Shade was sitting in a room with a wall lined with weapons but he didn't take any cause he had his own. he wore a black and white scarf that he had since he was 3 wrapped around his neck and covering everything under his nose, and he was also wearing a black ankle length light trench coat, light body armor, boots, and black cargo pants with metal knee pads with cat faces painted on them. He was armed with two gear loaded retractable swords, a 357 revolver, and throwing knives.

Shade was now eleven and this was the arena you fought in to pass for higher skilled combat lessons, if you won of had tried several times but failed, but he felt he could do it this time.

The doors opened and he stepped into the arena and immediately spotted Frost. She was now twelve, of course she was only two months older than shade but they were still the same height. Shade was happy that Frost was there for support.

Frost saw the door open and Shade walked out, still wearing the scarf even though it's ninety degrees outside I can see. Frost thought. Shade had worn that scarf since he found in that ally way and he always wears it. Frost was in charge of healing Shade after the fight which no mater how good you are your going to get hurt in this battle.

The other door opened and Shades heart rate increased ever so slightly. A death claw walked out the door and looked right at Shade, then charged. Shade dogged to the left causing the death claw to run into the wall, then blades shot out of the handles he was holding and he slashed the death claws back four times leaving large cuts in the beasts spine. It swung around and hit Shade sending him flying back, dang I'm just not fast enough. Shade thought as he got up and pulled out his revolver and fired three shots in the beasts head but they just scratched and annoyed it so it charged, Shade jumped to get out of the way but the Death claw grabbed his leg and sent him to the ground with a loud snap causing everyone to cringe and look away. Shade would not give up so easily. He got up almost instantly and ran back away from the beast, it lunged but Shade jumped over spinning and as it went under he threw three knives simultaneously hitting the beast and making it slide across the ground it's stomach.

Shade knew it wasn't over, the death claw got up and charged three times faster than it had before so Shade panicked and it hit him square in the stomach knocking the air out of him and cutting through his armor causing him to bleed and chock on his own blood as it splattered every were mixing with the death claws blood on the floor due to the fact that when it charged him. He raised both his swords, but the death claw didn't seem to notice the twenty one inch blades impaled in it's chest. Shade fell and the death claw raised it's claw to finish him off when two plasma shots hit it's head melting it. Shade looked in the direction it came from and saw Frost with her plasma defender and Grey with his multi-plas rifle aimed at where the death claws head used to be.

"Sorry Shade but you didn't pass. Frost get him to the medical room quickly!" Grey yelled

Frost jumped into the arena and picked up the surprisingly light cat boy and carried him off to the medical room so she could heal him before he bleeds out.

"Not the way I thought I would get to cuddle with you ha ha *cough*" Shade said weakly to his best friend currently scared to death Shade would bleed out.

"Oh why did that half to happen? Why did you half to get hurt that badly" Frost Whispered while setting the bleeding Shade on a bed.

She ripped open his shirt to see three VERY large and deep cuts in his chest and stomach. She got a lode of stimpacks and healing powder along with other assortments of medical chems and devises.

An hour later Shade was laying on his and Frosts bed looking around the room. A lot of new things were in their room, a terminal,posters, a nuka cola fridge, a working fan, rugs hand stitched by a woman down in rivet city who is the person that Grey got Shades trench coat from. Mr. Handrew the mr. handy robot that Shade repaired handed him a glass of water and left. Shades injuries had fully healed due to the amazing pre war machinery they had available to them, he was just thinking that if he was faster he could have won. He could do some pretty good moves now, He took down an entire band of fully armed raiders with only melee weapons and throwing knives, he had also become a crack shot with guns but only standing still.

If you beat the death claw you get to have simulation classes which teach you black belt level fighting moves from karate, taekwondo, and other fighting skills similar to thoughs. And mobile gun skills which teaches you how to fire a gun accurately while doing parkour and free running. He just wanted to learn these to be the best he could, and to make sure he could protect Frost no matter what.

