't cry.

Troy smiled and had a satisfied look while he smacked me at the back of my head and said--

"Well, that's to be expected of how he raised you, always the <>, he was a great grandpa."

"Hmmmm."

Troy turned back an said, "Let's go back, lunch break is staaarrtttiiinggg, uhhhh... it seems like we can't.".

Troy made a disappointed face as he said those words with an unpleasant voice.

"Why, what happened, ohh.... I see what's going on."

As we both turned back, we saw a few guys who came towards us while they tried look all cool and badass with bats, and boxing kits, they were a group of punks whose leader lost to a fight with me in the past, and had been holding a grudge towards me for a long time.

The leader had a very annoying face with a cigarette on his mouth, he tried to look cool with no hair on his head and in a very irritating manner he spoke.

"Ohh... long time no see, you two, it's time I think you both piss off, let's settle this, shouldn't we, my boys."

As he said those words there were about 10 people in his gang that got suddenly super hyped up.

"Ohh... if it isn't the <>, are you sure you are ready yet."

After being pissed off, I also spoke in a strong tone, well.... I just tried to play with him.

"You bastard!! are trying to get on my nerves."

During the time we were busy badmouthing each other nine people surrounded us from all the directions, and the party was going to start. Troy said with an annoyed face--

"Picking another fight, when will you learn."

As Troy stated those words, I knew his hidden feeling and I said.

"Yup.... you wanna join?"

"You bet.", Troy said smiled with a confident face and I responded with a very happy face, well it was fun time, and the only time I enjoyed was while I stayed at the hill or while I fought someone strong.

"OK then, let's have some fun.", we both said with a grin on our devilish faces.

"Troy take care of how many you want but the big boss is mine."

"Same as always, huh... I want to break some bones.", Troy spoke in a creepy voice that always scared me to death.

We both stood side-by-side to each other and were surrounded by about ten people, well it isn't like it mattered a shit. We both ran in opposite directions, Troy seized the attention of about 6 of them in his side, and I directly went for the boss, as if I could, the 3 left men blocked him and became obstacles to be crushed into pixels by me, the first one was a sword wielder, it embarrassed me to even call him that, his stand was not perfect but not that good, it was super weak, he tried to strike me vertically, but it wasn't that simple to dodge, but if anyone knows where the opponent will move beforehand by the movement of their body postures and muscles which is generally known as <> then they will know exactly where the attack will come from, so it was very simple to dodge him , I moved my whole body towards the right and all it needed was a very tight kick in the belly, I jumped while moving right and in an instant and gave him a horizontal kick, which seriously sounded like one of his bones may have been damaged--

"<>"

It was highly possible that one of his ribs had been severely broken, I pitied him but it was not his purpose to hit me.

His purpose was to give an opening for the second person there who was a boxer that aimed for my face right away, they were quite intelligent, but still they were no match for me, the only thing I was confident about my self were my fighting skills, due to being trained in different areas, I had developed <>, I dodged downwards and his punch was avoided, then all it took was a punch, I twisted my left arm down to up and picked up the velocity and gave him a punch in the stomach and he shouted "<>" with a critical hit being dealt and saliva came out from his mouth, a word slept through my tongue "", then the next one used his legs and tried to kick me three times consecutively wherever I dodged, but I used my left leg to trip his right leg and subdued his left arm with both of my arm and smashed him on the ground, '<>', then all that was left was the big boss while the three of them laid behind me, those <>".

With a smug look on my face, I moved close to him and confidently stated

"Well... well if it isn't the last boss,"

As I said those words, he took of his shirt and took a single leg stance with both with his hands on the left side, I noticed that he had learned a bit of <>, well it seemed like it would be a bit fun.

He was the first one to attack, with one foot in the air, he went after my head, but it was pretty easy to dodge, I moved left and caught his left leg, but he twisted his whole body right away, and I had to let go, next I was the one to attack, I started with a boxing stand and instantly accelerated my body posture as blood and lactate rushed rapidly into my, I moved at an incredible speed '<>' swiftly in front of Zang and with my left leg I tried to slash his head from left to right but he blocked it with his right arm, and went for a punch in my stomach with his left but I changed my coarse and did the same thing he did and twisted my leg and jumping in the air by using his head as a steeping stone with my right hand and during the same moment I caught him off guard and locked his head between my two legs, and smashed it to the ground '<>'.

After all he didn't fully understand what the Chinese taijutsu was all about, it was more prominent on body arts, but he was not enhanced enough to fully utilize it. As I looked back I saw three men down and one in front of me and Troy shook his hand towards me while sitting on the pile of 6 men, well I thought he was really scary as he smiled while sitting on pile of bodies which looked like corpses, I instantly raised my voice and moved towards him.

"Hey, you didn't kill them, did you?"

Troy made an uncertain face and showed a grin.

"NO.... no why would I do that, just a few bones are dead."

"Ohh... then it's okay.", I was relieved and released a sigh, I pondered that what was wrong with me being relieved on the fact that only a few bones were broken.

We both smiled happily and looked at each other and bumped our fists and shouted--

"FIGHT OVVERRR!! WE ARE THE WINNERSSSS" and laughed a lot for our small victory.