Sword is equal to Wand, Chapter 11

"Damn, at least we always get good food." Ron said with clear mental exhaustion on his face as he sagged into the bench next to me.

I gave a small smile and after I bit into a roll I said. "Yeah, I had Essence Manipulation and Combat training for my first classes as you well know. After this I am getting paid to give some martial arts advice to someone at least."

Ron nodded with him raising an eyebrow as he said in confusion. "Wait you are a newblood, why are you giving advice for martial arts?" 

I blinked and replied 'innocently' "Oh, I reached Manifestation Stage of the martial arts I picked up before class... And a martial art, I saw the person who wants to pay me using."

There was a pause before Ron's face twitched and he rolled his eyes. "Haha, very funny Jake, well anyway, if you ARE that talented you had best join the Gryffindor's dueling team."

Before Ron could continue, even though I was actually interested in the topic, Rose Potter and Ginny Weasley dropped into seat with a matching sigh. "So how was your combat class Jake?" Ginny asked.

I smiled and went to speak but Ginny lost her casual expression as she giggled hysterically. "Oh yeah, it's already spreading across the school that you manhandled Dorea Malfoy haha!"

My lips twitched as Rose coughed and said hurriedly with a grin crossing her face. "Wait seriously? The rumor of her breaking her nose in the fight was true?"

"No, I did knock her to the ground. But I didn't wound her even with the special arena active." I finally managed to say with Ron blinking and he pointed at me.

"Wait... So you literally weren't lying? You actually reached Manifestation stage in your martial arts?!"

At Ron's words several other people looked at me which made me duck down a bit and give Ron a dark look who just gave a wry smile in apology.

I shook my head and said with more easily. "Eh it's going to get around soon enough anyway. Well... I do have plans to tutor someone, so before Susan or Cho get here and act weird I am leaving."

I then finished my food while sharing a few words with Rose and Ginny before I quickly moved on towards the unused classroom that Daphne had pointed me towards for our little lesson.

Thankfully, said classroom was on the ground level and not to far from the grand hall so I made my way there without any issue and once I got there, I found the classroom was truly empty with literally nothing in there.

'Hmm, well with nothing in here. We can't destroy or bump into anything except for the walls and windows.' I mused before I leaned onto a wall as I took out my book for Elemental Harmonization which was supposed to mirror Transiguration but with a more primordial bent.

I began rereading the dense and rather heavy book, beyond just to pass the time as I had already read the book and the rest of this year's class books with the help of the Library of Heavens Path.

Either way, this gave me the chance to relax and read on my own without being in my tiny closet of a dorm room.

A few minutes later, the door to the empty classroom was knocked on and then a moment later opened up. Then I watched with a raised eyebrow as Daphne and another blond-haired girl but instead of Daphne's golden eye's she had green eyes.

"Hello? And who is your friend?" I asked curiously as I noted Daphne give her friend a look.

Then she said calmly. "This is Tracey Davis, either way she is here to watch as well." I raised an eyebrow as she unzipped her dress and pulled it aside to show that she was in a different pair of gym clothes.

And I couldn't help but wonder how yoga pants and sports bra's got popular with the pureblood and magical world before I remembered that the magical world and mundane world in this universe weren't separated.

Regardless, I refocused as Daphne also reached into her purse and I blinked as she drew her ornate saber from the rather average-sized purse.

Then Daphne asked calmly. "So, how should we go about this?" 

I said simply in reply. "Run through the techniques for me to see, then I will tell you where you have issues."

Though I saw Tracey Davis had an odd expression on her face, but frankly, both herself and Daphne didn't really have much if any presence in the canon Harry Potter universe so I couldn't really get a baseline besides Daphne obviously having a princess's pride.

I watched as Daphne used her Martial Art, the Wind Storm of Countless Blades and as she began the song of slashing motions to create the wind blades. I interjected after a couple of minutes. "You are using chopping motions, not slashing motions still."

She nodded and then tried to adjust herself,f and after a minute... She didn't get any better but there was a film of sweat that was growing on her forehead, as although she was failing her martial art's techniques.

