Earth Protectors
Disclaimer: I don't own the movies rights and what not.
READ: well, now, there is to be more, I got some ideas for the training thing, Darkest Angel suggested they be like the monks on D&D, well, I have never played or seen D&D, so I don't know what ya mean, sorry! But I hope you like what I can deliver!
Chapter Ten
The hour had passed and the girls and the boy were wakened again. Bruce the Merciless had started them off with a two-mile run, and then he had them do twenty push-ups and then thirty sit-ups. They all sat down gasping for breath and tired out of their minds.
"That is not…. Easy," Katrina said. Bruce laughed at her.
"Ha! That was not even a decent warm-up compared to what we do! You will have better warm-ups when we come near the end of the training sessions," he said as he walked over to Selena. Everyone's eyes were saucers.
"That was just the warm-up? I thought that was the training!" exclaimed Terry.
"How could that be a warm-up? That had to count for a good week of training!" Artemis said. Alex fainted from the lack of air he was getting. Everyone looked at him.
"Does he need CPR?" Jenia asked poking him with a stick.
"Check to see if he's breathing," Artemis said. Everyone shook his or her head. "Alright I'll check."
She lifted his head and opened his mouth and put her hand slightly above his mouth. She felt the air passing through. "He's breathing, just fainted."
"Well, we're going to have to continue without him then!" Bruce said. "We should start straight away to save us time, we will need the time we can get."
"What do we do first?" They girls asked.
"First we shall test your durability." Cheiday said.
"How?"
The dragons stepped forward their arms open. "Well, not exactly durability, just how strong your bones are and how long you can stand being crushed." the dragons wrapped their arms around their humans and squeezed tightly. All the girls stayed strong for five minutes, until the dragons squeezed a little harder, cracking could be heard from their ribs, and breaking too. Tears welled in their eyes, they could barely stand this amount of pain, finally Artemis let out a gasp, and she couldn't breathe. And then Ashleigh did too, and soon all the girls were suffocating, barely able to breathe. Finally after what seemed an eternity but only two minutes the dragons stopped and put them down.
"How could this be?" Bruce said coldly. "You couldn't last seven minutes!"
"Well!" Selena gasped, "It was kind of our first time being crushed!"
"You should last longer! We will make it to where you last longer than a dragon does in a dragon grip!"
"Stop fighting, we must test Alex now, he was stirring," Kurgan said. Alex awoke and immediately Sun Scale got him in his grip, Alex lasted only six minutes before he passed out.
"Well, it looks like there is much work ahead of us," Cheiday said sighing.
"What's next?" Artemis asked. Standing up.
"Well now we are going to swim. There is a lake not to far from here, we are going to swim four hundred laps, and then we will do a twenty mile run," Cheiday said as he walked toward the lake.
"Wait! When do we get to the ki stuff and what not?"
"We tried this morning, earlier, but all of you fell asleep, then we decided to train your bodies first," Cheiday explained still walking with the rest following him.
"Why our bodies first?" Ashleigh asked.
"Because you can control your ki easier when your body is capable of withstanding the ki and able to take the attacks," Moro said. "So when we finish your training for your bodies we will work on your mind, then the ki training will begin, it will take a long time though, and I don't know how we can complete the training before we have to go to war."
"There is a place in the mountains to the north, it is where the forest guardian lives. He has a portal to another world there where you could train for a hundred years there but it would seem that only two days have passed here," Cheiday said.
"A HUNDRED YEARS!?" Katrina exclaimed. "But then we would be dead! How could we live! The aging affects what about that?"
"The guardian will give us a special pendant to stop the aging affects. The pendant gives eternal youth as long as you wear it, but should you take it off, the aging affects begin, and you will age."
"Amazing!" Selena said.
"Who are you?" A voice came out from the path in front of them. It was a female voice.
"What are you is more the question!" A male voice said. They looked around trying to find whom the voices belonged to. Then out of the tress dropped out two figures.
"Where are we?" They asked. They held spears to Cheiday.
"What the heck?!" They exclaimed.