Maxi left with Angelina, the castle doors closing behind them.
Maxi sighs "Well that was a waste of time."
Angelina nodded. "I agree talking to Tengen is always a waste of time."
Maxi shakes his head. "I didn't say all that."
Angelina then smirked and looked at Maxi "Well you were thinking it."
(you wish my mind is a temple of just knowledge) thought somewhat smuge.
Maxi raises an eyebrow. "How do you know that?"
Angelina smirks and puffs up her chest as her tail wages "well I can tell by your face."
Maxi holds back a laugh as he says, "Since when did you get that social skill? I thought you needed to have more than 1 friend to notice that."
Angelina punches Maxi in the arm as she pouts, "I have friends, and why do you say I thought as if we had this conversation before?"
Maxi rubs his arm in pain as he wines "Owwwwww ,Why did you punch me and sorry I said like that because I read it in a book something about only being able to notice people's traits once you have more then 1 friend the book was pretty stupid but I like it."
Angelina sighs, "All your books are stupid."
Maxi shakes his head. "The only reason you say that is because of your unintelligence."
Angelina punches Maxi harder this time.
Maxi holds his arm. "Owwwwwwww, why are you so violent?"
Angelina just pouts and looks away as they walk out of Maxi's castle over to the main castle.
They arrive at main castle doors, and Angelina opens them. Maxi stepped in as he felt the familiar pressure of the main castle pressing down on him.
Maxi gritted his teeth but managed to stand it as he walked forward.
Angelina just simply walks in.
Maxi smiles weakly. "Let's go find my big brother's Dallas and mōkō."
Angelina nods "wait did you even get compensation that you passed both masters expectations."
Maxi said, "I have no idea."
Angelina sighs, "Your impossible young master."
Maxi just Smiles as they traverse to the hallways of the main castle as they go down to the battle grounds. When they arrived at the stairs, Angelina jumped on them in the pattern she did when they went to meet Dallas and mōkō.
The stairs fell down as they connected with the downstairs that led to the battle grounds.
Maxi and Angelina went down stairs as they arrived they went to past the weapon area as they passed through the gate and finally stepped foot on the sandstone of the training ground.
They saw what could only be described as a bizarre sight.
Dallas was swinging his katana elegantly, and and Mōkō was seemingly throwing nothing at him or something imaginary.
Maxi watched for a moment before he slowly woke over "ummm big brothers,"
Dallas and Mōkō stop and look at Maxi.
Mōkō grinned from ear to ear, and Dallas smiled slightly.
Dallas put his katana in its sheath, but Maxi noticed he didn't sheath it full, "hy Maxi, how are you doing, buddy, especially after your fight?"
Maxi scratches his head "good I guess, but that was just a few days ago, and also, i didn't win the fight."
Mōkō laughed. "Did you think we expected you to win?"
Dallas shakes his head "No infact we were expecting a little bit less from you since you know you haven't awakened your blessing, but hy at least you passed our expectations."
Maxi eyes widen slightly "wait so you're saying I passed your test as well, and you're going to train me now."
Dallas raised "wasn't that obvious? We told you we were going to leave, but now we are here all of a sudden after telling you we are going."
Mōkō laughed "told you he was dummy boy, "
Dallas shrugs.
Maxi frowns lightly as he thought (I through dummy boy was just a stupid nickname.... if it's not a nickname, when what does it mean?)
Maxi sighed "Okay i guess i was being a little bit dume, so what are training?"
"Oh yeah, first of all, i need to know what kind of fighting style your professions in." Dallas said with an air of nonchalantly.
"Techxin told me I was very flexible." Maxi says, hoping that would somewhat help.
Dallas nods "wait did you tell me that already sorry, Maxi? I have a bad memory."
Maxi nods "yes I did the first time we met, actually." Maxi smiled and thought (don't worry, I have a bad memory as well, considering my memories are shattered and scattered from my past life).
Dallas smiles "Okay then let's have a quick little fight."
Maxi binks, "What?"
Dallas then fully sheaths his katana as a wave of fire seemingly explods behind him that sends Maxi slightly sliding back.
Maxi sees the figure of Dallas standing in the fire.
While Mōkō jumps up in the air as he grins.
Maxi then prepares himself "wait shouldn't I have a weapon first?"
Dallas smile appears on his figure that is still in the fire like a devil smile in the deepest pit of hell "I guess that it would be unfair to fight you with my katana when you are weapon less."
Maxi sighs in releaf "Okay then I will just -"
"You said your favorite weapon was a dagger, right?" Dallas said nonchalantly
Maxi stammers slightly "yeah why"
"Catch"
Then what seems like green and pink fire ball comes out of the flames that Dallas was standing in
Maxi was about to dodge, but remembering Dallas's words, he pushed his body to catch the flames
The burin sensation Maxi was expecting did come as Maxi looked at his hands he saw two daggers made of a green and pink fire.
Maxi then looked at Dallas with a slight open mouth.
The buring figure of Dallas just simply smiles its devilish grin "weather your ready or not, I don't care because here I come."
Then the figure disappears. Maxi then looks around, but all he sees is Mōkō coming down where Dallas was just standing, the fire still blazing.
Mōkō enters the fire and hits the ground as the fire instantly disappears
Maxi then spins around and slashes with fire daggers, and he hears the sound of metal hitting metal, and then he hears his voice behind him, whispering.
"Good catch."
Dallas then appears in front of him and slashes down with katana.
Maxi blocks his katana with his daggers, but Maxi isn't able to hold down the force and power of the slash, so Maxi then dashes backwards.
