Yay! It's one of my longer chapters. The camping trip sucked, but luckily I had nothing better to do then figure out what I wanted to wite. I tried to add a little bit more Chalek stuff in this. Thank you so much for all the reviews! J Please keep reviewing. (I sadly do not own the Nine Lives of Chloe King.)

"History lessons?" I asked bitterly, four hours later. "That couldn't have waited a few hours?" When Alek said we were going to be training, I didn't think it would be history lessons.

"Hey, it's important to learn the history." He said as I was lying down on the couch. Valentina still hasn't returned from wherever she went last night. Alek and Jasmine didn't know where she went, or when she would be back. Luckily, before she left, she told Alek and Jasmine that it was safe for me to sleep at my own house.

"Yeah, I'm sure that you loved learning it." I scoffed.

"It's not that bad." Alek said right before his phone buzzed. "That was Jasmine. She should be back with the pizzas in around ten." Well that was quick. She had only left around twenty minutes ago. I thought it was going to take longer. "How's your leg?" Alek asked abruptly.

"It's fine. All healed." It was healed, but from walking on it, it started to get a little stiff. It wasn't like it was hurting at all, but I guess a little stiffness is what you get when a crazed assassin decides to thrown ninja stars at your leg.

"It's fully healed?" Alek asked as he moved towards the end of the couch with my feet. He started to roll up the end of my jeans on my left leg until he could see where I was hit. His finger lightly traced the outlining of the very faint scars, trailing up and down, making my heart beat faster and my cheeks seemed to warm just a little. "That healed fast." He murmured.

"Yeah, lucky Mai perk." I said, hoping that he hadn't noticed the faster heartbeat.

"Doesn't hurt at all? No pain or stiffness?" I took a deep breath, trying not to think about how his fingers were still lightly tracing my calf.

"No, it's fine." I lied. Before he could say anything else, Jasmine came through the front door.

"Hey guys. Pizzas here." Oh Thank Basset.

A few hours later, I found myself lying on the floor in my own room with Jasmine and Amy. "Sorry we had to cram a four hour history lesson in today." Jasmine apologized as she looked up from her history homework. We've already been doing homework for an hour, but we've still haven't finished.

"It's fine. I understand why it's important to know. Even if it's boring." I said. Although, I did end up learning a few weird/ cool things that Paul would probably love to know. It wasn't too bad of a training session. It sure beats having sticks and other weapons whacked towards my head.

"Does anybody remember the year Columbus discovered America? Seriously, when are we ever going to need to know this in real life?" Amy asked.

"I think it was fourteen ninety two." Jasmine answered immediately. It was surprising how she managed to always be way to busy with protecting and other Mai stuff, but still manage to do better in school then me.

"Thanks," Amy said as she wrote down the answer. "You made Chloe sit through four hours of history?"

"It wasn't me, it was actually Alek. I didn't even know about it until I walked in on it when they were finishing."

"Alek spent four hours focused on history? That's a shocker." Amy laughed.

"Yeah, it was pretty surprising. No joking, no getting side tracked the whole time. It was awfully boring." Well, at least until the end.

"Alek stayed on topic for four straight hours without joking? Now that is something that I can't believe until I see it." Amy said as she was putting away her history homework, and getting out some different homework.

"It didn't look like he was teaching history when I walked in." Jasmine pointed out. "You were lying down on the couch, not learning."

"Oh, that," I said, feeling my cheeks warm. "He was just checking to see how my foot was healing."

"Speaking of your foot, how is it doing?" Jasmine asked. "Is it good enough for you to get in some fight training tonight? My mom thinks we need to step up training." I nearly groaned out loud. First I had a four hour history lesson, and now I have to train more? Wasn't Sunday was suppose to be my day off?

"There's no escaping this, is there?"

"Nope, Alek already asked about your foot and you said it was fine. He'll be here in an hour." I glanced at the clock and saw that it was already nine at night. I didn't realize that it was already so late. I guess between doing homework with Amy (who can not concentrate for more than ten minutes) and just hanging out, the time has gone by quickly.

Wait, if it was already nine, and Alek was going to show at ten for the training, that means that it's another extreme late night for me. I'll be lucky to get to bed before one in the morning.

"Knock knock." I heard Alek say an hour later as he climbs through the window. "Ready to go Chloe?"

"You know we have school tomorrow."

"Yeah, so?" Alek asked as he sat down on my bed without asking.

"This means that we're going have to get up early tomorrow. We'll be lucky to get five hours of sleep if we train tonight." I was a big believer in always getting eight hours of sleep, but with night training, it didn't happen very often.

