Chapter 3

Welcome to Training

Disclaimer: anything you recognize from the books is not mine it is Suzanne Collins. However anything you dont reconize is most likely mine.

"Wake up. Come on boy wake up."

"Leave me alone." Gregor said to the mystery voice.

"Huh. Get the bucket please.

"Bucket hmm. Wait a bucket. Stop no!" Gregor yelled as a bucket of water was dumped on him.

"A little late there are we not." Said Ripred. "Come it is time to train"

"Can I at least change?" Gregor said.

"Hmmm. No. We have kept Mareth and the others waiting long enough.

So Ripred escorted himself and a soaked Gregor to the arena

"Holy crap Gregor what happened to you takes a swim real quick fore you came?" Nick asked trying to hold in a laugh.

"Nope I wouldn't get up so Ripred drenched me then as a punishment I have to train like this." Gregor replied.

"Ok quiet down every one." Said Mareth with a group of six bats following him. "Ok everyone who doesn't already have bond, you will be assigned a bat for this mission. You will train with your bat so you can trust each other enough for the mission. Riding with Jacob we have Apollo."

A red and brown bat walked you and stood next to Jacob they looked at each other up and down.

"With Ashley we have the lovely Eris."

A white bat with red speckles over her fur went to stand next to Ashley who looked at it with a look of scared and disgusted. Gregor felt very bad for that bat.

"With Erin we have Helios."

A bat that was a mixture of brown and yellow went and stood with Erin, who started with awe the bat carefully returned the stare.

"With Nick we have Thanatos."

A black and dark red colored bat stepped next to Nick, who looked amazed.

"Finally Gregor for you we have Zeus."

"It is good to see you again Gregor." The Black bat said.

"Same to you." he replied.

"For the first part of training you will be working on flying. Gregor you remember how to fly right?" Mareth said.

"Correct."

"Ok then you, Luxa, Aurora, and Zeus will work with Perdita on the left field for advance. The rest of you people and bats the right of the field for beginners with Howard and Nike. Mount up and good luck."

Everyone mounted their bats and flew where directed. When Gregor and Luxa flew over to the left they were met by Perdita. They were immediately launched into performing complicated ways to dodges and attacks, such as the Ariel pin, in which the bat and human have a set target drops in a swoop attack then in on movement go completely vertical and fly as fast as needed to get away. They also had practiced a number of emergency landings. By the time they were don it had been about five hours and the others were still training so they decided to see how they were doing so they flew up and asked Howard.

"So how are they doing?" Gregor asked.

"Well Nick has a knack for flying, Erin is doing well at staying on and performing the movements as does Jacob."

"Ashley." Gregor said scared of the answer.

"Well her bat Eris hates her she is an ungrateful evil little thing. Eris is scared that if it comes down to it she may not even save anyone and I'm starting to believe it just by watching them. So in other words not good she also is not good at flying because she has no trust in her flier."

"I see." Gregor said.

"Oh Gregor while you're here can I talk to you alone." Howard asked

"Sure." Gregor replied knowing what was coming.

Luxa looked a look of pitied at him and flew off.

"Gregor I am sure you know what this is about."

"Yes."

"Then you must know it cannot work out."

"Why is that Howard?"

"Well for one thing she is a queen and you are not only a commoner but an over lander at that."

"Your point Howard."

"It is not right first people will look down on the relationship and second if it comes to the council will eventually split you two up."

"And why is that."

"Because you do not meet their standards."

"Howard let me tell you a secret."

Howard gets close to Gregor who cups his hand on his mouth.

"I DO NOT GIVE A DAMN!"

To say Howard was surprised was an understatement. He was so startled he fell off Nike who quickly scoped him up. Laughing Gregor flew back to Luxa she looked at him with a raised eyebrow and a smirk

"What was that about?" she asked.

"Same as always interference." He replied.

"Hmm yes stay right like that. Hey Howard!"

Howard looked over to see Luxa grab Gregor by the shirt and pull him into a deep kiss. Seeing this however just mad Howard mad.

"I'm done move on to sword play." He yelled flying away.

Everyone met up on the field where Mareth was waiting. Gregor stepped up and muttered something in his ear.

"By all means they are your group." Mareth said

"Alright for a warm up before sword training I need us all to run four laps of the arena." Gregor said.

"Wait. What but one lap is like a mile in a half." Nick said

"Well then let's get started." Gregor replied with an evil smirk.

With that Gregor took off Luxa behind him the rest of his team behind him.

"This is fun watching them." Luxa said.

By the time Luxa and Gregor had finished the others were only on lap two so he, Luxa, Mareth, and Perdita were watching them.

"This is actually kind of sad." Perdita said.

"I thought they were soldiers." Mareth said.

"So did I Mareth. So did I." Gregor said

"Let's pick it up ladies you won't be able to escape and army of cutters in this state." Gregor said as they passed.

After they finished running he had them pick a sword and, perform multiple sword drills. Nick had picked a red scimitar, Jacob picked a nice big broad sword, Erin picked up a newer looking long sword, and Ashley picked a light weight one. Gregor was about to pick up a sword that matched what he was used to before he had sandwich's, but Luxa brought him a sword mad perfectly for him it was a black bladed emerald encrusted sword.

