A teenage boy, wearing a black hoodie with neon - blue streaks, black - neon - purple streaked cap, sneakers and gloves, and black leather pants is seen strolling down the streets, walking toward the base of the mighty clan: ActaSanctornum (Am I spelling it right? I’m 60% sure that I am.), a large two story building. He left a letter to one of the guards telling them to give the letter to a man called “Ethernu”, and swiftly left toward the nearby market.

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Azarel is waiting for someone at a field, The Fields Of Tranquility. It’s a place where people come there mostly to meditate, or sometimes to read a book. But tonight, Azarel wasn’t going meditate, read a book or play chess. It’s late at night, about 11:24 AM. The field is surrounded by hills, trees and there is a big river at Azarel’s right. After waiting for some time, the man he is waiting for finally came, a 40 year old. Wearing a red scarf, a tan cap with gold symbol on it, a blue unzipped sweater with a white T - shirt inside, has a pale face, and his Morph Blade stored at the scabbard at his back. When the man got closer, Azarel noticed, that, the man has a left green eye and a right blue eye, and also a Mythril armor shoulder plate on his left shoulder. Unusual.

“I suppose that you are Ethernu?” Azarel asked.
“Yes, and you are?” Ethernu asked.
“Azarel, the one that left you the letter at the morning.” Azarel said.
“Prepare your blades, for you won’t be facing a normal swordsman.”

Azarel unsheathed his Laser Sword, while Ethernu unsheathed his Morph Blade, a silver blade with a half - blue - half - green gem on the crossguard. Ethernu ran toward Azarel and started attacking him, the swords clashed, Azarel swinged his Laser Sword aiming for Ethernu’s head, Ethernu ducked and did a sweep, Azarel jumped up to dodge the sweep, but Ethernu’s pulling back his fist and performed an uppercut. Azarel fell down, stood up quickly, and created a Chi explosion, Ethernu was sent flying to a tree, he opened his eyes and quickly dodged a laser beam that was dashing toward him, Ethernu dodged in time, but didn’t see Azarel running toward him, Azarel did a jet kick and hit Ethernu’s head. Ethernu fell down on the ground, and spit some blood from his mouth before standing up. Ethernu morphed his sword to a six feet tall Quarterstaff, and started attacking Azarel, Ethernu kicked Azarel’s head, stomach, and did a sweep, this time, Azarel isn’t quick enough to dodge, and fell down to the green grass. Azarel stood up, and unsheathed his Plasma Blade, and held it with his left hand. Ethernu attacked Azarel, slashing him with his Quarterstaff quickly, Azarel was slashed rapidly and is wounded, blood is now pouring from his chest, and Azarel saw Ethernu morph his sword to a Giant Hammer, and lifted the hammer, the would have slammed Azarel if he didn’t summon a Chi Barrier. Azarel suddenly felt his heart hurting.

“Are you okay Azarel?” Ethernu asked.
“Yes, i’m fine.” Azarel replied.

Azarel quickly attacked the unsuspecting Ethernu with his Laser Sword. Azarel ran past Ethernu while slashing his stomach, and ran past Ethernu again, this time slashing his head, and repeated that kind of attack on and on, and charged his Plasma Blade for a powerful slash, but when Azarel slashed, Ethernu dodged, and morphed the Giant Hammer to a Net Gun. Azarel looked back just in time to cut the net, but Azarel didn’t notice that Ethernu morphed his sword to a flashbang launcher, and shot. The flashbang emitted light and sound right in front of Azarel’s eyes, blinding Azarel for some time. Ethernu used this chance to morph his blade to a laser gun so called “Joy”, and shot Azarel. Azarel had his vision back just in time to dodge the laser gun’s beam, but Ethernu is running toward him with his giant sword that is called “Zweihander”, wielding it with two hands, Ethernu slashed Azarel with the giant sword, and Azarel attacked Ethernu back, slashing his chest, and almost kicked Ethernu’s head afterward, but Ethernu ducked, and kicked Azarel’s jaw. Before Azarel even landed, Ethernu morphed the Zweihander to a giant hammer and slammed it to Azarel.

Breaking Azarel’s right hand of the impact. The boy was sent flying, and hit one of the hills, creating a crater, and saw Ethernu dash toward him with great speed, and slammed him with the hammer for the third time in this battle, shattering the boy’s right hand even more, and almost broke his skull.
At this point, memories of Zen village, and his past battles flashed in Azarel’s head. How he failed to protect Zen village, tied against Piasu, and lost against Steam… and now, he refuses to lose again…

Ethernu looked at Azarel, worrying that he was dead, but suddenly, Azarel created a Chi explosion, Ethernu was flung back because of the explosion, dust, grass, and smoke filled the air. Ethernu peered to where Azarel was, and walked closer, but Azarel isn’t there… suddenly, Azarel was behind Ethernu, and did a Chi Kick, Ethernu is flung back and hit another hill, almost destroying it because of the impact. Azarel activated his Chi spirit, and gathered a very large amount of Chi to his left hand, due to his broken right hand, and ran at the speed of light toward Ethernu. Azarel punched Ethernu with a very large amount of brute force, until the boy almost forgot that this is a spar. The hill that Ethernu impacted, was destroyed, leaving nothing but dust… while Ethernu himself, is wounded very badly, his scarf is ripped apart, his jacket is damaged, and his cap torn to pieces.
But Ethernu didn’t give up just yet. He attacked Azarel suddenly with his hammer, but the boy dodged, and did an uppercut, sending him a few feet to the air, and kicked Ethernu with an even powerful Chi Kick than before, sending him kilometers from where he was before, Azarel ran toward where he kicked Ethernu, and saw Ethernu about to impact with the ground. Azarel jumped and slammed Ethernu’s head to the ground, almost breaking the man’s skull, resulting to a massive and wide hole at the ground. Ethernu stood up, looking at the boy, focusing on something behind the boy. The Giant Hammer somehow came back to Ethernu’s hand, and could’ve hit Azarel if he had not jumped. Azarel attacked Ethernu with a Chi Punch, while Ethernu attacked the boy, with his hammer. The Chi and hammer collided, resulting in a massive explosion… the result is devastating for Ethernu… his Morph Blade broke of the impact, and Azarel quickly did the Chi Absorb technique

