Chapter 8
As lunch ended everybody went off to class, Angel's grade especially scrambling to get to class because they didn't want to miss out on combat training with their new student amongst there hands. Everybody wanted to see how good Buffy was. Buffy caught up with Willow and the gang and went to go change into their gym outfits in the change room. After that, everyone was assembled into two straight lines, one with the girls and one with the boys. They were all behind each other looking straight to the glass panel where Giles stood stiffly.
"Good afternoon class."
Everyone replied, "Good afternoon Mr. Giles."
"I think today we should step up our training. We will be using swords today. I hope I don't have to remind you all to please be careful. They can be dangerous as you guys already know from Daniel's accident caused by Riley. This goes out especially to you understand?"
Riley gulped and replied, "Yes sir."
"Good. Please pair yourselves off and spread out amongst yourselves. Half an hour before class ends I will be randomly picking students to fight against each other. Please use the techniques I taught you last week against your partner. If you want to show off your moves, do so at the end of class please. Fight fair and begin."
As the class slowly separated with their partners, Faith motioned Buffy to be her partner. "I wanna see how good you are B. You know I'm actually one of the best among the girls in our class." Buffy was nervously thinking how good this girl may be. She didn't know how good these girls were. She's never seen them at competitions or anything like that. Just then, Giles motioned Buffy to talk to him.
"Buffy? I just want to make sure if you ever used a sword before in your combat. You are familiar with it right?"
"Yes, I am."
"Okay then. I'm pretty sure you'll be alright then."
"Mr. Giles?"
"Yes?"
"How far is the class with sword combat? I just don't want to be behind."
"Just basic blocks and attacks. We are very new with the swords. You have nothing to fear Buffy."
Buffy sighed with relief. If they were just at the basic level she knew she was decently ahead of everyone. She spent a year in training just to master the sword. Buffy walked over to Faith, who had Buffy's sword. She glanced over to the class and watched them fight. They weren't that bad. As she saw Angel fight, she noticed that his techniques were pretty flawless. Oh how she despised him. She wished he was awful.
"B. are you ready?" Faith asked nicely.
"Yup. You can start offensively k?"
"Are you sure B? Wait, never mind, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to handle yourself."
"1.2.3!"
Literally everyone stopped as they saw both Buffy and Faith started their little training session. They wanted to see if Buffy could overpower Faith's strong aggressiveness and powerful attacks.
Faith swung in full force but Buffy easily managed to block the attack and swung with full force, Faith barely able to stop it and both girls started swinging at each other with harsh clattering of both swords. Faith was barely able to keep up with the pace Buffy was going at. 'Man' she thought. Faith has never been put on the defensive as long as she remembered. Buffy barely even realized how much pressure she put on Faith. She felt as if she was getting warmed up. Buffy suddenly swirled and managed to catch Faith off guard as her sword flew off her hand and clattered toward the floor.
Everybody just stared at her. Buffy took out Faith quick and easy and didn't even look like she broke a sweat. Giles was definitely impressed with her skills. He knew she was a great asset. Buffy suddenly broke off from her fighting trance and realized that Faith was on the ground staring at her.
"Oh my god Faith! I'm so sorry. I didn't even realize what I was doing. Are you okay? Are you hurt?
Faith chuckling said, "Buff, I'm alright. That was some sick move you did, the twirl thing. We haven't done that in class yet. You gotta teach me that. It totally took me off guard. Man your tough B. You're damn powerful too for your size."
Buffy blushing noticed that everyone gawked at her. Buffy turning back to Faith helped get Faith off the floor. Buffy didn't dare look around the class anymore. She was afraid to see them looking at her again. For the rest of the class before the confrontation of sword fighting, Buffy was teaching Faith some of the techniques she learned back at her training with her previous masters. Angel of course couldn't help but see how amazing she was. She was so swift, so quick so light on her feet. She made it look so damn easy. And she looked so beautiful when she did it that was for sure. He had to shake off Buffy from his mind. This was getting ridiculous. Pining over a girl who didn't want anything to do with him. He could get easily any girl he wanted. But he knew the only girl he wanted was across the room from him.
