"you all did well for the first day of training!" sam gave a cheer before handing out the fruit juice he made when no one was looking. his were a lot less cheerfully drained from their training, daniel was lightly smocking from spending the day in the volcano, sam had wrapped Tyrone in several blankets was sitting dangerously close to the fire. Garry was mumbling curses under his breath glaring in the direction of the lake" this is hard I know but you all did so well so don't feel bad, I have cookies!" they weren't paying him any attention this trip was gone be longer then he planned,' my fights in a few days right?'

"I'm gonna have words with sam when he gets back" Natale looked over the paperwork he and his wife were doing about the damage that was done by the puppets, well the damage they were blaming on them." he ran to avoid the paperwork, not the police, back at camp sam suddenly started laughing, "I've been found out! kekekekeke!"

"Frankly we should have seen that coming last week he flipped off a cop who looked at him too long" sighing she rubbed the tension out of her shoulders. "I wonder how the training trip is going?" they both felt for those kids, "any way we should send this stuff to be processed." stretching out she prepared to email the paperwork and they should hear back in five to six business days.

it was the third day of the training trip and sam had remembered his fight was happening in the next day or so.' gotta start putting them on my calendar," the fights were for fun so low priority and easily forgotten." is should probably have them do alternative training at the time, he didn't expect them to finish there training that soon but he been surprised before so. 'i could have them to some image training or have them hunt there own food. the faded demon part of him disagreed with this last one feeling it was risking the health of his. 'so time I don't get the demon mindset I'm literally watching one of them dangle in a volcano and the hunting upsets it,' letting out a sigh sam looked at daniel with his third eye.

through his skin muscles and bones, he could see the energy flowing through his body, he could see the progress he was making. the heat was gathering evenly throughout his body in a few days he might be at the point to condenses it, 'gotta remind him to go in the lake for that.' changing back to his physical senses sam turned toward that lake where small explosions were accruing, he knew it would be a little longer before Garry completely gave into his rage.

now to check on Tyrone, descend the mountain he made way to the cave. when he got close sam sealed his hearing, he ignored the cave effects as he entered it. 'farther in than I thought' whatever caused the life threat was at the end of the cave, the deeper you went the stronger it got. when sam first came here he went about 10 feet in before his legs locked upon him, he found Tyrone at eleven feet.' in a way I should feel surprised, all these years he still afraid of that bitch' a smidge of bloodlust leaked from sam alerting Tyrone to his presence.

[what are you doing ?]

"checking up on you, so how you feeling?" sam took a seat on the ground

[cold] sam didn't say anything seeing the look on his face [do you know what's causing this?] sam told him the truth. [can you go look?] sam told him the truth before getting up and heading deeper into the cave. it was longer than he first thought probably two football fields but sam could careless seeing the source of the cave power. a child-sized skull, pure black except for a blood-red marking on the forehead a marking sam knew from his childhood.

"y-you kn-know i-in a wa-way i-i'm no-not su-surprised!" sam stopped speaking to get himself under control but it wasn't working. the memories of his childhood couldn't be brushed off, getting his feet back under him he headed back to Tyrone. "the th-thing! at the end of the cave is s-something you must never touch!" the younger male nodded without hesitation, he had never heard sam's with such venom or stuttered. there was no way in hell he was going near it.

"good" he was claiming down himself but that didn't stop himself from sitting down next to Tyrone and reminding himself memories was that and nothing more. he stayed there a good while before opening his third eye and looking into Tyrone's mental power,' wow' it had grown out of his predictions, no not grown unleased would be more accurate. the mind possessed incredible power but to release it was the challenge but Tyrone was doing it.

'at this rate he'll be ready before Garry!' sam then felt a weak aftershock, "maybe?" they were all morning faster than he thought they would, he was prepared for months. it may not even take a month to get to the point they could return home and he would be worrying about them. ' in terms of power at least skill can be worked on later.' feeling better and knowing he had to prepare lunch soon sam got up reluctantly and felt the cave.

outside mana flowed throughout his body and he raced down the mountain, at the bottom, he leaped deeper into the mountain range. his nose was at its safe peek to rank down anything worth eating, hopefully not meat as it the thing they've been eating the past few days with a bit of wild fruit. chacing direction sam chased the trail he caught the scent of, it had a hint of sweet and sour fruity, no citrus.

the source of the smell was a walking tree, an angry one at that seeing as it flung an orange at sam on sight. catching the fruit he procced to taunt the tree catching all the fruit that was thrown at him when he decided he collected enough he lopped a mana loaded rock at the tree. he blames it on the fact he hasn't encountered a walking tree in years and overestimated, the was intended to distract to knock out the tree not exploded it." that works!" he decided before rushing back to the camp at a calm pace not to drop an of the fruit.

when he arrived at the camp he changed his arms with mana before launching the oranges in his companion's directions, his hearing was pumped up to hear if they got it, daniel got hit on the head, Tyrone got lucky and his hit a stalactite, Garry threw his back forcing sam to catch it or let it make a crater. shaking the soreness out of his arm sam realized Garry was getting really pissed off by this one fish, unless" Merida!"

racing to the lake he dived in effortlessly brushing off the shock waves until he found Garry surrounding by hundreds of those annoying fish. he opened his third eye without hesitation and swore up a mental storm, Garry was approaching a rampage." none of that!" gathering his bloodlust he focused it on one point as he swam closer to the tornado of fish. in range, he let it burst out like shotgun pellets, halt the fish tornado and Garry filling their minds with blood death hallucinations.

