Chapter 8: I'll Make A Warrior Out Of You
A few days later, Stolas asked for everyone to come down to the main source of aura in the Underworld to discuss what to do next.
"So, can it be done?" Akira asked.
Stolas nodded with a smile.
"Yes, but not without complications." Stolas said.
"Which are?" Aizen asked.
"I'm going to need at least a hundred aether practitioners or masters to help me meditate around the aura to control it." Stolas said.
"I'm sure we can find a hundred of them." Aizen said.
"Not too hard." Serenity said.
"Well, here's the hard part, we need at least fifty years to fully control it." Stolas said.
"Fifty years!?" Aizen said.
"Maybe fifty-one if we are to be for sure." Stolas said.
"Fifty-one years is too long." Ken said.
"I'm sorry but it's the least amount of time I can come up with. Since none of us have powers or any such abilities to help us, we have to do it old school, the way the ancient shamans used to achieve it." Stolas said.
"Yeah, but didn't shamans have books or something?" Akira asked.
"Do you see books down here?" Stolas asked.
"Good point." Akira said with a sigh.
Serenity thought for a moment and nodded.
"Okay, let's do it." Serenity said.
"As if we have a choice." Eto said.
"I think I have an idea, to what we do for fifty years while we wait." Serenity said.
"I think I got the same idea you do." Aizen said.
"Which is?" Akira asked them.
"We must train every single person and perhaps every single beast for fifty years." Serenity said.
"Train them in what knowledge?" Eto asked.
"Fighting of any kind, perhaps strategy too." Serenity said.
"I also suggest weapon emplacement operations and ship controls." Aizen said.
"Why that?" Serenity asked.
"If we are going to make our wishes, we should wish for war machines of sorts. Thus they will have cannons on them. We need something to go up against those ships. We need to teach everyone what each console does, we need to somehow recreate those consoles to look almost identical to the real thing to teach people." Aizen said.
"We got a lot of bones and rocks." Ken said.
"We could construct something similar." Eto said.
Aizen nodded.
"Bone ribs for swords? Perhaps some intestines wrapped bones to mimic a gun?" Serenity suggested.
"I like the sound of that." Akira said.
"Do you think the Dragon race could allow us to fly on their backs to create a flight simulation of sorts?" Ken asked.
"I'll ask the King Black Dragon." Aizen said.
"We need to make sure every single person that lives down here is on board." Eto reminded them.
Everyone looked at one another for a moment.
"It might take a year to spread the word down here to every single living being." Stolas said.
"I think as rumor has it, there are sexdecillion people that are here. I don't know how many beasts though." Aizen said.
"Sex..." Stolas said grinning covering his mouth.
"Focus." Eto said rolling her eyes.
"It will take a long time to spread word to everyone down here of what we are planning to do. We need everyone, and I mean everyone to know if this is to work." Aizen said.
"But how do we convince everyone?" Ken asked.
"We give them hope." Serenity said.
"Exactly." Akira said.
"Then it's agreed?" Serenity asked them.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"We must also ask a few of our friends who have excellent knowledge in fighting and strategy to help train everyone." Ken said.
"I think we can spread word for teachers." Aizen said.
"And I know of one..." Serenity said thinking on it.
Akechi walked out from behind a few large rocks.
"Oh, hey Akechi!" Aizen said.
"I was looking for you, do you need my help today?" Akechi asked.
"How about I get you up to date on what's going on okay?" Aizen asked.
"Of course that'd be great." Akechi said.
Aizen walked off with Akechi and Ken looked over to Eto.
"How long have we known him?" Ken asked.
The next day, Serenity tapped a piece of bone on a bone post outside of a hut and waited.
Standing with her was Aizen, Ken, Eto, and Akira.
"So who are we seeing?" Ken asked.
Serenity kept quiet but gave him a grin.
"I don't like that reply." Ken said with a sweatdrop.
Opening the hut door was, Madara Uchiha.
When he saw Serenity he gave her a calm smile.
"A pleasure to see you." Madara said.
"Do you have time to talk?" Serenity asked.
"I suppose if you brought these guys, this must be important." Madara said.
They discussed their plan with Madara who nodded in understanding.
"I will need extra instructors- a lot of extra instructors actually." Madara said.
"I'm sure we can find them." Aizen said.
"I'd be honored to help train people- just know, no slacking off." Madara said.
"I understand." Serenity said.
"I can't really train a thousand together, I should take different groups each day. These people need knowledge not just of my expertise but of others as well." Madara said.
"That's the current plan." Ken said.
"It won't be easy, but we have fifty-one years, that's plenty of time I think to train every single person on how to fight and to gain knowledge." Aizen said.
"You are asking for the impossible you know." Madara said.
They went quiet.
Madara just gave them a grin.
"A good thing I make impossible things possible. And if I can do that, then everyone can." Madara said.
"Heh, then I guess it's time we get to work." Akira said.
"Let me know when everyone is on board and bring me those willing to teach so we can all consult together on what we do." Madara said.
"It will take time." Aizen said.
