Artificial 7: Genesis Requiem

Chapter 31: Mother And Son

Narration: "Alright. Let's get the show on the road."
Anton walks by Chase and joins his kids in the center of the room,
then Chase teleports back to the kids and announces the sisters,
Akiza and Nero will be sparring Anton in a free for all type brawl.
Caleb would be training with Chase,
but Chase disguised it as play with swords,
which everyone picked up the code word rather quickly.

Sense the sisters were so used to sparring each other,
Akiza and Nero,
they subconsciously agreed to gang up on Anton while Akiza and Nero hanged back.
The four sisters tried to jump Anton,
but this time,
he managed to block, parry, redirect, and deflect any incoming attacks,
and when they did hit him,
he rolled with the punch or leaned his body back enough to minimize damage, and then he'd counter strike.
The sisters' inexperience showed as Anton's years of experience were revealed.

Lilith,
the hot head of the four,
kept fighting more and more aggressively,
abandoning martial arts training Chase put her through.
Anton cast a shadow rune on his body and rubberized it as if it was rubber.
The sister ganged up on Anton as he laughed and laughed at them for trying to hurt him when he felt next to nothing. In the end,
they wore themselves out,
and Anton put Lilith in an arm bar, forcing her to double tap the ground. Akiza approached Anton and elegantly bowed,
and then she took a stance like Son Goku from DBZ.

Nero kept his hands in his pocket,
and for the first time,
Anton took his own martial arts stance. Akiza came in fast,
blitzing Anton with a flying kick to the face right into Nero as he jabs Anton in the spine and twisting his punch.
Anton adjusts himself,
and the struggle is on as Nero and Akiza were mostly in sync now that Chase has properly trained them for a year and some change.

Anton creates a shadow gun and katana and uses the gun to keep Akiza at a distance while the katana slashes and smacks Nero.
Nero pulls out a knight sword from the sheath on his back,
and Anton,
for the most part,
does a good job fending off both, but them have better battle experience, better speed and raw strength made all the differences in the world.
In the end,
Chase called the match as he saw all he needed to see.
"Ok. Now what?"
Anton replied.

"You're facing me."
Selena says so casually.
"W-When d-did you get here?"
Anton stutters out as he starts to back away from Selena,
who was in her casual attire for a change.

"I came in right around the time you fought Nero and Akiza."
Selena replied as she kept coming towards Anton until he inevitably backed himself into a wall.
"You're not afraid of your mom, are you?"
Selena asked in kinda of a mother like tone.

"N-No...." Anton's words and knees say a different story.
"Good..... you should be."
Selena draws a real ninjaken from the sheath on her side rather than manifesting her soul as a sword in the past.
Selena also draws one of her two guns and makes her way towards Anton. (Well shit. There is no way out. I might as well bite the bullet head on.)
Anton thought.

The two approch each other with gun and sword style,
and the first to make a move was Selena as she fired her gun!
Anton diagnally,
horizontally,
and vertically blocks each bullet. Smacking the bullet away with the tip of his shadow katana or cutting it in half by repositioning his block.
Anton fires back shadow bullets from his shadow gun,
and Selena does the same,
but with a lot more efficiency and accuracy.
"You're well trained." She says.

"I had you as my teacher."
Anton says as Selena and him circle around each other until they are within striking range.
Both fire their guns and clash swords, and since Anton had a healing factor. She used real bullets,
whereas Anton's shadow bullets were more rubber like.
Mild crazing on Anton sides and mild bruises on Selena's stomach.
The two mostly kept blocking the other's bullets as their swords kept sliding up and down and around the other's blade to score a hit.