First day of training

The next day, Ryu found himself behind the guild at 9am and with him, there were Laxus and Mirajane. Mirajane meant, that her siblings told her, that they already had stuff to do, which made Mirajane a little bit curious, but didn't really bothered her, as she trusts them. And to their surprise, also behind the guild, they found Erza training with a sword. Ryu went to her and said:"Hi Erza, are you training alone?"

Erza:"Yeah"

Ryu:"Do you want to train with us?"

Erza:"Why not, it's better to train in groups, so I gladly join you."

Ryu:"Ok then, starting today, we will meet here every day at 9am if not doing a mission, but don't neglect the missions, or otherwise you won't be able to participate in the S-Rank test.

So I roughly know the strength of Erza and Laxus, but your strength Mira, I can't really estimate, how strong you really are."

Mirajane:"Ok then I will show you." She then took a battle stance and concentrated. Then out of nowhere, her body was covered in strange looking things and she gave out a frightening aura. She nodded to Ryu, who nodded back and Mira dashed forward to spar with Ryu. Ryu first tried to fight her with bare hands, but was pushed back strongly by the immense strength, Mirajane was displaying. Ryu then summoned a light armor and two boxing gloves on his hands and took the fighting stance of an boxer. Mirajanes attacks weren't really coordinated but very wild, as if a tiger tried to attack him. She just tried to land a punch and didn't really thought how to do it. He told Mira, that they could stop, as he could now estimate her strength and knew what to improve. He then told Erza and Laxus to come to them and then said:"OK, I really think, that we will be the future of Fairy Tail, the future S-Rank members of Fairy Tail. You three and Masaru will probably become S-Rank mages in the following years. But just because I just said that, it doesn't mean, that you could just neglect your training. Train as hard as you can and even more, to complete this step. So let's make a game out of it. I will also tell Nasaru about it so the one, who will become S-Rank next year, will get something valuable from me, what will perfectly suit you and could be the best thing you could get in your entire life." The three of them nodded and so the first day of their training begins. First, they all did some strength training together, but it didn't really suited Mirajane, so they went on to polish the things they can do really good and erase their weaknesses. So for Laxus, he wanted him to train on his lightning shape manipulation, so that Ryu could later teach him, how to make weapons out of lightning. For Erza he told her, that she should focuse on her swordplay, like she already did earlier, but also try other weapon types as a trump card to surprise enemies. For Mirajane he made a special training plan in which she will focus on training her martial arts and how to haste the summoning of her strength.

And just like that, the day went over like nothing and after 12 hours of training, they all went home.

Back home Ryu wanted to try something. He had 100.000.000 Jewels from all the missions he did and wanted to look up, what he could buy in his shop. So he called out for Alexa and got an answer:"Hi, where can I help?"