The Beasts of Men

Chapter 31

He points a bent finger at Elijah. Elijah makes a confusing look? As soon as he beens it an arrow pierced Elijah's shoulder. "Aww,"Elijah yells in pain . "That's one scary finger," Elijah says, pulling the arrow out. "It's a crossbow, be careful, he turned it invisible so you won't be able to see it once it's coming. Sarai  said. "That's really cool but we really don't have time for this. Ghost" Elijah called. Ghost appeared from Elijah's own shadow. "What the heck is that?'' the vixen male said. "No point in telling you you're not going to remember." Ghost charges straight for him. He lets out a barrage of arrows that destroyed the wall behind the shadow looking figure . As soon as he made eye contact with Ghost he fell unconscious. "What the heck is that?" Sarai  said. "Some kind of instant kill? "That is exactly what I thought it was, honestly" Solomon replied. "Relax, he's not dead. But I told you that I wanted  my clones to have some of  my Anubis class abilities and Ghost does. If I enter someone's mind I could fry their brain but if Ghost does he can manipulate their memoires, to some extent anyways." Elijah said. "Out of the two options that I gave you , you ended up creating your own path. My student truly is a genius." Solomon said proudly. "Yea man is pretty amazing". Sarai said, kissing Elijah on the cheek...
"Wait until Ghost wipes her memory of us first then untie her. She'll wonder why she's tied up once she makes up.Which could  trigger her to remember everything again." Elijah says. "So it's not permanent?" Sarai asked. "It can but it can't. Memories make us who we are. The Anubis class can warp minds and mess with the flow of memories but not make new one. I haven't seen or heard of it before. That power alone is still pretty scary". Solomon said. "Have you ever met a Master class Anubis?" Asked Elijah. Solomon thought for a moment. "I don't think I honestly have. But the most powerful one I encountered could manipulate the living so well they called him the puppet master. He was one evil dude. I had to personally kill him." "What do you mean personally?" Sarai said in confusion. "Cause he could have taken over my king..." Solomon paused. "My land." Solomon said, coughing. "Anyways the sword is in that coffin right down that hall." Solomon said, trying to change the subject. Elijah  walks down the hall, opens the coffin and pulls out the spear. He was expecting a massive power up like he would be overwhelmed with power. "That's it?" Elijah said. "I was expecting something amazing to happen." "At least it looks cool, it doesn't seem like it's a High tier weapon like mine is though." Sarai said. Solomon rolls his eyes; "you haven't even put your Spiritual energy into it yet. Once you do you should be able to make it grow and shrink." (There's definitely a joke here I'll let you use your imagination.) As soon as Elijah sent his energy through the staff it grew all the way through the ceiling. "Ohh ok I see how it works now." Elijah said as he shrank the Sword-spear back down. Then he made the blade expand to the point he felt most comfortable with. "Wait, even the blade extends that is pretty cool and versatile." Sarai  said. "See I told you, you'll be able to put a lot of power into the weapon and it will be compatible with your abilities. Since you have two completely different class systems you won't have to use 2 different weapons." Solomon said. "Alright I'll play more with it later right now we need to start heading back to the camp. I don't know how much time we lost fighting those two." Elijah putting the sword in his belt line. They headed back to camp with their faces covered. Sarai asked. How does that after-image ability of yours work? You don't really seem to use traditional techniques." Sarai said, running next to Elijah. Elijah cracks a smile. I use the other person's shadow to create a hollow clone. It is easier to use the opponents instead of my own because once it's summoned it will appear right in front of them." "Ohh ok i see, you put a lot of thought and imagination into that." Sarai replied. "I'm glad you think so,'' Elijah said. "But I did see some flaws while you were fighting. All the moves you used were good but if you used some traditional techniques the flow of battle would have been a lot smoother for you." "What do you mean?'' Elijah asked. "When it comes to hand to hand combat it comes natural to you but at long distances you come up short." Sarai said. "I have to agree with her kid, even in training when She used the Vine whip on you were at a complete disadvantage." Solomon cosigned. "Ugh your right, I guess I'll have to use some traditional techniques." They arrived at camp with Lia cleaning her weapon. "I was just about to go looking for you. I thought you might have gotten into some trouble." Lia said. "We did," Sarai replied. "What happened?'' "Before we get into that I have a question I need to ask you, Elijah said. Lia starts to blush. "I need you to train me over using traditional shadow- walker techniques,before the tournament." Elijah said with confidence.