"Come on, you've gotta keep up with me!"
Luke shouted to Cole and Dustin behind him. It was the end of their first week of consistent training and to "celebrate" Luke was having them run 5 laps around the prowess gym.
"WHAT THE HELL KIND OF TRAINING IS THIS?!"
Cole could hardly construct the sentence while trying to keep up with Luke meanwhile Dustin was heaving, his lungs feeling like they would fall out of his throat if he even thought about speaking.
"Hey Dustin! Your doing great back there! Keep it up!" Luke said with an encouraging thumbs up.
Dustin was behind both of them quite a bit, but he was putting in as much effort as he could, with Luke's encouragement he managed to push through to the end, even if it was a full minute after the other two.
Luke caught his breath before turning around and seeing how Cole and Dustin were doing "Whoo.. got a bit winded there, you guys good?"
Dustin threw up behind a bush nearby while Cole lied on the ground taking in as much air as possible.
"Well, don't get too tired, we haven't even started the exercise yet!"
Luke was met complete hatred from both Cole and Dustin, they looked at him like they would tear him apart if they weren't so tired already.
"Whoa, don't look at me like that, look, since you guys did so good today we'll go a bit lighter on the exercises today, so instead of 30, we'll do 20 burpees to start, sound good?"
"UGH" - Dustin & Cole
"Alright don't forget to drink some water you guys, we're starting soon!"
Luke took a swig from his water jug prompting the other 2 to start drinking.
After the two of them caught their breath a bit, they began their exercise once more.
"Alright that's long enough, we gotta keep your heartrates up. Lets go!"
Their exercise consisted of 20(normally 30) burpees
Jogging on a treadmill for 30 minutes straight
60 high knees
40 jumping jacks
20 squat jumps
Jump rope for as long as possible
25 box jumps
and 30 mountain climbers.
But they were far from ready to use their prowess at their full potential.
It was now evening, their workout finally over, they were in the prowess gym sitting on chairs in their rented out room.
"Alright... great work today guys, I'm seeing lot's of improvement in both of you since the start of this week, especially you Dustin. Next week were gonna be going even harder so get ready for it."
"Just one question, when do we get to train our powers?" Cole asks.
"Oh you've guys have got weeks until your ready for that, you think I was able to get like this in just a couple days?"
Luke points to his arms.
"It was years of rigorous training, but you guys don't have that long.."
"Don't have that long? What does that mean?" Cole asks.
Dustin looks up, he was previously sitting with his hands together looking at the floor.
"Well, I just realized.. in the entire week we've been training I haven't had to pick up anyone who'd been experimented on by our father, usually there's at least one a week but.. nothing." Luke said
"Experiment- wait what does that mean?"
"It means.. he's found what he's looking for, you."
For a moment, Cole was afraid when Luke said that, but that very emotion was instead taken over by anger.
"Wh-What? Are you kidding me, he's looking for me? What makes you even think that?!"
"It makes the most sense, as soon as you arrived, people stopped showing up, usually Grayson keeps an eye on things like that with his ability but... he hasn't found anything recently."
"Look Cole I'm not trying to make you feel bad or anything, after all you couldn't have known, I doubt anyone would blame you for something like that."
But Cole wasn't upset about that, he was merely angry at the idea of seeing that man again, so angry..
"I don't care about that, just tell me why this even matters anymore. After all if he's no longer experimenting on people then we should be ok then right?"
"Cole, don't you realize? He's coming for you, which means he's coming for all of us."
Cole audibly growled in anger.
"So what?! Were going to kill him aren't we? Your training us now anyway so we'll be ready for when he comes." Cole said ignorantly.
"My intention wasn't to train you guys for combat, although I guess.. it was inevitable wasn't it? Can't escape our responsibilities."
"Cole..? Are you feeling alright, you normally don't get this worked up over things like this." Dustin said concerned
But Dustin's concern was met with immense pushback.
"YES, I'm fine! So leave me the hell alone!" Cole shouted at Dustin in a strange bout of anger.
"Oh- I.. sorry."
Cole, realizing what he'd done, stopped and looked at his hands before glancing at his tattoo.
What the hell? Why did I just..
"W-Wait, I didn't mean to say that, I don't know why but.. I got... angry. I'm sorry."
"It's ok, I know your under a lot of stress, I guess todays workout has us really tired huh?"
Dustin tried lightening the mood.
"Yeah.. yeah I am but, you are too, don't make excuses for me."
"Ok, yeah your right, come on we should probably go home right? I'm uh pretty tired myself." Dustin says.
Luke looked at the two of them like a proud father watching his kids make up.
"Why are you looking like that?" Cole asked him.
"I don't know what your talking about." (+v+)~
"...Ok, your right Dustin, let's go."
Dustin and Cole both get up and head towards the door.
"Hey, make sure to shower first, you can't go home smelling like that."
They both turn around and search their bags for extra clothes and they go into the showers and while they were doing this Luke studied Cole for a moment.
"Oh and next week we've gotta train even harder than we were going to, so be ready for that."
What is going on with you Cole?
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Maledictus Ignis
ActionAs far as you can remember, you were born an orphan, you don't have any parents to speak of, you live alone and no matter how hard you try you can't remember anything from your childhood. Not even mentioning his fire powers that he hates and wishes...
