Pacifiers

Chapter 6

So  I was not properly dressed for the occasion but then no one was. The class was taught by a petite  woman named Artemis Wayne about 5'1 inches tall and she reminded me of a spanish doll but her face showed determination and her body screamed that she was one hell of a fighter. I looked around to find that Kasey, Jack and Raegan were also there.

"So welcome all students. First off all, move to the changing rooms and change into the clothes kept for each one of you with your name tags. And come back fast. now GO."

We all practically ran to the changing rooms and what we had to wear was pretty intimidating. It was a plain black t back tank top and skin hugging but extremely comfortable trefoil leggings  the kind of stuff you'd find at Adidas or Reebok.

"Are you going to take all day princesses?" she taunted us and so we hurried back. 

"Stand in a straight horizontal line everyone." she ordered. "Defence is an important part of our lives. If you know how to defend yourself, if you know how to protect your companions  then life becomes a tad bit easier for you. " she continued.

"How is Knife and Sword Fighting defensive? Shouldn't we be taught karate or something ?" asked a guy whose name well i don't know.

"Shouldn't a person named Artemis be teaching Archery?" chimed in another boy.

"Mr. Parker you don't interrupt a teacher when she is in the midst of speaking something. And Mr.Daniels misconceptions and myths. Never believe them. " she glared at them, which pretty much scared them off.

"How ironical." I thought to myself.

"So defence is important." she continued."But when you are trained to be a pacifier, when you are going to Analtapasia, then just defence is not going to work. You need more, you need offence. Now you'll think offence against whom? It may be possible that at times, some of the citizens over there challenge you to duels."

The room broke into a crowd of whispers.

"A duel? What?Are we living in the medivial times?" asked Jason.

"Most certainely not. But the minds of the citizens are wired differently. They consider themselves to be in a different time, or get thrills from a different kind of drug, which might be duel or anything else. So here we're just talking about a small fraction of them, but they are ravages, they are primitives and barbaric and so, their fighting is more sharp and offensive. And to beat them you'll also have to be offensive."

A school that teaches us to be violent. You'd never heard of it, had you ?

"Can't we be offensive with karate as well?" asked a girl named Daphne.

"You people are stuck on karate. Take out your time tables and notice that you have a variety of classes for all the japanese forms of war arts you want to learn. And to answer your question, yes you can be offensive with karate, but knife and sword fighting will have a much stronger impact. Now, lets not waste any more time and begin."

She divided us into pairs of two and thankfully I got Kasey with me. For the first class, we were going to start with basics of knife fighting. All of us had been given a special kind of knife whose hilt was mahagony and mine was beautifully and intristically carved with vines and curles and loops and twists and turns. Never did I know that a knife good look so entralling and deadly at the same time.

"Wow" I exclaimed.

"Yeah seriously wow." chuckled Kasey seeing her knife.

Artemis called one of her assistants and they told us about the features and the specifications of the knife which was kinda boring.