685 Other contestants (1/2)
'What the hell am I meant to do with these guys?' Peter thought.
One of the spare rooms had been converted into a classroom. This had already been made the case before for the people who wanted to live on the spaceship and bring their family on board. Although many members refused.
The ship was merely a base, while their homes were still at the shelter. Only a few actually enjoyed being on the ship, apart from the leaders that would be pretty much based there all the time.
The classroom was made with the children in mind, creating an environment where they could still be taught; before it was never full, but now it was a different story. All of the kids that had been saved from the Blade island were there.
Peter had been asked to be their teacher and to look after them. It was requested after learning the truth of how he had risked his life defending them, but he was not alone in this. He also had a little assistant called Borden.
”I don't even know what to teach them?” Peter whispered to Borden.
”I have an idea.”
Taking the kids out of the classroom, they had moved to the training room.
”Let's split the tasks up,” Borden said. 'You teach them Maths, English, the essentials, and I'll teach them the essentials in fighting.”
Standing at the front, Borden started to explain some moves, and would demonstrate, soon after they would follow. They did so quite naturally, as this was also similar to how they were taught on the Blade island. It had become routine for them.
Borden was quite popular with the kids, they thought he was quite cute and it reminded them of Vorden. Although Peter thought they would change their mind if they saw the crazy things he could do.
Borden was anything but cute, if he was angry, he could shove a whole human through a door quite easily.
The other Travellers couldn't help but feel a little unsettled at what they were seeing in the training room. Young kids being taught to fight, at such a young age. Even for them, during war periods, they were only taught such things in military school. While these children looked to be under ten.
Because of this, there were a few concerns that had been passed on from the adults, and Megan had arrived to see what exactly the problem was. They still felt like they couldn't talk to Peter about it directly. They hadn't spent enough time to get to know him or see him as one of the leaders.
Instead, they decided to confide in someone like Megan, who was one of the old high rankers of the crows.
”Hey, the others are wondering if training them to fight is really the right thing to do, they're just kids after all?” Megan explained with a soft approach.
”These aren't normal kids,” Peter replied. ”They have seen more death then some adults will ever see. They have a heavy burden to carry. Is it right for them to train to fight for their lives at this age, of course it's not, and I never want it to come to that.
”But, the second someone knows what their abilities are, they will try to use it for their own sake. The simple truth is, I don't want to see them die, and neither does Borden.”
Megan took a second look at the kids, and it was true, they all did have a different look to them. The look of someone who had killed before. 'What did these poor kids go through?'
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After a good night's rest, Quinn was excited to head to Alex to speak to him about his plans.
”Thanks for getting that Glathrium,” Alex replied.
”Will it be enough to create a full set of armour?” Quinn asked.
”It should be enough to create around four sets, so I can get to work on those king tier crystals for you if you want?”
”Actually, do you mind holding the Glathrium for me…” Quinn explained his plans about how he wanted a full suit of emperor tier armour, and that he wanted it soon. He explained that he was planning to go hunting for the whole of the week.