A/N: Sorry for the long wait. Been busy with other things and whatnot. Here is the next chapter for this story. Don't forget to read and review, thanks!
Ch. 7 Storm in the Body, Cloudy of Mind
Leroy missed the target, big time. He growls as he was about to try again, but Evile steps in.
"Here, let me help you. See," Evile said as he goes to Leroy and fixes his posture. He places his body near Leroy's as he instructs him. He grabs onto Leroy's paw and show how to fire the weapon, but Leroy blushes lightly from the closeness. You can't get a piece of paper between them, he could feel Evile's fur and couldn't help but be lost in the warmth; the tingling sensation starting to build in the pit of his stomach and traveling upwards.
"Now," Evile said as Leroy's awareness comes back, "Hold it firmly. Don't grip it. Breathe in. Focus. Breathe out. Squeeze gently."
"Like this," he squeezes Leroy's paw, which squeezes the trigger and fire the weapon at the dummy. He hits it.
Leroy breathes, "Eegalagoo. That is...Wow."
Evile looks down at Leroy as he turns to face Evile. Both were quiet as the silence consume them. Realizing he'd been staring at her for a solid five minutes, he quickly cleared his throat.
"Errm...Right, I'll help out one more time. Just relax and follow through, okay?" Evile quickly said as he positioned himself near Leroy. Leroy looking back at the target as he waits for Evile.
"You ready?" he asks Leroy.
Leroy shifted his gaze from a rather pointed stare at Evile's chest to his face and Leroy suddenly had trouble staying focused. "Ih,"
He adds, "Takka. Youga good at this."
Surprisingly, Evile couldn't detect a hint of disappointment in Leroy's voice. Even though his ego could have taken it, he couldn't really blame him if he was. However, all he sensed was an undercurrent of relief instead.
"Now watch," Evile said as he once again helps Leroy fire the weapon and hits the target.
"See. That was a joint effort. Try it again. This time on your own, and remember, breathe in," Evile smiles, "Now, your turn to try."
Leroy assumes the position and fires the weapon while Evile stating, "Don't grip it too tight. Hold it and cock it back."
"Meega naga cock it right?" Leroy asks confused because he thought he did.
Evile goes over and shows him, "Nice and slow. Up a little."
He passes it to Leroy, "Your turn."
He copies the action, "Yeah. Breathe first, then go."
He fires the weapon and hits the target square center.
Leroy smiles as he turns to Evile, "See, it's easy when you know how."
"Ih," Leroy nods.
"Now, one or two?" he asks Evile.
He was confused for a couple of second before understanding the meaning of the question, "One."
Leroy goes back to the table and grabs another gun; sets it up and fires the guns in his paws.
Later...
Leroy and Evile were taking a break after a long, long time training with firearms. It could've been worse, more or less. Evile notes that mentally as he brings Leroy into a small patted room.
"This is where we'll spar," Evile said as his back was facing Leroy, "So, ready?"
"Gaba?" Leroy asks shock, "Now, but gaba about all that weapon training. Meega arm isa sore."
Evile said as he turns to face him, "So let me ask you something, Leroy. Um, why did you ask me to train you? I mean, why are we wasting our time? "
Leroy narrows his eyes at him, "Meega can fight."
They go into a fighting as Evile tries to roundhouse kick Leroy, but his brings up his right arm to block the strike and tries to attack with his left arm. Only for Evile to duck and attempt a sweep kick which Leroy jumps over it. Leroy then tries to back kick him but Evile dodges and weaves to the side and knees him in the gut. Leroy clutches the area as they stop.
Evile advise, "Don't be tense. Be ready. When you see me expand, you contract. If I contract, you expand. Once you see the pattern, follow it. Understand?"
Leroy nods as he goes back to his stance, Evile punches and Leroy ducks. Leroy stands up and punches but Evile blocks it with his left arm. Evile tries to punch low, but Leroy does a low block to stop the attack. Evile tries to chop at Leroy, but he uses his left arm to block the strike. Both lightly smile as they pant slightly, Evile pulls back and palm strikes Leroy. Leroy crosses his arms into an x-block to stop the strike. Evile crescent kicks at him, but he ducks it as Evile tries to roundhouse kick him again. Leroy ducks again and tries to side kick him, but Evile grabs the leg and turns on his heel as he drops Leroy onto the floor.
Leroy was breathing a little harsh as he stands up and tries to attack Evile again. Leroy tries to do a hammer strike but Evile brings both of his arms up and swings Leroy's arm down and then flips him over on his back again.
"Come on, you need control. You can't go in and use rage, rage isn't enough. Focus," Evile states as he waits for Leroy to stand up.
