"Don't stop! If you give up you don't belong here, and if you leave you're done." Pinpoint shouts out. All the students are sweating from using their powers to their limit. "The more you use your powers the more powerful they will become."
There was a trash can in the middle of the group that had "Lost Dignity" labeled on it. Whoever has to throw up from the workout, threw up in the trash can. It smelled from the heat of the sun cooking the puke that was already in it. Celia James runs up to the trash can and throws up, she then throws up again from the smell of the trash can. She throws up a third time from being grossed out that she threw up twice before. She, in humiliation, covers her head and runs away from the training, tears falling out of her eyes.
"Don't bother coming back Celia! I don't suffer from quitters!" Pinpoint yells at her. "Stop the training, let's move on." Everyone is out of breath, their bodies hurt from aura overuse. Dark Void feigned being tired and hurting from aura overuse. Aio wasn't as affected by the training, he was a bit sore and wasn't that tired. Chase looks over at Aio and sees that he isn't tired, and walks over to him.
"Hey, aren't you taking this seriously? You're not trying at all, I mean you're not even tired" Chase said to Aio, annoyed.
"I'm not as weak as you." Aio said with an attitude. Chase walks up and stops just inches away from Aio and looks down on him.
"What did you just say?" Chase asks.
"You heard me." Aio answers
Chase then punches Aio to the ground. Aio gets up and they begin to fight. Pinpoint rushes in and in a blink of an eye takes down both. He grabs the backs of their head and points them towards himself.
"Since you both have so much energy left, sparring session now. Class we are having a bit of a detour. Go to the sparring rings in the gym." Pinpoint said. Everyone walks to the gym all sore. The class sits in the bleachers surrounding the sparring ring, while Aio and Chase walk into the ring and face each other. Pinpoint walks in and enters the ring.
"What are you doing?" Pinpoint asks?
"We're getting ready to spar like you said" Chase answers confused.
"You're not fighting each other." Pinpoint said.
"Then who will we fight?" Aio asks
"Me." Pinpoint answers as he lunges at the two, who were unprepared for the sudden attack. He focuses on Chase first who barely transformed into his beast form before Pinpoint began his attack. Pinpoint went straight for Chase's eye, and Chase went down. Pinpoint then grabs him and throws him against the wall, and begins to pound him. Aio out of nowhere body slams Pinpoint against the sparring ring wall. With Chase out of the fight Pinpoint switches his focus to Aio, he blocks Aio's next attack and grabs him. Pinpoint with Aio in his arms suplexes him into the ground stunning him. Pinpoint takes this opportunity to put a device on Aio's head which shocks and overloads Aio's force field before Pinpoint takes him down with one punch. Pinpoint walks over to a defeated Aio.
"Just because you learn something doesn't mean you mastered it." Pinpoint says to Aio before walking away.
"How did you know how to take me down?" Aio asks.
"Because I talked to Neon." Pinpoint says. "I have to know my students."
"That's Cheating!" Aio yells while also thinking "Aren you jerk!"
"That's not cheating that's using my resources, and there's no such thing as a fair fight. Also knowing ones enemy is key to winning a fight." Pinpoint responds. "Everyone, gather your things and head to the gym."
The students groan as they gather all their stuff and begin to head to the gym opposite the building. They aren't happy because they knew that they were going to be pushed to the absolute limit. Chase is still trying to recover from the humiliation he received from Pinpoint, as he walks up to Aio.
"Thanks for getting him off me." Chase says to a surprised Aio. He then walks off slouching as if he's trying to hide from the world.
"Okay." Aio says awkwardly, while walking away from Chase not wanting to run into him again, while rubbing his sore cheek. Jake then runs up to Aio almost startling him.
"Hey, never thought that the great Aio would lose so badly." Jake says sarcastically while laughing hysterically. Aio just stares at Jake with disdain.
"I'm sorry." Jake responds a bit scared. "Let's just go to the gym." They walk off in silence. Pinpoint set up an obstacle course and two stations. If the students weren't going through the Obstacle Course then they were doing burpees or pull ups. The obstacle course was a basic one, Pinpoint set up to mirror the ones used for military boot camp. The students were never idle, except to throw up in the trash can that was located in the center of the gym.
