We Six

Training

I wake up to the loud repetitive sound of the alarm clock to the right of my bed screaming for me to wake up on time. I open my eyes and slam my hand on the top to stop it and let it know I'm away. I let out a long sigh and say "ugh, training day." "So unenthusiastic" Orange said with a grin. I look at him confused then I remembered we didn't have doors on our rooms "we're heading down in 5 so get ready." He said then left the room. I get up and stretch raising my hands as high as I could then to the left then the right yawning as I did. I looked over and went to the dresser on the other side of the room next to the singular window, I pull the first drawer open and take out a green tank top out of the selection of every type of shirt all in the same color then the next drawer contained every type of pants all black, so I picked something comfortable and put on leggings and the tank top I picked out. Late last night the p.a woman told us each specific instructions on to wear or do that morning, I was told to not wear shoes or socks which I thought was a little odd but I wasn't going to argue. After I put on my clothes I walk out into the middle room where everyone is gathered around the table waiting on me "What? I like my sleep." I say with a shrug. All of them smiled and chuckled besides Yellow she was stone cold. I walk over to join them when Orange starts to speak "Alright guys, this is our first day of official training, let's try to learn a lot and work together as a team. Okay?" "God how corny can you be?" Blue said with a smile but nobody laughed at that one. Blue didn't understand that we weren't close enough to make jokes like that yet, we were strangers being thrown into a situation none of us really chose to be in Orange was right we need to take as much knowledge as we could and work as a team so we could survive. I look to Blue with a judgmental glare and he caught on and lowered his head. "Alright lets go" Orange said kicking off the first step toward the door into the unknown. We took the same route as the first time down the hallway, into the elevator, and down to the training room. Once the doors opened I scanned the room, there were six people and  Tucker standing at the other end of the room waiting for us. "Are we gonna have to fight you again?" Purple said in a whiny tone while putting her fist up in a fighting position "no" Tucker said with a loud laugh "These are my helpers, each of you will learn a different style of fighting and these are masters of each of them." He said while pacing up and down each person with his hands behind his back "Then what are you going to do?" Blue said confused. "Great question Blue" Tucker said with a giant grin on his face seemingly eager for someone to propose that question. "Once a week one of you will train with me to see how everything's coming along. now training is very important you guys, its the difference between life and death." Tucker said in his sincerest of many voices. "Now lets get on with it shall we?" Purposing a rhetorical question knowing even if we said no it would still begin. we said nothing. "Great" he said with a clap and a breathy smile "well trainers get with your kids and ill be back when training is over. Remember kids try to have fun because if you're not doing good, or however that saying goes." he says with a chuckle then walks over to a door and leaves us to start training. when the door slams the trainers begin walking towards us in a single file line then stop in different spots of the mat all very far away from each other i can only assume for space so we can train without knocking into one another. after they all got into their designated spots they each looked at each other then looked back at us, then one after another they began to pull cards out of their pockets with our colors on it, Red, Blue, then yellow, mine was the last and furthest away from everyone. We didn't move until Orange looked at all of us Blue and Purple to his left and Red, Yellow, and I to his right he nodded his head at all of us then pursued to walk forward with the rest of us trailing behind him. Red was the first stop, then Yellow, then Blue, then Orange, then Red, then finally me. Green. i was pair up with a shorter while male, with brown hair and really bushy eyebrows that seemed to have a mind of their own, all of the trainers wore the same clothes black long sleeve, black sweat pants and all of them besides mine were wearing black socks and the same color shoes, he was barefoot just like me. "straddle" he shouted with a bit of an accent maybe Romanian? Albanian? before i had time to even find my answer he kicked my left foot, my body lowered as my left foot stretched away from my right. "straddle." he said with confirmation. i sat in that position for at least thirty till my legs began to shake from soreness "can i stop now?" i say the shaking creeping up to my throat. "Release" as soon as the words left his lips i fell to my knees and gasped "thank you" as i was on the floor i looked around and saw all the rest of the group learning how to block, kick and punch and i realized what i was doing didn't make sense so i look back at my trainer and said "what am i doing? everyone else is learning to defend themselves and fight and i'm sitting here just stretching. how is that supposed to help?" right at that moment he snatched me by my collar and raised me up to my feet choking me so that my breaths were few and far between, he got right up in my face and said between gritted teeth "the way you're going to fight is not about offense and defense, for you its about stealth, being hidden, staying out of sight while you disarm enemies. i'm teaching you how to get in and get out not to sit there stationary to block and attack you got that?" he said with the heat of is breath blowing in my face. he let go of me and i instantly  dropped to the floor "now" then he began to run then did a round off back handspring layout in a split the got up walked back over to me looked dead in my eyes and said "do it." and i did