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Ch.33: Training.
Sirius walked through the portal door and found James and everyone else except for peter sitting there, Lily followed soon after putting her gun away. She walked into the room and saw Sirius change his hair and eye colors back to normal.
"How was it?" James asked quickly, getting up as he saw his mate.
Sirius looked to him and wasn't sure what to say. He was still a bit shaky fro actually talking to the dark lord, the one who his parents had sided with, the reason why he left his home to join James's.
"It was good." He responded. James gave him a questioning look. He turned to lily.
She looked up and smiled.
"It was good, we got him off of our trail, and we still have time to get him the bad copy of the book." Lily said pleasingly.
Alicia went over to Sirius and pulled him to the coach, she could tell he had been through a serious encounter. Sirius sat down next to her and kissed her gently on the cheek. Lily sat next to James and Emily next to Remus.
"So Remus, when do you and Emily leave for France?" Lily asked changing subjects.
Remus looked up, as did Emily.
"In a couple of days," They both said.
"Lily when do we start training and what will we be doing for our training?" Alicia asked. Lily looked towards her and smiled.
"Well we start tomorrow at nine o'clock sharp, tomorrow's Saturday which gives us the whole day."
"What are we going to do?" Alicia asked nervously.
"Well first thing we are going to run about two miles around the Forrest, in the safe parts. Then we are going to muscle work out, where its just crunches, stretching and such, then I' am going to teach all of you, including Alice and Frank self defense and combat fighting." Lily said simply.
"Two miles?" Alicia asked a bit surprised for it was only their first day.
"Yes, well we are going to stretch first. Don't worry you'll be fine, you are an avid sportswoman and Emily you dance and I know Frank plays quidditch and Alice is a dancer as well. Plus Remus you dance as well." Lily said turning towards Remus.
"You dance Moony?" James asked surprised.
Remus, blushed a little.
"Uh yeah, a bit,"
"Really what kind, I do Ballet, Jazz and hip-hop?" Emily asked excitedly.
"Oh uh, I do jazz and hip-hop and a little bit of lycith, which is like a werewolf dance, thing its really not that appealing, but I do it for the Moonlight Gentleman." He said.
"No you're in the moonlight gentleman, I'm in Les filles de la lune?" She exclaimed.
"Yeah, wow I didn't know you were with them." Remus said.
James looked to Lily and Sirius in confusion.
"What the moonlight Gentleman?" he asked. Remus looked up.
"Oh sorry it's a cappella group but all the members are werewolves. Yeah there from all over the UK and France it really great and Emily is in the Girl version called Les Filles de la lune, which is French for the girls of the moon."
"Oh cool."
"Okay, I think I'm going to head off to bed I'll see you guys in the morning and be sure to wear something light to wear but also warm for training." Lily said. She bid everyone goodnight and went off to bed.
James and everyone else stayed downstairs to talk with Sirius.
"So how was it?" James asked once he heard the click of lily's door.
Sirius looked up.
"It was alright. he almost found out about Lily, but Lily lied and told him all of this false information about her family and her identity, it was actually very believable and she was damn good at it to, lying to him and all. He asked me a question, which I wasn't expecting but I said some muggle slang or rather big muggle words that I didn't really know about what they were exactly but he believed it, thank god." Sirius said.
"Anything else?"
"Well not really, but I was surprised at how calm lily was around him, he was . . . well he was what I expected but he gives you the feel of anticipation. Making you think he's about to do something but doesn't it's nerve raking."
"Well it's a good thing you both didn't get hurt." Alicia said happily."
"Yeah, well I'm tired, it's been a long night, and I'll see you guys in the morning for training." Sirius said and got up. Alicia followed him and Remus and Emily soon followed leaving James sitting by the fire. He looked up at the clock and saw it was twelve thirty. He went up stairs and got into bed.
-Next morning.-
Lily woke up early and got into the shower quickly, she knew today would be an interesting one. It was the first day of a two week training period for her friends and she couldn't wait to get started. Lily went back to her room and got dressed in a pair of black stretchy sweat pants, a stretchy long sleeved black shirt and a black hoody, she wore black and white running shoes, by the time she finished dressing it was eight o'clock. She went down stairs and found the common room empty. Lily decided then it would be a good time to go into her portal and get her training book. Lily grabbed it went back into the room and found James sitting on the couch wearing sweat pants an old t-shirt that said chaser on the back with the number ten on it and tennis shoes.
