Chapter 10: Flashback Training

It was finally time to go home for all of the regulars. Rose and Ryoma walked home hand-in-hand once again making everyone stare at them weirdly. Rose and Ryoma just decided to ignore them and decide to talk to each other to pass the time until they got home.

'Are you sure my family will be ok with this Rose?' Ryoma asked Rose secretly.

Rose just sighed and then, with a caring look, replied 'It will be fine Ryoma. I already told you that their memories have been adjusted to include me in some memories. It didn't change anything major ok. For now let's just get home and yes your father won't bug me too much. Oh look we are here.'

Ryoma looked up to see that they were already at his house. That was quicker than he had expected. He yelled out, "Tadaima!"

"What took you so long Seishounen? Finally found a girl after you lost contact with Rose?" A voice yelled from inside. "Hurry up and come in!"

"Baka Oyaji! I brought someone home!" Ryoma replied with an annoyed tone.

Suddenly the door flew open and Nanjirou popped out yelling, "Who? Who? Who did you bring home with you?" He looked next to Ryoma and saw the girl. Even though he had never actually met the girl, his memories were adjusted enough to make him yell, "Rose-chan! You're here at last! I was starting to worry about you when lil' seishounen lost contact with you." With that, Nanjirou led, more like dragged, Rose to the house and everyone came out saying things like 'It's nice to see you again Rose' and 'We've been so worried about you!' All Rose did was reply that she was sorry that she lost contact with them and that Ryoma found her by Lake Virtue.

Nanako hurried up to the guest room to prepare it for Rose and somehow knew how Rose liked it. The bed and desk were right next to each other right below the window right along the wall and the dresser was right next to the end of the bed. Everything was already white which Rose loved.

Rose sat on the edge of her bed and started to talk to Ryoma who had just finished his homework. She first said, 'Finished homework Ryo-kun?'

Rose could tell that Ryoma was surprised when she heard a big bang on the wall. Her room was right next to Ryoma's, and she knew he was annoyed when he replied, 'What the heck! You didn't have to surprise me you know!'

'Well sorry, but I didn't want to walk in on you.'

'Oh. Sorry about yelling at you then. What is it that you wanted to talk about?'

'What I have to have a reason to just chat with you?'

'If it was my senpais then I would understand. But you on the other hand, always have a reason to talk to me whether it is good or bad.'

'Well this one is good. Do you want to start training now?'

'What! It is nearly close to ten at night. What are you thinking?'

'I am thinking that something is going to happen tomorrow, so I thought why not prepare you. It would look strange if I kept protecting you over and over again every time something happened.'

'Che, true. Fine, let's go. What will we say to my family though?'

'Don't worry. They are already asleep. We can train for as long as we want for today. Meet me downstairs.' With that Rose got up off her bed and went downstairs to meet with Ryoma. First she changed from her old clothing from when she was at the lake into something more comfortable for her. She changed into a cute, red tank top and a pair of pink surfer shorts. She decided to place on her white tennis shoes. She also tied her knee-length hair up into a ponytail with a blue hair-band that had a bird-shaped ornament attached.

Ryoma went downstairs already in his white t-shirt, shorts, and tennis shoes and saw Rose coming down the steps. He had to say that she looked amazingly different. He snapped out of it and said, "Finally you're here. Ready to go?"

Rose rolled her eyes at him and said, "Yes I'm ready. Let's go before you get even more impatient then." Rose walked outside the house with Ryoma and they went to the river that separated the town finding it clear of anything and anyone. Rose set up a shield to cloak them so that no one could see them training.

Ryoma looked over at Rose saying, "What should we start with first?"

"Ever heard of darts Ryo-kun?" Rose said with a sly smile and her eyes closed.

'This is not going to end well' thought Ryoma. He replied, "Yeah, I've heard of them. Why?"

"Let's train with those then. What do you think darts should be used for in a battle?"

