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Chapter 7: Time for training

August 18, 2005

Desburg

Sven irritatingly says "Awww man where are we supposed to go? He could've left directions." Train, who is not fazed by Sven's irritation, answered "The only thing he did tell us was to look for a lone shed in a large field. Not that I know where that would be."

Eve was looking out of the window when she saw what appeared to be a little shed in the slight distance. Train was saying to Sven "Okay, so where would be the best location for a shed?" Eve pointed out the window and said "Is that it over there?"

Sven looks in the direction that Eve was pointing to, turned the car towards that direction and says "Ha! That's got to be it. Thanks a lot Eve."

As soon as they drove up to the shed, they all stepped out of the car, opened up the shed doors and stepped inside. Wondering what they are supposed to do next, the shed doors close all by themselves and the light turns on.

Sven looks around inside the shed and the only thing he found is a sign on the wall that says 'Push this button'. "Push this button?" he said with a confused look on his face and Train saw the sign and, as Sven and Eve expected, pressed the button.

After Train pressed the button, the trio fell through a trap door that opened up beneath them and they went sliding down the slide that followed after falling.

After sliding down the long slide for 10 minutes, the trio finally ended up slowing down as the slide got more leveled and they came to a stop when they reached a room that looked like a hallway. They got off the slide; Sven had thought about pounding the living daylights out of Train but instead wondered where they were.

Eve wondered about the place as well and the trio started to walk down the hallway. The hallway was plain with tiled floors but it was clean as a whistle which Sven thought was a relief and they kept on walking down the hallway until they saw a figure in a dark-blue overcoat and a buckle-up jumpsuit.

The figure said "I'm glad you made it, Train and friends." Train greets the figure, who turns out to be Gate, and he asks "So Gate, when do we begin training?" Gate, obviously noticing Train's determination says "Patience my brother. We will begin training as soon as the rest of the group gets here."

"The rest of the group?" Sven asked with an awkward tone of voice. Train answered "Let me guess, the rest of Chronos right?" Gate nodded his head and said "Indeed. Since were here, what's say we go make something to eat?" Train happily agreed while Sven and Eve knew what they were expecting Train to say but just followed.

The four walked into a dining room of some sort and Train, Sven and Eve were surprised to see that it had all the features that would be expected of a mansion's dining room.

"What's the matter? Never been in a mansion before?" Gate asked, noticing the fascination on the trio's face. The three shake their heads and gate says "I see…So, what would you all like to eat?"

After hearing what the trio wanted to eat, Gate decided "I have a different idea. You guys sit at the table and watch what I'm about to do." The trio sat at the dining table and they watched Gate crack his fingers, gripped the tablecloth and whipped it off the table which revealed a whole buffet of food.

Train and Sven were drooling over all the food and Eve just smiled and asked "What kind of trick was that? I've never seen such a move." Gate answered "It's a secret." Eve made a concerned face and said "Oh, but I want to know. Anyway, I forgot to tell you my name. I am Eve."

Gate greeted Eve and asked "I'm sure you know that I am Gate?" Eve nodded then asked "So, do you like to read books?" Gate chuckled a bit and said "Ah books, so many books and so little time. Come, let me show you something."

Gate and Eve walked over to a pair of doors and stepped inside. Eve looked around and was fascinated at the sight of books everywhere. Gate said "This is my personal library." Eve asked with a curious look "How many books are there?"

"8,523,768"

"…"

Gate noticed Eve's confused and partially surprised look and he said "Basically every book from now to as far back as about 250 years ago." Eve understood what he meant and asked "Can I read some?" Gate said "Sure, why not. The more books you read the more educated you get."

Back in the dining room, Gate and Eve step out of the library while Train and Sven are eating like monsters.

Eve was reading one of Gate's books and Gate watched Sven and Train stuff their faces until Sven decided to stop and rub his belly.

"Had enough?" Gate said putting a grin on his face.

"Yeah. Man, you sure can cook cause that was some awesome food." Sven said with a satisfied smile on his face.

Train decided to stop eating and patted his oversized belly while saying "Man I can put it away cause look how big my gut is."

