Killing Intentions - Cirven's Secondary Magic Training (Private)

Cirven then focused for a second and tried using his skills to mimic that of Iyato's. The air compressed into slashes under his slashes and allowed him to walk on them. He quickly learned that the air he compressed only lasted a really short time though when he fell from fairly high up and had to save himself using the Irritum in a floating pillow form to catch his fall. "OK... Going to have to remember that these air steps do not last long at all..." The old man laughed at the man. "You are learning a lot faster than I did after getting your limb blades. There is only one last step now in this training. The limb blades and learning that you can control the air with your slashes are not enough. You will have to focus more and more on your control over your killing intent."

He nodded to the old man and continued slashing the air over and over to gain more of a control over his new ability but the more he slashed the less the air would succumb to his attacks. He started to angrily swipe away but it just completely stopped. "I told you before, boy. Anima Messor is a magic based on your killing intent." Cirven listened to the old man and focused on his killing intent again as he saw the same people flash in front of him and slashed out again and was able to have the air bend to his attack again. "This might be harder than I thought.." He mumbled out as he started to sweat from how much he was trying to maintain his killing intent. He knew he could do it and was forcing himself to learn how to keep it under his complete control but he couldn't so soon it looked like.

As Cirven was practicing Lendis came into the Void Room holding the medicine that Cirven had made sure to get for the old man. Iyato approached Lendis and spoke. "Lendis, we shouldn't need your healing here today. It's mostly just learning control for now." She lifted up the bag to her father when he finished speaking. "He risked his life to get you this. Its heart medicine. He somehow knew what was wrong with you and went out of his way to get this for you yesterday. That was why he was here in the morning. I spent most of the night healing him from the wounds he had." Iyato looked towards Cirven and took the bottle of medicine out of the bag.

Cirven was still trying to focus on his killing intent for his new abilities but was having some difficulty doing it. Iyato walked up to him and watched as he kept failing to do as he could earlier. "You are losing the focus on your killing intent that you need to have. You need to learn to focus in on it and use it for your attacks. If you cannot do this then you will not be able to use Anima Messor." The old man sounded as stern as ever at first but then he lifted up the bottle of medicine for his student to see. "Stop for now though, boy. For this, I thank you." Iyato dropped to his knees and bowed as some tears formed in his eyes. Cirven could only look on as the old man bowed to him. He was far too confused to really do anything else.

"Hey! Uhh... Old man.. Get up.. You don't need to do all of this.." Cirven reached down to help the man up from his bow and was completely not ready for what came next.

"Hey old man. Come on get up." He pulled the old man up but as he helped him up was quickly swatted over the head by a rolled up paper which sent him lurching over and rubbing at his head. "You idiot! You let a person say thank you correctly and do not stop them while they do it!" The old man yelled out and back near the exit Lendis simply laughed at the scene. "Damn it, old man! Do you keep those hidden away somewhere or something!?" He yelled back but was quickly met with another yell that was an octave higher. "Maybe I do but that is none of your business, boy!"

Lendis continued laughing and even got louder for both of the men to hear causing them both to yell at her. "What are you-?!" "-Laughing at?!" They both said at the same time and then looked at each other and laughed themselves for a bit. "Boy." The old man spoke once they stopped laughing. "You will become stronger to protect those around you. I will make sure of it." The old man stared at Cirven and then gave a nod to him. Cirven had not seen Iyato the was he was in a long time and to see Lendis laughing that way brought back memories of the past. "Hey, hey! Who said to stop training, boy?! Keep going." Cirven nodded and continued to channel his killing intent over and over, slashing his limbs out every time he thought he could do it.

He was starting to get the hang of controlling and channeling his killing intent when Iyato spoke out again. "You are coming along fairly quickly, boy. It seems as though you are starting to get back the feeling you had earlier with this magic. Find that emotion that coursed through you that triggered it. Find that power... Tomorrow." Cirven looked at the old man confused. "This training is over, boy. We all need to rest. Especially you."