After some drills he took them to three canons.

"These canons shoot what we call blood balls little round waxy balls filled with red liquid each canon shoots five each of you will go up against these let's see how many you can smack."

They all lined up behind Gregor when he gave the ok the canons shot and in a matter of seconds none remained. He turned around to give them somewhat a tip.

"Don't get cocky chances are you will only hit 6 on you first the reason I hit them all is because I'm what you call a rager a natural born killer and that's one reason you doing this to see if this gift has graced you let us begin."

So one by one they all attempted Ashley hit 3, Erin hit 7, Jacob hit 7, and Luxa hit 10, but Nick hit all 15 and a smile crept up Gregor's face.

"Pair off and spar Nick we will see what is up with you in a while. Oh and get me five more canons make a circle." Gregor said.

"Eight canons why would you do that that's forty balls." Luxa said.

"Test my spinning." Gregor replied coolly with that he went into the circle took out a dagger along with a sword and spun waiting when they all shot not one ball survived.

After about 8 sets of forty he was done and paired up with Luxa to spar.

"Just because your you doesn't mean I will hold back." Gregor said.

"Don't insult me." She said.

Everyone stood to watch stopping what they were doing even Ripred who had just arrived stood back to watch. And with that they began.

Gregor charged first bringing his sword up. Luxa just dodged and kicked him in the back. He recovered fast to bring his sword up to defend himself from her sword. As the swords clanged it threw them back Luxa charged next got past his defenses and tripped him and put her sword to his neck her foot on his sword arm. Anyone else would have given up but his rager side gave him the way to get out.

He rolled grabbed her leg, by the time he was done he had control on arm had her free leg his foot on her sword arm his sword at her neck her other arm and leg under her. But she had a way out she got her leg out put it to his stomach and kicked him off her she got up quick and they were in starting position.

She gave a quick whistle jumped toughed her toes to her hands and landed on Aurora. He muttered a 'show off' before he was told to jump he did and landed on Zeus's back.

"Oh so we're using bats are we." Gregor said.

"There is no rule so why not." She said

And with that they launched into many maneuvers to get the other to surrender.

At one point the bonds barrel rolled over Zeus and Gregor and they almost got him. Then in a last effort she jumped on Zeus immediately he stood and they dueled on the bat back. Right as she had him he dropped grabbed Zeus's fur the bat flipped having Luxa fall and Gregor jumped as his trap became reality. Aurora he landed right behind her. He put his arm around her pulled her back and put his sword on her neck forcing her to submit.

They came in for a landing and were met by applause they gave a quick bow before Gregor went to Ripred.

"I need you a second." Gregor said simply said.

"Boys and Ashley come here."

"Ripred I need you to take a very deep sniff and tell me if any of them have any amazing powers."

"Ok why not." Ripred said.

He took a sniff of each of them then took Gregor to talk.

"Well the one Jacob is what I would call a Hazard." Ripred said.

"What?" Gregor asked.

"He has the natural ability to learn languages in a snap he is exactly like Hazard. Oh and Erin is a Scent Seer very untrained so much that he can't really smell anything but smells but I can teach him and the other one Nick my friend is a rager."

"I see Luxa do me a favor summon Hazard. Erin you just got the fun job of working out one of your abilities to smell anything with the big rat. And Nick you work with me. Ashley you're to work with your bat more and Jacob help for you is coming. " Gregor said simply.

Everyone just did what he said but Erin said "What do you mean smell anything."

"He is going to teach you to smell thing from farther and smell things like color like a second set of eyes."

With that everyone went where directed.

"So Nick you're a rager and basically you have to learn control but I can't teach that it comes on its own after you rage enough so I'm going to teach you something else. How to get aware first thing calm yourself but stay alert of you surrounding get a target and focus onto and almost nothing can startle you like right now I'm doing it."

Being in such a teacher kind of mood he didn't see a 9 year old Hazard come up behind him.

"Hey Gregor." He said

Gregor did the best thing he screamed drew his sword ripped around and pointed it a Hazard.

"Yep nothing can't startle you."

"Shut up Nick. Hazard good to see you again."

He sheathed his sword and gave the boy a hug.

"Listen Hazard how many languages do you know?" Gregor asked.

"I know Crawler, Digger, Gnawer, Cutter, Nibbler, Spinner, some Flier, Hisser, Twister so that's nine." Hazard said proudly

"Ok I need you to teach my friend Jacob over there as many as possible starting with Gnawer then cutter then spinner then crawler then whatever you think should come next he should be a fast learner so don't worry." Gregor said

Hazard accepted the job and training went on by the end of the day Ashley learned to trust her bat, Erin could now smell colors, Jacob could speak Gnawer, Spinner, Cutter, Crawler, and Digger, Luxa learned not to challenge Gregor for a while (She challenged him to 2 more spars both of which he won within a minute), and Nick learned to better control his power. With them all exhausted and the quest tomorrow they turned in.

Sorry that took so long I had a little writers block and I can't believe it I actually gat a review thank you I'm not sure how long it will take me to update again so yeah but thanks for reading

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