Hey everyone John here with as promised , another chapter of Stigma Vacation has been going great for me but there is so much stuff I have to get done in the mean time I think that keeping my promise to y'all is very important and not gonna say much but after this chapter in particular the story is going to advance greatly and I think y'all will enjoy what I have in storage. Well that should be all from me as always just sit, relax , leave a review if you like but most importantly enjoy, John out


Next morning…

As the first rays of sunlight started to hit on his face Lincoln began to slowly wake up. A bit disoriented, not being able to recall anything about his dreams last night, the white-haired boy tried calling out to his sister and new roommate.

"Lynn? Lynn, are you up?"

With no response, Lincoln turned to find that Lynn was no longer on her bed.

"Hmm… she must have woken up before I did, this whole roommate is going to take some getting used to "

As Lincoln was getting off bed Mrs. Johnson's voice began to resound inside his head.

"Splendid it seems you're finally awake, Lincoln "

"Mrs. Johnson?"

" Yes its me, good morning Lincoln, I just wanted to make sure that you were prepared for the battle exercises today"

"Well to be honest I'm not sure how things are gonna turn out, but Lynn already gave me a little information on how the battle exercises are supposed to go "

Last night…

"Okay Stinkoln, you managed to survive your first day here without much trouble I'll give you that, but things are about to get a whole new level of tougher so be ready for that"

"Tougher, how so? I think that as long as I don't draw too much attention to myself I should be fine"

"Yeah, I see your point but you are forgetting something important, you're a boy with a stigma in an all-girls academy. how exactly do you expect to do that?"

" Well, I -..."

"Yeah, that's what I thought, anyway your biggest concern right now should be the battle exercises that Mrs. Johnson mentioned"

"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask what is that all about?"

"Ah nothing too hard, apparently it's supposed to be a way to measure the potential of new students and their stigma abilities by putting them in combat against some training dolls"

"So you're saying that all we're going to do is fight training dolls? "

"Yeah a piece of cake, of course when I did it I finished my fight in record time and no one here has beaten it so far, oh yeah, who's the best, Lynn's the best "

"Right… but what about the non-combatants? You know, girls without combat abilities?"

"Well the thing is that everyone participates in this kind of stuff whether they're combatants or not since they want to keep everyone prepared in case they are out there and some revenant decides to show their ugly face but of course in this kinds of exercises the non-combatants will have it rough"

Back to the present…

"And that's basically all I know about today's battle exercises "

"Well the information that Lynn gave you certainly is accurate for the most part, but the real purpose of this exercises is seeing how new students like you, engage in the field of battle regardless of their stigma ability that's why we also make the non-combatant stigma fight the training dolls "

" That sounds a bit harsh don't you think? "

"It is, but as you may know revenants are unforgiving creatures that won't hesitate to strike at the right moment so sending any of you unprepared to the field of battle would just be…"

"I know… they won't hesitate to kill me if they have the chance "

"Sadly that's the case, either way, you should be getting ready by now Lincoln, and as soon as you finish head straight to the outdoors training field where the coach will greet you with the rest of the students that are participating "

" Wait so you won't be in charge of the battle exercises Mrs. Johnson ?"

" Regrettably no, these kinds of things fall far beyond my expertise but don't worry Lincoln I know for a fact that the coach will help you a lot although keep in mind that her methods can be a little… unorthodox "

" Huh? What do you mean by that? "

" I think it's better if you find out by yourself, anyway that's all I can tell you for now, good luck out there Lincoln"

" Wait Mrs. Johnson but there is-…"

Before Lincoln could finish he felt as Mrs. Johnson's presence left his mind giving a clear hint that she was no longer mentally linked to him.

"...Still a little problem I haven't told you about, Man, what am I going to do now? I know Lynn said that these exercises were going to be easy but we're talking about Lynn here so her standard for 'easy' is a little off most of the time, *sigh* I guess there's no point in dwelling on it for so long I should be getting ready for now "

Making his way to the bathroom, while heavily lost in his thoughts Lincoln failed to notice the sound running water slowly shutting off and carelessly opened the door"

"Hmm… explaining my situation to the coach is going to be hard maybe I can make up an excuse or someth- "

Lincoln's words abruptly stopped as he immediately was met with Lynn staring at him, her face in a red color that rivaled that of her usual clothing and her body almost fully naked, only covered by the towel that she was using to dry herself but letting some parts of her accidentally at full display for the White-haired boy to see.

Trying to calm the situation a little Lincoln attempted to speak.

"A-Ah umm…I-"

But before he could establish even a single reasonable sentence Lincoln got blown away by a sudden burst of air that came directly from a now embarrassed and slightly infuriated Lynn.

While recklessly throwing stuff at Lincoln the sporty brunette yelled.

"W-What do you think you are doing!? You big p-pervert "

"I-I'm sorry it wasn't my intention I thought you went out earlier than me Lynn, I didn't know you were taking a shower"

"As if I'll buy that cheap excuse, you know I think you're due for your first training lesson, Stinkoln"

"N-No wait, Lynn let's talk about this for a second wait no, not the arm, arghhh"

A few minutes later….

After a few frantic minutes of intense 'training' and with Lincoln miraculously managing to explain to Lynn the reason behind what happened earlier, both Loud siblings sat down on Lynn's bed to speak.

