New Anomal

Chapter 6

Trigger Warning: PTSD/Phobia?

Espes POV

As Sage woke me up I made sure she was turned around considering how she never saw my face and I don't really want her seeing my face yet. I get up and walk to the bathroom and put on my outfit of the day. A faded purple hoodie on top of it, a dark cyan T-shirt, I put on black leggings and then navy blue shorts. I brush my hair with not much effort considering I have short hair. I walk out and grab my mask and walk back to the bathroom to get my shoes and I look in the mirror.

' Even though I've known Sage basically my whole life I still can't get the confidence to show my face...' I thought to myself

I put on the mask and put on my mixed purple and cyan hightops and walk to the door and open it to find Red and Sage talking.

Red led us to a training room and asked us about our fighting styles. I'm more of a melee or close range, It doesnt mean Im a horrible shot it's just a little difficult with the mask on.

" Ok Espe you're going up first! " Red exclaimed

" Ok against who? " I questioned

" Me of course. Unless you want to go up against Sage?"

' Hmm going up against Sage sounds fun, but i don't want to accidentally hurt her ' I thought

" Nah. that does sound fun though. I wanna see how you fight " I say

" Alright. Let's get started " He excitedly says

" Alright " I say smiling

" Oh! By the way sword or dagger first " He asked both of us

" Uhhh I guess dagger first " Sage says. I nod

" Ok! We can do sword tomorrow" Red says handing me a dull dagger so it won't do that much damage

Me and Red go out into the middle. There's not that many people but there were some which I felt a little self conscious, but ignored it.

I get into a starting position so does Red. He asks Sage to count down for us.

"1!" Sage starts

I start to feel nervous

"2!" Sage continues

I push it down and replace it with confidence

" 3!" Sage shouts

I slightly crouch even more

" GO! " Sage yells

Red lunges at me and I quickly go under him since he is 6 '3. I quickly turn around and kick him on the back. He stumbles forward like how i wanted him to, but as he falls he uses his hands to flip himself up and turns to slash at me. I dodged him by dashing to the side and I grabbed his arm, which he looked surprised at and I kneed him in the stomach and flipped him over. He quickly gets up and we circle each other trying to find an opening. Eventually I found one and went for it, but I got punched in the face, I didn't hurt but I was a bit surprised. I fell and he ran at me but I swept his feet and as he was falling I used my dagger to "slash" at his side. Obviously no blood is coming out the dagger is too dull. He got up and lunged at me again, but instead of going under him I kicked him in the chin while doing a back hand spring. I swiftly land on my feet and dash towards him. He quickly recovers and grabs both of my arms and kicks me in the stomach and flips me over. I land on my back and see he's about to strike my head. I roll over to the side and get up. He runs at me and slashes at me I dash backwards out of reach and kick his dagger out of his hand. I run at him and he grabs my arms and we struggle for a bit. Eventually I let go of the dagger and hop onto him and wrap my legs around his waist and fall backward and I use my arms to balance me and I flip him over using my legs. He seems stunned and I take this as an opportunity to grab the dagger and go for him. The dagger is an inch before his neck, one of my feet is on his chest while my other foot is on his left arm, I'm holding his other arm with my hand.