Giles finally motioned the class the gather around in a large circle.
"Now class, I hope that was a good enough practice so that you are warmed up. First up, Angel and Steve."
Both entered the circle, bowed towards each other and bad both of their swords in front of them.
"Remember all of you, the rules are simple. Clean fights, no intentional slashing. Your main priority is get your opponent down to the floor or get the sword knocked out of their hands understand?"
"Yes." The whole class said in unison.
"And. Begin!"
Angel immediately took the offensive and fiercely attacked Steve. Each blow made Steve retaliate further and further back each time Angel struck. Steve barely managed to block all of them. Steve was so overwhelmed by his attacks that he tripped and fell back. And with that, that was the signal that the fight was over.
"Well done Angel. Very impressive. You get better and better every time." Angel smiled to himself. Yea he did well. He took a lot of pride at how hard he worked to stay out on top.
After that Cordelia and Faith were chosen, Faith easily knocked Cordelia down with barely 3 blows. Then Gunn and George were off, Gunn taking down his opponent with a little bit of difficulty, but successfully. All the girls knew Giles were going to chose two girls now. Since Faith already gone, now all the girls were worried on who would have to face Buffy. Most of the girls were pretty squarely match with power and skill and only Faith was the one mostly feared. Now they feared Buffy even more because how easily she conquered over Faith.
"Okay. I will like to see Buffy against. um. well lets try Willow." Willow was scared to death upon facing against Buffy. Fortunately, Buffy saw the horror struck on her face and offered a suggestion.
"Mr. Giles?"
"Yes?"
"Please don't take this the wrong way Willow, but I don't feel comfortable fighting against girls. I've been fighting against male opponents as long as I could remember. Even though I did face off against girls in competition, I just feel more comfortable facing off against males since I literally fought against one nearly everyday."
Giles took this under consideration and knew that she was right. Her skill easily matched against men.
"Very well Buffy. Are you okay with this Willow?"
"Oh yea. Super. Don't mind me. I completely understand." Willow sighed with relief and gave Buffy a wide grin. Buffy smiled back.
"Well then, let's pair you off with. let's see. lets try Riley."
"Are you sure Mr. Giles? I might overpower her. She may be good against girls but who knows if she can handle a man's power." Riley stated as if he was giving her a compliment.
Buffy shot back, "Well, why don't you come and see shall we? Let's see how well a girl can do against you hmm?"
Riley, cocky as ever replied, "Don't worry baby. I'll make sure I'll tend to you real good after I show you how good I am. I'll go easy on you to show how much I like you."
Buffy, annoyed by him simply replied, "Please, go full force, lets see if you can back up your meaningless words."
Giles cut of what Riley was gonna say by speaking, "Please take your positions both of you. Quarrel later"
Both stared at one another, bowed and took their stance as they waited for the signal.
"On the count of "1.2." Riley, too bored of waiting already took off attacking Buffy. Buffy, not surprised by his foul play easily block his sword and decided to teach this scum a lesson. She got behind him with one swift move and kicked him right on the ass as Riley stumbled forward but remained his balanced. He turned around and glared at Buffy.
"Oh. baby didn't wanna wait for the count of 3 did he? I hope you get a nice mark on your bony ass." Buffy confidently replied.
That remark sent him over the edge as he ran full force towards Buffy and actually tried to gut her in the stomach, Buffy was obviously not surprised since she trained with these dangers almost everyday. Before the sword had the chance to come close to her, she duck, kicked his hand dead on which sent his sword flying, gave a nice big punch towards his face and to top it off stuck out a foot that ran through Riley's legs tripping him. He landed with a big thud on the mat.
