Chapter 8.1 – Trials – part 1.1
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Seya started to use Body Strengthening Magic on all of his body and stressing his muscles, to increase his speed above the speed of a RabbitKind, as he learned from Sully since he started training with Null. Sully taught him many years ago, that for him to be faster than Null, he had to use Magic but also train his muscles by exercises and weights pulling.
“||…Body enhancement, speed, strength... natural muscles stressed…||"
Convinced that it was going to be easy, the Examiner tried to take advantage of the RabbitKind inHuman speed, to catch Seya by surprise. He ran to reach Seya, and as soon as he threw a punch at Seya’s stomach, Seya rotated sideways and avoided him, while hitting the Examiner on the back of his head with one elbow, announcing the name of that move while the Examiner was falling to the ground, completely knocked out.
“Null Strike!”
Null Denar’an grabbed his own ears, pulling them down, completely in shock. “Father?”
Sully put his hands on Null’s shoulders, shaking him while laughing. “Ahahahah!... Null, it's your elbow strike, but Seya did it in less than three seconds! Ahahahah!”
Null was still grabbing his own ears and biting one lip. “He even named it... Argh, I am going to kill him!”
The crowd, the Elders and even the King were in shock, looking at the Examiner on the ground and at Seya, that still had his elbow pointed at the Examiner, waiting for any movement. “What?... Such speed!...”
The Elder Denar’an raised one arm and announced, “That was... The Examiner is unable to continue. Seya Hinamoto, choose your next Trial.”
“For honouring my Master Cemil Denar’an, I chose armed combat. I will use my own Naginata spear.”
The crowd in the Arena that was previously surprised by Seya’s fast movement began to laugh when they heard Seya’s choice for a weapon. “A Naginata! Ahahahah!...”
Cemil shouted. She was so angry! How could they ridicule her teachings? “Laugh it all out, you will soon swallow it! Go Seya!”
One Examiner took some steps forward while laughing. “Ahahahah!... Seems like this will be fun!”
Seya was looking at him, and he was also angry by all that laughing. “You should concentrate and just shut up.”
The Examiner laughed while pointing at Seya’s weapon. “Why? Do you really think you can beat my sword with a woman’s weapon? Ahahahah!”
The crowd in the Arena was still laughing. “Ahahahah!...”
Seya took a deep breath, and he answered with a chill in his voice. “If you don’t shut your mouth, I will shut it for you.”
The Examiner pointed his sword at Seya. “I want to see you try, child!”
Seya turned to the Elders seated at the balcony. He was boiling inside, he wanted to kill that Examiner. How dared him mocking his beloved weapon, given to him by Cemil when he was very little? That Naginata had his own blood and sweat craved on it. It was a part of him, like if it was one of his arms.
“Elders Denar’an, may I consult my Master?”
The Elder Denar’an was also laughing, and he forced himself to stop, to be able to answer. “Ahahahah!... hum... You may...”
“Father Sully, can I activate my ears? This guy needs a lesson.”
Sully had a weird look on his face. He looked like he was trying to hold himself, for not rushing into the Arena and kill anyone that dared to mock his wife’s teachings. “I understand. Even I want to chop off his head...Do as you like.”
Seya used his Light Magic, and suddenly, two pointy bright ears were on his head, shining like the sun. “...Done!”
The crowd was surprised, wasn’t a Denar’an Trial supposed to be only with Earth and Dark Magic? And fake RabbitKind ears on the head of a Human child? “... That are RabbitKind ears made of Light Magic?... the outrage... such an insult”
The Elder Denar’an grabbed the edge of the balcony and he even spat at the Arena, to Seya’s direction, showing his despise. “Seya Hinamoto, are you insulting us?”
Seya raised his voice, and he spoke while turning around to face the looks of everyone that was watching him. “All of you listened to what this guy said. He insulted me and my Master. You all laughed and by doing that, you all insulted my Master Cemil. Including you, Elders. Until now I have been just warming up, but now you will all see what happens when I fight seriously. I hope this Examiner is prepared to die...”
The Elder Denar’an was furious. “Such arrogance! Start the fight. Examiner, teach this child!”
The Examiner pointed his sword at Seya, threatening him. “Child, now you did it, now you...”
“You really need to shut up...”
Seya was still using Body Enhancement Magic and he was already with his muscles stressed. He then pressed hard to the ground the end pole of the Naginata to give more impulse at the same time that he stomped his feet against the floor. The speed was so great, that one millisecond he was in the same place and on the next millisecond, he was hitting the Examiner mouth with the pole of the Naginata. Not even Sully could match that jump speed, and Sully was considered to be the fastest RabbitKind alive.
The Examiner fell on his back, hitting hard on the ground, with his face covered in blood. “Aaarrrgghhhhhh...”
