It was 5:30 and Kurt and Blaine entered the training arena not wanting to make Sue angry by being late. The walls of the rooms were covered in assorted weapons and training equipment. Kurt felt his gut twist, he knew that this was going to be a lot of work. He looked over to Blaine, a movement he had grown accustomed to in the past few hours, to see his reaction to the room. To his surprise, Blaine actually looked excited to be in the room, he could see how Blaine scanned the room for the one weapon that could act as an extension of his own arm. When Blaine's eyes landed on the axe at the top corner of the wall to their left his eyes lit up and he smiled wide. It was then when Blaine looked at Kurt, still with a smile on his face, he grabbed Kurt's shoulders and said, "Ready to work hard?"

Kurt smiled back, "Of course, all I need is that amazing set of bow and arrows over there and we'll be set." They stood there smiling at each other, then the lights suddenly turned off.

Kurt let out a squeal that was quite embarrassing and moved closer to Blaine. Blaine laughed quietly and whispered, "It's ok Kurt, that was just Sue, I saw her come in just a few seconds ago."

As he finished speaking, one singular light popped up in the middle of the arena where Sue suddenly stood. She wore a black jumpsuit and looked prepared to work the two young men hard.

"Porcelain, Hobbit, this will be the hardest day of work in your young pathetic lives. I will not be impressed with either of you until I see the same amount of stamina I had the day I was born. Got it?"

Kurt and Blaine nodded their heads in silence, afraid to say anything to the intimidating woman that stood before them.

"We are lucky today because usually everyone gets the training arena for 3 hours, but I scared everyone into letting us have the whole day. They can find somewhere else to train. So tell me, what weapons are your strong suites?"

"I can work an Axe." Blaine said with confidence, ready to show Sue his talent.

"Of course you can, that's all I ever get these days: Axe workers. And you Porcelain?"

"I was a guard."

"So the bow and arrow huh? That can be very useful, if you're good…"

"Oh he's really good! One of the best in town actually…though no one will admit it." Blaine interjected. Kurt was surprised by this because Blaine had never seen him shoot before.

"How do you know that Blaine? You've never seen me shoot before…"

"I have actually. You know how every year the guards have an examination to see if they can still do the job?"

"Yeah..?"

"I had the day off the last examination. I decided to stop by and watch the guards shoot at the targets, because I always thought it was kind of cool. I saw you that day, I… I thought you were really impressive Kurt. You hit every target and you weren't even trying. It was beautiful to watch and I was a little jealous that you got such an amazing job. I also know that you received the best score that day…no one told you though." Blaine looked down and shoved his hands in his pockets. "I guess I'm the one who gets to tell you now. You are amazing Kurt. Seriously." He looked up gave Kurt a smile that made his heart flutter. No one has ever told him something like that in his life, and it meant a lot that it was Blaine complimenting him. He smiled back at Blaine and he saw Blaine's eyes light up.

Their moment was ruined when Sue cleared her throat, "Ok so if you two are done having your bonding moment, we have to get to work. So get ready."

Kurt and Blaine moved to get their weapons from their spots on the wall.

"Did I say to get your weapons?"

Kurt and Blaine stop in their tracks.

"Well what did you mean when you said get ready?" Blaine asked moving away from the wall of weapons.

"Well its obvious that you both know how to use your weapons, but who's to say that you will always have them? You are going to learn to fight hand to hand."

Kurt and Blaine looked at each other, then back at Sue.

"Who are we going to fight now?" Kurt asked, already knowing the answer.

Sue smiled, "Each other. Now get yourselves into the ring"

Kurt and Blaine made their way to the ring unsure of what was going to happen.

"Kurt you get on the left side of the ring, Blaine you get the right."

Kurt and Blaine stood opposite each other in the ring, they both locked eyes knowing what was about to happen. Kurt was nervous, but excited at the same time, he knew it meant nothing but it would probably be the only time he would get to be this physically close to Blaine.

Sue blew her whistle "Fight!"

All of a sudden Blaine rushed at Kurt with a playful smile, and Kurt moved quickly out of the way. Blaine kept trying to ram himself at Kurt, but Kurt was so quick that Blaine could never touch him. Their fight turned into a game of Blaine rushing with all of his force at Kurt, and then Kurt maneuvering out of the way gracefully.

Sue blew her whistle and the two boys stopped in their tracks, both out of breath. Blaine looked at Kurt impressed, "You're good." Kurt was going to reply when Sue cut him off.

"Yes, that's nice and all that Porcelain can dodge the lumberjack, but I need you guys to actually touch each other. Kurt I need you to stop playing the defensive and actually take a swing at Blaine."

Kurt swallowed and nodded, nervous about actually trying to fight Blaine now. He knew he was fast and could avoid Blaine's swings, but he knew he wasn't nearly strong enough to cause any damage to Blaine, let alone anyone else.

"Blaine you need to be more subtle in your attacks, Kurt knows exactly where you are coming from, and can avoid your advances easily. If you rely more on your skill then on your strength you might be able to get him. I want you both to actually try, no hurting each other too bad I need you both in great condition at the beginning of the games."

Sue blew the whistle and the two boys rushed at each other, determined to impress their coach. Kurt connected with Blaine at his right soldier and he fell to the ground. He grabbed his shoulder surprised by how much the contact had hurt, he looked up to Blaine and saw that he was already lowering himself down to pin Kurt to the ground. Kurt quickly rolled out of the way and jumped to his feet. Blaine might have been strong but Kurt was definitely faster, and he grabbed Blaine's shoulders from behind and with all his might forced him to the ground. Behind him he could hear Sue yelling insults at the both of them, telling them to try harder. They were both breathing heavily as Blaine struggled to get up and Kurt tried with all his might to keep him down. Kurt wanting to get a hold of his opponent kept his shoulders down and straddled his stomach. As fast as he did this, Blaine got his arm free, grabbed the back of Kurt's head and slammed his forehead against his own. Kurt fell off of Blaine in pain, and suddenly Blaine was on top of him doing the exact same thing Kurt was doing only moments before, but this time keeping his hands at Kurt's wrists so he could not perform the same move.

Kurt tried with all his might to get free of Blaine's grasp, but Blaine was too strong for him. Kurt heard Sue count to three and the match was over. Out of breath he stopped trying to fight Blaine and waited from him to get off. Blaine smiled down at Kurt, patted his shoulder and said, "Good match Kurt." and then got off.

Blaine got up and helped the other up. Sue didn't say anything until they were both standing and giving her their full attention.

"I've seen better."

Kurt looked at Blaine and frowned, it was the first time he tried to fight anyone really, and he thought it went well.

"You two wrestled, except for the hit Eyebrows gave you with his head Porcelain there were no punches thrown. I need you both to know how to pack a punch."

Sue went to a corner of the room and rolled out two dummies. She placed one in front of Blaine and the other in front of Kurt. For the next several hours Sue taught them the proper stance and technique of punching and kicking. At the end of their session Kurt and Blaine had nearly become experts. It was getting close to 8 pm and the two boys were exhausted and ready to go back to their rooms and sleep.

"Ok guys now you get to fight one more time." Sue said looking at them with pleased eyes.

The two boys looked at each other, seeing how tired they were, and took a unanimous breath.

"Get in the ring."

Kurt and Blaine took their positions. Kurt was excited this time, for they both knew how to fight and defend, he wasn't sure how it would play out but all he knew was that he was ready.