"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU GUYS WON'T HELP?"
Rose and the others just look at me like I'm a child throwing a tantrum "blake we don't need any enemies so drop it forgot that you were ever there and get stronger that's just the way of life"
Clenching my teeth I yell back "HES PLANING SOMETHING WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE?"
Amber snaps "BLAKE YOUR NOT A GOD; YOU'RE WEAK. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU CAN PROTECT NOW? JUST GO BACK TO YOUR ROOM AND REST"
My face was blank as I stood and started typing on Nova Amber and looked at my back "what are you doing now!?"
I don't even turn around "if you won't help me ill do it my self ill come back once I'm done. If you want to help help if not fuck off until I'm done." I heard Amber get frustrated and grab my arm.
"Why are you so set on helping those people?!" Looking her in the eyes i say it directly "they remind me of what I was: scared, powerless, and hopeless and I don't want anyone no matter what to feel what I felt."
They go quiet and Amber sighs as she slams her heel into the ground and a portal opens under us as we end up in a void.
"Since you're so serious, Rose and Jasmin will teach you how to fight. Rose is a world class boxer. I'm good at taekwondo jasmin not a good fighter herself but can step in and you will fight Rose then me"
I get into a fighting position as Jasmin calls me out "lover your shoulders they should not be that high un-clench your muscles." I do what she says as I rise, rush in, and start throwing jabs. I try my hardest to try to dodge but Jasmin cuts in.
"Stop lowering your head makes it easy to kick take steps back and raise your arms up to your face to soften the blow and mix in your own thing in a real fight there are no rules"
Clenching my fists I slowly get into the groove as I dodge a punch, grab her arm, swing my leg back, hook her leg flipping me and her on our backs using her momentum and slamming her on the ground.
Amber looks at me, surprised. "I could tell Rose wasn't trying but I didn't know you could do that"
Blushing i look away "i trained with some of the best self-defense and boxing pros of my world on reason I lost is because I never saw Ari's fighting style most of the unique and advanced fighting styles don't exist in my world"
Amber nods as she steps up and charges at me with no words as I shoot at her like a bullet and start swinging her leg back and forth. I dodge. I could feel she was going all out and she kicked me in the ribs.
But I keep moving, grabbing her leg and tossing her away. She rushes back and I start blocking as I try to retaliate. She dodged and deflected each attack but I noticed something after every third to sixth attack she had to recuperate.
So when both her feet were on the floor i picked her up and slammed her down she grabs her back and instead of being mad she stands "you got the skills"
She hums to herself and snaps her fingers "you need some speed training"
Grabbing my hand she takes me into a long track "this is the track we will test multiple running reactions and movement speeds on. First we will find out how many miles per hour now line up"
Stepping onto the field, I get put one foot behind me get down and get ready to run as she throws me a tracker. "Use that; it will track your max speed now get ready set"
The second she says go I run, run like I never before my body cutting through air like a 100-degree knife going through warm butter. My legs were barely hurting. It felt like nothing but as I ran it felt like it was endless.
My muscles were spasming but I kept going then I collapsed , gasping for amber walks over and offers me my drink "its divine water from the bath house Now reaction training" she helps me up as we walk into a room with hundreds of turret-like guns.
"The students will shoot rubber balls at you. You will slice them in half with this katana. The more you hit the better, ok? Now go!"
Then I dodged the first few then for the sword and started slicing them in half they were so fast each one was a blur of light i got hit with at least 30, then the simulation stopped "30 you got hit by 30"
I get on my knees and start begging "please start the simulation again i can do better" she looks down at me. "Fine"
The torrent started shooting again but I was ready and I started to slice each ball. My body felt more comfortable as I sliced each one but I was still hit by 5 of the balls.
And then it stopped "so how do I do?" Amber looks down her face with the same ice cold expression "you did fine no more testing needs to be done for now."
Amber teleports us back to the base and takes the tracker and walks into the lab and Rose stands next to me and pricks her finger.
"Here drink up you'll need the strength" I look at her finger and take a step back. She sighs, bites her lips until they bleed, and kisses me. I try to pull away but she holds me. My body starts to relax increasingly until the pain vanishes.
The door swings open and Rose lets go "the test results are out" i look at her we a little hope in my eye "so what are they" she just stares at me.
"They're good enough to fight thats all you need to know" before i could ask more she stomps her heel into the ground and I fall into the portal
Amber's pov:
Rose looks at the test and asks "so miss tsundere whats the test score looking like"
I stare at the papers a hint of a smile crosses my face "his max speed is 536,900 miles per hour that's roughly 700 times the speed of sound using mph even managed to only get hit by 30 rubber balls and got down to 5"
Rose looked shocked "really they move around 900 times the speed of sound even i needed over 10 thousand times throughout 1000 years to get it down to 1"
I nod "seems like he is extremely adaptive.adaptive It looks like the more stress he is under the harder it is to adapt i didnt tell him because he does not need a hot head he's not nearly strong enough for an ego, but he will be interesting"
End of chapter 19