Buffy calmly dusting her hands off simply said, "Teach you a lesson to try to gut me. Oh please, you honestly thought you could get me? You're so slow. Hope next time you give me or any other girl a bit more respect."
Giles, outraged by Riley's actions stormed up towards him and raged at him. "How dare you not follow the rules? You could have seriously injured or even have KILLED Buffy! And she's just GOT here! Fortunately for you and for her sake, she's damn better than you at everything than you are to easily block your stupid attempt to gut her! This is not as if this was the first occurrence as well. Riley, I thought you were better than this. I've given you simply too many chances to redeem yourself of your temper and bad control. You are herby expelled out of Vaughan Academy and you are to be on your way back to Iowa as soon as tomorrow. I suggest you start packing NOW! Don't you even think of doing anything rash or you'll pay dearly."
Riley, full of outraged stormed off towards his dormitory to pack, completely dumbfounded to what he did wrong.
After he left, Giles walked over to where Buffy was.
"Buffy. I'm so ashamed that he was in our class. Are you alright?"
"Don't worry Mr. Giles. I'm fine really."
"On your first day too. I'm just glad you handled that really well. I've never seen so many skilled techniques in one synchronization. I'm very impress Buffy. I hope you know I expect big things from you. I'll leave you be. I need to call the office, tell him what happened and get somebody to watch over Riley for me." He turned and faced the gawking class and yelled, "Class Dismissed." No one moved a muscle. Giles, who couldn't care less since class was over anyways walked out towards the office.
Everybody nearly ran over to Buffy, to congratulate her.
"Buffy!" Willow exclaimed. "That . was. AWSOME! Your amazing Buffy, you took down Riley, who's at least 6 feet tall so easily as if he was nothing. You looked like as if you were having fun."
A boy came up to her and remarked, "Buffy, that was CRAZY shit you pulled today. Man, I think your amazing. You just made my day by sending Riley back to his cows in Iowa or whatever hick country he's from. He had that coming for so long now. "
"Yea Buffy," Another girl said, "You finally drove that creep out of our school. You're the schools new hero."
Buffy couldn't help but blush and feel completely shy towards these people. They kept on complimenting her for doing what she was supposed to.
"Thanks you guys. I don't think I should be called anywhere near a hero or anything."
Angel decided to make his presence known towards Buffy. "Yea, if I do say so myself Buffy, your in pretty good shape I'll admit. And I'm glad you sent that Farm Boy back to his cow country. He's been a shit to everyone."
"Well, I'm not glad I did something to make you happy but I guess it'll do since everybody's happy." Maybe Angel wasn't so bad after all.
"Of course," Angel started, "You have no chance against me. No offence. I just don't see you beating me. That's all. Not because you're a girl or anything like that. You just get too emotional. Emotions make you weak."
Or maybe not.
"Weak? My emotions give me strength thank you very much. Well see. Who comes out on top." Replied Buffy
"We will soon." Angel whispered.
Everybody headed off towards Weaponry combat with Ms. Calendar, known as Mr. Giles wife. Since it was the beginning of the year, they had to learn about weapons before they got to actually use them. As soon as class ended everybody was free to roam around the town until 10:00 pm which was their curfew during weekdays and 1:00 am during weekends. They had to be back on campus on their curfew or else they faced big consequences. For the rest of the night, Buffy was getting herself cozy to her new home since it was located in a secluded area in the outskirts of Sunnydale. Fortunately, Buffy's room was located on the same floor as her new friends and they all stayed up to talk about the events of today and Buffy's past life of gold medals and dreams to serve her country as a secret agent. After everyone went off to bed, Buffy couldn't sleep. So many things have happened today. the good and the bad. She never realized she would be as easily accepted as she was. He didn't expect the popularity either. It was getting annoying, since wherever she walked she was looked at. She also didn't expect to get a guy kicked out or meet the very annoying but hot Angel McKillean. She had a feeling her life would never be the same every again.
