I held my hand out for her to grab it so I could help her up and she took it.
“Alright so now we continue where we left off. Only this time we separate into groups of two. You will try blocking anything your opponent throws at you while trying to take them down.”
I looked at all of them and I thought it would be best to pair a guy with a girl so they could learn more physical strength, except there weren’t many guys. “Josh you and Leah are paired together, fight over there by the left rear corner. Shanieza you and Derek are together in the right front corner. Liz you will fight with Zackary in the left front corner. Olivia and I will take the last corner.”
They all nodded their heads and took their positions with their partners. I had been practicing these moves for a week already and I didn’t want to continue, I wanted to practice my powers. So I picked Olivia so we could use our powers on each other. I could learn what it was like to face someone with mastered abilities as opposed to Zackary’s powers, although strong, were not yet mastered.
“I want to practice my powers,” I told her as I walked towards her. I knew she wouldn’t mind, but I also knew that she would try to make me use my mind. As long as I didn’t forget to move my hands I should be fine.
“Ok, but I warn you that I won’t hold back,” she said, knowing full well that I would need to tap into my maximum potential to get her on her ass.
“That is exactly what I want,” I said sounding too confident, almost cocky.
“Ok then, let’s go.”
So we walked out back to the empty parking lot. This was where we had our first battle, when I used the river to help me defeat them. Today however, I am more prepared and she won’t get away from me that easily. I will fight until I win if I have to.
We barely closed the door to the warehouse when she threw me against the wall. I landed with my back hitting an old nail. I felt it pierce my skin and I had to hold back the scream that threatened to come out of my mouth. It will heal and I don’t need to let her know she’s wounded me already. So as I held in the pain I shot back at her with all my strength and threw her against a tree. I heard a sound like the tree cracking as I held her in place. I felt her try to move me and I shot glares at her hands as they moved side to side, to keep me from being tossed aside again.
I must have missed her slight hand movement because I felt myself get thrown to the left and before I landed on the ground I swung my arm out to get her back up to the tree. Using my mind and my arms in sync I was able to keep her hands against the tree so she couldn’t move them.
She’s a clever punk though, because she used only a finger and moved me enough to get free. I was about to throw her to the side when she had me against the wall of the warehouse. I had my whole body pinned tight to the wall and I couldn’t move any part of it.
Shit! She has me. Then I thought about it, I don’t need my hands. If I can picture it I can make it happen. So I closed my eyes and called on my powers. I wanted to move my hands so I called the wind, even though there wasn’t much, I just need a little to push her back enough to get my hands free.
When I feel the wind swirling around my head I release it towards her. Her wide eyed expression didn’t escape my notice but she quickly recovered. Before she had a chance to fight against it she was flown about a foot away. My hands got free and I jumped to the ground and rushed at her, fire forming in my hands.
What? Fire? I thought as I silently panicked.
I tried to put it out, but no matter what I did I couldn’t get it to go out, so I yelled to her, “DUCK!” As I let the fire free from my hands and aimed directly at her.
She looked at me and as she ducked she rolled out of the way so the fire wouldn’t get her at all.
“I’m sorry. I don’t know what happened, I wasn’t even trying to conjure fire, I was just so
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