Hybrid: The Begining by Eli The Great (books to read in your 20s TXT) 📖

bomb exploded with smoke and threw Jordan across the field. When the smoke cleared the thing was gone.

Jordan heard applause behind him and turned to see Covan slowly clapping.

“Well, that was a great fight. I never seen a newbie fight like that after their first battle with blades. You learn fast young Nefetari. Perhaps you’re not as much of a failure as I thought”

“What was that?” Jordan asked “I could’ve died!”

“Oh just a trainee here that didn’t do very well to have been learning here for a year. In fact, you know who that person is. I’ll have to tip them later.

“I don’t know anybody here except you if you hadn’t noticed.” Jordan said. Covan ignored that statement

“On more official business, I believe your weapon is a knife. You used it pretty handy with your opponent. But you haven’t tried the other weapons yet so I won’t be able to tell you what weapon is best yet.” Covan explained. “Come with me Jordan”

Covan went to the armory of Temple Assasi and showed Jordan the different weapons.

“There are many weapons in this place as you can see. Some you are required to learn how to use, others you can toy with if you please. One of the mandatory weapons is the bow and arrow. You must learn to shoot at flying beasts or very far beasts. You must learn how to alternate between arrow type. Only certain material can kill a specific beast.  So therefore I shall be teaching you how to do this. Grab a bow and arrow, a vamp-sword, a wolf-sword, and a net. We’re going hunting.”

Chapter 7

On the way to the Forest of the Paranormals, the pair stopped at a gear shop to suit Jordan up.

“Wait, don’t I have to like earn this stuff before you give it to me. I mean we only had two training sessions.”

“Yes, I am aware of that. In the Temple  when you start getting your gear you have to kill a beast. If you kill a Paranormal then you keep all of your gear with the gadgets and extra things that come with it. If not you don’t keep it and we keep on trying until you do.” Covan explained.

“Oh” Jordan whispered suddenly feeling nervous. After Jordan got a black hooded cloak with bright red flames trimming the attire, he strapped his swords in a X to his back and Slung the bow over his shoulder. Jordan put the magic quiver under the sword but high enough so he could grab arrow. Put the knife in a holster on his hip.

“You’re pretty smart. Seems as if you studied how to suit up.”

“Nah. My father had his things like this. It’s just something I remember.” Jordan said sadly. “Hey what do I do with the net?”

“Oh,” Covan held out his hand and Jordan handed the large net over. Covan set it on the ground and said “petit” The net immediately shrunk small enough to be a hair net for a baby doll.

“Alright let’s get to the targets before we hit the woods.”

“What’s the targets?”

“What do you think kid?”

“Things to shoot at.”

“Very good, now please don’t ask dumb questions.”

Jordan was really starting to dislike Covan even more than before. Soon, the pair came to A field with magic targets.

“Some of the targets are made to be weak to wood, some to silver, and some to iron-” Covan began

“What beast is weak to iron?” Jordan interrupted

“You’ll do your research later, boy.To change the arrow metal just say the precious metals name in Skedroan. Wood is Fusta, Iron is Ferro, and silver is Plata. You don’t have to say it aloud you could think the words, but that’s another lesson. Brown targets mean weak to wood, Silver targets mean weak to silver, and Black to iron. Sometimes the brown and black targets will be in the air so your aim has to be absolutely precise. Get me?”

“Yeah, I got you” Jordan responded. “What kind of language is that anyway

“One more thing, there are things that will try to mess you up so be evasive and precise.”

Jordan nodded to Covan.

“Begin” Covan said and the targets whirred to life and began making noise

“Wait, you didn’t tell me how to shoot an arrow” Jordan yelled over the targets

The targets were going crazy.

“Figure it out!” Covan retorted and gracefully flipped onto a boulder and sat in lotus position. Jordan was furious with Covan now but drew his bow and arrow so he could at least try. He tried once but the bow string snapped at his wrist causing him to fumble with the arrows. He saw a brown target and decided to try again.

