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"Only six more laps to go!" Creide yelled at the almost collapsed form of Tyler Potter.
"B-But you said I only had to do four more!" He whined pitifully.
Creide smiled viciously, "Well I'm in a bitchy mood today, so move it!"
Tyler sniffled and huffed a bit, but continued on his lap around the track in the room of requirements. 'He was only on his second lap', Freya noted idly, 'he had no reason to be complaining yet.'
Everyone could see how Raiden couldn't stand his brother, he had to be the biggest mollycoddled, dim-witted, wizard to ever walk the face of the earth.
"Wahha I only had to do four, Creide!" Loki and Anubis mimicked in a babyish voice, causing Freya to giggle madly, they sounded just like the little dip-shit.
"You two got it down to a T, now keep it down, we've got company." Vishnu ordered, seeing Dumbledork and the Pot-Heads walk in.
"How is his training going?" Dumbledore asked Vishnu, Lily and James went off to cuddle and baby their son who was now complaining loudly about his unfair treatment, and how he should be treated like royalty or something because he was the-boy-who-lived, of course.
"Slow to put it the nicest way, we're losing our patience with his incompetence and lack of work ethic. He whines, complains, and doesn't do half the work." Skadi jumped in, unable to stand the boy any longer.
Creide shook her head slightly; Freya had to learn to keep her mouth shut, even though she was usually right. She said everything no one else would say, but all thought.
"You must be exaggerating," Dumbledore said gravely, not really asking a question.
"Nope, he's ignorant, that one, not gonna last a minute in battle." Freya continued, oblivious or just ignoring the looks she was receiving from her 'brothers' and 'sisters'.
"Oh…." Dumbledore looked disappointed, if he was expecting the 'Chosen' one to be better than Raiden, he was sorely disappointed.
"Tyler says these 'children,'" James snarled the last word, "Are being mean to him and calling him names." James cast the teens a reckless look, not noticing how much anger was in their eyes. "I want them removed from the training of my son, and I want Aidan to teach him. We only want the best for our little Ty Ty."
All of the warrior teens winced at the childish name, but almost snarled or laughed at the petty accusations.
Dumbledore frowned, and then put an arm over James shoulders, leading him out of the room. Lily was talking quietly with Tyler, whipping sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief she pulled out of her light blue robe pocket.
All of the teens grouped up, discussing what they should do next quietly.
"We know Dumbles is going to make convince them to make the little bastard train, so what's our next move?" Vishnu asked after a second's thought.
"Eh……Well we can't make him run much longer, his legs will probable collapse," Freya giggled at the thought, "How about basic sparing. That would be 'fun.'"
Everyone nodded in agreement, and began summoning floor mats, so when they demonstrated, or threw the little bugger, no one would get hurt.
"We decided that Tyler must have been over reacting a bit," Dumbledore said, returning from his little chat with James, "Tyler is a sensitive boy; you have to be careful with what you say and how you say it to him."
All of the teens nodded, sniggering inside their stone facades. After Dumbledore and the Potters left about twenty minutes later, the teens made sure Tyler left with more pulled muscles than an athlete who ran a triathlon without stretching.
He limped back to his rooms, and everyone began their real training, joking about Tyler every few minutes or so. After Aidan and Bastet arrived, their real training began, and they left more tired than they had been in quite some time. They were all still missing Raiden, but knew he was happy with his godfather. The last they heard he had been asked to train the Wolves new recruits. That would be a handful. They hoped that they would be invited down for the holidays or Raiden would come up there, though they highly doubted it. They might return home for the holidays, but that was a long-ways off.
"I miss him," Carla said as she and Gavin were getting ready for bed that night.
"Raiden? So do I, he's gone though. I hope he is happier, I think we will see him soon though," Gavin finished mysteriously before sliding under the sheets.
"Gahh Gavin, why don't you EVER tell me anything without some kind of riddle attached to it? It makes me wonder why I married you." Carla growled as she put out the lights with a wave of her hand.
"It makes life more interesting my dear, and besides, if you never married me, you would have wound up with some dim-witted idiot like that Lockhart fellow who taught here a few years ago; no brawn, no brain, but plenty of looks." Gavin laughed, then Carla laughed too, snuggling up to her husband, all was forgiven and forgotten……for now.
As Kaylee flopped down into bed, her pink pj's comfy, and pink socks cozy on her feet, she began to worry about her 'brother'. A tear escaped her eye, but she quickly reached up to wipe it off. It wasn't safe to keep in close contact with Raiden, just in case their mail was being monitored, which they believed was true. They wouldn't want anyone to know they faked Raiden's death.
She sighed, dug out her favorite stuffed animal, a pink bear named Mr. Fluffy, who Raiden had won for her at a fair when they were 10, and snuggled up under her violently pink sheets.
The next morning, they headed down to the Great Hall as usual. No one except the Potters, the Professors, the Caretaker, and a few of Tyler's friends-fans were there since it was the Summer Holidays. The whole castle seemed empty; it was quite depressing, yet utterly refreshing at the same time.
Dumbledore walked up to their table as they began to eat, "Mr. Aidan asked me to tell you that you can go to Hogsmede today, but you must be back in time for dinner. He suggested you stock up on whatever you need, because there wouldn't be much time after this to go. The new term will be starting soon and you must go over the new safety precautions and evacuation procedures, as well as train Tyler."
