Zjjan Master

Intro: A past to the last Sky"s Rejection 8

Five months have pa.s.sed.

Rainbow tribe, one of the known tribes around Dandia the plat world, is commencing the opening of a tournament while the festival in Jelfyr Kingdom nearly comes.

In an open arena, surrounded by spectators including contenders" supporters and as well the visitors, the beginning of ceremony silences the noises made by the crowd. After the Kingdom"s anthem, followed by the tribe"s ceremonial prayer, tournament"s sacred musical introduction, and finally introductory speech; the head of clear branch, always the host of event, calls the six teenage contenders from the six branches. After a long speech, including introducing the set of matches in the first round—

winner of the consolation price, a female from the water branch against a new male contender from the ice branch,

the second placer, a male from the earth branch against the new male contender from the flame branch,

and finally the tournament"s champion, pride of the rainbow tribe, a female from the lightning branch against the female volunteered partic.i.p.ant from the wind branch

—the battle of first match begins.

The teenage girl from the wind branch named Duwyn Storm, with age not far from her master Jaino, watches the rivalry of the ice branch and water branch — a male an ice emode against the female a water emode. The beat of drums commences the battle. Thawing and freezing, the battle of two contenders has ended after the female of the water branch has used her psychic to push her opponent outside the ring. Some fans of the female water emode are yelling about her elegance.

Duwyn thinks, I don"t have a chance... Are my two years of practice and two years in first-year a waste? How can I face my family about this? — specially my grandpa. Trying to resist the shaken of her body while waiting on her first match of her life that will come, she watches the second match.

Both males from the earth branch and the flame branch have begun their battle. Sending flames from above his opponent, the male from the flame branch notices the shaking of the land around him. Distracting his concentration, the surface of the land cracks and stands sending him outside the ring.

Duwyn thinks, What an easy win... Trembled from hearing her name called by the commentator, she feels cold on her skin. She stands and walks snappily. First time to stand in the ring in a tournament, she looks at to every spectators around. She remembers her conversation with Jaino,

"Look girl, every student in swords" basic has changed to another technical course. Why? They won"t agree to follow my written instructions and do the ch.o.r.es themselves. Also they and their parents think me as just a brat. Listen, other subjects taught you to read and understand. Here in swords" basic, your untiring effort and dedication to learn are important, physically. You don"t need to seek for me."

"B-but rumors were criticizing you, and, and mentioned that your swords" basic wasn"t yet bested by, by emode race. Please, I want at least my the wind branch freed from the long losing streak."

"(Sigh), you"re so persistent, aren"t you? (Seeing the girl eyes nearing to cry) Alright, listen carefully. Elemental dance, is, not, a, part, of, swords", basic. (Seeing the girl nods) It, is, a, fighting style. Now listen carefully, fighting style, is, your, choice, as, a, fighter, in, a certain, battle."

"Fighting style... is my choice as a fighter... Elemental dance is a fighting style..."

"Write it down. I"ll have your friends battle you while you"re in blindfold. Just promise me, okay? (Seeing the girl nods) Forget about elemental dance, it can turmoil your growth in swords" basic. Just knowing about it will slow the pace. And it can"t guaranty you winning in the tournament. Try to focus on swords" basic in your first match. About your fighting style, swords" basic has plenty of options you can use. "

Remembering those words, her vision halts to see her grandpa along her male friend shall see her fight. She thinks, This still just first round. But I need to be praised.

The referee calls both female contenders to face to face.

Staring at her opponent wielding a pole, she poses on her stance as she dual-handedly holds tightly the hilt of her wooden sword. Don"t blink my eyes. Ignoring the noise of the crowd, ignoring the noise of the beat of drums that commences the fight, she watches closely her opponent dashes to attack. With one step sending her to the right, she manages to evade the overhead smash of tip of the pole that discharges electricity and shatters the ground. To the left, her opponent sets foot and swings the other tip of the pole. With her wooden sword, Duwyn parries the tip of pole.

Every spectator astonishes from the event. Even the champion a female wielding the pole has halted for the moment.

Going near to her opponent, Duwyn slides her wooden sword on the pole. Seeing her opponent dashes back, she evades the thrust of the pole and parries the tilting attacks. Noticing her opponent is aiming on her wooden sword, she dashes forward for closing the gap on their distance. Chasing and parrying, Duwyn"s action silences the crowd of audiences. As the slide of the wooden sword reaches her opponent hand, her opponent cries and let go the pole. The audiences are now worried and expecting the champion"s defeat. With one step pushes herself while she revolves to shove her opponent outside the ring field—

she only notices her opponent, overwhelmed by her attack, has fallen and sat on the ground

—she rolls outside the ring field.

The amazed spectators resist to laugh. Someone comments, "That was unexpected. But defeat is defeat," followed by someone, "Poor girl."

The referee calls of the winner and the first round of matches is ended.

Still sulking from the embarra.s.sing defeat, Duwyn sits on the ground while her friends surround and praising her. Noticing her grandpa going near, she cries aloud. And hearing her grandpa speaks her name, she runs away crying.

