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DREW POV
Training time? Not much of a problem. The guys and I were used to working out. But I wonder how the girls will do, specially that airhead. Huh, don't get the wrong impression, I don't like her or anything. Who will even like an airhead like her.
I flicked my silky hair and followed the lady down the never ending hall ways. After a 5 minute walk we were in a huge open area in the sky. It consisted of a huge track that went on for a mile or so. On the right corner was a gym that had all workout equipments. Toward the left was a huge rectangular sand pit. This was the place every athlete would dream of.
I looked towards the guys and they all looked like they just wanted to start off. Dawn and Leaf looked happy seeing the running track that had obstacles popping out from time to time. Misty looked around a little disappointed, I guess she wished for a swimming pool. May wore an expression that read 'I don't believe I have to do all this.'
I smirked and nudged her "Terrified little July" I mocked
She glared at me and walked off to the girls.
"Alright this is the place you all will train. Start by lifting, push ups and crunches. Each should be minimum 150 for girls and 250 for boys." Lady Girantina smirked at our gaping mouths.
"Followed by run on the track. It is not a simple one dear Dawn" she said raising her hand to stop Dawn from speaking. "Notice the timing of obstacles correctly. They are dangerous. Sometimes it is swinging blades, rings of fire and quick sand pits. It may also be pool of burning acid and spiky floor. It is a one and a half mile run." She said like it was nothing.
"After you all are done with this simple stuff, please come to us. We would be handing you all your weapons. Then you will train with your weapons and you new powers." She said walking away. "YOU ALL BETTER GET STARTED." She yelled.
Simple stuff?
The woman was definitely crazy. I felt someone push my mouth close and looked to only to find May grumbling.
"Are you coming or not Cabbage? Others have already started." She pointed towards the guys doing push ups and girls lifting weights. We walked towards them and i left to start off my set but before that May taunted.
"By the way, it is bad to leave an open invitation for flies to enter the grand gateway, your mouth." With this said she walked off smirking. I shook my head and joined the guys.
1...2...3...4...5...95...96...97...98...99...154.. .155...156...200...201...248...249...250
Thump
I fell down on the cool floor sweating. The guys were in the same condition as mine with Ash groaning.
The girls were done with the weights and were now halfway done with crunches. Misty was cool with it. Leaf was sweating a little but smiling all the same. May looked like she was having a hard time, after all she is not a sportsperson.
"Come on, is that all you got Airhead?" I taunted earning a glare but she still continued.
Dawn surprised us all she was faster than the others and did not even break a sweat. She finished first and came up to us smiling. Misty and Leaf soon followed.
"Dawny, how did you manage that speed and did 150 crunches without breaking sweat?" Gary inquired, while the girls giggled at the surprised look at our faces.
"She is a footballer and a graceful dancer. She is used to these workouts GrassHead." May came up panting and sweating.
Dancer I know and believe. But a footballer? That too the girl who cares most about her looks and has a deep bonding to fashion. I was shocked and clearly the others were too.
Dawn was blushing and looking down embarrassed. "You are a footballer?" Ash stood up waving his hands dramatically which caused the girls to laugh even harder. "Is the world coming to an end?" he fell down to his knees.
"Shut up Ashy-boy" Paul grumbled.
"Oh my dear little sis, there is nothing to be embarrassed about." Gary said flinging his arm around Dawn's shoulder.
"Yeah I agree, actually I think it's pretty cool that a girl plays football." I told her but gave May a smirking look, to which she huffed and turned away.
After talking for a few more minutes we resumed our work outs.
(time skip: running track)
GARY POV
HOT
Hey I was not talking about the girls or Leafy. I was sweating hard running on the track trying to avoid the swinging blades. It was growing really hot as I neared the lava pool. I mean seriously these people sure did take their trainings seriously.
Paul had been the first one to run with Misty. They both did exceptionally well. They dodged all the blades and spikes crossing the lava pool and quick sand acting with fast reflexes. By the end of it they both just plopped down on the ground sweating and panting hard. They were not harmed other than a few scratches and small burns to which Leaf tended to.
The next one up was Ashy-boy and May. Ash managed to complete with a few cuts and burns, while May looked like she had been through hell. She had a huge cut on her arm with minor burns. She was caked in mud. This time Dawn treated their injuries.
Drewy-boy and Leaf had started off fairly well. There was one time when Leaf barely managed to jump through the ring of fire. My heart had stopped beating for a second but she made it back safe without much harm. I was relieved but it only lasted till the time I was not told that Dawn and I were the only ones left.
"Are you ready?" I asked her, and she nodded with a serious expression and we took off running.
Both of us due to fast reflexes dodged each and every blade that swung or the spike that stuck. We also crossed the pit of quick sand by jumping from vine to vine that was hanging above. That was when it started going bad for me.