The next day Cirven awoke in his foster family's home again and went back to training in the Void Room but this time he was alone. He had used the small lacrima that contained the Void Room himself and continued training. He knew what he needed to do in order to find the power he needed. He needed something to cling onto to bring out his killing intent. Some thought that would set off a fire in him but he couldn't find it again. He couldn't understand why and continued to slash his hands like crazy through the air over and over hoping for something to happen. For anything to happen.

"Starting early aren't you, boy?" Iyato spoke out as he had just arrived inside of the room. "I cannot find it, old man. It was there when I first tried yesterday but now its just gone." Iyato walked up to Cirven and swung out his arm which instantly took on the black aura and slashed through the air skillfully disrupting the air like Cirven wanted to. "Do you want to know what I think of to keep this aura in tact at all times?" Cirven didn't respond in any way and only waited silently. "I think of my wife and how I lost her. I think of the possibility of losing my daughter to the world. I think of leaving her with no one when I am gone." He stared off into the nothingness of the room around them as he spoke and at the end of his short speech looked back to Cirven. "You will need to figure out what pulls your killing intent out of you. What feeds into your anger." Iyato then walked away towards the exit to leave Cirven to train alone. He did not say anything else to him and just simply left, not even looking back to see the effects his speech had done.

The next day, Iyato arrived in the Void Room to find Cirven sleeping on the ground near the exit. He shook his head at the sleeping man and then tapped him with his foot. The tapping of his foot did nothing back make Cirven reach out and grab it and wrap his arms around it as if the leg were a pillow of some kind. Iyato grew annoyed at this and leaned down near Cirven's head and took in a deep breath of air before yelling. "BOY! WAKE UP!" Cirven quickly jumped up to his feet, saw that it was the old man and started to rub his eyes. "How long were you in here, boy? Did you train the entire day away?" Cirven yawned and scratched the back of his head. "I didn't want to keep going day by day with not being able to control my new abilities. So yeah, I took a training day and made it into an entire twenty-four hours long or at least tried to."

The old man could not believe that Cirven had done this but did not see a use in scolding him for it at all. Seeing the look the old man was giving him Cirven walked back into the Void Room. "Just watch." He then slashed his arm out the same way that Iyato had done the say before and completely mimicked the man by unconsciously summoning out his aura and slashing the air bending it to his attack. "I also found that this works perfectly with Irritum and all of its forms I use."

Iyato chuckled and formed his aura over his own limbs. "Time for the final test then, boy." He took on the stance he had taken days before where his left hand was near his face and his right hand was outstretched towards Cirven. "Looks that way.." Cirven called out Irritum and held the blade with both of his hands in front of him. Both men stared each other down as Lendis came through the portal and into the room herself and watched.

Both of the men then slowly started to move towards each other picking up more and more speed the closer they got until moving their full speed towards each other. Cirven placed his left hand on his right wrist while holding Irritum out to his right side as he ran. Iyato let both of his hands face out next to his body. Once in striking distance both men attacked each other. Iyato swinging both of his arms forward in an attempt to hit Cirven in the chest and Cirven used his right arm with his left arm for added support and power to use an incredibly powerful slash to cut across the body of the old man. The two attacks collided for a split second and both men stood up right with their backs facing each other.

Cirven fell to his knees and his clothes ripped around his chest showing blood dripping. Iyato laughed out loud. "So that is all you have, hmm?" Iyato stopped laughing. "Good.." He then fell over onto his chest as blood came out from his body. "Lendis... Help him first.." The girl nodded and smiled. She knew she could help her father so she didn't have much to worry about but she was happy for her brother who also smiled back.

Later after both men healed Iyato gave Cirven the small lacrima containing the Void Room thinking that he would need it to continue his training more than some old man did. "Old man. Make sure you can still make ramen quickly. I will be back for some bowls with friends soon." He told the old man and only received a stern look back as he then left his two foster family and headed back to Eclipse Soul as a stronger mage and person.