He looked up and smiled. Lily smiled back and walked over to him.
"Hey good morning, you look ready." Lily said promptly
"Yeah, well you said to be ready." James replied.
"Yup, uh I told Frank and Alice we would meet them downstairs and then we would head outside after a light breakfast." Lily said.
"Okay well let's go."
James took a hold of Lily's hand and grabbed his sweat shirt and they walked out. In the Great hall the rest of the group sat at the middle of the table, all were dressed in running clothes but were dressed warmly.
James and lily sat down next to Remus and Emily.
"So is everyone ready?" She asked brightly.
"Yeah Frank and I were just outside it's really nice, a bit chilly, but then again we are running so it will be nice." Alice said.
The group ate lightly and headed outside. The walked through the forest were a trail was laid on the ground.
"Okay this is our starting point, this trail goes around the school and on to other territories of the forest, we will start here and just to let you know this is not a contest on who can run the fastest, but it is just a run, you can go at you own pace I you'd like but I'd like it if we all could have the same pace relatively so that non of us gets left trailing behind. And also incase you do get lost and off the trail whether it be to go to the bathroom or what not if you get into trouble, just shoot out red sparks from your wand and one of us will go and get you." Lily informed everyone.
"But first we'll stretch for five minutes."
They all stretched and got warmed up. Several minutes later they were running, lily was a good runner as was everyone else to her surprise. They all managed to keep up their speed and pace together.
Lily and James were the ones ahead and they began to talk as they ran.
"So, huh lily how are huh you?" James said between breaths.
"Good, and you?"
"Great, you know, just running next to you and stuff, it's fun."
"That's good, getting tired?" Lily asked looking towards him yet looking back to the front every other second or two.
"Nope, you?"
"No just checking, we've got a ways to go."
"Really?" James asked surprised.
"Yup we still have another mile left." Lily said and turned her body to the back so she was facing the others.
"Hey everyone, how are all of you?"
"Good." They all panted.
"Lily how much further?" Emily asked.
"Just another mile, up a ways, we still have to get back to the starting point."
The running went on for another hour and lily could see everyone was getting tired. Frank had managed to get up to Lily's pace while James went back a ways to run with Sirius and Alice ran with Alicia.
"Hey Frank how are you holding up?"
"Pretty good, I'm used to this actually, I run every morning and night out of habit." Frank said.
"really?"
"Yeah, during the summer I work at a wizarding summer camp for kids and I'm the track coach, we have some muggle sports which I instruct, such as track. It's pretty cool."
"Yeah that's cool."
"Yeah, do you run a lot, cuz you're a pretty good runner."
"Well the job does call for it sometimes and I'm also a dance teacher in the muggle world for part of the summer when I'm not doing work for the firm."
"Oh, cool."
A half hour later they made it back to the starting point and all of them sat down and had a drink of water from their wands. Remus and Emily stretched. James looked over and saw how flexible Remus really was.
"Damn moony, how can you do that?" he asked in amazement. Remus sat on the ground with one leg out and the other tucked in. he leaned forward and put his nose to his knee then down onto the ground. Emily did the same pulling her foot into a flexed position.
"Oh, well I'm just really flexible." He said.
They all stretched and went inside for lunch. They ate quickly. The girls went to their dorms and took showers. While to guys did the same.
They met back at the heads common room where they found the room to be empty with only mats sprawled out on the floor.
Lily and James came down the stairs wearing a new change of clothes.
"What are the mats for Lily?" Alice asked.
"They are for your first self defense class." Lily said.
"Oh." She said nervously.
"Okay why don't all of you sit on the mats while I get something from my portal room?" Lily said. They did as she asked and she went to get each of them a booklet on self defense.
Lily came back out and handed each one of them a booklet. James looked through it curiously.
"Alright the first thing you al must learn is how to avoid situations in which you would need to fight back."
"As a spy you will be taught how to not be caught and how to protect yourselves, meaning how to hide yourselves."
"You will learn useful tactics which will protect you and your fellow peers. In the MI-5 all agents are required to learn self defense. In doing so I will be teaching you how to punch some one correctly, how to throw, kick, disable someone, meaning how to make them physically weak, to do certain moves, defend yourselves in different situations weather that be with magic or not, and to use certain weapons. Do you all understand?"
"Yes," they all said.
"Uh Lily, f I may ask uh what do you mean by making someone physically weak?" frank asked.
