História Shifter Academy - So rude, but so hot!!

Chapter 10

When the forth class was over I discovered I really liked Derik. He was nice, and supportive. It was easy to talk to him. He took me to my next class, and my calmness changed at the site of the place where we would ‘study’. It was really different from the other classes. The place was huge, with a little gym in the corner. It looked like a stadium. I held my breath as I looked around, where some other students with their animals were standing and talking.

“Don´t worry, you will be ok. They will probably put you up against someone low level. Then you should be alright. If you need any help just tell me ok?” I nodded at Derik, grateful for his help. “I have to go. My class is a little bit further down the hall. I will see you at dinner.” He jogged backward waving me away.

I reluctantly entered the class and some of the groups stopped talking and stared at me. Suddenly a known face showed up from between the mass, and came to grate me. It was Chris, from second period.

“Hey. I didn´t know I would see you here also. Welcome to fighting 2. This will be so awesome. I am sure you will kick some ass.” He told me excited at the idea of me fighting someone else. His dog, beside him was flapping his tail at me. It was kind of cute. I crouched and started petting him.

“Actually, I don´t know how to fight yet. But as soon as I learn, I will totally beat everyone up.” I told him, playfully.

“Don´t worry. This would be no problem with Mace as your teacher.” He told me. I looked behind me, and could see everyone still staring. I stood up and looked back at Chris.

“Hum, do you know why everyone is staring?” I asked. He looked at them and smiled.

“Everyone already knows about what you did with James. It was really brave of you to do that. No one here has the nerves to do so.”

“Not actually. Anyone with some balls would do the same.” I told him.

“Well, then I guess you are the only person in here with balls after all.” He laughed and walked back to his group.

At that moment Mace entered the room with his lion beside him. Just like the other classes, everyone went silent.

They went around the room and turned around to look at the students. “Everyone can take your animals away. We will only fight with spirits after second semester, as everyone already knows. Griff will stay to watch only.” At that moment the room was filled with a blinding light as every animal became a light ball. It was over fast enough, and there were only the students, Mace and Griff left.

“You can match with your usual partners and start stretching.” Everyone started to walk around until they found their partners, and I stood there awkwardly. I was so distracted that I didn´t notice Mace coming towards me. Before I could say anything he charged me and thrown a high kick at my direction. I dropped to the floor and didn’t had enough time to recover as he was going to kick me again, but I rolled to my side so his foot could connect with my ribcage but with less impact then it would before. What the hell was his problem? I don´t remember doing anything to him. I was still on the floor looking at him. I was really pissed off. He extended his hand to take. His face was showing no expression at all, but I knew I saw a little bit of surprise on him when I dodged his first kick. I took his hand reluctantly as he helped me getting up.

“You have good reflexes. That’s good. Your mother told me you had no training before. It was impressive. But you will have to work more on your balance if you want to be in the same level as everyone else. You can start working on your shape. I want you training mainly on your lower body. And after class every day, meet me here. You will have to practice more if you want to meet you mother´s expectations. She wants me to work more with you.” He told me without much interest. Ok… what? There was too much information in one sentence. Did he just say I was in bad shape? Am I supposed to be offended?

“Hum, okay I guess. I think I will just go to the gym then.” He was so… I don´t even know. I needed to show him and my mother that I could be just like everyone else. That’s it. It was decided. I would train like hell. Then I would rub it against my mother´s face. Come on, she totally deserved it. I don´t know why yet. But I know she does. Maybe just for being a total ass with me yesterday. Yeah, that’s why.

“Ok everyone, come here. We will learn a rotated punch. So this kind of technique is most used to retard the opponent for you to give them the lethal blow. The first thing you want to do is…” I stopped paying attention to what he was saying as I entered the gym and was isolated from everyone else. This sucks. He sucks.

When I finished working out and Mace´s class was over, Chris walked me to sixth period with Gwen and Mia. They helped me, making everyone stop staring. I preferred Mia’s methods of doing it better, since Gwen just started to scream at everyone, and cussing. Mia was gentler.

