Chapter 14 – Training Day
AN: To Cheesepuff, even though I think you misinterpreted what I said, I will try to involve your character, though I will have to give him an actual name. Still keeping all your names for him! However, he is going to appear later in the story, since his description is... interesting. To Anonymous (guest), who right now is the only one who actually got it right, congrats! Your character is going into the story right now!
To everyone else: I am now accepting your own characters, since I need some now! Now, you don't have to figure out the answer to the competition, but however, people who figured out the competition answer will get character priority. Here is another hint: What does 10 has in relationship with creative mode? Is it something about the powers of the 10 council members? Also, I need girl characters as well as boys, preferably four boys, five girls. So there are now two lines. One of girl characters, one of boy characters.
-Chapter 14-
"Zero, wake up. Zero wake up! ZERO, WAKE UP!" And with that, Anna shocks me into action. And when I say shocks, I mean literally shocks me with electricity.
"OW! What the heck was that for?"
"To wake you up! You have fifteen minutes left to get to training!"
"Wait, what... oh no!"
"Now hurry up!"
After mining at the mine yesterday, I walked straight back home, and paid my house owner the rent for four weeks. I also with the resources, made myself diamond armor, and a pick, since I broke my iron one mining. Now, they are on an armor stand that I happened to find in the house. I then rushed to the bank, dropped off most of my valuables in the ender chest vault, and went to a restaurant to buy myself dinner. As soon as I got home, there was a council member who wanted me to find him a new mine, since the old one collapsed because of me. I was shocked for a few seconds, then apologized to the council member as much as I can, and showed him a new mining location. He thanked me, and ask if I could not tell anyone. I of course agreed, since I was the one who caused the mess in the first place. After that, I went to bed, exhausted for the day, only to wake up in the morning to the fact that I was going to be late for training. Unless...
"Anna, I need hack speed right now!"
"Right. Get outside and prepare to run."
Quickly putting on my normal clothes, I run outside and kneel down, right fist level with the ground. I raise my leg and prepare to run, legs acting like a spring, like a sprinter getting ready for his race.
"Hack: Speed!"
And with that, I run faster than ever, leaving my house behind in a blink of an eye. Quickly taking a left turn, I begin to cross town, running across street to street. I also notice while I am running that no one seems to be up yet. I guess it's too early.
Finally making a final right turn, I quickly pull up right next to the training location, which is in the corner of the faction. As I make a sharp stop, turning around and pushing my feet against my momentum, with my hand on the floor for balance, I hear a loud crack behind me.
"Zero! What the hell was that?"
I look around and noticed Shadow to the left of me, in front of the training building. I prepare to get up and say hi, but suddenly a massive wind pushes against me! Using all of my strength, I pull myself through the wind, and it dies down.
"What the heck was that?" I stand up, and turn to ask Shadow what that wind was. The problem was that she disappeared.
"Shadow? Where'd you go?" I turn to the wall where the loud cracking noise came from.
"Holy..." A massive hole appeared while I was looking away, with the back having so many cracks, it was pointless to count them all! Looking around, I find Shadow with her back against the wall, a few feet up from the floor! Suddenly, she begins to fall down, and I run and catch her before she could fall onto the floor.
"Shadow, you okay?" She takes a few seconds to rest, and picks herself up, moving out of my arms.
"I'm fine, Zero." She replies testily. "But you have a wall to fix."
"Wait, I did that?"
"Did you not see your speed? You caused your momentum to create a strong wind, and all of your momentum went into the wall! I'm surprised that nothing else got carried away with your wind!"
"Shadow? Are you feeling okay?" I ask. "You seem... different."
"I am alright, no thanks to you. Now come on. You need to come with me into the training hall." She turns quickly and walks into the stone training building before I could say anything.
"Anna, what's going on with Shadow? She seems like a completely different person."
"Zero, she's frustrated with something. I don't know what, because I can't read minds!"
"I just wonder if you knew, that's all."
"Best for us to get into that training hall quickly."
"Right." And I walk through the training hall's doors, remembering to take off my eyepiece, to make myself look more human.
"Whoa. This is the training hall?"
