Beast Evolution

"You think I can\'t catch up to you" Selena shouted and ran after him.

Ray turned around and saw Selena behind him, she was slowly catching up to him and he increased his pace again.

\'How can she run that fast, isn\'t she a mage or is she using a spell\' Ray wondered.

"I\'m really hungry, early morning training just because of the upcoming tournament, I thought the tournament was going to give us free days but it just brought more training" Ivan sighed as he walked outside.

"We have to train harder than the upperclassmen or we wouldn\'t be able to beat them," a boy said to Ivan.

"I know, but they are also training for the tournament too"

"Even though we train, do we really stand a chance against them" a girl spoke.

"We can defeat them if we put our heart to it" Gabriel spoke from behind them.

The morning training had been converted into a morning class for sword training because of the upcoming tournament, the sword class had finished the morning training and they were now on break to eat and take their baths before returning back again.

"Isn\'t that dude in the swords class" a boy pointed over to Ray who was running towards them.

"We are training and he\'s busy running around," a girl said angrily.

Ivan, Gabriel, Lily, Arya, and all the students of the sword class were outside staring at Ray at he ran around while Selena chased him.

"Who is that woman and why is she chasing him, are they flirting?" a girl shouted loudly.

Ray was so focused on running that he didn\'t see the students looking at him, he turned around to look at Selena again and Selena smiled.

[Dark Binds]

A small dark rope sprouted and caught Ray\'s leg causing him to crash and roll into the sand. Selena stopped close to Ray and she looked up and saw all the students of the swords class staring at both of them.

"Wait...I can explain" Ray shouted as he looked up, Selena wasn\'t paying any attention to him and he turned around.

"Shit...this is bad" Ray turn towards Selena and slowly picked himself up from the ground.

"What is happening here? what are you all doing?" Sir Jake asked as the students made way for him.

He walked to the front and saw Ray and Selena standing still like they were stuck, Alfred and Jake were best of friends so he already told him about Ray, and in case he misses class, so Jake wouldn\'t complain anytime Ray didn\'t attend class.

"Who is that man?" Selena asked Ray.

"That\'s our instructor, what am I going to say, this is all your fault," Ray said with his head down.

"How dare you talk to me like that, how is this my fault"

"If you didn\'t disrupt my plans, I would have discovered a possible conspiracy," Ray said.

"A possible conspiracy...in the knight dorm, what are you talking about"

Jake and the students were utterly surprised, even though they were all standing right there Ray and Selena quarreled like a married couple. Jake walked towards them and they didn\'t even notice.

"When you guys are done can we talk," Jake said to Selena.

"I\'m quite busy and hungry, so I\'m leaving," Selena said and stepped away from both of them.

Selena dashed towards the gate of the academy and within seconds she was out of sight.

"Woah... she\'s fast"

"She\'s definitely a senior knight, maybe we don\'t know about her" the students mumbled.

"If she\'s a senior knight, how does she know Ray?" Ivan asked with a questioning face.

"You want to explain to me who she is or..." Jake stopped midway.

"She\'s...uhmmm... she\'s" Ray didn\'t know what to say, he couldn\'t tell air Jake that he was a mage and she was in charge of training him.

"Follow me," Jake said and walked away.

The students all glared at Ray for different reasons, some of them were angry that he was having fun while they were training, some of them were angry that he was friends with a female senior knight, and so on.

But that wasn\'t the case, Gabriel and Ivan knew Ray wouldn\'t miss training so he could play around, he isn\'t the type to do that.

Jake and Ray walked back to the swords class building while the students went towards their dorm gossiping about an issue they knew nothing about.

"I know that you are a mage, so talk" Jake went straight to the point and Ray blinked a few times before speaking.

"She is my magic instructor," Ray said.

"Okay, I haven\'t met her so I didn\'t know, so what were you guys doing, I was told your training was taking place away from the eyes of others, but you guys were running around" Jake chuckled.

"That wasn\'t training, that was actually a misunderstanding," Ray said.

"Grab two swords..." Jake pointed to the rack where swords were kept.

Ray went over and took two swords without questioning Jake, Jake collected one of the swords and back away from Ray.

"Attack me," Jake said.

"Seriously or training, I don\'t know," Ray said making Jake to burst into laughter.

"It won\'t make any difference, attack me like you are trying to kill an enemy, for now I\'m your enemy, and don\'t worry I won\'t fight back I\'ll only dodge or block"

"Okay Sir," Ray said and took a deep breath.

He rushed towards Jake and swung his sword powerfully, Jake blocked the attack but it push him back a little before he was able to stop Ray\'s sword.

Ray\'s hands were back to normal and his strength was higher than it was and he also infused Ki in the first attack and swung the sword with all his might.

Ray jumped back as soon as Jake blocked the first attack and infused Ki again planning for the second attack when Jake stopped him.