Gate, who is obviously not surprised, tells them to chill out while the numbers get here and they each do so in their own way.

Back outside…

A big black limousine pulls up towards the shed, stops and a group of five people and a wolf with a mechanical tail step out and stand to face the shed.

The one with the bald head and the Roman numeral V on the left side of his forehead put on an irritated look on his face and said "What, this is the place? What a disappointment." The man with the long-thin hair spoke up saying "Well this has to be the place, he said something about a shed." The man with the long blond hair also said "This looks more like a garage than a shed, just look how big it is."

Lastly, the woman with the long-blond hair and the Roman numeral I tattooed on her forehead spoke saying "Well there's no point in complaining so let's go." After that, they opened the doors and stepped inside the garage. As soon as they all walked inside, the doors closed and locked all by themselves.

Jenos said "What was that!? The doors just shut by itself!" Shaolee said "It must be a sort of safety protocol." Shortly after, the light turns on and the garage looked completely empty except for a button on the wall with a sign that said 'Press this button'.

Sephiria puts on a puzzled look and asked "Press this button?" All the other numbers walked over and saw the button which left them to debate whether or not to press the button. Finally, Jenos decided that if they press the button, it would lead them to Gate's training camp.

They all huddle up together while Nizer presses the button and the next thing they know, the floor gave away and they all fell.

After falling for a little bit they finally landed in a huge cushion that easily broke their fall and left them all with confused looks on their faces. "Strange way to invite your guests isn't it Gate?" Sephiria thought to herself and everyone got off the cushion and started walking down the hallway.

As soon as they were coming to the end of the hallway, they notice a figure with a black jumpsuit and dark-blue overcoat, recognizing it to be Gate Heartnet.

Gate says "Sephiria, you guys made it. Welcome to my underground training facility." Sephiria says "So this is your base?" Gate nodded, Sephiria continued "I see…Well you might want to do something about that giant cushion."

Gate said "Forgive me about that I'm still trying to get an elevator installed and I'm not finished yet."

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All the Chronos numbers walk into the dining room area and they stop when Sephiria notices Train and the gang relaxing. Gate walks over to the table, sits down and asks the rest of the numbers to join him for a feast. The numbers agree, they take their seats and Sephiria asks…

"Gate, why are those three here?"

"Sorry, they wanted to take the training as well."

"I see…"

Eve was reading a book, Sven was smoking a cigarette and talking to Nizer, Train and Shaolee were talking about nonsense, Jenos was eating like crazy and that left Gate with Sephiria and Belze.

Sephiria asked "So, how does this training function?" Belze said "Maybe there is a supernatural part of the training." Gate said "No supernatural, it's all technology that I invented. Wasn't easy either. A long time ago before I joined you, I was greeted by an advanced technological specialist and his crew and because of how much dedication I put into training, they offered to help me build the most advanced training grounds, which is the place you now sit at."

Sephiria was a little surprised by Gate's statement until he continued "With this sort of training, given the right set of time and determination, a bum off the street could have power that made even Creed Diskenth look like a joke."

Now Sephiria was really surprised by Gate's statement.

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Everybody walked down to a door in the dining room and Gate opened it thus leading everyone to a hallway of sorts.

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When they reached the end of the hallway, there appeared to be 7 doors in a massive room leaving lots of space between doors. They all stopped and Gate said "Alright everyone, in this training camp, you shall train yourself in your field of experience to push your skills far beyond your limits and there are other training areas that will help you substantially improve your speed, strength, agility, reflexes, acuity and special powers including hidden skills."

Sven raises his hand and when Gate notices he says "Sven you don't really need to raise your hand, this isn't a school but anyway, you had a question?"

"Yes. Is this training necessary?"

"It could prove necessary if you want to bag those sweeps and pay off your outrageously massive debts."

Sven sighs in guilt and says "No further questions."

Gate asks "Does anyone else have any questions?"

Silence…

"Very well then, now let's begin training!"

TBC

There we go; Chapter 7 is complete and ready to read.

Please review as I plan this story to go on for a very long time and I won't know when the end will be.

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I'll see you in chapter 8. Bye for now.

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