4: A Duel. Mr Agustin Powers

 I got into the class and met a lot of students in groups. Turns out some had become friends during the exams. I ignored them and went to sit down at the back. The front seats had already been occupied. A yellow haired man walks into the class holding a folder. Most of the students ignored him and continued what they were doing until I witnessed something extraordinary. Smoke came out of his body and a seven feet wolf with horns appeared and howled loudly. We covered our ears and the class hastily sat up. My head was in frigid shape. He went over to a desk by the corner and dropped the folder. He waved his hands and the beast disappeared.

"Okay kids, my name is Agustin Winus and I will be your teacher. My hero name is Beast Master. As the name suggests, I can tame beasts and animals. Not only that, I can summon any animal I want including insects up to celestial beings like angels and demons, I can't summon a god though. And I can use their abilities through my special skill; Beast fusion, nice to meet you."

I stared in awe. This man sure knows how to talk a lot. But his powers were great. He should be at most an S rank hero. Why was he in charge of us, unless my grading was wrong. I decided to confirm. "Sir, what rank are you?"

He heaved an heavy sigh. "Even with my powers, I am ranked 40 out of the 100 D class heroes. We call it D class, rank 40. Yeah I'm pretty weak right."

"Very weak, how do the higher authorities expect us to obey a weak teacher. Get the hell man."

I looked towards the speaker and saw he looked familiar. "My lord, if it is inconvenient for you, I can drop out but you have to beat me in a duel first." Mr. Agustin replied. I then knew. The rude kid was a prince, his name was Doflamingo Zulu, he comes from the ruling family of the Zulus who are famous for their dark technique. Seems one of the children was a failure after all. "I accept the duel." None of us stopped them. Well it was okay, we would get to see our teacher's power. He pressed a button on the desk and a bright light covered us. I opened my eyes and found we were on a huge field. Teleportation through an apparatus.

"Okay, the rules of the duel are simple, attack with all you got. Don't hold back one bit." "I wasn't planning on going easy on you teach." After a lot of bantering, I was chosen as the time keeper.

The fight begun. Doflamingo dashed towards Mr. Agustin throwing fists coated with dark energy while Mr. Agustin nimbly evaded everything. I was awed. How could humans fight this way. Soon their fists connected with each other. Doflamingo sent a dark liquid which melted the grass, the liquid kept going to Mr. Agustin who stared at it in a melancholic manner. He suddenly had an evil smile.

"Summon: Dark Slime."

As Mr. Agustin spoke those words, a black and inky mass of goo emerged from the earth. It took the shape of a large and intimidating slime. The slime let out a low and ominous growl. Doflamingo smiled at the sight of the slime. He was about to say something when suddenly, the slime lunged at him with surprising speed. Doflamingo was taken by surprise, but he quickly recovered and dodged the slime's attack. The slime crashed into a tree, destroying it. Mr. Agustin appeared behind Doflamingo and punched him sending him flying, he stopped his flight and landed with his feet.

"It seems you have some tricks up your sleeve, Mr. Agustin. You used the slime as a distraction. But the speed of the slime erased my black lava. I must say you are not a bad teacher but I will crush you." The other students looked on with fear, I sighed. That attack was dangerous. In books I read, slimes were the weakest creatures but one had nearly tried to kill. Mr. Agustin was taking the duel seriously. "You are a good attacker, prince, but I guess the playing around should end, I used that slime which happens to be weak to do that, also," Mr. Agustin suddenly looked very serious. He closed his eyes and raised his hands. "Summon Imaginum: Ogre." A creature I have only seen in fantasy stories and games appeared. Mr. Agustin could also summon unreal creatures. How could someone like that be called a weakling.

"Beast Fusion: Ogre Ability."

Nothing significant happened after saying that, but the air around Mr. Agustin had changed. He looked more confident. One moment he was at a spot, the next, Doflamingo was on the floor passed out. My mouth hung loose. How on earth did that happen. Because I manipulate time, I was able to go back to the super fast attack. A normal person wouldn't have been able to see it.

Mr. Agustin sped and threw one punch which didn't meet Doflamingo but the force of the punch made Doflamingo go unconscious out of fright. He fell. If that punch had touched Doflamingo, he would have surely died.

I looked behind the duo and saw the grass had parted and was burning. Smoke was on the grass. Mr Agustin could also use the powers of the creatures he imagined.

©Shabi Oluwatomi Olugbenga

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