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Chapter 5: Explosive Games With a Touch of Fire (and Lightning)
Jaune's morning was miserable and turning deadly. Fast.
It was like watching a meteor falling from the sky hurdling towards you, all the while you knew there was nothing you could possibly do to protect yourself or prevent the untold amount of destruction. Very bad.
When he woke up he thought it would be a peaceful day. That quickly left his mind a few short seconds later when Nora shouted in his ear. "Come on Jaune, it's time to wake up! You need to train and to start we need to improve your dodging!"
And so he training. Nora walked him through some basic warm up exercises and it was going good until she reminded him that they were going to work on his dodging skills. Everything started to go downhill after that.
First, she had Pyrrha launch her spear at him. It was difficult at first but he managed to get the hang of it fairly quick. He shouldn't have done that.
Because of his supposed "inert skill", Nora decided he was ready to move up to the advanced levels of the training. This is when Zwei and Professor Oobleck both joined. How she enlisted their help he had no clue but that wasn't what was really going through his mind as he was running.
"No running away Jaune! It's dodge and nothing else. If you run you'll be punished!"
Or at least as he tried to run away from what he was certain was hell.
He could be forgiven for having thought that as the utter carnage that followed him really did to resemble what manny have described hell to look like. The earth split in pursuit as fire rained down from above. Large chunks of dirt and rock hurled towards him as they burned. Dark clouds seemingly faded into existence and lightning stuck down, drawing closer with each passing second.
Jaune tried to dodge and for a bit he succeeded, but then he tripped. He caught himself before he hit the ground and looked up in time to see something incredible. Nora was in the air with her hammer poised to strike. Alongside of her was both a flaming Zwei and Professor Oobleck with his weapon also raised to strike him. A bolt of lightning was also just about to hit.
He saw his doom as it closed upon him. And then he saw nothing.
Nora and her assistants stood around the slumped body of Jaune. Zwei licked his face as Nora poked him the end of her weapon. Oobleck proceeded to check him over before declaring, "He's fainted."
Nora pouted. "Ahh! He was doing so good." She paused and sighed, thinking about what this meant for Jaune. "That doesn't matter though, not now. We'll have to work and make sure that he doesn't faint again."
"Do you require any more assistance for today? Maybe taking him back to your dorm perhaps?"
"No, no. I got it." With that, Oobleck and Zwei left and Nora picked up Jaune's unconscious form, taking him back to their dorm. As she did she thought to herself, I'll have to go over this Ren. See what he'll want to do with him. I wonder if Jaune will even be prepared for Ren's training?