From the Start
Chapter 9 - Training
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE GOD EATER FRANCHISE HOWEVER I DO OWN MY OC.
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Winter's POV
The lift ride was a quiet one. I turned to look towards Kanon. She had a big smile on her face. Now I know that I have made it up to her. She looks back at me still smiling. I see her cheeks go slightly red and she turns back almost instantly. I turn my head to face the lift's doors and say,
"We'll need to go to the God Arc Storage Area first so that we can pick up our God Arcs."
"Yeah." She responds.
"Do you know which Storage Area your God Arc is kept in?" I enquire while turning towards her with a smile on my face.
"Yeah," She begins turning towards me, "Storage Area 4."
"Mine's in Storage Area 2." I reply looking straight at the doors again. I notice that she does the same."So I'll meet you at the training room?" I ask as the doors to the lift opened and revealed multiple corridors to get to multiple God Arc Storage Areas.
"Yeah. I'll see you there." Kanon said happily. I began walking along the second corridor while Kanon starting walking along the fourth.
I enter the God Arc storage area and start looking for my God Arc. I notice that all the God Arcs are locked and that somebody is currently using the machine that unlocks them. I realise that this person is Licca and head over to her.
"Hey Licca." I say as I stop beside her. She turns her head and continues to operate the machine.
"Hey Winter." Is her response, "What brings you here?"
"Well I'm hoping to grab my God Arc." I reply.
"You know that you are not allowed out on the field right?" To which I nod. "Then why do you want your God Arc?" She asks with a confused expression on her face.
"I'm teaching Kanon to get over her friendly fire problem. We'll be going in the training room." I respond with a small smile.
"Oh? Well good luck!" Licca says with a huge smirk as she operates the machine to release my God Arc.
"You seem to find that funny. Care to explain why?" I say with confusion in my face.
"You're not the first person that has tried to help Kanon with her problem." Licca said still with the smirk on her face.
"Your God Arc has been unlocked. Have fun Winter." Licca continued.
"Right okay." I respond and head to my God Arc, pick it up and head back through the corridor to go back to the lift.
Once I reach the lift, I press the button for the training ground and feel the lift move upwards. It is only a few seconds later when it stops at a floor that did not have the training room. The lift doors open and in steps Tsubaki With her clipboard in her hand.
"Winter. Where are you going with your God Arc?" she asks as she turns to face the lift's doors and thus faces away from me.
"The training room." I say with my stoic expression on my face.
"Any particularly reason why you are going to the training room?" Tsubaki begins, "You are supposed to be relaxing after all."
"You're the second person I've explained this to. I'm helping Kanon with her friendly fire problem." I say annoyed that I've already explained this to another person.
"I'm guessing that the first is someone from the Maintenance Unit. No matter, you may continue." Tsubaki finished as the lift stopped and she stepped out. The doors then closed and the lift soon arrived at the training room floor.
A small walk later through a white walled corridor later and I am standing in front of the training room.
'I wonder if she's already here' I say as I open the door to the training room. Sure enough, Kanon is already there and she doesn't look too happy. Annoyed, Kanon said,
"Took you long enough." With a small smile she continued, "Well are you going to help or not, Instructor."
"Of course Kanon." I humourlessly say back before taking a look around the room. It is a very large room and therefore very spacious. It will be perfect for training.
"Are you going to look around all day?" Kanon asks, annoyed that I was looking around the room, "C'mon, we've got some training to do!" Kanon exclaims before running to one side of the room and I follow her.
Once Kanon reaches the other end of the room she stops and turns back to me,
"Are you ready? I'm going to show you what I can do." I catch up to Kanon and say,
"You're going to need targets if you're going to train."
"I know that!" Kanon says with one hand on her hip, "I need you to operate the machine and operate the targets." She continues as her hand points towards a machine in the corner of the room.
"Okay Kanon." I respond as I head to the machine. I turn the machine on, press a few buttons and get the choice of how many targets I want to use. I type "3" to make start easy. Then I get the choice of distance and I choose 10 metres. I also get the choice of distance away from each other and select 3 metres.