A three story high space, with the inside as big as a warehouse, consists of the training hall. It also has more doorways at the sides and back, leading into more rooms. In the middle, Shadow is standing with up to nine people in the middle of the hall.
"What took you so long, Zero?" Shadow coldly says.
"I ran here as fast as I can. Maybe too fast." I reply.
"And now we have to fix that wall." Giving me odd looks from the other trainees as they wonder what Shadow means. "Now everyone, pay attention."
"Now, all of you are to be a part of the faction. Well, you need to train first. Everyone in the faction has some measure of fighting ability, and you will need that ability. In fact, I believe Zero here is the only one who knows how to fight." Why is Shadow boasting about me?
"But first, we need to see what level you are at. So, I prepared an obstacle course. First up, parkour. Zero, you're up first. Step on that iron pressure plate on the floor." I walk to the said pressure plate, and step on it. Suddenly, the floor ahead of me moved away to reveal a parkour course! There was water in the bottom, a ladder on the side to climb out, and half slabs supported by cobblestone pillars, with ladders on some bits, and a timed section at the end where if you don't pay enough attention, you get pushed down into the water below.
"Zero, what are you waiting for? You're being timed... now!" I quickly prepared my hacks with Anna when Shadow quickly says, "Oh, and don't use your 'special' abilities as well. Just you."
Well. Now I'm lost. I never had been without my hacks.
"Okay, converting energy source into human energy, switching off all support systems... and now you are essentially a human. Don't worry, I'm here." Anna calmly says.
"Why are you listening to her?" I think to Anna. And I jump to the first platform.
Quickly jumping from platform to platform, I run as fast as my human body can handle. I easily cleared the first section of the parkour. I hear Shadow behind me mutter, "I need to make this harder." But anyway, now onto the second part of this parkour course. Timed parkour. I need to figure out the timing of each platform. "One, two, three, there!" I think, as the platform ahead of me jumps out. "Then a five second interval, then it slides back in. Each platform ahead has a second difference." I prepare to jump to the first one. "One, two, now!" And I jump and land just when it slides out! I jump to the next one, confident in my timing. After doing this eleven times, I prepare to jump to the final one when I realized that it has a different timing than the others, it's sliding in and out of the wall faster! No time to calculate the timing! "I have to jump now!" And I jump to the final platform.
*splash*
The final guy to run the parkour course falls into the water at the timing section. I relieved that I didn't fall in, because apparently, nearly all the trainees said that the water is ice cold. Only one other person made it to the end, a boy called Jones, who's about 15, 5' 2", lanky, and has extraordinary pale skin. He excitedly says to me that he wants to see how the parkour comes out of the floor, as he never seen that sort of design before, as well as mentioning the fact that I was lucky to get to the final jump, which had a different timing to the others, in fact, two seconds later but slides back in after three seconds. I was impressed, since he saw that, and I ask him how he noticed. "I'm good with redstone." He replies quickly.
As the last person climbs out of the water, Shadow says that I had the best time, and Jones second. Everyone else has no time.
"Right. Everyone, too the next bay." Shadow commands.
"But we're cold!" Someone complains in the group.
"So? It's your own fault that you fell in. You just have to deal with it." Flicking a lever on the floor, and an archery range pop out.
"Everyone, get a bow and arrows. You have to hit the button that is lighted up. Miss, too slow or if you hit the wrong button, well, you don't want to find out."
I quickly grab a bow and some arrows, and got to a bay. Shadow passes behind me and says, "Remember Zero, don't use your special abilities."
I reply with, "Got that." If Shadow not talking to me, I'm not talking to her, for now.
Shadow goes to the end of the range, and says out loud, "Ready... Go!" I quickly hit the first button alight with the arrow, and prepare to aim for the next one. I hear a scream to my right and think, "This is going to be a loooong day."
AN: If anyone's wondering, Zero clothes are like the Steve skin clothes, and the eyepiece is similar to DBZ scouters, without the ear peace. If you don't know what they are, then look it up. Also, I AM NOT ABLE TO DO THE NEXT CHAPTER WITHOUT 9 CHARACTERS, 3 BOYS, 5 GIRLS. So please, send me your character. But please, don't send more than one; otherwise it would be unfair to others.