DIVIDED: A Year Together (A SirPython Story)

Divided: Chapter 4- Training

Divided: Chapter 4- Training
January 2015
Pentagram Arena

The new lovers had been seeing each other for a little over 2 weeks at this point and they got back on schedule with Sir Pentious's training.
Monty was out on the floor and warming up for the training session with Penny. It was early enough as the other fighters were also training alongside Monty.

Bandaging up his hands and coating them in chalk to prepare him for the weight training and entire session with Penny.
"Ok, I'm READY!" Sir Pentious entered the gym floor extravagantly wearing a Fuschia crop t-shirt, a long tank top, bubblegum blue sweat wristbands and a sweat headband. Not to mention his hair was fashioned into a high ponytail to keep it out of the way while they worked out.
Monty just gawked at Pentious's getup and tried his hardest to not laugh but it was more the other fighters peering over at how ridiculous Penny looked.

"What in all of Hell are you wearing Penny?" he asked with disbelief.
"Don't you love it! It's the hippest thing on the market for my favourite era!" Pentious gave a twirl then Monty noticed something else. "A-are those leg warmers?" he asked, probably regretting this arrangement.
"No silly! They are tail warmers for us snake demons." He giggled and clapped excitedly. "Ok, so where do we start?".

Monty stared at Penny as he was a muddle of feelings seeing the once smartly dressed snake in workout gear. "Oh? We can start with some arm exercises as you need to work on that the most." he poked Pentious's skinny arms which made the British snake blush. "It's alright Penny you can gain some meat on those chicken wings in no time. Follow me to the weights." Monty slithered over to the rack of weights varying from many sizes. He picks up a small set of bright orange weights and hands them to Penny. "Here Penny these would be ideal for your starting point. It's about 1.5kg or 3lbs"

Sir Pentious took the weights which were heavier than expected for him, "What are you going to be lifting Monty?".
Monty goes to the rack of weights and picks up on the black dumbbells off the wall, "Oh it's 20kg about 44 lbs. This is years of training, bear in mind Penny, but I will help you in shape." he gave a sweet smile which made Pen blush. "Ok so let's do some warmups before we get into the arm workouts. Follow me, Penny." Monty escorted Sir Pentious to the large workout mats at the back of the gym. Most of the other fighters were at the other end of the hall using the machines so it gave them some privacy.

"Rightio, let's try some stretches to loosen up your body." Monty started with some arm stretches and watched Pen follow suit. They both did some side bend stretches, arm circles and cobra stretches. Once they got up Monty wanted to focus on some tail stretches. "Next Penny we have to work on our tails. Unlike most demons down here we, unfortunately, don't have legs so we have to do different ways of the exercises needed."

Pen listened intently and loved how serious Monty was taking this Overlord Training. He looked good as a teacher and Pen felt confident with Monty's encouragement. "I never thought about tail exercises. How would one start?"
"Oh very easily actually" the Irish Python was so ecstatic to share his skills with someone. Monty got a sidebar into the middle of the mat for both of them. "So the idea is to run on the spot. We need to keep our tails steady to build up a resistance to endure some strengthening factors. That's what will tone up the muscles we use every day like our tails and arms."

Pentious listened but he loved hearing Monty's in-depth knowledge of physical physique. There was a lot more logical thinking behind it than he assumed. As Monty was demonstrating the exercise Sir Pentious was in a trance looking so dreamily at the blue snake, recalling their intense tomfoolery over a week or so ago. Pen lightly bit his lower lip as he tilted his head admiring the Irishman's form. Those muscles that you could not imagine existing on anybody, Monty had them. His eyes trailed over his strong arms past his anchor tattoo and down to his torso. That...iconic chest Sir Pentious found so comfortable to sleep on most nights over the fortnight. However, with Monty's strenuous training schedule of late, it was hard to make time for their first proper date.