“Wonkai” Jordan muttered and there was a whirring sound coming from his quiver. ‘that’s pretty cool he thought’

The brown target was moving back and and forth. He followed it with his bow and arrow. He confident he could shoot this.But right when he was about to let go of the bowstring the ground moved and tripped him.

‘Okay so I have to make sure the ground doesn’t get me either’

He took aim for the wood again and followed. He was about to shoot but then a grass hand shot out at him, Jordan jumped to the left still with a clear sight of his target and shot the arrow in front of the brown target so the thing could run into it. The arrow whizzed through the air and impaled itself in the heart of the target. Jordan strategy worked! the target turned silver.

“Silver” he said to his quiver and it changed to the metal. He jumped over a rolling grass hill, rolled under a swinging tree branched got up on one knee and shot the silver target. It hit it but not in the middle, it still did the trick though. Jordan had one more to do.

“Ivedka” Jordan muttered once more. When he heard it change he took aim. He noticed that the iron target was flying. He tried to aim but the thing was evasive. A boulder came flying at Jordan and he jumped out of the way. A grass fist punched his legs causing him to do a cartwheel in midair. It took all his upper body strength to land on his feet. He then had to roll under another swinging branch. This was very hard for Jordan, for his body began tiring. Jordan knew he couldn’t shoot at the iron target so he ran for it, while pulling his iron arrow out. The uppercutting, grass fist came up again but this time Jordan jumped on it and used it as a spring. He flew through the air and stabbed the iron target with the arrow. Jordan was hanging on to the arrow as the target veered to the ground. Before impact, Jordan jumped and rolled to his feet.

    Covan looked at the boy with a satisfied grin. He jumped from his boulder and landed in front of the panting teenager.

“Well, seems you figured that out pretty easy. Impressive. You learn really fast even when teaching yourself.” Covan praised

“Heh. Yeah, well looks like you didn’t have to teach me to evade and shoot after all.” Jordan said

“Well now it’s time to test your sword hand and tracking skills before we start the hunt tonight,” Covan said. Jordan sighed heavily.

“Watch yourself, this is what you asked for, boy. I’m only doing you a favor now let’s get a move on.” Covan ordered and pushed past the teen to lead the way to the sword arena.

***

“I’m going to teach you to sword fight since this I favor this particular fighting style.” Covan said. “First, I’m going to teach you to fight one-handed and the we’ll work on dual wield.Then how to fight against beasts with them. Okay, bring out your silver sword.”

Jordan followed his instructions.

“Now, your stance is one of the main things of sword fighting. You want a stance that no one can penetrate with their eyes before their sword. Being hunters we’re agile and quick. We have to be able to analyze out opponents with speed. Try a simple sideways horse stance and hold your blade on front of you. Don’t let your opponent under your guard.” Covan instructed.

Jordan did what he was told. For Jordan, reading his opponent  was simple, being a wide receiver because he had to figure out how to get past his defender. So in his mind he thought getting under Covan’s guard would be simple. He lunged toward Covan with an outward slash.  Covan merely slid out of the way and poised his self  for the next attack. Jordan was surprised at the sudden change and turned for another strike. He lunged and swung his sword in an uppercut, Covan leaped backwards. Jordan knew if he stopped pressing forward, he’d have an opening and Covan would win. So he stepped forward with a straight jab. Covan noticed the kid’s tactics and knew Jordan was learning. So he swung his blade to parry. Jordan came back with a back slash. Covan blocked. Then it was Covan’s turn on the offensive, he locked blades with Jordan and push him back. He then slashed with great speed, Jordan swung and blocked, Covan pushed hard and Jordan just kept locking. But then Jordan tried to do something never did before. He dodged an overhead

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Publication Date: 11-06-2012

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Dedication:
To Jilian, my best friend, who keeps me going