"Better a tired Uniter, than a dead one." Yep, no way in getting out of training. As we were climbing out the window, I glanced back and saw that Jasmine wasn't following us.

"You're not coming?" I asked her. I could hear Alek behind me, waiting impatiently. Jasmine shook her head before answering.

"I have a huge pre-calc test tomorrow, I really need to study." When I got up on the roof, I saw that Alek was carrying a huge black duffle bag.

"Weapons?" I groaned.

"Come on, let's get to the clearing." About two minutes of running and we arrived. "Tonight's lesson is on how to use this." He said as he tossed a huge pole towards me. I caught it easily and started to swirl it around on my fingers.

"When am I ever going to battle someone with both of us using sticks rather than I don't know, knifes and claws?" I asked sourly.

"Best be prepared for everything and anything." And before I could react, he swung. It only took him a few minutes before he managed to knock me down.

"You can do better than that." Alek said, holding out a hand to help me out. We kept at it for a long time, and I never managed to knock down Alek. I was lucky if I hit him at all.

About an hour later, after getting knocked down, I just stayed lying down. "Come on, get up." He held out a hand to help me up again but I didn't reach for it.

"Haven't I gotten whacked around enough for one night?"

He leaned down, grabbed me hands and pulled me to my feet while saying, "We still have at least an hour before we call it quits." I groaned but picked up the staff; at least Alek was being careful to not hit hard.

"You know what your doing wrong?" Alek asked. "You're not giving into your instincts. You're thinking too much about your move before you do it."

"And apparently you're still not." He said, not twenty seconds later when I was back on the ground. I got up and prepared to be whacked again. Without explaining what he was doing, he walked over to the bag, grabbed a blindfold, and tied it so I couldn't see anything.

"I couldn't even block your hits when I could see; I don't think I'm going to be able to do any better when I'm blindfolded."

"I'm not going to hit you." Alek said to my left. I quickly spun around, trying to follow his voice. Without any warning at all I felt someone come from behind me and grab me around the neck and stomach.

I didn't think before I rammed my elbow into the person's stomach. The arm around my neck and waist was quickly released. The person gasped in pain and I used the opportunity to grab their arm and flung the person to the ground.

"Nice one." I heard Alek say. I quickly yanked off the blindfold and saw that I had just flipped Alek onto the ground.

"I am so sorry."

"Don't be. You were good. You reacted without thinking. That's exactly what you need to do for the staffs." When we tried again, it took Alek a lot longer before knocking me to the ground.

Around an hour later, when Alek knocked me down (again) I somehow managed to knock him down a second later, causing him to fall right on top of me. He was able to put out his arms at the last minute to catch himself, one on each side of me. "Better." He approved breathlessly.

He didn't move off of me right away. I could feel my heart pounding from the workout, and he could probably too, considering how he was only a few inches away. His face was less than a foot away, I could see the beads of sweat on his forehead. It looked like he was in deep thought about something, but he shook his head and started to get up. "You still have a lot to do, but I think we're okay for the night." Alek handed me a water bottle when we sat down on the bench.

After taking a long gulp of water, I heard my cell phone buzz. Alek leaned into the bag for the phone and passed it to me, but not before he saw the screen.

"The human texts you at twelve thirty at night?" He asked bitterly.

"His name is Brian." You're probably not up right now. Is it possible to reschedule our reschedule? My dad is hosing business guests tomorrow night, and apparently I need to be there.

"When are you going to come to your senses and stop this ridiculous flirtation with that human?"

"Not that it's truly any of your business, but we're just friends." Angrily he got up and hastily packed the staffs back into the bag.

"Ready to leave?" He asked, but didn't bother to wait for an answer. I had to sprint to catch up with him, and then we were in front of my house.

"Please tell me I'm going to be alone tonight." I asked him when we got back into the room. Glancing at the clock, I saw that it was already one thirty in the morning. I was so not getting enough sleep tonight. Luckily, my mother had to do something for work, and wasn't going to be home for a few days, meaning I didn't have to worry about her hearing my nightmares.

Alek and Jasmine on the other hand, would be there to hear me if I started screaming in the middle of the night. And considering how I've already managed to wake Alek up, I really didn't want to bother him again.

"I'm staying the whole night." That's just horrible.

"It's really not necessary for-"

"I'm staying." Something about his angry tone made it clear that he wasn't going anywhere, despite my protests.

"Fine," I muttered. "I clearly have no say in this." I stomped into my room and went to bed hoping that I wasn't going to have a nightmare, but of course I woke up screaming.

Can anyone guess what episode inspired the last bit for the training?