Chapter 29 Combatants

Skysin Rillem-

*RIIING*

When the school bells echoed through my room, I woke up, staring at the navy-blue ceiling above me. "Ah…thank Malerenz I don't have to share a dorm with anybody." I huffed stretching my limbs. 'Too bad I have to share one with you…all you do is sleep wild animal.' Tenko scoffed standing on the blue covered bed.

The room was a good size, a single bed in the left corner, dresser in the right, closet, a bathroom, including a window that displayed Vaim city below.

"Yeah whatever furball, let's get going…can't be late for class…" I stated changing and preparing to leave.

*****

It's been a good few days and school's been running smoothly. I was currently walking down the hall with Tenko, Elaine, and Rolland. Heading to combatant's class, which would be starting today.

As we came up to the blue door on our left, Rolland opened it revealing five white rifts in a large room with wooden signs next to each of them, displaying the teachers name for each class.

"Crim told me they were held in the forests around the planet, but I didn't think we'd have to take rifts." Elaine added searching for the sign.

"Ah, it's over here." Rolland signaled us waving, standing in front of a wooden sign that said, "Professor Cliff's Class."

Elaine walked to it, "let's hurry before we're late."

Me and Rolland nodded agreeing then went in after her.

After exiting the rift, there was a large, rectangular navy-blue building in front of us. Including a long circular wall surrounding trees in the background.

"Hm, this passed my expectations." Rolland spoke, surprised by the structure.

Entering the building, it looked pretty normal inside, wooden floors and navy-blue walls. White chairs on the sides with a blue banner pinned to the wall as well, incased with gold writing reading, "Professor Cliff."

Proceeding through, there was a singular hall in the middle and doors parallel from each other.

'Must be the changing rooms.' I concluded to myself inspecting the doors, having a girl figure on the left and boy on the right.

We all entered the rooms and changed into our alternative clothes for battle. When we exited the hall, all the students were out in the field where the professor was present.

He was a slim man that had his long baby-blue hair tied in a low ponytail. He wore glasses with dark brown eyes and sported a silky navy robe.

"Welcome kids, we were just about to get started." He happily called out noticing us.

When we joined, I caught a glimpse of Razon on the far-left side, making a cute girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes chuckle.

"Now, since everyone's here…today we'll be playing a game called kingdom's raid. For this, there'll be two teams with six kids each. The whole point of this game is to take down the opposing team along with the king or queen. Once that team takes down the king or queen they win." Professor Cliff merrily explained.

"Now then, before we start who'd like to go- before he even finished, me, Razon, and Rolland all raised our hands in sync.

"Hmmm, interesting. Any others?"

The rest of the class, including Elaine raised their hands. Professor Cliff clapped his hands, "ok, how about Razon, Skysin- "I'm sorry for interrupting Professor Cliff, but is it possible if I could be on a team on my own, without any of the other ranks on it…please??" I pleaded clasping my hands together.

"You seem a little cocky Sin, is that a good idea?" Razon walked over to me with a puzzled face.

"It's not that I'm cocky…I'd just like to test my strength. What's a better way than having three high rankers on the same team?" I smiled brightly at Razon as he made a deadpan expression.

"I see, makes since in a way. Are you sure about this?" Professor Cliff asked while signaling Elaine, Razon, and Rolland to him.

"I'm perfectly fine with that." I smiled waving it off.

"Tch, don't make any excuses if you lose Sin." Razon sat his hands behind his head clicking his tongue.

"Not at all Razberry - just don't hold back." I chuckled winking at him. Razon staggered, making a sour face.

After the teams were made, I was put with other sophomores, including blondie who was flirting with Razon. While the others had another three in their group. "This will be a battle with only hand-to-hand combat understood?" Professor asked. We all nodded our heads with no problem.

"Alright then, the rest head to the bleachers behind you. You twelve will head to other sides of the forest and wait until I give you guys the ok." He put up a thumbs up and we began to head in different directions.

"Hey, Skysin? Do you have a plan?" The blonde girl asked as we came to a nearby field inside the forest.

"Yes, I do blondie." I smiled pointing at the field. The girl became a bit flustered, "it's Shantae-Shantae Graider."

I chuckled walking in the middle of the field with her, "nice to meet you, Shantae. But yes, I do, you'll be the queen. What kinetics do you have?"

"I have a wind and water kinetics." She made a small ball of wind and water appear in her beige palm.

I placed my index finger and thumb on my chin thinking, "ok good. You'll stay right in the back of the field to keep a distance just in case someone attacks you." I instructed.

As she nodded, I pointed at the two students standing next to her, "you guys will hide in either bushes or trees at the edges of the field keeping her in an angle between you two. If you notice someone approaching, take the chance to knock them out. If they manage to get past you, they'll still have to deal with Shantae which'll probably give you an advantage."

Then I looked over at the girl and boy next to me, "we'll go and attack head on. One of you should stay a good ten meters behind in case someone passes us. Or just for back up. Got it?"

The two nodded their heads, "right!" a black-haired girl said.

