Tammi Ran up to Soul and did a sweeping motion with his sword Which got blocked by the dark knife. Soul warped behind his foe and attempted to cut his leg. but Tammi dodged this as if he saw it coming
"He describes it at a sixth sense, like something in his head sends a warning to him about the attack, and where's its coming from." Frank explained "not to mention the guy is nimble as hell, I think he was a gymnast before the surge."
The two boys fought in a series of parries, deflections, and backsteps. But they have yet to hit each other.
Tammi was acting weird. he was smiling. looking like he was having a blast. his green eyes brightened with each blow, he even let out a couple of laughs as he danced with his opponent.
Soul jumped up and warped, reappeared shooting forward and then warped again aiming to cut Tammi's leg, which barely missed as the sword wielder stepped back.
Soul warped right after the whiff and teleported under Tammi, slicing at his chest. This time, Tammi barely parried it before Soul fell back again.
"it's been 3 minutes!" Soul's eyes had turned into a dark black color "times almost up Tammi"
The oddly positive guy chuckled "I know I know I'm working on it" he slammed his foot on the ground and dashed straight at Soul.
This time something actually happened.
Tammi stuck his sword in the weak ground as he moved forward, and dragged rock and dust out of the ground, launching it at Soul.
His opponent staggered for a split second, and then started to warp away.
But that split second was all that Tammi needed to lunge in and slice at Soul, barely hitting his cheek as he disappeared and came back a couple meters away.
Soul touched his cheek and saw the blood "wow" he said as he looked over to Tammi "impressive."
Tammi shrugged "all in a day's work!"
"Dang there goes five bucks." Frank mumbled "can Tammi really bring this back?" the two boys went back to their stalemate. But I could tell that Soul was getting slower and now Tammi's attacks were barely missing him before he could get away.
Soul was still fast; he was teleporting circles around Tammi. Tring to catch him from all angles, if his opponent wasn't able to sense where he was coming from, this fight would already be over. Even when Soul feinted an attack Tammi saw right through it and reacted accordingly.
"Almost…" Soul looked at a watch he had on "alright your time is up Tammi."
He unsummoned his blade and put his right hand out in the shape of a finger gun that was slightly tilted
"Unleash Sigil."
Suddenly an overwhelming presence shook over me. I felt unable to move as Soul's eyes turned into a pitch black color. it was also obvious that Tammi was feeling this as well, because he froze in place and tightly gripped his sword.
"Shadow hourglass."
A black symbol appeared in front of Soul, it was an hourglass that had a bunch of sand at the bottom and a little at the top.
A black circle appeared around the battlefield. Soul put his hand down, but Tammi was still in the same position with the same look of annoyance he had.
Soul teleported behind the frozen man and kicked his legs.
As fast as the bubble appeared it went away, the hourglass shattered into pieces, Tammi fell to the ground and Soul looked down at him.
"I win."
Tammi got up and rubbed his leg where he got kicked "cheater."
"You knew that would happen" Soul shot back "or you could've just used your own."
"uh" I butted in "what was that?"
Soul looked over at me and winked
"a special trick that we surged can do." He gestured his hands around him "there's an invisible energy around us, that's only been there since the surge. Only those effected by said surged can control and harness that energy into something we have been calling a sigil."
He did the pose he used to summon the sigil, "mine can stop time for exactly 6.24 seconds. Why that time? I don't know but it's enough time."
"Wait do we all have one?" I was curious
Soul chuckled "if you try really hard you can make one. They all do different things, depending on your surge ability. The only Surged that have gained the power of a sigil that we know of are me, Tammi and another person that lives across the country." He pointed at Frank "this guy is working on making one."
This was news to me. An ability that powerful that only 3 known people can harness? It must be hard to make if that's the case.
"So, I guess it's me against you now dude" Soul patted my shoulder. "You want me to go easy on ya?"
"Trust me man" Frank said, "you want him to go easy on you."
"don't warn the guy Frank!" Soul said sarcastically "it ruins the fun!"
I know for a fact that I can't beat Soul. He's just to powerful and he could just instantly win with that sigil.
"How about we make it interesting?" Soul walked to his point on the field. "I won't use anything or fight you for the first 3 minutes of the fight." "And if you are able to hit me once, you'll win and… I'll get you a nice gift!"
Marion sighed thing "don't you think that's a little too easy? Even for the newbie."
I won't complain, I know that the second that grace period is up I'm cooked.
"We ready?" Shaun was surprising silent the whole time. "Good luck, you'll need it."