Angelic Judgement

Chapter 9: The Fighters

Constance walked into her room and saw the stranger with confused eyes. She questioned why she was here and the girl explained that Kora said she would be sharing rooms. As she went to introduce herself Constance stomped her way to Kora's and banged on her door. Furious with how this was done without her consent the two went into a heated argument of how she should stay with Kora since she's her trainer.

When Kora finally convinced her that she would understand and give the best advice, Constance caved in and went back to her room. A terrified Keira waited. Constance slammed the door and began laying down ground rules,

"This isn't me not liking you. I prefer to be by myself and I was not told that this was happening. Now, don't touch any of my stuff without me letting you know it's ok."

Keira nodded and began to unpack and place her items on her side of the room. As she finished she left the room to go find Esperanza. Once she did she asked her what was the problem with Constance and if she really had to stay with her. Esperanza made the choice to at least explain that she's wondered the same thing but that apparently she's had a hard past that's turned her into who she is now. Keira thanked her for telling her this and went back to her room.

She tried to fall asleep but was too excited at how tomorrow would be her first day of training. She turned to Constance and asked if she had to have special training in order to join but she was sound asleep.

The next morning Keira was awakened by the feeling of freezing liquid raining down on her. She jolted up to try and see who had done this but her eyes were hazy from all the water. After rubbing them dry she looked and saw that it was Kora, Constance, and a man she had never seen before. She asked why they had to do that but the she-wolf laughed and said that they had to prank the newbie at some point in time.

Once she changed into her warm uniform Kora gave her, the group went to the training room. Kora introduced the man that had been with them, Winston. Keira began to analyze him, long dirty blonde hair with raspberry eyes. He was muscular and by the way he had been talking he seemed to be arrogant; Keira already didn't like him. Kora began to tell the young girl that she would be battling this man as part of her training today.

Keira gave a snarled looked as she saw the huge grin on his face, as if he knew the results. They stepped onto the mats and Keira took in a deep breathe and closed her eyes. As she prepared to make her move she felt her stomach reach throat and went straight into the wall. Opening her eyes she saw her opponent proudly dusting off his hands. This just made her even more furious. The adrenaline kicked in and she vanished. He looked back to see where she was before being grabbed by the throat and being lifted in the air to be violently thrown back down.

When the dust cleared you could see him, laying in the middle of cracked gravel passed out. Foot steps walk into the training room, it was Axel and the boss. Everyone turned shocked to see the boss coming to watch the event and asked why he was here. He told them he heard a crash and wanted to find out what was going on. Then they turned to Axel and asked him the same question and with a smile on his face he said,

"I made a bet that Keira would win. If he were to lose he would train Keira with Kora. Although I didn't think she would crush him like this, how will he fight?"

This made everyone laugh but the boss reassured him that the doctor would be able to cure him in no time. That's when Keira asked if she had made it to join the Agency's assassin squad. The boss turned to Kora to signal if she had passed the test.

Kora went over to Keira and told her she would be stupid to not accept her and congratulated her on becoming a member of the assassin squad. Over come with joy Keira hugged her and thanked her. Axel then picked up Winston to take him to the doctor for recovery. The boss asked Esperanza if she had started the new case she was assigned. Now nervous, she told him she fell asleep before Axel could tell her what the case was about.

This made the man laugh and he explained to her that the case was to understand the evil nature that humans possess and what those might be. Esperanza wondered how she would be able to solve a case like this but came up with an idea; visit a prison. She went to find Axel and tell him where they needed to go in order to solve the case.

Axel looked at her puzzled as he had never heard of a prison before. Esperanza stared back bewildered but remembered she wasn't on Earth anymore. The two went to the main office to discuss the plans for the case. In the mean time Kora was training Keira.

"Alright Miss. Kickass it's time I strength that weak brain of yours."

Keira looked at her like she was crazy but before giving her a chance to reply Kora continued,

"The only reason you won that battle was because he set you off with his attitude. But what are you going to do when a surprise attack comes and you can't fight like that? Or if your anger doesn't get the best of you like it did? You can't depend on your hatred Keira, you have to learn how to master your moves while under self control."

Keira paused, realizing the truth of her greatest weakest. Kora then began to tell her her story of her ability; and how her weakness would be if there were a group to attack her she would be hopeless. But she taught herself martial arts in order to defend herself, and she made herself mentally strong in order to make quick decision under pressure and control herself. She told the girl that she would teach her same technics.

Kora then began her lesson. She told Keira to go over to a punching bag and pretend it was a Kyokimi. As Keira began to prepare herself she was stopped,

"If you do something like that in real combat the enemy will use that opportunity to strike. Now hit the bag again without preparing yourself."

Keira obeyed and faced the bag again. She went for her target and smashed it with her palm; throwing it in the air. Her coach approved of this and gave her a blindfold. Confused, she took it and was told to put it on and follow her voice. Waiting for the signal to move she heard a voice commanding her to jump.

When she did so she felt a blow to her side in midair and landed on the wall. Frustrated and angry she ripped the blindfold off and questioned why her trainer did that. She got a simple answer,

"You aren't always going to see your enemy, so you need to be fully aware of your surroundings, now put it back on and jump."

This routine went on for hours with Kora kicking Keira to the point that she couldn't get back up. But Kora kept pushing her,

"Listen to me, no matter how many times you get smashed if you don't get back up and fight you'll die. I'll stop once you stop my attack just once."

A battered Keira looked up and slowly stood back up, and was ordered to jump. With a thrust of her leg she pushed herself into the air, blindfold still on. She waited and listened. She heard the movement of wind caused from the speed of her attacker. She turned, grabbed the leg and hurled it to the ground. Staring at the defeated she stood like a statue. 

The crippled Kora slowly rose and smirked at the sight of her serious trainee. All she could do was nod after coughing blood to signal a job well done. The superior fell on her knees from  exhaustion and pain; having Keira sprint to rescue her. She helped carry her to the doctor to heal her.

As they moved towards the office they were stopped by another fighter, Constance. She examined the consequence Kora had faced for challenging Keira to her breaking point and chuckled,

"So I see she's not as bad as we thought. I guess that means I might join in your training as well since Winston is too weak." 

 Constance continued her journey down the hall after confronting the two. Kora broke the silence then telling Keira that the she-wolf is a force to be taken seriously; she's the best of the best in the Agency and no one wants to challenge her. Keira listened and thought about how she would be rooming with Constance. She would be knowing more about her and she would learn all of her secrects as well; at least she hoped that's how things would go down. 

Once they reached the doctor's office Keira guided Kora over to help. Then she began to walk down the quiet hallway to the place where she would try to find out who the best fighter really is.