Spar 2

Though the arena was partially destroyed Kayman and Ashton continued their bitter brawl.

Kayman calmly approached the currently transforming Ashton, as Ash finished he threw a hard right hook at Ash's face.

Ashton saw this hit coming and decided to go blow for blow with his new friend. Fist met face twice over as both Ashton and Kayman recoiled after the hits landed.

Ashton forgoing defense crouched low and ran at his highest speed for a tackle. In response Kayman prepared an axe kick but he was not prepared for Ashton's speed.

Completely knocked off balance Kayman toppled to the floor as Ashton gained a position on top. Deciding this was going to be an all out fight, Kayman began to rain blows down on Ash's back with his knees.

Ashton decided it was time for Kayman to go to sleep with repetitive elbows to Kaymans head. This exchange of dirty blows continued and continued until Kayman was able to shove Ashton off of himself. Both boys lay on the ground panting.

Simultaneously standing up, got into a center box stance and approached each other. Ashton swung his fist in a fist straight punch, which landed on Kaymans guard.

Kaymans blue aura flared up as he launched his own fist at Ashton. Ashton unprepared flew backwards, grinding his claws in the dirt to prevent him going out of bounds.

"Okay Kayman lets see you deal with this then."

"Bring it on dog breath, gimme all you got!"

Ashton activated his bone claws and leapt high in the air. Ashton brought his fist down as hard as he could on the ground in front of Kayman.

With the dirt everywhere Kayman lost visibility, however Ashton didn't need to see as with his sense of smell he knew exactly where Kayman was.

Lunging Ashton caught Kayman by his waist with both claws, Heaved him above his head and threw Kayman as hard as he could.

Kayman flew out of bounds by quite a few feet, but rolled in the air and braced himself to prevent any damage from the toss.

"Fighting dirty now are we?"

Kayman remarked as he flared his aura to the max.

"All is fair in life and death."

Ashton growled out as the beginnings of a crimson aura emanated out from his impressive stature.

Kayman and Ashton took their places in the ring once more and prepared for their next bout.

"Didn't the new guy win twice already? why are they still fighting"

One of the girls watching the fight mentioned.

"I think they are too wrapped up in their fighting to notice who is winning, and who is losing"

A younger boy commented.

"Oh brother looks like we have another fighting maniac. At least Kayman will stop bothering us all the time for a spar."

"Mhm"

All of the kids watching the match said in unison as Ashton and Kayman once again clashed bone claw on fist.

Isabella had just finished her spar when she noticed the obnoxious commotion occurring in the first step area.

To her surprise she found Ashton already fighting with somebody. Taking a closer look she noticed it was Kayman. Isabella was more than aware of Kayman's habit of fighting anybody and everybody as he had once asked her for a spar.

Paying more attention to the fight now she began to notice the thin crimson colored aura that was appearing around Ashton.

'Good his cultivation is beginning to show, and a crimson aura too? That's pretty unique.' Bella thought to herself.

As the fight continued it became more and more one sided as Ashtons Superior physique at this stage trumped the few techniques Kayman had. Not only that every move Kayman would throw out shortly after Ashton would be able to copy for the most part.

'This kid has incredible battle instincts and that aura that signifies him as a first step cultivator is really showing.'

"Alright Ash you've pushed me this far it's time to use my trump card! Attribute magic Finesse boost!" Kayman called out as his aura tightened around him and highlighted his legs.

Ashtons eyes widened as kayman became twice as fast after his chant. Realizing he may have issues he felt like he needed to do something, some part of him screamed at him to activate bloodlust.

Ashton did so and the world changed around him. Everything was brighter, sharper, and louder. Ashton no longer needed just his eyes to track Kayman as he could now hear his heartbeat, and Ashton could smell the different emotions Kayman was having.

Ashton fully absorbed in the battle knew exactly where Kayman was. Kayman disappeared from view and reappeared behind Ashton with a swift kick to his side, the kick connected but Ash had caught Kayman's foot.

Ash swung Kayman out from behind him, and with a closed fist he swung down into Kayman's chest causing the teenager to impact the ground.

Ashton turned back to his human form, and asked "You okay man? I'm sorry I went a little too hard with that last hit."

Kayman laid there for a moment before coughing and sitting up.

"Yeah I'm okay, I think i'm done for today though. I thought you were a first timer? You kept getting stronger as we kept on fighting. Not only that you could keep up with me after using my magic!"

"Well I could only keep up with you because when I'm transformed I can boost my perception to the max, then you can't really hide from my senses no matter how fast you were."

Ashton spoke shrugging his shoulders. "Let me help you up, we are going to be doing this often so I need to make sure you're okay."

Kayman smiled brightly "Hey! You should spar with 2nd step kids too since you kinda dominated this spar even if you did go all out."

Ashton looked a little embarrassed. "Yeah sorry about that, it was my first fight being in control. What was that magic you used?"

"Attribute magic! According to the master it's an incredibly rare type of magic, and I'm the only one here who can use it!"

Kayman beamed as he spoke.

The two of them walked back to the dorm rooms, and continued speaking. Suddenly Ashton was tripped, and he fell flat on his face. Kayman looked around and quickly saw Bella laughing after Ash had fallen.

"You do something to piss her off?" Kayman asked as he helped Ash back up to his feet.

"Yeah. She tried to play some stupid game of words with me and I pissed her off after saying I didn't want to see her when she isn't clothed."

"Ah a lose, lose situation. Sorry bro." Kayman laughed as they continued walking. By this point in time it had gotten dark outside and it was time to sleep.

"So how do you do magic? I awakened in both mind and body but I don't have the slightest clue on how to use magic."

Ashton asked as they reached his room.

"Well it's different for everybody, some people have to spend time studying and experimenting with different known magics until something works, or in my case I had a dream about it and then I could do it. According to the master that is pretty rare, so I would hit up the library and play around till you find something that works for you."

Kayman answered as he began to walk away.

"Thanks man!" Ashton called out at Kayman's retreating form. Ash noticed Kayman was heavily bruised and walking with a slight limp. 'I should do something to make it up to him.'

Now alone Ash decided to head to the bathrooms for a clean. After sparring he really did smell like a wet dog.

Ashton laid down in his bed after returning and decided to check over his stats.

'Status'

Name: Ashton Silverfoot

Race: Accursed

Soul: Cursed Beast (1)

Strength: 26

Finesse: 25

Vitality: 26

Intelligence: 18

Skills:

Martial arts: Beginner

Bowyer: Beginner

Archery: intermediate

Survivability: Advanced

Hunting: Intermediate

Perception: Intermediate

Stealth: Intermediate

Hand to Hand: Novice

Sign language: Advanced

Abilities:

Bone Claws: Form claws of bone around your hand/claw Increases Strength

Life Steal: Restore your wounds with the blood of your enemies

Bottomless Stomach: You can eat, and eat, and eat

Crimson Aura: Your cultivation taken physical form. Grant's you protection and enhances you slightly at this stage

Transformed

Cursed Beast

Strength: 44

Finesse: 43

Vitality: 44

Skills:

Survivability: Advanced

Hunting: Advanced

Perception: Master

Stealth: Advanced

Hand to Hand: Novice

Abilities:

Bone Claws: Form claws of bone around your hand/claw Increases Strength

Life Steal: Restore your wounds with the blood of your enemies

Bottomless Stomach: You can eat, and eat, and eat

Crimson Aura: Your cultivation taken physical form. Grant's you protection and enhances you slightly at this stage. In this form your aura causes you to absorb yourself in battle increasing your comprehension in battle.

Blood Lust: boosts Perception to the max when activated