To Train; To Teach; To Learn

[Renzenku]

Ren was hovering above the volcano waiting for Ezrion, the volcano was being slightly more active then normal and molten beads of lava were often rocketed upwards splashing harmlessly against the walls of the volcano or Ren's energy shield.

Pele himself could be seen in the depths of the volcano, toiling away at the bottom, forced to control the inner working forever more. The sky had darkend to a misty gray and the sound of drizzling rain heated to steam instantly near the volcano could be heard, the heat from the volcano was near unbearable, the steam blocking vision in all directions.

Still, the rain persisted, never knowing that on its path it would never live to see the previously dry ground, instead thousands of drops of rain a second hit the wave of heat emmiting from the top of the volcano and sizzled instantly, creating more steam.

It was the circle of life here, the rain would fall and turn to steam, rising back to the clouds to presist the raining for days on end. The earth closest to the volcano was dry and cracked on one side, the wind forcing the rain in one direction and the rain never completing its travel.

Still, Pele toiled in the depth of the volcano. The song birds could not be heard this far from the forest, just the constant thrum of rain against the walls of the volcano mixed with the constant sizzle and popping coming from the volcano.

Magma traveled through the crust of the volcano, keeping Ren in constant heat from the crust of the volcano itself. Lava persisted and popped, sending lava spray upwards of one hundred feet.

It was the circle of life here, the rain to pour, the lava to boil, the birds to sing, and Ren was interupting it. Standing in his protective bubble, some rain did not make it to the volcano, some lava did not make it back to its brethren. Some steam did not rise to the clouds, and the birds had long since left since the storm.

Here, it rained and poured for days, and when it stopped, fresh grass and plants would thrive, and all the ground would be moist. Awaiting the next storm forever more, the land itself spoke its mind and Ren was there and interuptting it.

For now, Ren stood, absent minded to all of this, when he was usually in tune to nature. The rain thrummed heavily on his protective shield, massaging his ears with their constant tune and melody. The occasional heavy splat of the lava hitting the bubble, and the sizzling of water to steam. To Ren, at this time, this was nature, the steady rythym of nature, a cortet of noises, a symphony of sound. To Ren, the rain was the piano, the lava the trumpet and the steam the singers, to Ren it was heaven. He didn't know that to the land, he was an unwanted intruder, he just knew he was there to train with Ezrion, and it made him happy to think of strategies. He just thought he was being serenaded by nature, something he was used to in the forest.

Ren didn't know, that in this unknown enviroment, to him, he was the intruder. Not the next guy, him, to the fauna in this area he was interupting their regular cycle. But he didn't know, he didn't hear Pele roar beneath him, safe in his bubble, Ren was content.

"Damn, Ezrion is taking forever!"

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion ran up the side of the volcano avoiding most of the lava spewing over the top. As he reached the top he spotted Ren in his bubble and shouted, "Sorry to keep you waiting!"

He walked up to the ridge of the volcano and watched it churn and shoot out chunks of molten rock and lava, then looked up at Ren and said, "What's up with the volcano? Why is it suddenly so violent?"

[Renzenku]

Ren looked up, "Iunno, I suppose it's just active right now... May have to watch it..."

Floating up to the volcano's rim height, Ren smiled, "So, when we starting the spar?"

[Ezrion Alexander]

"Well I'm ready if you are," Ezrion replied while stretching.

[Renzenku]

Ren smirked, "When am I not ready?" Placing his hand at his hip, pointing downwards, he used his Either energy to surround some lava, raising his palm upwards a sword rose from the lava.

When the sword was nestled firmly in his hand he smiled, "You first..."

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion opened a portal a drew his latest sword out of its scabberd. He feinted for Ren's left, then stabbed at his right thigh.

[Renzenku]

Ren smiled, somersaulting over Ezrion's head, he stabbed backwards at Ezrion's back. Feeling the weight of his blade plunging into thick muscled skin he dragged it out and felt it come free, spinning around he tripped Ezrion up using his blade, and into the volcano.

Smiling down at Ezrion as he fell.

