Fire's Mage (Book One) Kyoko of Fire Country

Chapter Seven

Winston didn't know who had pissed off to get such a team, his past life must have drowned kittens and puppies, before massacring entire towns and villages for shits and giggles. That could be the only reason he'd be stuck with the combination of these three.

In terms of team work, Team Six was the worst. In terms of raw power, he didn't think they were doing that badly, only because it would seem both Sheikh and Kyoko took their studies more seriously then most their age would've.

In team work building training, Adrianne refused to work with Kyoko, Sheikh refused to work with Adrianne and Kyoko didn't trust Adrianne as far she could throw her.

It showed even now, a wooden pole stood in the centre of the clearing, ropes tying it to nearby trees. There was oil along the ropes, along with seals to stop people from climbing it. It was something that would Kyoko to lift one of her team mates up to get the chest at the top.

Something Melissa and Madeline had told him that Kyoko and Sheikh did well on. Even if was with Kia, Kornelia and Ayesha instead of Adrianne.

It might have been two weeks, but he wasn't willing to push Adrianne onto Melissa and Madeline. If she wasn't willing to listen to him, then he didn't need another teams training to be stopped and slowed down because of her tantrums.

At the moment, it looked like Adrianne was trying to calm herself while Sheikh leaned against the nearest tree, Kyoko sitting on the branch above his head. Using small footholds that Winston hadn't noticed to climb. Winston could say she never got more then halfway before she fall off, Kyoko had placed a shield underneath after her sixth greeting with the ground. Winston was glad that she was willing to do that much, it stopped her from cracking any bones or breaking her neck.

This was to teat Adrianne and so far she was failing, again and Winston didn't see that changing for the foreseeable future. All she had to do was ask Kyoko to float the two of them to the top, stopping at the top of she could get the chest.

Sheikh waved Kyoko down from her spot, her staff underneath her. Floating down, she allowed him to whisper something into her ear. Now he knew what Sophia felt like when he refused to work with Patricia and Ammon, all because he thought he was better then they were.

"Got it," Sheikh told him he was sitting next to Kyoko as she floated down in front of him. Adrianne screaming until her face turned red, what she was saying he couldn't understand.

When he thought about it, if he really wanted this team to work he'd have to get rid of Adrianne. Which he couldn't, their program gives students six months to pull their heads out of their asses.

Adrianne didn't do anything she didn't want to, wouldn't work with Mages at all. Whilst Sheikh and Kyoko would put aside their differences to complete a mission, talking until they came to a conclusion that work.

Before going back to ignoring each other, noses in their books as Adrianne screams her head off. When he would arrive to their training spot, it would be calm. They wouldn't be talking to each other, Kyoko would be reading as she stayed above Adrianne's arm reach. Some of these things were tomes, hard theory about seals, illusions and magic natures.

Sheikh would be practising his katas with a rapier, daggers or board sword. Adrianne, on the otherhand, would be always watching him from her tree stump.

He wished he could do something about it, but he was sure some people in the council wouldn't be if he had gotten rid of her. Not that it mattered, anything he tried to teach her went into one ear and out the other. Or it was straight out ignored.

Sheikh took everything in, Kyoko wasn't with most training session since he got her to train with Melissa, Dominic or Charis since he couldn't train her himself.