Alpha Academy (Completed)

Chapter 4

*Ava POV*

Hunter helps me put the back pack on my back. It is heavy but I am sure I will manage. I hear.

"Ava over here please, the rest of you off you go"

I shrug and start walking over to him. I finally reach him. The other girls are there too.

"Yes sir?"

"What are you doing?"

"What do you mean?"

"With that bag"

"Sorry isn't that what we are meant to do?'

"That's for the men, these are the girls ones"

He passes me a bag I think it had like 1kg in it. The one on my back has 50kgs.

"But sir"

Then he starts pointing to the map.

"Now this the the circuit for the girls, follow the other girls and try not to get lost"

He takes the other bag off my shoulders.

I look at the map. The girls circuit is half the size of the boys circuit.

What is this? A joke?

"But sir I would rather do the other circuit."

"No arguments, follow the other girls and you will be fine”.

I hang my shoulders and put on the pointless back pack and follow the girls. Seriously they are running at snails pace. No wonder they but on a full face of makeup for this I haven't even broken a slight sweat. We get back to the start just before the guys. They all arrive. Dripping in sweat. They dump their heavy bags on the ground. I sigh and look around. This is not what I was expecting. Hunter and Ty walk over to me. Ty says.

"How did you go?"

As we walk off towards combat training.

"I don't know. They made me get rid of the other bag and do a heaps smaller track"

Trying to keep the sound of grievance out of my voice, I am trying not to be too negative at least I get to fight now. We walk over to the set up. There is one small ring set up separate and 3 big rings. Closely joined. I stand next to Hunter as the instructor faces the class.

“Okay boys you know what to do.” 

"Tyson you are new so just watch first up and then join. As usual, I will just be watching and offering tips as needed."

Ty nods and follows the guys.

"Ava can you come here?"

I sigh and walk over to him.

"Yes sir?"

He points at the small ring.

"This is for the girls to fight."

"Umm okay"

I walk over to the ring. The girls are stretching. I say.

"Okay who wants to spar first?"

One of them replies.

"Spar?"

"Yes, fight"

"Ohh no we don't do that"

I look over at the boys who are already pummeling each other. I look back at the girls.

"So you don't do that?"

I point to the boys

"Why would we do that?"

I sigh and get out of the ring. The running was one thing, but this is ridiculous. I stand and watch the boys for a bit. The instructor spots me.

"What are you doing Ava?"

“I want to fight”

“Yeah well go fight over there”

“No I want to fight with the guys”

“What do you mean?”

“I want to fight with the boys, I want proper combat training”

Not that pointless gossip session or what ever the girls are doing over there.

“You can't fight the boys you will get hurt.”

By now everyone has stopped and is looking at us.

“I don't care if I get hurt I want to join the boys training, I take full responsibility if I get injured, I won’t complain”

He sneers at me, his eyes filled with disdain.

“Fine, fight now then”

“Who?”

“Our best fighter?”

“Yep that is fine”

“Hunter, your up.”

I take off my hoodie and I jump in the ring.

*Hunter POV*

I am watching the interaction between Ava and the instructor with interest. When I hear.

"Our best fighter?"

My heart starts to drop.

"Yep that's fine"

My shoulders slump and I brace myself for it.

"Hunter, your up"

I never thought I would actually regret being the best fighter but here we are. She takes off her jumper and reveals her singlet top her arms all exposed. And what am I even meant to do now? Punch her? Hurt her?

I couldn't possibly. Look at her, she is a tiny little angel.

I step into the ring. I look at her. Her eyes burning with determination.

What am I supposed to do, the last thing I want to do is hurt her.

The instructor yells.

"FIGHT"

She launches at me instantly. She punches me straight in the stomach it is a really hard hit. She steps back kicking me quickly in the side. Quick punch on the gut again. I double over from the pain. I see her feet but don't realize what she is doing till too late. She uses my lowered head to then take a massive roundhouse kick straight to the face. I fall to the ground and a massive smile spreads across my face. The surprise is quickly overtaken with joy. I jump back up. Doesn't look like I have to take it easy on her after all.

She comes at me again. This time I dodge and punch her straight in the cheek. She smiles at me and comes at me again. A flurry of Tiny hands and feet raining down their wrath on my body. I grab her in my arms and throw her on the ground landing heavily on top of her. She manages to get a bit of leverage and throws me off her. She is on me, straddling me. Raining down punches on my face. I throw her a good 2 meters away and we both get to our feet. This time we start sparring properly. Kick block punch block.

By now everyone has started to go back to training. Leaving Ava and I to it.

She can fight. Could this girl actually get any better? We stop after a big and let others have the space. Just watching on. Class finishes and we head up to our rooms for showers and a change before the rest of the day. My entire day lines up with Ava’s and I sit next to her the entire day. She talks no stop, I am surprised her throat doesn’t get sore, but I love listening to her voice. The last class finally finishes. She goes to walk upstairs I grab her hand.

"I thought I owed you a lot of cake"

She smiles.

"You do, but we have to put our books away”.

I grab her books and mine and shove them in the corner of the room we were just in. I don’t want to risk her brother crashing our date. The sooner I can get her away, the better.

"We will grab them later"

"But do I look alright for going out in public"

"You look amazing."

She smiles and lowers her eyes blushing. I grab her hand and intertwine our fingers. It is about a 1 km walk into town. It is a werewolf town but not run by any pack. Just open. Lots of people go there. I have been there a few times before but nothing really interested me that much. But now holding her hand everything suddenly seems so new and exciting.