Authors Notes

Hey, it is Blade again with another chapter from me. Sorry for taking so long, last weeks were kinda hard, but today i finally managed to finish this chapter. Hope you enjoy it!

Aztec - yeah this chapter was fun to write, because of how it shows that group became pretty close with each other so far. Oh and thanks for your ideas, they are pretty neat, who knows we might use them in future chapters

The moon is cheese - Nice theory, i guess we will see

Lord gemini - i agree about comedy part, i should have toned down comedy in this chapter. Glad you enjoyed this episode anyway

Guest 1- montage chapter sounds fun, we might see

Guest 2- well today is your lucky day, because new chapter is finally here.

It was a beautiful morning. The Sun was rising, and the birds were unusually quiet at this time of the morning. Noah still was laying on his bed and sleeping. Until…

"RISE AND SHINE!" Dwayne's voice was suddenly heard, as Noah tried to cover his ears with pillows.

"Ugg Dwayne… it is 8 am... Let me sleep" Noah grumbled.

"Can't do sport, we must go to our training," Dwayne said, still seemed pretty optimistic despite being awake at such an early time.

"But Akio said that we can go to him at any time in the morning. Why 8?" Noah still whined.

"Cause, the earlier you are up, the more energy you have" Dwyane smiled.

"Sometimes I don't get you" Noah grumbled as he started to get up from his bed.

After showering, he saw Leonard meditating, while Trent was playing on his guitar.

Nothing new...

"Oh hey Noah" Trent smiled as he saw his friend.

"Salutations!" Leonard shouted.

"How are you all awake so early?" Noah yawned.

"I am used to waking up at any time, so I got used to it " Trent shrugged.

"I levitated all night" Leonard smiled.

"Alright, got it. And what about you" Noah turned to Dwayne who was playing with Perdi.

"Oh I woke up at 5 am and went for a walk before waking up the rest of you," Dwayne said.

Noah's jaw dropped.

Trent chuckled at that "It's okay Noah, soon you will get used to waking up that early."

"I doubt it" Noah replied bluntly. Everyone in the room chuckled at that.

"Where's Scarlett," he asked.

"Probably still preparing plans for the shapeshifter situation in her room. Better not to disturb her" Trent said.

"I guess" Noah shrugged "Hold on, since you are awake as well, Trent are you going with us?"

"Yup, Dwayne already told me everything I missed."

Noah raised his eyebrow "I mean you don't really need to train. You literally have super-powered Guitar"

"Well, I wasn't going for training anyway. I just wanted to see how you guys doing, and I don't have anything to do today soooo" Trent scratched his head.

"Oooh you just wanted to see me suffer, could have just said that" Noah rolled his eyes.

Trent chuckled "Oh come on, it couldn't be that bad."

"Oh, you have no idea" Noah muttered.

Dwayne put his hand on Noah's shoulder "It's okay son, Trent is here to shows us support! He and Leonard are like our own uhmm…. What's that word uhm"

"Cheerleaders?" Noah blinked.

"Yes!" Dwayne smiled to himself.

Noah sighed "Not really reassuring, but whatever, let's get going"

Leonard quickly perked up "ohhh I can use teleportation spe-"

"There is no need for that, Leonard. It's not far away from here, so we could just walk. And besides, there's very good weather outside" Dwayne smiled.

"I see." Leonard muttered, "Very well, we shall be going then."

After several minutes Noah and co already have reached the town. Noah was a bit bored, but then he remembered something and thought it would be a good opportunity to ask.

"Hey Trent, can I ask you something?"

"Oh?" Trent was a bit startled "Go for it, Noah."

"Aside from training what else did, Dwayne told you? Like who trains us?" Noah asked.

"Of course, man! Kinda crazy, to know that some of our friends have already grown up and got married" he smiled "Really happy for them."

Noah smiled as well "Me too."

"And here we are!" Leonard exclaimed, catching the attention of both Noah and Trent.