"So you're saying that called you to talk about the battle exercises and you were so focused on how you are going to perform today that you didn't notice I was taking a shower? "

"Yeah that's what I tried to tell you before but you weren't listening, Lynn"

"Well you could have said something, I mean who just goes into a bathroom without even knocking first"

"I-I told you it was an accident, it's not like I wanted to do it in the first place"

"*whisper* W-Well I wouldn't have minded as much if you would have told me something beforehand"

"Hmm? What was that Lynn?"

"N-Nothing important, anyways don't you ever try to pull off something like that again or things are going to end worse for you Lincoln"

"I won't, I promise and again I'm sorry Lynn "

"I'm sorry for hitting you too I guess, it was an accident after all, anyhow shouldn't you get going already? The battle exercises are going to start in thirty minutes "

"Shoot I forgot, thanks for reminding me Lynn, I owe you one"

" Yeah, yeah just get out of here quick, unless you want an extra 'training' session "

"*Gulp* I-I be going now "

As soon as Lincoln left Lynn began to lay down on her bed, memories of her early accident with Lincoln made the young brunette's face warm up in a bright red color.

"Arghhhh that was so embarrassing… dang it Lincoln at least be a man and take some responsibility when you do something like t-that... *sigh* I-I don't think I'll be able to go to class for now"

Outdoor training field

Rushing with impressive speed, Lincoln finally arrived at the outdoor field where the training exercises were meant to take place. The white-haired boy was left perplexed at the amount of girls that were reunited at the place, many of them, to his knowledge not belonging in his class, and what was most surprising to Lincoln or lucky in his eyes, was that most of them were so focused on training a bit before the exercises that they barely noticed his presence, perhaps the not standing out plan was not such a bad idea after all. As Lincoln kept walking around the training field waiting for the exercises to begin he was suddenly startled as he felt a pair of arms started grabbing him from behind.

"Gotcha again, Lincoln "

As he turned his head the white-haired boy's panic vanished as he quickly recognized who this mysterious grabber was.

"Sid!"

"Hey Lincoln, I'm happy to see you again "

"I can say the same thing, you left so soon yesterday that I barely had time to say goodbye"

" I'm sorry about that Lincoln, we had to move quickly and well… "

"Nah its fine, Sid I also had my fair share of troubles yesterday but at least I'm glad you're okay"

"Thank you, Lincoln, by the way, are you also here for the battle exercises? "

"Yeah, although I'm a bit nervous on how it's going to go "

" I know that feeling, this is also my first time doing this"

"This is your first time? But what about the high-level training dolls your teacher has made you fight before"

" Umm… technically, all I did was run in those cases, plus I heard that the ones we'll fight today are way worse than those"

" *gulp* And there goes the last shred of confidence I had "

" Well, I'm sure we'll be fine if we stick together I might not be of much help but I'll do my best"

"Y-Yeah you're right Sid, We can't just give up before it even begins and if you are willing to stick with me than I can't just let you down"

"Hehehe"

"Hmm? What's so funny?"

"Nothing, is just that right now you sound like one of those main characters from the stories, I usually read, its like you are a hero or something "

Sid's words hit Lincoln head-on and made him blush with a bit of embarrassment but somehow he also found those words to be very sweet.

"T-thanks Sid that means a lot "

"And If you're a hero that means that if I'm ever in trouble you'll come to my rescue? "

"Well, I…"

Lincoln didn't have the strength to refuse Sid's request; perhaps it was her cheerful personality or the fact that he was one of the only two friends she seemed to have, but something within Lincoln didn't allow him to refuse despite his own 'circumstances'.

"Yeah, Sid no matter the problem if you ever need me I'll be there because you're a very dear friend to me"

"Lincoln…"

Without a second to waste Sid quickly went ahead to hug Lincoln, such was the impact of this action that it managed to draw the attention of many of the girls nearby.

As a group of girls rounded themselves to watch the wholesome moment between Lincoln and Sid around the field Ronnie Anne was frantically shouting as she once again searched for Sid.

"Sid, SID! Gosh dang it, how is it that she always manages to slip away from me, is she sure her stigma ability doesn't have anything to do with stealth, no matter I just hope I can find her before the exercises start "

Turning around, Ronnie Anne noticed the group of girls that were surrounding Sid and Lincoln.

" Hmmm? Why are there so many people over there? Don't tell me someone is being a show-off"

Approaching the area, Ronnie Anne quickly found herself astonished as she saw Sid once again hugging a peculiar white-haired individual.

"Sid there you are, what do you think you are doing "

"Ronnie Anne? Where were you? "

"Where else? Looking for you of course, and you"

As Ronnie Anne turned to face Lincoln, in the blink of an eye she activated her stigma, pulling out one of her pistols out of thin air"

"Why is it that every time that I see you, you're trying to do something to Sid do you really want to taste lead that bad"

"I-It's nice to see you too again Ronnie Anne and I promise I wasn't doing anything to Sid honestly, it surprises me too that somehow we ended up hugging, although gotta say it was kinda nice"

"Why you…"

"Ronnie Anne please come down, I'm sorry for wandering off but at least now that we are all together we can help each other out in the battle exercises"

"Wait, so he's also doing the battle exercises? I'm surprised, looking at you, I thought you would run away from here on your first day"

"I don't plan on quitting any time soon, if that's what you were wondering"

"Well at least you can talk big, just make sure you don't make any trouble for me or Sid okay"

"I'll try my best"