Not wanting to waste this chance, Azarel quickly attacked Ethernu rapidly, slashing Ethernu’s body all over with his Plasma Blade, then Chi Kicking his head sending him flying a couple of meters high and then launching a Chi Beam knocking the man unconscious and then did an Chi Axe Kick to his head, almost breaking Ethernu’s skull. Ethernu lay hurt and unconscious on the ground, while Azarel stared at him for a moment before fainting.





Azarel woke up at the morning at a hospital bed, with his right hand bandaged, and wearing hospital clothes. With Ethernu sipping some tea at the bed beside him

“How’d I end up here?” The boy asked.
“Some old men were walking their dogs when they saw us, and he called the ambulance.” Azarel frowned.
“How’d you know?”
“The doctor told me a couple of minutes ago. I asked them.”

Azarel was silent for a while, and suddenly remembered something. “Where are our weapons?”
“Oh, they put them at a locker.”
“What locker?”
“That one at your behind you.” Azarel opened the locker behind him and found his weapons stored safely, and also clean.
“They washed our weapons?”
“Hmmm… I don’t know about that.”

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A couple of days later, they left the hospital, and stopped by a cafe to buy a cup of coffee at night. “About that fight we had a few days ago, it was a good one. Thanks.” The older man said.
“No problem.” The younger one replied while reading a book
“Where’d you get that book?”
“Oh, I got it from that book store.” The boy pointed toward the bookshop across the street.
“What is it about?”
“Oh, it’s about dragons, magic and stuff.”

Then Azarel continued to read his book, while Ethernu was looking at the streets where people were busy going to work, and saw new gladiators signing up for RHG. “Hey, wanna go to the arena?” Azarel looked toward the arena.
“Sure, why not?”

The two gladiators walked toward the arena. Then, after watching some fights under the sparkling night sky, Azarel looked toward the giant screen, and jumped down. “Well, hope this will be an interesting match.” The boy looked at the screen one more time, it was now showing his opponent’s picture and name. “Erik Eolas… puppeteering magic? Hmmm… sounds interesting.” Then, a boy, about a year older than Azarel, jumped down from the place where he was sitting.

Alright, so off the top, the first thing I want to address is descriptions.

After waiting for some time, the man he is waiting for finally came, a 40 year old. Wearing a red scarf, a tan cap with gold symbol on it, a blue unzipped sweater with a white T - shirt inside, has a pale face, and his Morph Blade stored at the scabbard at his back.

This is a pretty standard starting point, so don't sweat too much, but when people look at something, we don't see it like a list. One thing leads into another.



And now dealing with writing. When you see a new person, is there something that you instinctively look at? If there is, it'll be a good jumping off point for you to get started.

After waiting for some time, a gleam finally captivated Azarel's attention, leading his eye to the shimmering purple shoulder-plate guarding the newcomer's shoulder, his red scarf flowing in the wind behind him as he strode forward. His scrawly, pale face was made all the more sickly by the tan cap he wore, as if had sucked all the color out of his body via the gold symbol on it's top, leaving his skin more akin to the white shirt he wore with a triangle in the dead center. Only its edges were covered by the blue sweater he wore. He looked to be about forty, the scabbard on his back holding the one item he'd never sell.

Next thing I'd advise you on it to avoid repetition. Sometimes it can be overuse of a word, but in this case there's a lot of Azarel ____/Ethernu ____. It can make something feel stale if you read the thing over and over, and often times, an easy fix is subbing out the names. If when you introduce a character with certain skills/looks, you can use those instead of their name to mix things up.

Azarel quickly attacked the unsuspecting Ethernu with his Laser Sword. Azarel ran past Ethernu while slashing his stomach, and ran past Ethernu again, this time slashing his head, and repeated that kind of attack on and on, and charged his Plasma Blade for a powerful slash, but when Azarel slashed, Ethernu dodged, and morphed the Giant Hammer to a Net Gun.

Azarel quickly attacked the unsuspecting Ethernu with his Laser Sword. The demon hunter ran past the merchant while slashing his stomach, and ran past him again, this time slashing his head, and repeated that kind of attack on and on, and charged his Plasma Blade for a powerful slash, but when the young man slashed, the elder dodged, and morphed the Giant Hammer to a Net Gun.

Just makes it flow a little better.

Last thing is emotion. wRHG and RHG are substantially different from each other, because while with on you can get away with a cool looking fight (talkin' plot, not effort given), the other requires a lot more. For a reader to get invested in a character, they need to care about them, and for them to care about them, they need to see them. Ya know how the hero of a show gets a lot of close ups? It's kinda like that, it helps them be liked, even if they aren't being super friendly. What's going on in their minds? Why does their encounter matter? If you could sneak those sorts of things between the action, it would really help your stories.