Chapter 20: Earth Martial Arts

The two different pairs of eyes continue to stare particularly at Mitchiel, with hatred and anger.

Those two pairs of eyes belong to Tymo and Lamo.

They were both representatives of the Gyphos Clan. They were both pissed because of what Mitchiel did before.

Even Lamo rushed through his business just so he can arrive on time to beat Mitchiel up.

But Lamo wasn’t only here for that, he knew his teammates would have a difficult time winning against Reige. So, Lamo did everything he could to be here today.

Orlandis stepped out of the stadium and the match began.

“Mitchiel!!” yelled Tymo across the stadium. “You are going to pay with blood for what you did”

“You mean what you started” yelled Mitchiel back. “Just remember you started this fight ever since you started bullying me”

“So what if I did?” asked Tymo. “I was always beating you up, but now, you have to act like a big boy and fight back”

“What if i am a grown up now? What does that have to do with you? You should have just left this alone, Tymo” said Mitchiel, staring straight at Tymo’s eyes. “What are you going to do about it? You couldn’t defeat me last time. We were tied”

“Not anymore” stated Lamo, taking over the conversation of his brother. “Tymo isn’t the same as he was before. I really feel sorry for you, Mitchiel. But there is no way you will leave here alive”

“I wouldn’t be too sure about that” stated Reige, not wanting to be left out. “Mitchiel isn’t the same as he was when he fought against your brother, Lamo, Mitchiel is not going to let Tymo have it easy”

“Only one way to tell!” yelled Tymo as he does the signs for his skills.

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Thirty Years Earlier: 6 years until Mitchiel’s birth

“I hate this town; I hate everything in this place” stated a beautiful green haired woman. “Why did we have to come here?”

“It’s not that we have to stay here, darling” explained Deandre. “It just that we have a lot more opportunities here than in another town”

“Just because your uncle called you here, you have to act like a lost little puppy and follow him around” laughed the beautiful green haired woman. “Don’t be a lost little puppy, okay?”

“Of course I won’t be” said Deandre in complete seriousness. “I like to do my own thing”

“That’s what you always said even when you asked me out on a date the first time” replied the beautiful woman. “Remember?”

“How could I forget?” replied Deandre.

“You were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen” said Deandre.

“Were?” asked the beautiful green haired woman. “Were? As in past tense?”

“No, sorry my bad” replied Deandre quickly as he tries to fix his mistake. “That’s not what I meant, I just meant that, at the time, you were the most beautiful woman I had ever seen”

“So, for the past two years we’ve been dating, you have constantly been looking at other woman” teased the green hair woman.

“No, that’s not it” replied Deandre flustered and unable to find the correct word.

“Well, let me give you a piece of my mind” replied the beautiful woman with a mean voice as she approaches Deandre. “Deandre, you are the-“

The beautiful woman approaches Deandre, who had his eyes close since he was afraid to look at her, and leaned on him and kiss him on his lips.

“Deandre, you are the most handsome and kind man I have ever seen” said the beautiful green hair woman with a sweet voice. “And I love you, never forget that”

“I won’t” said Deandre with seriousness. “And could you stop teasing me so much!”

“Nope, never” laughed the woman. “I just love your face when I am teasing you, so much fun, hehehehe”

“Hahaha” laughed Deandre as well.

It was a happy time in both Deandre and the green hair’s woman’s youth.

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Two Years Later: 4 years until Mitchiel’s birth

“Deandre-sama, Deandre-sama” yelled a maid in Deandre’s mansion. “There was an accident, sir, at the marketplace”

“What?” asked Deandre in surprise. “That’s where Mary went to. Is she okay?”

“About Mary, sir, sh- she didn’t make it” replied the maid.

“What do you mean she didn’t make it?” asked Deandre, in shocked. “I asked you a question”

“Sir, she didn’t make it, she tried to, she couldn’t, by the time people tried to help her, it was too late, she is dead, sir, dead” replied the maid in a voice that started loud but turned into a whisper mid-through the explanation.

“Mary is dead?” asked Deandre.

“Sorry” replied the maid, not knowing what else to say.

“No, I don’t believe you, where is she? Where is my Mary?” asked Deandre.

“She- her body is still at the market, the people who found her are waiting for you” replied the maid, with streams of tears falling from her face.

Deandre did not wait for a single moment, he rushed into the street and ran to the market like a crazy person. Who would want to believe that the person they love the most is dead? Just like that?

It just wasn’t right, it was unfair!

Deandre arrive to the market place and found the commotion. Groups of people were gathered and were murmuring and discussing what happened.

“So, the horse just went out of control for no reason?” asked one of the people in the crowd.

“Yeah, I was here, I saw the whole damn thing” replied a person next to him.

“What happened?” asked another person in the gathering.

“Someone was passing by here with a horse, he was riding the horse, and I am not sure what happened, maybe there was a scent of a food, or maybe something terrified the horse, or something like that, but the horse just went out of control” explained the person.

“Then what happened? People here knows martial arts, nothing serious could have happened” said another person in the crowd.

“But you don’t understand, this early in the marketplace, most of the martial artists are either training in some secluded area or sleeping. Mostly merchants were here” explained the person.

“So what? What if it was just merchants that were here, so what? Why couldn’t anyone stop the horse?” asked an angry Deandre, as he starts to comprehend what happened. “And where is the person that got hurt, I am not here to listen to all of you chitchatting”

“You are extremely angry” said a person next to Deandre in the crowd. “Did you know the person that died?”

“How the hell could she have died? A lot of people ride horses and fall off and don’t die” yelled Deandre at the person.

“Yes, but not from a wooden stall and all of its content to fall off on just one person” said another person of the crowd.

“And you guys did nothing to help her, nothing at all?” yelled Deandre as stream of tears were falling down his cheeks now. “You guys are the real monsters”

“We did everything we could. We heard the scream, there just weren’t anything left for us to do. By the time we got here, by the time the horse got back in control, she- it was too late for her” said someone in the crowd. “We are sorry for your lost. Her body is in the plate at the corner up front by the destroyed market stall”

Deandre did not answer back, he rushed to find his girlfriend, the woman he loves, the woman he was going to propose to next month. He had already found the perfect ring to purchase and was just getting everything ready to propose to her.

He was going to propose to her, on their fourth year anniversary (since they have started dating, to make it more romantic).

He was just waiting for a month to come to become the happiest man on earth!

But despair was what his future hold.

And despair came like a plague into his life, by taking the life of his most beloved, Mary (the green hair woman) he loves so much, and bringing forth someone darker and manipulative into his life.

A person that shares half of the name of his most beloved.

Rosemary.

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The battle starts to heat up as skills fought against skills.

Tymo unleashes his fury at Mitchiel. For the past two months, he has been learning Earth Martial Arts. This time he wasn’t going to use risky moves.

He learned his lesson from last time!

This time, Tymo is going to go underground. Tymo finished a hand sign and disappears from the stadium!

“Where did he go?” thought Mitchiel. “Didn’t I have a spell that could use the ray of the sun to turn me invisible? But there is no direct sunlight here, so he must be using Earth Martial Arts”

A hand appears and grab Mitchiel’s leg from underneath the stadium. The hand then started turning Mitchiel’s leg into a gray cement.

Mitchiel was about to turn into a statue!!