The three watched as Art fused metal ball after metal ball. He was sweating and started to breathe heavily but had made huge progress covering the two soles of his shoes. "You have been putting the luxury cabin to good use I see. I expect you to be able to use that in combat in the next three days." Garnet gave her encouragement which was slightly scary due to her expectation but also nice to hear.
"Let's hope this works." Art took a hesitant step and felt the griding of the old bone spike on his metal shoe bottoms. The slight cracking he heard as he did this made him want to lift his foot up and run back, however, he knew that it was now or never and stepped forward with confidence.
Before he could even think about it her stepped all the way through the previous footprints and arrived in front of Garnet. "Not bad. You made it over here without a single scratch. Pretty lucky. Now let's watch the other two handle it."
