Abigail Morningtide's Story

"I dunno...if it was a pocket dimension, then what did he use to open it? He didn't have anything to open a pocket dimension with" Yuna mentioned telepathically in response. He didn't quite trust the medical examiners at first, but the Spirits seemed to be fine with them. That said, what they did was extremely embarrassing, especially since Yuna decided to go first on everything to make sure it was good for his brother.

After that, they came back with the others. Yuna reflected back to early, about how the Spirits almost seemed to not notice Zuuka at all. Given what he had seen of his personality, usually Spirits would cluster towards him. They would like his kind nature, but also like to playfully tease his awkwardness. But, they did not act this way.

As they started with running, it could be seen that Yuna and Yuma were apparently exactly the same even in physical ability, one never really able to outdo the other. That said, as Wood Elves they were used to running in the forest so this was nothing but a breeze to them. Although, Yuna did find the shoes to actually be a bit obstructive as they prevented him from moving and bending his feet freely. He wondered if they were required or not even...

Zuuka meanwhile seemed to do fairly well. Despite his physical appearance that would make him look weak, he was able to keep up with people older then him...though, he noticed the twins seemed to be doing better then everyone and could not catch up to them. He was able to keep up well with Luke, Abigail, and the others though, and he was not using Aegis, his magic, or any of the techniques he learned aside from a breathing technique to regulate his breathing and prevent him from running out of breath so easily.

It looked like Luke had totally forgotten about one part Zuuka said earlier though. "Again, how could Abigail or anyone from the Girls dorm be involved or know who was involved with a prank that happened in the Boys dorm, which they cant normally enter, and not us who actually live there? Well, I mean...I don't mean to impose that is...but, you see my point right? After all, how could they put jello powder into the pool, or place the brocoli and then have it grow in the hallway, without being there?"

That said, of course Zuuka was basing this on the wrong assumption both incidents were caused by the same person, but it was a reasonable assumption and he had no evidence to indicate otherwise.

As they finished another lap though, the teacher who had looked over all of their data grinned. "Alright then. I suppose it is a good thing we got this data now. It appears that we have a very wide range of students in this class. As you know, there are plenty of people in today's world who can live their whole lives without encountering a monster or getting into a fight. However, there are still plenty of monsters and conflicts still in today's world and anyone could possibly get involved. As such, I want to try and have everyone here get to a state where they will at least be ready for a potential encounter, and for those who already are...I think its about time we have you stop with something so easy as those laps and actually have you push what you can do. After all, Gym is a class where you are supposed to be pushed past your limits in order to improve".

As he said that, parts of the very large gym seemed to have transparent energy barriers divide them from the normal group.

"I was considering having those who are better off just try to evade and block and survive attacks from a fire breathing dragon, but I think that might be a bit too big of a shock for the first day. So how about, we have some students duel. First of..."

"Excuse me!"

Suddenly, a young voice called out. The teacher went and looked, and saw it was the young elf boy, Yuna, who had raised his hand.

"Yes?"

Suddenly, Yuna went and embraced his brother in a cute way while also making a cute face.

"Since me and my brother are the youngest here, and since we specialize in working as a team, we can be together as a team right?"

Yuna really went all out with the way he looked, even raising his right leg as he held onto Yuma to really make himself look adorable which was added onto by his Elven Child appearance. Some of the female students even looked at them with gazes not meant for children their age.

"No. In the first place, that would be massively unfair".

And yet, the teacher was able to resist it completely.

"But how about this? To be nice, for the first day, I will let you duel each other. But if I sense that you are not giving it your all and holding back, you will have to do extra lessons. Depending on what happens, it might get even worse for you two. Understood? Also, to anyone worried about not having the equipment they need for the duel and that it was left in the dorms, in case of a possible emergency, although the chances of one happening are rare, you should keep anything vital on you at all times. However, we will allow you access to the school equipment we have stored here for those who cannot afford to get their own weapons and equipment to train with".

As Yuna heard those words, he just outwardly made a down and saddened puppy impression as he heard the teacher's words. Inwardly though, and certainly being communicated through the telepathic link, Yuna was deeply conflicted by this development. On one hand, it meant that Yuma would not have to fight Zuuka, their friend, or any of his friends. On the other hand, it meant he had to fight and potentially hurt his twin brother, Yuma. It did also mean that Yuma would not fight anyone else who might not care about him and went overboard to win, but...Yuna really did not want to hurt his brother.

"Yu...Yuma. Its okay, I will make sure to put on a good show, but you can beat me and attack with however you want so you win. Besides, your power is better in direct battle anyways..."

Meanwhile, Zuuka looked over at Luke and Abigail, troubled by his own but somewhat similar conflict. Rather, he was wondering if she should duel a friend, like Luke or Abigail, although since at least from what he seemed Alison was not included in the more advanced group she was not an option at all anyways, or someone he was not friendly with. Of course, before he could make a decision, someone else took action.

"How about it richboy. Prepared to get a lesson in thrashing?"

A much larger and older student seemed to challange him. Zuuka took a moment, but then he remembered he had seen him before. He was the one who pushed him into the water, and made him sit in soaking wet clothes for over an hour as a result. Zuuka was actually quite mad about that, and consequently his brain switched this moment over from a casual one to a combat one.

"Well....I mena I don't know...you are really pushy and mean and I don't want to look at you..."

