Chapter 86 Look, Learn, and Excel Part 2

As Hoku's body began getting into a semi Dragon like form, his aura caused the ground covered in sand to fly everywhere around him whipping up a sandy dust cloud. Lieg turned around to see if anyone from the village was near, a few seconds apart from his body turning. A bright light flashed by his body inches from his face was a claw attack.

"Looks like she did what I told her, good girl… now what to do with you", as Hoku reappeared in the trail of dust that passed by Lieg.

Stareing down on his arm, panting with white mists from his breath.

(… Hunt… hunt… stop, bring your self back… deep breath, focus) Hoku inner thought trying but failing to get the best of him.

As Hoku was already making his own improvements, Lieg sense the worse possible person heading straight to them.

(Shit… I wanted to make this a quick lesson. What the hell is Rizette doing), has just minutes away from them was Ulia flying towards them rocketing with flames from her arms and feet.

"Well full of confidence in our self, are we" Lieg commented voice quivering in a rush,

"Yea, not 100% but I can manage this much better than before" Hoku explained,

"Good, cause this is what you are now, a beastkin, control is literally your whole ordeal now" Lieg commented,

"Oh… and if I wanted to take her from you, I won't have much trouble you know. She is... interesting" Lieg replied turning his back to Hoku as he shrug his shoulders, "Huh!!" Hoku wondered.

(Hunt… hunt… hunt?… KILL!)

His eyes glowing with fury as he inhales and screamed a blast blowing up all the sand in the direction of Lieg,

"Still needs more work, Oh well I'll see what we can do later. For now Look, learn and excel".

As Hoku bursts straight at Lieg, from the dust cloud he created. And still mid-air misses Lieg who slowly shifts all his high speed clawing, and kick,

"While you have speed, if you want to hit your target. You got to know what you want to strike, don't try to hit me, know where your going to strike me down".

Slowly just changing his footing, Hoku still wasn't even able to land a single hit in.

(2 minutes… huh)

Lieg thought as he continued to look out it the distance, all while walking out of Hoku's attack with each of his strike creating shockwave all around the area. As Lieg dodges around in a almost zigzagging pattern, slowly dragging him out of the sand and around the random stone pillars out more to the red dirt patch mix within the sand.

(Three minutes… can't do any better)

Lieg thought as he inhales and sighed with his right index finger on Hoku's head, pushing him back midway attacking flipping his body in a circle; sending him airborne for a sec with him landing on all four, head forward staring at Lieg, unfazed by the barrage of attacks from him vine pulsing barely hold back the impulses taking over.

(Wow… I can't believe… I'm going all out. Is he really not having any trouble getting out of the way of my attack, no it's different… I can see him in front of me, but I can't feel nothing in his area… his breath, heat, scent, the air around him all gone. It's like I've been trying to hit a ghost, until he sighed just now).

While Hoku was analyzing Lieg, Lieg was just tapping his leg with his hands in his pocket.

(One and a half minutes… Oh well we're far enough),

"Ok times up!"

As he clapped his hands together, suprising Hoku "What does that mean, I just got a hang of this. Beside I'm not going to drop from one hit like before without at least hitting you" Hoku promised,

"Oh ho?… well then I'll give you one last lesson for striking a opponent",

"Oh… so not about how to predict and dodge but to hit?" Hoku's asked as the last word left his lip.

(Presence, focus on his presence)

As he made a mad dash at Lieg.

"The only thing predictable, is that I'm unpredictable and truly unfortunate, and never unoriginal" Lieg explained.

(Gotcha… can't talk and exhale)

Upon sending a straight fist to his face Hoku, noticed that he had vanished in thin air, then reappeared with Hoku's fist right side his neck.

(What?)

Hoku thought as Lieg continued

"My movement is a dance",

As all Hoku's jabs and punches all just hit afterimages or nothing at all, only to have him appear in front his face.

"It'll make me nigh unhittable, you lost before you started, you can't always focus on the physical".

As he sends a back hand across Hoku's jaw creating a bright shockwave at the other side of his face. With Hoku's eyes barely showing signs of consciousness Lieg continued.

"I guess you were right, you can take more than one hit… Now then Ahem, Here a lesson in some misdirection, keep them guessing never show your weapon, keep your claws pressed in till the tension isn't even present, then you show your fangs, while their resting… and yea you get it right" Lieg asked the completely unconscious body of Hoku on the ground, with hole like sinks along his chest even more than that was hollow holes in the few stone pillars around the area; as Hoku's body had on chance of landing a single attack in, Lieg while talking send 31 open plam, jab, and side elbow strikes for each word said from 'Here's' all over Hoku's body.

(Sfx Thud).