Have you ever noticed that in The Lord of the Rings they never tell you what happened to Frodo in Cirith Ungol? They don't say in the books or the movies, and there are also multiple stories on this website about what COULD have happened, but I'd like to know what actually happened. Who's with me?

Just a thought, since this is an MFB fanfiction and not an LOTR fanfiction.

Anyway, here's chapter 5: Training Time. Enjoy! This will be a kind of long chapter, just to warn you.

Luna: Gryffyn does not own MFB or it's characters. She only owns me, Taki, Ellie, and Cherry, along with two others that appear in this chapter.

When the boys entered their dorms, they found four beds they could claim. There were also clothes neatly folded on the beds with a sticky note that said: Training Clothes.

The training clothes turned out to be a light grey sleeveless shirt and light grey sweatpants.

On a bulletin board near the door, there was a schedule pinned to it that read:

Wake time: 6:00 am

Breakfast: 7:00 am

Physical training: 7:30 - 11:45 am

Lunch: 12:00 am

Break time: 1:00 - 1:40 pm

Physical training: 1: 45 - 5:45 pm

Dinner: 6:00 pm

Break time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm

Return to dorms by 8:30

Lights out 9:00 pm

"Have you seen how long training goes to?" Gingka exclaimed. "Four hours and fifteen minutes in the morning, then four more hours in the afternoon!"

Meanwhile, Madoka and Hikaru were exploring their dorm while Taki and Ellie sat on their own beds and watched.

Madoka asked Taki why their training sessions would be four hours long.

"We don't know," Taki said truthfully. "But we think it's so we can mature a little faster than usual."

"But since the guy who founded the TSA died in 1985, we don't really know for sure," Ellie pointed out.

Suddenly, a siren rang out and a red lightbulb on the wall of their dorm started flashing. Madoka and Hikaru jumped and frantically looked around, but Taki and Ellie just laughed at their expressions.

"That's the dinner bell, you two," Ellie said, still giggling as she walked out the door. "You guys have got a lot to learn about this place."

The Next Day

Everyone was woken up from sleeping by a bell that sounded like a ridiculously loud rooster when it rang.

Yuki shot up and groped for his glasses, Kenta shouted out, Gingka fell out of his bed onto the floor, and Tsubasa covered his ears thinking, "Man, that's loud!"

On a table in one corner of their dorm, they saw that a dumbwaiter nearby had their breakfast on a platter, along with a note that said, "Training Room 305 on sixth floor." which they guessed was where they were going to do their training sessions.

After they ate, they dressed in their training clothes and headed down to the training room. When they got there, they saw that they were the first ones out of the group there, except for a twin boy and girl arguing over something to their left.

The boy and girl both had green hair and bright green eyes, and were dressed in grey training clothes like they were. The boy's clothes were just like theirs, but the girl had a darker grey tank top and grey yoga pants with her hair in a ponytail. Their eyes looked like they were used to being bright and cheerful, but currently they were hardened as they both argued. The boys walked over to see what they were arguing about.

"... all I'm saying," the boy was saying to the girl, "is that Aragorn is the better sword- fighter!"

"No," his sister retorted. "Eowyn's better! And may I remind you, where was Aragorn when Eowyn killed the Witchking?"

"She got help from Merry, it didn't matter that Aragorn wasn't there," the brother insisted. "He's still the better fighter!"

"No, Eowyn!"

"Aragorn!"

"Eowyn!"

"Aragorn!"

"Eowyn!"

"Aragorn! Come on, Ava," the boy said. "Just admit it: Aragorn is better!"

"No, he's not!"

"Yes, he is!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

The boys heard a sigh behind them, and turned around. Luna was standing behind them, staring at the brother and sister in exasperation. She had taken off her black jacket, but had changed her shirt into a black v-neck with a picture of blood dripping off white fangs.

She walked over to the two, who now looked like they wanted to kill each other, put her hands on their faces, and pushed them back.

