Chapter 58- Progress And Humor
Rushing from under the stream, Elio approached Fiona with his body dripping. He was extrely cold, and the weather was even colder, but he didn’t seem that bothered by sheer excitent. His eyes were wide open, shining bright as ever, and a wide smile was on his face.
"Did you see it? It happened so fast! My body reacted quickly to it! That was amazing!" He said excitedly as he described what he did with his hands.
Fiona stared at him silently with a faint smile. Seeing him this happy ward her heart for so reason. She didn’t know what it was about his smile that made her feel this way but it happened every single ti she saw him smile.
"You did great there, Elio. I knew you were going to figure it out on your own." Fiona said calmly.
"For a second, I felt like a supernatural being! Like, I should never be able to move that fast!" He yelled. The adrenaline rush Elio felt at that mont was like pure euphoria. This was the very first ti Elio had done sothing he could truly consider superhuman.
Everything that he experienced before this could be considered superhuman but the first true demonstration of this newfound power he acquired was that very mont when he deflected a pebble flying at the speed of a bullet toward him.
’If this is the start then how much stronger could I get?! This... This is insane!’ Elio breathed in and out, just imagining the kind of things he could achieve. He had never felt this excited before in his life, it was a completely new experience for him.
"Good. But, you must not think that it is over, Elio. You have succeeded doing it once but you must learn how to do it successfully every single ti to the point where your body instinctively creates a defensive system." Fiona said. "This was rely the start."
"Yeah, I understand! Should we continue?"
"That’s the spirit. Yes, we will continue. I want you to deflect the pebbles at least 50 tis before we are done for the day."
"Yes!"
With that, Elio returned under the waterfall, and the training continued. For several hours, Elio was put under continious attack.
He deflected, failed, then deflected again, countless tis. Each ti, he was learning more and more, and his success rate kept increasing slowly. He felt like his body was just being slowly engraved with this information.
However, at the sa ti, the sheer exhaustion Elio felt during it was unlike anything he ever felt before. This training exhausted him physically and ntally, and because it was for prolonged hours, he found himself far more destroyed than even those first 50 laps.
By the ti he deflected the last pebble, his legs couldn’t stand anymore, and his arms were shaking from exhaustion. He was heaving up and down, his body extrely wet and cold.
"Hah... Hah... Hah... Hah..." Coughing up several mouthfuls of saliva, Elio felt the urge to vomit everything he had eaten. He felt so sick that the world around him started spinning.
"We are done."
The mont Fiona said those words, he finally let go as he lay on the ground, unable to even open his eyes.
Fiona approached him and sat down next to him. "Good work."
"Hah... Hah... Hah..."
Elio didn’t reply, or to be more precise, couldn’t reply from sheer exhaustion.
Fiona stared at him for a second before she said. "You don’t look that tired. Do you want to continue instead?"
"H-HUH?!!!" Elio, who was still trying to regulate his breathing, shot his eyes open as he stared at her. His heart almost leaped out of his chest from fear. Those words sounded like a nightmare to him.
"I’m just joking," Fiona said calmly as she turned away.
’J-Joking? She knows how to joke?’ Elio blinked as he rested his head back on the ground. He couldn’t even find the strength to be shocked at the fact that Fiona Vaylor apparently had a sense of humor.
He always thought she didn’t even laugh, let alone know what the word ’funny’ is. But it seems he was wrong.
For a few minutes, the two sat there in silence, staring at the sun setting in the sky. It was a very gorgeous sight. The golden rays peering through the trees at them, illuminating the beautiful lake for the very last ti before the night takes over.
The silence between them was far more comfortable than earlier, after their argunt. Fiona, however, seed to be deep in thought for so reason. She couldn’t forget about Elio’s words, no matter how much she tried to forget about them, they ca back to talk to her.
Especially that sentence. ’You’re not happy.’
She had long argunts with herself about it, trying to justify herself while finding flaws in each and every point she tried to make. The more that happened, the more she tried to stubbornly refuse to admit it.
She was Fiona Vaylor, not so random person who would make a mistake choosing her path in life. She cannot accept that she would make such a glaring mistake in one of her fundantals as a person.
She refused to believe that what she dedicated her life to was wrong all that ti. She simply can’t allow that to be the case for her own sanity. This was her life being questioned, for God’s sake!
In the end, she sighed and stood up. "Are you ready to go back ho, Elio?"
"Yeah..." The boy replied as he finally stood up after recovering a bit. After drying himself, the two finally headed back to the cabin.
Then, they had dinner and both of them returned to their rooms. Elio needed sleep so badly that he imdiately passed out the mont he lay his head on the pillow.
anwhile, Fiona didn’t sleep and rather sat at her desk, working on so things until late at night before she finally laid down to sleep too.
All the lights were turned off in the cabin, and the darkness swallowed it. Deep in the forest, far away from human connection.
The two were completely alone. Anything that could happen, it would take hours for anyone to reach them. It was simply them, the nature, and whatever was within it.
The two fell deep asleep, unaware of anything outside.
But... All it would take to make that quiet night turn into a nightmare... was one gust of wind coming from nowhere.
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