Chapter 8: The boring training arc
Chapter 8
Thursday December 18, 2012
7:10 am
(Ivan's POV)
I'm not gonna lie, when I spent the night in Dominque's place, I felt safe. He gave me pizza and he let me sleep on the couch! When I left for the school he told me to come back to the apartment, so he can teach how to fight. I wonder what's he going to teach me. By the he fights I'm going to guess that it's something related to punching hard. When I reach the school entrance, I hear one of the voices I rather not hear today. I look to the side and I see one of the professional school bullies heading my way. Shit I rather not deal with them right now. Once he gets near me, he starts to sniff the area around me.
"Oh wow, you finally don't smell like shit! Good job you took a shower." I wish people would stop bringing up the fact I smelt bad. He tries to tower over me, which isn't very hard for him. I look up at him and I see him start to clench his hand. Before I can react, he punches me hard in the cheek. Usually I would fall to the ground, but this time I was able to still be on my feet and block the pain. When he sees that I'm still on my feet he brings his foot up to kick me. Is it me or did he get slower? Now that I realize it, I have been getting into a lot of fights lately, maybe that's why it feels like he's slower now. I doge his kick and I hit him in the stomach. When my punch connects, he hunches forward. I use this opportunity to hit him in the jaw. The moment I hit him in the jaw he fell down.
I look down at him and I felt a sick wave of pleasure as I saw him on the ground. Holy shit that felt good. I think about kicking him while he is down, before I can even deicide a group surrounds us. I decide to go against it since I don't want anyone to tell the teacher. I quickly run through the crowd and I somehow find myself in the bathrooms. I think about what I just did and decide to try not to fight any more people that don't have powers. What's the worst thing that can happen? Its not like anyone would want to bully me anymore now that they have seen that I can fight now, right?
3:25 pm
Remember what I said about people not trying to bully me anymore? Well I was very wrong. I was making my way to Dominque's place and some people decided they wanted to fight me me. At first, I tried to talk my way out of getting in a fight. That didn't work, so I tried look for a way out. Guess what, there was no way out. I saw the person I fought this morning rush towards me. When I tried to doge one of his friends caught me by the arm. I was jerked back, and I ran right into someone's chest. By the time they were done I immediately took back my promise to not fight anyone with powers. When they were done,I waited until they were gone so I could drink a Health potion. When I started to walk again, I saw Dominique's car across the street. When I looked into the car, I saw Dominque recording everything with his phone. I started to walk towards his car. When I got to his window, he rolled down his window. I glare at him and say, "Why didn't you help me?"
"I honestly thought you were going to win that fight." I let out a sigh. What part of that made him think I would win?
"So, when I was on the ground did that look like I was going to win?"
"I thought you were going to use your powers." I let out a sigh and I start to walk towards the passenger seat. When I got in, he looked at me and he turned around and started to look for something in the back of the car.
"Why didn't you use your powers?"
"I didn't want to hurt them too much." When I said this, he let out a hmm. He turned around he turned his body to look at me and he gave me a box.
"Open it and put on the clothes." I open the box and I look inside. When I looked inside, I saw a vest and some weird looking things that had some lumps and some velcro that warps around to connect with each other. I try to lift the vest, but I knew I couldn't with my current strength. I gave up then I tried again. This time I was able to put it on and I notice that it felt like I was carrying fifty-pound weights. I look at him and ask, "Why is this so heavy?"
"Because it's training weights. Now put on the other weights." I look into the box again and notice that they were ankle and wrist training weights. Fuck I really don't want to do this. I put on the weights and Dominique turns on the car and starts driving.
"Right now, we're not going to the apartment, instead we're going to a gym." I look at the weights I'm wearing, and I could tell that I couldn't do much wearing these.
"How Am' I going to move with the weights, I'm pretty sure I can't even move with these."
"You're just going to have to get used to it." How. I'm not going to get used to it in the next minute. Knowing that it was useless to argue against it I choose to be quiet through out the short drive. When we get there, I see that there were some buff men walking out. By the looks of it looks like they were fighting. I look at Dominque and he just ignores me. We get out of the car and we walk into the building.
When we got inside, I notice that no one was there, it just felt empty. Inside the building there was a boxing ring in the center, on the left side there was some punching bags, and on the right side there was were all the training equipment was stored. I quickly realize that this was a boxing gym. I see Dominique walk over to a bag in the corner. He opens it and he pulls out some boxing gloves.
