Chapter 2: Ten Years Old
I had underestimated how hard it would be, training to be a Protector. I had to stay in lodges with older, higher ranking officers. Every day I was picked on and tormented by these people who thought they were better than me. I never get to see my toran or my chiko. Well, I couldn't complain. I had chosen this on my own. I would go through every day hoping that maybe today would be different, but for the last year and a half, it never was. I was always beaten until I thought I would die if it went on any longer.
I was trying to focus but I couldn't get the hang of it. I have a new training course plus seven others. For the last four months I've had to fight a guy on a desert plain. They put me on a small strip of land over a fault outside of G-ea (G-ea-eng-ya). I was supposed to fight this guy that was literally five times my size. The first month we fought I never laid a finger on him before I was knocked out cold.
G-da was his name.
A big fist slammed into my face. I flew back about twenty yards. The punch hurt worse than it looked. I had cuts and bruises that never healed from yesterday, which made it sting even more. I landed on the desert ground, red dirt puffed into small dust clouds around me. The scorching of two of our three suns peered though my sweat-stung eyes. I was bloody, bruised, and dirty. In other words I looked worse than most others when they get ran over by those.what- do-you-call-em's on Earth.cars-that's it cars.
Ignoring my pain, I struggled upwards, leaning on a rock next to me. Despite my state, my cocky attitude kept asking for G-da to inflict more damage to my pitiful body than necessary.
"Hey, that all you got, G-dumb?!" I called.
G-da flew over to me a scrunched-up expression on his face. He was angry and stood about five feet above me.
I leaned back, still hanging onto the rock to see his face. A glare crept into my eyes. I shielded it with my left hand.
"You're REALLY big aren't you? Ah, but, you're not a big as you are stupid hunh?" I shook my left hand index finger at him. "I bet you don't even know what I just sai-" I got cut off as he crashed his knee into my stomach. My eyes felt like they popped out of my head. Spit and blood ejected from my mouth. I landed hard on the ground, breathing hard. I lay there. The crowd had gathered and was hurling insults at me. I got up. All my rage poured into me. I was tired of being picked on. I powered up and flew towards G-da.
I kicked him in the gut and punched him. I used a ki blast and shot him, then folded both my fists and hit him in the face with all I had.
He flew back and went through a couple of large rock formations. He landed and slid back until he hit his head on a large boulder face down.
Later I found out that this wad just the beginning, and I only had a taste of what was about to come. I almost thought about leaving, but then I would fail King Yuu. I would fail the soldier at the sidoko. I would fail my teachers. I would fail Toran. I would fail Leilani. I would fail Izaia. I would fail Jectð and even myself. So I was brave a little longer.
I had underestimated how hard it would be, training to be a Protector. I had to stay in lodges with older, higher ranking officers. Every day I was picked on and tormented by these people who thought they were better than me. I never get to see my toran or my chiko. Well, I couldn't complain. I had chosen this on my own. I would go through every day hoping that maybe today would be different, but for the last year and a half, it never was. I was always beaten until I thought I would die if it went on any longer.
I was trying to focus but I couldn't get the hang of it. I have a new training course plus seven others. For the last four months I've had to fight a guy on a desert plain. They put me on a small strip of land over a fault outside of G-ea (G-ea-eng-ya). I was supposed to fight this guy that was literally five times my size. The first month we fought I never laid a finger on him before I was knocked out cold.
G-da was his name.
A big fist slammed into my face. I flew back about twenty yards. The punch hurt worse than it looked. I had cuts and bruises that never healed from yesterday, which made it sting even more. I landed on the desert ground, red dirt puffed into small dust clouds around me. The scorching of two of our three suns peered though my sweat-stung eyes. I was bloody, bruised, and dirty. In other words I looked worse than most others when they get ran over by those.what- do-you-call-em's on Earth.cars-that's it cars.
Ignoring my pain, I struggled upwards, leaning on a rock next to me. Despite my state, my cocky attitude kept asking for G-da to inflict more damage to my pitiful body than necessary.
"Hey, that all you got, G-dumb?!" I called.
G-da flew over to me a scrunched-up expression on his face. He was angry and stood about five feet above me.
I leaned back, still hanging onto the rock to see his face. A glare crept into my eyes. I shielded it with my left hand.
"You're REALLY big aren't you? Ah, but, you're not a big as you are stupid hunh?" I shook my left hand index finger at him. "I bet you don't even know what I just sai-" I got cut off as he crashed his knee into my stomach. My eyes felt like they popped out of my head. Spit and blood ejected from my mouth. I landed hard on the ground, breathing hard. I lay there. The crowd had gathered and was hurling insults at me. I got up. All my rage poured into me. I was tired of being picked on. I powered up and flew towards G-da.
I kicked him in the gut and punched him. I used a ki blast and shot him, then folded both my fists and hit him in the face with all I had.
He flew back and went through a couple of large rock formations. He landed and slid back until he hit his head on a large boulder face down.
Later I found out that this wad just the beginning, and I only had a taste of what was about to come. I almost thought about leaving, but then I would fail King Yuu. I would fail the soldier at the sidoko. I would fail my teachers. I would fail Toran. I would fail Leilani. I would fail Izaia. I would fail Jectð and even myself. So I was brave a little longer.