Frost had learned to use energy weapons but nothing more that involved violence. She was scared to take an others life and froze in terror when someone harassed her. She was scared, traumatized, shy, and fragile girl that Shade would do anything to protect. She was his best friend and only friend cause Grey was more of a parent to him.

Frost had walked in and laid in the bed with Shade under the moon light coming through the window, Then as soon as Frost got comfortable Shade wrapped his arms and tail around her and Frost did the same so the two laid there in each others embrace, tails wrapped around each other acting as blankets as the two cuddled as they did every night. The two were very close friends and Shade was very cuddly and loved to hug Frost every chance he got. But of course Frost did the same.

"Frost." Shade whispered

"Yes?" Frost replied.

Thanks for saving me out there. dang thing almost killed me. They get really fast and it surprises you and make you panic at the sudden turn of events." Shade said replaying the events in his mind.

"Well I wasn't about to let the person I care about the most die." Frost said with a sad yet surprisingly strait face.

"Aww thanks I care about you to." Shade said giving a little squeeze.

Shade fell asleep quickly, after all he did half to fight a death claw, was beaten to a pulp, and spent three hours in recovery.

The next day Frost woke up and Shade was already gone. She got up and looked out one of the windows and looked out over the training field. Shade was one of the only ones there since it was so early in the morning, but there was some one Frost hated as well. A new kid a little older than her, blond hair, blue eyes, and a snake person named Jase who always hit on her, he was always wearing a leather jacket that said tunnel snakes. Frost was disgusted by him.

She decided to focus on Shade. He was in the middle of five wooden targets surrounding him, he jumped and spun upside down in the air throwing five knives which all hit the targets perfectly in the heads, then he landed on his feet in a crouching position and the targets all slowly fell over and hit the ground. Shade was already amazing with blades so he decided to move onto shooting. He went up to a table and laid out his guns of choice for practice, a sawed of shot gun, 357. revolver, a chines assault rifle, and a laser pistol Frost asked him to practice with.

He went down the line of weapons firing them all with stunning accuracy, until he got to the laser pistol. He picked up the large weapon and tried to figure out how to aim, and fire for that matter. After messing around with the device he aimed and fired three shots all hitting the target but no where near where he was aiming. he always aimed for the head or chest, one shot hit the leg, one in the shoulder, and one just bellow the bulls eye on the head. At least I can hit the target, he thought. He continued to practice for another hour be for walking back to his room.

Frost watched him walk away and put the weapons back on the rack by the training area, than spotted Jase looking at her with a sly grin on his face. Frost literally shot at him with a dart gun Shade made hitting him in the leg.

"DAMN THAT HURT!" Jase screamed at the top of his lungs. Frost just smiled to herself.

Shade returned to their room a couple minutes later.

"Hey." Shade greeted

"Hi."Frost replied.

"Nice shot by the way."Shade said with a smile on his face

There was a little silence then the two started laughing. After the two were done their tails swayed back and forth happily. The snake really was annoying as hell, and Shade did NOT like him hitting on Frost. Then gun shots were heard in side the town, Shade and Frost froze, then grabbed their weapons, Frost a medkit, plasma defender, and a ripper. Shade a sawed of shot gun that when you push a button a machete blade comes out, his two swords, and a 44 magnum revolver.

The two jumped out a window to get out faster and landed two stories down with ease and ran to the gun fire. When they arrived they saw blood, bullet shells, and two dead guards. Frost froze and started to hyper ventilate, Shade wrapped her in a comforting hug and shielded her eyes with his shoulder and told her to not think about it. Learning to fight he got used to blood and gore. Grey ran around the corner and saw the two unharmed and sighed in relief and ran over to the two.

"Grey whats going on?" Shade asked.

"A death claw got out of its pen and killed the two guards." Grey answered.

Shade and Frost froze from the answer. A death claw got out! OH SHIT! Shade thought. Frosts mind was blank.

