Chapter 6: Evie and Co V. Travis

In the first week of training Jake was exhausted, coughing up blood, passing out and only being able to barely move after training, so fighting Dasean wasn't as easy a task. His body was breaking down, but after 2 weeks his body has transformed from being a scrawny kid to something entirely different. He had the physique of a god his hair grew longer from now stop training as the areas he trained seemed to have Jake's imprint on it forever leaving his place there.

Jake was finishing up his final push up for this day "Alright..come on...last one!" He says as he pushes his body up "Quintillion!" He jumps up and stretches his arms "Alright...All I have left is my 20 sextillion mile run and then I get to fight Dasean." He gets ready to run and a sonic boom goes off as he seems to just vanish.

Dasean comes out of the cabin scratching his head "It seems he's gotten used to the training so far...it took me years to get to where he is at now.."

Meanwhile at HeadQuarters,

Most of the training field has been fixed and ready to use, but some portions are still under construction. Evie, Xander, Lesie, and Travis are up early at the field doing stretches and getting ready for today. Evie is wearing outfits similar to everyone now, it's the same tech wear style but she's wearing a black jacket with a yellow crop top,cargo pants, and some shoes to match.

Evie is sitting on the ground stretching her legs "So when is Jaden going to wake up? If we are going to use our powers on each we need someone to heal us."

Xander is seen sitting down seemingly meditating "I mean we can just get everything started and he can join in the middle of the fight."

Evie groans "He must not be a morning person.. But fine let's get started." she jumps up getting ready.

Travis yawns rubbing his eyes "Alright so all three of you will be coming at me all at once, show what you all can do.

With Travis saying that Xander gets up and gets into an ox guard stance looking at Travis " Let's see you handle my clan's stance!" He moves at incredible speed being seen as a blur. While Travis is seen just standing there not paying much attention as Xander appears behind him swinging with the back end of his blade.

Travis catches it easily from behind turning to him. "You're going to have to fight me like you're going to kill me, otherwise they'll be no point" he lets go of the sword and Xander zooms past him and next to Evie.

He looks at Evie "Hey Eve, can you help me out."

Evie touches Xanders shoulder while looking at Travis. "Yeah I got you, Phalanx's Protection!" The symbol of the Hoplite Phalanx appears on Xander's shoulder as a yellow glow appears over his entire body.

Xander smiles and stares at Travis "Now you're going down!" He gets back into his Ox Guard stance and rushes towards Travis. Travis' eyes are moving quickly keeping up with Xander's movement, Travis remains calm as he continues to not even put up his guard. Xander thinks to himself "Damn..he's keeping his eyes on me..i'll have to show him that he shouldn't underestimate me!"

Travis disappears to everyone but Xander as he is seen zooming towards him "Now let me try something then!" He chases after Xander as Xander runs away from him.

Xander runs in a circle as 5 more of himself appears in front of Travis as he continues to run. Travis looks confused at first but says "Alright...I'll just hit them all at once!" more lightning erupts from his body as he disappears even from Xander's view.

Xander looks around quickly with his sword down in the Tail Guard "Where did he go?! All I have to do is anticipate him and when he is going to strike!" As he finishes what he is saying he sees Travis's hand about to grab his face as lightning is moving around it, Xander slides under and tries to slash at Travis but to no avail as Travis seems to vanish again only leaving behind a trail of lightning. "Shit!"

Evie and Leslie are just standing there as they feel the air around the going back and forth. Evie gives Leslie a blank stare "Soo what do we do??"

Leslie smiles "Wanna see something cool?" He steps forward as a purple aura appears on him "Rise." a dark purple void appears behind him as two hellhounds spouting purple flames growling as they take a few steps out.

Evie takes a few steps back "What the hell?! HellHounds?!" The shield appears in her as she readies herself to fight the two dogs.

Leslie laughs "Relax okay? You see the alarms aren't going off are they?" They dogs look up at Leslie "Fetch the lightning rod for me." The HellHounds dashes towards them disappearing leaving behind a trail of purple flames.

Evie looks at Leslie "What type of Summoner are you?"

Leslie pulls back his hood "Well..the way my powers work is weird. I take them into the void and something in there, which I believe is my subconscious..it takes them over and turns them into my thrall, so they aren't dead but they don't know they are alive either. Think of it as them sleeping forever. The way i collect them is by capturing them when they are injured or near death."

Evie has the look of disbelief "That's...that's something a rank A or above would have.."

He smiles "Thanks! But the bad thing about this is the fact that i'm a normal human in every other aspect...so i'm sure that'll take me down a few sections on the list."

As Travis and Xander continue to try and out speed each other. Xander sees two dogs jump over them and tackle Travis. "HellHounds?!" Xander says he stops moving for a second to process what's going on.

