After the video ended Scott and I waited around for hours in dead silence before April returned.
“What happened in here then? Why the heavy atmosphere.”
“We found out more information about ‘The Claws’, the only issue is it came with yet another threat.”
“No surprise there, what happened.”
“We have a lead on ‘Owl’, we can confirm he is definitely one of the generals. I would assume he is situated inside the capital. They already know that we are coming and have probably prepared a welcoming party for us.”
“I see. That’s good, I called another one of our friends on the way back, remember John?”
John was in charge of training, he made sure we were all in perfect shape and kept us on our toes by jumping out of nowhere and attacking us randomly. Now I’m paranoid.
Scott and I were on high alert anticipating John to appear and attack us. We were both empty handed and John wasn’t afraid to bring a nuclear bomb to a catfight.
Both of us stood back to back, spinning around the room making sure we were covered from all positions when suddenly, a fist that must have been the size of an elephant threw Scott across the room knocking him out instantly.
“Well well well…. Looks like you’ve gotten weaker Scotty boy.”
Those words sent my body into full panic mode as soon as I realised they appeared from directly behind me.
I turned around thinking I could react only for the same fist to flash in front of my eyes for less than a second before everything went black.
…..
“… h… huh…? What… Happened?” I said as I slowly regained consciousness
“You got weak, that’s what happened.”
“HA HA HA. You’ve gotten worse than I thought. I believe it is now 244 to 239; to me of course.”
Why does he still keep track?
“Whatever, anyway John what are you doing here.”
“April invited me, she said something bout training ya. I can see what she was worried bout, you’re as weak as a great white shark. HA HA HA”
I can’t tell if that’s a compliment or not.
“We need John to get into the Capital.” April Informed. “John has a gym inside the Capital, one by one we will all sneak into the Capital and take sanctuary there. We shouldn’t be found out if we all take great care. The order will go as follows. Scott leaves tonight, whilst I leave tomorrow. The day after both John and Kyle will come. Whilst you are waiting for your turn you will train with John. Understand?”
It was a simple plan that could work, it was a smart Idea to train whilst we waited.
# # #
We received word that Scott had successfully made it into the Capital, less then 24 hours later April was preparing for her turn to move. She was covered in bruises from training but could still move perfectly fine.
“Make sure you message when you arrive, we need to know that you are safe.”
“Aw how cute, Kyle is finally taking notice of me after all these years. Shall I get the rings?”
“HA HA HA. That’s the spirit, keep positive and you’ll make it through any situation.”
“Don’t worry Kyle. there’s no way I’d die that easily.”
Normally I would agree with her, but after hearing what Tom had said I’m worried about her going into the Capital alone. We were moving forward quicker then I expected. I don’t think I’m fully prepared.
“Ah, one thing before I go. Here take this.”
April threw over a box covered in an old rag.
Inside the box laid a razor-sharp purple blade, carefully clamped down to not cut through the box.
“My dagger? Where were you keeping this?”
“Don’t worry about the details. I’ve gotta go now, so I’ll leave you two to practice to the extreme now that you have your weapon and everything.”
Before departing, April skipped up to me and gently kissed me on the cheek.
“Goodbye Kyle…”
# # #
Once April had left John’s training got tougher, he was pulling his punches before but this time he was serious. April was counting on me to get stronger and I have to, if I don’t get stronger I can’t protect her. I don’t know what Tom’s plans are but I can’t let him take her away from me.
“That’s enough training for today”
“No… huff huff… I can keep going… huff … Let’s go again…. “
“Listen to yourself you are completely out of breath. If we went one more round you might die for real.”
“Don’t worry…. I won’t die……”
Thud
That was the sound of my body hitting the floor.
When I awoke I didn’t know where I was. I was in a moving vehicle going somewhere. I tried to gather any information I could but before long we had stopped.
I sat up slightly to check where we were, I could see part of a sign, the only readable part was the letters Jy.
The door I was resting my head against suddenly opened, and I was greeted by a huge angry looking ‘slightly’ above middle aged old man.
“Oh, you’re awake, that’s good I don’t need to carry you.”
“Where are we, John?”
“The Capital, We have arrived at my gym.”
Ah, I get it now, the sign said Jym, I assume it’s a play on words.
The inside of the gym was empty, dusty equipment was scattered throughout with Scott and April sitting waiting for me inside.
“Hey, guys how has it been?”
“We don’t have time to talk” April interrupted. “Scott filled me in with everything about ‘Owl’, he mentioned someone called ‘Clown’ right?”
The panic in April’s voice was real, In all the years I had known her, I’ve never seen her panic this much.
“Yeah? Why?”
“‘Clown’ isn’t someone we want to get involved with. Every report we have on him comes back with some strange rumour. ‘Clown’ is famous, he is a hitman with a 100% kill rate and is responsible for taking on over 200 people at once and coming out unscathed. If we encounter him we are as good as dead!”
“I see…”
‘Clown’ seemed like an interesting person. It would be bad to encounter someone unkillable but after all the training I went through I didn’t want to let it all go to waste.
“This clown guy sounds interesting. Let’s see what we can dig up. If we have to fight him then so be it. If he is as impressive as the rumours say then we can’t let someone like him stay alive.”
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