"We got un-ending time." Madara said.
"True- but not in the way I'd want." Eto said looking around.
"Not in the way anyone wants. I guarantee though, everyone will be on board. No one wants to keep living like this." Madara said.
"Let's do this." Serenity said holding up her fist.
A few days later, all of their friends went out to spread the word and the word spread like a wildfire.
In a year, every single living being was willing to go through intense training to have a chance for freedom, it was their only chance they had.
On the first day of training, Serenity, Aizen, Ken, Eto, and Akira along with all of their friends and former enemies were gathered together with Madara standing over some bones looking down at them
"Out of the ten million teachers, I will teach this group here." Madara told them all about them.
"So when are-" Mangle began to say.
Madara threw a rock at Mangle.
"Ow, why!" Mangle shouted.
"I didn't say you could speak." Madara said and threw another rock.
Aruriania had a big grin on her face.
Mangle kept her mouth shut but gave a death stare at Madara.
Madara kicked up a long bone leg and spun it around without breaking eye contact and twirled it around to their amazement before slamming it down.
"Let us begin!" Madara shouted.
It only took less than five minutes and everyone was on the ground beaten down by Madara.
"I didn't expect you all to be this weak..." Madara sighed.
"It's been a while." Dray groaned.
"I'm dying..." Nnoitra said looking at the sky.
"I'm already dead I think." Hide said as he was dizzy trying to stand back up.
"I guess this means I have to start you all off on lesson one." Madara said with an unamused tone.
The next day, Mangle was sitting on the back of a Dragon.
The instructor was showing Mangle a fitted makeshift starfighter control panel attached to the Dragon's back with a few intestines that hooked up under some scales.
The instructor pointed out which one does and right before he went to talk about the red-painted button, Mangle pushed it without listening.
The Dragon's mouth immediately opened and shot a fireball out which nearly hit two people.
The flight instructor facepalmed.
Nearby, Deidara was trying to ride one but fell from it and landed on the ground aching in pain.
Two months later, an instructor was teaching about literature and Jessica was asleep until the instructor threw a rock into her face knocking her back and waking her up.
A week later, Ken and Hayato were typing on a makeshift console while Hackett was telling everyone which button on it did what, the buttons were just small knob bones but to see where they was on the makeshift console.
Three days later, Qrow held the makeshift bone rifle, and right as he pulled the bone trigger, the entire thing fell apart.
The instructor whacked him on the head making him hold his head and argue with the instructor.
Hayato accidentally hit one that fell apart and Ken quickly tried to put it back together only to hear an elephant roar behind him.
Hackett facepalmed and explained it was the siren that their ship was lost because of them.
Nearby, Dray was getting mad at a console and broke it apart with an elephant roaring into his ear making him flinch and runoff.
A month later, Everyone was doing push-ups.
Dray was dying and finally gave up after only doing ten.
Medusa grabbed his hair and yanked him back up and shouted at him to keep going while standing on his back making him cry out in pain in his muscles ready to pop.
Two months later, Serenity was trying to ride on the back of an Allosaurus but it kept bucking her off and then running off.
Two instructors ran to tame it while Serenity lifted her face off the mud with mud dripping off her face and having a deadpan look in her eyes.
Madara was nearby watching everyone's progress and just facepalmed.
Two years later, Ken came back from his time of torture and immediately went to train which impressed Madara and he noticed how they were all beginning to get accustomed to the training.
Madara just nodded with a small smile on his face.
Five years later, Mangle was on a Dragon flying over a few huts along with other people on Dragons and were in an attack formation toward makeshift targets.
They pushed buttons that had the Dragons shoot fireballs at the target hitting it precisely.
The instructor smiled and cheered them on from the ground.
Six months later, Qrow was taking down target after target with the bone gun and repeated the same steps on how to make a fast reload.
A year later, Dray was doing push-ups with Medusa, Cosmic, and Qrow standing on his back.
A few people around was cheering him on.
Two years later, Ken was typing on the makeshift console like an expert and even turned his head to answer some questions while he kept on typing.
Hackett walked up to him patting his shoulder before walking off to check on a few other people's progress.
Six months later, Serenity was able to tame the Allosaurus and patted the side of his neck before it roared loudly making people around have to cover their ears and some to catch other beasts to calm them down.
Akechi walked up clapping to Serenity who jumped down and gave him a hug.
The two embraced for a moment looking at each other's eyes and before anything else happened, her Allosaurus leaned down growling at Akechi in a protective stance for Serenity.
The two just laughed but Akechi's laugh became nervous as he saw the teeth of the Allosaurus.
A few weeks later, Jessica was listening to the instructors while taking notes for her friends to learn about.
A year later, Madara used hand-to-hand combat against Akira who within just under a minute, was able to take down Madara with ease.
Madara laying on the ground gave him a nod and a thumbs up.
This training would last for fifty years without Tenebris knowing it was going on, everyone who was getting tortured never said a word and Tenebris didn't care to watch what people were doing, he was confident that he won.
His biggest mistake.