"Physically weak, meaning that they are unable to harm you, for instance there are various pressure points on your body at which when pressed can make a person weak, make them fall to the ground in pain."
"Okay so all of you get up and set the booklets aside please today we will be learning how to defand your self if some one is coming at you with a weapon, for our example we will be pretending to use a knife."
"Okay, if some one were coming at you head on with a knife what would you do? Any of you?"
They all looked around in thought.
"Guard yourself?" Alicia asked.
"Yes but how?"
"Would you swat him away?" Sirius asked.
"NO because that could give him time to knock you out, a major part of self defense is thinking fast."
"James please come up here, you will be my example." Lily said. James got up.
"Alright let's say I was attacking James with a knife and I'm here
(standing in front of James) and James is here ( James standing a bit farther away) I have a knife and I'm most likely going to charge at him. So James I'll charge and you do what you think you would do in this type of situation."
James looked at her confused. Lily lunged forward and James leapt back. Lily came out of her lunge and forward on him making James fall.
"Alright, well that was alright but you gave me time to lunge once more causing you to fall which then gives me a chance to kill you." Lily said helping James up.
"What James should have done what a Cross knife hitch which is where the victim crosses his or her arms over the other persons, here hold out your arm I'll demonstrate.
James held out is arm and lily positioned her arms in an X postion over his arm vertically.
"Now you are going to twist your wrists around his/ her arm and twist his arm to the back causing his to lean forward."
Lily did this in slow motion making sure everyone could see. James leaned forward while his arm was behind him and his shoulder was twisted.
"This causes the knife to fall from his hand making his unarmed. You then would kick him in the chest or head causing him to pass out, and giving you a chance to get away."
Lily let go of James and James tried it on her slowly. He had to try several time before he got the arm movements correctly. Lily then got everyone to try the arm movements only slowly. She was happy to see everyone get the move down quickly.
"Alright just to show you how it would look in real time Professor Dumbledore has given me a magical Partner whom I can demonstrate the move on for you all to see. Lily grabbed a purple box off of the table and laid it on the floor. She opened it and a man stood in front of them. Lily walked in front of the man.
"Weapon, Knife." She said. Suddenly the man held a knife in his hands.
Lily got positioned.
"Charge arm outstretched towards me." She said. The man came at her with full force and lily did the movement with ease. She twisted the man's arm causing it to pop and kneed him in his stomach; he fell to the floor while the knife had fallen from his grip and onto the floor.
"Woah" they all said.
Lily turned around and put the magically made up man away into the box.
"It Is much faster in real life than what we are practicing." She said.
For the rest of the day, they all practiced the move and tried some new ones, such as a fan kick and punching, they punched bean bags.
By six o'clock they were all tired. They had all changed and were doing their homework by the fire. The room was set back to normal.
"Alright so tomorrow we will continue." Lily said.
"Okay."
"Will we have training over the break Lily?" Frank asked for it was two weeks till Christmas.
"NO we will get as far as we can next weak then the last weak before the holiday we won't have any training.
For the next three days the group was put through hell with Lily's training along with school work and Order business. Yet all of them were happy to be training. Remus and Emily were to head to France the next day and were a bit nervous. Their mission was to spy on Greyback and get information on his relation with Voldemort.
The evening before their mission to France Emily and Remus sat at the Gryffindor table reading a French newspaper.
More attacks and killings had happened since the outbreak of the wolfethian war.
"So are you nervous about tomorrow?" Emily asked remus in French.
"Oui" he replied.
"J'à" she said.
"Quand partons-nous encore?" (What time are we leaving again?) Remus asked.
"Cinq trente" (Five thirty)
"Ok"
"Vous ne pensez pas qu'ils nous trouveront pour vous faire, I'mean ont-ils déjà attrapé deux étudiants de Davenport et d'un de Levington?" (You don't think they'll find us do you, I mean they have already caught two students from davenport and one from Levington?) Emily asked worried.
"No, because Dumbledore said he wouldn't let them in the castle, the hunters that is."
"Yeah I guess so. Hey when are we going to practice for the talent show you know it coming up right after the holiday?" Emily said
"Oh yeah I forgot, how about this weekend. We still have to choose our song."
"Yeah I know I've been thinking about it, we should do a duet, how about "When somebody loves you?" or "Beauty and the Beast?" Emily asked.
"Sure I doesn't really matter what song we do. You can pick."
"Okay"
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