1 A Wonderful Reunion

"Come on guys, let's hurry or we won't make it in time" a guy shouted in excitement.

There was five young man were headed somewhere, four of them were just walking casually while the excited one was a bit ahead of the rest.

They were students of different colleges, but they were childhood friends. They went to primary school together, completed their tenth grade by competing against each other but in a friendly manner. Even went to higher secondary school together.

Today, they were having a reunion for the first time after two years. All of them were happy about this and why wouldn't they be?

So, they made a schedule beforehand to avoid confusion. Their plans were for the whole day, starting with paying a visit to their school and meet all the teachers.

They had a long list of things to together, the most anticipated one was sparring. They used to do sword practice together since very young, they still practiced sword fighting.

But sword practice was way down the list of their plans, right now they were going for a movie, although they had many similar hobbies when it came to movies they were a world apart from each other.

The situation was clear from the look of their faces. They didn't like the genre of the movie they were going to watch. But they still agreed to go, however, there was still half an hour left before the movie started, but the enthusiastic friend named "Kyle Nelson" was forcing the others to hurry. And the reason for that was that it was his favorite genre and the actor starring was his idol in the film industry.

Among the ones behind Kyle the closest was Alex, his full name is "Alex Steele". Alex was trying to suppress Kyle by showing him how much time they had before the movie.

But Kyle wasn't listening, everyone glared at Kyle to stop it because everyone on the street looking at them, but Kyle was unfazed.

The ones following Kyle and Alex were the other three friends, "Chris Carlson", "Tom Bryan" and "Jared Stewart".

Alex had an average muscular and flexible body, anyone can tell that he practices martial arts and goes to a gymnasium and was also good in stamina.

Whereas Kyle and Chris were similar to Alex with approximately the same height but didn't look that strong. Kyle was the guy who liked to be straight forward regarding everything in his life, as for Chris he acted a bit mysterious all the time by saying proverbs, poems unrelated to the topic being discussed.

As for Tom, he was a tall and slim looking guy, his height was approximately over six and a half feet. When a comparison with Tom, everyone could only come close to his shoulders.

And there was Jared, he was the fat of the group. He liked to fight every now and then proving how strong he is.

They all silently went to the movie theater, well... except for Kyle, he was leaping like a small kid. They took their seats and watched the movie.

While watching the movie, they each noticed the reactions of everyone around including themselves and giggled silently and remembered so they can laugh over it later.

After the movie was finished, they all came out and wanted to burst out in laughter after they witnessed the reactions of the people who were watching.

The next thing on the schedule was sparring with each other using swords. They were looking forward to it in anticipation more than anything. So, they headed towards the gym they used to practice sword fighting.

They all still practiced sword fighting, but in their respective cities as they were no longer neighbors.

While walking towards the gymnasium they recalled the laughter moments from the movie theater and shared what they noticed while being in there.

"The man sitting next to me was trembling when the hero was beating down the villain, who the hell does that?", Alex told everyone and they all burst out in laughter and started commenting on the topic.

"Maybe he was imagining himself in the shoes of that villain", Kyle was the first to comment. After Alex started the reaction topic everyone started with their own observations and others commented as they felt.

And in the gist of enjoyment, they didn't even notice how much time it took them to reach the gymnasium.

The moment they entered inside, all of their expressions changed, and they looked at each other as competition. They weren't friends anymore but rivals who saw the other as their opponents.

All of them picked swords according to their liking and started slashing the wind,

"Swoosh, swoosh... "

Alex picked up dual swords indicating that he had mastered dual wielding and made a move targeting the air and slashed through it. The swords while cutting the air made an ear piercing sound which made everyone look at him in awe.

"Whoa, Alex you have improved by leaps and bounds in the past year, what happened? you met a master swordsman or what?"

Tom could not hold it in anymore and asked Alex for some explanation, but Alex just gave him a smile and told that he practiced approximately three hours every day non-stop.

And this move was one of many moves he learned during the time span of one year.

Also when they were separated Alex was a single sword wielder and now he displaying his skills in dual wielding, that's amazing.

Watching and listening to Alex, Chris leaped into the ring and challenged Alex for a match and said, "Let's see how far you have improved, last time when we sparred, I defeated you fair and square, let's fight, come on in".

"Alright", Alex jumped into the ring while accepting the challenge issued by Chris.

Chris was also good in a sword fight, he was the number one in the group when they last sparred and Alex was number two. They both wanted to fight with their own reasons. Chris wanted to fight to ensure he was on the top while Alex wanted to defeat Chris to get the top spot and also to test his strength.

The determination can be seen on both of their faces.

By seeing their faces Tom, Jared, and Kyle took a front-row seat intending to watch the fight to see who has progressed more among the two on the stage.

The crowd from the gymnasium also gathered up to watch the fight. A guy came up from the crowd to represent this match as a referee.