"Wow, this looks amazing! " Trent commented as he looked at the dojo.

"Indeed" Leonard smiled.

Noah knocked on the shoji. After ten seconds Shoji slides open, as Akio appears in front of our heroes.

"Greetings Noah, Dwayne and Leonard, pleasure to see you" he bowed to them.

Dwayne smiled "good to see you too Akio, can't wait to start our training hahha"

Akio smirked "I see you are looking forward to training, that's very good."

"Wow he really does looks like Harold. Honestly, if Dwayne didn't tell me, I would have thought that it was the real Harold" Trent whispered to Noah.

"Trust me, I thought it was real Harold when I first met him," Noah whispered back, which made Trent chuckle a little.

Akio looked at Trent and held his hand under his chin "Hmm I don't remember seeing you yesterday. Who might you be?"

"Oh right, my name is Trent. I competed with your father on Total Drama, so I guess you probably heard about me" Trent smiled.

"Right, my father told me about you, nice to meet you," Akio said as he shook hands with Trent "Are you here to train as well?"

Trent shook his head "Nope. I am here just to watch how my friends train. You know support them morally haha"

Noah rolled his eyes at Trent's last sentence.

"Oh very well then" Akio nodded "But before we start training, I suggest relaxing a bit, drink tea, talk just to know more about each other."

"Sure, sounds good to me" Dwayne smiled.

"I guess" Noah shrugged.

Akio smiled "Alright, come in, then."

All five boys entered the dojo and sat as Akio brought tea.

"I actually was wondering about something," Noah said.

Akio raised his eyebrow "Hm?"

"It is the second day and we still haven't seen your parents, where are they?"

"Oohh, they have some business to attend to, that's why they left me to guard the family dojo while they are gone," Akio explained.

"Ohh I see a dojo guardian" Leonard mused.

"Interesting" Noah said "Do you know when they will return?"

Akio nodded "They should be back by next week. You probably wanted to see them, right?"

"Well yeah. I mean they are our old friends and we really wanna see them" Trent said.

Noah nodded.

Though it would be kinda awkward to see them again... They would be much older now compared to the last we saw them.

"My parents told me a lot of stuff about you," Akio said as he was drinking tea.

"Did your mom tell you that she threw marshmallows at me and called me a turkey?" Noah said rolling his eyes.

Akio chuckled "Yup, she told me that you weren't exactly a team player back in season one."

"Well she wasn't wrong," Trent said quietly so Noah wouldn't hear.

"Okay, yeah I admit that I wasn't exactly, what would you call, a social player." Noah said "What about your father? What did he tell you about me?"

Akio blinked "Well he didn't tell much about you, since he hadn't talked with you that much, but he did say that he usually told you some interesting facts."

"Oh, I remember. Yeah very inteeeeeresting, indeed" Noah muttered.

Akio not realizing that it was sarcasm, smiled "Glad you like them, my dad knows lots of stuff and he loves telling me them all the time."

"Ohhh that sounds fantastic!" Dwayne's eyes beamed "I wish I had many interesting facts to tell Junior. Instead, I just tell him some stories from my past."

"Junior?" Akio raised his eyebrow.

"My son. I know not the best name, but could be worse" Dwayne shrugged.

"Oh, I see so you have a son? I should have guessed since you look much older than the others" Akio said.

"Yup! Well I haven't seen him since this whole light thing, but I am sure he is doing fine, he is a strong kid after all" Dwayne smiled.

"I really love your optimistic attitude, Mr Dwayne, it is a good thing to have," Akio said impressed.

Dwayne chuckled "You know what they say, it is always good to look at things positive."

Akio nodded "Very true. What about you Mr wizard? Tell me about yourself."

Leonard exclaimed "I am Leonard the great, the most powerful wizard in the galaxies. All enemies fear me, all wizards envy power, princesses waiting for me to rescue-"

Dwayne chuckled nervously "Yeah I think that's enough info Leonard, you don't wanna scare poor kid right?"

