Chapter 5: The Start of my Teaching Career

As soon as I woke up the next morning, I realized something: I had left my bag on the beach! Heading down that way ASAP, I found my duffle bag, which I had with me when I went to the park. In all honesty, I had brought the bag just because I was planning on going over to the gym near my house after I went home and relaxed a little. It was luckily still there, and was dry, because no waves seemed to hit it.

My bag was filled with plenty of supplies: Some combs, a few pairs of scissors, my hunting knife, my MMA shorts, gloves, and footwraps, among other things that I would have to get to later.

I knew that so many of these things would be useful to me, because my duffle bag usually had whatever I need. And right now, I needed my MMA gear, and had it on. Why?

Because the sparring match was about to happen.

As I agreed to Cera's request, today was going to be me fighting a dinosaur. This is something I always thought would be cool, and now I had a chance.

Granted the Sharptooth from yesterday would've been a fight, except I went 'Berserk'. This was a full contact sparring match, much like those of Kyokushin Karate (which I took several techniques from as well). I was excited for this, because Cera looks incredibly tough.

We met out in a clearing, right next to a river, and beforehand, I changed into my MMA outfit (away from everyone else of course. I'm 100% certain NO ONE wants to see me naked), and just decided to look at myself before the match (you ever just get that urge to look at yourself in like a mirror?). Pulling out a mirror from my dufflebag, I looked at myself. My sandy blonde hair was medium length, and it was particularly messy today. I would have to comb it after the match.

Anyway, the news of our match had spread through the valley like wildfire. And it had attracted quite the crowd. No surprise Mr. Threehorn (who I found out was Cera's father) was giving her some last minute advice. Immediately afterword, Littlefoot came over and gave her a hug, and told her "Good luck."

Considering I didn't know anyone in the valley, I figured I wouldn't get any support, but I actually did. As it turned out, Ducky came over and told me "You'll do great. You will. You will." Petrie then told me "You brave taking on Cera. She really tough, but me think you got this."

Hearing this was very reassuring, considering that two who have known me for only one day think I could beat the brawn of their group. Very, very reassuring indeed.

Then Ali came over to me, and told me "I'll be watching from the sidelines. I really hope you do good.", along with giving me a hug. The feeling of her scales against my skin while the hug was happening felt weird, but something about hugging her felt very good.

Yeah... physical interaction with dinosaurs is definitely gonna take some getting used to.

But that would have to be for another time, because right now, the match was about to begin. Mr. Threehorn came inbetween us and said the only thing we needed to know.

"Fighters, begin!"

As soon as he was back in the crowd, Cera charged at me. I dodged to the side, and hit her with a low kick. She was evidently not prepared for that, as it caused her to stumble a bit. This time, Cera grabbed me, and attempted to throw me to the ground.

She did get me to the ground, but before she could stomp on me, I got to the side, and sweeped her to the ground. Once she was back up, she attempted to punch me, but I dodged, and kicked her in the stomach.

The rest of the match went in a similar manner. She kept throwing punches (that I would consider slow), and I kept dodging, and hitting her with a kick or a punch (not using my full power, as I refused to hurt her seriously). Her last punch was a right hook that actually wade contact, and hurt. But she left herself open, and I then kneed her in the stomach. With that, she called it quits.

That meant that the match was over, and many of the dinosaurs went back to just going around the valley. I myself went to a cave to change back to my normal clothes, which was a pair of sweatpants and a plain white T-shirt.

And once I left the cave, Cera came to me with a request. "Yuri," she asked me, "Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Can you teach me how to fight like you?"

I was a bit caught off-guard by this, but it was certainly a request I could agree to. Though I had to make sure she was commited, so I told her, "If you really want to learn, meet me at the beach tomorrow, at sunrise."

"Okay then," she said happily, "See you tomorrow."

'I guess this makes me like a Sensei.' I thought. Then my stomach growled, signaling me to catch some lunch.

This chapter is here, and it is here to give a bit of insight into what Yuri will do for the story. Also, who has an idea of the pairing in this fic? Anyone?