When they reached Alika's training area, they saw a man there, training alone.
"Hey Zak, is that you?" Alika asked.
The man turned to their direction. He was an 18 year old with black long hair, blue eyes, and a scar on his left cheek.
"You!!!" He shouted as he spotted Takeru."You're mine."
Zak charged straight at Takeru, and Takeru quickly saw the threat and responded by taking out his sword.
Zak tried to cut him, but he paried the attack with his sword.
"You bastard, how can you just walk around like nothing happened, I don't care what explanation his majesty gives us, It doesn't justify you almost killing 100 people." Zak said, as he attacked again, and their swords clashed once more.
"Wait Zak, Takeru didn't mean to do any of those things, it as his magic which took over." Alika said, trying to stop Zak.
"If that's true, that means you're even more of a threat." Zak said as he continued his assault on Takeru.
They clashed through the whole forest, and Takeru could barely hold his own against him, Zak was too skilled with using a sword.
Zak attacked Takeru from above, Takeru blocked, and responded with a kick, but Zak moved out of the way and swung his sword at him.
Takeru blocked all the slashes, but he could barely keep up. He knew that if the fight continued on for long, he was gonna lose.
He kicked Zak away and decided to run deep into the forest.
Zak quickly followed after him, but Takeru was out of sight.
'Where is he?' Zak wondered, but as he was thinking, a sword came flying towards him.
He could barely react in time, blocking the sword, but his own sword slipped out of his hand.
Then Takeru appeared from behind him, and when Zak turned around, he was met with a punch that sent him flying.
BOOM!
Zak crashed into a tree. He held his lips and saw that he was bleeding from them. He couldn't help but admire Takeru's strength.
"You're strong, but you're mistaken if you think that you're the only one who can throw a punch." Zak said before he got up and clinched his hands.
"You guys stop this!" Ana and Alika shouted, but we're brutally ignored.
Zak attacked Takeru, and they traded fists, going blow for blow with each other. The attacks were relentless, but they did not back down.
Zak dodged Takeru's punch and countered with his own, making Takeru lose his balance, and then he hit him with a flying kick.
BANG!
Takeru crashed into a tree, and before he could do anything, Zak was already on top of him, and he punched him in the face, over and over again.
"Zak stop!" Ana shouted and ran to him.
Zak continued punching Takeru mercilessly, but suddenly, Takeru grabbed Zak by his clothes and gave him a big headbutt.
"Get off of me!" He said and stood up.
"Takeru are you okay?" Ana asked.
"Yeah I'm fine," he responded before wiping the blood off off his face.
Alika walked up to Zak and slapped him.
"Enough now the both of you, this fight ends now." She ordered, and both of them remained quiet.
"By the way, why are you guys here anywhere?" Zak asked as he picked up his sword and threw Takeru his.
Takeru caught it and responded, "We're here so that I can train."
"Well then, make sure that you keep your training far away from me." He said and left to continue his training.
After he left, Alika chose to begin their training with him, and Ana went to train her magic alone.
"Now then, Takeru, I want you to learn how to use your magic. Every Fairy Knight knows how to control it." She said.
"This is how we do it. Firstly, you draw your magic from your magic core, and your magic core is located in your heart. You draw your magic from there into any part of your body. For me, I draw it to my hands and then to my wand, and then I use my ability to do spells." She explained, then showed him how to do it. She used her magic and poured water on his face.
"My ability is water magic, and as we seen yours is light magic, so then please try to create light." She said.
Takeru did as told, tried to reach out to his core, but he could not sense it. It was as if his magic core wasn't located in his heart.
"I can't do it," he said.
"But you were able to do it when you were going to get executed. Could it be that you're scared to use it?" She asked.
"Sort of, what if I really kill you this time, the last time you were saved by his majesty, but this time he's not here, what if you die for real? What if I kill Ana, too?" He said, his heart racing.
"Don't worry, you're not going to do that. Your magic seems to be somehow linked to your emotions, so since you're not angry, I doubt that you will try anything." She assured.
'She trusts me,even after almost killing her, she still trusts me. Well then, let me make her proud of me. My magic doesn't seem like it has a core, but I think I know how to reach it.' He thought.
He took a deep breath, cleared his mind, his concentration elite, and he closed his eyes, and he went back, back to where he saw his younger self.
"Hey, you're back," his younger self said, excited.
"Why? Why did you make me try to kill everyone?" He asked, full of concerns.
"Because I wanted us to survive." His younger self responded.
"By killing everyone? What if some of the fairy knights had been there, or worse, the Fairy Guardians. We would have died."
"What if I hadn't helped you? Where would you be?" His younger self asked, leaving him speechless.
"You know it yourself, you works gave been killed in cold blood, dead," His younger self continued.
"What are you anyway," He asked.
'Last time he said he was younger me, but i feel like there's more to this than what meets the eye.' Takeru thought.
"I toldya didn't I, I'm younger you," He responded.
"You're lying cause I feel like there's more to this," Takeru said.
His younger self responded with a giant smirk.
"You're right, I'm not who I claim to be, but I also am." He said.
"What do you mean by that?" Takeru wondered.
"I'm the monster inside your head, a ruthless creature, most evil, and most powerful evil being, a creature you wanted to succumb to." He said. "Sounds familiar, doesn't it."
"No way… You can't be the monster I created in my head when I was getting bullied back on Earth,"
"Bingo, but not only that, but I am also the manifestation of your magic. You indirectly gave me a free will before you even had me," His younger self responded.
"But how?"
"It's a split personality, I am your magic, and because of you creating a split personality if your self, I'm an independent creature, I choose if I want you to use my powers or not, and you're not worth my powers." His younger self said in disgust. "Using my powers for good is what you want, but that's not what I want."
"But back when I abd Alika were fighting the dragon, I was able to use my magic unconsciously though. If you don't want me to use you, then what happened." Takeru wondered.
"I gave you my powers to avoid you dying because if you're gone, I'm gone as well, I'm just that selfish." His younger self explained.
"Makes sense. Now then, onto what I wanted-"
"Forget it," His younger self cut him off. "You're not going to use me, you're not worthy enough, all you wanna do is help people with your powers, but that's not what I want."
"You are me, so what's in my interest is i. Your interest, if I want to help people, that means you also want to help people," Takeru said, demanding the use of his magic.
"Split personality, you heard that word, abd you know what it means, we're the same person but different." His younger self said, making it clear that he would not help him.
"Split personality or not, you're still me," Takeru said, and then he returned back to the real world.
He grabbed his sword and pointed it at himself, targeting his own heart.
"At the end of the day, whether we are a split personality, we're still the same." Takeru said before stabbing himself with the sword.
"Takeru, what are you doing!" Alika shouted.
The sword bounced off of his skin, and a small aura of magic appeared protecting him. He grabbed the mana and kept it in his hand, the shot a beam of light which completely vapourized a tree.
He smirked and released a small laugh. "I knew it. At the end of the day, even if you won't help, you also don't want to die, so that means I can force you to help me."
"Damn you me, I didn't think you would take yourself hostage, it seems I underestimated myself." His magic said.