—End of Intro.

A Past to the Last Sky"s Rejection 9

Two day have pa.s.sed, Duwyn and her three friends—

a previous-thief boy, a girl Duwyn"s best friend, and the addition, a boy heir of the clear branch

—again visit Asteron village. — In its center, where busy people are gathering, buying, parking, strolling, entertaining and selling; they arrive. Outside of a ring surrounded by spectators watching the intense fight of two contenders, they see Jaino instructing some soldiers.

A lady, Misisa, approaches their group and speaks, "I admire your bravery of you guys. You journey from Jelfyr to come here. Good thing you weren"t captured for goods."

And the previous-thief boy replies, "We travel along with some adults of Duwyn"s relatives."

After her dubious thinking, Misisa mumbles, "I see..." and she asks to the new boy, "And the new face?"

"I"m Horrid Dhard from the clear branch of rainbow tribe. My mother finally permitted me to come along with my friends. Nice meeting you lady."

"Nice to meet you too." And to Duwyn, Misisa speaks, "How was the tournament?"

Wanting to cry, she replies, "...embarra.s.sing defeat in first round."

"I see... By the way, I"ll be leaving now. My organization is waiting for my presence. So listen. The lady who"s always spying at Jaino seems not visiting for a while. So be careful if she"ll approach you again, understand? Don"t follow if she"ll ask you to come. Don"t accept whatever she"ll offer. If you have priority to ask her name, ask. If she"ll threatened you, run and yell for adults. You get me?"

And the children reply, "Aye ma"am!" And then, they part.

Back again to their appointed place, an open gra.s.sland with wind breeze cooling the radiant heat, the two male and one female children watch at their eyes-closed, friend, Duwyn, in her stance ready to initiate an attack. Duwyn opens her eyes and looks at Jaino who hasn"t ask the result of her first match. To Jaino, she asks, "Miss Sisa told us to not talk with the mysterious lady."

"...about that, this village is trustworthy. But you shall not confide. About the lady, how should I say it…" He scratches his hair. "It seems I"m not worried. But that doesn"t mean you children can"t doubt."

She stands erect and places her hands each to her waists, "Who do you actually like, the mysterious lady or Miss Sisa?"

"Kid, go back to your stance! I can"t accept the fact that you were defeated!"

Trying not to cry, Duwyn asks, "How did you know?"

"You"re in my care of course. You amaze me. Your sword wasn"t broken by the fight. You have improved. So I"ll teach you elemental dance. Be good okay?"

Happy, the girl nods in response.

Four days have pa.s.sed, back to Jelfyr, the beginning of second round of matches in the rainbow tribe"s tournament—

In the losers" bracket, only one contender shall qualified in the final round. And in the winners bracket, all are qualified in the final round — however in the final round, a contender with two loses in the winners bracket shall fight the winner of the losers bracket. — winner of this fight in the final round, shall fight the person with one win in the winners bracket. — winner of this fight in the final round, shall face the person with two wins in the winners bracket.

—in the ring surrounded by chattering spectators, Duwyn faces her first opponent, a male of the ice branch. She remembers Jaino"s words, "Now, apply your wind binding to yourself. I with your friends will throw rocks on you. Parry them if possible, or shatters them if they touch your skin. If I find rashes in your skin, you"ll lose points. You didn"t want another year in this course? (the girl nods in response) Remember, doing elemental dance requires extreme concentration, specially your first time. Remember, don"t hover yourself. Try to solidify the wind and step with it. — if it isn"t possible then forget flying." Hearing the beat of drum commences the fight, Duwyn dashes forward. Her action intimidates her opponent who keeps their distance. Feeling the cold of her skin, she cloaks herself with razor wind and shatters the crystallizing ice. She thinks, I see, the awareness and counter of swords" basic are not just limited with the sword. She stops and pushes forward her palm at her opponent. With her wind binding, she cloaks her opponent and sends him outside the ring field. She stands erect and proud. She gazes at her opponent, trying to stand on the ground. It protects me from being restrained. Grandpa, I can do it. Her three friends in the spectators" area cheer her name. And her grandpa smiles and leaves the place.

Same goes to her second match against the male fire emode of the flame branch. She dominates the losers" bracket.

Despite not receiving an applause, happy about her result, she and her friends hastily travel in two days back to Asteron to report to Jaino the result of her second round matches.

Into their appointed practice place, an open gra.s.sy plain, Jaino asks to Duwyn, "Hey, you have a nice attire."

Still on her sword stance, she asks, "Really?"

"You"re looking much like a n.o.ble lady than a brat now."

"Hmmp..." After a little bit silence, she follows, "Hey—" getting the attention of Jaino, she diverts her view to the side. "The mysterious lady predicted that you would say it. She said if you did, then you"re a pervert. You won"t do bad thing on me right?"

"Child!" Seeing Duwyn with both lower arms covering her face, Jaino asks, "And I suspect that girl lent you the dress?"