"Hmm I guess you are right, Sir Dwayne" Leonard shrugged

Akio blinked a few times "Interesting… Actually Mr wizard I am quite curious but were you a wizard before the light or did you gain magic powers right after the light?"

Noah sighed as he already could predict how this conversation will go.

"Hmm it is quite a complicated situation, you see," Leonard said while holding his fake beard.

Akio raised an eyebrow "Oh?"

"Well you see, I did have magic powers before, but after competing on Total Drama it seems that the island was cursed because my magic spells didn't work! But after being hit by light my powers have returned!"

All reactions in the room were different. Noah facepalmed, Trent, laughed a bit, Dwayne had a smile on his face, and Akio seems to be genuinely intrigued by Leonard's backstory.

"Wow, that's… awesome! What kind of spells do you know Mr Wizard?" Akio said with genuine interest.

"Hmm well iI know many spells, but my most useful ones are fire spells, water spells, ice spells and wind spells. Oh, and how could I forget about the lightning spells!"

"I have no idea why you guys even need to train, you literally have wizard!" Akio said astonishingly.

"But can this wizard defeat a giant dragon alone tho?" Noah snarked.

"Of course I can!" Leonard huffed.

"What Noah tried to say, is that we can't really risk just relying only on Leonard's magic. We need to be prepared just in case" Trent said.

"Nicely said, Son" Dwayne high fived Trent.

Akio held his hand under his chin "Hmm you got a good point. Well, then I think we should start our training right?"

"Already?" Noah groaned.

"Yup, I mean we can't talk and drink tea the entire day right?" Akio smirked.

Noah just groaned in response.

"Don't worry Noah, it will be fine" Dwayne reassured him, but Noah just glared at him

"Oh before we go, Akio can I ask you something?" Trent raised his hand.

"Sure, what is it?"

"What did your parents tell you about me? I mean I didn't talk much with your father, but I was on really good terms with your mother, so I was just wondering" Trent asked sheepishly.

Akio smiled "Indeed, your mother told me lots of good things about you."

Trent got a bit surprised at that "Really?"

Akio nodded "Yup, she said that you were a really good friend. Tho she did said that you both didn't talk much after the show was over, though she wished she could see you again."

"Wow…" Trent mused, seemed relieved.

So I guess she didn't tell him about this whole nine thing? Thanks, Leshawana, I really appreciate that

"Well if that's all, then we can finally start our training," Akio said as the boys followed him to the training room.

Meanwhile, there was someone watching from afar, sitting on a building and watching over them.

It was the masked individual who had helped Dwayne before. They watched the group.

How interesting… I see their preparations towards the Dragon and Staci are going well. It seems my expectations of this group are definitely correct.

They smirked and then spotted someone, their smirking face became a frown.

They saw someone roaming and spying on the group too.

What the...

The individual frowned.

They instantly jumped down and landed straight on him, holding a blade to the person's throat.

"W-wah!?" the stranger gasped and suddenly the masked individual covered his mouth.

"Shhh… sh…quiet now." The individual said before uncovering the stranger's mouth.

The stranger looked in shock. "W-what..!? Why are you-"

The individual frowned. "What are you doing here?" they looked a little mad.

"W-what do you mean." The stranger said.

"Don't play dumb with me. I know it's you, Ezekiel. Your little shapeshift trick won't work with me." The individual masked.

Ezekiel sighed. "So it's you." He smirked. "You know why I'm here. For Scarlett of course. As the boss requested."

The individual got off Ezekiel. "Trying to get to her through that group eh? That's one way I guess." The individual frowned at Ezekiel. "You know damn well this city is my territory still. I'm going to give you one warning. If I see you again. It'll be a little more than a simple encounter." The individual smoke bombed themself away.

Ezekiel sighed.

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