Hi, Dragon Scripture here, and with the holidays coming up fast, I am gonna be busy for a fair bit, so if I don't upload a for a few days from the 22nd to the 26th, it's because I am spending time with my family. Things have been pretty hectic for me since before this story was first posted, from a sudden move to a family member having a heart attack. I would just like to thank you for reading this story, with it's flaws and mistakes.

I know that this out of the blue, but I felt like I should let you know if I am unable to some writing. So for your continued support I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a a happy Holiday season for all of you.

Sincerely, and respectfully, Dragon Scripture.

"What will be on the written portion of the exam?" Iida asked.

"You have a textbook right?" Aizawa asked.

"Yes sir," Our class rep said with his usual hand point.

"Read it."

Chapter 34: Spartanic Hell Training

I laid face down on the on the cement running path. "No more..." I groaned. Pyrrha picked me up the back of my shirt.

"Only three more hours. Now get to it." She had decided that All Might's training plan which I had been following wasn't enough. So she had tripled it.

"You are insane." I groaned as I looked at my phone, we had been running non-stop since 3 in the morning. Now it was nine in the morning. "You are something else."

"I need to get you ready. Besides Once we get back, it's tutoring time with Bakugo." She smiled.

"Yeah Petals, if you can't keep up, your not gonna get anywhere. At least anywhere worthwhile." He taunted as he drank from a bottle.

"Holy fucking shit." Kirishima caught up breathing hard, Kyoka had elected to study with Momo instead of this hell.

"Take five," Pyrrha said as she handed me and Kirishima a bottle of water each. "We're doing strength and aura training next."

"Me and Bakugo don't have auras." Kirishima pointed out.

"True, I have to adjust your training plan. But your going to be pushing boulders, without using your quirks." I looked over at the rocky beach, it was liitered with massive boulders.

"Yay..." I cried as my muscles yelled out in protest.

"GRRRRRRRRR!" I slowly shifted the boulder as I bit down on a piece of leather stuck between my teeth, the sound of stone scrapping on stone filled my ears as the boys had a easier time moving their boulders. My nails were filthy and I was covered in sweat. But in the three days since starting the training we had improved by leaps and bounds. Pyrrha didn't become the best for no reason.

"Ruby, that's enough for you, time for aura training." Pyrrha called over the sound.

I just let myself fall to the ground as I stopped pushing. "Coming." I trudged over to her and sat cross-legged in front of her and started to breath in and out as my aura flared up around me, a swirling barrier of red.

"Focus on it and harden it, and keep it like that for as long as you can." She did the same and we closed our eyes, blocking out the world.

I could feel her power, I could hear the waves crashing on the shore like the heartbeat of a drowned god. The songs of the birds and the breaths of the boys' exertion. My aura glow went through my eye lids making it look like I was in a pool of blood. I took a deep breath in, held it for a few seconds, and let it out and repeated for the next few hours, refining my aura and strengthening it.

As I sat in front of the textbook taking notes and double checking my work, various cue cards with questions and answers on them, a cold towel on my back to try and cool the burning sensation that ran through it. "Come on dumbass! THINK FOR ONCE!" Bakugo beat Kirishima's over the head with the text book everytime he got something wrong. It's been a week since the starting of the training plan and today I was able to move the boulder with some effort, but the run to the beach wasn't nearly as bad. It was also going by faster, even Kirishima wasn't winded today. My aura was advancing with leaps and bounds.

"Bakugo, maybe that isn't how you should help him?" Pyrrha said from the kitchen where she was getting our supper of protein shakes ready, yuck. "See what he is struggling with."

"Okay, fine we'll do it your way." He shook his head as he returned to beating my boyfriend, with less force.

And as the two coached us for the next week, both physically and mentally, we saw massive improvements, Kirishima had gotten nearly every question right by the last day and the 6 hour run was now 4 hours of hard running, the boulders moved with ease and my aura reserves had nearly tripled.

As we stood in class everyone was talking about how they had prepared for the final. "Bakugo and Pyrrha put us through hell." Kiri said as he went over his notes one last time.

"I will admit it worked, but I'm so tired." I whined.

"What did you do for training?" Izuku asked.

"Pain." I said at the same time as Kiri.

"Endurance running and weight training, if their this worn out, they'll never make it." Bakugo laughed.

"Oh stuff it." Kirishima said as he put up the middle finger at him.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" But he had a smile on his face.

"Would you like to try it out Midoriya?" Pyrrha asked.

"Yes I would." He said.

"It's your death warrant." I said as Aizawa came in to begin the exams.

"Everyone take your seats. And quiet down, it's time for your exam."

I left the three hour exam head swimming, I had every question filled out, but the two essays had messed me up for a bit. "Ruby remind me to kill Bakugo and Aizawa." Kiri said as he walked past me.

"That's if I don't do it myself. Well tomorrow is the practical exam, I think it's time we went on that date." I said as I stretched.

"That sounds nice, where do you want to go?" he asked.

"Just a nice quiet evening on the town." I say as I hugged his arm. "Then a movie on the couch."

And that concludes this chapter, well what did you think? And if you want more, be sure to follow the story.