All of the teens nodded in understanding, and Dumbledork wandered over to the Potter's table.
"How has your training been my boy?" Dumbledore asked Tyler who was stuffing his face with food at the moment, pig that he was. James glanced at Dumbledore before returning to his paper, and Lily continued to try and wipe Tyler's face every three seconds. Tyler's friends Hermione and Ron, however, were chatting quietly.
"Guod," Tyler said around a mouthful of eggs.
"Well that is wonderful, do try and pick a few things up. They may be young, but they seem to know what they are doing. There is no doubt in my mind that you can outshine them if you really try." Dumbledore smiled his sickening grandfatherly smile and continued on his merry way towards his office.
Ian shook his head that man was defiantly off his rocker. That boy couldn't learn anything even if it hit him on the head with a brick. He sighed and continued eating his toast; he missed Raiden's sarcasm, and even his bad-attitude-in-the-morning-thing, it just wasn't the same without his 'brother' around.
Jenna thanked Merlin that Tyler wasn't coming with them, he complained way too much. She went back to their rooms and threw on a pair of low-slung jeans and a white fitted sleeveless shirt. She dabbed on some lip gloss and met up with the others in the common room.
Kaylee was wearing her usual pink, pink shirt, pink make-up, pink shoes, and pink-paint-spotted jeans. She sure does love the color pink.
They waked to Hogsmede in about 10 or 15 minutes, they decided to enjoy their freedom and take their time.
"It's nice out," Glen commented, looking up at the nearly cloudless sky.
"Yeah," Ian agreed, hitching up his knee length camouflage shorts which were sliding down his waist.
"I'm sooooo glad we don't need to deal with that Potter brat right now, jeez, he never shuts his lard-mouth." Mariah sighed, "I wish it was snowing though, winter is much better than summer."
"Yeah right Mariah, you are totally nuts, winter is so…..cold, and wet, and nasty. I definitely prefer warmer weather, though it is warmer at home. Kaylee, I hope we can get some time to lie out and get a tan today, the sun is perfect." Jenna said breathlessly, knowing Mariah loved the winter because of her element, which also caused her sometimes frosty attitude.
"Yeah, I'd also like to see that Potter kid squirm, us in out bikinis? Perfect way for revenge, it's like, you can look but you can't touch." Kaylee said, causing everyone to laugh, especially the girls. Mariah wasn't big on tanning because of her pale skin which burnt easily. She didn't like the sun that much anyways.
When they reached town, the girls headed towards the nearest clothing shop, well that is Jenna and Kaylee anyways; they physically dragged Mariah off behind them. The boys headed towards the candy shop,
"What about this shirt?" Jenna asked Kaylee, she was holding a light blue long-sleeved fitted shirt.
"That'll look great, but I think you should get it slightly darker, so it matches your eyes better," Kaylee replied, Mariah snorted in disgust, and kept looking through the shoe section, trying to find a pair of half decent battle boots.
Meanwhile, the boys were stashing their candy in their pockets, using a wandless shrinking charm when no one was around. They then headed over to the ice cream place which wasn't usually open to Hogwarts students because they were only at school during the colder months. They sat down and ordered, Ian then put a secrecy charm up, and they began going over battle tactics and other things.
"I'm surprised we haven't heard from Raiden, I mean you'd think he would owl or something every once in awhile." Glen said, taking a bite of ice cream.
"I think he's been pretty busy, I heard Gavin and Carla talking about how he is training some of the Wolves and how he might have a 'love interest.' It seems they talked a few time with Remus and Sirius about Raiden." Noah said, grinning slightly.
"Who? Who's he going out with?" The two boys cried simultaneously.
"I don't know, no names were mentioned," Noah said, taking a huge bite of his runny vanilla ice cream.
"Oh…..When we see him again. He's in for it!" Ian snarled in a mock-angered kind of way.
They took down the charms, headed over to where the girls were still shopping, picked a few things up, and headed back to the castle, they still had a training session that evening and two of the girls still wanted to ran as well.
"Duck!" Creide yelled angrily at Tyler, who barely missed being hit with a kick to the head.
"Merlin! Don't you listen? You're supposed to be on defense not offence." Skadi bellowed, storming over to where Freya and Tyler were sparing. Freya was going super easy on him, but he still stunk up the floor.
"What in bloody hell do you mean?" Tyler yelled back, "I ducked, I didn't get hit!"
"Well you left yourself open and defenseless, when you duck, you have to put effort into it. Say I had a sword, and you ducked, I could just bring it down and, what next? YOU ARE DEAD!" Skadi roared, "If you put some fuckin effort into the duck, you could roll out of harms way using the momentum to move. If you don't you're SCREWED!"
Tyler almost began to cry as Skadi yelled, it was extremely funny, yet disturbing because this was the boy who was supposed to save them from the evil Voldemort.
"You call yourself a HERO?" Skadi howled, "YOU'RE NOTH'IN BUT A WHIMP WITHOUT MOMMY AND DADDY TO HIDE BEHIND!"
Freya knew she had to stop this before it got out of hand, so she calmly stepped up, grabbed Skadi by the arm and dragged her out of the room. There was silence for a few seconds until Creide clapped her hands and said, "Well let's get back to work then!"
Wahoo, yay I tortured Tyler. This chapter was a bit boring, but I think I'll add a ton more action in the next few, so don't worry. There might even be some romance, hint hint, wink wink. Please don't forget to review! Hugs to all!