Zuuka said that in his normal higher sounding and innocent voice then a normal boy would. He also looked around at the man over his shoulder without turning his whole body around. Yuna, whose attention had been temporarily drawn by the scene, narrowed his eyes a bit. Because he had been communicating with Yuma before, his thoughts still transmitted even now.

"He is manipulating even the position of his body...he is using the same technique I just used. You are right Yuma, this boy...and likely the others too, are very interesting. At the very least, Zuuka is not as simple as he seems...I think we might see something interesting..."

Meanwhile, Zuuka's words, although they seemed innocent, because of their content had enraged the bully.

"What was that?! You calling me ugly?! Alright, I wont let you run away now! I will show my skill to the class and get you back for that remark!"

"Hey, remember. No serious wounds".

The teacher chimed in at the end in a voice that while was not loud, certainly was heard by everyone. However, to most it would seem like he was not talking to anyone in specific. But for those who paid attention to specific details about his voice and where he was looking, especially those who had training or natural abilities that would make them more family or able to notice them such as Luke or Abigail, they would notice the teacher had actually been specifically saying that to Zuuka.

In other words, he expected Zuuka to win without a doubt, and was telling him to not do anything harsh. This teacher seemed like a fun and laid back person, but truthfully was quite talented and good at his job and well trained with his abilities.

He then looked over to Luke or Abigail.

"If you don't hurry up, I will just start assigning pairs to everyone...though in truth, dont you two have something you might want to work out in a duel as well?"

And then, while that went on, the teacher went over and walked to Alison and the others to talk to them and give them assignments. Most of it was basic workout stuff, like jumping jacks and push ups, but he added something else.

"You should also pay attention to the details of what your other classmates are doing, since you never know how it might relate to you. Especially since some of you..." he started, and then looked at Alison. "I am sure are quite the hidden and raw talents".

Starting the exercises once everyone had finished their examination from the nurses, they first had to run a few laps around the place. At first it was good, running a few laps was not that bad, although she was much slower than the others being the least athletic person probably here. Since she was usually shut in her home and sitting down making products to sell. Chances are she did not exercise as often as others. Especially when you wanted to work to earn money.

So with that in mind, after a few laps around the track she was already starting to slightly sweat and her breathing was getting a bit faster. She was not made to run around excessively, it was made worse when the teacher wanted to pair them up together as a sort of 'workout pair'...Of course as it turned into more basic workout sessions. The teacher looked at her when he said hidden and raw talents.

She gave a few heavy breaths, a bit conscious of her gym uniform as she did some jumping jacks. "Well Sir...I am more creative...And magical. Physically I'm not that good..." She replied.

"I don't want to win that way, Yuna. I think we should really both try to win, it's no fun when you know what's going to happen. I know we'll be okay. Let's just have fun with this and stop worrying about me for a little bit." Yuma thought to Yuna. He started to stretch and get ready for the duel, but he really had no idea what to expect. He and Yuna had both fought large monsters in the woods, but never each other and there was never any set of rules. Plus this would truly be a challenge since they could hear each other's thoughts.


Luke looked to Abigail and still saw the sympathy in her human eye. He didn't want to fight her like this, a duel to show of their strengths was one thing, but this wasn't the right thing to do about this.

"Look, I'm sorry I overreacted to the whole prank thing. I don't want to be mad at you when we duel, anger causes mistakes." Luke said and offered his hand to shake. His mind was already trying to figure out a way to defeat her.

The gym teacher decided to have the students duel, which usually Abigail would be okay with, maybe even excited, but she was still distracted with the whole situation between Luke and Androma and the prank that happened. Zuuka was quickly challenged by another boy, and the teacher paired the two twins together. Abigail was thinking of going with Alison since Luke was still mildly upset about the whole situation. But before she could say anything the teacher brought up the whole scenario between Luke and Abigail. The slap didn’t really help and it was very public. Plus he went over to Alison and wanted her to do a basic workout and not duel for some reason.

Abigail looked over at Luke when he talked and apologized, offering his hand out as well. “So am I.” Abigail shook his hand and headed back to the locker room. “Well, since I know you have some other abilites, I hope you find it okay if I try to level the field.” Abigail said before she stepped into the locker room, quickly grabbing her rapier. She didn’t plan on exactly using it, more of back if needed. She quickly came back out, and laid the rapier onto the ground behind her. Abigail was going to see what tricks she Luke would play before she revealed hers.

“I guess we have to make this official.” Abigail said with a slight smile. “Luke, do you accept this duel?” She asked about 35 feet from him, tuning her implant to play white noise. The white noise wouldn’t cancel out his siren voice 100%, but would give her a better chance.

But before the fight could actual begin, she noticed Androma starting to regain consciousness, slowly realizing what Luke had done to her. ”Hey! If you want to be mad at someone angel voice, why don’t you blame the girl who actually did the prank, the one across from you!” She yelled over to Luke. “Androma no!” Abigail tried to stop her, but it was too late. She turned back to facing Luke. “Luke…I…I can explain.” Abigail stuttered out to Luke.

As Yuna heard his brothers resolve, he couldn't help but look into his eyes and confirm his determination himself. After all, they had fought and trained along side each other sure, and wrestled with each other casually, or showed each other a new move they created, but they never seriously fought each other before. This was a total new one. Not only that, their powers were either identical or contrasted each other, so it was an incredibly equal fight. They could also share thoughts and feelings, though it wasn't total sharing and they could have some private thoughts. After all, they would essentially be a hive mind and not two seperate individuals linked together by a strong bond otherwise.