"We have to find it now!" Shade said

Then as if on Que a scream came from a couple houses down, they all looked at each other then ran towards the scream. They rounded the corner and saw the death claw standing over a woman with ram horns, she was cowering down when Shade saw a familiar sight. The death claw raised its claw to finish her off, he charged and the blades shot out of the handles and Shade sliced the death claws hand causing it to focus on him, it tuned around with murder in its eyes.

"RUN!" Shade shouted at the woman as he turned to run.

Grey brought up his 44. and fired at the death claw, the death claw turned around and smacked grey into a wall knocking him out. Frost fired several plasma bolts into the death claws back burning it. It turned Then Shade jumped off a roof that he got on onto its back and impaled his swords into the beasts back. The death claw grabbed Shade and threw him into a wall knocking the air out of his lungs and cracking his spine. The death claw rounded on Frost and picked her up and slammed her into the ground and thrashed her around. Shade saw this and his eyes turned full red and he slowly got up then looked up and his heart broke.

The death claws hand was heading down towards Frosts chest with its claws pointing towards her then everything stopped but him. Shade didn't notice that time stopped, his claws came out of his nails, and they were eight inches long. He jumped up and rapidly sliced the death claw cutting off its arm, its eyes, and its hand then time went back to normal but Shade didn't stop and Sliced open its chest and stomach. Its intestines fell out and Shade stabbed his nails into the death claws empty gut and his hand came out its back. The death claw went limp and it fell over dead, Shade stood there with his arm still extended covered in blood and gore with his eyes closed. Frost and grey stared at him shocked, Grey had woken up a little while ago and he was generally impressed.

Frosts POV First person

Ow my back why can't I breath. I looked up to see the face of the death claw, Wheres Shade I want to look at something nice. Wait why is he covered in thick black smoke? slice slice slice slice slice. suddenly he was in front of me with his claws extended covered in blood, and the death claws arm was gone and the hand on its other arm is gone. what happened?

NORMAL

"It's about time you inherited that." Grey said getting up

"What are you talking about?" Shade said his eyes back to normal.

"You practically teleported you went so fast and you where covered in some sort of smoke stuff." Frost added

"It was pure shadow. His mother had it. She was amazingly fast and she described it as time stopping but she doesn't. I knew it was only a matter of time till you could use it." Grey said

"Well i don't know wha-" Shade was interrupted when he was suddenly thrown into a wall faster than a bullet.

Shade got up and tried to walk but when he took one step he was thrown by the pure shadow. But at least he could stay on his feet because he had no momentum he would get a burst of speed the stop dead in his tracks. Then Grey grabbed him to stop him from moving.

"Wow stop moving. Your body is trying to adjust to the sudden change just give it a few minutes. Your mother had the same problem when she got it. Frost could you take Shade back to your room?" Grey asked

Frost nodded and carried Shade back to their room. Frost wasn't very strong but Shade was very very very light. So she carried him with ease.

once they got to their room shade had gotten control over his new speed. Mostly, he couldn't run with out going the speed of a bullet so he just walked around for the time being.

Grey had come in and started to explain what it was."So your mother as I said before was very fast, agile, and stealthy but she was also gifted with this something. It gave her three abilities, night vision, super speed, and invisibility in darkness which means if you in darkness you can turn invisible but she said it was really hard to use and get used to but speed was the easiest. She explained it was like a bullet you can run normally but you can get a boost of speed making you faster than a bullet and you moving so fast it's like time is stopping but your running normal speed. She said she could never explain how it works just that if you practice you will learn to control it. And speaking of learning I expect to see you at the simulation hub in three days." Grey said

"What do you mean?" Shade asked

"Frost caught on "You did kill a death claw didn't you?"

"...WOOOOHOOOO!" Shade shouted and jumped in the air then suddenly slammed into the wall

Frost was very happy for Shade. He saved her life again she could never repay him for all hes done for her. Her best friend Shade looked at her with a huge smile that made her face redden slightly. She couldn't believe it. She has started to develop feelings for Shade.

This was going to be a crazy month for them.