Ash Burns Versus Zahid Zahir!
Before the first fight begins the teachers of the two classes enter the gym. Jack Dionysus is looking just about as stoic as usual and a woman with long blonde hair and a long white toga.
“It has been a while hasn’t it Jacky.” the woman says with a suggestive wink.
“...Hello Angella…” Jack says with an annoyed look on his face.
“That’s not nice Jacky. Think about the example that you are setting for your students.”
“...Whatever…”
“Oh, I should probably introduce myself. My name is Angella DeLux. I am the teacher of class two for the first year students. It is nice to meet all of you.”
“Alright.” Zari says after she blows her whistle to get everyone’s attention “Jack, Angella, take a seat on the bleachers. Let’s get this thing going.”
“Okay. The first match will be Ash Burns versus Zahid Zahir.”
Both men walk into the ring, but Ash notices that Zahid is carrying something in his hands. They look like thin rings that are made out of metal.
“Hey, Miss Xango. Are we allowed to bring weapons into these fights?”
“Yep!”
“There’s got to be a rule about this somewhere, right?”
“So you want rules. Fine. You are allowed to bring weapons into the ring with you. The only other rule is that in order to win the fight you have to either knock your opponent out or knock them out of the ring. Any more questions?”
“No mam.” Ash responds before turning to Zahid.
“Aight! Let the first round begin.” Zari blows her whistle. “FIGHT!”
Zahid looks at Ash with a stoic expression.
“May the strongest warrior win.”
“Sounds good to me!” Ash says and he slams his fists together while setting them ablaze. He then starts running right towards Zahid.
In response Zahid holds up his chakrams, swings his arms backwards to build momentum, and throws them.
Ash dodges them both with relative ease.
“Ha! You missed!” Ash says still running towards Zahid.
“Did I?” Zahid questions while Ash turns to see what he is talking about.
Ash sees the chakrams that he dodged flying towards his back.
“What?!” Ash says as he quickly shoots a fireball at the weapon.
Zahid swipes his hand and the chakrams quickly change direction.
They fly upwards and quickly fall back down right towards Ash’s head.
At first Ash sends a barrage of fireballs flying upwards, but Zahid uses his powers to get his weapons out of the way of them. As they come closer to him Ash tries to roll out of the way, but one of the chakrams quickly grazes the side of his face.
“Hey! Watch where you throw those things man! Do you want to kill me?”
The chakrams fly back towards Zahid and he catches them. “My intention is not to kill you, but if you die from my attack, then maybe you aren’t worthy of being a hero after all.”
Zahid throws his chakrams again. Ash starts running away from them while Zahid is directing them towards his back.
Ash stops to catch his breath.
“...This…isn’t…fair…”
“The villains that we are going to fight in the future aren’t going to go easy on us. Neither will I. This is how you learn.”
Ash runs behind Zahid and leads the chakrams along with him. Zahid quickly catches them as they approach.
He then quickly turns around and slashes them at Ash who was still standing right behind him.
Ash jumps backwards right in the nick of time.
‘This is impossible! What am I gonna do?’ Ash thinks to himself while panting heavily.
“It isn’t smart to give your opponent such an obvious opening.” Zahid says as he throws the chakrams at Ash yet again.
Ash suddenly gets an idea.
Zahid’s Chakrams are flying right towards Ash, but he isn’t trying to dodge them this time.
Instead he grabs them with his bare hands.
“...Impressive…” Zahid said, while still holding the same stoic expression.
Ash proceeds to use his fire to melt the chakrams with a big smile on his face.
“Not so strong without your toys now are you!”
Rashid doesn’t respond to this attempt at banter. Instead he just quickly seems to disappear.
He suddenly appears right behind Ash and kicks him so hard that he falls onto the ground.
Zahid quickly does the same thing to get back in front of him.
Ash struggles to stand up for a little while, but eventually he is back on his feet.
“...How…Did you do that?” Ash says as if he was almost completely out of breath.
“Since you are about to lose it is only fair that I tell you how my power works. It is the honorable thing to do after all.” Zahid begins to explain.
He creates a little tornado in his right hand.
“As you can see, I can control the wind itself. I am just using air currents to change the direction of objects. This also includes myself.”
Right after he finished his explanation he disappeared again.
Ash looks up to see Zahid quickly zipping from place to place in the air above him before he aims until he aims his foot right down at Ash.
Right before Zahid can land the kick Ash rolls out of the way.
After he struggles to get to his feet once again Ash tries to throw another fireball at Zahid.
He quickly uses a gust of wind to put it out.
“Oh come on!” Ash yells. “Alright, you can handle one fireball, but can you handle this?”
Ash proceeds to throw out an entire barrage of fireballs.
Zahid creates a small tornado right in front of himself and all of the fireballs are put out as they pass through it.
“You know what? It’s time to bring out the big guns!” Ash yells as he starts channeling a ball of fire in his hands.
It eventually gets so big that he has to adjust himself so that the fireball is above his own head.
“Supernova Flare!” Ash screams out as he launches the attack.
A large fiery explosion fills the concrete square that makes up the arena in the center of the gym.
Zahid is nowhere to be seen after it fully dissipates.
“...No…way…” Ash says with a stunned expression on his face.
Zahid is behind him again and quickly kicks Ash which sends him flying.
Right before Ash hits the floor, Zahid appears behind him and kicks him again, and again, and again.
After the previous kick sends Ash flying straight into the air Zahid zips right behind him.
“It’s time to finish this.” Zahid says as he swiftly gives Ash a powerful kick that sends him flying out of the arena.
After the dust settles Ash is struggling to get up again, but this time he fails to do so.
“Well, it appears that the winner of match one is…” Zari announces into her megaphone. “Zahid Zahir!”
After his victory Zahid walks over to Ash.
“You fought well.” Zahid says while extending out a hand.
After a brief pause Ash takes his hand and Zahid helps him to his feet.
“...Thanks…you too…” Ash says with his hands on his knees while panting heavily.
“Don’t worry Ash.” Zari says as she walks towards him. “We have medics on standby. Just walk out into their tent and they will fix you right up."
Ash gives Zari a weak thumbs up and proceeds to limp out of the gym.
Zahid walks towards the bleachers and takes a seat with the rest of his team.
“Okay. Let’s get straight into our second match!” Zari says into the megaphone. “Next up we have Candi Kane versus Samara McNeil!”