Training
TASTSunday is a beautiful day for people to laze around. It's a day people relax or go to church or spend with family. Sehun, however, spent half of it worrying. His nerves woke him up at 6:00. He thought, wide-eyed about every 'what if?' possible. What if this is a mistake? What if I'm not good enough? What if I get hurt? What if someone else gets hurt? After running out of 'what ifs?' Sehun checked his clock to see that it was only 6:20. He decided he couldn't stay still anymore and got up to pace around the room. To Jongin's bed, then back to his own, then back to Jongin's bed, and to his own again.
"What in the actual hell are you doing? Do you realize what time it is?" Jongin said as he woke up. He witnissed first hand how scared Sehun was.
"I think I need your help." Sehun said.
"What makes you think I'll help you?"
"So, I got a note from Principal Kim" Sehun started anyway,"and he said he wanted to meet me in the gym for training. I talked to my friends about it and they said I'd be just like you and I don't know what that means and so I thought 'hey we're kind of friends now. So why not ask?' and so now I'm really nervous..."
"Your not gonna stop are you." Jongin interupted. "It's nothing to be so worried about Sehun, so stop being a and just deal with it." Jongin was annoyed by Sehun's constant talking.
"Wow that kind of helped in a weird way. Thanks, I guess." By the time Sehun finished his awkward thanks and turned to face Jongin, he realized he must've teleported somewhere to get away from Sehun fast.
He met up later with Baekhyun and Chanyeol in the cafeteria for breakfast. He was less nervous but still pretty tense.
"Is something wrong, Sehunnie? You barely touched your muffin." Baekhyun had said worried.
"It's the training thing. I'm just nervous." Sehun said.
"Yeah, I would be nervous to. I mean, I've heard stories of kids who get to there full potential and become like mon-Ow!" Baekhyun hit Chanyeol over the head, again.
"No those are just stories nothing more, nothing less. Everything is fine, Sehun." Sehun tried to ignore how serious Baekhyun sounded and how he didn't call him 'Sehunnie'. It sounded like they weren't telling him something.
"Anyway, this is a good thing. You'll maybe even be strong enough to go in the ring this month. No newbies go but I think you're an exception." Baekhyun lightened the subject a little bit. Sehun was a little less nervous. He has great friends, even though one of them doesn't know how to shut the up. He thought he should go to the gym a bit earlier than when he was supposed to meet. It was 11 and he just couldn't wait any longer.
Finally, the afternoon had arrived. Sehun had been waiting in the gym for an hour and had figured out how to make small air currents to entertain himself. He blew the note around the large room and when it would float back to him, he would read it again and again.
"I see you were eager to come today." A voice echoed through the empty gym. Sehun stopped what he was doing and turned to face where Joonmyun had entered.
"I was more nervous than anything, Sir." Sehun responded.
"There is nothing to worry about. This is just training. Like your gym class but a little more hands on." Joonmyun had a friendly smile on his face.
"If you don't mind me asking, Sir, how do you plan to train me?" This question bugged Sehun a lot since he got the letter.
"Through my observation and testing. You see I have different theories about your powers and how to control them. Let's try something. I want you to focus all your energy into your hands and then punch with all your strength. I am your target but don't worry I won't get hurt." Sehun didn't think he was ready to try anything this dangerous but he tried anyway. He focused on his hands. All the energy and power went to his hands. When he was ready, he punched with all his strength towards Joonmyun who was all the way across the room. An amazing gust of wind, even stronger than the one he hit Baekhyun with, came out of nowhere blowing towards Joonmyun, who was miraculously alright.
"Woah, that was incredible! I didn't think I could do something like that!" Sehun was really happy. He felt stupid to think that he was nervous earlier that day. It was an exilerating feeling to posses so much power.
"Great. This is progress. You are doing better than I expected. Now, I want you to focus on a different part of your body. Try your mouth. Then blow as hard as you can." Sehun repeated the focusing process and blew with all of his strength sending out a gust of wind similar to the previous one.
"Looks like my theories are correct." Joonmyun said to a puzzled Sehun. "If you focus you can generate wind energy to any part of your body, whether it's your hands or mouth and, if you tried, your legs too. Not many students have the power to do this but it's nothing I wouldn't expect from you."
"With all do respect, Sir, I thought you were teaching me how to control my powers. This seems counter-productive." Sehun was still quite astonished at his powers, but this did seem strange.
"Well I did have to figure out what to control, right? We still need to learn what else you can do. The next thing I wanted to see is what you did to Jongin. You seemed to take away and block the air from his body by clenching your fists. Focus just like before but this time on me, your target." Sehun was afraid he would hurt him but tried to follow his orders. He focused on Joonmyun, clenched his fists and watched as all the air was blocked from reaching him. Sehun panicked and lost his focus.
"What's wrong? You were doing well." Joonmyun saw the terror in Sehun's eyes.
"I...I could've hurt you. Why w...would you make m...me do something like th...that?" Sehun was shaking rembering the day he almost killed Jongin.
"It's ok, Sehun. Calm down. I work with water. I can hold my breath for a very, very long time. Don't worry you are not hurting me." Joonmyun reassured Sehun. "Ignore what I said on the note. I wanna meet with you after your classes tomorrow. This seems like a good stopping point today. You may now leave." With that Sehun left pretty fast. He couldn't wait to relax and hang out with Chanyeol and Baekhyun.
"So what your telling me is he taught you how to blow and ?" Chanyeol got hit for saying that after Sehun had told them what happened that afternoon.
"Shut up, Chanyeol. It was really cool, though. My power may be pretty lame, but I am strong." Great now Sehun was bragging.
"Well, at least it went better than the last person who got trainOW!" Baekhyun hit Chanyeol so hard he actually fell to the ground.
"What? What does he mean by that?" Sehun knew they weren't telling him something.
"Nothing. Chanyeol is just an idiot." Sehun couldn't stand the lying anymore.
"Fine then. Don't tell me. I'll just ask Jongin." Sehun didn't know how awful of a mistake he was making. Before Baekhyun could say anything he already left the room, heading towards his own room to talk to Jongin.
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