(A few hours later)
Erin: (Jumping up from cushions on the floor) OWW!!
Professor Melody, Deputy of Junior trainers: (Pushing her down) Dear, come down to the floor. Your nose was infected by the Sleeping Draught, so I had to mend you up a bit.
Everyone is waking up now, including Mike, whom, as soon as he stands up, spins around looking for Kayleen.
Mike: (Spinning around) WHERE is she?
Ethan Acomb, magic driver (Leo): (Regretfully) I’m afraid...that she’s still outside.
Mike: WHAT?? (Sits down and cries) Bu..but…
Ethan: Woah, woah, calm down. She’ll be OK, she’s a skilled warrior, she will-no MUST-survive Yellowficient and her army.
Professor Raven, Head of Senior trainors (Professor in a dark, blood-black robe, and with curly hair): In the meantime, YOU MUST BE TRAINED. That’s a possible route to strengthening you up including an ACHIEVEMENT, which might occur in the future; but then again-
Professor Pendante, Deputy (Beautiful Professor in a sky-blue robe dotted with white, and with long brown hair): (Impatiently) No more talk, we must train!
???: Stop arguing, or I’ll have to glue your mouths with cement.
Cora: (Gasping) Professor Everson! What an honor! Professor Doring Everson, Principle (Professor with a long, bushy white beard, and slightly glazed, impressive silver eyes): (Shaking it off) Yes, yes, it is me, and of course, people who have met me for the first time always feel honored. Don’t all of you, students? (Stares at Sussana, Caroline, and Cora) I was rather suspicious of your respect towards me after I discovered that SOME STUDENTS raided a secret candy supply in the school basement!
Caroline: Haha;; Wouldn’t be ME…
Susanna: …
Cora: I only ate a nibble, I promise…
Professor Everson: At any RATE, we should come to the conclusion that the training will officially begin from now. We don’t have the force field now, since it’s being used as a battle ground; we can’t go into the schools Head Training office either, since it’s being used as our spy grounds, we can’t risk blowing cover. So we’ll use this underground tunnel to get into the school secretly, get food and water supplies of such; you’ll help carve the tunnels for strengthening your bodies, and climbing up the pole in front of the cave, and the cave ledges for extra-muscles. ONCE we get our hands on the weapons, we’ll have more sword practice. We DONOT approve of magic in these states, so you’ll have to manage just as well. You must never, ever skip training. Otherwise, you’ll be punished severely.
Erin: What’s the punishment?
Professor Everson: (Looking at her) Being kicked out from our grounds, into The Dark Areas. Also, none of you must publicly persecute anyone, to fill an insecure void caused by social and domestic neglect.
Mike: Meaning?
Professor Everson: None of you should be JEALOUS. Now, chop chop! Half of you go into the mines with Dale, Ethan and Professor Raven, and half of you go with Professor Melody and Professor Pendante to climb the indoor ledges of the cave; we can’t risk losing anyone after going outside.
So we get on the move, Professor Everson returning to his seat in the darkness while talking to an invisible staff (an INVISIBLE STAFF??); we eventually sort it out, with Mark and Savina together AGAIN (both of them weren't at all happy about that), and also Mike, Cora, and Caroline, all off to dig with Ethan. The rest of us, meaning me, Yoonseo, Chris, and Sussana, are fished off to join the climbing with the other Professors.
(Professor Pendante climbs up the ledges to the ceiling)
Professor Pendante: (Swinging up the cave roof) The basics to climbing a cave, is that you must. Keep. Balance. (Jumps down to the floor, while doing airflips) There, now you try! And also, Bella, please give them feedback and tips as they do their climbs.
So we all try to copy Professor Pendante’s awesome movement, but whenever I try, I always fall down to the ground with a tremendous bump. Professor Melody says that I need to keep my “Balance” as Professor Pendante says, but it’s not easy; not at ALL.
Erin: OWWWWWWEEEE!!!!
Chris: Erin! Are you OK?
Erin: Noo!
Professor Melody: Erin, you climb too much with your limbs than with your upper body. You must strengthen your upper, downer, and all the parts in your body through this training.
Professor Pendante: (Blinking furiously) Or otherwise, you’ll 100% be kicked out to the mouth of the Villain’s headquarters.
Professor Melody: (Shaking her head) Oh, Amelia, don’t be too harsh on them. They might-though not must-make the bright future of our Kingdom, if we train them with more patience.
Professor Pendante: (Grumbling) WhatEVER. Oh no, Chris, you’re even worse than Erin, now you’re climbing with your head than your legs…
I decide to go ahead and like Professor Melody, who seems kind and respected enough. While I try using my “undiscovered” upper body strength to climb the ledges, I glance at Sussana. She’s REALLY good at climbing the wall, going up, down, and up again. She would have been a sort of hero if she was in the force field-it was unfortunate for her that our plane crashed into her and her nice friend’s school, and it made me feel quite upset when I thought of Yellowficient and her Army using HER grounds and HER dorm as man-killing areas.
Erin: (Guiltily shuffling) Heyy, Sussana…
Sussana: (Looking up) (Jumping down from her climb) Yup?
Erin: I just want to tell you that...I’m sorry. I think that I should be blamed for crashing us into this land, though I had been a passenger on the plane.
Sussana: Na, it’s no biggie. (A huge missile explodes half the pole outside) Umm, yeah, it IS a biggie, but um...I think you should be more worried about your friends out on the battle grounds than us. We have made ourselves home to training over the years, but your friends have only done it temporarily…
Sussana’s word reminds me of Bera and Yuria and Mina who are out on the battlefield. A dark cloud seems to cover my mind as I think of Iro, who has no experience of a Mentor, neither of getting out of that rusty, 1980’s plane of his. I realize that I have grown to love my friends very much-through such a short time, I think, everything is WAAAY too serious over here.
Suddenly, as we’re climbing the wall, the cave’s inner entrance bursts open, and in stumbles the unrecognizable bloody forms of my friends; they’re all in a horrible state, hairs drenched with red, and they seem to have lost all their weapons. As soon as they come in, whipped by a red-haired Professor wearing a midnight-blue cape, Bera faints on the floor, and Yuria stumps down, affected by the Sleeping fumes; there’s a noise of someone throwing up behind the door labeled “Medicine Room”, and I suspect it’s Mina or Iro.
Yuria: The Minions made a counter attack...the vicious half-bloods...I know the time when their tribes once used the Public Toilet in the Mortal’s world because their bathrooms were in such HORRIBLE situations...remembered that I made a mocking story about it…
Mina: (Gurgles up blood as she comes out of the Medicine Room) I...am...OFFICIALLY...si-oop! (Runs back to the Medicine Room)
After Mina finishes up her basket, we gather everyone together. I forget all about the training, as we feed the ill and look around for missing people. My job is to count my friends; but however many times I count, there’s only Agni, Kayleen, Dale, Yuria, Mina, and Bera.
Erin: (Urgently) One’s missing!
We all come silent, for suddenly Agni starts croaking some strange noises.
Agni: We all fought bravely, like REAL soldiers. Every. Single. One of us. But as we were about to win, Yellowficient suddenly said some strange, magic words and then-and then-(Gulps loudly) then a huge mist appeared, with a large monster with the largest red eyes in the world; it suddenly lunged a..and took one of us with it, and disappeared completely.
My heart fills with dread; the gloomy silence continues, and my heart pounds loudly...Could it be? Could that person...that person be…
Yuria: (Shouting) Iro is GONE!
Hey! Do you remember me🤩
Nice story as always☆☆☆☆☆