"Break it up!" she said. "It doesn't matter who's the better fighter, you guys! So just shut up and wait for the others to come!"

She walked away from them back to the boys, told them to keep the two from arguing, and left the room.

The brother and sister glared at each other for a moment, then relaxed. They turned to the boys, who were staring at them, and both said, "What?" in irritation.

The boy caught on, and said, "Ooh!"

"What?" the girl asked.

"They're wondering why we were arguing," he informed her.

"Oh. Well," the girl said to the boys, "we were arguing about who the better sword- fighter was in The Lord of the Rings; Aragorn, or Eowyn."

"But it looks like we'll never get to an agreement," the boy continued. "So we'll just take Luna's advice and..."

"...drop the argument," the girl finished. "Hey, Eli, we haven't introduced ourselves yet."

"Oh, right. Well, my name's Elijah Jackson, or Eli..."

"...and mine's Avalyn Jackson, but I prefer to be called Ava. Eli and I are from..."

"... New Zealand," Eli finished. "So, is this place cool..."

"... or what?"

The boys nodded, and Gingka asked, "How come you guys continue each other's sentences? You know, Ava starts a sentence and Elijah finishes it. Why do you do that?"

"We were born that way!" they said together, also in annoyance.

"People always ask us why we do that..." Ava started.

"... and we're getting sick of it," Elijah finished, complaining.

The door opened again, and they heard Taki say, "We're here! Where's Benkei and Kyoya?"

They all turned around as Madoka, Hikaru, Taki, and Ellie walked in. Madoka and Hikaru were wearing the same training clothes as Ava, but Taki and Ellie had their regular clothes on like Luna had.

"So, you guys met Ava and Eli, huh?" Taki asked them. "Good."

Ellie looked at a pink watch. "Since Kyoya and Benkei aren't here yet, we're going to have to start training without them."

The boys turned, actually seeing the training room.

It was a big, with a track painted on the floor that ran around the room, with a group of punching bags and dummies in one corner and a section in another corner with it's borders marked with white paint and had a blue mat on the floor.

"Hey, Ava and Eli," Taki said to them. "You guys might want to move."

When they had moved over closer to them, Taki pressed a green button on the wall.

Instantly, parts of the wall, floor, and ceiling opened up. When the part of the wall opened, a rock climbing wall slid out, then turned it's position to block their way on the track. The part of the floor opened to reveal a four-feet-deep, five-yards-long swimming pool. And the part of the ceiling opened up, allowing nine-feet-long monkey bars to lower themselves until they were close enough to the ground to grab if you jumped.

When everything had locked into place, Taki and Ellie gave them their instructions.

"You guys are going to do an obstacle course, as you can see," Taki said, gesturing the everything that had appeared. "You have to run down ten feet of the track, climb over the rock wall, run another ten feet, swim across to the other side, run five feet to the monkey bars, climb across, run another ten feet, and you're done."

"But here's the challenge," Ellie continued. "By the end of the week, you have to be able to do everything in five minutes or less. If you can't, you have to keep doing the obstacle course until you can. If it takes you longer than that week to do it, you're sent home."

"Five minutes?!" Gingka said incredulously. Ava and Eli looked at each other nervously, while the others just looked shocked.

Suddenly, the door opened and Kyoya and Benkei walked in.

"What did we miss?" Benkei asked.

"You guys are late," Taki said to them. "That's not a very good way to start your training."

"If you continue to be late for the next week," Ellie informed them, "we'll have to report to the assistant director and he'll send you guys home."

Ellie privately thought that if they did leave, the agency would be better off without them.

Kyoya muttered, "Whatever," and moved to stand by Ava and Eli. They immediately moved away from him.

"So what are the mats and punching bags for?" Madoka asked.

"The mat under the monkey bars is for if you lose your grip," Taki informed her.

"The punching bags are so you can be ready to kick the bad guy's thugs," Ellie said.

