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After a couple of minutes, the group had managed to reach the training ground. It was plain, with it mainly having bleachers, training dummies, punching bags, and a dirt floor. In the center of it all was, well, a battle ground. It was rectangular, with white tape showing the boundaries of the rectangle. It looked like it had some dried blood on it.
"Perfect timing, it's 07:56. That means most of the school was be assigned to come and watch." Brice grinned, sprinting to the end of the room. Seto strolled foreword into the rectangle, waiting patiently for Brice to come. Kyle followed behind him, standing away from the white line.
"Don't do anything stupid, alright?" Kyle whispered. "I'll be cheering you on."
"Thank you, Kyle." Seto replied in monotone. Kyle smiled, then went to sit down at the gray bleachers. Within a minute, Seto could hear an announcement going off in the hallways.
"There will be a battle between Prince Brice Purton Solace and Seto Kaji at the battle grounds at 08:00. Classes are extended, please come watch!" A robotic-like voice said. Seto covered his ears, it was too loud.
Little by little, students began flooding in through the doors. Seto was right, they did pop out and levitate out of the way! Brice stood at the other end of the rectangle, and Miss Rosenthal stood outside the rectangle, spectating. Students began chattering, mainly commenting about the new student. Most of them had spoken in a pitiful tone, worrying about the brunet. Seto stood there, smiling giddily as his heart raced with excitement.
Soon enough, the principal clasped her hands together. It was loud, almost like a large bullet shooting the wall. The room went silent, then the principal spoke. "Alright, students. This will be a battle between one of our new students, Seto Kaji, and the Prince of Hybrids, Brice Purton Solace. Please, contain your excitement and don't try to shoot one of them while they were battling. Boys, please refrain from killing each other, we've had that a lot. Don't worry, you'll be healed."
The two nodded, getting ready in their stances.
"Three." Miss Rosenthal counted down.
"Two." Some students joined in with the countdown.
"One." All of the students yelled and clapped their hands, excited for the battle.
Abruptly, Brice charged towards Seto. Without hesitation, Seto lifted up his right hand, crossing it over his chest. Two arms made of wind began to form from his hips, swirling around violently and shocking the crowd. Brice tumbled backwards, his crystal blue eyes widening in shock. The blond summoned an electricity ball from his hand, a large one that looked to be about six inches in width and eight inches in height. Seto slashed his hand down, making the arms grab Brice and lift him up in the air. He struggled, not knowing this move.
"Seto! I told you to only use ten percent!" Kyle hollered out from the crowd.
"I'm only using five!" Seto retorted back, turning his head. "What? You want me to kill him?"
"Nah! Continue!" Kyle waved his arms, cheering for the brunet.
Seto smiled, the arms shrinking in length. Brice was off the ground, thrashing his feet as he was brought closer to the brunet. The electricity ball had gone away, and Seto's wind grip was growing. Slyly, he spoke. "What happened to that cockiness you had earlier?" Seto mocked.
Bringing both of his hands up, the wind arms brought Brice to a staggering height. Swinging both of his hands down, the arms threw Brice down towards the ground, much like he did with the Sorcerers from the day before. The sudden impact caused dust to fly around. The wind arms faded away with the dust, and Seto had covered his eyes so it wouldn't fly into his eyes. Once the dust settled, Seto found himself looking at a crater. Astonishingly enough, Brice managed to bubble himself in a ball made from electricity, softening the impact. He stood up, the bubble going away.
The two stared at each other for a brief moment, then went back to fighting. Brice lifted up his right arm, thrashing it horizontally. Bolts of electricity shot from the blonde's hand. Seto lifted up his right arm, causing a fire shield to block the attacks. Thrashing his left arm, ice shards flew towards Brice's direction. Some hit, and some didn't. Brice managed to summon an electricity shield, but it appeared it drained most of his energy.
A small smirk curved on his lips as he made his own fire shield dissipate into smoke. Lifting up both of his arms, while dodging at the same time, he shot fire and ice. It didn't seem like a dramatic move, it was almost like a normal attack. Slowly, the two began to merge, creating Seto's fourth magic; water. Using air, Seto managed to guide the water into the shield, causing a reaction. Brice tumbled backwards as the sudden impact of water and electricity created another explosion.
Seto's smile grew as he rushed over to the toppled blond, who had looked like he lost consciousness. Creating an ice dagger in his right hand, he didn't hesitate to stab the other in the neck. Shockingly enough, the dagger didn't hit, but was blocked by Brice's hand. Throwing a punch into Seto's chest, the brunette staggered backwards, holding his right rib. Brice stood up, understanding his weakness. 'He can't block, and he looks like he bruises easily when hit with using normal fighting.'
Brice took the opportunity to strike Seto in his right shoulder with electricity. Seto hissed at the pain, now grabbing his shoulder. The brunette covered the burn in ice, almost like a shoulder pad, or bandages. It managed to cool down easily, the pain resided for now until it could be properly treated. He gritted his teeth as he watched the blond charge at him, most likely doing an uppercut. Weakly, he lifted up his right arm, causing some of the ice "bandage" to fall off and melt on the ground. Abruptly, Seto surrounded himself in a blazing firewall, and Brice, caught off guard, ran straight into it.