Leroy immediately gets up and tries to focus, but he couldn't stop that anger he had inside himself. He spear tackles Evile as Evile braces himself, stops Leroy, kicks him in the gut and then Evile applies a front face lock to Leroy, draping hiss near arm over Evile's shoulder, when Leroy was in position Evile lifts him to an upside-down position before he falls backwards slamming the opponent's back into the mat. Leroy groans in pain as he was just suplexed onto the mat. Evile then sits on him with his fist near Leroy's face. But strangely, Leroy didn't feel disappointed. Not a bit that he lost, in fact, he felt good. He let his gaze go onto Evile, 'Eegalagoo. His fur looks so soft and meega nota he isa strong. And- Gr! Aggaba!'
He blinked a couple of times as he tried to process what just happened with him. Wait a second. Halt. Pause. Cease. Stop. Hold on. Back it up...Was he seriously checking Evile out?! This was most probably the most important question that was going through Leroy's head right now.
"Leroy. Leroy! LEROY!" the screams made Leroy come out of his train of thought, "Huh?"
"Come on, we still need to train," Evile said as he gets off of Leroy and offers his paw, "Time to get up."
Leroy accepts the paw, "Takka."
Evile helps Leroy onto his feet as Evile adds, "Now, we're going to the next step."
He releases Leroy's paw as he extends his claws, "You've to be prepared for anything that comes your way."
Leroy tilts his head in confusion, "Youga think meega attacker isa going to challenge meega using claws?"
"Claws, knives, swords...anything," Evile states seriously, "Hand to hand combat is too safe. I remembered when you unsheathe your claws and were trying to hurt me. It's like sword fighting, this will teach you confidence, intensity, control. That's what you need. "
"For gaba?" Leroy asks.
"To live. You need to learn how to fight like your life depended on it Leroy. Training must come before everything and I mean everything. Are you ready?" Evile asks him.
"Do meega have choice?" he asks as he unsheathes his claws.
Evile swings his claw and Leroy rolls to the side as he avoids the hit. His approach is slow, or maybe it's simply Leroy's perception of the situation. His eyed Evile as he thrusts forward, but Evile sidesteps out of the way in time. Another swing, but Leroy spins ducking under the shape knives, just missing his scalp. Leroy gulps after that, he knew Evile was serious; however, he didn't think he'd be this serious. Though, it wasn't a bad thing... Leroy needed to polish his skills and if this was needed be, he take the challenge head on with no problems.
In an instant, Evile suddenly appeared right above Leroy, and was falling down, swinging his arm towards Leroy. Leroy brought his arm up and thrusted towards the incoming attack, both clashed as Evile jumps back. He runs straight to Leroy and thrusts while Leroy does the same and stops him. Leroy's eyes widened as he felt himself getting pushed further down by the sudden strength.
Evile pushes Leroy down onto the ground and extends one of his hands as he attempts to attack Leroy. Leroy balls up and dodges the attack. Leroy unrolls and was panting as he notes Evile's skill, how every movement was cautious and timid due to his current state and yet precise and strong. He doesn't know how much longer he can dodge his strikes, but he wasn't going to stop.
He charges at Evile as he dodges the strikes which angered Leroy to no end.
"Hold still, dammit!" Leroy yelled in frustration as Evile dodged the last of a series of slashes his his claws.
"Now why the hell would I do that when I'm supposed to train you like your life depended on it? You're supposed to come at me with the intent to kill, am I not right?" Evile asked blankly as he kept dodging the swings.
Leroy can feel his eyes well in frustration, and he takes a deep breath as he sees Evile's claw positioned above his head.
"Come at me again," Evile said as he pulls back his paw.
Leroy elbows Evile to push him off as he thrusts his paw at Evile, but Evile blocks it and kicks Leroy away. Evile knee kicks Leroy and he falls onto the floor. Leroy was tired from before and knew that he was getting slower with his reactions. Awaiting the killing blow, he closes his lids from the world. It's when nothing happens that his heart begins to flutter. He opens his eyes and sees an opportunity, Leroy kicks Evile in the stomach with all his power. It was just enough to knock him down, and get Leroy onto his feet.
Evile was caught off-guard as Leroy slashes his shoulder, but Evile manage to recover. As he brings his claw out and down for another strike. Leroy manages to block, but can't keep his eyes off Evile waiting for him to attack with his other arm. Fury rages within, and with a swift blow, Leroy brings up his paw, piercing the man's heart that stands above him. Evile screams, but smiles as Leroy looks down and see the attack was blocked with his other set of hands. Leroy tries to move, but Evile kept him still. Leroy growls as he extends his other set of arms and unsheathes his claws, jabbing it in and out of the strong red furred arms holding him. Evile drops him instantly, and he takes off running towards him.
