Evan made his way to the Bujinkai dojo after leaving Hermione's. Once there, he changed clothes into his Gi, and began warming up and then stretching. They went through some katas and learned a new technique. Then they had a few rounds of fights. One of the senior students took umbrage that Evan, a mere white belt, was winning clear attention from the instructors. When it was his turn to fight Evan, he put his full force and experience into the fight. During that first round Evan was hit in the chest and then thrown hard. This kind of treatment was nothing new to Evan - it was how he was treated during hand-to-hand.
Evan rolled on impact with the ground, coming to his feet facing his opponent. This pissed the senior student more. Evan then centered himself; centered his breathing and entered Haragei. Sensai could instantly feel him, just as Evan could feel Sensai and his opponent. The student made to ram into Evan's chest again with his shoulder. Since the senior student was large and 'solid', Evan flowed like water to the side, flowing back to fill the space, following up with a spinning side kick to his opponent's side, propelling the student over 10 feet.
The student had not been prepared for Evan to move and was therefore off balance. The distance he flew, and the hard manner in which he fell further embarrassed the student, causing him to become infuriated even more. The student grabbed a 2-meter Bo (long staff) off the wall, spinning it as he attacked Evan in anger. Sensai Linnear raised his hand to stay the reaction of the other instructors, who wanted to halt the fight. Sensai was interested to see how Evan reacted.
Evan felt 'in the zone'. He was in Mu-Shin, the clear mind, with Haragei employed. He could sense what the student wanted to do and when and where he moved. Evan did not have to think or plan; there were no emotions; just do – just react. Everything seemed to slow down as Evan again flowed like water, avoiding the spinning Bo and first targeted the nerve bundle on the inside of the students elbow followed by a strike to the shoulder joint, and lastly a knuckle-strike to the solar plexus. The student went down immediately – no sound. His mouth open wide trying to bring in air. His face scrunched up in pain, his diaphragm frozen, the blood in his temples pounding, blackness at the edge of his consciousness, and his right arm limp. The Sensai immediately declared Evan the winner of the bout.
When the student had not yet sucked in a breath of air after a minute, Evan began to worry. The Sensai took him aside and quickly showed Evan the proper pressure point to release the diaphragm from its fibrillation. Evan immediately followed suite, and the student immediately began gulping in air. He looked fearfully at Evan, and Evan whispered to him "Never fuck with a Royal Marine!" (psychological warfare was good at staving off future attacks!)
"You have been practicing, Evan" said Sensai. "Yes Sensai. I am the runt of my unit. In self-defense, all the other soldiers, even the women, are taller, heavier, and even stronger than I am. Since starting with you I have been practicing every day, including Haragei." Evan replied. "I feel you are a Bujinkai adept, Evan. You seem to have an affinity not only to the physical aspects but to the spiritual and mystical side of it. I know you only have a week of leave, so we don't have much time – I have a lot to teach you during that time. I am sure you have some other plans as well, so what if we train early morning: 5:30am to noon? The rest of the day is yours. Will that work with your schedule?" Sensei asked. "Yes, Sensei. That would be great." Evan responded.
Evan returned to the Granger residence in the evening, after briefly talking with Hermione. She wanted to take the opportunity to "introduce" him to her parents. They, of course had met Harry Potter, but not Evan Fenix. So she asked and got permission to invite him for dinner. As her parents would just be coming home from work, Hermione ordered out some Indian Yellow Vegetable Curry, steamed vegetables and steamed rice. To round out the foreign flair experience, she ordered saffron Persian ice cream with pistachios.
Evan and Hermione's parents arrived at approximately the same time. Hermione's parents, Drs. Helen and Peter Granger, greeted Evan as they entered. Peter stayed downstairs while Helen went upstairs to freshen up a bit before dinner.
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