Dawn POV
I groaned for the millionth time two hours. My knuckles were already blistering and my thighs were aching from the multiple extra training sessions I'd had with grape head that week. It was currently Friday and my stress levels were already rising from the amount of homework I'd received from my multiple classes. Not only was my physical stature not up to scratch, I'd forgotten how they teach advance studies in just about every academic class you could think of, which meant I wasn't half as cleaver as the rest of the kids in my year. I had noticed however, that there were only around 8-10 students per class which I found really odd, it was as if the population of the facility has just halved over the years.
Having these training sessions during my free time was really taking its toll on me. I'd already had two all-nighters that week just to finish the stack of Math homework I had not had the time to complete. My brain was fuzzy and I got irritated really quickly. I had multiple bruises and cuts from where my class mates had beaten the crap out of me in my battle and martial-arts classes.
I gave a yelp of pain as I punched the bag especially hard having not been paying attention. My fist throbbed and I clutched it defensively as Paul snickered from behind me.
"That was pathetic," he taunted. I could tell he was enjoying it and it just pissed me off.
"You know what? Screw you!" I growled, channelling all of my pent up frustration onto him. "You'd be in exactly the same boat as me if you were behind with your studies, sleep-deprived and getting beaten to a pulp every freaking day of the week!" I continued, abandoning the bag to round on him.
"But I didn't run away," he said simply, a hint of amusement laced into his irritating voice. I half screamed half growled and attempted to round-house kick him but he blocked it with an easy sweep of his hand. This just made me even angrier but I took a deep breath. I wasn't going to let this jerk diminish my happy-go-lucky nature. I gave him a sickly sweet smile and glanced over at the clock behind his head. Thank god it was time to go.
"I'm leaving." I stated simply, picking up my bag from across the gym and heading out of the door. I began to sprint down the corridor, not wanting him to catch up with me and make me stay for another thirty minutes for leaving without being dismissed.
I rested my hands on my knees and began to pant heavily in an attempt to catch my breath. I fished a key out of my bag and proceeded to open the front door of my dorm. Leaf and May were sitting on the floor in front of the TV, papers and books spread out around them as they munched on cookies.
May leaped up as soon as she heard the door and ran over to hug me. I chucked and hugged her quickly back before grabbing my history book and sitting cross-legged on the floor amongst the organised chaos.
"So how much have you guys got done?" I asked while grabbing a pencil that had been randomly placed by the papers.
"Umm…" Leaf hummed cheekily. "We've really just been talking and eating." She said, waving a hand at the plate of cookies. I chuckled and grabbed a text book ready to begin the hours of studying I would have to do for the night just as May clapped her hands excitedly.
"I know!" She exclaimed. "Let's get Misty and you two can sleep over tonight!" Leaf squealed and I internally groaned, knowing that I'd probably need to stay up all of Saturday night just to finish my homework.
A few hours later, I was snuggled up cosily on my bed. We'd made make-shift ones for both Mist and Green (I found people tended to call her by her last name). They were wrapped up in a cover each while lying on a few pillows. Surprisingly we were in bed quite early as apparently they were all almost as tired as me.
"Good night," May's soft voice called out to all of us to which we followed suit. I could feel my eyes drooping and I decided to let myself worry about school work later.
I was woken up to shuffling in the room. I groggily opened my eyes and could faintly see black figures moving about the room. My senses were immediately on alert and I gently tipped my head to look at the other's beds but they were all empty.
"Ow…" May's voice yelped as I heard a loud thump come from the intruders. The action was immediately followed by a symphony of shushing from two other people. I sat up in bed realising that is was just the girls.
"Hey, what are you doing?" I asked into the darkness. The silhouettes fell still and Misty spoke up.
"Well Dawn, we were kinda going out…" She muttered guiltily. I cocked my head and stood up to flick the light on. Leaf hissed dramatically as she brought her hands to her eyes. The others and I giggled and I saw what they were all wearing. Each one of them was wearing a black jumpsuit with a black hoodie and scarf to pull over their mouths.
"You're going on a mission?" I questioned curiously.
"I didn't wanna tell you because you might feel left out!" May whined desperately, waving her arms about to make her point. I chuckled, realising this was probably the reason we went to bed so early.
"Eh? It really doesn't matter." I reassured her, rubbing my tired eyes. "I honestly doubt I'd be mentally prepared to go on a mission yet, I'd probably just collapse out of exhaustion right in the middle of a fight anyways!" I giggled, hopping back into the comfort of my bed. May gave a sigh of relief and Misty rolled her eyes.
"I told you she wouldn't mind!" She said with an exasperate tone causing May to childishly stick her tongue out at her.
Leaf was sitting alone in a big van. She was watching many screens, each showing one of the cameras inside the huge house that May and Misty had gone too. Leaf was a very strategic girl, she had brains, that was or sure. Things usually went her way, the way she had calculated the out-come to be. She had managed to hack into the main security system of the house to make sure that the other two would not be caught. She knew that this mission was going to be a piece of cake as their rival team had upped the defence of their important members, just not quite enough this time.
