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It is 7:30 in the morning and the air already feels warm. Sword is still lying in his bed, while the first rays of sunlight hit directly on his face. Only a few days have passed since he celebrated his sixteenth birthday, Sword wakes up suddenly, still half asleep. He stays sitting for a few seconds at the edge of the bed, trying to organize his head before getting up, even so he opens his eyes and gets out of bed to go greet his father who should be downstairs, before that he makes a small pause in the bathroom where he refreshes his face and gets rid of the sleepiness on him, he slowly walks down the stairs and finds his father.
venomshank: oh sword I see you woke up a little later than normal.
sword: yes uh… I didn't notice the time, I've been very tired, training has been a little heavier than last time, besides I feel a sharp pain in my back and I wanted to give myself a slightly longer rest
venomshank: you know that if you need a break you can tell me, there are times even deities need rests, and who says you can't have one?. venomshank says while letting out a small chuckle through his teeth
sword: yes, but if I want to be one I have to work hard, sword says with a challenging but at the same time soft tone of voice
venomshank: how stubborn you are chick, venom looks at him with a tired expression
Both continued talking while Venom prepared breakfast. The sword was a little distracted since the stings beneath his skin had left him somewhat exhausted. The sword thought it was because of the exhaustion that he felt, but that proved he was really working hard and did not pay attention to it.
At the end of breakfast, sword went up to his room to prepare all the necessary equipment for the phight he had in the afternoon, he was getting ready putting on his armor but he felt something strange in his back, for the moment he thought it was his posture and decided to straighten his back, he finished preparing his things and said goodbye to his father before leaving, at the crossroads where rocket was already waiting for him
rocket: god brother you're so slow I've been waiting for you here for an hour standing
sword: SORRYYY it's just that sisyphus was really stuck to me and wouldn't let me leave the house
rocket: yeah yeah… at least you're here now, come on we're already late for the phight
the two prepared their things to begin the fight, the minutes pass and the fight begins.
everyone was prepared on team one
there were, medikit, banhammer, sword, rocket, slingshot
and team two was also prepared with
katana, vinestaff, hyperlaser, subspace, skate
the fight happens normally the teams were 10 to 7, until out of nowhere there was a tie both teams were at 10 and 10 something that seemed strange to team one they were losing points for no reason or well they didn't know what the reason was, sword was getting distracted a lot his attacks became slower and slower, rocket decided to signal him to see if everything was okay, something that distracted sword again making him fall to the floor and being hit by a beam from hyper sending him back to spawn.
the fight ends with team one in defeat and team two in win, everyone was already gathered together sword looked extremely tired and his appearance a little disastrous made him look awful. rocket clearly asked him if something was wrong, to which sword assures him that he feels fine, that he's just tired, everything goes normally and to finish med checks every member of the team to make sure everything is alright and finishes, everyone goes their separate ways.
rocket offers Sword to go home together, after all sword is very much a liar regarding his feelings both physical and mental, to which sword refuses and says that he's going to take a while, obviously it's an excuse to not go with Rocket and make him uncomfortable or worry him. it's just exhaustion right?
sword stays 3 hours doing stupid things, after all now he could leave rocket had left 2 hours earlier but he wanted to make sure he wasn't waiting for him, only he remained in the area before the combats, it was already getting dark and it's very dangerous for him to be around there so he decides to leave, his house is quite far away, he lives on the outskirts of the crossroads where most of the inphernans live,. but something is wrong with him.