Actually, technically speaking, Yuma's Repulsion Field was better for combat, but inversely Yuna's Attraction Field was better for utility and abnormal uses. He nodded to his brother's determination, and took some distance as he did stretches that mirrored Yuma's.

"Alright then! Lets do this! Duel, engage!"

"Detected Both Sides have agreed to the Duel. Generating Combat Zone, Phasing and Isolating from Real World".

It was a bit surprising, but a somewhat feminine artificial voice spoke up once Yuna had said it out loud. He was a bit shocked that Yuma had not needed to say anything, but in truth the Zone System had detected their telepathic communication and understood this. Because Yuma had not agreed to what Yuna said, but requested a fair and open duel, he became the requester, and since Yuma replied, even though it was out loud and not a telepathic communication, it registered that as an acceptance.

Because of that, what appeared to be a transparent barrier formed around Yuna and Yuma. On the surface, that appeared to be all that happened, but in truth the real world was actually taken out and replaced with a fake generated world. In other words, any damage done to the envirornment during the duel would not be there after the duel was over. This was how damage was prevented to the school.

Yuna and Yuma immediately unleashed attacks at the same time. Yuna created an attraction field behind Yuma to try and get him to fall on his stomach, since the first thing to be attracted would be his brother's legs and feet. At the same time, Yuna shot out a repulsion field to boost himself towards his brother and also to knock his brother down on his back. Yuna tried to dodge, but Yuma knew how he dodged and had a second attack nail him. Yuna also anticipated this and created another attraction field to pull Yuma in and make him get hit by his own attack.

The result was that Yuma got pulled into the repulsion pulse at the same time it hit Yuna, causing them both to take damage. Yuna then quickly grappled Yuma and threw him over his head behind him, but Yuma managed to grab on and twisted one of Yuna's arms around at the same time. Yuna was able to pivot around to counter, but Yuma then did an eyepoke attack! TO counter this, Yuna was able to shove his fingers into Yuma's nose first and throw him off, but caused his body weight to shift over and fall onto Yuna while he sneezed outward and caused Yuna's fingers to be repelled from a repulsion field he fired hidden with the sneeze.

The two quickly sprang up at the same time, and tried to counter each other...by pulling down each other's shorts?

"You two...stop hesitating!"

The two got startled by those words and pulled back...only to trip on their own clothes and fall at the same time. However, after pulling everything back up and getting things into place, the reconfirmed their determination. Although they started serious, it was pretty clear the twins attacks had dwindled in seriousness progressively as the duel went on. They didn't realize it till that last part, and it meant they really had to try hard to keep it going seriously.

"Spirits of nature, disable my opponent with spears of fire!"

"Spirits of nature, disable my opponent with spears of ice!"

The two launched simultainous attacks on each other by calling for aid from spirits, however they found themselves dodging not just each other's attacks but also their own. It appeared the Spirits understood their reluctance to hurt each other and registered themselves as their own opponents as well.

Meanwhile, there were a few students outside the field watching the two duel each other with skill and ability that they had not expected from the youngest members. Or rather, they might now be known as the fiercest members.

Meanwhile, Zuuka accepted his duel as well, and was now in a different field. However, once the field was fully formed, he smiled with just a hint of sinnisterness.

"What the hell are you smiling about, brat?"

"Just how much my friends will be impressed with me, now that I can finally show off. Aegis, raise power level".

Suddenly, several cubes were flying around Zuuka, made of some sort of glowing energy it seemed.

"What the...so this is that Aegis thing I overheard about? As expected of someone who thinks they are better then us".

"The hell does that mean?"

"I heard all about it. You, and those Wood Elf brats over there. Instead of going along with the initiation, you three acted like you were better then all of us, who experienced this just as well. You rich people, and those born in some isolated setting away from the real world like those twins too, you all act like you are better then us! The initiation is a lesson, and a proof, that everyone must undergo. A lesson that noble or commoner, we all enter our world in the same way. But you higher up folk, you act like you are better and hide behind your goons and toys. Now, you three will need something...stronger".

Zuuka wanted to say he had a chip on his shoulder but, he already heard that there were others here for the first time this year who had gone through the same in the boys dorm. Kids younger then the three of them, and older then them, all made to do the same. Not just nobles and the rich, but commoners and normal people as well.

However, he couldn't just say nothing either.

"School tradition aside, not all of us are the same. And I won't just let you badmouth my friends like that, and speak about them in such a way".

As he said that, Zuuka pulled a spear out of one of the cubes. His spear, the one he is specialized in. The man in front of him had gotten a spare sword from the equipment racks, and so after that Zuuka had Aegis disappear.

"And I don't need Aegis to beat some sense into you".

The bully seemed startled. He though Zuuka was just trying to act tough earlier, but now Zuuka seemed pissed at him. It was a backbone that most people would think Zuuka did not have. But Zuuka was not so simply as people thought.

The moment the duel started, Zuuka rushed in at high speed, and then swung his spear around with sufficient force to parry the sword and he hoped to even knock it away. At the same time, Zuuka pivoted around to help spin his whole body around easier and attacked again with a second slash of his spear.

