The Lost Bloodline

Chapter 15: Tournament weekend pt 2

The interior of the arena was in total contrast with the outside. No effort was spared in decorating and arranging the inside, the ground seats were wrapped in silky clothes and fluffy to the touch.

They were rows and rows of seats and even floating columns for important guest, military personnel and other notable figures,also multiple arena platforms for the battles, they even had numerous drones and floating screens to capture every angle of the fights.

"Wow, talk about cutting edge" Bruce exclaimed,

"Are you going to be okay?" Brandon asked worried.

"Don't worry, Elvis has no influence over the arrangement of the matches" Bruce whispered,

"Alright, let's find seats, the arena is already getting filled up" Alec suggested,

They managed to find some seats not too far from the entrance.

A few minutes later, an officer none of them were familiar with took to the stage.

"Good morning future heroes, today is the long awaited tournament weekend, all contestants will be notified five minutes prior to their battles, and without further Ado i would like to welcome some of our guests of honor at the time, from the Presley family, join me in welcoming Lady Laura Presley, wife to Lord Deaton Presley head of house Presley, Lady Sharon Stormborn of house Stormborn, lady Elizabeth Moore of house Moore, lord Maxwell Ashira of house Ahsira, lord Martin Lucas of house Lucas, Lord Tyler Dareiene of house Dareiene, Lady Diane Pavla of house Pavla, Lord Marvin Renato of house Renato, Lord Eliot Zidan of house Zidan, Lord Adan Jordan of house Jordan, Lord Taurus Rodriguez.

With each name being mentioned, a round of applause was gotten from the crowd along with a demonstration of power by each noble as they were called.

we will begin with the elemental battles then the hand-to-hand combat and finally the weapons combat, individuals that have signed up for more than one of the sections will be involved in less fights than individuals who chose only one and as you can see there are multiple arenas meaning there will be multiple battles happening at the same time and to ensure that no battle interferes with the other we have enabled the edge of each arena with a force powered by special beast essence, so without further interruptions, let the battles begin" She announced.

Brandon's watch lit up with a notification, turns out his fight with Cliff was one of the first fights of the day.

"Give it your all bro, we will be rooting for you" Bruce said,

Brandon walked down to the inner room from which he was teleported to one of the floating arena, opposite him stood a young boy around his age with shiny blonde hair and mysterious green eye,

"You must be Brandon, i have heard alot about you, let's try to have some fun okay, no hard feelings to whoever loses, okay?" Cliff said,

"Sure, nice to meet you Cliff" Brandon replied.

The referee signaled the beginning of the battles, Cliff wasted no time in charging at Brandon who was taken aback by his speed.

"wow, you are faster than i expected" Brandon said as he side stepped and aimed a kick at Cliff's mid section, Cliff managed to bring his hands back in time but he still felt the impact of the kick,

He leaped back to regain his composure, his hands began glowing with a golden aura,

Brandon just smiled,he too lit up his fist in flames ready to counter attack, but Cliff just stood there causing Brandon to tense up.

Suddenly, he felt the wind behind him shift, he quickly rolled forward narrowly escaping a blow to the head,

"That was close, looks like he's using his astral projection skill" Brandon muttered,

He activated his core eyes ability and could instantly make out Cliff's position and threw three successive fire balls at him, and out of the smoke flew a glowing spirit-like figure with a few burn marks.

The crowd gasped on surprise,

"how did you know where I was ?" Cliff asked confused, his astral projection skill usually gave him at least 30 seconds of complete invisibility, only his seniors and the teachers were able to sense him during that period,

"i am very perceptive" Brandon chuckled canceling his core eyes skill,. he conjured up his flaming wings and took to the sky at Cliff who instantly dodged back into his body, he threw two energy balls at Brandon who countered with his own and through the smoke shot Brandon like a torpedo towards Cliff who quickly raised up a cosmic shield which cracked on contact with Brandons flaming fist, he leaped back in time to avoid being hit the moment his shield crumbled, he ran across the arena throwing numerous energy balls, which Brandon simply dodged by flying away,

"time to finish this" Brandon mumbled,

He cancelled his phoenix wings and free fell while throwing fire balls at Cliff to keep him occupied.

