Kara was finally able to leave the infirmary three days later. Dimitri left her after mocking her two days before.
Liv had been slightly quiet, she tried covering the fact that something bugged her but Kara knew. She had pried Klaus for information and so she knew the people she wanted to bash.
"...We have a new combat teacher, the girls are swooning." Liv was telling her just as someone tripped her.
She stumbled forward but Kara caught her. It was so subtle but she knew who did it. Turning, she walked up three girls.
"You know, this bullying character is quite human and quite irritating. Too cliche to be precise." She clicked her tongue before slamming her hand on the wall beside the girl in the middle. "Unless either one of your lives is on the line, if you so much as tap Liv to ask her a question, I will break your arms."
She growled, making her fangs show. The girl whimpered and nodded. She hurried away with her friends. Everyone in the hallway was watching Kara.
"Incase you haven't gotten the memo, I'm back and healthy and I promise to rough up anyone that tries to make a friend of mine miserable." She threatened with her hands on her hips.
Liv face-palmed herself, Kara was going to get her killed.
"Such big words for the one who just got out of the infirmary. " Mara mocked her. She had been leaning on the lockers, watching with amusement.
Kara cocked her head. "Try taking on a shadow and we'll have that conversation. "
"I'm not that stupid." The wolf smirked and strutted away.
Liv grabbed her friend and almost ran to class. The teacher was already there. Kara surveyed the class and her eyes clashed with Ezra. She smirked when she took note of the scar along his face, she was proud of herself. Adrian blatantly ignored her. With a huff, she turned to the teacher... who was walking towards her.
She now understood why the girls swooned, the man was built to be swooned over. He had really long hair that was tied into a ponytail. Long powerful limbs that walked with purpose and a face she couldn't look away from.
"You two are late to my class, I do not appreciate tardiness." He spoke, bringing Kara out of her trance.
Liv bowed and apologised, nudging Kara to do the same. Reluctantly, she did.
"Miss..." He trailed off, gesturing to her.
Kara frowned. "Kara."
"Hmm Miss Kara, I'm guessing your parents didn't teach you manners if you are finding it hard to apologise when you are at fault." He chided with a frown.
She gasped silently, well, his attitude wasn't a home run. "No they didn't, considering they died."
That was an half lie. They'd stuck to the story that she had to live in an orphanage when her parents died. Dimitri had been the one to find her.
"Exactly my point." He said and turned away from her, leaving her with pink cheeks and ears from embarrassment.
The class snickered, making her want to run back to her room and wish away her existence. So much for swooning over him.
"As I told you earlier on, combat isn't just about the body, it is about the mind. Being able to think fast when facing your opponent. The best fighters are the ones that use logic, rather than throw it out the window. " He explained as he walked to Ezra. He studied his face for a minute before gesturing to him. "Throwing logic out of the window: one, provoking a shadow whose strength you don't know the extent of."
The class chuckled and Kara felt herself shrink even more. Liv rubbed her arm in sympathy.
"Don't get me wrong. There will be periods when you won't be able to gauge your enemy well and caution would fly with the wind." He continued before stretching. He was back in the middle as the students had formed a circle around him. "Two: underestimating your enemy when you think they are down."
He pointed at Adrian, the twins, a shadow and a wolf.
"So we have a mind weaver, water and fire benders, a shadow and a wolf. I need two more." He mumbled, looking around. He pointed at two others. "Earth and air. Okay then. Each of you will try to spill my blood. Brutal, I know. Whoever is able to will be exempted from the race around the field."
He waved the other students away, to create room for the fight.
"Let's do it alphabetically uh, air comes first right?" He said.
He waved her over and she attacked. Her movements were sloppy, she didn't make good use of her powers. She levitated different objects and threw them at him but he fluidly dodged them and tapped her arm.
"You are out." He stated. "Next."
The earth bender raised the ground below him but it was too much to handle. The teacher tapped his arm two minutes later.
"Out." He looked very disappointed. "What do they teach you lot these days?"
Houston threw a fireball at him without hesitation. Something gleamed in the man's eyes after he dodged it. He ran at Houston, dodging the balls. He slide down and tripped the boy. Houston fell with a thud.
"Catching your enemy off guard, not bad." He praised and helped him up. "You put your powers in specific mediums and control them. That is logical. Work on it and add a bit more heat."
Some part of Kara was rearing for a fight, she wanted to take the teacher on. It wasn't that she over estimated herself, no, she wanted to test her own limit. The fight with Dimitri and then with Adrian had her confused. Granted that she had underestimated Ezra. Some part of her wanted to learn to fight and defend herself against almost anyone. She didn't know the extent of the hatred of the people to her as a 'taboo' but she wanted to be prepared. Needed to be. If she was going to be able to help Liv, she needed to be able to stand her ground against anyone.
"Why don't I save the mind weaver and shadow for our next class." He declared, and gestured to the remaining two. "At the same time."
Ash let the wolf distract the man before attacking also. They got in each others way. When he threw water balls conjured from the air, the man avoided them and they hit the wolf. The man grabbed the wolf and flung him at the water bender.
"Learn to predict an ally's move in order to work in sync. Class dismissed." He announced and turned from them.
"You didn't tell us your name sir." One girl shouted.
The man chuckled. "Frederick. Frederick Gate."
Frederick took one last glance at his friend's daughter before leaving the class. It had taken everything in him not to pull her into a hug or drag her with him to the pack. She had her father's stubbornness, he could see it in the way she had replied him.
She hadn't run from the room in embarrassment, not that he had expected her to. He had felt her hunger to fight him because he wanted to also. He wanted to see the extent of her skills and teach her. He also wanted to shield her from what was to come.
"What do you think?" Dimitri asked as he fell in step with him.
Frederick grinned with mischief in his eyes, making Dimitri groan.
"Don't break her, though that won't be easy to do. Still, don't." He scolded the older man.
Frederick shook his head and threw his arm around his friend's half brother. "She's too proud to let herself be broken. I see she has adjusted well."
"She is after my white hairs."
"Expect that she will defy everything you tell her, as long as she feels it is right." Frederick laughed as they stopped in front of the principal's door.
Dimitri shook his with a sigh. "I don't know how you guys survived all these years."
He turned the handle and opened the door. "You need to live a little dear boy, defy the odds."
Principal Hartridge groaned when he saw who walked into his office.