The bully had managed to hold onto his sword, but he was thrown off balance and the second strike knocked him away before he could regain it. However, he clearly possessed some talent as he was able to roll over and jump up before Zuuka could attack again. But it was only by a second that he had managed to block the third attack Zuuka sent at him. Only, that was not the only attack. Zuuka had channeled mana through the spear and summoned ice around the bully's feet to freeze him in place, and then swung around a forth time. The bully was able to block, but now he could not move.

"Reinforce!"

That was, until he used reinforcement magic to strengthen himself and then broke through while finally attacking Zuuka in response. But Zuuka had already stepped backwards, as ice shot up from where he was standing to form a new ice prison that the bully was heading right into.

"Flame slash!"

And yet, as fire engulfed his sword, he cut through the ice and managed to land on his feet and get his footing. He was breathing a bit heavily, but he was still in the fight, while Zuuka appeared to be in peak condition with no abnormal breathing at all. He was keeping his cool and was focused, but more importantly he did not look drained at all.

It was extremely abnormal if one thought about it, but the battle was so captivating that it was possible no one would find it odd he was able to use so many attacks and magic simultaneously without being drained a little.

As the exercises went on, Alison soon had to stop as she was getting utterly exhausted. Frailty ran in the family it seemed...She had to clutch her chest for a bit while breathing heavily after all those exercises. While others may be starting to sweat she was now out for the count. Thankfully the teacher decided not to let her duel. No wonder he had students pair up, it was a mock duel exercise to practice fighting. And here she was having to sit down to rest up.

She was not one for this system of duels, she rather fight if needed. Just simple practice was good enough for her, but as she decided to watch the fight while resting she noted another thing. Another bully picking on Zuuka. People really hated the nobility it seemed, it figures. Those that grew up in poverty and peeked at a rich persons lifestyle would be angry. At how fortune smiled on those born with a good family. It made people envious, jelious, and angry.

Of course she was neither classified as a common person or a member of nobility. She was in middle ground, either rich to afford such luxary that nobles can, Yet not poor as to be struggling for food. She was only famous in name, and even then it was not like the whole world came to flock for her Dolls or Puppets. She was content with this lifestyle but it never hurt to earn even more money to buy even better stuff for her sister.

For now there was two duels happenening, one with the two boys who looked like twins, the other with Zuuka and his bully. Of course with the battle between Zuuka and his bully Zuuka himself was still in top condition. Of course she was no normal person in a fight, she was not one to fight personally. She could use magic well, far more longer than any physical activity.

But, she was not one for uneccecary violence. Eventually she turned away from the fighting to rest up. Her hand moving away from her chest as she was no longer heavily exhausted. This was going to be a long hour...

After hearing Androma throw Abigail under the bus for the prank, Luke saw red.

"You're the one who put jello in the pool?!" He growled as the combat area generated. The same voice announced that the duel was accepted once again.

"You think you can explain yourself? Fine go ahead and try, before I tear you apart." He said as he materialized an identical rapier to the one Abigail had, only it was made from ice.


Meanwhile:

Yuma and Yuna were perfectly matched it seemed. Unfortunately, neither of them had thought to use any of the weapons provided by the school, they only had what they kept on them at all times. Simultaneously, the two of them each pulled out their shifter. The shifter was a unique weapon that reacted to the user's emotions and the situation around them to turn into the weapon best suited to their needs. Yuma's shifter turned into a battle ax, while Yuna's turned into a large sword and the two of them went to attack each other and they were still evenly matched. The coach seemed to be getting frustrated by how evenly matched they were, but at the same time it would have been very amusing to watch.

Abigail sighed as Luke started to get angry, she didn’t want to duel like this, plus she didn’t want him finding out about her being one to cause the jello this way. “Luke, hold on, you even said you didn’t want to duel like this.” Abigail said, watching him create a pretty close replica of her own rapier, but completely out of ice. Knew Sirens had control over ice, didn’t know it was this good, nor that Luke would be able to do it. Abigail thought to herself, carefully analyzing Luke’s weapon.

“Listen Luke.” Abigail said stepping closer to Luke, her rapier a couple feet behind her. “Yes, I did it. But it’s just a prank. They happen. It could’ve been anyone.” Abigail continue to talk with no weapon in head, in front of an armed angry Siren. But she wasn’t dumb, she was slowly starting to overheat her cybernetic arm incase Luke tried to swing at her.

”Hey! You’re suppose to be dueling! Not talking!” The gym teacher yelled, there may have been 3 different duels going on, but he was paying attention to all of them, and was getting agitated when the third duel wasn’t actually fighting.

Zuuka ducked another slash before countering with his own, while he sent several flame spikes at his opponent now. Meanwhile, he pivoted his foot across and pretty much froze over the floor under the bully, while he jumped up and this time brought his spear down to hit the target below.

While all this was going on, the teacher, Aston Darion, looked over at the duel between Luke and Abigail. "Hey now, keep it civil! Otherwise, you will have to do ten laps around the gym barefoot!"

Afterwards he looked over at the twins...

Yuna and Yuma were still perfectly matched. When one made a move, the other countered. Then they would counter that counter, and then counter that...well, it was a non-stop chain of countering. A student that was nearby to Alison and the teacher made a note...

"I think that was over one hundred consecutive counters now".

Speaking of footwear, Yuna and Yuma were currently lacking those. Their shoes were currently scattered across the floor, because they tried to surprise each other by kicking their shoes off to use as projectile weapons during the fight to disorient and then defeat each other. Actually, they both lost their right shoe trying to do it at the exact same time.