The moment he landed he bolted straight for Cliff, who took a steady stance ready to fight back but a few meters before they collide, Brandon violently kicked his feet across the air creating a wave a flame knocking Cliff who didn't know he was standing at the edge of the platform to the ground.

"And the winner of this match is Brandon Flare of Miss Silver's first years,

Some of his classmates cheered as the announcement was made while some like Elvis and Bob just snarled.

Brandon looked over the edge to check of Cliff was okay, he had been caught by a safety net placed beneath the arena, he leaped down to join him.

"Nice battle dude, i hope we can spar again sometime" Brandon said as the net lowered,

"Thanks, i really don't know where I went wrong, i thought i had you,but it was nice fighting you and i might just take you up on that offer" Cliff replied,

"you gave me time to recover, you should have stayed on me when you were still invisible" Brandon said,

Cliff just chuckled "guess I got a little too cocky".

As the net landed some clinic staff came forward to help them off the net, Cliff was taken to be healed while Brandon was given an energy drink, he walked back to join his friends who showered him with praise.

"Man you were amazing, you were just whooshing and swooshing around" Alec said,

"Yeah, though you could have gone easy on him" Natalie added,

"Trust me , Brandon let him off easy" Bruce said,

"Alright, that's enough, the next fight is starting" Isabella hushed the gang, she seems more excited about the fights than before.

The next few fights ranged from intense and entertaining to short and boring, Elvis managed to win his fights after much difficulty and soon it was semi final round of the elemental it was now Elvis Vs Brandon and Bob Vs Rick.

Now Brandon and Elvis stood opposite each other glaring furiously at each other.

"You weren't satisfied with coming after me , you went after Bruce too, he has nothing to do with you" Brandon said,

"Yes he does, you are both manipulating Alec to be mean to me " Elvis retorted annoyingly,

"You know if you just tried being nice rather than acting like a spoilt little brat , Alec might consider being nice to you too" Brandon said,

"What do you mean, Alec is already my friend, it's you and that worthless brat that are coming between us " Elvis stated angry,

"What exactly is wrong with you?" Brandon asked,

"He's mine" Elvis said as the referee signaled the match to start.

Elvis quickly leapt into the air and launched numerous wind blades at Brandon, who just raised up a flaming shield to block, rather than countering Elvis right away, Brandon wanted to wear him out, he wanted beat Elvis with his bear fist.

Elvis tried to conjure up a tornado but was too slow, Brandon threw a large fire ball at Elvis causing a huge explosion knocking Elvis a few feet back just at the edge of the arena,

Elvis looked up at where his mother was seated, her indifferent expression seemed to somewhat anger him, he flipped himself up and charged at Brandon with all his fury.

"You think you are the only one that can get mad" Brandon said, his eyes lighting up.

"Woah, what's up with Brandons eyes?" Bruce wondered,

"Do you think Brandon's alright? he seems pretty pissed" Maya noted,

"whatever it is, i hope Brandon whoops Elvis' butt" Natalie said,

Elvis' fist was about to connect to Brandon's abdomen when Brandon suddenly let out powerful heatwave knocking so far back that he bounced off the protective barrier and back into the arena.

Brandon looked towards the referee expecting him to call of the fight but he just stood there with his eyes fixated on Elvis who was grunting in pain on the floor, he was struggling to his feet.

"What's wrong with you? call it off" Brandon yelled at the referee,

"No, i can still fight" Elvis grunted,

he managed to pick himself up and took a fighting stance, he charged at Brandon, He launched kicks and punches no longer caring to use his ability, Brandon just kept dodging and blocking while slowly moving towards the edge of the arena.

