Gil was sleeping peacefully in class when he suddenly found himself rising out of his seat, but not of his own volition. "Gil! I was looking for you! I have an important dilemma only you can help with!" Hercules had barged into his class and literally picked Gil up.
"Mr. Senju you can't just-"
"Fret not teacher, this is an important matter. I will bring him back momentarily." Hercules brushed her off.
"Herc, put me down or I'll kick your ass again," Gil shouted.
"HAHAHAHA and I'll punch you again! Come friend, we have important matters to discuss. It is not like you were paying attention here anyways."
"True…But that's not the point! Don't carry me like a goddamn kitten!" Gil said flailing about angrily.
"H-hey you can't just take my students…" the teacher's words fell on deaf ears as Hercules carried Gil out of class and shut the door behind them. Even hope thought it was kind of funny so she didn't know if she should help or not.
"Alright, barbarian what do you want?!" Gil asked angrily while smoothing his clothes out.
"I want to buy that area of the campus our fight cleared out from you."
"Ask Alaric, I don't care…"
"I already asked, he said you funded much of the school so it would be better to ask you. Josie tells me these golden drachmae are now very valuable, would that be sufficient payment?"
"Sure Herc…what do you want that spot for anyways?"
"I want to build my own house. I have imposed in yours long enough. I'm sure you get tired of all the 'remodeling'" Lizzie actually told him how much Gil complains about it.
"REALLY?!?! You don't know how long I've waited for any of you idiots to say that!?"Gil was nearly crying tears of joy "Build whatever you want there! You don't even owe me a penny! In fact, take this" fishing a credit card out of his wallet. "There is no spending limit on it get whatever your oversized heart desires."
"Was it truly that easy?" Hercules had heard Gil wasn't one to give so freely so he was a little surprised how well it turned out.
Just then Gil's phone received a message. "Hmmm? Noraa wants to see us on the football field. I wonder what he wants?"
...…..
On the football field team Tartarus had been assembled at Noraa's call. "Sup kids!"
"Uncle Noraa you know you can't just pull us out of class like this whenever you feel like it." Josie hated missing her advanced spellcasting class.
"Yeah don't you have some event you should be getting ready for?" Gil just didn't want to be bothered with him.
"I'm getting us ready for an event right now," Noraa grinned back at them.
"What event?" Gil asked.
"Your rematch with the six. I talked to Minnie and we realized you guys have to move along faster than what you're currently doing. Big spiders and gargoyles aren't going to get you there any time soon. You guys need real fights where your lives are on the line."
"So your brilliant solution is…" Lizzie continued.
"You guys get to spar with the best. Fight a more uphill battle."
"I'm not fighting all of them" Gil quickly clarified.
"No you cocky little shit, you're all fighting me. I even got Salty to make me a temporary staff member here so I can teach here without any issue. Don't worry there are seals in place to contain the destruction and no one will see you get your asses whooped. Without further ado, let's begin the first class in Noraa Black's 'extreme athletics'!"
None of the Saltzmans or young tigers seemed too thrilled by the idea of fighting Noraa, they were all deathly quiet. "Hmm? Are you all scared? So does that mean I can go first?" Excitement danced in Hercules eyes.
"N-no one's scared of Noraa, I'm going first!" Ilpyo gathered the courage to interject.
"There's enough Noraa to go around fellas, both of you can fight me together."
"I suggest you guys stand back a bit," Gil said to the others already halfway to the bleachers himself. "This could get ugly."
"Don't worry Gilly-" Noraa dodged a shuriken "flower, I won't kill them. They'll just look dead." Herc and Ilpyo took their respective stances and got ready, while the others fell back wondering what Noraa Black was capable of off-screen. His movies weren't the reason the entire fighting world feared him. "The rules are simple, do whatever you can to remove my beanie. Nothing is off-limits."
"Hahaha! Stealing? That makes this a hell of a lot easier!" Ilpyo laughed.