[Ezrion Alexander]

As he fell Ezrion healed the torn muscle and skin. When he hit the lava he was instantly shot back up by a jet of magma that hit him in the back. Using the propulsion he flipped up and landed on Ren's shoulders and stabbed him in the right one before flipping sideways and cutting a long but shallow gash along his left side.

[Renzenku]

Ren smiled, the wounds healing almost as they were being made, "Meh..."

Turning around to face Ezrion he flipped his hands into a clawed position across his chest he slashed diagonally outwards, threads of energy whipping around to follow the same path.

The razor sharp threads spun around Ezrion and into a cocoon of razor energy.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion sent out waves of his energy that cut the cocoon into four sections. He then blasted them away from him and rolled his shoulders. After gaining some freedom of movement he sliced at and blasted Ren with energy.

[Renzenku]

Ren jumped back, and let his blade take all the energy blast. Smiling he moved behind Ezrion and kicked him into the rock face of the volcano.

Ren turned to look at the tree's while stepping down harshly on Ezrion, when he turned back he noticed he had caught Ezrion in the privates, backwards, with his foot. Slowly lifting his foot off he jumped back and waited.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion gripped his croch and rolled side to side, sending energy to sooth the pain. He then jumps to his feet and round house kicks Ren in the face. He rushed forward and tackled him to the ground. Standing above him, he smiled ferrally and stabbed him the gut.

[Renzenku]

Ren looked down, then back up, then down, then up again. Frowning slightly he light placed his hand on Ezrions arm holding the sword, and gently blew it up.

Knocking Ezrion back, he grabbed the blade in his stomach, wrenched it from his body, healing the wound, and pried Ezrion's hand off the hilt.

Standing and walking over to Ezrion he stabbed him in the gut and wrenched the blade side to side, pulling it out backwards by the blade, the hilt going through Ezrion's stomach.

Placing a hand out, in a stop motion, with a smile on his face he adressed Ezrion, "No."

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion lay on the ground in a pool of his own blood slowly reforming his arm. Once done he began healing his mangled insides, coughing up blood the entire time.

He got to his feet shakily and slashed an x across Ren's chest with energy. He peeled the skin back with his energy and punched his exposed inards. He then grabbed Ren's wrist and broke it and removed his sword from Ren's grip.

[Renzenku]

Ren poked his head over the rim of the volcano, "What are you doing? I didn't even know you got here..." Ren had been in his bubble, which was mostly soundproof.

Seeing his sparring buddy on the ground, bleeding horribly, Ren smiled, "Oh, you thought my buddy that I was sparring with was me? Nah, I'm not that weak." Walking over his reached down and ripped of the clone's head, it poofed away to nothing.

"Dude... Your in pretty bad shape... From fighting my clone... Wow... Anyways, I'll just pick up where you people most likely left off..."

Dashing behind Ezrion, Ren summoned a sword a cleaved off Ezrion's hair, then stabbed straight into Ezrion's right calf. Flicking the blade to the left and making Ezrion do the splits, adding in two quite slashes that cut off both of Ezrion's feet, making him fall.

"At least your not a clone, I can tell if you were. There's a slightly different energy signature, it's weaker. But no, your just your usual weak," Ren smiled.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion fell onto his back after losing his feet then he reatached them and healed the stab wound in his calf. He got up and felt his head. "Dude, I didn't ask for a hair cut. What the hell?" he asked, "And I'm not weak."

He moved to Ren's right and stabbed him in the ankle, then kicked the exact spot he stabbed, causing Ren to lose his balance and fall to one knee. He jumped over Ren and cut open his back then jumped away.

[Renzenku]

Ren sighed, he grabbed Ezrion and chucked him to the rim of the volcano, dashing after him he stabbed him in the gut; lifted him up, and flung him into it. Blasting thousands of light speed lasers after him.

Then Ren healed his wounds, "Sigh, sigh sigh..."

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion opened a portal as he fell stopping all the lasers from hitting him. Once he was about ten feet in the lava he healed his wounds. He surfaced and grabbed the ledge and flipped himself up and out.

Rushing forward he slid under Ren and slashed him in the ankles then stabbed him in the back and lit his blade on fire, sending the flames coursing through Ren's body.

