The Cold Truth (Sting x OC)

Chapter 14

General POV
Crystal wakes up startled, she's sweating and panting heavily. She stands up quickly and runs to the bathroom after grabbing some clothes. She locks the doors and leans onto the sink breathing heavily and shaking. She looks at herself in the mirror before splashing her face with cold water. She quickly changes into short shorts and a black sports bra, she then puts on her gladiator sandals before grabbing her phone, and her headphones, she begins playing her music as she walks down to the beach. It was 6:30 and no one else was awake so she begin to practice her hand to hand combat.

She continues this for an hour until Sting and Rogue walk down to the beach. Mira was with them. "Are you are it was a smart idea leaving the exceeds with Laxus?" Sting asks before looking at Crystal.

"Yes, he's become a lot softer after our children." She smiles. "Crystal look stressed..." She finishes.

The twin dragons nod and watch Crystal. She looks back at them and stops, a huge chunk of ice is in shards and huge chunks. Her hands are slightly bleeding and she looks stressed and angry. But she still smiles at the two as she takes her earbuds out and pauses her music.

"Hey guys!" She smiles.

The three walk over to her, "You ready for your training Crystal?" Mira smiles

Crystal nods, "I still say this feels like an anger management thing." She pouts.

"Sting and Rogue will be joining us as well." Mira says.

The two dragons whine. "but we don't have anger issues like she does!" Sting says.

"Says the person that yelled at a man because he complimented my hair." Crystal smirks

Sting goes to say something but stops, knowing she's right. Mira giggles. "Alright you three, sit." Mira says.

The three sit down, Sting sits with his legs and arms crossed, Rogue sits with his legs crossed but hands relaxed by his side. Crystal sits on her knees with her hands balled up into fists in her lap.

"Alright, I need all of you to sit with your legs crossed but relaxed. The thing you three struggle with most is relaxing, especially you Crystal. This will make you all more likely to get angry." Mira says.

Crystal tenses up, but she sits the way Mira told them too, mostly. Sting sits the same except he seems more relaxed.

"Crystal, you have to relax, that's the whole point for this training." Mira says.

Crystal sighs and closes her eyes when she feels a strong hand on her thigh, she looks at Sting who is smiling softly at her. She then looks to Mira who is clearly mentally squealing. Crystal sighs and closes her eyes as she slowly relaxes, not fully, but enough.

"Good, next step. I want you all to close your eyes and began to release your magic energy." Mira instructs. They do as told.

~1 and a half hours later~
Sting goes off with Rogue to help train with him while Crystal goes with Gray.

"Alright, you need to work on your range when it comes to your magic. Yeah it's powerful, but it's shorter distance then what it could be." Gray says.

Crystal nods, "alright, so what do we do?" She questions.

"You are going to do your roar, and I'm going to freeze a certain amount of the water. Once you can reach that line, we will move onto the next thing." Gray says

"Shouldn't you be training as well?" She asks.

"I am training by training you, you can use a lot more magic then I can without getting tired, my training is keeping up with you." Gray says.

Crystal nods and gets in position. She closes her eyes and yells, "Winter Dragons" she inhales deeply, "ROAR!" She yells. The roar goes out about 100 yards, the roar freezes the water it passes into huge spikes of ice that forms a small canyon like  form.

"Not bad, but you can do better. It's strong but easy to dodge, we need to work on expanding it." Gray says. Crystal nods, "again!" Gray says.

Crystal nods and closes her eyes she does the same thing this time it goes a little farther. 150 yards this time.

~With Sting and Rogue~

"Damn, her roar can go pretty far. Maybe Gray is helping her get it to go further?' Sting asks.

"Possibly, her attacks are strong but the need to go further, otherwise it'll be easier to dodge. Gray could know that. I bet he's helping her extend the length of her attacks." Rogue says.

"That would be helpful in many situations..." Sting says.

"Not only that, it'll help her gain more power when it comes to close range. If she can keep the same strength when using long distance for her attacks, when her attacks are used for close range they'll double in strength." Rogue says.

"Well, looks like we better get started with our training!" Sting smirks.

Rogue nods and the two begin to spar.

This type of training continued for the next three months. Crystal would wake up early and jog or run around the beach for an hour and a half, then Mira, Rogue, and Sting  would come train mentally with Mira, then Rogue and Sting would train together while Gray and Crystal trained together. Once or twice a week, Sting and Erza would work on hand to hand combat with her as well.