"But the mat over there," Taki pointed to the marked off area, "is so you can spar us without getting a back injury.

"That just about concludes your training. Any questions?"

"We have to spar you guys?" Kenta asked fearfully.

"Yep. Either until you beat us or we think you're ready enough," Taki replied.

Gingka raised a hand, making Ava and Eli snicker behind his back. He asked, "What if we can't swim?"

Ava and Eli snickered harder, because it was pretty funny that Gingka Hagane couldn't swim.

"If you can't swim," Ellie said, sounding like she was trying to be sympathetic and trying not to laugh, "then it sucks to be you, 'cause that makes the obstacle course harder. You'll just have to learn as you go."

"Won't our clothes just add to our weight in the water?" Yuki asked.

"They used to, back in the 60s when this place first came around," Taki said, nodding at Yuki's question. "But courtesy of our scientists and recent technology, they made a type of fabric that won't add a lot of weight like normal clothes will. The clothes you guys have on right now are made of that material with some modifications so that it doesn't add close to any weight at all. You can thank Cherry for that."

"Now then, if there aren't anymore questions," Taki continued, "Luna will now demonstrate the course for you."

Everyone looked around, then whirled around when they heard Benkei shout out. It turned out to be Luna that made him shout by tapping him on the shoulder.

She walked over to the start of the track, and stood there. Madoka noticed that she had taken off her combat boots, leaving black socks visible.

Then, Luna took a deep breath, said aloud, "Observe," and began running at lightning speed down the track.

('I'm Me' from Phineas and Ferb is supposed to be playing here.)

When Luna reached the rock wall, she climbed up at a slower pace, then did a front-flip off the wall when she reached the top. She rolled to the ground a few feet away from the pool, ran at it, then jumped in. She swam the five yards of the swimming pool, clambered out, then continued running. Water flew off her clothes as she ran, and surprisingly, none of her black makeup had washed off.

Climbing the monkey bars seemed to be second-nature for Luna, as she climbed them very fast, then she dropped off the monkey bars, ran some more, and skidded to a stop at the end of the track.

Everyone stared at her in shock as she calmly squeezed water out of her hair and asked Taki and Ellie, "How long was that?"

They turned to see Taki and Ellie looking at their watches.

"Four minutes and thirty seconds," Ellie reported. "You beat your record."

Benkei pretty much summer up everyone's thoughts by saying, "AWESOME!"

In the assistant director's office

The assistant director looked up from his paperwork at the noise.

"Luna's probably demonstrated the obstacle course," he supposed.

Back in the training room

As Luna left, Ellie clapped her hands together, and said to the group a bit to enthusiastically,

"Okay! Let's get started."

The obstacle course proved to be harder than it looked, especially after Luna demonstrated it with no trouble at all.

Gingka annoyed Taki until she was this close to shoving him into the pool with all his chattering. Yuki himself fell in twice, and Kenta almost drowned if Ellie hadn't rescued him at the last minute. Tsubasa held up the best out of all of them, but he wasn't even close to running through the whole course in under five minutes. Hikaru and Madoka worked together, but they lost their gripping on the bars multiple times.

Ava and Eli were also working together, but Eli fell off the rock wall the second time they tried the course. Ava, who was already in the swimming pool by then, laughed at him until Eli dunked her into the water. Luna had to pull them out before they could hurt each other.

To make a long story short, by the end of the day, they were all wet, sore, and had callouses from the climbing wall, and in the case of Eli, a black eye where Ava had hit him with her foot.

Taki, Ellie, and Luna sighed as the trainees stumbled out of the training room. Ellie was still damp after saving Kenta, and Taki had been imagining duct tape over Gingka's mouth for the past hour. What killed the two of them was that Luna didn't have so much as a scrape.

Ellie pretty much summed up their thoughts by saying, "We've got a looooooooong way to go."

A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed!