"Eddward, are you sure about this school? It looks odd." dearest mother asked.
"I'm sure mother, I looked online and this seems like a logical choice." I said while sliding my fingers across the bandage across my face. I slowly walked into the doors of the school and saw many adults smashing into each other as they were on the ground grappling and putting each other in chokeholds.
The ones in the chokeholds were quickly escaping and pinning the ones that put them into chokeholds.
"You must be young Vincent, it is nice to see you." a rugged looking adult walked up to me and offered his hand for a handshake.
"Hello kind sir, this sure seems like a logical choice in protecting my well being." I said with an uneasy smile.
The instructor chuckled as he placed his hand on my shoulder.
"So you two must be Eddward's parents." He walked past me and offered his hand to my parents in a polite gesture.
Over the weeks I tried to endure the training and the exercises but after the first thirty minutes of working out I would usually throw up. Each day and each class I started to gain composure to the training regenmend.
During each of the warm ups I noticed I went longer without throwing up as my endurance started to increase, the instructors were nice but tough as I would quickly be face planted on the floor.
"Ouch" I cried out while one of the older students put my arm into an armbar but quickly I got out of it and locked his head in my arms. I let go of him while he tapped out.
"Damn Edd you got some killer moves." He said while managing his golden hair. I smiled while taking a breather.
"Thanks Koz." I mentioned to him hitting my arm.
"No problem man. Just tell me about that blue haired vixen again." He started to laugh while I blushed.
"Screw you tremendously overzealous dick. I should've never told you about her." I yelled before we started punching each other with our training mma gloves on.
We were laughing while we dodged each other's strikes. It was some sort of ballet if the words were right.
But it was how I was learning, treating this like some sort of assignment and changing my mental competency.
'If I go back to that hell with everyone hating me, I need this practice. I am no one's stomping bag anymore.' I thought while deflecting one of Koz's punches and delivering a shocking counter punch. He suddenly fell to the ground laughing while his nose was bloody. 'Damn it, hopefully I didn't break his nose and cause him brain damage. Damn what am I thinking? He is Koz and he already has brain damage.' I chuckled to myself while he got up.
"I owe you dude." he commented before the timer ran out.
"Ok students class if done for now, great work." the instructor said before grabbing his gear from the ground.
Five years later
"Damn dude, you're going back?" Koz asked and I nodded.
"Seems like it dude but don't worry if they treat me like who I once was then there will be trouble." I joked before I felt someone slap me from behind my head.
"Vincent, don't joke like that. Remember my rules." Mr Dawson commanded.
"Fight only when you need to, never as a first result." I said silently but loud enough for him to hear.
"You're forgetting the last one. Survive." He said while smiling.
I nodded and sighed before getting in my parents car.
Present-
"Is he awake yet?" I heard someone ask.
"It seems like he is starting to." someone else commented.
I opened my eyes to see Eddy standing over me with a grin.
"Welcome back to the land of the living." he said before laughing.
I was starting to remember what happened. I was out on a patrol with a few of the trainees and then everything went black.
"What happened? I asked.
"You got ambushed by the fangs. And their queen." Koz said dryly.
"Marie did this to me?" I asked and they nodded.
"Seems like she had some major bruises on her and signs." Eddy stopped before continuing. "Seems like, how do I say this? She was abused by Luke infront of his men. Then beaten. One of our informants told us after the fact that she ambushed you."