As lunch ended everybody went off to class, Angel's grade especially scrambling to get to class because they didn't want to miss out on combat training with their new student amongst there hands. Everybody wanted to see how good Buffy was. Buffy caught up with Willow and the gang and went to go change into their gym outfits in the change room. After that, everyone was assembled into two straight lines, one with the girls and one with the boys. They were all behind each other looking straight to the glass panel where Giles stood stiffly.
"Good afternoon class."
Everyone replied, "Good afternoon Mr. Giles."
"I think today we should step up our training. We will be using swords today. I hope I don't have to remind you all to please be careful. They can be dangerous as you guys already know from Daniel's accident caused by Riley. This goes out especially to you understand?"
Riley gulped and replied, "Yes sir."
"Good. Please pair yourselves off and spread out amongst yourselves. Half an hour before class ends I will be randomly picking students to fight against each other. Please use the techniques I taught you last week against your partner. If you want to show off your moves, do so at the end of class please. Fight fair and begin."
As the class slowly separated with their partners, Faith motioned Buffy to be her partner. "I wanna see how good you are B. You know I'm actually one of the best among the girls in our class." Buffy was nervously thinking how good this girl may be. She didn't know how good these girls were. She's never seen them at competitions or anything like that. Just then, Giles motioned Buffy to talk to him.
"Buffy? I just want to make sure if you ever used a sword before in your combat. You are familiar with it right?"
"Yes, I am."
"Okay then. I'm pretty sure you'll be alright then."
"Mr. Giles?"
"Yes?"
"How far is the class with sword combat? I just don't want to be behind."
"Just basic blocks and attacks. We are very new with the swords. You have nothing to fear Buffy."
Buffy sighed with relief. If they were just at the basic level she knew she was decently ahead of everyone. She spent a year in training just to master the sword. Buffy walked over to Faith, who had Buffy's sword. She glanced over to the class and watched them fight. They weren't that bad. As she saw Angel fight, she noticed that his techniques were pretty flawless. Oh how she despised him. She wished he was awful.
"B. are you ready?" Faith asked nicely.
"Yup. You can start offensively k?"
"Are you sure B? Wait, never mind, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to handle yourself."
"1.2.3!"
Literally everyone stopped as they saw both Buffy and Faith started their little training session. They wanted to see if Buffy could overpower Faith's strong aggressiveness and powerful attacks.
Faith swung in full force but Buffy easily managed to block the attack and swung with full force, Faith barely able to stop it and both girls started swinging at each other with harsh clattering of both swords. Faith was barely able to keep up with the pace Buffy was going at. 'Man' she thought. Faith has never been put on the defensive as long as she remembered. Buffy barely even realized how much pressure she put on Faith. She felt as if she was getting warmed up. Buffy suddenly swirled and managed to catch Faith off guard as her sword flew off her hand and clattered toward the floor.
Everybody just stared at her. Buffy took out Faith quick and easy and didn't even look like she broke a sweat. Giles was definitely impressed with her skills. He knew she was a great asset. Buffy suddenly broke off from her fighting trance and realized that Faith was on the ground staring at her.
"Oh my god Faith! I'm so sorry. I didn't even realize what I was doing. Are you okay? Are you hurt?
Faith chuckling said, "Buff, I'm alright. That was some sick move you did, the twirl thing. We haven't done that in class yet. You gotta teach me that. It totally took me off guard. Man your tough B. You're damn powerful too for your size."
Buffy blushing noticed that everyone gawked at her. Buffy turning back to Faith helped get Faith off the floor. Buffy didn't dare look around the class anymore. She was afraid to see them looking at her again. For the rest of the class before the confrontation of sword fighting, Buffy was teaching Faith some of the techniques she learned back at her training with her previous masters. Angel of course couldn't help but see how amazing she was. She was so swift, so quick so light on her feet. She made it look so damn easy. And she looked so beautiful when she did it that was for sure. He had to shake off Buffy from his mind. This was getting ridiculous. Pining over a girl who didn't want anything to do with him. He could get easily any girl he wanted. But he knew the only girl he wanted was across the room from him.