Garry his paralyzed friend sam headed for the surface where h dragged him to the shore. "ow! did you just slap me?" Garry asked holding his stinging cheek. sam nodded before getting out of the water, "do you remember what happened?"

Garry was silent for a moment before he explained, he had chased the minnow-sized fish back to its nest. since the entrance was too small he decided to break it open, it might as well been a pandora box. hundred thousand of the grey fish burst out surrounding, Garry, they didn't give him hope of escape and barely gave him time to surface for air. he was thankful that sam got him out of it," but couldn't you have done it someway else?!" he could clearly remember what he saw in his mind. sam ripping open his chest before eating his heart whole while it still beat, he gagged remembering that it was gonna be in his nightmares.

"do you remember your rage?"

"it felt like there was a fire no, a sun in my chest" it was the best way he could put it into words but it felt lacking in hundred ways.

"good", they had arrived at camp and sam started up the fire to prevent Garry from catching a cold. "that was the power summoned by your anger, don't ever forget that feeling it will mean much in the next step of your training" when he informed Garry he no longer had to train in the lake, mostly because it was too dangerous to do so. " summon and banish that power as many times as you can during the day."

"that the next step in training, not learning to control it first"

" I can't teach you something I don't know no to mention what works for me won't work for you I learn that lesson a long time ago" sam paused to think how long ago that was, 'in china with that teen who was being bullied.' he smiled fondly at the memories he had a great time teaching him, 'that was the first time I even taught anyone right! thank god he was a patient person or they would have been more headaches for the both of them.

"after you can summon and dismiss the power with nothing more than a thought, experiment like a baby who learned to grab things!" sam told Garry, who was eating some oranges after he finished reminiscing.

"like a baby who learned to grab things?" Garry has been around any baby so he was lost. sam quickly explained the endless wonder and curiosity of a baby, they would grab anything just because they could. "this is another reason I decided this would be the place for us to train, no one will care for the damage you do to this place so try everything!"

Garry looked thought-full for a while before nodding in understanding, but he wasn't sure he could do not after what he been told his entire life. sam could see it on his face the inner battle, he didn't know who to help but he would help where he could for now, "come on spare with me!" Garry didn't get a chance to say no having to avoid a fist to solar plex, sam was relentless in his attack not giving Garry a chance to stand. rolling he grabbed a handful of dirt and throwing hoping to bloke sam's field of vision, it stopped his eyes but sam relied on his hearing to continue his assault getting a solid blow to Garry's shoulder as he let his guard down.

before his sparring partner could recover from the blow the raven gather some mana in his legs for a short boost of power, a dust cloud appeared the same moment incredible pain blossomed in Garry's chest," first!" mid-air a second hit to the ribs, "second!" higher up lower ribber. hitting higher and higher sam called out as he attacked rip after rib until "twenty-four!" sticking the last rib with a downward heel sam sent Garry rocking towards the earth. "secret strike" empowering his legs sam used air resistance to beat Garry to the ground and launch a high kick.

"you were still conscious?" he asked the one who just caught this foot. "yeah you ass" Garry's ribs were killing him a bit more force and they would be broken. when sam brought the leg down Garry push off landing on his feet this time, he flooded his limbs with mana just in time to block sam's leg. grabbing the limb he pulled the raven close for s punch, but bending back he planted his hand lashed out with his other leg. unhanding the leg to avoid the other Garry attempted to sweep out sam arms but he flipped away, "god damn" it was like every time they fought he could see the difference in combat experience.

charing Garry unleashed a relentless stream of attacks, sam weaved through them smiling in enjoy.' he probably hasn't noticed yet,' after accessing his power for the first time the angry energy was leaking as he got annoyed. it was weakly coating his body,' it won't do any damage at this point' digging in his heel sam grabbed one of the punches and flipped Garry onto his back knocking the air out of him.

gaining some distance a mix of bloodlust and mana leaked from sam's body "now if I remember correctly!" the mix thing gather around sam's right just as Garry got to his feet. he didn't know what sam was preparing but he knew it would be bad for him. to bad by the time he got to sticking range it was complete, "battle illusion direct transmission. the moment sam's tight fingers touched Garry's head he was no longer in the mountain range.

"well fuck", his eyes were wide with horror feeling the thick blood around his feet. it clung to him as he moved, no it was climbing him like thousand of insets. HAHAHAHAHAHA, where was that laughter coming from he matter how he turn it felt like it came right next to his ear. he needs to leave but the moment he tried to run something grabbed his ankle, both of them. falling face-first into the crimson liquid copper filled his mouth, he barely got to try and spit the taste out but more hands burst from the blood as the laughter increased.

"there small!" that hand the voice they were that of children hundreds of human children. his reflection in the blood changed to a decomposing face, it was a little girl. the cause of her death was clearly some kind of blunt head trauma, the innocent smile was horrible she was missing part of her mouth. when the face rose from the blood Garry tried to pull back but the hands only pulled him closer. can I kiss you?

"FUCKER!" Garry screamed at the top of his lungs before fainting.

"that may have been too much?"

'if you think so my lord' sam would deni the minor flinch at the return of the voice in his head. but the helper's return meant they were done with the job sam gave them.

"How did it go?" he asked as he moved Garry's body to a more comfortable spot.

'very well, I analyzed the production of the beast's puppets! replication is now possible!"

"good now use the mimic slimes to make your own body!" sam instructed.

'I'm sorry what?!'