CHAPTER 14: THE CLASH iii

"What was that?" Ryu asked himself,

"Or was it just a dream" He asked himself as he turned to face the crowd of students watching with a confused look on his face.

As he raised his hand to scratch his the back of his head, instantly he snapped back to reality and he turned his head to look around the ring searching for something, or someone.

"Where is he" He said as panic began to settle on his face as he turned around and around seeing an empty ring with only him in it and a couple of ice debris scattered all over the ring. After turning spinning around in search of his clever opponent,

"Did he run?" Ryu asked himself

"No"

"Raiden wont stoop so low"

He said as he turned his head to face the crowd of students who were watching the epic battle not wanting to miss a single part of it.

As Ryu faced the crowd, out of nowhere like suddenly reappearing back to reality, Raiden appeared in the air behind Ryu with an ice spear in his hand.

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Ryu was standing as he faced the crowd of students watch as he tried to look for his opponent who seemed to have vanished into thin air.

"What's going on" He asked inwardly looking at the faces on the crowd but no sign of whom he was searching for.

"Or is this a technique" He asked himself as he cautiously tried to stay calm and figure out what was happening. In a split second,

"Something doesn't feel right"

In a split second Ryu's eyes moved to a certain girl in the crowd and he immediately noticed the sudden shock expression that appeared on her face as she stared at his direction. Ryu quickly turned his head to his left to look over his shoulder, and his eyes widened in shock seeing the pointed tip of an ice spear heading towards his face.

Ryu acted on instinct and with his speed, he spinned to the side as the spear passed him, it struck the ground where he was standing.

Breaking through the ground and entering deep into the cemented tiled ground, and causing a ginomous thug as it struck the ground.

Ryu turned to face Raiden and launched his right fist fast towards Raiden as an uppercut to the face.

"LAG"

Raiden said and in that moment before the punch could hit him, his body gave off a type of glitching shock and suddenly vanished once more. Ryu's eyes suddenly shot open, as he dropped his fist down. His eyes went dull as he did not feel threatened anymore, as he now understood what happened and the panic expression on his face vanished.

Raiden appeared behind him in mid air once more and launched his feet towards Ryu's face, Ryu assive expecting it stood in place and did not move. Raiden foot struck something hard, Ryu's infinity barrier. But Ryu did not foresee what happened next, as Raiden other foot suddenly gave off a light blue glow and launched it to Ryu.

*CRASH*

The pressure from the kick pushing Ryu backwards far from Raiden, almost sending him flying out of the ring.

Ryu stopped at the edge of the ring once again with his both hands crossed In front of him, and with his hand emmiting light blue steam.

Ryu slowly raised his head up to look at Raiden, who was standing in place staring back at him with his eyes like piercing daggers.

His face was dull, not showing any hints of emotion.

"Now i get it" Ryu said as he dropped his hands down and stood.

He cracked his knuckles as he stared at Raiden,

"He used lag"

Technique explanation

Lag is a technique which involves a charge of large amount of curse energy, with an instant boost of speed. There by making the curse user to vanish out of site, temporarily.

"He has improved" Ryu said as he smiled.

Then Raiden stretched his right hand forward, then a light blue fog manifested on his hand.

As the fog faded, revealing a sword completely made from ice. Raiden held onto it and formed on his right hand as well. He held onto both of them and started walking towards Ryu.

Ryu closed his eyes for a second, as he opened them slowly. His light blue eyes which were brighter than before and gave off an intimidating glow and causing the smile on his face to fade.

He began to move towards Raiden, the pressure between 2 of them was intense as thier aura dominated the ring. As they walked towards one another.

Almost reaching themselves, they vanished.

The crowd got confused as both fighters were no longer seen until,

*CRASH*

They both appeared before on another at the center of the ring, Ryu send quick jabs towards Raiden, who jumped up into the air dogding all of it.

*SHATTER*

The shattering sound of glass was suddenly heard, one of Raiden swords was shattered by Ryus punches.

Raiden threw both swords high up Into the air, he stretched his both hands forward towards Ryu. Both swords gave off a light blue glow and shattered completely into multiple floating balls of light.

The crowd of student watching were shocked by this impressive display from both fighters.

"You aren't still taking it serious" Raiden said inwardly as he stared at Ryu staring at the scattered balls of light in the sky.

"May be after this you will"