Giles finally motioned the class the gather around in a large circle.
"Now class, I hope that was a good enough practice so that you are warmed up. First up, Angel and Steve."
Both entered the circle, bowed towards each other and bad both of their swords in front of them.
"Remember all of you, the rules are simple. Clean fights, no intentional slashing. Your main priority is get your opponent down to the floor or get the sword knocked out of their hands understand?"
"Yes." The whole class said in unison.
"And. Begin!"
Angel immediately took the offensive and fiercely attacked Steve. Each blow made Steve retaliate further and further back each time Angel struck. Steve barely managed to block all of them. Steve was so overwhelmed by his attacks that he tripped and fell back. And with that, that was the signal that the fight was over.
"Well done Angel. Very impressive. You get better and better every time." Angel smiled to himself. Yea he did well. He took a lot of pride at how hard he worked to stay out on top.
After that Cordelia and Faith were chosen, Faith easily knocked Cordelia down with barely 3 blows. Then Gunn and George were off, Gunn taking down his opponent with a little bit of difficulty, but successfully. All the girls knew Giles were going to chose two girls now. Since Faith already gone, now all the girls were worried on who would have to face Buffy. Most of the girls were pretty squarely match with power and skill and only Faith was the one mostly feared. Now they feared Buffy even more because how easily she conquered over Faith.
"Okay. I will like to see Buffy against. um. well lets try Willow." Willow was scared to death upon facing against Buffy. Fortunately, Buffy saw the horror struck on her face and offered a suggestion.
"Mr. Giles?"
"Yes?"
"Please don't take this the wrong way Willow, but I don't feel comfortable fighting against girls. I've been fighting against male opponents as long as I could remember. Even though I did face off against girls in competition, I just feel more comfortable facing off against males since I literally fought against one nearly everyday."
Giles took this under consideration and knew that she was right. Her skill easily matched against men.
"Very well Buffy. Are you okay with this Willow?"
"Oh yea. Super. Don't mind me. I completely understand." Willow sighed with relief and gave Buffy a wide grin. Buffy smiled back.
"Well then, let's pair you off with. let's see. lets try Riley."
"Are you sure Mr. Giles? I might overpower her. She may be good against girls but who knows if she can handle a man's power." Riley stated as if he was giving her a compliment.
Buffy shot back, "Well, why don't you come and see shall we? Let's see how well a girl can do against you hmm?"
Riley, cocky as ever replied, "Don't worry baby. I'll make sure I'll tend to you real good after I show you how good I am. I'll go easy on you to show how much I like you."
Buffy, annoyed by him simply replied, "Please, go full force, lets see if you can back up your meaningless words."
Giles cut of what Riley was gonna say by speaking, "Please take your positions both of you. Quarrel later"
Both stared at one another, bowed and took their stance as they waited for the signal.
"On the count of "1.2." Riley, too bored of waiting already took off attacking Buffy. Buffy, not surprised by his foul play easily block his sword and decided to teach this scum a lesson. She got behind him with one swift move and kicked him right on the ass as Riley stumbled forward but remained his balanced. He turned around and glared at Buffy.
"Oh. baby didn't wanna wait for the count of 3 did he? I hope you get a nice mark on your bony ass." Buffy confidently replied.
That remark sent him over the edge as he ran full force towards Buffy and actually tried to gut her in the stomach, Buffy was obviously not surprised since she trained with these dangers almost everyday. Before the sword had the chance to come close to her, she duck, kicked his hand dead on which sent his sword flying, gave a nice big punch towards his face and to top it off stuck out a foot that ran through Riley's legs tripping him. He landed with a big thud on the mat.