I didn't take a great liking to fire as that was the reason for my parent's death. I shook my head to be free of distractions. I stopped at the bank of the pool. I skipped from stone to stone slowly and carefully. I almost slipped once but caught myself and made it to the other side. I looked beside me only to find a grinning Dawn. She gave me the thumbs up sign and dashed away.
I grinned and followed. The rings of fire appeared but I managed not to look scared. I had crossed the lava pool I can do this too, I encouraged myself but it only led to more worry.
I had stopped by now when I felt a hand on my shoulder. "It's okay to be scared Gary." Dawn said smiling sadly.
"I know you can do it. When a weakling like me can overcome her fear of darkness, then I have no doubt about you. You are strong and brave so man up big bro." She grinned.
I felt really confident after our little chat. I hugged her tightly "Thanks Dawn, by the way you are no weakling young lady." I stated in a mocking stern tone, but she knew I was serious.
She giggled and turned away running to jump past the first ring. She twirled through it just like a dancer would. I took off now feeling confident and jumped past the rings with ease. As we reached the end, we were sweating like crazy, gasping for breath.
The guys clapped me on my back as they knew how hard it would have been for me to face fire. Good jobs and nice work was what I got from the girls.
"Wow Gary for once I have to admit you are strong" Leaf said and I felt heat rising to my cheeks. "See you have no burns at all and very minor cuts" she pointed out.
I observed myself and smirked flinging my arm around her shoulders "So I see you like it, huh Leafy." This earned me a playful punch.
"You were amazing Dawn with those rings of fire and sand pit." May gushed. "Yeah" all of us agreed, even Paul nodded his head.
Dawn blushed. "Thanks guys you all were great as well. But you know when I..." she was cut off by the three kids.
"You all did a great job, but you are requested to be seen in the main hall of light." Mesprit said and disappeared the way she came.
"Let's go then." Paul more like ordered.
ASH POV
"Alright now that you all are here, I'll warn you all. All this that you are doing and the powers you are getting are not a joke. Do not misuse them." Girantina sternly ordered.
Woah, the lady was scary. We all nodded and her stony face turned into a smile. She waved her hands like she was doing magic and indeed, in a few seconds a white velvet cushion like thing appeared in front of each one of us.
It must be holding something great and powerful I thought and leaned to see what it was. Behold ladies and gentlemen it held a ... ring.
It was a big and beautiful one indeed. It had a thick platinum band that held a big electric yellow Topaz. It was simple yet amazing. I turned to look out at what the others had received. All the guys had thick band and the girls had a delicate thin one. Each ring held different stones.
Misty looked pleased with her sapphire embedded ring.
Drew had a forest green emerald. Gary had a deep violet amethyst, while Paul had a glossy black diamond.
May received a blood red ruby. Leaf got a fresh light green peridot. Dawn gladly lifted her ring off of the cushion admiring the beauty of the shimmering pink garnet.
"Your highnesses, not to sound rude but why did you present us these rings?" Misty questioned. Oh, her lovely voice. Woah, snap out of it Ashy boy, I shook my head.
"These are not just rings my dear.." Arceus began but I cut him off still in a trance.
"They are quiet powerful I guess these are the weapons you were talking about, Lady Girantina."
I looked up to see every soul in the room starting at me shocked. "He actually talked sense for once." Drew stated.
"Don't worry Ashy boy you will soon be back to normal." Gray messed my already messed up hair and gave me a sympathetic look, wiping a fake tear from his eye.
"Hey I am not that stupid, am I?" I slapped his hand away.
"Actually you are that dense." Paul pointed out smirking.
I turned to see that even the gods were amused by this. Suddenly Arceus shook his head as he felt my gaze on him. "Oh I am sorry, anyways just let me tell you how to use these weapons. You all just need to think about it or flip the ring and you will be graced with the weapon that you can master easily."
We all were amazed and I was about to flip the ring but the royalties stopped me. "Do it when you will train against each other, which will be right after we provide you with your clothes and equipment you would be needing for your journey." Girantina said as she once again magically made 8 orbs appear.
They motioned for us to move forward and touch the orb. We did as we were told and once again blinding white light covered us all. Soon enough the light faded to reveal all of us in the same outfits with different colours.
We all had body tight body suits, combat boots for boys and knee high boots for girls with 2 inch platform heel. A belt was secured on our waist with fingerless gloves adorning our hands.
The body suits were of our respective colour. Leaf-light green, Dawn-light pink, May-rose red, Misty-aqua blue. Leaf and Dawn had jet black belt, gloves and boots, while Misty and May had white. Similarly, Drew-dark green, Paul-dark grey, Gary-violet, and I had yellowish mustard. Gary and Paul had black belt, boots and gloves, while Drew and I had a Dark brown set.