"(Don't brag about being a klepto…)" Gil thought while facepalming.
"Keep him distracted Herc, I'll go for the hat," Ilpyo whispered, Hercules gave an approving nod and got ready.
"Alright, whenever you're ready boys." Noraa taunted leaving himself wide open. Hercules punched the ground kicking up a huge cloud of dust effectively providing cover for the two of them. "Not just going to charge in like last time?" Ilpyo used the cover to quickly circle around Noraa for a sneak attack, but a back kick met his hand. Then a judo flip put Ilpyo on his back, just before a heavy stomp came down Noraa retreated to dodge a wooden club made from Hercules wood style. "Glad you're taking this seriously!"
"It is you after all!" Rolling over Ilpyo smashed his hand into the ground and a giant red chakra claw burst out from under Noraa's feet. He easily dodged it but the arm grew and branched out into more claws giving chase. Materializing a pair of nunchakus in hand, Noraa destroyed the pursuing claws. Using the distraction Hercules launched his club like a javelin. Noraa caught it in his free hand and threw it back even harder. It sent Hercules sliding back several meters before he stopped and tossed it aside. Hercules clasped his hands together as wood grew up around Noraa stopping him before he could start his next attack, and Ilpyo struck with a chakra-coated uppercut. As Noraa flew through the air both Ilpyo and Hercules were on either side of him reaching for his head. Noraa opened his free hand and summoned a second set of nunchaku and deflected their attacks simultaneously, but neither backed off.
"Fox god mode: three tail release!" A red aura with three blazing tails flailing wildly covering his body as his hair turned white and he grew fox ears atop his head, red marks around his eyes, and black whisker-like lines on his cheeks. "Ssam-su secret technique: inferno fox flare!" He swung his leg like a devastating whip coated in fire.
"Earth style: Earth spear!" Hercules fist hardened like metal before lightning juiced his punch farther.
"You guys can do better!" Noraa did a split kick stopping both of them at once and followed up with a nasty nunchaku combo. Discarding his nunchakus, he summoned a short-handled war hammer which sent the two of them straight down with a devastating crash. As Noraa threw it at them, and Hercules tried to punch it to counter but his hand was mangled on impact.
"OMG his hand!" Josie covered her eyes "I can't look."
"Ouch that looks bad…" Raphael cringed hard.
"That idiot, does he not even know what hammer that is?!" Kelly exclaimed.
"AAAAAH!" Everyone was surprised to hear the freakishly strong Hercules cry out in so much pain. "What is that damnable hammer made of!?"
"I guess he doesn't…" Landon answered. "But why does Noraa have it?"
"Can't brute your way through everything Herc, that's my favorite toy Mjolnir! I won it off some wannabe pretty boy viking a while back!" Noraa flicked two fingers up and Mjolnir rose at high speeds towards Hercules' chin, but Hercules avoided the hammer like it was death itself.
Grabbing the handle Hercules was pulled up towards Noraa as the weapon returned to its master. In his broken hand that had already started healing lightning amassed into a powerful palm thrust.
"I dabble in lightning too ya know!" Noraa held out a hand like a claw and black lightning danced around it in the form of a raging tiger.
"WE WIN" Hercules laughed.
"Eh?" Noraa didn't notice the army of Ilpyo clones above him all pulling their leg back for monster kicks.
"FOX HUNT BARRAGE!" They all fired their kicks releasing blazing chakra in the form of ravenous foxes all targeting Noraa.
"Not good enough! Ro Aias!" Noraa let the hammer fall back down midflight with Hercules and used the freed hand to put up several copies of the legendary flower-shaped shield between himself and Ilpyo. All of the blazing foxes fizzled out weakly against it.
"Isn't that your shield Gil?" Hope asked.
"If my eyes can steal any technique, his magic can steal any weapon. As far as I know, he has a bigger arsenal than me." Not even Gil ever saw what Noraa was fully capable of.