"Alright, let's win this!" I shouted shooting my fist into the air. The rest of the team yelled agreeing.

"Kids…you may now begin!" The professor's voice rung throughout the entire area.

"Let's go!" I began to pick up pace as the other two followed me.

As we traversed the forest, the brown-haired boy was running next to me on my right while the girl was around ten meters behind us.

About halfway there I noticed something shooting towards our direction, "watch out!!" I yelled at the two as earth projectiles were aimed directly at us. The boy created a wide, curved earth wall, blocking the attack.

At that time, a boy with red hair leapt above the wall and slammed into the ground, breaking our protection, and sending us back.

The black-haired girl on my team used her kinetics to harden her body, her skin similar to rock almost.

She dove at the boy, landing a punch on his chest, then roundhouse kicked him on the side of his stomach. As she sent him into the air, a gust of wind was speeding towards me. I slightly bobbed my head, avoiding the quick attack and searched for where it emerged.

That's when I caught sight of a small number of leaves falling off a tree near my right. "Hurry, take him down!" The red-haired boy shouted while he fought against my teammates.

When another blast of wind developed, pursuing me again, I used my innate speed to confront the student. In a flash, I scaled up the tree, viewing a girl with brown hair, crouching on a large branch.

"EEE!" As soon as she squealed noticing me, I utilized my ice kinetics and froze her on the wooden limb. Next, I punched the branch, breaking it as she fell with it. When she plummeted to the ground, my teammates had also defeated their opponent as well.

"It's too late…one of our teammates already passed you all…when you were focused on us." The boy weakly claimed laying on the ground. "Crap, how did we not notice that?" My brown-haired teammate asked anxiously.

"Don't worry about it, I'm sure they can handle one person." I said stretching my arms.

"How are you so sure? What if it's one of the high rankers?" The girl asked.

"I'm positive it's not any of them." I chuckled walking past our defeated opponents.

Hastily running to the end of the forest, Razon, Rolland, and Elaine were sitting on a formation of rocks.

Rolland was seated closet to the ground, Razon in between the two, standing while crossing his arms, and Elaine, sitting on the crown of the rocks with her legs crossed, similar to an actual queen.

"Tch, how can they not take down a couple of measly sophomores and a tomboy." Razon clicked his tongue with aggravation.

"Hey! Watch yourself freshman!" The boy yelled in anger pointing at Razon, gradually moving forward. "Yeah! Don't get full of yourself just because you're one of the top five rankers for freshmen!" The girl chimed in furiously.

"Wait, guys don't jus- "No, screw that! This kid needs to learn some manners!" The two darted towards the three as the boy shot multiple earth bullets and the girl hardened her body once more.

Rolland stood and constructed a giant earth golem, punching, and smashing the girl down into the ground.

When this occurred, fear over came in the boy as his speed faltered running towards the three. Just when he hesitated to create another attack, Razon appeared behind him, "looks like you're out now." Razon punched the side of his stomach, casting him into a neighboring tree.

Razon's blue eyes shifted to me, "well-well-well…now it's only you, Sin." Razon chuckled moving beside Rolland as the pair stood apart from me.

"Seems like it." I sighed with a grin, getting into the spyder's venom form. Keeping my fists aligned with my forehead, lifting my left leg moderately, only allowing the balls of my feet to touch the ground. Having my waist face my opponents.

"Right…let's see what makes you the first rank…" Razon and Rolland charged towards me as Elaine fired small particles of yellow plasma at me.

While I evaded the fast orbs of plasma dodging them all. Rolland and Razon ran to the left and right sides of me, shooting a punch simultaneously. At that moment, I quickly moved back, weaving from the incoming strikes. Then, I kicked Razons leg making him stumble and punched the side of Rolland's stomach.

As Razon caught himself, and lead in a kick aiming at my face. I dropped and rotated my body, spinning my leg into his ankle making him trip.

Next, Rolland used his earth kinetics and created multiple earth pillars below me. I briskly leapt into the air, dodging the incoming attack. While airborne, I created an ice platform under my feet midair. Then dove towards Elaine at high speeds reaching my arm towards her.

Just when I was about to grasp her, Elaine used her telekinesis and slammed my body into the rocks, holding me steady.

"Oof…"

Rolland conjured the rocks under me to shift at the same time, transforming into an earth coffin, enabling me from movement. Then, Razon materialized a huge ball of water and shot it in my direction.

As I watched the incoming ball of water speed towards me, I utilized my spatial kinetics and corrupted space, trapping the water in a translucent box.

"What the!?" Razon shocked by what happened, attempted to expand the ball of water, but I made it decrease, being the size of a small bug.

"Rolland slam him down, quickly!" Elaine hurriedly demanded. Rolland nodded, "right!" He clinched his fist just as the small box glide through the small crevices, onto my palm.

All at once, as he began plunging the coffin. I made the small box combust, creating a giant explosion of water destroying the coffin of earth and making myself wet in the process.

When the water was still airborne, I froze all the liquid and conjured it into small ice cubes all while I landed softly on the ground.