Brice's screams of pain was heard throughout the battle grounds as he fell down onto the floor, rolling. In the corner of his eye, Seto could see One Eye being held back by multiple students, wanting to help his friend. The brunette smirked, knowing he had already won the battle.
Yet, the pain in his chest didn't subside, it was almost as bad as being stabbed in the heart. Wanting to finish this, Seto turned his power up to eight percent, knowing that a drastic change by three would have a major difference to a Hybrid. Gazing at Brice, the two made eye contact. It looked like Brice's face was tinted with pink, almost like a blush. Seto was oblivious to this as he clasped his hands together, making a wind ball.
The wind ball was small at first, but as the minutes passed by, the ball grew in size. Soon enough, it was big enough to Seto's liking, for as it stretched from his stomach to his chin, and was the width of two bowling balls. Casting the wind out into the middle of the battle grounds, it began to swirl, creating a small tornado. Putting his hands out to control it, the tornado began to grow in size. Brice watched his occur, and struggled to get up.
As the tornado was growing, Seto began to add on to it. First, fire sucked up into the tornado, making it fiery and extremely hot in the room, almost like standing near the crater of a volcano. A few minutes passed, then Seto added ice. The ice, like before, melted into the fire, creating water. The fire subsided, and the tornado was mainly made of water and wind. Seto smirked, as he mumbled to himself, "Your time is up, Prince."
Forcing the tornado foreword by thrusting his arms horizontally, it was sent launching towards Brice. He tried to dodge, but it was too late. He widened his eyes as he was sucked into the water, almost drowning. Mindlessly summoning electricity, the tornado exploded. Dust and water flew around the room, catching most by surprise. Seto put his arms up to make an X over his face, blocking most of the dust and water that came onto him.
Once the dust subsided, and the water laid on the floor, sinking into the dirt, there was Brice, laying unconscious in the middle of the battle grounds. He was burnt, bruised, and bloody. His hair was soaked in water, causing it to dip down a bit, and the outfit he wore had visible blood marks and tears on it. Seto smirked, strolling to the body and kicking him in the face, causing his nose to bleed, "I win."
Seto stepped, back, running his hand through his dusty hair. He turned to One Eye, who was giving the book back to Kyle. The fuchsia haired male giggled, giving Seto a thumbs up while mouthing, "Good job!"
Within all the silence, Miss Rosenthal spoke up, stuttering on her words, "S-Seto Kaji has defeated Prince Brice Purton Solace, t-thus making his rank increase up to First Place on the battling leader board. He now h-has a bounty of 12 b-billion coins, and Brice's bounty has d-decreased to 4 billion c-coins. Raise your h-hand if you would l-like to battle Seto K-Kaji tomorrow."
The room went silent, no one raised their hands. Some people looked away in fear. Seto gazed at One Eye again, who looked like he was about to pee his pants. Miss Rosenthal spoke up once more, "Well, classes will begin in one hour, you all can go and clean yourselves up. Zek, please help Brice to the nurse's office."
One Eye, or Zek, nodded. He brushed past Seto and went to pick up Brice. Slowly, the two made their way out of the room. Miss Rosenthal clasped her hands together as she strolled to Seto, patting his back lightly. "This is one of our new students, Seto Kaji. Please do tell us how you mastered all of those skills, and tell us about yourself and your family."
Seto nodded, making eye contact with Kyle. "My name is Seto Kaji, age sixteen, and the one with the fuchsia colored hair is my adoptive brother, cousin actually, Kyle Kaji, age eighteen. I was only born with Fire, but I learned Ice and Wind by my mother and father."
The brunet paused to think, then continued, "My mother was a researcher who studied Sorcerers, as well as posed as one and infiltrated their bases. She died when I was fourteen, due to a Sorcerer catching her and eliminating her."
He paused briefly once more, "My father was a Thirster, he wanted to learn all the elementals that he could. He learned only six out of the total fourteen. As you saw earlier during the battle, I harnessed Water. My father was beginning to teach me how to use Fire and Ice to my advantage to create Water, but unfortunately he passed away a few days ago due to health problems."
Seto remained solemn, and only spoke in monotone. Miss Rosenthal clapped her hands together once more. "You all are dismissed, please clean yourselves up."
With that, Seto strolled towards Kyle. Pointing to his chest, Kyle nodded, throwing his arm over the brunette and healing him at the same time. The two walked, out of the room, followed by hundreds of other students. Seto sighed to himself, then spoke. "Where's my book?"
"I took the chance to teleport it into your bag." Kyle replied. "Looks like you broke your rib when Brice punched you. I can't believe he's the Prince, he's weak."
Seto just nodded, then lifted up his wrist. Tapping lightly on his wristband, he noticed his classes changed.
1) Wind Rank X - 30 Minutes
2) Ice Rank X - 30 Minutes
3) Water Rank III - 2 Hours
4) Break for All Students - 1 Hour
5) History - 35 Minutes
6) Sorcerer Data - 1 Hour
7) Training only on Tuesdays and Thursdays - 45 Minutes
"Seems like they want to teach you how to use Water." Kyle smirked. "Nice."
"I wish I had my book to write this down." Seto frowned.
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