As he stopped Ilpyo's attack Noraa simultaneously sent the black lightning to the falling Hercules. Their lightning techniques met with a blinding flash of black and gold and Hercules hit the ground hard. Seeing Mjolnir lying not too far away Hercules went to pick it up. Everyone else knew the tale of the hammer only those worthy can lift, so all eyes were on him. Every muscle in his body strained and for a few moments then Mjolnir actually started to rise. "I AM HERCULES!" With all his might he lifted the hammer and threw it at Noraa.
"Thank you Hercules!" Noraa easily caught the hammer and immediately turned it on Ilpyo who was going for another sneak attack. He and Noraa traded blows until Noraa raised the electrified hammer overhead. Hercules rushed up and grabbed his arm, pulling him into a bear hug so Ilpyo could get a clean hit. Just as Ilpyo's giant red claw was about to land black outlines of many different powerful weapons materialized around them, before turning into the real deal.
"Ahh shit." -Ilpyo
"This doesn't look good…" -Hercules
"You kids are getting better, but never forget who the strongest man alive is. I AM HE!" Noraa shouted from a short distance away while Hercules held a log in his stead.
"Wait how did he-"
"Substitution jutsu Liz." Gil answered before she could finish asking.
"Damn that's actually kind of cool. Why don't you ever use that?"
"Because I don't get hit. Ow!" Lizzie punched him in the shoulder to test the theory.
As the weapons rush Ilpyo and Hercules all at once leaving no opening for escape, black lightning danced across Mjolnir's surface and one swing sent them both skidding across the field. They looked up to see storm clouds amassing above Noraa as he twirled the small hammer overhead again. "Get ready, I'm going to give you a taste of what the gods hit like." Hercules and Ilpyo both braced themselves for something crazy.
"Wood style! Great storm colossus!" Hercules unleashed a new jutsu, the wooden giant growing in front of him had lightning radiating from its eyes and mouth, it carried a massive lightning bolt in both hands.
"Fox god arts: Bijuu blitz!" Ilpyo's three tails raised up and each one charged up a massive amount of chakra and nature energy.
"Hahaha! So you guys don't wanna die huh?" All of the storm clouds amassed around the hammer before Noraa swung down "god hunter!" The strike mixing Noraa's black lightning and Mjolnir's magic power sent an large group of giant black lightning tigers crashing down on them. The colossus threw both lightning bolts and Ilpyo fired every blast he had charged up. The ensuing clash exploded violently tearing up the whole field. Gil had to protect the other spectators with his own Ro Aias. Before the smoke cleared several surviving tigers pressed through. "What else you got?" Noraa laughed.
Ilpyo used Hercules Golem to throw him straight at the tigers and when he got close his tails grew into chakra arms grabbing them all and crushing them "HERC NOW!" Hercules flew past Ilpyo with another thunder punch but this time something changed, he put everything he had into it. His divinity and newly remembered chakra mixed in his hand creating stronger lightning with a whitish glow.
"This is it Noraa!" Hercules bellowed.
"I agree!" Mjolnir went solid black as it was supercharged with Noraa's lightning. Hammer and fist met and neither gave way for a moment, Hercules could feel the bones in his hands cracking but he held on. "HAHAHAHA you've got guts Herc! Trace on!" In his free hand another Mjolnir perfectly identical to the first materialized covered in the same black lightning. Swinging the second down Hercules was planted into the ground with a great tremor. Suddenly Noraa felt his hat slip ever so slightly.
"Good job-"Before Ilpyo could finish his sentence or even fully remove the hat, a headshot from Mjolnir planted him in the dirt too.
"Close but no cigar." Noraa's weapons vanished, and he readjusted his hat. "You two might have done better if you had actually used more teamwork instead of attacking me individually. You cooperated, but you should have fed off each other's moves making your own stronger. What would Jojo call something like that… Ah! a chemical reaction. Gotta multiply not add. So, who's next?"