Chapter 5

Kristyn

It was 10 in the morning when we reached the gates of the massive training academy, we had to walk for eternity as everytime we told a taxi driver our destination, they'll give us weird glares.

The area seemed rather quite,

"Don't you guys think it's too quite out here?" I stated a matter of fact.

"This is the kind of place where kids are kidnapped and then sold as slaves or maybe killed" I continued when I got no response.

"Dude chill! It's weekend, maybe they'll open a bit late." Haylen gurnted.

"It's 10:30 A.M, are they d-e-a-d?" I shot back.

"Will you both shut up?" Madyln blurted clearly annoyed.

"Let's just wait here for a while." Noella suggested. It was the only thing we could do anyway.

Minutes passed, then a tall man came to our sight, he seemed way much taller than any of us, honey skinned, his hairs were short like those of military men, he looked sober but attractive.

"Are you kids, LOST?" he questioned approaching us.

"No. We. Umm. Who are you?" Madyln questioned hesitatently.

"Well, you see, this is a training academy and I'm a trainer" He made a vague statement.

"Name?" Madyln kept questioning.

"But firstly tell me why are you kids here?"

"We are here to meet Mr. Skyler Achilles. Do you know him?" Haylen explained.

"He is the head trainer. Why do you want to see him?"

"Umm. That's. Personal."

"Well then, you kids have to come some other day cause we don't open on weekends." He turned serious for some unknown reason. I smacked Hayeln lightly and she just glared.

"Then why are you here?" She queried.

"I don't see why I'm supposed to answer you?"

"Look Gentleman, we have walked miles to reach here, can you please just call Mr. Achilles and tell him to come. Please! We have school on weekdays. Please don't be so dense." I pleaded as we all showed puppy eyes, giving our most innocent faces.

He sighed, "Fine, Let's get inside first."

He begun to unlocked the door and I prayed God please, i don't want to die, please he better be a nice being. Following him inside, one can see a large ground (emphasize on large) and a vintage building, further into the edifice there were large rooms where different kinds weapons were stored. He stopped in front of rusted door and then, here we were, in the office. Well, there's only 3 chairs one large table and a dusty couch.

"Please make yourselves comfortable, I'll quickly make a call to Skyla!" He announced and exited the room.

Instead of sitting like good people, we started exploring the office as if we'll find mysteries of the world hidden inside some desk.

"Did he ever told his name?"

"I guess not. But we didn't tell ours either."

"What if he is a killer decieving us?"

"Why ARE YOU ALWAYS NEGATIVE?"

"all my friends --"

"Shut up!"

We went on speaking shit until Haylen found a very old sword under the ancient couch.

"Wohh.. look what i got"

"Fuuvvvvkkk!!!"

"Why would somebody put it in here?"

"Safety measures?"

"Whatever... I'm holding a freaking real sword.. Wohhoo" Haylen cheered.

"Kids, you wait for some min---" Our unnamed host from earlier emerged in the room catching Haylen off-guard and in her shock, she threw the sword in his direction. Everything happened too fast to process, the man holding the sharp edge of the sword in his left hand and blood dripping from his palm in few seconds. We knew, we FUCKED UP.

"Ohhmmyyggoodd!! I'm so sorry! Lemme see" She nearly jumped. " we need first-aid, do you have any in here?" she spoke, worry visible on her face.

"It's no big deal. It happens everyday. What were you doing with the sword?"

"I'm extremely sorry sir. But please let me see your wound, though it's not a big deal to you but it happened because of me, so it's a big deal to me." She insisted giving her most innocent face.

I witnessed the drama unfold, on contrary to Ella and Maddy who sneaked out in search of some first aid box. "Sit here sir, please?" Elen made him motion towards the chair, his discomfort clearly visible.

"What's your name sur?" I asked hoping to light up the atmosphere.

"Garrett."

"Age?"

"Early thirties."

He kept on giving dry replies staring deeply at Haylen, who tried her level best to treat his wound (a predator examining his pery). "It's done." She looked up, their eyes met. He remained calm but she lost the case (tinted cheeks and shy smile). Oh!! Teenage Harmones.

And then, ruining Haylen's precious moment a a faint sound similar to car horn was heard. Indicating someone's arrival.. Garrett stood up and left the room as if we all are invisible and returned with a individual. Not so tall, tan skinned, short haired, well built and kind of hot. He introduced himself as Skyler Achilles, and we too for the first time introduced ourselves.

"So why do you kids wanted to see me?"

"Well" we all said at once, then turned silent.

"Now don't hesitate, I'm a human, I don't bite."

"We were wondering.. if.. you could possibly.. helpmebeawarrior" Madyln stated nervously.

"I what?"

"Helpmebeawarrior"

He scanned her from head to toe, before speaking, "you sure?"

She nodded.

"Whydoyouwanttobeawarrior?" He mimicked her playfully, earning a smack from Garrett. Wait a minute, who's the boss here?

"Equality for men and women exist everywhere, there can be a male and female CEO, male and female politician, actor, reporter, anything. Then why not warriors? Women can be great warriors too. And I wanna be a example for that."

"Impressive. But are you aware of the hardships you may face?"

"Ofcourse"

"What about the other three? Do you kids wanna join too?"

"Nopes, we are okay with being Normies. We'll just cheer from the corner for her." I blurted. He raised an eyebrow, "uhh, I may join, if i see improvement in her" Haylen asserted eyeing Garrett.

So there went hours of discussion about the pros and cons of being a first women warrior, things Madyln needs to learn, the society and what not. It can be summoned up as : Madyln will come to the academy on weekends, (because both of them are busy on weekdays) she must do some running practice every morning by herself, eat healthy and keep a low profile about the whole thing. He even lowered his fee for her. Haylen is wipped for Garrett ( who's at least double her age) , she has been eyeing him the entire time. Madyln seems to really like the touch of feminism in Skyler and I'm afraid she is wipped too, making me and Noella embarrassed by their actions.

Skyler offered us to ride back home as it's too late for little kids to walk around alone (a kind being) where as Garrett stayed in the academy.

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Extending his hands, he told her,

"We'll pave the way together!"

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