1 The Beginning
Chapter 1
A boy, that looks around 10 years old, is seen running down the street with a bag on his back, dodging the people on the street by makings quick steps to the left and right as he rushes to his destination. This boy is sporting a whit short sleeved shirt with an opening at the top shaped in a v with a bit of his chest showing. He has medium length black hair tied up as a ponytail on the top of his head that swing sat each turn he makes. He also has brown pants that goes to his ankles with a white's sash tied at his waste. He also wears a simple sandal that straps to his feet and brown socks.
The boy slides to a stop in front of a building called "Martial Arts Dojo". There are two middle aged men standing on either side of the door, seemingly guarding the place. They both look down at the boy and smile. "Hey Mars, brought the food again today I see." the man on the right says looking down at Mars.
"Yap, I have both Mr. Lych and Mr. Takins lunch here as well." Mars says as he slides his backpack off and un zips it taking out two lunch boxes. "Thanks kid, also stop calling me mister, makes me feel old." Takins says as he grabs his lunch from Mars. "Yap anyways Mars as agreed you can watch but don't mess with anyone." Lych says as he grabs his as well.
Mars beams a smile as he slings his backpack back on and opens the door walking into the dojo. Mars walks through the halls till he reaches an open area where an old man with long white hair, reaching down to his lower back, is speaking to a group of children, all between the age of 9 and 11. The old man is wearing s simple white kimono with a katana strapped to his waist, as well as wearing white socks. Mars recognizes this old man as the dojo master. Mars never got his name though everyone takes to calling him "Master". Mars nods at the old man when he sees him look over and quickly finds a secluded corned and walks over to slip off his backpack. He then takes a seat while taking out a notepad and a pen out of his back pack then focuses on the "Master".
The old man peeks at Mars for a second then continues on "Martial arts come in varying different styles, they have the Explosive Style, Flow Style, Speed Style, Sharp Style, and the Solid Style. Each style represents certain traits each of us has whether it be having more strength then others, or being faster, or even being able to take a hit. Here, I will teach you the way to figure out what style fits each of you. Of course, these styles are literally the basics of the basics, however, after learning one of these, one must either build upon that style or find someone to teach you their own style. For now, however each of you will go through a series of test to see what style suits you then your teachers shall then begin to instruct you on said style."
As the old man finishes up, 4 people walk into the room, 3 men and 1 woman. Mars looks at each of them and recognizes them as the 4 teachers of the dojo. The one leading the four is a middle age man, about 5'9'' with long dark red hair down to his waist just hanging their looking quite wild. Hes wearing a simple red kimono with a black sash at his waist and his kimono his opened at the top so you could see his muscle mass. Behind the big redhead was a guy with long slick black hair that seemed combed on the daily, sporting a black kimono with a black sash. You could hear girls squealing over this guy in the class. Following him was the only woman with long blue hair sporting a blue kimono. She was about 5'5'' She had quite the good look in both face and body. Once she walked in all the boys started whispering. And behind her was a guy, no taller than 5'1, wearing a simple gray kimono with his hair, silver in color, in a bun on top his head. They all walk behind the old man and stand there. "Now then let the test begin." the old man says as he walks out with everyone following him, except Mars who is jotting down notes on what he just heard. As he finishes, he hurries to throw on his backpack and chases the class to the field where there are dummies spread out all over as well as a track the stretches around for at least a mile. "Now then everyone of you will do each test. Let us begin." the old man says as he slowly sits down and looks to Mars who just arrives with a smile.
Mars, oblivious he's being looked at, sits down onto the grass and slides the backpack off once again as he watches the class. The big guy with red hair walks up in front of the children and says "Alright, my name is Kanto I will be the first. I'll be testing for the Explosive style. For the explosive style strength is a must, now line up in 5 lines in front of these dummies." as he crosses his arms looking down on the kids. Each of them lines up forming 5 lines with 5 students in each.