"A well-toned body is the perfect conduit for your aura abilities so the more you work out the more you can open up your channels for your aura to flow through." Pinpoint shouts out to inform the students while they are working out. They continue the routine for about an hour and a half before Pinpoint lets them go for the day. The students were all sore and complaining about the day as they were walking back to their dorms, out of earshot of Pinpoint.
"Ugh, I'm questioning every choice that I've made up to this point." Chase says sighing
"I agree." Clarissa says.
"I just want to take a shower." Aurora says.
"I want nachos, anyone else want nachos?" Jake shouts out as he runs to the cafeteria.
"Yes totally man." Jay says as he passes Jake on a race to the cafeteria.
"How can they have that much energy?" Ros asks as he wipes the sweat from his brow. Aio just heads to the convenience store on campus and buys some hot dumplings, and a soda. As he takes his first sip of his soda he sees Dark Void walking the edge of the campus. Aio just walks off and eats his dumplings, shrugging it off. When Aio gets into his dorm, Jake is in his bed, he has nachos on his chest and is eating a chip while flipping through the channels.
"How come there's nothing to watch on TV when you actually want to watch TV?" Jake asks Aio who was just finishing up his last dumpling.
"I don't know, and honestly I don't really care." He answers as he pulls off his shirt and grabs a towel to shower.
"Okay I'll just watch Space King Battles." Jakes says a bit annoyed. Then a boom is heard followed by a shockwave that rattles every object in the room. Jake puts his nachos aside and looks out the window, Aio bursts out of the bathroom with soap still in his hair.
"What's going on!" he shouts.
"I don't know. I just saw explosions around campus." Jake answers. Aio jumps back into the shower to rinse off and gets dressed.
"Let's find out." Aio says as, Jake and him walk out of their dorm. They walk out the door into a crowd of other students chatting.
"What are you all standing around for?" Jake asks.
"The doors are locked and the elevator is not working." Aurora answers.
"That doesn't sound right." Aio replies.
"We should just stay put, the teachers will take care of everything." Tak says.
"I'm not comfortable just sitting around and waiting for something to happen let's just get out of here." Lexi says annoyed.
"That is all I needed to hear, beautiful." Jake says as he rams the door with his body. The door doesn't budge. "That's a lot more solid than I thought."
A sound blast knocks the door back and Ros walks out of the hall.
"Well, come on." He says.
"How could he steal my thunder like that, Aio?" Jake asks.
"I don't know, but let's go." Aio answers. Everyone exits the hall and they enter the stairwell and begin to give down the stairs. Ros leads the group and blasts doors open to the other levels of the dorm to let the other students out. They eventually get to the bottom floor and find two dead classmates. Clarissa walks up to one while Aurora walks to the other.
"This one is dead." Clarissa says.
"This one too." Aurora adds
"We should have never left our rooms." Lily tells everyone clearly scared. She runs to the doors that exit the building, only to find them locked. "We're trapped!"
She begins to shoot a radiation beam at the door to melt it down, but it doesn't work.
"Everyone try to open the door." Ros says.
"It won't work those doors are meant to withstand anything thrown at them. They're there to protect us." Jake announces.
"Everyone just try, I'd rather do that than nothing." Ros declares.
Aio takes this time to examine the bodies, they were second years. He looks at their chests and sees icicles in them. He looks around for the perpetrator. He then walks around the main lobby and sees nothing. As he makes his way to the dark study room in the corner he sees an icicle shoot across the room and hit Simon in the back, he dies instantly. Then out of the shadows of the room comes a man. He was skinny and had long features and was white as snow. He had a blue costume with white jagged lines on the arms and legs with an icicle that went across his torso. He had a blue domino mask that went over his eyes and the edges went down his cheek.
"I've been waiting a long time for this." The man says to Aio.
"For what?" Aio asks
"To kill you, since your mentor sent my brother, Avalanche, to prison." He answers as he forms another icicle and throws it at Aio. Aio dodges and gets his first layer ready.
"By the way I'm Frostbite, the last thing you'll see." He declares and plunges an icicle at Aio's chest.
Next Time, Chapter 15 The Attack...