"Hey, put this on." He tosses me the boxing gloves and I put them on. I make my way towards the ring. When he gets in, he pulls out his phone. He taps his phone a few times before he shows me what was on his phone. When I look at his phone, I saw it as me getting jumped earlier today. When the video finishes, he rewinds it to the part where I got grabbed by the arm. He pauses it and he points to the screen.
"Right here I could tell that you panicked a bit. If you punched him, or if you used the momentum of you getting pulled back to your advantage you might have gotten away." He puts his phone away and he starts to get into a fighting position. "Right now I think we have to work on your speed for right now." Before I can respond he aims his fist so that it hits my cheek. I try to doge it, but my ankle weights were preventing me from moving. His punch connects and I feel myself being knocked off my feet.
Before I reached the ground, I was able catch myself with my arms. I quickly get back on my feet. I see Dominique standing still. I look at his stance and I try to copy it. This feels so awkward, how can anyone even fight like this? I was only able to keep my arms raised for a few seconds before I felt my arms getting tired from the weights. I wait for him to move, but he I could tell that he was waiting for me to come to him. I give up trying to copy his stance and I start to run towards him. I see out of the corner of my eye that he was starting to raise his fist. I stop myself and he starts to stretch his hand towards me. Shit I forgot about his reach.
When his fist was about to hit me, I turned my body and I forced my legs to move. When I was about to reach him, he suddenly pushes me back with his other fist that was at his side. When I was pushed back, he used his other fist to hit me above the eye. I was knocked to the side, but thankfully I wasn't knocked to the floor. I moved back and I found myself not being able to move at all. He noticed this and he backed up a little. Holy shit I didn't expect these weights to tire me out so quickly. I look at my Stamina bar and see that it was about one-fifth yellow. Shit I want to take these weights off. After I looked at my stamina bar, I noticed that my breathing was hard and I my legs felt like they were hit with a hammer. A few moments passed between us before two boxes appeared. This better be important.
Thanks to you dodging and you wearing weights your Dex and Str increased
+2 to Dex
+4 to Str
Damn these weights are helping a lot. I didn't expect it to increase my strength by that much. Alright what's the next one.
Thanks to a specific action you made a new skill
Lvl 1 (9%) Boxing- You can box, but you can barely do it. Even a person with no arms can box better than you. Damage- 3
I can't be that bad at it. My thoughts were interrupted when Dominique called out to me. "Did I hit you to hard? You look like you were spacing out."
"No, I feel fine."
"Okay, but just tell me when you feel like taking a break." I nod my head and I get into the boxing stance. Before I can even move, I feel my whole-body sting. Shit this is going to be a long night.
5:41 pm
"I want to take break!" Even though I was starting to get used to the weights I wanted to stop. I drop to the ground and I try to take off my weights, but before I could Dominique told me to stop and to just keep them on. I sighed and just laid down on my back. Dominique comes over to me and he tells me to get up because we're leaving. We get outside I take out my hoodie. Why does Chicago have to be like this? Why couldn't I live somewhere hot, like in California or Florida? I turn around to see what was keeping Dominique from coming to the car. When I looked at him, I saw that he was looking for some keys on a keychain. I guess he owns this place then. When he was finally able to lock the front door, we get into the car.
Halfway through the drive I realize that we were not going back to his apartment. "We are we going?" With out even looking at me he says," Somewhere were people won't people see us." That doesn't tell me anything at all. A few minutes later we the car stops.
The place where we were at was under the highway, it was spacious, and it had no other roads near it. "What are we going to do here?"
"We're going to work on your powers." He pulls out his keys and opens the trunk of the car. He pulls out five boxes and about fifty boxes. Why does he need so much boxes? He sets the boxes down far from the car and he sets one bottle on each box. He sets the extra bottles back in the trunk, but he still keeps the trunk open. What the hell are we going to do? He comes over to me and he takes out his phone.
"I thought we were going to work on my powers. How is that going to help?" When I said this I pointed at the boxes. When I finally realized that we were going to work on my ability to control the wind I felt like an idiot. "Are we going to work on my aim with the wind?"
"No I'm going to show you video with another demigod fighting. Look carefully and see how he uses his powers." Another Demigod? Well I guess gods are going to have kids eventually. It's still weird thinking about how some people come from gods though. I wonder which god is the kids' parent. Dominique show's me his phone and I wonder what this other demigod can do.
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