Yuma tried to repulse him to knock him off his feet, Yuna used an attraction field though to pull Yuma closer to him. Their gym clothes were discheveled and looked like they might fall off. Their hair was all messy, and they both had to hit the floor at least a dozen times each.

Due to the repulsion field Yuna did get knocked to the ground, but he spung around as Yuma fell on top of him from the Attraction field. Yuna, who felt Yuma onto him, while holding his shifter grabbed ahold of whatever he could and stood up. But what he had were...Yuma's feet. No, Yuma's feet feel out, he just had his socks. And then suddenly, Yuna felt himself get grabbed in the same way and was thrown upside down...only it happened again for Yuna this time.

The couch just looked dumbfounded a little at this nonsensical fight. Sure, it did look like they were giving it their all, but...at this rate the class would end before they got a winner. Or run out of clothes, but somehow he doubted the twins would actually let that happen to each other...until he remembered earlier.

He turned back to Alison. "Tell me, can you see any way that either of them could best and overcome each other?"

He also looked over to Luke and Abigail. "You two! Give it your all, but like I said, keep it civil!"

And meanwhile...Zuuka was still fighting the bully. The bully was panting heavily now, but Zuuka was as cool as a cucumber.

"What the hell?! Why are you so serious now?! You should be the super awkward and timid type!"

"I am just not good at normally interacting with people. That said, just because I am timid does not mean I can't get angry, or upset. You insulted my friends, and are causing us trouble, so I am fairly angry with you".

"What? You mean those twin midgit twigs?! (extremely insulting term for Wood Elves) Those two messed with the wrong guy! They cant keep running forever! Or do you mean that weak little girl who probably is nothing but a burden on her family? Maybe that other boy, your roommate who is a big nobody and hates eating some magically grown veggies? Maybe that cyborg chick wi...".

Zuuka's face, which had been calm and controlled throughout the whole fight, had finally warped into anger. It was kind of an adorable looking anger, but it was anger alright. And then, he spoke in a voice as loud as possible.

"First off, I believe I already warned you, don't talk like that about my friends! You dare use those terms?! And secondly..."

And then, in that rage, his face twisted into a smile as he spoke even louder.

"I would very much like to know how you knew that broccoli was magically grown, and not just conjured using magic or by using some sort of advanced growth formula? Of course, that can be after I beat you down for insulting my friends".

And then, Zuuka charged right up to him and kicked him square in the face, sending him sprawling backward. Meanwhile, unfortunately for Zuuka, a new nickname was being spread for him, as well as a few others.

Current School Nickname Status:

Zuuka: Rich Boy, Zuu (what he notes that people friendly to him often call him), Blacklight's Ultimate Weapon (NEW!), Timid Spearman (NEW!), Adorable Little Boy of Death (NEW! ALSO SUPER INSULTING!)
Luke: The Gooped (NEW!), Voice of Rage (NEW!), Enemy of Women (NEW!) (Also mainly spoken by a few, or rather, mainly one person who was told to shave her head)
Abigail: Cyborg, The Gooper (NEW!), The Betrayed (NEW!), Abi (NEW! After all this, Zuuka is going to be more concerned for Luke and Abigail, and will use this name unconsciously since he finds himself bonding with her since he knew her before and now they are classmates)
Alison: Ali (Currently used by a single NPC classmate who is about as physically developed as her and finds her relatable as he is doing the same as her in terms of condition and has been in the same classes as her for years, but went unnoticed since he was that sort of person), Wimpy (NEW!), Scardy Cat (NEW!), Witness (NEW!), Super Sister
Yuna and Yuma: Twig (NEW! SUPER INSULTING!), Yuyu (Nickname for addressing both the twins)

Burden on her family?...Did she hear this right?...While she was watching everyone in an argument or even in the middle of the duel. She caught the little tidbit that little shi—-Bully...That bully said. Sure she was weak...But when he mentioned that she...SHE...The person who was keeping her little sister safe, keeping her sister well fed and doing all she can to save her...And he calls her out of all people a burden...

She ignored the teachers question as she silently stood up glaring death at the bully as Zuuka had kicked him sending him sprawling backwards. Ignoring their duel, she grabbed something she had tucked under the seat which was wrapped up in a protective cloth...Ticked in her mind...Her right eye twitched as her face kept its smile as she suddenly ran forward directly at the bully.

She despite her appearance was in a fury like no other, burden? A burden her? How dare he! How dare he! HOW DARE HE! She was not a burden! “I am not a burden on my family! Take that back! Take it back! TAKE IT BACK!” She almost exploded in violent anger as her face lost its smile showing pure anger on her features as she unwrapped the object in her hands...And it had a very deadly gleam to it...from behind it looked like nothing but from the front it was a pair of golden scissors...Held by the handle like a knife...

It looked like she was going to stab him! Surely not! The calm Alison losing her temper because of being called a burden to her family? She looked so calm and polite though...But now she looked like a deranged person who wanted to kill someone. She never took an insult like that lightly...Insults like that was like twisting a knife in her heart. It hurt...It hurt so much she wanted whoever said that to hurt for it...

She screamed in violent anger as she closed the distance. Not caring for any consequence at this moment, she was almost in a blind rage and this was a perfect opportunity to stab the bully while he was sprawled out. No one would miss a bully surely...Just like throwing out trash surely. She never parted very far from her scissors. And they were quite useful in a situation like this.

