AN: I own very little these days.
Where Do We TrainMorning dawned with a bright, cloudless sky and the bungalow's occupants began to stir with life. "Wake up, Odango…" Usagi awoke to see Rei leaning over her bunk with a huge steaming mug of coffee.
"Thanks, Pyro," she giggled as she accepted the drink. "I wish Luna could carry coffee to me rather than scratching my face to wake me up."
"Don't thank me yet," Rei said a split-second before a grimacing Usagi spit her first sip back into the cup. "Heero's campfire java can serve as paint thinner." A wincing Usagi nodded and handed the drink back to her friend.
"Starbucks it is not, but it served its purpose. I'm definitely awake now." Rei laughed as she left Usagi in the bathroom with a tub full of water that she'd warmed with her pyro-kinetic touch. "Beat an electric hot water heater any day…"
Soon everyone was gathered in the kitchen munching on his or her choice of breakfast cereal and happily grumbling about Heero's lethal coffee. After the dishes were rinsed and left to dry on the drying board, the group filed outside to pick where they would begin their training. It was already agreed that to start the pairs would go off alone to focus on the individual elements' specific needs. Once each senior member of the pair declared her partner ready, they would all regroup and begin to work on team tactics. Wufei and Usagi were given the northern most point with the most space because of the magnitude of their powers and with that decided, the others went equidistant in the opposite direction.
"We'll meet back here at sundown and if there's any kind of trouble, use the communicators." The group declined transforming as one big group because they all agreed that only the most desperate of situations could make them overcome their embarrassment at performing a naked ribbon dance in full view of a large group of the opposite sex.
"I mean desperate like end of the world type stuff," mumbled a red faced Quatre. Usagi had Wufei hang back as they watched their friends disappear down their chosen paths. When the last couple had vanished from sight Usagi turned to smile at her partner.
"We've got a long way to go to get to our training point, so I figured we could start your lessons with one that's the most useful." Together, they shouted out their transformation phrases. A blinding moment later they stood like angels of darkness and light with their ivory and ebony wings gleaming in the sunlight. Wufei was still in awe of the feeling of having two extra limbs. He could feel the wind rustling through each and every single feather that made up his wings and it felt like a thousand drops of water falling onto his back. Usagi watched him examine his pinions for a moment before she launched herself straight up into the sky. Startled, he followed her example before he could truly think about what he was doing.
"I'm flying," he shouted triumphantly as he caught the same air current that Usagi was using to rise higher into the air. After a few barrel rolls and breath taking dives to make Wufei familiar with his capabilities, Usagi brought them into a glide that ended at the cove that was to be their training area.
"Great first flight! You'll have to talk to Ami if you are interested in the mechanic of how we can fly with such short wings. She tried to tell me once about how it's a mixture of the wings and some kind of levitation magic, " Usagi grinned, " but she lost me after the first four syllable word."
"I doubt I'll ask," Wufei replied with a matching smile. "Some things need to be kept mysteries." Glad that he felt the same way she did, Usagi nodded and pointed to the sword that hung from his hip.
"Let's see just what you can do with that pig sticker you got there." The challenge in her voice made Wufei's eyes twinkle as he watched her bring out her fighting rod.
Across the land, all of the Senshi's heads came up to watch the massive ball of light erupt at the northern most point. The backlash that swiftly followed made them all stagger back a few steps. "Looks like Her Majesty is starting Wufei out with the junior stuff." Each new member of the Senshi team gulped at the similar statements of their mates. This was definitely going to be a learning experience.
AN: I hope that you are enjoying reading this fic as much as I am writing it. I've got to look over my manga to relearn the proper attack names, so be gentle if I make a few mistakes in the coming chapters. Thanks!