Plans for strength

After a long night of sleep, Flint wakes up refreshed and looks at the time. It was early morning around eight, this was a rare instance of Flint waking up so early which made him guess what he was doing. After skimming through the news and seeing the gym app on his handheld, he remembered that he needed to be there in the morning, which might have been the reason he woke up so early.

"Ha~~h... Need to freshen up and get ready for training, have to see what that old guy has planed for me." Said Flint yawning.

Then Flint went to the bathroom to freshen himself up, after finishing that he went to the kitchen. There he saw how the cook and a few workers are running around making breakfast. Flint knocked on the door, and the Head Chef looked at him.

"Young master, you've woken up early. Is there anything you want to ask?" asked he smiling.

"Yeah, can you make me something with high energy and I'm going to start getting up for breakfast around this time starting today, so if possible please make high energy food starting today for me."

"What is the occasion?"

"About that, I have begun going to a gym for physical training and would require a lot of energy in the morning."

"Does that gym have any kind of restaurant or would you also want something with you to eat as well?"

"Ah! Yeah, there is no place like that there. If you can make something to go as well, would be great. Something for muscle growth and with an energy boost for the body."

"Will do, then I will make your breakfast now. Where would you like to eat?"

"I think I'll eat in the kitchen, if I may?"

"Sure, please wait a few minutes. I'll get the food ready."

Once the Chef said that and Flint sat down behind the kitchen table, where kitchen workers usually eat. The Chef started cooking, you could see how he picked high protein concentrated ingredients and stuff that could provide a boost in energy. It took him around fifteen minutes to get a breakfast going and giving it to Flint. After providing breakfast to Flint, the Chef started cooking the food for him to take to the gym.

While eating his food, Flint watched the Chef cook. The work was done fast and with steady hands, as if he knew exactly what was required for training. The Chef didn't stop for even a second to think.

"Really, the Head Chef is too skillful to work for our household of researchers that don't even stay at home that much." Thought Flint while watching him work.

At the same time as Flint finished eating, the Chef placed a thermal box on the table in front of Flint.

"Young master, the food will stay hot for half a day in here and I've also made a protein drink for you to consume during training."

"Thank you. I'll be going then and if you can, please tell my parents that I went out to the gym."

"Yes, I shall tell them once they come to get breakfast."

With that Flint went out of the house and started slowly running to the gym. It didn't take him long to get there, compared to when he came with his mother and once inside, Flint and the receptionist woman greeted each other, after what Flint went into the training hall.

There he saw Haze alone, without any students around him, doing his own training. Flint walked to him and they greeted each other.

"Has the old man come yet?" asked Flint.

"Milo is here, yeah. When there is work to do, he usually comes first and leaves last. He is in that office over there." As Haze told that, he pointed at the office to the far corner of the hall.

With the location provided, Flint went to the door and knocked on it.

"Come in." A voice behind the door answered.

Flint went inside, the office was full of trophies and medals. Some of them were from competitions and quite a number of them were for military service or for humanitarian help. At the end of the office behind the table sat Milo, he was clean as compared to yesterday and you wouldn't even guess that person looked like they were homeless yesterday.

"Old man, I came like you asked."

Milo looked at Flint with a scary look.

"Really, you won't change how you call me? I'm going to teach you, you know? So at least call me teacher."

"Smelly teacher, what are your plans for my training and what you gonna teach me for the next while?"

Milo had a blood vessel pop up, you could see that he was loosing patience.

"You... Ah forget it! If you're gonna be like that, just call me by my name at least!"

"Old man, how are you gonna train me?"

A few more blood vessels popped up and you could even hear teeth grinding. Even an insensitive person could see that Milo was getting pretty mad.

Flint started slowly inching closer and closer to the door while keeping up a smile to keep Milo from suspecting anything. He could see that Milo was close to snapping at him and so he tried to keep his path of escape close to himself.

"Flint, I will teach what you've asked and the training for your body will be ready in the next few days once I get to understand how you're built. So for those next few days, we will be running around the town together. This way I will know how your muscles work and where your stamina is at. The marathon will continue until you keel over."

"So you don't have anything ready? You're either really slow, or just stupid. Shitty. Old. Man." Said Flint while scratching the back of his neck, while looking at Milo in contempt.

This was the last straw for Milo, he rushed at Flint with everything he had. But since he was mad, Milo didn't see that Flint had already gotten a path of escape ready. So Flint opened the door got out and closed the door with incredible speed, this made Milo run into it and hit the door face first with a pretty loud bang.

There were already quite a few people in the hall and everyone heard the bang. When Milo went out of the office with a bleeding nose everyone laughed, while Flint hid behind Haze snickering.

Even after Flint left for the academy, everyone never forgot that moment and poked fun at Milo for a very very long time.