Lalala Training~ [closed]

[Tsukasa]

Tsukasa knew that he had much to learn when it came to hand-to-hand combat. He was too inexperienced at this. The best way to get better, however, was through first-hand experience. Regular people no longer cut it for him. Even if they did exceed his abilities, which the average student couldn’t, he could easily activate the ‘Bestial Takeover’ to gain the upper hand. In order to refine his hand-to-hand abilities, he would have to practice against Hollow, in order to make sure that he could actually combat efficiently against these monsters. They had much larger bodies and much more physical strength and sometimes, even speed, so they were much harder to defeat. If all Tsukasa did was practice against other people, he could still end up doing poorly against a Hollow given their raw physical prowess.

Keeping that in mind, Tsukasa decided that there was no other solution but to go out there and toy around with a weaker Hollow to get acclimated to their physical structure and the way they fight. Of course, different Hollow fought differently, especially depending upon their unique abilities, but, for the most part, they relied on their physical abilities to tear apart humans. Tsukasa had waited until sundown, lurking around the Karasu River for one of those Hollow. They typically frequented the river for some odd reason, making it a perfect place for Tsukasa to find one and essentially bully it. Soon enough, Tsukasa heard the shrill cry that was the trademark of the masked beasts, turning around as he saw it in all its glory. It was a typical one, nothing special about it. Its body was insectoid, like a praying mantis, and it had a large white mask as usual.

Getting prepared, Tsukasa simply grinned as he concentrated, causing his reiatsu to flush around him as the crimson red aura enveloped his entirety. “Alright then…let’s get this started…” Tsukasa thought to himself as he simply waited for the monster to attack. Today was specially for avoiding the enemy. The monster gave out a fierce roar as it crawled toward Tsukasa, drawing back one arm and bringing its right arm up, swinging it downward as Tsukasa widened his eyes to make sure he was able to distinguish its path. He was going to waste as little movement as he could. He sidestepped the attack, immediately eyeing the Hollow’s other arm. It had drawn its left arm to the side, swinging sideways toward where Tsukasa’s waist would be. Jumping upward, Tsukasa simply landed on the Hollow’s scythe-arm as he jumped off, kicking the Hollow in the face.

“Is that the best you can do, moron?” Tsukasa shouted, provoking the Hollow as it gave out another roar before running towards Tsukasa once again, attempt to just ram into him. Tsukasa managed to move to the side, taking one decent jump in order to move out of the Hollow’s path, giving it a strong kick to the leg as the Hollow let loose another cry in pain. Immediately following through, however, the Hollow proceeded to throw one of its arms at Tsukasa, simply swinging both arms inwards to where he was. Running in, Tsukasa was able to avoid the scythe-arms and move closer to the monster. Cocking his arm back, Tsukasa let it loose forward, sinking it straight into the monster’s abdomen as it took a few steps backward, retreating for a bit before attacking again.

It was a lot harder to return an actual physical attack since they had much larger limbs by comparison, so Tsukasa had to consistently avoid and then take a few extra steps to return an attack. It was much different for people. If someone threw a fist and he used his head to avoid it, he could immediately throw a jab or even a swing to potentially knock out the opponent, but not in this case. Tsukasa was doing well for now, but that was only because the monster was predictable. These things weren’t very intelligent, or not the ones he had seen anyway, so it would be, without a doubt, difficult for him to fight against one of them should he find a smarter one to fight against. However, for now, he was fine. He would continue messing around with this one and just get used to having large objects thrown at him.

Tsukasa continued on for quite awhile, repeatedly defending against the monster. He was, however, cut a few times. The large limbs were difficult to move when they were consecutively thrown at him. The monster had managed to step up its game and swung more frequently, and Tsukasa’s arms had a few cuts as proof of its hard work. His clothes were cut and torn and small amounts of blood were flowing from his body. “I’ve had enough of this…” He eventually said to the Hollow as he let loose a roar, temporarily stunning the monster as Tsukasa jumped onto its arm, running along as he drew his left arm back. Finding himself in front of his opponent, Tsukasa swung his arm downward at its mask, causing it to scream one last time before dissipating into nothing. Satisfied, Tsukasa went home. There would be quite the use of rubbing alcohol tonight…

[Tsukasa]

Tsukasa decided that he needed to learn another technique. He didn’t really enjoy the thought of retreating, but there would definitely be a time where he would either be outnumbered or faced against an opponent far above his level. In that case, he would need to be able to create a diversion so that he may flee from the battlefield. Of course, given Tsukasa’s own personality, this would have to be last resort, as he typically liked to tackle on tough opponents, but he wasn’t so battle-hungry that he would willingly throw himself into a suicidal situation without even a sliver of a chance of escaping. With this in mind, Tsukasa decided to create a new one. There were a number of things he could do, but for now, he would depend on his augmented physical strength to do something that all sorts of opponents would be distracted by: a territorial sort of attack.

