Python from the Underworld I.

[Cat]

Myra #23 

Myra leniently overlooked how Gabriel tried to hide his arm and sai his reason, why he won. It was a little ironic. The young doctor laughed.

“Well… did you ever read your contract?”

She started slowly and observed his face.

“Because you won, you have to participate in another tournament, so you will surely meet other interesting fighters”

She said silently, but then she quickly changed the topic.

“Alright … time for treatment of your hand”

She pointed with her finger at hand, which Gabriel hod behind his back. It was childish. What was maybe slightly worse, Isaac arrived and laughed.

“Come on, you are really afraid of bandaging your hand?”

He continued laughing until Myra shook her head.

“If I remember correctly….”

“Don’t say it little sister, or the spectators will see another fight with the winner decided from beginning”

He tried to browbeat her, but she victoriously smiled.

“See Gabriel, you aren’t such a boggler as my brother, right?”

She expected an attack from her brother, so she quickly relaxed her body.

“Clef”

She dodged Isaacs punch at the last moment. He surprisedly winked.

“Funny, very funny Myra.”

He growled, but his sister was leading Gabriel outside and looked for some calm place, while Gabriel was worried for the Beast and tried to persuade the crowd about the Beast innocence. Isaac hurried after her.

“Hey, you improved too quickly – where did you and Gabriel learn those techniques? Didn’t you join CP little sister? Right?”

Myra looked at her brother with surprise, but he was obviously frightened.

“Of course not! Don’t be ridiculous….”

She replied to him with shock.

“ Your hand - show it to me. No disinfection this time, I promise”

She had a strange feeling that the world around her got insane. She felt terrible headache all of sudden.

[Mr. Moon]

Gabriel #24 

Gabriel blinked in surprise. Of course he read his contract, just not all of it. And hearing what he signed himself too made him remember Michael and his hour long lecture about “how important it is to read the fine print on every contract.”

“You are joking right?”

Normally, he would resign right away or paid whatever fine was associated with breaking the contract, but if he remembered correctly, there was the part in his contract mentioning that in the case of fighters inability to compete, the manager have to find suitable replacement or fight themselves and even through he had some reservations against Myra and the way she acted the last think he wanted was pulling her into his mess even further.

“Hmmm, guess I can always lose in the upcoming tournament then...”

He wanted to say more, but than Isaac joined their marry company, teasing Gabriel about his broken hand.

“What? Don´t be ridiculous it´s just that it´s not a good time for it right now, let´s go.”
After that, Gabriel made his way through the crowd, calling Beast, who already managed to scare several dozens of people to his side.

Once they finally got out of the building Moon finally let Myra to treat his injuries. Gabriel was calming himself down by looking on the peaceful city around them, when Python made his way out of the building as well.

“Ah, here you are, a little shy for a champion aren´t you?”
He asked with a victorious smile.

“Hmmm"

Python laughed.

“I suppose, that your manager already familiarized you with the remaining parts of your contract, right?”
Moon nodded.

“Well in that case good luck with healing. The second part of the tournament will take a place one month from now. I will fill you on the details later, is that alright with you?”

“As if I have any other options.”

Muttered Gabriel for himself but on the outside, he nodded.

“Yes.”
“Great, in that case, see you in a month.”

As Python leaved the scene, Gabriel switched his attention to Isaac who was suspecting his sister from becoming part of the CP.

“Of course she didn´t. She actually learned it from me...or to be more precise, she learned it from one of my manuals I borrowed to her to get her insight on some of the more medical thing written there. Actually…”

Gabriel smirked.

“if you like, I can borrow you some books to. You see, our Martial Arts Research Institute is always looking for young and promising Martial Artists to join our ranks.”

Moon tried his best to look as friendly as possible in the moment which resulted in a scary, devilish smile on his face. Fortunately, his persuasion attempts were interrupted by Nathaniel who asked.

“Ehm...excuse me master, but would it be possible for you to stay here until my exam?”

Professor´s smile disappeared as he turned back to Nathan who looked honestly worried.

“I am really sorry Nathaniel, but Mr. Python was only part of the things I have to take care about right now, so I can not wait several weeks, until...”

“It´s in two days. The recruiter will arrive in two days.”

He said so quickly that he didn´t even let Gabriel to finish his sentence.

Moon smirked.

“Alright, but don´t you dare to embarrass me alright? You are the man who put me down with single strike, that´s more than any of the fighters in the ring managed. Do you understand?”