[Renzenku]

Ren blinked slightly, "That...was a REALLY big portal..." Looking down at the blade he shook his head in pain, placing his hand a few inches above the blade he summoned the orb of attainment.

Shattering the blade was a painful process for Ren, as some of it shattered while in him and into him, but he healed those wounds. Flipping back onto the very rim of the volcano Ren smiled, windmilling his arms to prevent himself from falling to the volcano.

Holding the orb of attainment in his right hand he placed it above his head and started to squeze it, "You can fight Gabriel..."


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[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion ran up to Ren and spata kicked him into the lava. He then watched the other fall.

[Renzenku]

Ren fell back and curved his body over the orb, proceeding to try and crush it. A fist exploded from the lava and rushed up to meet Ren's back, pushing him up into the air and searing the flesh from his body, Pele was getting his revenge.

Nothing but Ren's organs and pure Either energy was left, the Orb of Attainment slipped from his grasp and into the lava, melting into nothing. Ren's features down-turned, his mind moving like molasses in comparisen to the situation. Grains of energy floated from the orb into the air, forming a spirit Gabriel, "I am forever gone, use my energy. Space is yours..."

The energy whisped into Ren's body and he bucked on the fist of lava, small comets and planets started to rotate his body. Pele reared his right hand back and Ren started to fall again, before Pele punched him thousands of feet into the air. The lava swished into the left of the volcano, and a comet the size of the sun smashed into Ren, exploding three seconds after intial contact.

Ren's body was rocketed back and several feet into the ground on the other side of the volcano. Ren climbed out of the hole and looked at himself, his body was unharmed. Glancing at himself he smiled, noticing a power increase, "I feel at least 3 times as powerful..." Stretching he held out his left palm and a small black hole formed above it.

A heavy wind picked up, flowing into the hole. Clenching his fist Ren smiled even wider, "Yes... Gabriel's powers..."

Opening his right hand, Ren announced to Ezrion on the other side of the volcano, "I HAVE SPACE NOW!!! WATCH THI---" A wormhole formed in his right hand, and sucked his body into it piece by piece. His mouth, eyes and hands the last to go.

Less then 5 seconds later Ren was diposited back onto the same soil, at the same time, "What... What happened?" Ren had aged 6 years in 5 seconds, gaining all the knowledge of that period and the complete knowledge of his 'new' space power, his power itself had only increased by 1.2 times.

Ren's body also changed itself, gaining complete immortality, in the sense that he could no longer age.

Ren didn't notice any of these changes, forgetting at the moment it ever happened, "I HAVE SPACE NOW!!! WATCH THIS!!!" A perfect black hole, the size of a watermelon appeared above his outstretched palm, a howling wind picked up and into the Black Hole, Ren smiled, slightly surprised, "Nice..."

The older Ren was wearing different clothes, a long white cloak with a high color, a beautifully crafter gold helm made of a odd energy signature, and other various pieces of armour here and there, such as golden gauntlets with purple opals set in them. Which promptly melted into his skin, to be summoned at his will later on. Five pairs of wings flicker behind him, his eyes flickering bright white light, his palms flickering white light.

His skin settled, Ren stood, his eyes with a far more serious tone to them and an air of experience and tone.

Walking to Ezrion, Ren smiled, "It seems I got some more power..." Showing him a pea sized black hole.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion stared at Ren, "Dude what happened to you? You look.... Different." He walked toward the other staring intently taking in his new features. "Dude could you suck me into one of those things?" he asked.

[Renzenku]

Ren smiled, "Technically..." He walked up to Ezrion, lifting his fist, "Don't worry, your safe though..."

Bonking him lightly on the head Ren gasped, Ezrion was knocked backwards and tumbled backwards for seventy feet or so.

"Shit, sorry man... Don't know what's happenning..."

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion lay on the ground, his head resting on a solidified chunk of magma. "Ooowwwww," he said before rubbing the back of his head. He returned to his feet, walked back over to Ren and just stood there looking at him.

[Renzenku]

Ren glanced at Ezrion, and noticed he was under scrutiny from said person, "What? Do I have something on my face or something?"

Rubbing his face with his hands, Ren watched Ezrion's reaction to see if it would change. When it didn't Ren cocked his head to the side, "What?"

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