Sully was scratching one ear like he normally did when nervous. “Oops, did Seya just broke the Examiner’s mouth with the Naginata pole?”
Cemil was jumping and clapping her hands. “Yes, he did. Way to go Seya!”
Seya then turned his Light Rabbit ears into rock. He jumped and landed on top of the Examiner’s chest. Seya kneeled on top of the Examiner and began slapping his face with those hard-as-a-rock ears, not stopping until the Examiner was knocked out.
“... Aaargghhh... ouch, ouch… ouch, ouch, ouch...”
Null had his mouth wide open, looking at all that punishment. “He… he is slapping the Examiner with the ears?”
Sully was nodding, like if he was approving. “Yes, he turned the Light ears into Earth ears and he is slapping the Examiner with them. The favourite method of our ancestor, Taly Denar’an, to humiliate an opponent.”
The Examiner was quiet. Seya stopped for a while and grabbed him by the collar of his clothes to make sure he was out. He then let him go and the Examiner hit the ground, flat.
Thump!
The crowd was looking at Seya and to the Examiner, without a single word being said.
The Elder Denar’an announced, and he then turned to the other Elders, asking for opinions. “The … Examiner is unable to continue. Did he just knock him down by using his ears turned to rock? Can we allow this?”
The RabbitKind King approached the edge of the balcony and he addressed the Elders at his side and to everyone gathered there. “Well, everyone here is at fault. As Seya said, you all laughed and by doing that, insulted Cemil, his Master. Even I felt insulted by the Examiner’s words. And by demonstrating the same punishment that the great Taly Denar’an used, he also gave everyone a lesson. Well done, nephew!”
Seya was still looking at the Examiner on the floor, but that last saying from the King made him look up to the balcony, in surprise. “||… Did he just call me nephew? ...||"
The Elder Denar’an bowed to the King and he then bowed to Seya and to Cemil. “I apologize, your Majesty. And it seems that we all must apologize to the young Seya and his Master Cemil.”
Seya turned around and he walked near Sully to get his sword. He then looked at the balcony and he pointed his sword to the Elder, still angry. “I don't accept your apologies! For my next Trial, and for honouring my Master Sully and his ancestor Taly Denar’an, I choose armed combat with Magic. I will use my own sword.”
The Elder Denar’an twitched his ears, embarrassed. “You don't accept, I see... Humm, Examiner?”
“Here. I shall be his opponent.”
The Examiner held his sword and took one step forward in the direction of Seya and he immediately started to chant. “Oh, Earth...”
Seya had already a Gateway prepared, and the Examiner didn’t even notice it. “||… Now, Gateway up in the air, three meters high should be enough…||"
Next, Seya made a Gateway on the Examiner’s back. “||... Gateway at his back, rock smash to push him through the Gateway...||”
As soon as a big rock appeared at centimetres of the Examiner, he was pushed through the Gateway that was behind him. He barely had any time to scream in pain, before disappearing, along with the rock. “Arrggghhh...”
Seya smiled a little. His plan worked perfectly. “||...Got you! Go through the Gateway along with the big rock, he will reappear on the other Gateway three meters high just about... Now! ...||”
Suddenly, the Examiner reappeared from the Gateway at 3 meters up, still in pain, and he fell hard on the Arena’s floor. “...ggghhhh...Wait, what is this? I am falling! Ouchhh...”
As soon as he hit the floor, the same big rock that went with him through the first Gateway, followed him from the other one in the sky and smashed the Examiner.
Thump!
The crowd around the Arena, the Elders and the King at the balcony, were speechless.
Sully, Cemil, and Null, were laughing like crazy and clapping their hands, so proud of him. “Ahahaha! That’s our Seya! I told you not to underestimate him!”
Seya was looking at the big rock on top of the Examiner. “Can someone go see if he is dead? I think I overdid it...”
The Elder Denar’an that was overseeing the Trials, immediately jumped down from the balcony, showing the agility and power of a Denar’an and rushed to the big rock, pushed it to the side and bent over to evaluate the state of the Examiner. “He is badly hurt...”
Seya ran towards them and used a big amount of Healing Magic that healed the Examiner bruises, broken arms and legs, and even, the cut-off ears. “Oops... Wait, I got this... done!”
The Elder Denar’an was genuinely surprised. “Was that Healing Magic? This quick and with so many injuries? Examiner, are you feeling okay?”
The Examiner seated on the floor, rubbing his head, and checking if his ears were still there. “Yeah, more or less. I thought I was going to die! What happened? Why was I here and suddenly I was falling? I only saw a big rock coming at me at such speed that I couldn’t even react!”
Seya was also scratching his own head, feeling embarrassed. “Sorry, my bad. I was still mad, so you paid for it.”
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