Non-Stop

--6--

After Battle Education, Agility training and Health Training were to come.
We walked down the hall now without an escort. I paid attention to the details on the walls, practicing for attention class.

And then Mary and Leesie began to argue. "But that isn't how you punch !" Mary exclaimed. I watched the two girls face one another in fury. Mary put her fists in her fluffy afro in frustration. Her violet eyes burning with anger and her brown skin stained pink near her cheeks and forehead.

Leesie was all red, her pale skin puffing with distaste. "You hold your thumb out " Leesie snapped. "You punch with it in !".
I was about to settle it but Zax quickly knelt near them his eyes calm. "We need to be off to class, why not ask next Battle Education? " He said soothingly. His voice was so deep and soothing that neither bothered to argue.

We walked down the hall to Agility, Jack now keeping up with Zax and beginning conversation like any of the rest off us.
Jealousy boiled under my skin, I noted to myself to buy a normal dog when I returned home.

"You seem to be the peacekeeper " I commented to Zax, interrupting them. Zax glanced at me his attention gathered for the moment. "Yeah, its a job " He said giving me a dazzling smile. I nodded smiling wryly back. "Its a talent " I insisted. Zax blinked down looking sad. "I just try to do my best, I dont have much to return to" He sighed. I reached over to touch his shoulder but then we arrived.
Commander Thomas smiled evilly as we stood around the path. He turned on the agility course no one had managed to pass, level 1.
"Asyri can go first since she did the worst last time "He said. I didn't bother and grumble, the others give me sympathetic looks.

Hail gives out whispers to help but I ignore them. I leap forward onto the steps, getting past them with Jack easily. We leap as one onto the cylinders. Its still hard to keep balance, its pure luck that we get to the spinning metal fans. We stand on the spinning blades and then leap into the waves of the pool.
The salt stings my mouth and the water waves violently. Jack doesn't struggle as much as I do, he finishes while Im slammed against the side of the Polk and electrocuted by small lasers. The energy zaps the pool and stings as I struggle to swim away and to the other side of the pool. My lungs fill with water but I manage to grab the side and pull myself out away from the waves. Im choking, gasping, my skin seering with pain and my muscles aching sorely. Jack pants with worry above me.
"Come on, you can make it " Said his robotic voice. I struggled to my feet as heaved over to Commander Thomas. He gave me a cold look, but then muttered.
"70 points".
My gray clothes are drenched, and as I feel my heart stutter with tiredness, the words bring accomplished to my brain, buzzing my chest with ambition.

Zax gave me a grin, and Hail nodded his approval. Kyle looked nervous and Face elbowed Blue.
"She has 110 points, that's 10 points higher then you " Face cackled. Blue snorted in distaste.

"We are a team " Kyle reminded. "Yeah "Jenna snapped. "But not yet " Jenna added. Blue nodded in agreement .

I ignored them with Jack growling as a threat from my side.

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Health training was interesting, though Mary had a black eye and Blur had gotten electrocuted to the point of failing, furthering her glares at me.

We inspected fake burns on a strangely realistic limb. And were taught how to handle the burns with a special type of gew.

The woman who taught instructed us on many things, how to tell if a wound was festering, and how to tell what type of medicine to apply. Mary corrected her a number of time, giving easier solutions to burns by applying a plant called... Aloe Vera .

I leaned over the counter observing intently my eyed glazed with boredom at this point. "So what would we apply to a burn as bad as this? " The teacher asked. I raised my hand lazily but she called on Blue who seemed more alert.
"Burnt Rune, its an aggressive medicine but it will assure it doesn't only heal but isn't infected " She said as if she had phonographic memory. The teacher pushed her glasses farther up the bridge of her nose and nodded looking approvingly at Blue. "12 points".