Misty and May had both already made it into the house of their target, from the pictures they had been shown before hand, he was a bald, elderly man with a long white moustache.
"Be careful girls, he's awake and sitting in the kitchen which is down the hall and the room to the left." Leaf's voice crackled through the ear-piece both of the young women were wearing. Misty nodded her head as the two swiftly made their way silently towards the kitchen. They both pressed themselves against the wall on either side of the open door. They both pulled their scarfs further up their face as May rolled a small metal object inside the room. Thick grey smoke erupted from it and the man inside instantly leapt up from his chair and began to cough violently.
The girls sprinted into the room and Misty began to leap for the man but pulled away to narrowly avoid being stabbed in the stomach with a small metal dagger, May giggled.
"This is going to be fun!" She said with as grin as wide as the Cheshire cat's as she threw a punch toward the man's head. He side stepped, only to receive a strong kick to the stomach. "Too slow." May stated as the man doubled over and she kicked the dagger from his hand. She threw an upper-cut to his chin causing him to groan, fall to the floor and knock his head on the table.
Misty pouted. "No fair, you got all the fun!"
"Ha, gotta be quicker than that!" May teased, skipping towards the door.
"Well you better not have killed him; we're screwed if you have!" Misty shouted out after her before shouldering the man and heading out of the door too.
"Aw, I wasn't that hard on him! And he barely put up a fight." May replied innocently. The two girls un-loaded their guest into the back of the van and securely strapped him in after checking his pulse just to make sure he didn't escape once he awoke.
"Well done girls!" Leaf said proudly.
"Green, you should have been there, you missed all of the fun!" May chirped, swinging her legs as she bucked herself into one of the seats. Leaf grinned at May and tapped one of the screens to the side of the van.
"I still watched you take him out," she stated, driving out of the side alley she had been parked in.
Dawn POV
I woke up and glanced bleary eyed at the clock. It was currently 10am and I'd had the best sleep I'd had in at least a week. I sat up and stretched, glancing all about the room. Misty and Leaf were still asleep on the floor and May was snoring on the other bed. I remembered the events of last night and decided against the idea of waking them up to go down to the mess hall with me.
After slipping on a black hoodie over a white shirt and black leggings, I put the only shoes I owned on; my pink boots and tied my hair lazily up in a ponytail. This will do for now I decided before quietly slipping out of the front door.
Only a few students were eating this late and so I got my own table at the corner of the room. After careful contemplation while nibbling my slice of toast, I decided that I'd go and see my Mum because studying could wait till later. I still had all of Sunday after all.
After finishing my food, I began the long walk down to the reception which was on the other side of the building, and in my opinion, it was a big building. I stopped and took a sharp breath as someone rounded the corner, he glared daggers at me and I mentally facepalmed. Crap, I had a training session with Paul earlier! I screeched inside of my head as he rounded on me.
"Where the hell were you earlier?!" He growled, storming towards me. I instinctively took a step back, only to realise that the wall was blocking me from freedom. His intimidating figure stood at least a head above me and I wondered whether maybe I should kick him where the-sun-don't-shine and make a mad dash for it. As if he'd read my thoughts, he wearily eyed my leg and grabbed me harshly by the wrist to drag me all the way to the gym. I whimpered and wailed the entire way causing students to give me a sympathetic look. I didn't want their sympathy; I just wanted their help to get the hell away from this psychopath of a 'tutor'.
50 laps around the entire gym later, I thought my lungs were going to explode and my legs may literally fall right off. I collapsed onto the floor, my arms and legs sprawled out everywhere as I gasped for breath like a fish-out-of-water. Paul gave me a satisfied smirk and grabbed my shirt, pulling me to my feet. I wobbled slightly but managed to stay up-right. I glared at the man and puffed my cheek out in annoyance.
"Seriously… 50.. 50 laps… was not… necessary!" I panted grumpily, realising that I was going to need another shower before I even thought about going to see my mother afterwards.
"I honestly don't think it was enough!" He said grinning, obviously enjoying my pain. I raised my eyebrows curiously. This was the first time I'd ever seen him portray even a glimmer of joy, even if it was toward my suffering. His face instantly twisted back into his usual scowl as he walked toward one of the many punching bags and ordered me to punch it.
By the end of the lesson my knuckles were bright red and even more bruised with the added blister while my legs were aching much more than before. I grumpily trudged back to the dorm; Paul always seemed to put me in an irritable mood one way or another.
As I turned a corner, I stopped dead in my tracks. A guy was staring wide eyed at me and my heart seemed to speed up by a million beats a minute. I opened my mouth to speak but no words came out.
Dun dun duuuuuun, I left ya on a cliffie, how d'ya like that?! :) But, I honestly found it really disturbing how the girls were enjoying the mission so much, especially May... And I was the one who friggin wrote it! I guess I always imagine that she'd be always teasing her enemy for being way too slow... I have no idea why. Actually come to think of it it's like how Racer (Sawyer) was from Fairy Tail. No idea how my messed up brain related them two but it did.
~X-Ray :3