Grotesque Trilogy (Book 1)

Chapter 13

As me, Peace and Olivia left Ofelia's office, we followed her instructions and decided to go to the gym and try to work out what made us three the strongest together. "So Peace how's Becca?" Olivia asked rather bitterly, "she's fine actually, why are you jealous or something?" Peace snapped back, I felt so uncomfortable being in the middle of this. "Me? Jealous, give over, for all I care she can have you" Olivia spat. "Not what it sounds like from where I'm standing" Peace said, at this point I was walking in front of them. "I can't be dealing with you, Meg I'll see you in the gym" Olivia said before walking off. "What's her problem?" Peace said, "did you ever like her, when you spoke to her for so long?" I questioned but instantly regretted it because Olivia didn't want me to let on that I know. "I'm in love with her Meg, she was always the one, only she has the power to make me feel a certain way and I don't want that with anyone else, when it came to me picking between her and Becca, I picked Becca because Olivia was so far out of my league, I didn't think she'd feel the same about me back and that I'd be a laughing stock" Peace explained, I was taken back I had no idea he felt like this towards Olivia, but I thought he was in love with me, he basically poured his heart out to me last night and now he's saying he loves Olivia, Peace truly is a confusing person. "I think you need to speak to her about this, you know if we are going to become a trio you both need to be on good terms" I said, Peace just nodded and we continued the rest of the journey in silence.

Approaching the gym we noticed Olivia was using her American Karate skills on the punching bag, she learned this as a self-defense for when the women that worked at the orphanage who tried to hit her, this gave her a chance to fight back. As we approached her she was kicking the punching bag, testing how high her kick can go, Peace ran over and held the bag for her. Olivia then had a sudden adrenaline rush and began kicking and punching the bag harder, with one last kick Peace went flying into the wall behind making Olivia laugh clearly pleased with herself. "You want to fight me Olivia? let's do it if that's what you want" Peace shouted, I stood in awe trying to figure out how this was going to go, "you can keep hurting me over and over again but I get it now, I never even wanted Becca, it was you Olivia and it always will be" Peace said finally. Olivia stood there taken back from Peace's words, honestly I didn't think he had the courage to even tell her how he truly felt but he did. Slowly Peace started to approach Olivia, she kept her head down looking at the floor, Peace went to get Olivia so he could hug her, but she put her arms up to her chest pushing him backwards. "Stop fighting it Olivia, let me in, I know you love me back" Peace said to her, Olivia eventually gave in and Peace embraced her, I stood there not really sure on how to react. "Right guys lets try to train to best we can, who knows when this revolutionary might begin" I said. Peace and Olivia just nodded, before Peace went into the boxing ring and tested his bare knuckle boxing, I never liked the idea of hitting anyone, the thought of hurting someone gave me shivers, Olivia made her way towards the throwing axes and began to throw them at the target in front of her, she hit dead in the middle every time. This made me feel uneasy around her because she threw the axes with ease, Peace was busy beating some poor man in the ring to notice I had no clue what to do, I looked around I found myself walking towards the pistol crossbow, a man was stood near it and noticed me looking at it. "Want me to show you how to use it?" he offered, I looked over at Olivia who was still throwing her axes and Peace who was still fighting and thought why not, I nodded and the man demonstrated to me how to use it, at first my attempts were pretty pathetic but after a while I started to get the target dead in the middle. The man tested me to see how good my aim was and every time he told me to aim for something I got it every time, the man grinned and said "you're a natural", I just laughed as I looked over, Olivia was in the same place but Peace had gone near the meteor hammers and was using them pretty well if I must confess. Ofelia looked at us all before speaking "ah it seems you have all chosen a weapon of combat without even realizing it, stay with your weapon of choice this is the weapon you will now specialize in". Me, Peace and Olivia looked at each other we all picked completely different weapons and realized that we were going to become an imperishable trio, Olivia was our axe thrower, I was the shooter and Peace was another type of thrower. We looked at one another and soon it all become clear, with all our different powers and skills we would be unattainable.