 We went to have dinner with Derek. Soon enough Chris sat beside me. Maybe he thinks he has in debt with me and he needed to repay me somehow. I just don´t understand why instead of talking to me he didn´t bring me some eggs. But even so, it was my fault that James did what he did. But there is nothing I can do about it. It´s not like I would ask him to leave. Having friends on the first day of school was the best thing ever. Actually, having four people sitting with me, made me feel popular. Hell yeah, I’m almost famous.

After dinner was over, I went to my room with the girls, and changed my clothes to start my extra classes. Mia started to tease me when I told her I would be meeting Mace twice a day. Gwen was really happy about it, but I told them again that my crush for him was over. Of course they didn´t believe me at all.

I dressed my running shoes, exercise shorts and a sport bra. I didn´t know what to do with my hair, so I made a high ponytail. I was ready to start fighting. Before leaving, I could see Gwen’s and Mia’s animals showing up. They were allowed to let them out in the rooms, and only medium and small animals on the classes and cafeteria. I think they made an exception for Mace, since Griff, his lion, was almost the size of a small horse.

I got to the training room, and went to the gym, to start working out since I could not find him anywhere. I started jogging. Just to warm up before he showed up. I came an hour early just for that. fifty minutes passed and as I was done with jogging I went to stretch. When I finished I laid on the floor all sweaty. So not by best shape. Then I saw him standing in the second floor watching me. no sign of Griffin .It seemed like he was been there for a while. Then he started walking down the stairs towards me. I raised from the floor slowly.

 “Good. You started your training early. I was going to make you jog first, but seeing that you already did that, let’s start your training.” he said, looking even more bored then before. “Come with me.”

He walked toward the side of the room and stepped in front of a punching bag. “I want you to hit it Don´t stop until I tell you to.” He showed me how to do it the right way. Ok, those were simple orders. To simple. Seriously, i wanted all the mojo of hitting faces, breaking some jaws and all that stuff.

I started kicking it, as strong and high as I could. He just stood there looking at what I was doing, but he didn´t say anything. I was starting to feel bored as the time passed by, and to make it better I started to pretend that James was inside the punching bag. I got really creative with my kicks. In my imagination, he was already bleeding, and without two teeth, begging for me to stop like a little baby.

“Good. You can stop now. I want more six laps before you go. I will be back here tomorrow. Same time, same place.” His voice brought me back to reality. I didn´t realized I have been kicking that thing for almost an hour and a half. I wasn´t even tired. I must really hate James. I went to run again, and he sat in one corner, and started reading a book that haven’t noticed that he brought it with him when came in. I could see his muscles every time I ran closer to him. I could sense him eyes on me when I wasn’t watching as well. If he wasn´t so rude, I would’ve feel honored. But I knew he was watching me only professionally.

“You did well today. I think fighting is in your nature.” He told me. “Tomorrow we will start at a higher training level. I think you can handle that.” He gave me a bottle of water.

“You think so? Because I made a bet that I would kick some butts here.” I told him, as we started to walk out of the room. He looked funny at me but didn’t say anything.

“So... where is Griff? You seem to be really close to him.” I was actually really curious.

“He is walking around the academy. He does that almost every night. Some of the teacher’s animals do that too.” He was looking to the front, but I knew he was focused all around us.

“You guys seem to be really close” I said interested. He looked at me for a while before answering. “We are more friends than anything else.” His eyes changed when he talked about Griffin. “That is really cool. It must be amazing to have a partner for everything. How does it feel when you summon his spirit and you became him? Does it hurt?”

“Not actually. You don’t even realize it until you are seeing things differently. And then your animal’s voice is inside your head differently from when you are separated. It’s is his voice, but also yours. I don´t know how to describe the feeling, it´s like you are finally full.” He told me, looking ahead in wonder, as if remembering a pleasant memory. He suddenly stopped on his track.

“I got to go. See you tomorrow Kayla.” He told me. And then he was gone. I said my goodbyes and headed back to my room wondering how my life will change after my eighteenth birthday.