now stopped. He felt… different. As he moves his eyes around, his vision was now wider and further, his sense of smell and hearing had changed. He could feel a burst of energy from deep within him.
“It rains blood once every month Albedo; you need to feed at least once every month. If you don’t you won’t have much physical energy to use your ability,” said Sonia.
Even in the morning she smelled remarkable.
“Now that you’re awake, we still have time for a little run before school starts.” She had a warm smile now.
In a couple hours school will start soon. They had been up in the roof almost all night.
Albedo put on the gear once again, this time it felt less heavy. “It’s not as heavy as before, I feel stronger and faster and my vision is—indescribable.”
Sonia removed the hood of the black cloak off her head. Albedo stared as her beauty, which continued to fascinate him.
“Since you’re stronger and faster now, how about we get started.”
Albedo started running, he ran through the woods and leaped through trees, his body was more flexible than ever. He stood on top of a branch; a leaf fell in front of him. He watches as it falls in slow motion, swaying and floating in the light breeze. His vision was so vivid that he could see the veins on the leaf.
“You can see it, can’t you Albedo? Our visions are so accurate that nothing can escape our sight. It’s one of the reasons that I love to stand in the rain and watch it fall. The way it drops slowly around you,” said Sonia. She closed her eyes while expressing to Albedo how much she loves the rain.
“Yes, I know how you feel. This feeling is amazing!” said Albedo.
After three weeks Albedo quickly saw that his energy, speed, strength, vision and balance started to increase dramatically. Sonia was amazed at how quickly his strength was morphing. His training with Sonia was intense; she had him lifting heavy rocks that would take twenty humans to move. His muscles were growing. He had now been training constantly.
“Good, now it’s time to teach you how to fight,” said Sonia.
Albedo notice she did not asked him to take his gear off. “It’s not fair that I have to fight with all this weight against you,” said Albedo jokingly.
“It’s only heavy if you think its heavy Albedo. Just remember to use your vision, when I attack you watch my move and counter,” said Sonia.
Albedo started remembering how vividly he saw the leaf falling, how it danced in the air before touching the ground. Alright Albedo you can do this, she might be a girl but don’t let that fool you. She’s a member of the Black Reapers .
Sonia moved in with guided deliberate swings and smooth kicks confident that Albedo will be able to tune into his powerful reflexes and learn to block before she can strike. She attacked him with her left punch. Albedo watched her fist coming towards him, it felt as if time had slowed down a bit and each movement her knuckles made he could see it! Her right fist caught his left jaw with a powerful blow. The shock pushed him back and he stammered almost falling to his knees. He touched his face but no blood was coming out, it only hurt a little bit.
“I said focus not sleep,” said Sonia.
They continued. Albedo’s senses received this intensity so much that it truly was in slow motion but he still needed to quickly speed up his reflexes to catch and block the punches. He felt that his body was harder now. He could see her movement as her fist tried to clash with his face, just as she saw his. Whenever Sonia swung with her left, he managed to block it, but her right always managed to catch his jaw. As fast as he thought he had become, Sonia was much faster.
“Not bad. You’re learning fast. Let’s stop for now,” said Sonia.
“No! I can keep going.” As he was about to throw his next punch, his head started spinning, he became dizzy and began to
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