This is a short part. Sorry. Just the way the story broke up made this smaller than the one before. Next section will be longer.
As usual, I don't own our heroes or anyone who is from the series. I don't own any characters in here except Celest really. But then again, can anyone ever really own a person?
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"Hey guys," Neila said as she was busy putting away the weapons from drills that morning. There were only two sets out which caused Jason to raise his eyebrows.
"Didn't over half of the Academy stay over here for your drills?" Jason asked as Hercules, Iolaus, and Eily went into the kitchen area to get a cold glass of water.
"Yeah," Neila replied as she looked at his with puzzling eyes, "Why?"
"There are only two sets of equipment here. Shouldn't there be more?"
"Jason, you must have forgot that I was leader today as well. We did a few one on one matches then we quit for the day. It is part of our training to learn when we have pushed our bodies to the limit and it just happens to be lower for a few than others like yourself."
"I noticed. Hercules and Iolaus were complaining because I wanted them to run five miles this morning."
"Five miles? I think you may have taken this leader thing too far. They are only human after all."
"I guess. I mean, I can do it. Nevermind, do you need help moving these back to their positions?"
"I would like that."
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"...so I told him to go stick it in his chariot because I didn't want to see it anymore," Alayia said as she threw her hands up in the air while she was telling her joke.
All of the cadets in the room began to laugh and throw their hands up in the air as well. Alayia was always good at helping them return to pleasant moods especially after morning exercises which was gruesome to say the least.
Eily, Iolaus, and Hercules trodged into the room and proceeded to pour themselves a cool glass of water and sit down.
"You guys look horrible. What happened?" Celest asked as she shifted her attention from Alayia's jokes to the look upon the others faces. They looked as though a chariot had rolled over them and for some reason had backed up and gone over them again.
"Jason...made us...run for miles," Hercules said between gulps of water. The other two nodded thier head as they slugged back their glasses to get more of that cool water.
Iolaus slammed his glass down on the hard wood table, "He needs to learn that we're not all like him and can't run forever." He poured himself another glass of water.
Alayia and Celest exchanged looks with each other. They knew how sometimes Jason would get on one of his kicks and believe that people needed to train as though there was going to be a war the next day. It was just one of his things.
"So what did you guys do? Drills all morning?" Herc asked as he put more water into his glass.
"Well...we sort of practiced. We more developed our talking skills," Alayia said as Celest nodded in agreement. This morning's exercise had helped them develop much talking skills. Especially those as they related to the heroes since they weren't at the Academy to hear any of it.
Iolaus threw up his hands in fustration. "I can't stand this anymore. Every time I stay here for drills, we do drills until I'm exhausted. Every time I leave, the drills last for a few minutes. I need something to eat," he complained as he got up from the table and walked into the kitchen leaving the rest to talk to themselves.
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Celest
Goddess of Stars and Constellations
Posted on Apr 19, 2006, 1:45 PM from IP address 70.189.7.132