Dylan
After the morning activities of seeing how good I am at various things, Hunter made a schedule up of what I would be learning.
9:00-9:55 Physics Class.
9:55-10:05 Snack
10:05-11:00 Math Class
11:05-12:00 History/literature Class
12:00-1:00 Lunch and break
1:00-1:30 Fitness training
1:30-2:45Flying training
2:45-3:00 Snack and break
3:00-4:00 Fighting
"What? I have actual school classes in the morning?" I was shocked; I thought I was here to be trained as a warrior.
"Physics and math help you understand yourself better. After a year we will switch over to Biology. I only turn out intelligent people Dylan."
"And how does history and literature help me?"
"Don't you want to be a well rounded person?"
"I guess…"
"Trust me, the more you know the better life will be, plus you never know when you may need it. This schedule is for Monday through Thursday. On Friday we will go horse back riding; you will learn a foreign language, write me and official paper of what you learned over the week, one short Tae-Kwon-Do class and go swimming. Saturday you will have to do at least an hour and a half of language, but Sunday will be completely free of me forcing work on you."
"So do you intend to teach me all of this?"
"Of course! I am great at all of these things. I also speak eight languages fluently."
"What language must I speak?"
"You pick…French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Hebrew."
"Wow…"
"I like to be intelligent. Plus I have all the time in the world, why should I waste it?"
"Ok, does this schedule start tomorrow?"
"Yes, even though it is Tuesday…you skipped a day. Next I will take you to the work out room and we can begin your Tae-Kwon-Do training. After that I will show you my barn. Then I am going swimming. You may join me if you like."
"Sounds good, I love swimming and you have a great pool."
The fighting class was pretty cool. We started with basic things like which parts of the body make the best weapons. Apparently there are six main ones. The heel, the area just above one's knee, the knuckles, the palm, the meaty part on the part of your hand opposite your thumb, and the elbow (the squishy part just above, or just below the elbow). Then she showed me stances and simple punches and jabs.
After that we had a snack. Hunter loved food and I was hungry so when she suggested eating, I was definitely ok with it. We had some almond croissants. I practically died with how wonderful they tasted.
Then she insisted on going to the barn. I am not a horse guy, but she's the boss. I thought Hunter was beautiful before, but when she walked into that barn and saw her horses, her face changed. It wasn't just happy or joking, it was pure joy. Her eyes softened and her face became gentler. Her entire body seemed to show love for these animals. I'm not really sure how to describe her, but I'm sure you know what it's like when you see some who is perfectly happy. She brushed her fingers across the first horse's face.
"This is Nimrodel." It was a small grey horse. "She is an Arabian, look at how perfect she is. Don't tell anyone, but she is my favorite"
"Where did you get her name?"
"The Lord of the Rings I think…but it may have been The Simarillion, but then again, it could have been The Unfinished Tales…whatever, one or J.R.R Tolkien's books."
"What about this guy?" I pointed to a huge black horse
"Inigo. From The Princess Bride. He's another one of my favorites. He's gentler than Nim, she's rather wild sometimes."
"Are going to introduce them all? You seem to really love them."
"I do. This is Gypsy, I've had her the longest well except for Patches, but hes MIA." She pointed to a palomino mare, and then to a smaller dark gray horse. "That is Monet, he is Inigo and Nimrodel's son. He's about three years old now. Anyway now you've met them, you can go do whatever now. I think I'm going to stay and brush them down, and probably work with the Monet. He needs to be trained."
"I can help you brush them." I don't really know why I said that.
"It's ok, I understand, not everyone likes them as much as I do, and you must be tired."
"I'll help you." I said firmly, I didn't really have anything else to do. And, as long as you don't tell anyone, I could look at Hunter being perfectly happy any day. Just seeing her perfectly happy made me happy. She smiled.
"Well then, we'll start with Inigo." We brushed all of the horses together. It was a lot of fun. She was telling me stories of past mutants with her horses. Most of the mutants had not liked that Hunter made them ride. But according to Hunter riding makes one learn patience, and it is soothing. Hunter seemed to love the fact that she was the boss. Hunter told me that she would make me do all kinds of things to learn patience and what not. I as actually looking forward to it…whatever it may be.
The day ended with some wonderful food that Nancy made and a swim in the pool. I was up in my room writing down everything that had happed, as I was ordered to do. It was rather depressing, remembering that my real mission was to spy on Hunter. But so far she seemed completely innocent.