Sparring

I was just enjoying the morning when someone knocked on the door.

"Spence, Rose, come to train!"

It was G's voice…

Rose and I look at each other. I run to the door and opened and found G there.

"How did you know that Rose was here?"

"How could I not to, I heard you talking half night and all morning! You can spend your time together, I said that I was not going to interfere, but remember that I'm in the next room and the walls are thin before you try anything else… now get ready to train now that you are fully healed I want a real spar."

My sixth sense was tingling like crazy. There goes my peaceful day.

G left, and Rose went to her room to change clothes, I did the same and went to the roof. I was surprised to found Hayley and Hope there too.

I didn't have the time to check G's aura before, so I saw them now.

The one that surprised me the most was Hayley's, she had a cyan aura but it was like a thin layer that covered her whole body, not leaving her or expanding, there was a bright point on her hand.

Hope was a like a nebula with different shades of purple. It was in constant movement it felt a little weaker than Hayley's.

G' didn't change that much, a golden light moved around his body reinforcing the muscle he uses, I think it's shinier than the last time I saw it, but it could be due to the change in my senses.

"Did you stop check us out?" Hope to find funny the way I was looking at them, started to tease me.

"Sorry yesterday I completed the senses mission, and now I can see auras, so I just saw yours."

"Oh?! how does mine look!?"

I describe them the auras, without mentioning the power level for now. Rose arrived at that moment and listened to the descriptions.

We started like usual. Hope was chatting more than stretching, so Rose was trying to control her.

"I'm surprised to see you two here." I said to Hayley.

"Actually, it was Hope's idea, she said that even if we control our power well if a beast attacks us before that we are done, so at least even if we can't compete with you and G we should stay fit. And it's been a while since last time I exercised."

"You seem to control your aura fine now."

"Yeah, I noticed that Isabella doesn't get affected anymore… I wonder if I could see my dad now."

"Who knows we might see him, and if you want we could try finding him."

"Maybe but not yet, I want to be sure that I have this under control first."

"As you wish. How is your training? besides controlling your aura."

"If you take me out to hunt, I'll show you, but I think that I have advanced quite a bit."

"Soon I want to relax today."

"It's a promise then. How is everything between you and Rose?"

"Amazing, but it's a little sad that most of the time I spend together with her, I'm killing other living beings, that's probably not what she signed up for."

"And that's why you want to relax today and spend your day with her."

"Yes and no, I want to spend the day with everyone. It's been a while since I just hang out with you, G or Hope, probably we are going to get busier later, so I want to use this time to relax with everyone."

"Yeah, you are right."

At that moment G voice sounded and called at me.

"Hey, Spence! ready for the spar?"

He was holding the hammer…

"Sure… are you planning to use that?"

"Yeah is there a problem?"

… that what you get when you sleep with your best friend sister.

"No... no problem"

"If you hit him with that you will kill him." Rose tried to stop it.

"He is going to be fine. It's not like I can hit him anyway."

I sighed and focused my gaze on G, I wasn't sure how to attack, if I hit him too much he will not be able to fight well in the case there is a real need for it, but also I don't think he will stop unless I somehow knock him out.

He was looking at my movements, he had the giant hammer on his shoulder, and I slowly started to move around him, it gave the feeling that the moment I attack him, he would throw me off the roof with just one swing from the hammer.

When I got close, his muscles moved and a solar light shined on his arms while he swung the hammer. I dodged the hammer, but he suddenly rotated the hammer while swinging it, the hammerhead moved, and I had to react really fast to no get hit by it… G was going serious.

I took advantage of the momentum since his guard was down. I threw a kick to his knee when I was about to hit, I changed the direction to the thigh scared that if I hit the knee, I would hurt him badly.

The kick didn't do anything, and it felt like hitting a wall, I saw the solar light move away from his arms concentrate in the point I just strike, the hammer didn't fall from his hands, but the head landed on the floor.

I jumped backward. From my fighting experience, I know that G's strength speed and resistance should be more than just E-Rank, but the movement of the light was the one that helps him achieve it. From what I saw when he uses the light to defend or reinforce another part he loses the ability to strengthen his arms, so I have to be faster than that light. We clashed in similar ways a couple of times.

I changed the strategy, the movement of the hammer was like before, but I feel like it moved faster this time, I throw a hook to the stomach the light keep up with the movement, and it was again like hitting metal, ignoring the pain in my hand, I tried to hit him with the elbow. In the face, the light moved again, I don't think that even G knew that I was going to attack twice in a row.

He let the hammer and threw a jab to the center of my face. The light moved again to reinforce his arm.

Everything around me moved slower, I barely avoided his punch and in a rapid movement took his arm and used a shoulder throw. He landed on his back, around me the speed turned back to normal I was going to move his arm into a grapple and force him into submission, but the solar light reinforced his muscles, and before locking his arm he released himself, and I almost lost my balance due to the strength he put on that move.

I wasn't sure what to do next, usually, in a real battle, I would attack while he is on the floor but doing this with him wasn't an option. I moved away one more time.

"That move was amazing!" It was Hope the one that waked me up. G didn't stand up and was looking at me with a smile.

"Cheater!"

"Hey! you used your power from the beginning too!"

"I don't mean the power, I mean the fighting techniques, you obtained them without even practicing them!"

"I can teach you if you want."

We spared again, and I started explaining different grapple techniques, joint locks, and throws. Thanks to damage resistance the times he throws me to the floor. It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, but we need some training mats for the floor or something like that…

After a while, Hope wanted to try throwing us, thanks to her memory she knew how to do it, so I was surprised when she caught me off guard and the next moment I was on my back on the floor.

We pass all morning practicing, most of this movements are useless against beasts, but some people can be even more dangerous, after two rotation, tries I decided to stop the throws since it hurt too much without anything to soften the impact. In exchange, I made the focus on two types of grapples.

G and I kept sparing with each other, and trying to grapple each other since I was faster and was the one who knew the movements, I won most of the times, but since I need him to practice too, I let him win a couple of times.

The girls practice between them in turns, they didn't spar like us. G proposed to hunt as training on the afternoon, but I said that I wanted to rest today.

After we finished the practice, we cleaned ourselves and changed clothes to get lunch.