"A BASKETBALL COURT?
That's....where's the Training course?"
"That's underneath us but why can't this be one as well?
Sports teach us teamwork. They force people to have to work together in order…."
" 'For the common goal.' "
"Excuse me?"
"Sorry. Just something Ruby said to my friends once."
"And in the training course, you are racing time against yourself to improve your own stamina."
"Then.....when you feel you have a layout of your powers...show them off on center stage."
"This...is the final fantasy?"
"Ohhh…hoooo…hooo….hooo. No. No. This is not the Final Fantasy, Jacklyn. This is merely the…"
"RUBY?"
*Ooof*
"I missed you. I missed you. I..."
"What are they doing here?
Who let you in?"
"Elwin, now, now, now. This is a School and as such doesn't it need as much help as it can…."
"Out of my way Nurse, Lin. You know nothing, and I for one know you didn't let them in.
So whatever trickery and deceptive mastery you are tyring to pull here, then take your things.....get out my room...…get out of my School.....and.."
"Wooo…Wooo….Wooo…
Elwin, Lin may have given them an invitation, but it was me who let them stay."
"You?
Ruby, you said that she could be trusted? You said that….*Aaaaaggghhhh*
*BURRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN*
"Elwin….stop."
*Phurrrrrrrrrrr…..rruuuuuuueaar.*
"How...…how are you not?"
"Kids...."
"We're not…"
"Adults..."
"Hey, we…."
"Can we set aside these petty feuds please? Before anybody gets hurt?"
*KICK*
"Kain, you're home."
"Wait, what are you...you're not smiling. What happened?"
"It's too late for that."
"Wha…wha…what are you doing? Please get out of my face."
"Kain, what are you doing? Please unball your fists."
"My father....is dead!!!"
"Huh?"
"And he wouldn't be if you hadn't left him."
"But he?"
"Doesn't mean you just leave him. You help him, cause that is what people do. They help.
….Cause this is what happens when you don't?"
"Kain, your hands. Whose blood is that?"
"You're stuck cleaning up a whole lot of nothing.....burrying a whole lot of nothing…..and telling the people that they served under nothing."
*Gulp*
"So give me one good reason why I shouldn't lay you out flat on the ground right now with one punch?"
"...You would never. You're not strong e…"
*Pow*
"Ouch…..ouch.....Ruby, help me. Ruby.
My…..he broke my nose. It's bleeding. It's...…how can you just stand there and watch? Help me? Heal me. Do something. Anyone?"
"Sorry, but all the Medkits here are wayyyyyyyyyy past their expiration date, and I....think you deserved that.
Now hold still and let me see the problem."
"I….."
"Don't tilt your head back. That won't help at all.
*Whoooooooo*
*Crack*
"Aaaaagggh. Why did you do that fo...."
"You're welcome.
Now, how do we convince Evander, Careanda, Tank, and the others to come back?"
"We could...…"
"And before you say anything."
"What's this?"
"We have less than three weeks to get this School up and running for its first day of School."
"On who's orders?"
"Rosa's."
"She has no power here. We are the….."
"Workers. She is the spokesperson, and right now I can tell you she has told a hella group of parents and kids already that this would be so, so do you want her to lose her reputation? She is our one and only link not only to her Kingdom and our surrounding Kingdoms, but even as far away Kingdoms outside of my family's control."
"So?"
"That means we finish in two weeks."
"Ruby? That's impossible. We...we don't even have….."
"Vending machines!!!
We don't even have vending machines, Ruby?"
"Vending Machines?"
"Umm…yeah. Vending Machines. Every School has them."
"...Riiiiii…gggghhhht.
I still want one week to debrief all the Teachers, Faculty, and Mentors what they're doing…..when….how often….and what to do when they're not doing it. Clear?"
"I thought this was our School, not yours."