"Phew, that was a close one." I sighed in relief stretching my legs. "Well now, let's pick up the pace, shall we?" I grinned disappearing from everyone's sights.

Although I couldn't hear Rolland for a strange reason, I could see the shock on his face as his mouth motioned.

In a flash, I surfaced behind Rolland and front kicked him forward. Next, I shot the cubes of ice, colliding into him as he rolled in the ground. When I began to move, "that's one…" I dashed at high speeds to Razon. Then emerged in front of him, sweeping my leg down onto his ankle.

As he fell forward, I unleashed a powerful uppercut on his stomach, propelling him to the air, crashing into a tree branch.

After defeating the pair, I turned to Elaine, standing on the peak of rock.

"Alright…looks like it's only me and you, Elaine." I said with a smile on my face. "Seems so." Elaine chuckled, leaping off the formation of rocks and onto the ground.

Thus, we charged towards each other. When we confronted one another, we launched a devastating punch, making our fists collide.

When our fists clashed, it released a powerful shockwave creating monstrous tempests of wind and dust to twirl around us.

We executed multiple attacks at each other while parrying and dodging. Elaine made distance taking a step back and swung a roundhouse kick to my torso. I held my arms out slightly, using the apologia technique uncle Khufu taught me. When her leg came close, I clinched her ankle and swung a precise kick on her support leg. When she fell onto the ground, I shot a blurred punch to her face. But stopped right before it landed, causing her long bangs to shoot backwards, revealing the right half of her face.

"Why'd you stop?" Elaine chuckled still lying on the ground.

I held my hand out, grabbing her soft fingers and assisted her onto her feet. "That's one of the many things I could never do." I looked at her making a soft smile. Elaine pulled her long bangs back over the side of her face and turned around as her ears flourished with rose.

Suddenly, a large tornado of wind appeared before us and slammed onto ground, revealing Professor Cliff, "well done Skysin…I didn't expect this outcome at all. Shantae didn't even get a scratch on her either." Professor applauded me with a nod.

"Jeez, just what are you made out of." Razon sneered returning to us with his arm wrapped around Rolland's neck. "Haha, Sin sure is a different person on the field." Rolland chuckled.

"Sorry about that, didn't mean to hit you guy's so hard." I faintly chortled, scratching the back of my head.

Rolland shook his head, "it's fine, the clothing is coated in aura, so we can't feel too much damage."

"Indeed, but I suggest you kids hurry along and get cleaned, don't want to be late for your next class." Professor Cliff informed us, looking at the grime we were covered in.

Taking a look at ourselves, "I'll see you kids tomorrow." Professor Cliff said as we waved him goodbye, returning to the changing rooms.

*****

After we were all cleaned and ready. Me, Elaine holding Tenko, and my other two friends walked through the rift, ending back into the room filled with other white portals.

"Well, that surely was a fun experience…" Razon sighed sarcastically opening the door that led out to the school halls.

"It wasn't that bad; we just won't let Sin fight next time…unless he's on our team." Rolland chuckled nervously scratching the side of his face with his finger.

"That…I can agree with." Elaine chimed rubbing the back of Tenko's ears. I made a dull expression eyeing the three, "seems a little unfair don't you think?"

"Ehhh-it's more like you're the unfair one." Razon replied shrugging his shoulders.

While we sauntered down the hall, a crowd of kids formed in the middle of the hallway as others ran joining them. 'That doesn't look good,' Tenko stated worriedly in my head. 'Yeah… maybe we should go the other way.' I responded turning to the opposite direction.

Then, two male students ran past us, "What's happening?" one asked. "I think a couple of students are about to fight the student body pres man!" the other exclaimed.

"Nirvana?! Come on let's go!" Elaine shouted eagerly approaching the crowd. We all followed suit, staying on the side of her as we rushed over.

While we squeezed through the giant horde of sophomores, I could perceive people argue.

"This is why commoners shouldn't be allowed here!!! He's only some scrawny idiot. People like him should know his place! This is what he gets for trying to make us follow his demands!!" A boy's voice yelled in anger.

Finally getting a full view of the scene at hand. There was some blood sprayed on the floor, showing a thin boy with short light brown hair, unconscious with crimson liquid running down his nose. Sections of his uniform were teared, revealing bruises and bloodied scars on his arms, chest, and legs.

"What's the matter with you? Who cares if he's a commoner, we're all still human, are we not?" Nirvana was shown standing in front of the unconscious boy, rebutting others argument.

A couple of feet away from her, were two sophomores. One on the left had dirty blonde hair and the others was an ivory color. Both having dark brown eyes, and little bits of blood on their navy-blue uniforms.

"So what? Who cares?! There's a noticeable difference between us nobles and common trash like that weakling." The boy with blonde hair claimed.

"He shouldn't even be allowed in this school…it's disgusting." His friend added creating a loathed expression. Coming to a slight pause, the ivory haired boy clinched his fists, incased with aura, "how about you just leave…and forget this ever happened, Ms. Nirvana Hyuseff. Or else…we'll make you…"