"Well…probably to either stun the enemy or poison them to stop them from attacking," Ryoma replied. As soon as he saw that he saw two darts appeared right in front of him. He blinked in surprise.

Rose saw the look on his face and thought, 'Well this is a good start for him.' "Those are going to be your first weapons for training. The stun dart and the poison dart. Practice throwing them at these targets." Rose waved her hand up and swung it around the training area. Ten little targets appeared and then started moving around. "Try to hit them while moving. If you cannot do that, then you will be in deep trouble."

Training kept going in the same manner. Rose kept introducing Ryoma to his own powers and kept him practicing against the targets for the next four hours. By the time they finished, it was already two in the morning and Ryoma was yawning like crazy.

Rose noticed that Ryoma was tired and immediately turned the targets into dust. She then said, "Go to sleep Ryoma. I'll get us back home. She then waved a hand over his head and his eyes started to droop. After a few seconds he fell asleep and started to fall to the ground. Rose caught him in time to catch him before he hit the ground and put him on her back to carry him home. Luckily she did not need any sleep but knew that Ryoma needed it for practice tomorrow morning, or today considering it was two in the morning. Rose carried Ryoma all the way home and laid him down on his bed. She then waved his hand over his head again to spread some healing powder onto him. The powder immediately started to work as she saw the dark bags under the boy's eyes begin to vanish. She went back to her own room and thought to herself. 'I know something is going to happen today. I just know it. I hope the training paid off in the end to help him when the time comes. Those pesky dragon hunters won't know what hit them when Ryoma masters every one of his powers. He has already gotten a good grasp but not enough to use it at full power. Let's hope he can soon or we are in big trouble.'

The training was the same for the next few days. Ryoma was finally able to call out his six main elemental swords: Fire, Air, Electric, Poison, Ice, and Earth. The fire sword had a hilt that looked like a flame and the blade was spewing out fire. The air blade looked like a fencing blade. The electric looked like a scythe and was able to shoot out sparks. The poison looked like a vine with thorns. The earth blade looked like a bunch of seaweed that could extend and grow to however the user wanted and had a flower hilt. They worked on healing which Ryoma called 'Heaven's Symphony.' He also created a shield made from his most powerful element, fire. He even worked on petrifying his opponent to stone but found out that he could only use it once per month. Elemental Symphony (A/N: Friend's idea for the name) was a bit harder. The two found out that when Ryoma played a flute, he could control the wind better than ever while the violin controlled water, a guitar controlled fire, and symbols controlled the earth.

While Ryoma was busy perfecting his new skills, Rose worked on her own. She was able to work on her own healing when Ryoma overworked himself and called her spell 'Dragon's Blessing.' She first worked on the basics which were a water whip, which would always work when water was around, teleportation, purification, and her elemental powers with her main elements being: fire, air, earth, and water. She also had status orbs to paralyze burn, freeze, etc. her opponents. The harder spells for her was when she had to transform back into her dragon form. She was able to work on a move called 'Scale Barrage' where she would fly into the air and gather her energy into her scales to shoot out and strike and opponent. She practiced the move constantly with Ryoma. She also worked on summoning mini-dragons to help protect Ryoma and worked on transforming into a flying horse and a phoenix. She seemed to have a thing for flying mythical creatures. When she turned into a horse, her wings were still silver but her coat was now a shimmering pure white. Her phoenix form had feathers that had every color of the rainbow and her wings spread from one bank of the ten foot wide river to the other. The most dangerous one for her to use however was her move called 'Rave.' (A/N: Friend's idea for the name again) This move required her to focus her energy into a strong emotion her partner felt whether it was passion, sorrow, or even hatred. Then the energy would form in her mouth to form and orb and she could release the blast to go as far and be as powerful as she could make it. It would however cause her to pause for a minute to regain her strength which made in unreliable to use multiple times in battle.

They trained for the whole week perfecting their skills and making sure to create moves that combined both of their abilities. By the end of the week, they had mastered every single skill and perfected their moves perfectly.