Tales From Dragon Inc.

Rock Climbing

Yugo smiled proudly as he watched the employees of Dragon Inc. enjoying the team-building exercises. Every so often, an employee would congratulate him on his ideas for the exercises. Everyone seemed to be having a lot of fun.

"Alright, let's get ready for the rock climbing wall!" Zarc called out. Yuto immediately grabbed Yuya's hand, eagerly pulling him away to the rock wall that had been set up. Yuya giggled at his eagerness, knowing full well that they were going to blow the competition out of the water.

Yuri had teamed up with Dennis, who was the only employee other than Yuya's boyfriends who had actually seen the tomato-head scale a rock wall before. Dennis was determined to at least try to win despite knowing full well that it was highly unlikely. He grinned at Yuya, "Don't think that I'm going to go easy on you! It wouldn't be fair to either of us if I didn't even try."

"Very true!" Yuya said, grinning back at him. Yugo pouted at them. "I still wish you were on my team for the rock climbing wall!"

"Don't worry, we'll be together for the obstacle course, remember?" Yuy reminded him. At that, Yugo lit up and nodded happily. "Yeah! I can't wait!"

"Alright, places, everyone!" Zarc called out. The employees participating in the climbing wall got ready in their teams of two, with one climber and one belayer each. Zarc, who was sitting this activity out to oversee it, held up an air horn and honked it to start the climbers.

As soon as the air horn went off, the employees who had overheard Yuya and Dennis's banter suddenly understood. Yuya climbed the wall as swiftly as a mountain goat, with Yuto almost struggling to keep up with the rope. Dennis was trying to overtake the tomato-head, but he wasn't nearly as quick as him. Within seconds, Yuya had reached the top of the wall and hit the buzzer.

"Woah!" Sora stared up at him from the bottom of the wall. "You're so fast, Yuya! How are you so fast?!"

Yuya shrugged as Yuto lowered him down. "I've got a lot of experience climbing," he said. Sora shook his head in disbelief, "No wonder Yugo wanted you on his team!"

"We all did," Yuri replied. "Yuya's the best athlete out of us five. We all wanted to team up with him for today's team building exercises."