The crew exited the fun fair in total confusion. They walked for another hour before the sky begun to turn dark and the surroundings became very hard to see.
"Well, guess we'll set foot here and call it a day."
"Its day 2, and we only destroyed one core..."
"We'll get to the rest very soon."
The crew entered the moon hut.
Covie checked on the survivor to ensure he is alright. Johnson set his things down and walked into one of the rooms of the moon hut. Mysty sat on a chair and sighed in tiredness. Albur leaned against a wall and rubbed his legs to make the tired muscles get better. Rhea jopped out of her battle bot and shrunk it back to Keychain size. She then stared at Albur.
"Hey rookie, you know what time is it."
Albur realized what Rhea meant.
"Uh...Rhea...could we....rest today?"
Rhea put a lollipop into her mouth and crossed her arms.
"Rest?"
"Yeah, just for today...please....."
Rhea rolled her eyes, then she took the lantern and the digital world pistol before grabbing Albur by the collar and dragged him out.
"No."
"AWWWW SNAP....."
Mysty raised her head and stared at the entrance of the moon hut.
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Albur's rifle was placed on the floor near Albur and Rhea. Rhea took out the metal pipes and tossed one to Albur. Albur done his warm up and picked up the metal pipe.
"What are we training today?"
"Don't talk about what will we train today, let's see how good are you now after the previous training."
Rhea signaled Albur to attack. Albur took a deep breath, he sprinted towards Rhea and clashed his pipe with Rhea's. This time, he held on the pipe firmly, making Rhea unable to knock his pipe off his hands. Rhea attempted to knock it off in other angles and direction. But Albur's grip is pretty strong already that she could no longer knock his pipe off. After a few minutes of clashing and pushing, she stopped and backed away.
"Very well, you had succeeded on gripping your weapon."
Albur panted as he took a few steps back.
"Now, its time for the second training. " Rhea cracked her knuckles.
"Wait, what?"
"Block my attacks."
"Huh?"
Rhea dashed towards Albur and swung her pipe at him. Albur quickly blocked the her pipe with his. Bright scrape sparks flashed when the pipes clashed into each other. Rhea then quickened her attack pace, Albur struggled to block each one, Rhea watched carefully as she kept attacking him. After Rhea finished attacking, Albur tried to fight back. He sprinted towards Rhea and struck his pipe at her. But Rhea blocked each strike and then struck Albur's stomach and pushed him to the ground, before placing her pipe next to his neck.
"You should use your weapon with a quick pace. Enemies grab that slow as HECK gap and do ambushes, swing that thing faster. Do better."
Rhea retracted the pipe and helped Albur up, she waited for a while for him to regain his balance.
"Again, but I want better."
Rhea pointed her pipe at Albur. Albur stared at the pipe, and sighed heavily.
"Keep going Albur! Where's that determination?" Havoc yelled.
"I don't feel like it today..."
Rhea steadied her feet and dashed towards Albur. Albur quickly blocked the striking pipe and pushed her backwards a little.
"Wait! Wait! At least give me some space to breathe."
Rhea clicked her tongue.
"Quick."
Albur took a deep breath, and gripped onto his metal pipe.
Albur slowly walked towards Rhea. Rhea dashed towards him and clashed her pipe against Albur's. Albur pushed it away and struck Rhea, but she dodged it and struck her pipe at Albur. Albur blocked it by clashing his pipe with hers and tried his best not to give any gaps for Rhea to attack him. But not letting some space to recover makes him exhausted. Rhea took the gap of Albur panting and pushed his onto the floor with the edge of the pipe.
"What are you doing? What's with that underperformance?"
"Give me a break, I need to catch a breath."
Rhea sighed as she threw her pipe on the floor. Albur sat up and panted heavily. He turned his head towards the left, but he find himself face to face against a virus lifeform. He gasped and quickly stood up. Rhea looked at him, and clicked her tongue.
"We're in the digital world, that thing can't see you or touch you."
"Wha- oh yeah..."
Albur panted slowly as he backed away. The virus lifeform sniffed the ground and growled. Then, it suddenly turned its head to the right, and screeched. But then, it was being killed by a shot. Albur looked towards the direction where the bullets came from. It was Mysty, holding her two pistols that have black smoke coming out from it. She lowered it and looked around her.
"Mysty?"
Rhea looked at the direction Albur is looking at.
"What the heck is she doing here?"
Mysty took a few steps foward, and yelled.
"Albur? Rhea?"
"She is looking for us?"
Rhea looked at the digital world pistol and thought for a second. She shot herself with it to bring her back to the real world before shooting at Mysty and herself again, bringing her to the digital world.
Mysty held back to not throw up. She coughed as she looked up.
"What the....."
She then noticed Albur and Rhea's existence.
"Oh, you guys are here."
"You're looking for us?"
"I want to see where have you two been doing the training. You guys are in the digital world this whole time?"
"Uh, yeah."
Rhea looked at Albur who is still panting, and turned her head towards Mysty, and thought for a second.
"Albur, can you train your swing pace while just fighting air?"
"Wha- me? Uh.....I guess.....so?"
"Great. Mysty, I will need to train you too."
Mysty was surprised by Rhea's words.
"Me?"
"Yes, I observed your fighting style for quite a while. Your role is more a supporting fighter than a true fighter. But from what I see you had been struggling with close up melee combat and your patterns were messed up by the strange terrain of the battle field. I will need to train you too, to make you better."
"Wha- oh...al...right?"
Albur looked at Rhea in a surprised face.
"Mysty needs training too? Then what makes me?"
"An undertrained failure."
Albur rolled his eyes and groaned. Mysty gulped as she looked at Rhea.
"What will I need to do then?"
Rhea swallowed the lollipop in her mouth.
"I'll explain what I need you to improve after warm up."
Mysty looked at Albur, who shrugged.
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Mysty finished her warm up, and tied her hair into a bun. Rhea cracked her knuckles and rotated her neck. Albur walked far away from the two and started swinging his pipe at the air.
"Now, I want you to attack me."
"What? Attack?"
"Yes, with whatever style you used to fight."
Mysty steadied herself and ran towards Rhea. But instead of directly fighting her, she ran around her and hopped away constantly. Then, while Rhea is slightly distracted she sprint straight to her and kicked her. Rhea braced the impact and punched Mysty, knocking her back. Mysty then ducked Rhea's swipe punch and kicked her. But Rhea got her leg and held her whole body up into the air.
Rhea glanced at the ground beneath her, judging the landing spot. Then, she threw Mysty onto the ground, injuring her back. Albur was shocked by what Rhea is doing. He quickly rushed to Mysty and helped her up.
"Goodness! Mysty are you alright?" Albur panicked.
Mysty groaned in severe pain as shs sat up.
"Dang it.....my back..."
Albur looked at Rhea furiously.
"What was that for? Training doesn't need to go that far!"
"When you're fighting an enemy they won't show any mercy to you. When they got your limb like just now they will do much worse things than just slamming you onto the ground."
Albur grunted in anger as he snatched the digital world pistol from Rhea.
"Snap....I gotta get Covie....."
Albur returned to the real world and sprinted to the moon hut.