It was still using alot of stamina, hell the fact that she was failing the technique made it waste more stamina than if she was using her magic to actually augment the technique.

"How long do you Pureblood's get to practise your martial arts before coming to Hogwarts?" I asked curiously as Daphne paused to take a deep breath.

Then she scowled and said irritably. "Up to a year, as our cores are strong enough to sustain a bit of elemental martial arts if someone is talented enough."

I walked over and overed my hand before I said calmly. "Let me show you again."

Daphne's scowl grew for a moment before she put on a mask and then she handed me her saber, which I took carefully.

Then I stepped back and with a flex of my hand, her saber sang as it drank my mana, and a green aura of wind magic grew on the blade as I gently and slowly slashed with my foot curving and spinning with the motion.

"Your martial art is about building up a fierce cutting wind on the sides of your blade that then focuses on the edge of your blade. With each motion of your blade, you build up momentum, and the more wind blades in the air, the stronger the next wind blade will be." I spoke slowly.

And in the corner of my eye I saw Tracey's mouth drop as I kept up my motions with several wind blades shooting off the edge of the sword, but the blades didn't shoot off into the walls, or even the floor.

No like a tornado I kept the lethal wind blades spinning around myself, and with each wind blade, the next one became bigger and glowed an ever brighter verdant green.

Then my motions came to an elegant end with the wind blades losing their strength and fading in the air and not causing any damage.

"This blade is truly a wonder." I said as I offered the saber back to Daphne whose broken mask of shock twitched before she took the saber and closed her eyes to take a deep breath before she said flatly as she re-opened her eyes.

"You... Are impossible. How do you know this martial art already? My father is the one who literally created it!" She demanded.

And I just smiled before I said calmly and bluntly. "I saw you using it, that's all. So now you do it again."

Daphne's demanding expression became icy as she huffed before she exhaled to clear to her mind and then began her motions again with my face twitching as to my senses her form, her motions, and invigoration of magic was filled with over a dozen faults within the first couple of motions.

I exhaled and said firmly. "Daphne hold on. Do you mind if I help you more directly?"

Tracey on the side, choked on some laughter as Daphne's cheeks took on a hint of red before she spat out. "I would appreciate if you kept your hands to yourself Jake."

There was a pause as I just stared at her with a dull stare before she cleared her throat and then she said quieter. "Fine... But if you touch me in-"

I then said coldly. "I am not going to molest you Daphne Greengrass. For one your friend is right there, and I am not that kind of man, I am only going to be touching your arms, shoulders, hips, and your ankles."

And so I walked over to Daphne who tightened up with Tracey watching with a more serious expression as I began literally moving Daphne through the correct motions one body part at a fucking time. For all of the martial art techniques motions.

Sure this method wasn't going to allow Daphne to learn the motions naturally and organically through practice. But frankly I wanted those Galleons so I would have some money to live a bit more comfortably.

I just needed to allow Daphne to touch upon the realm of Manfestation of her martial art with magic.

After another twenty minutes of this, there was a hiss of displaced air as I held Daphne's wrist from behind her and made her follow a slashing motion which resulted in a weak wind blade forming on the sides of the blade.

"Well that's a good start." I said with some joy at seeing Daphne finally get SOMETHING going on.

Thankfully Daphne was too overjoyed as she tried to recreate the actions to add more wind magic to her blade and after another few minutes without my aid she managed to get it on her own.

"Good, this will do for a first lesson." Daphne said a bit winded but with a wide smile as she exhaled heavily with her tight clothes sticking to her voluptuous frame due to her long exertions.

Then she put away her saber with her taking out a small stack of gold coins that she offered to me and as I put away the money, she said with a smile. "So how about this weekend we do another lesson?"

But instead I shrugged and said easily. "We shall see, I imagine if I help you too much with your martial arts before the dueling teams are made. My housemates will lynch me."

Then, as her face stiffened at my roundabout refusal, I skipped out of the room with the equilvalent of five hundred dollars in my pocket. Even as Tracey called after me but I ignored her as I made my way towards the last class of the day.