Is around 7am and Hermes and Robin are about to get warmed up before starting the harsh training. Moments after finishing his daily training routine, Robin made him do laps around the whole place until she told him to stop while she sat there napping. About 5 hours went by and Tina knocked on the door to the training ground and yelled foods ready... *crap i fell sleep* Robin thinks nervously... "Okay Hermes that's enough" she yells at him because he was on the other side, however he didn't respond...
"Hermes!!" she says and he slowly looked at her with dead eyes. "that's it you can stop running." and he smiles when he saw grandma Tina had food and heard those words come out of Robin's mouth.
He put one thumb up and layed against the wall with both arms behind his head while breathing hard. Then Robin yells, "Just because I said you can stop running, It doesn't mean is time for a break we're just getting started."
He jogs back over there and said while trying not to breath hard, "who said I was tired? *pant* that wasn't even enough for a warm up..."
"Hehehe, that's more like it." Robin replies and hands him water and Tina placed a big pot full of food for them and Hermes stomach starts growling. He hasn't eaten anything all day. "Thank you for the food grandma Tina." Robin said and Tina replied, "No problem honey hope you guys like it, I made a lot since we have a growing boy visiting... good luck with the training sunny hope Robin isn't being too harsh on you." Hermes smiles, nods and thanks her for the food.
"Alright, I know how hungry you must be after running for so long. So after you complete this next part you can have all the food you want but until then you can't have any water, or food. Understood?" Robin says and Hermes nods and says, "Osu"
"Good and since i'm feeling nice after my nap I'm going to make it easy for you... I remember you being confident in your speed so all you have to do is beat grandma Tina in a game of tag."
"haha what?"
"Is simple really, first she'll be it* and she'll try to tag you within a time limit, if you manage to outrun her and not get tagged until the time finishes then you win and get to eat all you want. However, if she tags you, then it'll be your turn to tag her and then once you do you win." Robin explained.
Hermes looks at Tina and thinks *she's definitely quick but on a stamina level I definitelyhave the upper hand. "let's do this I'm dying of hunger" Hermes says.
"haha is been a while since i ran, please go easy on me sunny" Tina says while she puts her hands behind her back.
Robin made them stand about 4 yards from each other, "Tina your time is 30 seconds to try and tag him." she nods while smiling and Hermes thought *this doesn't feel right*.
Robin smirks, "Okay, three, two, one... GO"
Right as Robin finished saying one, Hermes had already started moving, he was planning to run about 75% of how fast he could go because instinctively he couldn't go all out against an opponent he didn't fully acknowledge.
Mistake!
He realized that right about .2 seconds after Robin said go, Tina's arm was 4 inches within reach of him and instinctively he knew that if he took off running she was going to tag him. The quickest way to avoid the tag was to plant his feet and dodge to the side..
After he dodged, Tina side stepped and put her fingers together and stabbed at Hermes with them with full force. Naturally Hermes would stop this and counter but if he gets touched he loses, so he awkwardly avoids it in time, however she repeatedly threw a couple of stabs at him with both arms without letting him catch a break and he avoided some of them by swerving at the last moment.
*she could've been tagged me* he thinks.
By using his own momentum he jump backwards to gain distance and try to catch his breath a little bit. *Just like I thought... there was something up with this... she's faster then I thought* then he smirks and relaxes, Robin stops the watch with 10 seconds left... Tina popped behind him and tagged him as shes catching her breath, "ughh, Pant* I finally got you, that was awfully close. Thanks for going easy on me."
"Uff, come on Hermes I thought you were better then this, she still had 10 seconds to spare"
Hermes stands there confused, he couldn't believe that only 20 seconds had gone by but mostly because she hid her presence from him and appeared behind him...
he gripped his hand and wiped the sweat off his face and looked at Tina, "well done, but please go all out against me" and she looked at the fire in his eyes and smiled with a nod, "Osu"
"Rules are going to be changed a little bit for you Hermes, you let your guard down and got tagged. Also it seems that I underestimated grandma Tina's speed since I hadn't seen it in a long time, so you get 2 minutes to catch her, however Tina you have to go all out... Also Hermes if you lose aside from not getting any food you also have to do your daily routine 1000 of each and run until this time tomorrow...."
Hermes gets serious, his only goal in mind is to tag her within half the time she tagged him. It's the only way he'll be satisfied. Meanwhile Tony was watching them from a far.
"get ready, three, two, one... GO."
Right after Robin said go, Tina ran away from Hermes really fast while he was still standing in the same spot counting the seconds as they go by. Once leveled his breathing, he took off. Tina was already very far, he caught up to her in a matter of four seconds. Once he was right behind her, instead of trying to reach her, he jumped to the tree and took impulse with his legs in order to catch her off guard from up top.
The moment of truth...
Although fast, Hermes thought that Tina did not have a great reaction time. He was right to think this. Thats the weakness that he is going for. Like a true swordsman or assasin. Kill your opponent in one shot with precision...
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what happened next was a possibility that never crossed his mind. Robin did tell her to go all out.
of course* he thought.
Her feet transformed into a rabbit's and with that her speed and quickness nearly doubled. She dodged the tag and kicked him in the stomach while he was still landing, the kick sent him flying into the tree and he landed on his feet on the tree then jumped off to the ground.
In this situation he would be glad he got her to go all out, however he is upset about not tagging her before the 10 seconds.
... BOOM*
An aura started forming around Hermes, he was no longer looking down on his opponent, from this moment on he learned the lesson that Robin was trying to teach him. In the real world of you cannot underestimate anyone, because they too are trying to survive. Failing to be one with your sword and disturbing your swing with any other thought then killing the target will get you killed.
He finally going to give it his all* Robin thought.
Theres still a minute and a half left, from here on is going to be an all out game of tag!!!
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(Its the next day around the same time)
Knock* knock*
"The food is here, this time I made it" Toni's knocking on the door before entering with food. He keeps walking down with the food and looks to the side. He notices what seems to be a dead body that's just moving by will power alone.
Tony made his way to Robin and said, "Isn't it time for him to stop running already?"
"Yes, the time just finished while he started this lap so he's just finishing it up." Robin replied to Tony while staring at Hermes. Meanwhile, Tony started thinking about the last moments of the game of tag while watching him running.
*After Tina transformed her feet right as he was about to tag her the first time, I thought it was over, I really witnessed a young boy that has never used ki surpass his limits in just 30 seconds. After only 39 seconds he had the victory in his hands but backed up at the last second and let tina get away in order to keep adjusting to her speed and surpass her. When the timer hit 1 minute and 30 seconds he had surpassed Tina's speed and that's when he tagged her and thanked her for training with him. An educated young beast at that... She just stood there amazed at what she just witnessed and smiled like I hadn't seen her smile in years... heck she can't even move right now because of how tired she is from yesterday... what I can't seem to stop thinking about the most is how Robin handed him the food, he looked at her for a bit then refused to eat and told her that because he had already lost and proceeded to do the losing conditions, he needs to face the loosing punishment... This kid is going to go very far in life with his good heart...* Toni face expression changed.
What worries me most is the ki he emits without being aware. It has an ominous uncontrolable feeling I've never felt before.
"we must lead him in the right path Robin. While we got the chance."
"Oh, don't worry too much. He is going to save us from this horrid nightmare." Robin replied.
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Once Hermes finished the last lap his body kept running, moments after Robin flashed next to him and said "si sigues asi, llegaras lejos" (keep working hard how you are and you will go far)
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