Blackthorn - Top Secret Villain School-Chapter 26: The Sandman

The sand beneath Nashoba’s feet ruptured in a blast as Max’s sandy form exploded from the pit and a rough sandy hand met Nashoba’s chin sending him flying back onto his butt.

He quickly rolled himself upright and righted himself, he rubbed at his chin and spat onto the sand below, a bit of blood mixed with his saliva. He knew if he took a few more hits like that it would be over.

Max went back beneath the sand and shot towards Nashoba instantly. He was hopping on ending this fight as soon as possible before Nashoba could come up with a plan to beat him. Nashoba was undoubtedly smarter than Max, he knew that, but Max was smart enough to know if he could close the distance between the two he’d win.

Max popped out of the sand again like a shar jumping from the water to strike prey above the surface, but in an instant his sandy form was blasted back by the ten rings he’d been wearing on his hand prior.

Max reformed his body a few paces away from Nashoba, as the ten rings orbited him magnetically. Max tried to grab at one of the rings but it slipped right through his sandy fingers and suddenly it felt as if was being pulled in every direction by the rings. He stood in the center of the rings stuck unable to move.

"I bet you’re wondering what’s going on, right?" Nashoba said, dropping his fighting stance and walking straight up to Max.

"Y-yeah, why the hell can’t I move?" Max struggled to say.

"You see most sand has a substance in it called magnetite, this sand included. It took me a few tries to get a hold of it inside your form but I eventually was able to magnetize it when you got close enough to me again."

Max’s eyes went wide, he hadn’t even thought about what this sand might contain or if Nashoba could use it against him.

Max looked down at the ground and began to laugh, after a few seconds he looked at Nashoba and detransformed. His sandy skin gave way to his natural pale muscled flesh, as he said "I guess I surrender then, not much I can do."

Nashoba released Max from the circle of orbiting rings and returned them to Max’s fingers with surprising precision.

The both of them hopped out of the fighting pit, and back into the grassy expanse of the forest. All of the combatants looked at each other with silent sense of respect, the kind that can only be forged in fighting.

"Alright" Val said, "The final round is Roxanne versus whoever she picks...since we have an odd number of people." D laughed at Val’s side note earning a look of ire from her.

Roxanne took off her shirt to reveal a constricting sports bar and zipped off part of the pants she’d worn revealing that they were a form of tear away pants. She hopped over the brown wooden bars of the fighting ring and pointed to D, beckoning him forward.

D stiffened, and looked behind himself to make sure she was really pointing at him. He supposed him and Val had been given the longer break out of the two fights so it was only fair.

He hopped over the wooden beams and landed on the sandy expanse once again. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"I hope you know I wont be going easy on you just because we’re roommates." He said in a mocking tone. Roxanne just let out a low groan, she was serious about this. Her eyes were on him the same way a wolf would eye a sheep.

She’d always seemingly had some sort of issue with him ever since they’d gotten to the school. He could never place what it was, even as they’d gotten closer these past few weeks of school. He guessed her hate for him did really run that deep.

The two combatants got into fighting stances and looked to Nashoba who raised his wrist, and the fight bell sounded. Roxanne immediately hopped back from D, knowing from watching him that he would no doubt charge her first.

She was right, D charged her going for an open palm strike to her center of mass, but he barely missed. She kicked up sand into his face making him hop back away from her. He began spitting out the sand as she ran to him and launched a low kick which almost made him fall flat onto his back.

He stumbled but righted himself and went to deliver a return kick, but he realized his leg had been sewn to ground below. He tried to pull with all of his might against the ethereal sewn stitch but it held him in place as Roxanna kicked his bound leg and brought him to his knees.

He put up his arms to block her next blow that went right for his face, A few more hits and he’d have enough of her Glow to undo the stitch.

Luckily for him she unleashed a fast flurry of blows each one poised to knock him out if it connected with his chin. One cracked him in the jaw, another grazed his temple. Finally he had enough power.

In an instant he undid the stitch and brought up his bound leg allowing him to take a shot on her, grappling her to the ground. The two began wrestling in the sandy expanse but D eventually got her into an arm bar as he said, "Tap out! Give up!" Ruthlessly mocking her.

She kicked her legs up giving herself enough leverage to escape his arm bar before delivering a powerful kick to his head, knocking D out cold on the spot. His body stumbled and he fell to the ground with a thud...

When he regained consciousness a few minutes later he was surrounded by his friends and his head rested on Val’s thighs as she was berating Roxanne for going too far. Roxanne simply shrugged and said "Its a fight, what was I suppose to do? Not win?"

"What happened? Did I win?" They all suddenly looked away from the argument between Val and Roxanne and down at D, who smiled weakly...