(the rest fashion related things will be told in the girls pov)
"COOL" I whisper-yelled. Drew and Gary high fived, while Paul smirked blowing his bangs out of his face. Right now the girls were fussing about their hair, clothes etc etc.
"Alright kids back to training." Arceus said.
"WE ARE NOT KIDS." All of us yelled simultaneously making the elder raise his hands in surrender.
"Alright, I get it." He laughed as we backed away to the training ground.
PAUL POV
Flip the stupid rings and you get stupid weapons.
Oh boy, I was quite stupid to think that. They were not just ordinary weapons. I could feel the power they radiated. I had a glowing black double edged sword, with a silver hilt. I also had a dagger. It fit my palm perfectly just like it was made for me.
Grass Head had two long flexible swords that were bronze in colour with a black hilt. He was currently trying them out swinging them wildly. He had a set of nun chucks to battle with.
Gary received huge, silver coloured, wicked looking axe blades. He was running his finger on the sharp blades and smirking evilly. He also had a dagger.
Ashy boy had a golden bodied electric spear. It almost reached 6' feet. He even had a set of knuckle blades. All the weapons had a royal look to them.
The girls had received much decent looking weapons, but as the saying goes, looks can be deceiving. May had red and molten gold plated regal bow and arrows. She also had a never ending supply of ninja blades, all of which were shaped like the sun.
Leaf got a double sided blade. It had a black hilt in the middle and then a sharp glowing green blade rose from the upper and lower sides. The blades were leaf shaped. Her small blade was also the same.
Misty possessed a huge and heavy mallet/hammer. It looked like it had been retrieved from Thor himself. It was silver glowing with blue energy. She also had a dagger which had its blade curved like the waves.
Finally Dawn, the woman looked like a seductive bitch by the way she was whipping the ground. Yeah, she got a whiplash. But it was not ordinary, it had a black hilt with a snake like dangerously long lash, which was greyish silver with same coloured blades hanging from its end. Her weapon glowed with pink energy. She also had a set of claw blades.
All weapons were the ones we would be best with.
"I see you like them a lot." Girantina gave us a wicked smile, sending a chill down my spine. "Now all of you head to that pit if you want to test them." The tone she used told us that we did not have a choice in that matter.
(time skip)
Metals clashing.
Energy flowing.
I watched for a moment as Ash swung his spear over his head, sending waves of electricity through the air towards Misty. She smashed her hammer on the ground and sending balls of ice. The electric waves were caught in the ice balls which broke into a million pieces, causing blue and golden sparkle shower.
Leaf spun her huge double sided blade causing razor sharp leaves to cut through the wind towards Gary. He used his Axes to cut many of them, but then smashing the blades together he stopped the leaves in their path which now glowed with a sinister violet energy.
May was shooting arrow after arrow crazily at Drew. Each arrow lit itself on fire on the midway. Drew had his pointed swords crossed and an earth wall rose in front of him, protecting him from the burning arrow. He was smirking but anyone could see that keeping the wall standing for so long was tiring him out.
Back to myself. Point to be noted, never get distracted even if you are hidden by the shadows, because there are always crazy women flying around and whipping at every dark area they cross.
Whip
And my cover was blown.
I did not expect this girl to be so strong. Anyways now she was whipping at me and I was deflecting her blows. Suddenly she had her whip around my sword and was smirking. Time to take offence. I mentally smirked.
With all my energy a pulled my sword back taking her whip along. I could tell by the shocked expression on her face that she was not expecting this. I had her disarmed.
"Alright it is enough for now." The lady's voice rang out successfully stopping us all. "You all are really well at this but I am afraid you can't practise any longer."
"What do you mean? It has just been a few minutes." May panted.
"You mean a few hours." She replied with a stone face.
The girls gasped.
"I sorry but you all have to pack. You all are leaving tomorrow at dawn."
"W-what i thought you said that we had a week or so." Leaf stammered.
Girantina sighed. "The demon king is growing stronger and crazier. We have no time at all. You all have to keep practicing on the way."
We all shared looks. All of us were a bit afraid. Except me.
Alright fine, I am also a tiny bit afraid but if any of you open your mouth about it. Then...chop....
We all nodded with a determined look in our eyes and turned to leave.
"Kids." We stopped to look back at her grave expression. "it is going to be Dangerous." Her eyes turned soft as she whispered "But I want you all back safe and sound. GOOD LUCK."
Done.
I am sorry if Paul was ooc.
But please readers read and review.
I wil update asap.
p.s. the hardest part was to choose a weapon for them all, hope I did not do a bad job.
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