161 Tenacious (1/2)

In the end, Faust just lays on the ground with his face covered with dust and his head buried in the ground and cries.

”Faust! The fear you feel makes you brave if you can overcome it and the pain you feel will make you stronger if you endure it. Learn to fail, make new mistakes and learn from them” Gus shouts to Faust in a cheering tone.

Faust gets up on his feet slowly while wiping his tears. Those tears were not tears of cowardice or helplessness, this time they were the tears of not being able to do anything and feeling worthless.

*”My element of surprise has been used up already in my first attack. I don't have any more aces up in my sleeves. Nor am I as fast as Tim to evade. But I have seen most of the moves now. I might be able to do this.”*Faust muddles to himself determinedly.

Faust carefully recalls the foot movements of Tim. The way he was moving fast, the spins, the body balance and the defence and strike at the same time.

*”This time, I'm going to do it”* Faust thinks to himself and charges forward towards Tim once again.

Blocking and evading Faust is easy until now for Tim, but this time somewhere in his head Tim is having a feeling that Faust is catching up to him. The round house kicks, hand movements, blocking every move of Tim's with his wrists and blocking and guiding away the punches of Tim with the back of his fists and with every move, Faust is looking as if he is imitating Tim. It's is almost Tim is fighting himself in the mirror, perplexed.

*”What is this? Is this really someone who doesn't know the martial arts? His moves are suddenly sharp and matching Tim's. Did he just learned those moves while watching Tim move on the ground just now? This is Impossible yet miraculous!” Yang thinks in his head loudly as he keep getting more surprised by Faust's abilities.

*Bam!!~~*

It's a hit on Tim.

”This is bad, Tim has got hit on a particular meridian of the heart, his meridian will be closed and it is life threatening! His all working meridians will be closed now!” Yang's face becomes creased with a sense of tense and danger in his voice. He's worried for Tim, but then at the same time he still want to know what Faust got with his skills.

”Huh? Hahaha You got me Faust.” Tim laugh and smiles at Faust naturally.

Faust did not hit the meridian, he just tapped Tim after getting close to Tim. This is what his intentions were all this while. To just touch Tim as a tap after getting close to Tim.

”I don't want to hurt those that I meant to protect.” Faust says and withdraws with a sense of relief and happiness.

He doesn't wanna continue spar anymore, he reached his goal and that was more than enough for Faust to prove himself. A satisfactory smile graced his lips as he accomplished his goal.

”Gus! Did you notice it too? The level of understanding and grasping everything after witnessing it for just his first time is amazing and he implemented them in a minute. Your grandson turned out a genius!” Yang makes an excited statement in astonishment.

”Faust, please become a student of mine and let me teach you.” Yang walks up to Faust and requests him politely as if he could never get a student like Faust and teaching this style to Faust.

”Please take care of me master.” Faust agrees and  willingly nods with a bright smile.

Gus, Tim and Yang are more than delighted to see Faust smile for the first time in a while.

Faust is smiling all the way while going back to home.

As soon as Gus and Faust reaches home. Faust sleeps beside Bella in her little bed ”Bella, I swear I will never abandon you again and will protect you with my life.” Faust quietly whispers to Bella eventually falling asleep with a smile still on his face.

The next day, Gus calls for Faust who just finished his rounds around the village.

”Faust, I want you to help me with finding a book for me.” Gus says to Faust.

”Sure grandpa, where did you keep it?” Faust is all ready to help his grandpa and make himself useful.

”It's in the attic, in a black wooden box. Take this key to open the box and bring the book down here.” Gus tells Faust as to how to do his little errand.

Faust goes ahead to find the box and unlocks it, he is caught off unguarded with what he saw, a book with a drawing of a long katana on it.

”I've got it grandpa, please take it.” Faust was curious but brings the book that seems to be some kind of manuscript to his grandpa, but Gus didn't take the book, instead he told Faust to read and study the first ten pages.

”Read what it says on the book cover” Gus told Faust.

”Hmmm... Unholy sword arts? That's what it says.” Faust reads carelessly while looks up at his grandpa with a questioning expression appearing on his face.

”I'm going to teach you how to use a sword” the words said by his grandpa echos in Faust's ears, while he is mopping the floor with a long broomstick but in place of the brush and stiff fibers, this broom stick has braids of cloth as brush. And when it's soaked in water it gets wet and makes it hard to move the broomstick even on the ground because of the massive amount of weight on the braids and for a kid like Faust it's like tons of weight to move.

”In a zig zag motion Faust.” Gus tells faust while resting on the couch behind and watching Faust mop the floor.