Training.

After the whole "ordeal" with Alice I was exhausted and just wanted to go home. I asked Alice to send me back so she did but before she sent me back I asked what happened with the shooter. She responded and said " I told you I'd take care of it, so I did. " I looked at her blankly then raised one eyebrow in a confused manner.

I didn't doubt that Alice took care of it but I couldn't help but feel as if she was hiding something from me. I asked " Alice are you telling me the whole truth?" She let out a sigh of defeat and reluctantly answered " No. " I narrowed my eyebrows at her as she continues talking. " Ray, that wasn't just some random psycho shooter at your school, it's way too unlikely with the events that have transpired these two days." " What are you getting at, Alice? " I asked. " I believe the man was sent by the Wicked. " As she uttered those words my throat tightened. She continued without hearing a response from me. " That's only my theory though, he might had just been that crazy. But this is my first time doing the transfusion successfully, I don't know if some signal was let off or beacon of sorts, all I know is I have to get you ready for real combat as soon as possible. "

With that being said all my mental and physical strength had been exhausted to the limit. I responded and said " Ok. " because I was much too tired to actually take grasp of the situation. I asked Alice to finally send me back again. And so once again I spurted up from the pool of blood in my bathroom, and like last time the blood just vanished as if it were never there.

As I walked out of the bathroom I bumped into my mom. " Oh, Ray I didn't know you were home? " I didn't really know what to say. I responded and said " What? " She looked at me and said " What do you mean what? Alex called and said you were gonna stay at his house for a little after school? " I guess Alice really did take care of everything. I was still confused though why didn't she mention anything about the shooter at school? " Oh yeah, well I'm home now mom. I think I'm gonna go to bed though I'm beat, night love you. " I said, unfortunately I had been so tired I didn't really feel like asking her about where I came from or why she has been keeping me being adopted a secret.

That night I didn't think nor ponder over everything that had happened, Alice said she took care of it so I believed she did. I woke up around four on a crisp Saturday morning to Alice standing over me telling me to get up. " What's this all about! " I whispered screamed because I didn't want to wake anyone up. " Training! " she said with an evil grin. After that I found myself in the middle of a forest due to her blood teleportation technique. She said " We'll be training in new environments every time we train so be prepared. " she said.

" So what's the first thing I should learn? " I asked. " Blood augmentation. " she said plainly. " What's that? " I said. " Blood augmentation hardens the blood cells in your body giving you increased speed,strength, agility, and you can also increase your level of eyesight to even track my movements, it essentially gives you almost everything you need to go toe to toe with the low ranking Wicked. " she said . It must be a pretty hard technique to master. " On the contrary to what you maybe thinking Ray, blood augmentation might be one of the simplest techniques to learn. It's almost like flexing but instead of flexing for a second or two you flex until you turn it off. Almost like a switch once you flip it on you have to flip it off for it to stop. " I disregarded the fact she basically read my mind because it was Alice, but was the technique really that simple? I mean it would give me the capabilities to go on par with a low ranker when I could barely even kill some crazy guy with a gun. " Let me give you a demonstration Ray. " As she said that the aura around her started to change, almost as if a being of immeasurable strength was in front of me, a Goliath. I couldn't help but swallow for it felt like a brick was stuck in it. " What's wrong scared? " she said. I couldn't lie I was terrified. How could I possibly defeat something that was almost on par with the blood augmentation but actually trying to kill me! " Give it a try Ray, just tense your muscles and think about every blood cell in your body hardening. " I focused I tensed my muscles and thought of every blood cell in my body hardening into the hardest material on the planet, no not the planet but in the entirety of the galaxy and everything past it.

I felt it, the blood flowing through me was different, if felt almost blissful in a way. Almost every blood cell in my body felt like like they were jumping rapidly. It gave me a sense of invincibility. That was until Alice sprang onto me out of nowhere and punched me right in the chest knocking me out of the blood augmentation state. " Your not invincibility let me just say that. I know how it first felt when I activated the blood augmentation, but one good hit and you can be knocked out of that state just as fast as you learned how to do it. "

After I had learned how to blood augment Alice decided to teach me over one hundred and seventy fighting styles. I learned simple boxing techniques to Tai Chi an ancient Chinese fighting technique. Overall I at least learned one fighting style from each continent if not more. That was just more proof Alice was older then any human could manage to even come close to.

I mastered all the fightings styles in one day, mostly because of the blood augmentation. I could move in ways humans could never fathom. My eyes picked up movements I could never see before. It was as if I had suddenly had a photographic memory, every technique shown I was able to perform like I had been practicing them for years. It was more like a video graphic memory and the movements I was seeing were being replayed in slow-motion when I saw them. " Hey Ray, you might just be better then me at performing these techniques. " Alice said with questionability in her voice. " Oh really? I wouldn't have a clue why? " I said. " You really aren't normal are you? " she said. " I wouldn't know Alice, I mean now that I think about it, I've never met my dad. That's kinda odd I guess. " I said. " Have you asked about your past yet? " she asked. " Not yet, I haven't had the chance. I mean you kinda sent me home pretty late last night, not only that basically kidnapped me at 4 in the morn-" she gave me a death glare right before I could finish, something told me that if I finished that sentence I'd end up with a hole in my chest again. " Anyway Ray, before we end today's training I would like you to pick three weapons of your choose. Those three weapons I will teach you every fighting styles I know with them. The reason for this is punching a Wicked is good and all, but Wicked can only truly die form one thing. Your blood. " she said

Three weapons huh? I thought for a moment I spoke. " My first weapon will be a Katana. It can cut things easily and it's very versatile and easy to move with for a sword. My second weapon would be a Kunai Spear, just because "Mortal Kombat" of course. My final weapon would be a scythe.