Luke's rage was getting the better of him, whether he wanted it to or not. He tried to listen to Abigail's defense, but "pranks happen" was hardly something that would excuse her for what she did.

"That's it? That's your defense? Pranks happen?! Well guess what else happens; CONSEQUENCES!" He yelled at her, not even using his sonic powers, just getting his point across.

"Oh, and it's cute how you think that warming up your cybernetics is going to do you any good. My ice doesn't melt until I say so." He sneered at her. While this wouldn't be the case for most sirens, Luke had an advantage that wouldn't be seen by anyone, as it was underneath the uniform he was wearing. His amulet that he never took off gave amplified his ice powers to the point that he was able to create ice that was impervious to temperature changes.

He let out a shriek pointed right at her cybernetic arm. While she may have been able to cancel out the noise in her ears, the metal components in her cybernetics would still start to vibrate in a way that must be painful to the human flesh they were connected to. He was hoping to find the harmonic resonance frequency to make the metal shatter, but vibrating it to the point that it began to heat up was also a plus.

He held the sword in a defensive pose after the sonic blast expecting her to come at him with her own attack.



Meanwhile...

It was becoming clear that the fight between the twins was a futile effort. In spite of this, they continued to give it their all, but they were becoming exhausted. Yuma switched his shifter to a different weapon several times but for each weapon he picked, his brother picked a new one to counter it with. At one point it seemed impossible to count the number of counter attacks that they had in a row on each other. At one point Yuma even tried using his repulsion field to tunnel under the floor and attack Yuna from underneath, but Yuna used his attraction field to bury Yuma again and avoided the attack. The coach sighed as he watched the two of then, glad that the damage didn't happen to the real gym. It was becoming clear to him now why the two of them worked as a team in most of the time.

Abigail could feel the anger coming from Luke in his words. To be fair, she hadn’t exactly worded what she was trying to say correctly. Think Abigail, if you aren’t able to diffuse this situation, it might start getting ugly Abigail thought to herself. She listened to Luke, he had noticed her cybernetics starting to heat up, which wouldn’t had been too hard to see, but what caught her ear was what he said about his ice not melting. Hmm, that’s different. He must have some sort of enhancement for his ice powers. She continue to think to herself.

Luke started shrieking and it took Abigail a second to realize what he was doing, she felt a light numbing pain in her shoulder where her cybernetics met flesh. “Smart, I wouldn’t have thought of doing that.” Abigail said as she jumped to the side. I’m going to have to keep on the move to try to avoid that voice of his. But now her arm was starting to steam a little, an idea flushed into her head. She pointed her arm at the ground and started to cool down her arm, which let out steam and started to fill the area around Luke and Abigail. Abigail knew he would probably get rid of the steam fog soon, so she had to be fast.

Abigail quickly used the cover of the fog to get around Luke, using her eye enhancement to see through the steam and Luke’s position, and how he was expecting her to attack. “What I was trying to say is I didn’t know it was you. I wouldn’t have done it otherwise, trust me.” Abigail said, revealing her location, keeping her arm behind her back, as a stance and to keep most of it blocked from Luke’s voice. Being angry, she didn’t know what exactly he would do, but would probably try to attack her again, emotion driving him. I wonder… if emotion is driving him to do this, it would probably take emotion to stop him She thought as she waiting, coming up with a plan in her head.

"Alright then! I guess I have no choice! Time to finish this!"

"I agree! After this, it will be my win!"

Suddenly, after seeing that they were getting nowhere, the twins decided to launch a powerful attack against each other at the exact same time. Asta used his powers to create a powerful Attraction Field with the intention of pinning his brother to the ground, while Asti create a massive repulsion field to knock Asta to the ground and keep him pushed there. In essence, they decided to use their powers to disable the opponent, since that would still count as a victory in a duel.

The issue was...their fields, they poured in a huge amount of power into them. Each one recieved an overwhelming overcharged boost, and it was creating an intense shift inbetween them. The two forces, pull and push, going against one another, colliding with each other, causing huge damage and a massive singularity event between them which ended with...

"Its gunna blow!"

A massive force explosion, knocking them both to the back and into the walls of the dueling zone.

"Alert. Both Yuna and Yuma Razen have taken serious damage. Based on duel progress and records, both are no longer able to continue. Duel is finished with a tie".

"Oh wow. They really went all out huh?"

The teacher however, could only hold his head and actually ended up regretting it a little.

"Now I understand why they didn't want to fight each other but instead as a team...that was just...whatever, I set the dueling systems for this room to end a duel at a lower damage threshhold then normal, although...strange..."

He looked over at Zuuka's duel, which was unexpectedly fierce. Actually, there was one person who was trying to get in, but the dueling barriers stopped her. Feeling concerned, he went to talk her down in the best way he knew how while this went on.

The boy in question that Zuuka was fighting was now in a bad shape, as Zuuka grabbed his arm after he dodged the spear strike and did an overbody throw. The bully managed to roll over before Zuuka's spear stabbed into the ground where he used to be, but he failed to dodge the palm strike Zuuka unleashed onto his chest that contained his own mana, which would disrupt the mana in the bully's body and cause various issues.

"I think you owe a few apologies, and information".

"Hey hey hold on! Yes okay I admit I knew something about the broccoli thing, but I promise the jello was not me!"

"Liar!"

