Serenity

05 Mirror Broadcasts & Enraged Friends

SERENITY

"Put your back into it!" Ace Waldrop shouted.

I lunged at Ace quickly forcefully as I tried to hit him with my bow staff. Our staffs kept smashing against each other's while I continued trying to back him into a corner.

He made several attempts at trying to hit me but failed.

I yawned tauntingly.

"Is that the best you got Waldrop?" I patronized.

His nostrils flared angrily as his hits became a lot more violently. Ace focused on channeling all his strength into hitting my staff harsh enough to have me staggering backwards. Little did he know, that's exactly what I wanted.

When his staff came down on mine, I quickly snatched it out of his hand without a second thought. With the two staffs in my hands, I bashed Ace into the wall and watched his eyes almost pop out of their sockets.

Ace slid against the wall until his butt was planted on the floor. I flew over to him as he panted with his back hunched over.

"I guess the student is becoming the master," Ace said as he breathed heavily.

"The student already became the master when she was thirteen and first bested you after years of getting thrown around like a rag doll."

I extended my hand to him and yanked my two hundred pound battle instructor up to his feet.

"I miss those days but sometimes I think I'm better off where we are now. I remember you being more blood thirsty, you almost bit my ear off once," Ace rubbed his ear and cringed.

I laughed as I reminisced the memory.

"I played dirty."

"Still do."

"I'd like to think of it as more... thinking outside the box," I flew to a side table and handed Ace a rag to pat off his sweat.

Ace truly doesn't age, he looks the same as he did when I first met him at the age of five. Pale blue eyes, and wings the color of the insides of cucumbers. His hair was the same cucumber color, but Ace had it cut so short you could barely see it.

Ace rubbed the rag over the deep creases of his forehead as he smoothed his shirt over his muscles which were truly as hard as stone.

"One more round?" I asked.

"I can't, your mother told me that our lessons would be limited from now on," Ace explained.

My eyes were rolling to the back of my head. I stomped in frustration.

"This sucks," I frowned.

"I know," he said. "Do yourself a favor runt, stop being stubborn and listen to her. It would save you a lot of trouble."

"That's hard to do when she won't listen to what I have to say either," I crossed my arms over my chest.

Ace threw the rag back at me with harsh force and I caught it without even blinking.

"I'm not the advice giving type kid, you have Cory for that."

"I know, but he always tells me the same things," I told. "And he talks too much."

Ace chuckled and hit my shoulder. I almost fell over.

"He does, I always end up falling asleep whenever we're on patrol together. He babbles about everything boring from corn syrup to the fundamentals of how useful string is."