The wind whistled out it's melody through the air. Leaves not strong enough to hold on to their branches were made victims as it carried them scattering around the sky. The darkness of the night was illuminated by the faint light of the full moon which shone with pride as if looking down on the inhabitants of the earth. The atmosphere gave out a chilling cold that would make one clutch oneself if they wore light clothing. A few birds carried themselves moving in the air towards their nest to rest for the night. Only a few lights were seen from the houses in the kingdom and the people who still traversed the night at this time where very few.
It was a cold night of silence.
Among the few who still traversed outside was Young who was making his way into the bushes and trees. His silver hood and black robes blended into the darkness, the chill wind of the night trying to seep past them into his skin. His feets left stumps on the muddy ground that had been a little soaked from the rain that had fallen earlier. His steps were so silent that it seemed to make not a single sound. The bushes paved way as he moved past them heading towards the trees. A sheathed sword hung at the back of his waist, his hands wrapped in slim clothes and his hair was blown and disturbed by the wind.
He had stopped at an little open area in the middle of the trees and had taken in the cold air of the night into his lungs and released it causing a small part of the air to be blown away. His head raised up as his eyes gazed through a small opening between the leaves at the moon that stared back at him and his ears picked up all the sounds around him. The wind grazed the skin of his face as if trying to blow away all the pain and suffering that the man had gone through.
Breathing in and out, he brought down his head, closed his eyes as he seemed to have entered an ethereal state. His hand went behind to grab the sword and swiftly draw the sword out of the sheath. With a slash made, he brought the sword downwards as he holded onto the tip of the one feet handle and blade faced the ground, the tip half an inch from touching the ground. This was the sword he had just gotten after giving to the blacksmith that was made using the morning dew enchantment. As he holded the handle, a chill slowly made it's way into his body rushing through his blood to which he redirected this chill back to the sword causing the blade to release some smoke and becoming watery. He bent his knees a little taking his left leg backwards while holding onto the handle with both hands, raising it to be in front of him. Silence dawned for a brief moment and was disrupted by the swift sound of the air being cut.
Swoosh!
Young slashed at the air as he began shadow fighting, his blade beautifully moving in a blur but of which all carried a great strength that it split the air wherever it cut.
Right. Left. Front.
Young's continued performing a number of swordplay, his feets moving along with his strikes tapping on the ground as he changed positions moving forward and backwards. His sword moved quickly and wonderfully that it seemed like a beautiful dance.
It had been a long time since he had been able to train in quiet and tranquility. In the days when he was still with his master, he had learnt to use utmost concentration in the silent in honing his skills and weapons. Whenever he had done this, it usually resulted in him learning what he was being taught alot faster than intended. For someone who always wanted to escape the cruel world, this had also been one of the methods he used in blanking out his thoughts and chase away the frightening visions he constantly saw then. With his eyes being closed and his mind being tranquil, his body quickly adapted to the series of tough exercises and training with his strength and power behind those strikes and blows getting better and improving faster. It could be said that when he is in this state, his body moves in near perfection and was sensitive to any sneak attack that an enemy might want to use against him.
Young kept slashing the sword again and again as he built up momentum. He kept on directing the chills back into the blade causing puffs of smokes and dew to spread around him. The sword's blade gave out a faint glow as it color slowly changed to a light blue and it released more smokes. Raised his hand while crossing it over his face, he slashed it so fast that it cut a huge hole through the smoke causing the blade to release a blue arc through the air which moved forward and cut into one of the trees. As the strike came in contact with the tree, it slowly started to freeze the point at where the cut was quickly spreading and freezing a large portion of the tree. This was the ability that came from maintaining 92% of the enchantment core. Young had actually found this enchantment on one of his travels at a sight that was thick with fog and dew. Because of the way the place was, the atmosphere was always cold and chilling. The enchantment had caused the area around it to freeze making the entire place a land of ice. This was the reason why the enchantment came with a freezing ability. Though he had not used it in a battle before, this ability was one that was quite devastating if it was to get in contact with an opponent as it will cause the person it struck to freeze from the inside killing them quite coldly and painfully. Young had paused a little after that before he once again continued to strike the air.
Slash Slash Slash.
Young movements and strikes had become faster as the purple line beneath his boots he wore gave of a faint glow causing him to look like a blur as blue arcs where thrown out over and over again cutting into branches and trees. He had now become truly immersed in the moment as his body naturally moved continuously without stopping. It had been a long time since he trained and he was beginning to falter in his moves. Doing this, he quickly got his strength back and was getting even better than before. Though the boots he wore where speed related, his own speed was already one that would cause warriors to have their jaws touching the floor. So combining the boots which enhanced his speed with his original speed, Young had become a phantom as he steadily dashed out attacks. At that moment, if one who was not truly trained in the aspect of speed had looked at the place where Young was, they would hardly be able to see him.
The moon's light shine a little brighter and the streets had now been completely empty of people, the torches being long put out. Only the squeaking and small sounds of insects and rodents being heard through the air. Young had lost track of time still training with no intention of stopping soon. Even with all the strength that was mustered in his strikes being mind blowing powerful, his face was only stained with a little sweat. His blank face remained not showing any sort of expression.
Tap tap tap.
The steps of something or someone running in a crazy speed disturbed the silence of the night. A rugged and hurried breathing kept playing into the wind as the air and leaves on the ground gave way to the speed which moved as if it was teleporting, crossing long distances in a blink. Young who had been in a ethereal state of mind was aimlessly slashing the air was building up momentum as the blue light had enveloped the entire blade with it's light shining more brightly than before. At that time when he was about to release this devastating attack into the air, the movement of something suddenly got his attention. In that instant he had suddenly abruptly stopped the great momentum of that attack and his body as if having a mind of his own moved and his hands swinging his sword with a good amount of his strength slashed upwards just behind him.