The attack in and of itself was fairly simple: Tsukasa would concentrate his energy into his left arm and thrust it into the floor. This would cause an outpouring of his energy, causing the earth around him to crack and turn into smaller boulders that would rise into the air in a rippling fashion, allowing him to use this as a distraction to abuse his heightened speed to run away. The only problem he could foresee was the large amounts of energy it would take from him in order to accomplish this feat. It was unlikely that he would be able to even use it more than once as he was, which would make it even more of a last resort effort, should the need to use it ever arise. Tsukasa would dub this name “King of Beasts” for its grandiose and rather destructive looking capabilities. “Time to go try and make this then…” Tsukasa thought to himself.

Taking a deep breath, Tsukasa exhaled as he closed his eyes, putting a lot of his focus into his left arm. Lowering his position so that he would be closer to the floor, Tsukasa laid down his hand into the floor with a powerful thrust, causing his fist to sink into the earth. He tried pulling his hand out, but he noted that it was stuck. There were a few cracks around the point of impact, but that was about it. He sure had managed to add more strength into his arm but he had failed to actually do anything else. Shaking his hand, Tsukasa managed to pull his arm out as he observed the hole. He had managed to puncture it pretty cleanly and his hand suffered no injuries from it. He sighed though. This looks like it would be a lot tougher. He would have to take a bit of a break, perhaps eat a snack. Utilizing this technique, as he imagined, took quite an amount of energy to actually use.

After a bit of rest, Tsukasa prepared himself as he followed the same steps. Not being hasty, Tsukasa closed his eyes and took a good few seconds to concentrate large amounts of energy into his left arm. Drawing his arm back, Tsukasa prepared to drop it down again as he bent his elbow so that his knuckles were facing the ground. This time, Tsukasa concentrated on evenly spreading out his energy around him within an eight foot radius. Dropping his fist, Tsukasa kept up his focus as he watched how it worked out. His fist slammed into the floor, not exactly sinking in this time, and the ground seemed to shake a bit. There were slight cracks found all around the area, but it wasn’t quite enough. “What’s missing…?” Tsukasa wondered as he became a little perplexed by the situation. He lay down on the floor, closing his eyes. Second break time was here.

Tsukasa awoke not too long after and decided to try again. He figured injecting more reiatsu into the ground would do the trick. It was a bit of a nuisance because he would have to exhaust even more than it already cost, but that was the price to pay for such a difficult technique. Tsukasa sighed as he stood back up, moving over to a fresh spot of land as he closed his eyes. Concentrating, he put in even more energy as his arm became enveloped with a red aura of sorts. Raising his arm, Tsukasa lowered his position as he swung his arm downward, his knuckles crashing into the ground as Tsukasa could feel the shaking rippling, reaching the end of the eight foot radius. The earth had shaken up much more and cracked, but the rocks were not lifting off from the floor. All he had done was managed to separate the land. This was good progress though.

After having taken yet another nap, Tsukasa prepared to go for another round of practicing this technique out. It was much more difficult than he had originally thought it would be. It was ridiculously straining; he had never had to rest so long inbetween attempts for anything else in his life. Not wanting to lose focus, Tsukasa simply concentrated reiatsu along his left arm as he rose it up into the air. With a grunt, Tsukasa swung it down to the ground, causing the earth around hi mto shake from the brute force of the impact. The cracks appeared across the floor in a rippling fashion, but his technique had not quite succeeded. The rocks had started to lift into the air near the center, and had continued to do so for about a foot or two around him. However, that was about it. The technique had subsided there, the rocks falling back as Tsukasa was a little disappointed. He was so close. He just needed a little more to get there. One foot or two would definitely not be good enough. His opponent would easily be able to slip out of the attack’s range if that happened.

After eating some food, Tsukasa had decided to try it once more. He was already so close to being able to utilize this technique. All he had to do now was refine the technique and keep trying until he was able to succeed. Sighing, Tsukasa lazily lifted his left arm into the air. Widening his eyes, Tsukasa focused as he gathered a rather large amount of reiatsu into his left arm. “Come on!” he shouted as he brought his fist down to the ground, causing the area aroudn him to tremor as the land cracked, causing the rocks to fly up. Tsukasa simply watched as the rocks continued to go up, but it suddenly stopped about halfway through. “Much closer…so close…” Tsukasa thought to himself as he decided to rest again. How many more attempts would it take for him to get this technique right? He was almost there…

After an even longer break, Tsukasa had managed to recover enough reiatsu in order to go for another attempt. He had enough knowledge to know that he should do more than just focus on causing the earth to split. He also had to have his reiatsu moving upward and to the outside in order to cause anything to lift off from the ground. With that in mind, Tsukasa concentrated once more as he began to run through the steps once more. Concentrating, Tsukasa placed in as much reiatsu he could muster, just about enough to use the technique. His arm was blanketed by a crimson red aura as he did so. With a sharp yell, Tsukasa quickly raised his arm as he spared no time, dropping down as he slammed his fist into the floor. He made sure to keep his reiatsu manipulation, ensuring that the energy would ripple outward and upward. The earth split into several rock formations as they slowly, starting from the center, flew up into the air, dropping down afterward in a timely fashion, causing the entire wave to look like a ripple should it be seen from above.

Tsukasa was greatly satisfied by his success and he dropped down to the floor, unable to really move his body. All that reiatsu expending had caused him to become severely tired and he would have to rest again before trying anything again. He simply close his eyes as he began to inhale and exhale out the nose, conscious going blank as he fell asleep.