Zuuka didn't believe the girl at all, and thought she was just being mean to Abigail for other reasons, like the fact she was friendly to him, and framed her. Incidentally, he was wrong, but he had no way of knowing that.

Zuuka was also pissed off about what was said and mentioned before, about Alison, Luke, Abigail, and the twins. So he kind of wanted to do some damage as well. Zuuka lunged forward with his spear, and at the same time summoned lightning around it and struck the bully with it. This massive amount of damage well exceeded the minimum limit of the dueling area, the teacher was sure of that. The bully was sent sprawling across the ground, and was clearly in pain from the zap. However...the duel was not being called.

"Tsk. What the hell?" he said, as he looked over, Luke and Abigail were still going, and the dueling zone for the twins had not disappeared either. The former made sense, but the latter was called and considered over. Yuna had already gotten up and noticed it as well. Yuna even started to kick it with his bare foot to test it, and it was still standing strong.

But the moment he tried to access the system, the field suddenly disappeared for the twins, and Zuuka's also began to work.

"Severe damage detected. Limit exceeded. Zuuka Blacklight has won the duel".

"Hmmm...must have just been a delay, maybe I set something after I lowered the sensors...also, someone call those nurses back! That boy needs attention, and the twins too to be safe!"

After that, he looked back over at Luke and Abigail as he checked the system again. Whatever was wrong, it appeared the safeguards and counter checks kicked in and fixed it.

He also thought he should monitor this duel too just to be safe, but also made sure to pay special attention to Alison and make sure he was there to talk to her some more, ultimately he would say whatever he needed to to make sure no student tried to kill each other. That would be very very bad.

Although he had to admit, he was curious to see how this duel would turn out.

She was close! She was almost there. Any second now and she was going to jam her scissors right through his sk---These were Alison's thoughts until she ran straight into the barrier that surrounded the duel and bounced right off. Causing her to land straight on her behind with an audible gasp of pain.

Of course that jolt of pain shook her head a bit making her regain her rational senses. Dear her, did she just do that in public!? She went a bit mad after hearing that kid insult her...She quickly looked around and noted that well...No one seemed to notice her bit of insanity. She gave a small sigh as she quickly hid her pair of scissors in cloth and walked back to her seat.

What an embarrassing thing that she did...She sulked a bit as she had a tinge of red in her cheeks at how she exploded. Out in public at that...She had to learn to hold that in...And learn that some things could be done much later...She would make that bully pay still. But for now...She was disappointed in herself.

"Fog, really?!" Luke almost started to laugh when the arena began to fill with the steam. He gave a supersonic scream to blow the steam away. Even though her words had already given away here location, he wanted a clear shot when he had one. He saw Abigail holding her arm behind her back in a defensive posture. He figured he must have done some damage to it and he decided to take it to the next level.

"Okay, sure so you didn't know it was me in the pool, who cares? Were you doing it to impress some stuck-up snob, who frankly would look better with no hair? You're from a military family, I thought you had better discipline than that." He taunted.

Luke focused a sonic blast at Abigail's cybernetic eye. He used a super high frequency that made the barriers of the arena tremble a little bit. He could see the eye implant begin to vibrate and start to smoke as the circuits overheated with the vibrations of his voice. He then widened his range to encompass Abigail's whole body and effect all of her cybernetics until they were all smoking.

Luke could tell that it was painful for her and he knew he was over reacting, given that he had heard that the other bully in the room was responsible for the broccoli. Abigail was brought to her knees and he knew the battle was his to win, but he didn't want to win like that. He chucked his ice blade down into the ground and it turned to water vapor the second it sunk into the ground. He walked over to her and knelt down offering her his hand to help her up.

"Look, I don't want to do this. I made my point and now others will know not to fuck with me. If you really meant it when you said you were sorry, then let's call it a draw."

Yuma was barely able to get up after the force of the blast. He heard the computer call it a tie. After he got up he ran over and hugged his brother. "That was awesome, sorry we had to be so hard on each other, but it was way more fun than throwing the match. We should totally use that explosion move on our next opponent." Yuma laughed.

“Luke, sh-“ Abigail was interrupted with another blast from Luke, at first she was confused, but her eye started to sting with pain, vision in it would cut out and smoke a spark a bit, she stumbled back, holding that side of her face of the pain. Luke that widened the range, affect her leg and her arm, both started to smoke as she was brought to her knees, trying to fight against the pain.


Abigail looked up at Luke, slight smoke still coming out of her eye. Come on recover, cool down She was telling herself in her head. She looked around, the duel hadn’t stopped yet, but Luke was asking for a draw. Abigail was fueled with pain and rage. Luke had no idea the internal pain Abigail was suffering. “Made your point huh, glad my pain could help you with that.” Abigail’s cybernetic eye then turned red, and slowly her arm and leg did as well, anger was slowly taking over Abigail and fueling her, arm still sparking.

Abigail threw a punch into Luke’s stomach, sending him stumbling back, she stood up and took a step towards him, her rapier slid to her cybernetic hand using the magnetism ties between the two, and it quickly being ingulfed in fire, one of it's many abilities. As Abigail took another step, the computer quickly spoke up, ending the duel. Severe damage detected. Life threatening vitals detected, ending duel. Luke Sonique is the victor. Abigail looked around confused “What? I'm fine!” She said, but her cybernetics started fading away red. She quickly became dizzy as her leg gave out, and she passed out shortly after. Nurses ran over to her as soon as the duel barrier fell.