Clank!!!
It was like his sword had stuck a rock but because of the strength he used in it combined with the sword releasing the blue energy with alot of fogs and dews, the power drove deep into what he struck and sent it flying at an insane speed.
Roar!!!
The scream that was heard was a roar of a beast but Young did not even the least bit seemed to raise his guard as his eyes slowly opened as he listened to the harsh breathing and gritting of the beast. He slowly turned till his gaze came in contact with the beast who had withdrew into the darkness blending well into it. Young's attack had done a huge blow on the beast as the full brunt of the attack cut from his belly to chest freezing instantly so that it's blood did not even have time to flow before it was frozen, it was heavily injured at the moment but just as Young's gaze fell on it, the beast had moved at him at an incredible speed not wanting to give Young a chance to dodge as it's huge long claws slashed at him with the intent of servering his head of.
However, Young had countered swift striking his sword upwards knocking the claw away while bending his upper body to which the beast passed through. The beast did not give him a chance to breathe immediately striking again the moment it touched the ground. Young met it forward slashing sideways knocking the claw away and throwing out a punch which the beast had also blocked with his other hand. With a growl, the beast flung out the hand causing for Young to go down, his knees bending as quickly jumped backwards. He landed and focused his eyes on the beast who was completely covered in the shadows around him as he took a stance holding his sword pointing downwards. A short time passed with both just having a staring battle before all hell broke loose.
Clank!!
Sword and claw clashed together as both launched at each other striking out together. In a blink, both had exchanged slashes and swipes constantly that their attacks became blurred. Continuously they dashed out attacks aiming to injure the other while dodging the other's attacks. Young noticed something strange about these beast but because they were fighting in an insane speed, it was hard to make it out clearly. One thing was for sure though and that was the beast was fighting as if it had already been in an over raged mood before. As Young was building up the ability of the sword, the beast also started to get increasing fast and his claws seemed to be growing longer. Finally at the time when the blue light had once again enveloped the blade in a dazzling light, the beast suddenly sped up and slashed at Young.
Slash!!
Young had only barely been able to leap backwards in time dodging the swipe by a hairs breath and immediately raising his sword above his head swong his sword down brutally releasing the attack which cut into the beast going deep into his face to his chest with the freezing ability taking effect immediately.
Rooooaaaarrr!!!!
A fierce growl pierced the sky carrying a force that sent shockwaves which hit Young who was quite close tossing him backwards to forcefully collided with a tree. The beast continued growling tearing apart the freezing effect on his face. Though the sound was truly ear shattering, Young took this opportunity to look at the beast that was now illuminated by the moon light.
The beast was huge almost being nine and a half feet tall, fur all over his body and his entire body being bulky. It had long ears and a long jaw with huge fangs in his mouth. The beast stood on two legs with his hands spread out as he released his growl showing his claws that was about two and a half feet long both on his hands and feets.
"A wolf! No a werewolf." Young thought.
The beast eventually stopped after the freezing effect seemed to fade and look at Young with killing intent.
"Are those purple eyes!" Young was startled but before he could really confirm his guess, the werewolf immediately turned and dashed away from Young crossing distances in a blink. Young immediately pursued the wolf, the purple glow beneath his booths getting more brighter increasing his speed by a whole new level as he disappeared following hot on the wolf's tail while building up the swords attack once more. The wolf noticed that Young was coming after him and sent out a growl once more while trying to go faster but Young simply slashed at the shockwaves in an insane speed that it cut through it. The wolf's eyes widened before facing forward and quickening to get away from Young faster but Young also sped up chasing after him mercilessly.
They crossed distances as they moved and was already going around entering into the town. The wolf was beginning to get annoyed at Young's relentlessness and then all of a suddenly swiped his hand at Young's direction. As the wolf did that, the claws in his hand suddenly shot out piercing the air and quickly going towards Young, it's speed actually two times faster than the wolf himself. Young who was not so far saw the five claws coming at him and speedily leapt into the air bending his body to pass through the space in between some of the claws. Though he had managed to dodged them, one of the claws managed to graze through his lower belly and a screen sound was made as it scratched the armor beneath Young's robes. This action caused Young to slow down as he landed almost tripping from the weight in his legs. However the moment he stabilized himself a little, he dashed forward leaping through twice the distance he ran through before in a blink and then instantly muttering up his strength slashed out the blue energy which chased towards the wolf in a crazy speed.
The werewolf who had thought that he had succeeded in slowing Young down was surprised at the suddenly attack that was coming towards it in a heaven defying speed carrying a lot of power. In just the nick of time, the werewolf was able to leap into the sky with his right leg still getting hit by a small portion of the attack which continued going forward and eventually vanishing into thin air. The leg immediately freezed causing the wolf to release yet another growl as it stuck his claws which had grown once more into one of the buildings quickly making his way to the roof. Young had gotten to the place it had leapt from and looked up at the wolf which was looking towards the moon.
"Awooo!!!!!!!!"
The loud howl of the wolf resounded carrying forth a huge ear piercing sound as it released shockwaves upon shockwaves but Young was not affected too much as he had placed something into his ears to evade most of the sounds. After a while the wolf stopped, all the injuries in his body already healed up and then slowly, the werewolf turned his head as his dark violet eyes stared down at Young below with anger brimming in them.
Seeing those colors of eyes and remembering the abilities that this creature had displayed, Young suddenly remembered what it was that this creature truly was and was a little surprised at his finding.
"That's a..."