Coup De Grâce

Are you Tough Enough?

Mystique's POV

"Wrong!!! You're doing it all wrong!" Yelled our coach.

"Coach just go easy on us, it's only our first day" My brother pleaded.
After he requested for coach to "go easy", I could already tell Coach was not listening to his excuses.

"So you're talking back, huh kid? Is that what we do around here now?"

"Uhh Coach all we did was walk through the door and put our bags on the floor. You're the one who yelled at us saying "drop and give me 20" when we didn't do shit."

Whoa.. I didn't know my brother cursed but I heard how defensive he sounded and I knew that I didn't want to be involved. All of a sudden coach laughed, and jabbed my brother in his face.

"What the..! Jacee! ... Coach?!?" I didn't know how to react to the situation being both terrified and pissed at my coach but I didn't want to respond in a negative way towards my coach, knowing he's not afraid to hit someone without thinking twice

"Test number 1... shock training. Try to keep up."

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Two hours later

"Hey Jace... I'm tired bro." I said dragging my feet on the ground.

"Oh yeah, well.. I'm pissed, sweaty, my face hurts, and my knuckles hurt from doing push ups on the concrete"

"Well I think you had it coming"

"Is this what the guys in the movie go through to do those stunts or is coach just giving us crap? Do they get knocked out without any warnings? I don't even know if I want to go back" He continued talking to himself.

"Ha, You know Jace, I'm not used to hearing you curse but it's pretty funny."

He then looked at me with a very intimidating look and it felt like his eyes were piercing threw me. To avoid being scared out of my life, I looked the other way and laughed awkwardly. 

"Um Jace, remind me why we have to walk home again..." 

"Mom told me we had to walk cause she didn't want to miss any details of her show.. and you know... how she gets... when she misses her show." He said laughing. 

"We should get bikes!" 

"That's a good idea, Tomorrow we're going to ride to practice and then hang with Jordan. Sound like a plan?"

"Yeah that should be fun because i'm going to ride circles around your slow butt. "

"Yeah right--"

He paused and froze and had a confused face then he went on. "What happened to Jordan meeting us today anyways? Its not like him to miss something."

"Well he prolly had something else to do then, you never know" I suggested to him, but it seemed he was too concerned with the thought.

Finally, we made it home and the house... was surrounded by polices with big guns and helicopters hovering around.

Jace charged in the house and I followed behind.

As I ran through the doors, my mother collapsed before me, blood flowing from her head, laying in front of my feet. I stared her face, wide eyed, then ran to my room and hid in my closet once I heard one of the men shout my name.

I seen my dad quietly coming into the room. A wave of relief went through me. Then it happened.. he took a bullet through his head and fell right in front of my eyes. I was petrified... I couldn't even scream. That's when I heard my brother but I couldn't respond. My vision got blurry, the room was getting dark, and I was picked up by a man in a black mask..