ᴅɪᴀʙʟᴏꜱ ᴅʀᴀɢᴏɴ ❥ ᵃᵛᵐᵉˣˡⁱᵃ

Ｃｈａｐｔｅｒ １： Ｉｎｔｒｏｄｕｃｔｉｏｎ

Training.

One of the many activities the residents hated. Sadly, the training schedules & every other rule that was present in the camp had to be held in. As if that wasn't enough, the training itself isn't the easiest thing to do either. If the rules weren't being held in by the others either, Diablo would quickly gain a word of it.

It was training time for half of the residents. Since the camp itself wasn't that big, there would always be half of the residents training in the giant hall, while the others were free to do whatever they wanted or had their separate tasks that had to be done.

In that half was also Melian, training with one of her 'friends', you could say.

''Do you really think it's over yet? You could hear Isiah bickering. He was assigned to be Melian's partner for the training, according to this week's schedule. But Melian isn't really the motivated type-of-person, especially not when it came to training, especially at 6 in the morning.

''Come on, get up. Training is far from done yet.'' He stated annoyingly, while lowering himself and holding his hand out for Melian to grab. It was noticeable that Isiah wasn't too happy with the whole training and what not, since his usual chilled & relaxed expression was nowhere near to be found.

''It's been almost an hour since the training started anyways!'' She shot back before slapping his hand away, getting up by herself.

To be fair, they had been training for an hour already, so they started at roughly 5:00.

He rolled his eyes at her annoying attitude ''If it were up to me, I wouldn't have even trained today. Ist Diablos rules, not mine.'' Melian had already gotten up while Isiah was on his quick little rant. She stood to her feet and looked down at her hands. Fayre hadn't been summoned by her, since today the training only consisted of close combat.

She hated having to work so hard, and neither had the others. But nobody ever said anything, since Diablo made them believe that it's all also what they wanted. The looks on their faces said something completely different though. ''Is this really what everybody wants?'' She muttered to herself. ''What did you say?'' Isiah asked confused, since he barely heard a word. ''Huh-'' She was taken back to reality. ''Nothing... Let's just get this training done.''

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She put her arms in front of her, her hands forming a firm fist.

Isiah did the same. It was close combat training after all. According to Diablo's plan, it's to make their reflexes & instincts sharper. Not like both needed this.

Strangely enough, Isiah had his signature smile on his face again. It's true, training was nowhere close to being one of his favorite activities according to schedule; and even less the close combat one. But seeing Melian back on her feet & not complaining fora second made him smile again, which he hadn't even noticed until he snapped back. Melian landed a clean punch on his shoulder, which shot him back to reality.

''You- I wasn't even ready!'' He answered, his smile slightly dropping.

She moved her head over to the entrance of the giant hall, which caused Isiah to quickly turn his head around. Fair enough, the entrance doors were wide open.

In which Diablo was standing in & actually staring right at them. In front of him were two of the guards, while two others who were already standing somewhere in the halls weren't paying any attention to the residents that were training in here.