With his eyes wide open, Nathaniel looked on his hands as if he could´t believe how powerful his technique was. And once again, Gabriel had to suppress the feeling of guilt.

---

As Moon promised, he waited for two days on the arrival of Marine war ship, that was carrying the recruitment officer. Tall and wiry marine swordsman in his early fifties with the rank of captain. Gabriel refused to accompany Nathaniel to the side and instead of that he found a nice place on the roof of nearby building from which he could watch the whole thing.

Right after his arrival the captain, together with few other marines created improvised testing arena on the port market, that immediately drew an attention of local boys and young men alike. They created long queue, with Nathaniel almost on it´s end.

From his spot, Gabriel was watching as one after another the applicant picked their wooden swords and failed their test. Their arms were shaking, they froze in the moment the captain unleashed his war cry, or they couldn´t retaliate after being hit for the first time.

“Hmmm, interesting. It looks like I actually picked the right choice.”
He muttered for himself with his tone somewhere between surprise and amusement.

Than finally it was Nathaniel´s round. The young man took his wooden sword with confidence, and as the marine captain was approaching him attacked with a war cry so loud and frightening, a cat that was sitting right next to Moon almost fell down from the roof.

Of course, the Marine blocked his attack with easy and counterattacked, however as if he was possessed by some evil spirit, Nathaniel ignored his own hit, repeating the same strike again and again until the marine finally lost his temper and disarmed him. Moon cold easily picture what his apprentice heard in his mind the whole time.
“You call that war cry?! Lauder! Put more of your weight in that strike! Again! Don´t hesitate! Again! Again! Again!”

Only when his wooden sword flew out of his hands did the spell get broken.

“I...I loose?”
He asked surprised.

“What? Of course you did! I live by the sword for forty years kid. If some rookie would be able to waltz in and beat me, it would be disgrace for my uniform, don´t you think.”
Slowly, Nathaniel nodded on the verge of tears.

“Yes, but...”
The marine laughed and patted his shoulders.

“Hey, but don´t worry kid, you passed!”

The young man blinked in surprise.

“I did?”
“Yeah, I mean, you are still incredibly weak and too young to become true marine. But you have courage and that´s more than I can say about all that s***es that applied before you. So you are in Chore Boy…?”
“N...nathaniel”

he muttered, as he finally understood what his training was truly about.

“Alright Chore Boy Nathaniel, welcome among the Marines!”

With a wide smile on his face, Nathan turned to the city, where he noticed Gabriel standing on the roof, saluting him.

He did the same, much to the surprise of the recruiting officer.

“What was that?”
He asked.

“Nothing sir, I just wanted to pay respect to my master.”

The older man looked in the same direction, but couldn´t find anyone.

“Well, whatever, just go to tell your parents and wrap your things. We have few more applicants to test, so we will leave the city in three hours. Understood?”
“Understood sir!”

---

Moon hated saying goodbye and so he give his disciple different type of farewell. After saluting him, he carefully climbed down from the roof as he didn´t wanted to damage his wounded hand even further. After that, he found the nearest delivery boy and paid him for delivering short message to the Marine´s ship. In that message was his congratulations and home address so if Nathan ever needed something he would be able to ask for a help. With that, he headed back to their ship, leaving this island for a good.

[Cat]

Myra #24 

Isaac listened to Gabriel’s response only to shook his head.

“No, books aren’t interesting for me”

He replied with played disgust.

“But if you insist on it so much, it would be rude to deny your kindness”

He added with expression of someone, who was almost forced to agree. Myra must smirked, it was funny how he played something like this. She understood him, he needed to not broke his reputation, but was also interested in manuals.

“Good choice brother”

She agreed with him and wanted to show him some manuals, but they were delayed because Nathaniel was persuading Gabriel to stay longer.

“Perfect, so we have two more days to discuss something”

Isaac smiled victoriously, his plans were simple. He wanted to study Gabriel´s materials and also needed to discuss many things with Myra. So both of them spend next two days in books and by walking and discussing many unimportant things… and few important.

The most problematic part was favor Isaac owned to Myra, they discussed about it and at the and both of them agreed he will take care of Bald pirates and as compensation he would have some profits from Gabriel’s fights.



When the day come, they saw nervous Nathaniel leaving and few minutes after him also Gabriel who was leaving and following Nathaniel. It was funny, and after both of them left they laughed for ten minutes.

They used rest of time for a visit of cafe and then they said goodbye to other. They should meet each other in month, before Gabriel’s fight begin. 

[Mr. Moon]

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