The crowd watched in astonishment not just at Elvis' resilience but also at Brandon's composure despite using his heat wave skill, he didn't seem out if breath.

As they stood at the edge of the arena, Brandon grabbed Elvis' fist, flipped him in the air and threw him straight into the protection net, Elvis tried to use his ability to push himself back up but Brandon threw a fire ball at him knocking him forcefully into the net automatically concluding the match.

The whole auditorium was silent, the raw power displayed by both participants seemed to have placed them in shock, then a small clap could be heard, when traced it was discovered to be Levi, he was sitting not too far from the arena of Brandon's battle, soon the rest of the crowd joined him. Brandon leaped into the net slowly lowering Elvis.

"Look, i don't know what your problem is but, don't make yourself my enemy if you do, things won't end well for you" He said.

Bruce came walked down to meet Brandon at the ground level.

"What was that?" Bruce asked,

"You mean the skill?" Brandon asked,

"yeah, don't you think that was a little too far with that, if it weren't for the protective suits we were given, you could have seriously hurt him or worse" Bruce scolded him,

"It's not like it was my fault, he asked for it, and it was also partly due to the fact that i almost evolved in front of everyone" Brandon retorted,

"Doesn't matter at this point, you need to drop out of the hand to hand combat tournam-, wait!!!, did you just say evolve, that's even more reason to drop out, you can't suppress your evolution for long, it probably won't be good for you in the long run" Bruce said,

"Don't worry about it, i will be fine besides, i still have to fight Bob or Rick" Brandon replied.

Brandon got an energy drink and went back to the inner room to await his next match, a few minutes later he was joined by Rick, no words were exchanged till they were teleported to the arena.

"Ladies and gentlemen this is the final match for the elemental tournament, the hand to hand combat and weapons combat can now begin simultaneously" an official announced.

As soon the signal was given both students charged at each other,

Rick was an earth mage, he tried to make Brandon lose his balance with a seismic attack but Brandon Just flew into the air and threw fire balls to which Rick countered with an earth wall.

Brandon dropped back to the ground he covered his fist and legs in flames and charged at Rick who did something similar, little cracks and bangs were heard as as both ability infused individuals clashed, with each collision, a little bit of Rick's protective covering fell off and after a few more hits he was completely defenseless, he made spikes come out of the ground to put some distance between him and Brandon, and kept on chasing him with the spikes, Brandon could feel energy building up inside of him like during his fight with Elvis, he leaped into the air and threw flaming disk at Rick in an attempt to disorient him, but he was quick enough to put up a wall of earth though it seemed weaker than the previous one as it crumbled immediately the disc came in contact with it but it was the other way around, Brandon had growned stronger.

Rick could be seen trying to catch his breath, he had used up a lot of spiritual energy.

"Do you forfeit?" Brandon asked,

"Not a chance" Rick replied taking a fighting stance,

"fine, then" Brandon replied.

They charged at each other again, Rick threw a fast punch, Brandon deflected it and landed a clean uppercut to his chin sending Rick a few feet in the air before swirling and landing a kick in his abdomen sending him out of the arena and into the safety net.

And With that Brandon emerged the winner of the first years elemental tournament.

The other two tournaments had begun as announced earlier and Bruce, Alec and Natalie had won their first fights. They had decided to stay in the inner room to relax before their next fight, on seeing Brandon, they all congratulated him in his victory.

"So how's the tournament going for you guys so far?" Brandon asked,

"well, only a few people signed up for the weapons combat so it should be over soon and i think i have a fair shot at winning" Bruce replied,

"I wish I were that lucky, am sure am going to have to fight against either one of these behemoths" Natalie replied, she signed up for the hand to hand combat tournament.

"Well, not all students are participating in either of the tournaments so you should be able to at least make top 3" Brandon said.

"I really hope so" Natalie replied as her watch lit up signifying her next match and soon after Bruce's watch lit up too.