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Chapter 6: Physical Preparation

Beta-Reader: Ant0nius


Hope thought that the visit at the beachside area would have put a longer break on training.

Sadly, she was proved incorrect when Matt put her back into her previous training regiment. Naerie joined her, but since she had a greater understanding of her limits, she was able to endure the torture better than the Gazelle Prime. Whining failed to even formulate as they were going through this one day before they had to take a plane to... Australia?

"Why are we even going there?" The girl asked, unsure of which Crest Matt wanted to meet again. "Like, I know no one that lives there."

The blond blinked, a bit surprised by that response while checking on a few newspapers with Archie while she took a break from training. Naerie had two more laps through the improvised danger course where she had to dodge a few obstacles.

"I think you actually do," The human reasoned, further increasing her confusion. "The thing is that you never asked her where she was born and where her main house was."

Okay, why do I feel even stupider than usual?

The thought question was answered shortly after as the Nanozell Spirit showed her two very familiar individuals. One was a Wolf Prime and the other a Fox Prime, male and female respectively and-

"Vixy was born in Australia?!" The girl sounded utterly shocked, but not for any odd reasons.

It just never connected in her head that Vixy had any correlation with the place as she had a Californian accent at times and she felt more of a US-born citizen at best- maybe a Prism-born one since her mother's gym business was entrenched mostly in the lands of the Queendom. But Australia? That she couldn't have thought possible.

"Wait, Vixy has two Crests as parents?" Hope pressed on with even greater shock. "I knew her mother was one, but her father as well? That explains a lot."

"I doubt that," Matt argued, leaning back on his chair as he spared a look at what Archie was giving him, another newspaper. "Howl was a bit of a... softie. A loner and a warrior, yes, but he was always the kind of guy that stuck around a lot with friends. Me especially. Me and Carmesi."

The human's expression morphed in a brief odd look and then he shook himself from some unknown thought.

"Still, Howl will be the one we will visit first. Unlike Carmesi, his business is relatively small and meant to preserve his real identity."

"He is a mechanic, right?" The Gazelle Prime inquired. "So, do you know where he is?"

"We do," Archie confirmed. "But we still need to take a few precautions before we leave by plane."

Hope frowned at this bit. Precautions? What for? Despite her eagerness to press for more information, she figured that both the Nanozell Spirit and the Human were not up to telling her more about the situation. She went back to train some more, her gaze aimed at the obstacle course before she bolted through it two more times.

Naerie was already done by the time she was through the second to last lap, speaking with Matt about something, but nothing that really felt odd or unusual to the point of eavesdropping on their conversation. The entire session was quite intense, but it acclimatized her back to the rough exercises that she had already made some efforts to overcome physically.

She still had the chance to think more of this situation and... she had many reasons not to look forward to meeting Carmesi... again. The first time Hope had the chance to see Vixy's mother was back when all parents were visiting them at College. And when Vixy came out as Bi with her parents. While Howl was quite supportive of this news, Carmesi didn't look pleased.

She wasn't entirely against it, obviously, but the reason why she may have had some expectations was tied to the background for Vixy's girlfriend. Traci 'Tiggs' Biggs was an adorable and big girl. Quite caring, quite understanding and emotional. Also, she behaved like a cute puppy around Vixy even before they got together.

That relationship mended Vixy up after she had a bit of a mental breakdown in college, something that allowed her to recover and drop numerous roles within the school which were there more to gain the never-reaching praise of her mother. It wasn't like they hated each other, but even Hope's mother could tell that Carmesi never managed to connect with her daughter. Vixy took a lot from her father in terms of personality, especially when it came to fighting within a purpose. She was a protector, not a frontline fighter- and that was seen as weakness by Carmesi.

The Gazelle Prime actually wondered the full extent of the relationship both Carmesi and Howl had towards the Human. Part of her wanted to believe that Howl got the closest to him, but she had a growing feeling that the opposite was true- that Carmesi had been around the most and they had bonded the deepest possible.

It was just a hunch without much of a proof to back it up, but the girl was willing to take it as a possibility. Then, as she pondered over this, she also realized that this visit was going to be dreadful for her for a very simple reason. Since it was Carmesi that they were talking about, there was a chance that they weren't going to visit one of her gyms, but actually face her in her Fire Clan Arena. That would be... dreadful for many reasons, but the main issue that really concerned Hope was the fact that she may have to fight there too.

It wasn't much for her pacifist mindset, but rather Hope was concerned by the sort of monsters Carmesi molded through her ruthless training style. It was no secret to anyone with a degree of knighthood's awareness, and it was one of the reasons why Hope knew her little sister would love to take part in this sort of maddening training. In fact, it wouldn't even be out of logic for Hope to see both Carmesi and Joy hit it off quite well through their blunt and direct personalities, and perhaps Carmesi could reasonably sharpen some of the younger Gazelle Prime's issues when it came to anger and poor-judgment calls.

But for now, that hypothetical scenario will have to wait as there was more training to go through...


AN

Next time, another POV that will precede the real meeting between two strongly-attached individuals. A call from the past, in the name of friendship... and love! Sorta~.

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