"Ready Kanon?" I ask.
"Yep!" She excitedly shouts back.
"Start!" I shout in response. I see her take aim at the target on the left. She shoots what I think is a homing bullet at the target and it hits.
"Kanon. Try not to use homing bullets."
"What? Why not?" She enquires as she turns towards me with a confused expression on her face.
"I need to see how accurate your shooting is and I can't do that if you are using bullets that can lock onto the target." I say matter of factly.
"Fine!" She responds annoyed with me, "I'll use mortars" she continues before turning to her God Arc and uses the touch screen to change the bullet type. She then aims at the second target and fires. It misses. She attempts to again but misses again. Finally on her third shot, she hits it. She then switches to the third target and hits it instantly.
"Well, I've got a grasp of your accuracy." I begin with a hand rubbing my neck, "but we can't exactly solve your friendly fire problem without somebody in the way." I see Kanon's head turn towards me with a creepy smile. I instantly know what she is thinking. Turning back to the machine in front of me I press a few random buttons and say with my head turned towards Kanon,
"It can't be me. I'm operating the machine." I turn my head back to the machine and actually look at what I am doing.
"Kanon!" I shout to grab her attention. "Did you know about the Bullet Editor option on this machine?" I hear Kanon walk towards me and she replies shyly,
"Erm... I've heard of it but I've never used it." She stops beside me and looks at the screen on the machine before continuing,
"What are you doing?"
"If I can figure out how to use this then your friendly fire problem may not be a problem anymore."
"Great! Keep at it!" Kanon responds before moving away.
"Wait! It would be best if you knew how to do this as well, Kanon." I indirectly command. With a sigh and a slump of her shoulders, Kanon turns back and watches me. I make sure to mention everything I am doing so that Kanon knows how to do it in the future.
Around 10 minutes later I have created a great bullet. This bullet will cause damage to the Aragami, like usual, but if it hits a team member then it will heal them slightly.
"You ready to test this out Kanon?" I ask.
"Of course!" Comes an excited response from the girl.
"Then get ready. There are going to be 5 targets and they will be at varied heights."
"Okay! I'm ready!" Kanon replies.
"Great! Start!" I say as I press the button to make the targets appear. Kanon hits the first three targets in three shots but misses the fourth target.
"Don't worry about it Kanon!" I shout as she appears to lose focus at the stray shot. "Just try it again!" Kanon takes aim again and misses.
"Oh!" Kanon shouts sadly as she fires another shot that misses the target. I walk towards her, grab her arms and help her to aim. Kanon must be feeling embarrassed about missing so many shots as I see her face go bright red when I touch her.
"Hwha?" Kanon mutters incomprehensibly.
"There." I say as I move her posture so that she is aiming at the target that is about 4 metres into the air.
"Now try to shoot." I continue as I let go of her. However I see that she is still red and her arms are still shaking. I decide to approach her from the front. She appears to be in a state of shock.
'She's a wreck and just because she missed a few bullets?' I think to myself. She is looking down at the ground. I decide to move my face closer to hers.
"Kanon! Wake up!" I shout and bring her out of her stupor. She turns even more red and starts shaking even more. I move my face closer and she continues to shake.
"Hey, Ka..." I begin but I am shoved about 10 metres away from her and I land about 1 metre away from one of the targets.
"Damn. I forgot about how powerful a God Eater can be." I say as I slowly get up from the floor to make sure not to aggravate any injuries I may have sustained from the shove. I look back at Kanon and notice that she has her gun aimed in my direction.
"Kanon." I say sternly, "What are you doing?" I notice that she is no longer shaking but her face is sill red.
"Stay there!" She demands. "You're going to be my guinea pig to see if this bullet really does avoid friendly fire!" Before I can respond she starts shooting bullets.
'Oh crap!' I think to myself as the bullet hits the target next to me. The force behind so many bullets being aimed at the target creates an explosion which launches me into the nearest wall and my vision turns black.