As Yuna laughed with the others, he noticed that there seemed to be a lot of oddities going on all at once. Of course, as Yuma could probably feel telepathically from him, he felt like the duel was allowed to go on way too long and he even started kicking the field at one point before putting his shoes and socks back on. Eventually it did turn off on its own though, but he thought it was a bit strange it took so long.

However, he "heard" something from the coach's mind that provided a possible answer.

"Hey, Mr. Coach~"

"Uh...what?! Shouldn't you be recovering from your duel?"

"We are pretty fine right now...but don't you think it was strange that it lasted so long?~"

"Well, I am sure it was a one in a million glitch and..."

"Are you sure? I thought maybe it was because I had to duel my brother, and since we are genetically and physically identical, it might have bugged out for a bit on registering the number of people in there and the condition of them...~"

The coach looked away immediately at Luke and Abigail.

"Not sure not a tech person. But I gotta go do coaching now. Let me know if it comes up again!"

Seeing that the other duels were over, Zuuka started to go over ot them first...but then noticed Alison nearby, away from her group.

"Alison? What are you doing over here...oh wait, did you come to cheer me on? Or maybe you got a bit upset about what he said? Well no worries, I got angry for all of us and gave him a good beating like my father and self defense instructors taught me, so he wont say stupid stuff like that again if he knows better".

There were counltess people i nthe crowd who wanted to scream at what point was that Self Defense and not One Sided Beatdown, but no one had the courage to do so it seemed. After that, he saw the end of Luke's and Alison's fight and got concerned, so he ran over.

"Luke! Abigail! I just saw all this! Is everyone okay?! What happened?! Don't you think this is way too overboard for the first day of class?"

And of course, Zuuka had no idea about most of what happened outside of his own duel, and so misinterpretted the chain of events. Actually, he was still unaware the two pranks on Luke were not connected, however Yuna who had been listening for awhile now had pieced that together.

"What do you think we should do Yuma? Get involved? Not get involved? Seems a bit heated..."

As Alison sat down, Zukka called out to her wondering if she was cheering for him. Or was angry at the bully. Of course she was furiously mad to the point she wanted to...No, she was a good girl that wanted to take care for her sister. Yeah, she just needed to relax. "Oh, I had to take a break after all the exercises...I'm frail, kind of ran in the family sadly...But, I wanted to watch and maybe give you a bit of a small prayer to beat that bully up." She replied with her kind smile.

Truthfully, she wanted Zuuka to break a few bones in the bullies body...And break him a lot more than he did...Of course you cant have everything nice. But at least watching him made her soothed...For now anyways...She wanted to personally do something to him. No one insulted her family. No one...

"Of course...I'm thankful to avoid a duel...And I rather not have people challenge me in a duel...But I should be fine while I stay here. I am not one to make enemies." She added before Zuuka ra off to where Luke and Alison were. Oh dear her...Alison looked banged up...The nurses even ran out to get her medical aid. Luke...Did that to her?...

Even with that military training and cybernetics, it looked like a one sided fight with Luke looking relatively uninjured. And people accept duels knowing this...How unethical...If she had to duel someone and broke her arm or other parts of her body then what would she do then? In fact what would they say? Sorry you broke your arm, lets say sorry and wrap up your arm and send you on your way? That's insane...

As Zuuka was now confronting Luke and Abigail of going a bit overboard, she simply sighed to herself as continued to sit down.

Luke didn't expect the punch and went falling backward after being caught off guard. He also didn't expect her to come at him with the flaming sword, but luckily she went down before she could use it. Luke went to grab Abigail the minute she fell and the nurses ran to help her as well.

"Her cybernetics overheated. She needs to be cooled down." He shouted as they came to help her.

He felt like crap for doing this to her, but it was just a basic duel. He saw her weakness and he exploited it. He thought she was going to accept his offer for the draw, he didn't want to win that way.

"It wasn't like that Zuuka." He told him after he asked about the duel. "I tried to offer her a draw, but her cybernetics went out. I didn't think I was going to damage her that much."


"I think we might want to just sit this one out. We did prank them too and I don't want them get mad at us over it." Yuma thought back at Yuna. He also wondered about the dueling arena and if it was something to do with their DNA being identical or if it was something more sinister as the coach seemed a bit shifty.

Abigail was out cold in Luke’s arm as the nurses circled around. Pulse was lower than usual, but it’s not every day your cybernetics take over your body temporally when you’re completely out of energy. The lights inside of her cybernetics were still glowing blue, but slightly more faded than usual. The coach and nurses were confused about how she was able to function “normally” before the computer called the duel to the end. Her vitals were all over the charts before she passed out, so they didn’t really know what to expect.

The nurses slowly took Abigail from Luke and started checking basic vitals to see what all was going on. Her implants were going back down to normal temperature, but when they pulled back her eyelids to check her pupils, her cybernetic eye was brighter than the rest of her cybernetics, and it was still red in color. The nurses took note of this along with her vitals, not really focusing on it too much. They tried waking her up a couple times, nothing really worked, but they weren’t worried since her vitals were mostly normal.

After doing all of Abigail’s vitals, the nurses loaded her up onto a small gurney. Abigail’s noncybernetic hand fidgeted for a second and gripped onto Luke’s hand before going limp again as they started to roll her out of the room.