"She gave me a pair. She said, I more attractive if I"ll battle with this to amaze the crowd."

"Well, if you want to amaze the crowd, you"ll probably battle and win using only your sword."

"I know you know about this mysterious lady, but why she detest you a lot? She cursed you whenever I spoke your name."

"Kid, I don"t know about that. The food that you handed me from her wasn"t even poisonous. It was my favorite food." And that"s made me remembered all my sin. "I"ll teach you the use of force, however promise me you don"t do bad things okay?"

"Force, what"s that, and for what?"

"So you can amaze the crowd using only swords" basic. Want them applause you?"

"Please, let me! If this can at least please my grandpa!"

And there, back in the kingdom of Jelfyr, its people celebrate the kingdom"s festival, so as well the final round of the rainbow tribe"s tournament begins. In the ring surrounded by the loud cries of people, contenders" sponsors, supporters, and fans, including visitors; wearing the dress gifted from the mysterious lady, Duwyn faces her first opponent a female water emode of the water branch. She remembers Jaino"s words, "Listen carefully. Now that you can cloak yourself with the force, cloak your sword as well. (The girl nods in responds) Now fight me."

"With you holding the real sword?"

"I"ll aim only with your wooden sword. And If I"ll manage to cut it, you"ll lose point. Remember saiyk and wind emode can shatter your sword. You need to improve your usage on the force. Also, don"t forget to use your wind binding to cloak to yourself. At least you have another protection against mobility restriction. Still that doesn"t mean you won"t evade an attack."

As the beat of drum commences the fight, she dashes forward as she evades each water prison and water attack. Her female opponent has wondered and has unable to keep their distance. Duwyn pushes her hand to her opponent"s cleavage, sending her opponent outside the ring. She wins the first match. She remembers Jaino"s words, "If you win, put your two fingers in your eyebrow, then lift them up high and sway your b.u.t.t to the right. Then smile brightly. People will be yelling of you." As she does, people around spectating the fight have silenced. She thinks, Did it fail?

Her grandpa thinks, You become more a lady like.

One of her friend the thief boy speaks, "I"m in love."

And the girl to the side follows, "Just make sure you didn"t flirt with another girl." Followed by the boy of the clear branch, "You have to beat her master for that."

Suddenly, a loud cries from the many men in the spectator area yell Duwyn"s name and some of them clap their hands. Some girls and women smile.

Duwyn thinks, I"ll do my best in the next match!

There, she faces her second opponent, a male earth emode of the earth branch. As the ground around her shakes, she runs forward. Reaching the pinnacle of the erected surface of land, her opponent throws boulder at her. She falls herself and land on the ground. Realizing the thawing land turning to dirt, she solidify the wind around her feet and she runs heading to her opponent. Evading the boulders until she reaches where she can apply her wind binding. — She shatters the wall of land behind her opponent and sends her opponent outside the ring. I"ve used the wreaking shattering. It"s draining my strength. Still she does the victory pose and she receives the loud cheer and applause of the crowd.

And finally she faces the champion, wielding a pole, a female lightning emode of the lightning branch. Still fans of both sides their yelling is intensifying the crowd. As the beat of drums commences the fight, her opponent attacks first. Duwyn parries the t.i.tling attack. Realizing the discharging of electricity, she distances herself backward and dashes forward. She evades the smash of the tip of the pole that shatters the ground. She slashes her wooden sword aiming on her opponent hand. With one hand her opponent loosens on holding the pole. — Duwyn has missed her strike. Clever! She dashes forward and chases her opponent. With dual-handedly holding the sword, Duwyn slashes her sword aiming to her opponent hand. With the last hand holding the pole her opponent has let go the pole. — Duwyn has missed her strike. With one step, she dashes forward to attack, she notices the female of the lightning branch has hands up. Duwyn stops and stands erect. She thinks, What?

Her opponent speaks, "I, I surrender. You beat me in this plain battle. It impresses me."

"And that means..."

"You win."

Duwyn yells as well as the crowd. With her victory pose, the yelling becomes louder. She becomes the champion of the tournament. Her winning gains inspiration to the wind branch members. Gaining some fans and becoming another pride of the rainbow tribe, Duwyn has become the center of attention in her relative. After the feast commemorating her victory, she decides to visit Asteron to inform Jaino.

Two days have pa.s.sed as Duwyn, her relatives, and friends reach the Asteron; all of their group turns speechless. The village is in ruined. A mysterious beautiful lady finally introduces herself as Judith and her butler approach the group. Judith greets and speaks, "Fear not, the survivors are in Pirmlinth village."

"And... how about... what about my master..." has asked by Duwyn.

"I know you are worried. We still hasn"t confirm his situation. This butler of mine is his subordinate. And the disaster that struck this village, we know nothing about. His guild mates are probably seeking for them. I propose that you all stay in my place. I might enjoy your accompany, the more people the better."

And so, the sad news give the poor girl a mourning state. Master...

Be careful of what you will do

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