"Now keep your arms more up than down. No no, your feet need to be moving- don't stop. Arms up!" Drake cried, pointing to Yui.
"I'm just not cut out for this kind of sword!" Yui sighed, letting her heavy sword rest on the ground. Drake shrugged, picking the sword from her hands and putting it back in the sheath.
"Maybe you should try a Rapier, it's like the Xiphos." Yui sat down on the ground, massaging her shoulders. When she asked to train a bit with Drake, she never expected him to actually TRAIN her. Still, his ancient strategies were interesting to learn and could be really useful, if it were not for the fact that the style was so outdated. Still, learning new swords moves was undoubtedly fun. Even if she couldn't tell the swords apart anymore, or even that she could never remember how to hold swords she used a few days ago. "Maybe we should have slowed down on trying new swords, might be a bit fast paced for you." Drake nodded, smiling at her.
"Yeah." She huffed, relieved to finally catch her breath.
"Hey now, don't you go sitting down not, you'll hurt yourself like that." Drake waned, causing Yui to stand up.
"Right." She panted, wiping some sweat from her brow.
"You know, when people say 'stand up', most people say 'hell no!'. You're probably the first to get up that fast." Drake commented, casing Yui to giggle a bit.
"I guess so." She said shrugging. Drake nodded before turning away from her to shuffle through his swords again.
"Ah, here it is- the Rapier!" He smiled, pulling out a nice, thin blade with a magenta handle to it. "Here, we'll just work with this for a while." Drake said, handing it carefully into her hands. "Okay, so you hold it like this-" Drake moved behind Yui, pulled his arms around her, and placed his hands on her's. He shifted her fingers around and placed her right hand in front of her left. "Okay, now you use it lie-"
The door suddenly opened part way and a figure quickly slid into the room, closing the door hurriedly behind them. Yui and Drake watched as the figure stood quietly, listening through the door to hear if anyone was coming. When the cost was cleared, he sighed and turned to them. Hades's eyes immediately met Yui's and he smiled. For some reason she seemed to disappear for a few days and he was getting worried.
However, his smile disappeared the moment he saw Drake with his arms woven around her, chest against her back and head close to her own. Hades blushed for a moment before shaking his head and coming back to reality.
"Hello Drake, Yui-san." Hades greeted, giving them smiled. Drake smiled at him, releasing Yui from his hold. He walked towards Hades and clasped him on the shoulder.
"Haven't seen you around Mr. Almighty." Drake smiled.
"I've been... busy lately." Hades said, smiling towards Yui.
"Well now, you're just in time to watch Yui learn how to use a Rapier." Drake smiled, walking back to Yui. "Okay, this blade you hold upwards all the time and it's a stab and cut sword, so move fast with it." Drake instructed, lightly kicking her feet apart. She tried a few swings, Drake cutting in to grab her wrist and show her the movement with the sword.
Meanwhile, Hades watched in dismay as they moved together. He knew from experience that Drake was an amazing teacher and swordsman, so it was no surprise that those two met and became the best of friends immediately. Still, it left him feeling like the third wheel of the group.
"Hades-san." Yui said, smiling towards the King of the Underworld. "Why don't you try a little?" Hades smiled, ready to accept when Drake pet her on the head.
"Trust me, I've tried to get him to do a bit of swordsmanship- he just isn't interested." Drake sighed, shaking his head. Yui furrowed her brow, looking at Hades before turning back to Drake.
"But Hades-san said he wanted to learn." Yui questioned, causing Drake's petting to stop. He looked at her before turning to Hades. He looked back at Yui before turning to Hades again, a new found smug look on his features.
"Oh did he now?" Drake smirked. "Man, what an amazing outcome this has become. Why ever would he mention this to you and not me first?" Drake said, looking Hades dead on in his eyes. Hades blushed, and felt a lump in his throat.
"Hades-san asked me to show him some things." Yui said, causing Drake's smirk to pull out into an all out 'I know what's going on' smile.
"Gee wizz," He said sarcastically. "What ever could have caused his to ask that out of you?" Drake asked again, looking at Hades as if he was interrogating him.
"Well it was because-"
"I didn't want to learn before, but now I... I do." Hades sighed, looking down at the ground. He couldn't stand that look on Drake's face, especially because Yui had no idea what was going on. The pore purple haired girl was utterly confused, looking back and forth at both of them. She knew she was missing something, but had no idea what it was.
"Well than! You're here now! Let's get started!" Drake said, grabbing Hades' arm and tugging him along, landing him right next to Yui. Hades blushed as their shoulders bumped and pulled away. "Isn't this great, now you two will have sparring partners!" Drake said, smiling at them. Hades glared at the orange haired man. He was just too good at silently making fun of Hades. Of course, to be honest, that WAS one of the reasons he kept him around.
"Don't worry, Hades-san." Yui smiled, turning to him. "I'll go easy on you." Yui said innocently, causing Hades to feel as if someone threw a lead ball at him. Go easy on him. He knew she was being nice, since she was a few good swords woman, but it did kind of sting. And the worst part is- he would still get his butt beat by her.
Hey guys, I've finished another chapter! Sorry if it's not very good, I'm not in much of a writing mood right now. Still, I gave it my best shot, and Drake made it much easier to write!
I'm sorry that this chapter is so short, I'm just out of time right now- I have three quizzes tomorrow and I'm cramming right now :(. But I'm sure I'll be fine~
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