The hounds bite into Travis's arms burning them as he jumps up twirling as lightning goes everywhere sending the hounds flying. "Where did these mutts come from?!" he looks and sees Evie ready with Leslie laughing with the portal still behind him. "You fucking summoner!!" He dashes in front of him and tries to slam his heel down.

Evie gets in front of him blocking him from hitting Leslie. "Apsis's Reflection!" She turns her head looking at Leslie "If you need protection then i'll be your shield!"

Travis gets sent flying as he flips in the air catching himself "Nice work! That's some teamwork right there!" he says as the two hounds are starting to get up looking at him growling.

Leslie looks at the hounds "Here." The hounds immediately stop growling and each one stands on his left and right side waiting patiently.

Xander appears next to Evie and Leslie "Alright, so i think i got a plan for his speed."

They both look at Xander "What?" they say in unison.

Xander smiles and points his sword at Travis "We charge him all at once!"

Evie smacks Xander in the back of the head "You want us?! To charge someone who we can't even see!"

Xander slowly gets up "Ow! Damn! How about you do it then!" He says as he is rubbing his head "Fuck she hit me for?!"

She smiles smugly "Alright! So Xander, you have to distract him as I protect Leslie as he brings whatever creepy things he has in there…"

All three of them look at Travis as he takes his glasses off as lightning surges around him. "Ready?" he says looking serious now.

Xander charges and appears behind Travis again, Travis turns "That's not going to wor-" He doesn't see a sword but a scroll as Xander jumping over him "Scroll of the Dancing Water Dragon!" A dragon flies through the scroll and aims towards Travis.

Travis dodges the dragon as the water splashes in front of him. "You have extra powers?!" Steam starts to come from the mist as he sees the two hellhounds from earlier charging him. He dashes towards them as he sees five Xanders coming towards him as well. He rears his hands back as lightning charges and he releases it electrocuting hounds and Xander, erasing the clones as Xander and the hounds are stunned. He appears in front of Xander sending him flying back with a kick, he then places his hands over the hounds as his hands surges and crackles with lightning as the lightning envelopes the hounds as they start to turn to ash.

Leslie gasps "No!" Brownish purple trees like being stepped out of the portal as they charge towards Travis.

Travis gives a sly smirk "Spriggans huh?" He blasts them with lightning as they turn into ash. He looks at Xander who seems to be unconscious "Well...it seems your plan isn't going very well is it? You did good, but now it's over." He charges towards Evie and Leslie and gets blocked by Evie's shield barrier.

Evie's feet dragged back a bit as she looked at Travis " I had this up the whole time...I only let it open for a second to let those tree things out." Travis continues to bash on the shield as it cracks little by little. Evie looks at Leslie "You got anything else that can handle him?!" She says as her eyes widen as she thinks about what happened to Xander "Wait! We just need to hold on for a few seconds!!"

Leslie nods and says to Evie "Open some holes in the back that's small enough for something to get through!" Evie gives him an agreeing smile as small holes appear to open behind the shield barrier. The portal let out a swarm of bats as they flew through the hole distracting Travis.

Travis creates a burst of lightning destroying the bats as he flies into the air as he looks down at them with a lightning ball charging in his hand "Now it's ove-" A yellow glow goes over Travis as he is sent flying back. "Agh! What the!"

Xander gets up weakly "Yeah you thought you had me…I mean you kinda did but still.."

Evie shield breaks and she drops to her knees "I can't hold it up anymore."

Leslie portal closes as he holds his head "This was nauseating…"

"Flames of Orsis." The team hears this as fire erupts and engulfs them as they look in horror, but they soon realize that it is healing and rejuvenating them. They turn and look to see Jaden walking on the field. "Hey guys! Sorry I'm late! I'm not really a morning person." He says scratching his head. Everyone gets pumped up as Leslie opens up his portal again releasing a huge rock golem with glowing purple eyes. Evie makes a bigger shield barrier protecting Jaden and Leslie.

Xander picks up his sword as it seems to hum a small tune. "I'll show you the real power of my cla-"

Travis drops to the ground and gives the team two thumbs up "We're done here i've seen what you can do so far."

Xander sheaths his blade "What do you mean!? We were just getting started!!!"

Travis puts his hands behind his head and yawns "If you want to fight me later you can, but it's the morning and I want to sleep so good job guys." He walks away heading to his home.

Everyone is silent as they stare at each other wondering what just happened. Then one by one they start laughing everyone except Xander as he looks at everyone frustrated "We were about to turn the tables on him!!! Nothing is funny!!!" They continue to laugh as they walk back into their dorms tired and determined to do better next time.

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