Dallas smiles.
They clashed again. Dallas stayed on the offensive, forcing Maxi into constant defense. Fire and steel danced across the battlefield.
Even though Maxi didn't like being pushed back so aggressively it had it's uses since it gave Maxi time to think even though it should have been doing the opposite Maxi somehow was doing the impossible by multitasking he mind was fast enough so why not.
Maxi then blocked an incoming sideways slash as he breathed outland focused on one thing his plan.
Maxi then, through his daggers, Dallas easily dodged, and Maxi rushed for his daggers as Dallas appeared in front of him. Maxi just slashed at, and Dallas smiled as he turned into flames.
Maxi went through them and then run to his dagger and then jumped at and grabbed it and swang himself on impaled blade as he dislodged and just planed Dallas appeared in the direction he was swinging as he swang his katana
Maxi smiled.
As he spins himself in the air, he punches Dallas's arm, pushing his it slightly, but that is all he needs
Maxi went through the hole he made while swinging and Maxi managed to elbow his chin as Maxi hooks his arm around Dallas's neck which stopped his flight through the air as Maxi then kneed his back as he one of daggers to his neck and another daggers to his back
Maxi breaths heavily, "you lose."
Dallas laughs "Maxi how told you this fight was over?"
Dallas then smiled delivishly
He then grabs Maxi's hair, and with an unexpected amount of force, he pulls Maxi over his shoulders and slames him to the ground
Maxi pounces off the ground from the fource.
Dallas wasn't done as he stamped his foot on through right next to Maxi as he broke the ground.
Then, from the crevices of the cracks, fire emerges and rips up and lasts Maxi into the air.
Maxi felt the fire it wasn't hot it wasn't meant to burn it meant to lunch him up.
Maxi then saw Dallas appear right beside him as he dropped his katana right when Maxi was falling down.
Dallas disappeared and appeared on the ground, his hand waiting for his katana.
Maxi then realized what was going to happen. Dallas was going to catch his katana and slash down at him mid flight right when he was going to catch the blade.
Maxi could help think that his whole family trying to kill him at this point but Maxi was going down that easy if he was going to to slash down at him he was going to make it the most difficult slash he would ever have to make.
Make then caught up into a ball his legs to his chest his arms protecting his legs if Dallas was going to slash down he was going to have to go through lays of muscle before he was going to slash though him.
Maxi prepared himself.
Dallas then caught his katana as he raised it up in a smooth clean motion as then Maxi fell right where he wanted him but when he saw the position Maxi was in Dallas smiled as he muttered "I how what kind of fighter you are now and now the perfect style for you"
Dallas then slashed down, and his katana then turned into fire as it went through Maxi daggers Maxi's arms, Maxi's legs, and even his chest. As it touched the ground, it then ignited fire into flames of a pond
It then caught Maxi by the fire
Maxi breathes heavily.
Dallas then sheathed his katana as he smiled. "Good job, you nearly beat."
Maxi sighed "really"
Mōkō walks over and crouches by Maxi and grins as he looks down at him."Nope."
Maxi sighs "figures anyways what type of fighting style am I proficient in?"
Dallas says "well first of all, you're a flow based fighter."
Maxi asks, "What's that?"
Dallas answers, "It's someone who fights better according to the flow of battle. When the flow is against you, you fight differently than when it's with you. The main thing is that the flow can be anything that affects the battle and it is different for everyone and it can be can be as small as the temperature of as big as what kind of weapon your using. I for example am also flow fighter and my flow is how hot or cold it is so if it's like very hot I am going to be better in combat with my flames, but if it not hot at all, even cold I am going to use my skill insisted. My. katana rather than my flames."
Maxi winks "Okay that sounds interesting, so what's my flow?"
Dallas, "You have to figure that out by your other ways. I will completely ruin your inlightment."
Maxi raised an eyebrow "Enlightenment what's that?"
Dallas says "It's like when you realize something but more intense more fundamental it's like realizing where a peace of a puzzle goes you had the peace all along but your now realizing how it works and how to use it and where to implament it."
Maxi nods "Oh okay so if you just give me the knowledge, I won't learn, and it will be harder for me to figure the rest on my own."
Dallas smiles and nods. "Exactly, you're smart, I like that."
"Okay, what fighting style can I use?" Maxi says, sit up now.
"Oh, you have to make up your own." Dallas says nonchalantly.
"What?" Maxi says, shoked.
"Oh yeah, flow based fighters have to make up fighting styles especially suited for them just do they can take advantage of their flow."
"So I have to make up my own from scratch," Maxi says, exasperated.
"Don't worry, you don't have to do it immediately. For now, you can just train your body and your other skills."
Maxi sighs. "Okay."
Dallas says, "But that's for now you have to go to Colen right to learn magic and stuff."
Maxi nods "yeah I should get going."
Mōkō smiles "and make sure to come back once you're done because you still have to fo your training with me, so better be quick."
Maxi gets a slight shiver down his spine just thinking about what Horrors Mōkō has in store for him.
Maxi gets uo dust himself off as he smiles awkwardly, "will do."
Maxi then walks away as Mōkō and Dallas wave at Maxi.
Angelina waiting at the exit sees Maxi, and she asks, "How did it go?"
Maxi answers "Well you saw."
Angelina nods. "Indeed I did,"
Maxi sighs "lets just go. I don't want to keep Colen waiting other ways I might become a Popsicle."
Angelina raises an eyebrow. "What's a popsicle?"
Maxi sighs, "Never mind."