The two gamers stand ready to fight, one a bit gamer that controls all 8 Bit games VS the MMO gamer that has infinite potential for growth in power and lives life as if it were a MMO. the powers get ready to fight in an epic battle, brothers now ready to kill each other. the stage is the Three Fists Academy Arena and the goal for John is killing the headmaster and the goal for Michael is to save his brother from madness.

"Bloodlust Projection" John said in a stable monotone as he held up his left hand. his aura consuming so much emotion leaving him in a void of a facial expression or tone. "Fire" he said commanding the ball of a dark rage to kill his opponent.

"Fire Wall" I said blocking the attack, a fire wall can be used as preventative measures to keep things working smoothly, me living an online bit game I developed one early on, so far it remains unbroken even by the Headmaster. however it is draining to use as its MP consumption is high.

"8 Bit Mastery, Bit Cannon" I say this turning my arm into a cannon and it shot a pixel sized light at him, however on contact it explodes dealing a lot of damage and it moves very fast, turns out John moves faster. he vanished to apear behind me. he gets ready to attack with a left handed punch, I block without even turning around, He may be faster however I have a higher Defence then he does Strength. I then turn around and start charging a move that will seal my victory. First however.

"Game Zone" I say this and the two of us move to a replication of the world, through my eyes, it has low detail and is made of 10 cm cubed blocks as its pixels however I can fight all out here as it gives a boost to all gaming abilities, yes it helps my bro to however I know how the world works, he does not... maybe...

Bloodlust Aura John's Point Of View

[You Have Entered The Gamer Zone: stat boost by 10% and all game related abilities become 100 times stronger]

[8 Bit Rules: everything becomes comparable to that of an old arcade game in detail however nothing else is different, only how it looks]

"Bloodlist Projection"...

[Bloodlust Projection has evolved into Bloodlust Cannon: this attack takes 20 seconds charge time minimum but does not use Mana, it only uses Bloodlust, deals ??? damage]

Michael's Point Of View

"Charging 8 Bit Final move, Bullet Hell" I said as my MP regeneration stopped regenerating and moved to charging the attack, It should take 5 minuets... Wish my self luck. as I don't have Luck as a stat... Lucky John.

John on the other hand has been charging that Bloodlust Projection for a while now, letting me think is nice but that looks deadly. best avoid that...

my thoughts were cut short as a ball of pure darkness shot through me ripping my top half from my bottom half. simple to say this hurt more then that time I fought the Headmaster. this has to be the 8th? worst pain I have ever felt? maybe 9th?

"8 Bit Mastery, Respawn" I said showing off my most hated ability by everyone I fight, in tournaments I normally dont use any to high class move, however something like revival? you bet there are people who are jelly, I have 3 lives per day, and there is 3 little me icons at the bottom left of my vision, when they are gone, I will die for good. till then, I am OP.

I would say that however my Respawn did not work well as I Respawn into the same attack that killed me the first time. leaving me with 2 lives, and I am not throwing the last one away. think here, I only need to remain alive fro a little longer before my brother looks at my most powerful move. just need to hold out.

"Respawn" I say warping back into the fight and then drink 2 potions of health and 1 of Mana. Being back to full strength I use a strong ability.

"8 Bit Mastery, Difficulty change" I say making the fight and setting it to easy, reducing all my bro's stats by 15%. with this I win.

"Bullet Hell, Activate" I said as a huge amount of large Pixels gather in my hands, to this I throw the attack into the sky and watch, the ball of pixels explodes and each pixel that will instantly kill all who touch are falling down on us in patterns, It is a double edged sword as the bullets kill me as well however I have had time to practice.

and with this, a bullet hell that would put Queen Larsa to shame I readied myself to evade a bullet hell, let me explain, 1 pixel can instant kill no mater where it hits. there is 1000 pixels in a small pixel ball, there are 1000 small pixel balls in a large Pixel ball, and I gathered 1000 Large pixel balls, and from that they made a rare Pixel ball, i then got 1000 of them and made a legendary pixel ball, I then gathered 1000 of them to make a Bullet hell dust shard, you then get 1000 dust shards to make a bullet hell shard, you then get 1000 of those to make a bullet hell core, I then got 1000 of those and threw them to the sky, leaving 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pixels raining down on us in a random pattern set by the Bullet Hell cores.

"Bloodlust cannon" John began charging something stronger then before, the Pixels would not be affected as they had 0 mass to be pushed back with an attack, they are pure energy leaving mass at 0 however they are pure destructive energy, John will die from this and when he has calmed down I will revive him. I only get to revive people once a day and they had to die by my hands. however still useful.

"Fire" John commanded as his attack launched at me. that bastard found a loop hole. still, nothing I can't stop.

"Fire wall" I say raising my fire wall to see it did nothing as Johns attack moved through it like it was not there. damn my luck is horrible today, he got through my fire wall. no matter. it was luck and I can still avoid it. As I said that He charged out of the ball that I had just avoided and punched me in my gut then grabbed me by by head and threw me into the ground, this is not good, you don't want to be on the ground when the Bullet Hell is active as the bullets stay on the ground with destructive energy until the attack is over, I got up and jumped into the air this time suspending myself with my Aura and started avoiding the bullets with minimal movement, it would last a minuet and moving fast would get you...

