Fred and Lucas approached each other in completely different manners; one ca up as nervous, the other ca up as arrogant.
"That’s the guy with the sss elental ability, Lucas Waine."
"He’s pretty hot, but he doesn’t compare to the other guy."
"Whatever that guy’s ability was, it must’ve been even greater than SSS."
"But Lucas also has a wealthy family."
Whispers spread among the girls as Zylus smirked and walked back to his original position. He now stood all alone, every girl too nervous to speak to him, and the guys were clearly envious of his sudden glory.
"Fighters, shake hands!" Mr. Cruz yelled as Fred and Lucas started to walk up to each other.
Lucas leaned over, "Hey," he whispered in Fred’s ear.
Fred shook, as if ti started to slow down, "Promise you’ll let get with Eldra and I won’t kill you." Lucas declared.
Sothing in Fred completely numbed his senses; he realized how much of a poor brother he had been. Fred and Eldra were siblings, but just two sides of the sa coin.
She never wanted to associate with him, not in public, because of the embarrassnt Eldra felt being around a nerdy kid like Fred. In this, she separated herself from him, and then, slowly, Fred started losing everything around him.
A tear dropped down from Fred’s face, "N-No."
"What did you say?" Lucas leaned closer, angrily.
"I said no!" To his surprise, this was the first ti Fred genuinely stood up for himself, and a ti when everything would change.
"Ungrateful brat, I’ll kill you." Lucas started walking back, as Mr. Cruz demanded.
Fred wasn’t big; he was small, slightly overweight, and had always been made fun of.
"Opponents! Separate yourselves!" The teacher yelled as a barrier started to encircle the students viewing the bout.
Zylus looked intrigued, suspicious of what they were talking about over there. Eldra began walking towards him, and Zylus’s interest piqued while watching the bout.
"You’re pretty strong, you know that?" Eldra said, moving her chest towards Zylus.
He pushed her back, "Not too close." Zylus smiled gently, "I have a girl waiting for back at ho." He whispered, not enough for Eldra to hear.
"That’s my bad." Eldra ecstatically responded, "But who are you? The people selected to receive an elental affinity are only the top one-hundred who passed the Spirit exam score." She paused, staring upwards, at Zylus’s intense look, "If I saw soone like you in the exam room, I would’ve most definitely rembered you. So where did you co from? Really?"
"Didn’t I just beat you?" Zylus said, "Intrigue should only be given to those who win."
Eldra blushed, "I really want this guy," she whispered, as the other girls looked at her angrily, because they didn’t want to allow her to have him all to herself.
"Just watch the battle in front of us," Zylus said.
"Battle?" Eldra wondered out loud, "This is going to be a complete slaughter fest, my brother can’t take Lucas on, not for as long as he lives."
"Your brother?" Zylus snapped, "Fred’s your brother?"
"Yes-, well, not really." She responded. "I kind of separated myself from him since we were younger, hate weaklings like him, they don’t even deserve to be graced with my blood."
Zylus’s gaze shifted downwards, a nerve tingled through his spine, then he cald himself down, looking up at the sky as a tear slipped down his cheek.
"Jeez, what has gotten him so sad?" Eldra whispered to herself.
"What was your na again? Edreth?" Zylus asked, continuing to stare into the beautiful blue sky.
"It’s Eldra. Eldra Forless." She responded calmly. "We’re already getting close; he’s all mine now," Eldra whispered at her end.
"Listen, Eldra," Wiping off the one tear in his eyes, Zylus glared at the fight that was about to happen, "Family is everything."
"But you can’t count soone like that as family." Eldra angrily declared.
"In everyone’s family, they are given roles..." He whispered sadly, "And your role is to protect your brother. Because the mont you lose him, you’ll end up pinning the bla on yourself, and then you’ll end up losing yourself to rage."
"And just how do you know that?" Eldra curiously wondered, but nothing that Zylus said changed her ideals.
"...?" Zylus whispered, his face couldn’t keep his smile, "It’s an assumption..."
"Okay...?" Eldra was confused, but then sothing in her heart began to ache.
But of course, Zylus knew this all too well. When he lost his family, he blad himself for every action, for every mistake, for every talk. And once this happened, Zylus made it his lifelong goal to seek vengeance, and without it, he can’t rest at ease.
And now, with Zenos unable to fight, possibly never again, he deed it his journey to succeed for his cause.
"Let the fight..." Mr. Cruz whispered, "Begin!"
Fred finally had a bit of confidence, enough to pull off one technique against Lucas, after what Lucas said about his sister, in a lustful fashion.
"Elental Affinity: Activ-" no, Fred couldn’t say it, because at that mont, Lucas’s technique ca bashing down on him, and he stood there, afraid.
"Elental Affinity: Activate," Lucas smirked, "Welco back, Authority."
With that, a type of grey mysterious aura surrounded him. Zylus watched, a bit curious about the matter, actually.
At this point, Zylus realized sothing. Elents aren’t simply the common stereotypes like ’fire, water, grass.’ No, it was much more than that; anything can count as an actual elent, not just your natural environnt.
Amidst all this chaos, Eldra bumped her chest onto Zylus’s right arm, "What’s your rank, anyways?"
"Rank?" Zylus wondered out loud.
"You know, the ability class your elental affinity was given after the exam sheet. Mine’s B class, pretty good if I do say so myself." Eldra confidently said, "Yours gotta be at least an A for beating ."
Thinking back, I do rember an instant when my system gave a class. But I can’t rember what it was.
With that said, Zylus’s system began displaying the answers he was looking for.
[Elental Affinity: Blood Oath]
[Rank: Unknown???]
Zylus turned to Eldra, "You’re right, I’m an A rank." He sarcastically smiled. What an obvious lie.
"Of course I’m right." She responded, "I’m always right."
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