The hellish training begins!!!

It was early in the morning when Sky had woken, there was a faint layer of mist outside the window and a thin layer of gray hiding the sun. He looked down to see Kronos still fast asleep, making sure not to wake him, Sky quietly made his way towards the stairs and slowly creeped his way down.

Once he had made it outside he realized how early it was. Despite the town usually being busy, no one was around, making the crickets and chirping birds seem as if they were speaking through megaphones. Sky stretched his hands and legs before jogging down to the training grounds where he found Atlas, or who he assumed to be Atlas.

The man standing in the giant, open area amidst trees had olive skin and blue tribal tattoos starting from his wrist and making their way up to his shoulders. He was wearing a large, blue robe that had been tucked into his white pants with its sleeves torn off. He had golden earrings and a face that seemed exactly like Atlas' when Sky had first met him. What threw Sky off the most was the fact that he was half the size of a giant and extremely muscular.

"Atlas…?" Sky asked, carefully entering the open space.

"Good Morning Boy!" His voice sounded deeper and hollower than before.

"What's with the… outfit?" Sky asked.

He turned around, showing the same silver eyes he had before. "I can choose to look however I please." He said.

Sky slowly nodded.

"Now then, let's begin." Atlas said, assuming a fighting stance.

"Wai-Wait!" Sky shouted, already knowing where this was headed, "Don't you need to talk to me, learn about me… or something?"

Atlas stood up. "What?" He looked confused.

"About whether I'm a manipulator, summoner or one of the other three?" Sky continued.

"Boy! Those are useless titles!" He resumed his fighting stance, "Now fight me like your life depends on it!"

Confusion started filling up Sky's head before he shook it off, trying to remember the chant Kronos taught him. "Great lightning…" Sky started to speak, struggling to remember the rest of it.

WHAM!! A strong surge of pain ran through his abdomen as he realized everything around him had suddenly darkened. "Boy, it is your power, a mere extension of your body… you must be able to muster it on command!" Atlas said as he started walking away before quickly spinning and kicking Sky into the trees.

Unable to breath, Sky used his hands to find a tree and with it's support stood up and gasped for air. Slowly his breathing returned to normal as he stared at Atlas, in his fighting pose. "Think of it as an extension of your body…" Sky stared emptily at the titan in his face.

Sky tried thinking of what that could mean only resulting in more emptiness. In the end he shook it off and lowered his body, bringing his fists closer to his face. He took a step forwards to punch Atlas, suddenly closing the distance between them and striking something hard.

Sky jumped back and looked around in surprise, seeing how he had traveled nearly half the distance of the training ground in a single step.

"Wasteful!" Atlas groaned as he readjusted his jaw, "But you managed to do it."

Sky frowned, not understanding what Atlas meant by wasteful until he looked at his hands and realized the blue glow was back.

"Four months is too short of a time for you to master it," Atlas walked towards Sky, "But it is enough time for you to become comfortable with it!"

Once he was standing over Sky he quickly got into a stance and threw another punch. As if it were coming in slow motion Sky saw the punch and moved to the side, easily avoiding it.

"That was the same move that left you breathless earlier," Atlas smiled, "Though Bahrny will be moving a hundred times faster than it."

"A HUNDRED!?!?!" Sky shouted.

"Isn't that an over exaggeration?!" Sky continued.

"Boy! They're fighting for their lives, against beings that tower over them in size and hold ten times the amount of strength they do," Atlas explained, "Fast is the bare minimum of what they have to be."

Once again he resumed a fighting stance. "Didn't I tell you earlier, we all can be fast at this level!" He charged at Sky.

Sky smiled, understanding how in over his head he really was now, assuming a defensive stance he attempted to dodge the strike only to be sent flying into the trees again.

***

"Four months is too long!" Nebula said once they had returned.

"Looks like we'll be having visitors…" Nova continued.

"They're not visitors if they're going to stay here forever, Nova." Neutra rubbed her shoulders.

"OH!? When're we getting new settlers?" Asked an energetic voice.

The three moons looked up to see two figures standing before them.

Nebula smiled. "In about four months, along with a servant!" Nebula laughed.

"Why so long?" Asked the second voice.

"It's because Father is training someone who's going to be a distraction while we rescue them." Nova answered.

"Pops, is training someone…?" The second voice scratched it's head.

"Can we come? Please? When you do the rescue, Can we come?" Begged the first voice.

Neutra stretched her shoulders. "I don't see why not."

The first voice turned towards the second. "Wanna go? Let's go! Come on! It'll be fun!"

"I am quite interested as to who the person that Pops is training…" The second voice scratched its head again, "Sure."

"YAYY!!!!" The first voice exclaimed happily.

"We still have to wait four months." Nebula bonked the first voice as he walked past it, entering the giant meeting hall.