"Good," Evile said as Leroy was panting hard, "but not good enough."
Leroy charges at him, but Evile moves to the side easily; Leroy misses with his arm exposed. Leroy turns to kick, but Evile blocks without fail, knocking him to the ground. Evile points his claws at the fallen Leroy, "Get up."
Leroy stands up and quickly grabs Evile's wrist, Evile winces as Leroy flips him over onto the ground. Evile jumps up and both go around slowly. Leroy tries to find out when Evile strikes to counter it. Evile pushes him with a kick and Leroy notices just in time as Evile leaps up and ready to pounce on him. He sidesteps to avoid the attack. Evile turns to face Leroy and pushes him with his leg as Leroy leans on a wall. He hisses as he grabs his ankle.
"Ah... Meega think isa twisted," Leroy said as he massages his ankle.
"Stand up," Evile said as he walks over to Leroy.
"Meega just need time out," Leroy pants.
"Do you think in life, you'll get a time out when you ask for one," he comments snarky.
"Now," he raises his voice, "Get up!"
"Meega said that meega naga move," Leroy winces from his ankle, "Gaba matter with youga?"
"You have to channel all of your energy into your strength. Including pain. This will help you control your anger," Evile said seriously.
Leroy struggles to get up and Evile sees it, he walks over to him and helps him up.
Leroy pushes his paw, "Aga taka... Let meega go."
Evile tries to help but Leroy pushes his paw back, "Let go meega. Meega can do it."
"I'm sorry," Evile said as he looks down, "I...I don't want anything to happen to you."
"Gaba," Leroy was shocked to hear that, "Really?"
"Yeah," he nods as they stare into each other's eyes, until Leroy breaks it.
"Goobaja. Let's go. Meega ready," Leroy said as he goes into a stance and then continue to fight.
Few minutes later...
Leroy falls onto the mat, "Never drop your guard, Leroy. Keep focus."
Leroy was panting so hard, his lungs were aching inside his chest cavity.
Evile speaks, "Come on. I told you, no unscheduled breaks during training."
"Let meega get some air," Leroy begs basically.
"So let me ask you something, Leroy," Evile begins as he walks over to him, "Um, why did you ask me to train you? I mean, why are we wasting our time?"
"Youga naga wasting time. Just, meega need break. Meega naga ate in long while," Leroy retorts.
"Just let meega catch breath. Meega be back soon," Leroy adds.
"No," Evile said, "We should take a break. I forgot that we haven't ate anything at all yet."
He offers a paw to Leroy as he takes it and Evile pulls him up.
Evile starts walking, "I think there should be a cafeteria here or something for food."
He stops and looks over his shoulder, "You coming?"
Leroy nods, "Ih."
He walks over to Evile as they leave the mat and search for food. While they were walking, Leroy thought back to what Evile said.
Flashback...
"I'm sorry," Evile said as he looks down, "I...I don't want anything to happen to you."
Flashback ends...
He looks at the back of Evile's head and thinks, 'Does...Does he like meega like that?'
He shakes his head, 'Naga. Aggaba Leroy. Focus, youga need his help. That isa it.'
He focuses on Evile, 'Got to be a way to beat him. Got to be a way to beat him. Got to be a way to beat...him. Got to be a way to be with him.'
He blushes, 'Got to be a way to be with him. Got...to be a way...to be with him.'
He shakes his head, 'Naga!'
"You okay?" he looks at Evile who had risen one of his eyebrows, Leroy could've sworn he felt concern in his tone; however, he quickly disregards it.
"Ih," Leroy said, "Just dizzy."
"Boy, that training must've taken a lot from you then. Maybe we should relax later," Evile comments as he stops to look at Leroy.
"Meega fine," Leroy waves his paw at Evile.
He walks over to Leroy and places his paw on Leroy's face as he is an inch away.
Leroy blushes as he stutters, "Me-meega isa okie-taka."
Evile was too busy with his own thought now, 'I was only checking for anymore injuries I might've missed with our session... But... There's something... Something... Something about him... This something makes my heart beat skip a beat. It makes me want to protect him... What is this feeling? I don't know or understand it. Maybe... Maybe it is the way his eyes twinkle... Maybe it is his voice... I don't know... But when I this close to him... When we're this close... I...I feel like... Like kissing him.'
'But, that would be very stupid to do,' Evile pulls back as he hides his blush, "You seem...okay. Sorry if I made you...uncomfortable."
"Uh...naga," Leroy said feeling his blush spread across his face, "Naga at all. Takka for that."
"Okay then," Evile turns on his heel, "We still need to eat."
Leroy took some time to compose himself before following Evile.
