Martial Arts Training Montage

[Previously]

Hecate wanted an offspring of the children, of course they're both children now but when they matured Hecate will push the idea of marrying and mating in their heads.

Hecate sighed happily and teleported to her cave too.

'Now, let's let fate play it's course' ——————————————————————————

3 Moons turn and 2 year later

On Mount Pelion.

The forest was clean and clear, the air felt perfect and all animals were enjoying the sunny day. Gentle winds swayed back and forth, the sounds of rivers rolling like chiming bells in summer heat. On this normal day a magical circle with two magical runes interlocked with various of little runes running around the magic cicle. The magic circle shone like a dying star, startling many animals in the forest before a human at the age of eleven popped up.

Icarus felt his stomach churn in upset. The teleportation magic was new to him, it didn't help that he just learned it yesterday. He sighed and shook his head at his teacher's antics, he can imagine the haughty laugh that she's probably doing right now. He let out an a amused smile and thought. 'Well, I guess I should go to the cave of the wise centaur now.

Hecate said it wasn't far from here, Probably a ten minutes walk.

He walked for about 6 minutes before he came upon a sight of Chiron sitting down under a tree.

As he would have it, he shouldn't have bothered as Chiron was the one to find him first.

He saw him get and up and trot to him.

"I guess you're Icarus of Athens." He spoke. Icarus can't help but to marvel at the well of wisdom he can find in the centaur's eyes.

"I am." He answered.

"Come and rest in my cave. You're probably tired from your journey."

Icarus hummed in response.

...

At dawn Chiron woke him up and said it's time for training.

He reluctantly got up. Now he's before Chiron wearing the new pants and set that Hecate made with magic for him. The pants —jeans?— are like the one Achilles will wear in the Trojan War, so they're super tough. Though he didn't see amour plates on his pants, he knew that he's teacher made his pants almost impervious to anything. Hecate cared for her students like that. For the upper body he wore a shirt with shoulder pads and a half body cloak drapped around his upper body. To finish his set he wore amoured steel boots with greaves and he wore amoured gloves that extend to his elbows.

He can't help but feel like he's a soldier preparing for Apocalypse but he feel relieved for wearing pants again. He doesn't often bitch about the situation he's in but if there's one thing that made him feel awkward was wearing a chiton. That's practically a dress for males, yhea he doesn't want the feeling of feeling exposed everytime someone set their eyes on him.

He was soon broken out of his reverie by Chiron getting impatient as he just stared out in space for the last ten minutes.

Chiron gestured towards the ground, he turned his head to the ground to look at what Chiron was leading. There was a bunch of weapons of different types layed on the ground in a line.

"What's this?" He inquired to Chiron.

"Choose the weapon you think it's best for you but looking at your lithe form, I suggest you pick the xiphos." Chiron explained.

He was going to pick it regardless of Chiron's advice. He know where his strength and weakness lie. Icarus can't help but feel like he's cursed. his body is unnatural lithe, delicated and slender like that of a petite woman, it doesn't help that his body look quite fragile and brittle even though it's not. He feel like that androgynous people, even looking at the mirror he doesn't see any sign of masculine on his body. He isn't a vain person but he knows that he's beautiful, he's beautiful not handsome and that's the cause of his sleepless nights. Most people can say that he's eleven and he's going to start developing when puberty hits but greek mythology doesn't follow that rules. Eleven kids look like teenagers and thirteen year old girls look like flourished young women ready for a taking. That's one of the reasons that people marry young here, even a seven year old is legal to marry. Disgusting right? But this is the world he lived in now and whether he likes it or not he's going to marry someday. Gods help that he can find it within him to love that person or at least tolerate her.

Anyway he digress.

Icarus picked up the xiphos blade and balanced it in his hands to test it's weight.

It's light. That's the first thing he thought. It's light but not overly so.

He nodded at Chiron showing that he's choosing it. If he was blinking in that moment or looking away he would've missed it but he didn't.

Chiron glowed dully and transformed in a man in his somewhat early thirties, he have long brown hair tied in a loose pony tail and equally brown eyes. He wore a somewhat archaic style of dress. He is a man of delicate features clad in leather armor. Indeed, the style of his appearance was truly that of a bowman.

And he stood on two legs. Two very human looking legs.

Icarus blinked and blinked hard again. Then he nodded. This is the greek mythology where everything is possible so of course a Centaur would change into a human.

Nevertheless Icarus was unruffled by this magical reveal.

Chiron took a fighting stance, one leg forward and the other slid at the back and he bend his knees to lower his body and his xiphos was in his right hand. His left hand was open palmed —A/N: I know none martial arts—

"Copy me." Chiron ordered and Icarus obeyed.

They flowed through a hundred of styles and kept slashing and piercing till his arms feel heavy and dead at the same time.

At the end of the day, Icarus was barely able to walk. It isn't a suprise as he's still a child and among other reasons.

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A/N: A somewhat long time skip.

Im contimplating on editing the last chapter but i think... im gonna leave it like that. Yhea...Stress and overworking is overwhelming me irl. I don't have the time to sit down to write a new chapter, but i would see what i can do. Sorry for the chapter.