"Now, each of you will punch the dummies with all your strength like this." Kanto says as he walks up to a dummy and punches out destroying the dummies upper body. "Now, show me what yall got." Kanto says with a smirk as each lead student in the five lines step up. They each punch the dummy while Kanto watches each move the kids make.
Once everyone is done Kanto looks out and sees Mars siting there taking notes. Kanto tilts his head and looks at the old Master with a questioning look. The old man just shakes his head and waves him on. Kanto nods then looks out to the children and says "Alright" as he scans the class and he smirks before going back by the other testers.
The woman teacher shakes her head and sighs as she walks to the front of the class. "Hello class, my name is Sui, and I'll be the tester of the Flow style. For the Flow Style one must be flexible in a fight. Now ill will show you a set of movements you guys try to copy them the best you can." Sui says with a smile as she begins with her movements. Starting with simple steps the moving along as if she were dancing. She stops after a few moments then waves for the class to try. Everyone begins to shamble about trying to copy the moves done. The girls in the class seemed to have it easier than the guys. Sui nods then say "Okay, that's enough I'll let you know who passed at the end." as she looks over class with a smile.
The next the guy, the one in the black kimono, steps and says "Ok, I'll be testing you guys next, my name is Rai and my style is the speed style. For the test ill simply have yall run back and forth from this line to the other 5 times. Make sure to run as fast as you can." as Rai makes a line in the ground with his feet then disappear reappearing 10 meters away drawing another line. The rest of the students line up and run back in forth 5 times each. Rai smile and nods as he walks back to the testers
Then the guy in the grey kimono walks up and looks at the class. "Ok my name is Don, I'll be the next tester. My style is the solid style. I'll have each of you stand with your feet exactly a meter apart and test you on how long you can stand. Now then let's begin." Don says as he walks around the class making sure each student has their feet a meter apart. They all stand there some joking with each other saying "o it so easy." but after 20 mins of standing all the students begin to sweat. After 5 more mins 5 students fall to the ground. After an hour, altogether, all the students were on the ground with shaky legs. Don makes sure they were all down, noting the ones that staid standing the longest and then walks back to his spot with the teachers with a smile.
The old master smiler and stands up dusting his rump off and patting his back a couple of times before walking in front of the students. He looks at each of them and says "Okay ill be the last tester. My style is the Sharp Style and my test is simple." as he turns to the dummies. He then straitens his hand out and swipes it across the dummies neck making the head fly off to the ground. "If you can do this you pass." the old man says with a smile looking over the students. Some of them walk up to the dummies shakily and try to shop them with their hands to no avail. After a while they all give up seemingly no one has the ability to chop the dummy with their hand.
The old master watches the students for a while then turns to Mars who is writing in his notebook. The old master nods to the teachers to take over and they nod back while the old master walks around Mars and looks over his shoulder to see what the boy is writing. What he sees surprises him as Mars isn't writing words but drawing pictures of the move that the he just witnessed with finesse. The old man looks at the other page and is in shock once again at the drawing of Dons standing position. "Young man, why are you drawing these?" the old master asks a bit curious.
Mars jumps at the voice turning around to see the old master standing behind him with a smile. "Uh, oh I'm sorry master sir, I was just trying to copy these for me later." mars say while handing the book to the old master thinking he might be in trouble. The old master nods at Mars and takes the book flipping through the pages showing pictures of each of the teacher's movements during the test.
"This is impressive drawings." the old master says while handing the notebook back to Mars. "oh, thanks." Mars says with a smile as he takes back the notebook and turns back to the page, he was n to finish the drawing while it was still fresh in his memory. The old master smiles at Mar and goes back to the class to finish up and announce the test results. After an hour Mars finishes with his drawings and puts it back into his back pack and puts it on. He looks around the empty field and then at the sky to check the time. He sees it's a bit pass noon so he turns and runs to the dojo doors and slips out waving and saying to Lych and Takin "Thanks for the help guys." as he runs through the street again.
