Seal of Light - Enlightened
Chapter 7: VI : Unfriendly Friend Welcome
Sneaking out of the woods, Mat dashed closer to the whirling black pillar of energy located at the north side cliff of the mountain, where he could see the silhouette of the human figure inside it.
The pillar stands three meters high with a diameter size enough to fit a single person.
Mat wandered his sight around the area. It seems that no one is guarding the pillar. He was expecting a horned creature or at least someone with sharp teeth and a huge pair of bat wings, but his anticipations failed him, at least to keep him safe from trouble for the moment.
"Now, how can I get this person out of this thing?" Mat asked while running his hands around the black pillar.
The person inside could have sensed Mat's presence and started thumping the pillar’s wall.
Mat felt a slight burning sensation as the fish symbol on his right arm slowly lit up. His left hand also lit up immediately after.
Finally, a sign, OK Seal of Light, I hope what I'm thinking is possible. With his left hand now fully lit up, Mat tried to push it through the pillar. He successfully made it with ease. He felt the person inside grab hold of his hand. With a couple of deep breaths, Mat forcefully pulled the person out, withdrawing it from its captivity. The pillar turned into a solid concrete as the person tumbled on the ground after letting go of Mat's hand.
"Thank you, whoever you are, thank you," the person said while trying to regain his poise. He was fixing his monk-like attire and made a huge stretch of his arms.
"No way,” Mat said in a very surprised voice while patting his cheeks. "Rigs?" He yelled. He really could not believe he just saw his friend in this very unlikely place.
"Mat?" equally surprised Rigs replied. "Mat, it is you!"
"How did you..." Mat was interrupted when he felt the presence of another person nearby, he quickly scanned around as he posed for a defensive stance. "We got company."
Another person instantly appeared in front of them as if he was teleported there. He tripped Rigs and quickly swung a full winded punch to Mat.
Mat was able to evade it and moved out of range. He quickly maneuvered and made a counterattack. His strike made a hit and followed quickly by another one.
“Another human being, I was expecting a humongous beast or a winged demon?”
The new comer caught Mat's fist and strongly pressed it, pressuring Mat to his knees.
"That was a very unfriendly-friend-welcome Mat Adam."
"E-Ethan?"
"Ethan, you're here too, but why are you attacking us?" Mat uttered in surprise.
The young man didn't answer. With a fast circular motion, he landed a spinning kick, bringing Mat kissing dirt on the ground. He was still on hold of Mat's fist.
Rigs quickly moved closer and slipped his hands behind and through the arms of the opponent, giving him a locked position resting his palms to his head.
while Rigs
Ethan? What is this fight
Ethan's skin. His eyes turned all black and his aura became
him. Mat rose to his feet and reached just in time to spear Ethan away. Rigs moved quickly to
Mat, I hope your time spent training with Navi'Sai could save you now." Ethan said, but it seems like the
and Rigs felt the sudden change of dark
to emboss and glow. He took a deep breath as he felt a slight
of
of a thin line with an oval head, it is also known as the Ankh or the handled cross. It
of the seal, too bad the both of you won't live
me about awhile ago, he said that you
is here
could have knocked any of them if it only made a clear hit. The two danced away from the attack and thought of something to answer
are carrying, I
I just got out of the pillar, I was inside of
and Rigs to move back to edge
far bottom ground. A fall from this
and only time we defeated Master Navi?" Rigs worriedly
Mat finished talking, Rigs rolled forward
on the face with a very strong round house kick. A follow up stomping
you still got the kicks!" Rigs said as he rose up and watched over
motion landing three quick elbows to Mat and a forceful burst or
crawled at the edge of the cliff and just in time to catch Rigs by the hand,
"H-hang in there Rigs!"
keep hold onto Rigs and tried his every last strength to
down to Rigs then planted his
was just bluffing, what if Rigs really don't know anything about this
was trying to ignore the pain and kept his
starting to lose
pummeling, Ethan decided to push Mat off the
split second, with Mat's body suspended in mid air to his fall, he recalled what Master Navi'Sai told them during their last training day.
defeat the greatest weapon there is and will ever
Friendship.
His seal lit up and strands of electricity crawled down to
made of