*Bang*

that, John was now dead on the ground not moving. poor bro. that is a painful way to die, I would know, I will revive you when the Headmaster is back and when we get your aura checked out. wait till then.

"...n..." ...

what was that? did I bring a rat in here with me or something?

"..n...N..." ...

that was a N, "Hello, is anyone else here? let me know and I will revive you if you die" I said that to make sure I don't kill an innocent, that reminds me that old referee was in the room when I started fighting John, but I made sure not to bring him here. hmm...

"...NO, I CANT DIE YET!!!" John said while standing up... his aura immediately disappeared and returned to a blue colour, this made me relax until I looked at his eyes, He still looked angry as hell.

"Is that you John?" I asked to make sure I could relax a bit. but it sure made me happy he was not dark any more, his ski returned to its natural white and his eyes were not dark but sure as hell were angry.

"No it is not, I am Steve... OF COURSE I AM JOHN, more importantly why am I being attacked by a million raindrops of death?" John asked while avoiding the Pixels with all his power, he changed his aura but it was not dark, it gave the feeling you get from a proud and powerful warrior.

"What aura is that?" I asked as I have only seen his blue aura being normal unchanged Mana.

"Dragon Slayer, got it from that Blue Mist Dragon fight after running into the library" He said like he had it tough.

"You do realise there is a sword in the Headmaster's room you could have picked up and tickled that dragon with and you would have had the same result right?" I said pointing out that next to the door the Headmaster has an umbrella stand with 2 blue umbrellas and a sword that kills dragons, random item he got on his travels however it would have worked.

"HE HAD WHAT???" John said obviously recalling all he went through and sad he did not notice such a simple thing, idiot, he could have picked up a random item in the Headmaster's room and threw it at a dragon and the dragon would be dead, however I won't tell John that for fear he gets to depressed.

"So, main question, HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?" I shouted after looking at his body get hit by my Bullet Hell and he got up like nothing.

"If I sacrifice something I can revive endlessly. that is what the game box said" John said while saying something that made me jealous. infinite revive... wait, an ominous 'sacrifice something'.... should I even ask... yes

"What does it sacrifice? Mana or stats?" I ask getting the normal out of the way.

"I can't remember" John said while stopping to think for a second, then being reminded stopping means death he starts moving again, he moves smoothly and easily around the bullets and without needing to leave the ground, he sure is something.

"Relax, if you die I can revive you for a bit of Mana as long as I kill you, so don't use your revive unless we have to, an ominous system message like that cant be good" I say pointing out the obvious.

"Ok, I wonder what I lost? as I just checked my stats and they are higher then when I last looked at them" John said looking at me with a smile. so his stats increased? maybe because fighting at such a high level he was able to level up a few stats

"What are your stats at?" I question, looking at how fast he is moving and how his ability works, I would guess at least 30 in Dexterity and maybe some strength stat for kicking of the ground to move a bit faster. I cant judge anything else as I only fought his Bloodlust form.

"2 stat points in each stat. 2 Vitality, 2 Dexterity, the lot" He said as if the ability he was showing matched with his stat points, maybe it is the aura or something to boost Dexterity. that or his ability upgrades to much.

"Observe" I say while looking at his ability.

[the MMO gamer, would you like specifics]

I click yes and look at a mountain of stuff ever growing and expanding to fit the world around him. so he used so much bloodlust it almost caused permanent mental damage. the fact it could imply it gets stronger worries me... stat of 1 is the base ability, stat of 2 is base ability times 2, stat of 3 is base ability times 3..... shouldn't it be a smaller increase then that, he was already moving fast, at this rate he will be invincible... oh.... ha. it takes him 10 times longer then me to get a stat point. sucks to be him... oh he we go, revival, to revive he must sacrifice ???. what does ??? stand for? come on that is just not fair.

"GRAA" John said as he failed to evade a few of the bullets as he was still on the ground forgeting about the ones beneath his feet. ha... that was fun to watch... did I mention I don't like my brother's ability as it makes my ability looks weak from an objective point of view, I won from a few years of training in the Headmasters Dark room, oh look, speak of the devil and he shall run over the horizon like a bullet and shout in your face...

"Where is Kate. and where was that dark power I was sensing" Said the headmaster, unaffected by the bullets of destruction hitting him from all angels, how did he even get in my gamer zone?

"Kate is outside the Gamer Zone and John is no longer dark, thanks to the Bullet Hell. I have a few things you will need to hear after this. however after that we should be able to continue as normal." I said with a serious expression.

"So, what did he find out and is he going to try and kill me when he wakes up?" The headmaster asked still paying no attention to the instant death bullets passing straight through him.

"I don't think he will kill you however...I don't know much more then the Bloodlust aura wont be active" I said while still avoiding a rain of bullets.

"Ok, I will meat you outside the gamer zone. first, what else do you know" The Headmaster asked.

"I will answer that later, for now we need to wait out the Bullet Hell then head back and fix the Arena" I said while still evading the Bullet Hell I was stuck in. This feels like so long when it really isn't. it is just hard and requires a lot of swift movements. and the ability to fly / remain in the air.

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Chapter 12 - The Dark Room part 1

The training begins in mysterious room, what will happen and will John escape in one piece or several?