Buffy calmly dusting her hands off simply said, "Teach you a lesson to try to gut me. Oh please, you honestly thought you could get me? You're so slow. Hope next time you give me or any other girl a bit more respect."
Giles, outraged by Riley's actions stormed up towards him and raged at him. "How dare you not follow the rules? You could have seriously injured or even have KILLED Buffy! And she's just GOT here! Fortunately for you and for her sake, she's damn better than you at everything than you are to easily block your stupid attempt to gut her! This is not as if this was the first occurrence as well. Riley, I thought you were better than this. I've given you simply too many chances to redeem yourself of your temper and bad control. You are herby expelled out of Vaughan Academy and you are to be on your way back to Iowa as soon as tomorrow. I suggest you start packing NOW! Don't you even think of doing anything rash or you'll pay dearly."
Riley, full of outraged stormed off towards his dormitory to pack, completely dumbfounded to what he did wrong.
After he left, Giles walked over to where Buffy was.
"Buffy. I'm so ashamed that he was in our class. Are you alright?"
"Don't worry Mr. Giles. I'm fine really."
"On your first day too. I'm just glad you handled that really well. I've never seen so many skilled techniques in one synchronization. I'm very impress Buffy. I hope you know I expect big things from you. I'll leave you be. I need to call the office, tell him what happened and get somebody to watch over Riley for me." He turned and faced the gawking class and yelled, "Class Dismissed." No one moved a muscle. Giles, who couldn't care less since class was over anyways walked out towards the office.
Everybody nearly ran over to Buffy, to congratulate her.
"Buffy!" Willow exclaimed. "That . was. AWSOME! Your amazing Buffy, you took down Riley, who's at least 6 feet tall so easily as if he was nothing. You looked like as if you were having fun."
A boy came up to her and remarked, "Buffy, that was CRAZY shit you pulled today. Man, I think your amazing. You just made my day by sending Riley back to his cows in Iowa or whatever hick country he's from. He had that coming for so long now. "
"Yea Buffy," Another girl said, "You finally drove that creep out of our school. You're the schools new hero."
Buffy couldn't help but blush and feel completely shy towards these people. They kept on complimenting her for doing what she was supposed to.
"Thanks you guys. I don't think I should be called anywhere near a hero or anything."
Angel decided to make his presence known towards Buffy. "Yea, if I do say so myself Buffy, your in pretty good shape I'll admit. And I'm glad you sent that Farm Boy back to his cow country. He's been a shit to everyone."
"Well, I'm not glad I did something to make you happy but I guess it'll do since everybody's happy." Maybe Angel wasn't so bad after all.
"Of course," Angel started, "You have no chance against me. No offence. I just don't see you beating me. That's all. Not because you're a girl or anything like that. You just get too emotional. Emotions make you weak."
Or maybe not.
"Weak? My emotions give me strength thank you very much. Well see. Who comes out on top." Replied Buffy
"We will soon." Angel whispered.
Everybody headed off towards Weaponry combat with Ms. Calendar, known as Mr. Giles wife. Since it was the beginning of the year, they had to learn about weapons before they got to actually use them. As soon as class ended everybody was free to roam around the town until 10:00 pm which was their curfew during weekdays and 1:00 am during weekends. They had to be back on campus on their curfew or else they faced big consequences. For the rest of the night, Buffy was getting herself cozy to her new home since it was located in a secluded area in the outskirts of Sunnydale. Fortunately, Buffy's room was located on the same floor as her new friends and they all stayed up to talk about the events of today and Buffy's past life of gold medals and dreams to serve her country as a secret agent. After everyone went off to bed, Buffy couldn't sleep. So many things have happened today. the good and the bad. She never realized she would be as easily accepted as she was. He didn't expect the popularity either. It was getting annoying, since wherever she walked she was looked at. She also didn't expect to get a guy kicked out or meet the very annoying but hot Angel McKillean. She had a feeling her life would never be the same every again.