[Sisters of Battle] For Rhastiel

It had been a few weeks seen Sindel decided to train Lucy and Cerbera and both had shown great skill in mastering their new experience towards speed, technique and off course power. Not only that, Sindel found that she was looking at two people who knew to fight together almost perfectly, just a few more trainings and they'd be set to future victories.

That was what she thought last week.. Unlike Tracy, Cerbera was getting worse and worse by the day. Every time she sparred with Sindel and Lucy, her reactions were very slow, she could barely keep her eye on her opponent and her senses for self defence and countering were completely off, yet she did not speak to Cerbera about it.

Again she was sparring with Cerbera but she was knocking the girl all over the yard with her own kicks and punches, Cerbera could not even block in time and she was spacing out whenever they were a short break of attacks. Off course, this started to infuriate Sindel even more. Cerbera was never the type to do this, there was something bothering her and she did not like it, Cerbera needed her mind in the battle, even if it was just a spar.. Sindel always went all out against the two, that was the only way those two would learn but here she was showing Cerbera the ground over and over and decided to make her take it serious with a finisher.

Sindel gathered all her energy in strength into one strike, glaring at Cerbera who was barely able to keep herself standing but still her eyes were not on her opponent, only on the ground. This made Sindel's mind set on this attack, this would teach Cerbera to take everything seriously." If you won't take this seriously and dodge this attack, then you're done! " She had hoped that would make Cerbera pay attention in fear of true damage. She struck out a vicious open palm strike straight to Cerbera's chest, making the girl buldge her eyes open and soon enough fall onto her back and clutch her chest, legs kicking on the grass from the pain that entered her body.


..This.. Was not what Sindel wanted.. She had hoped Cerbera would have dodged that, that she heeded the warning she gave her and silently glared down at the fallen Cerbera, who seemed to have lost.

Time had been good to Lucy, her trainings with Sindel had made her better indeed and she got to spend a lot of time with Cerbera, which she enjoyed, being together and leaning how to fight together was all just great, she was truly getting a good feeling about coming to AFW now that she had all these things going for her.

however as of late Cerbera had been different, and it had gotten quite boring to spar with and against her, this past week it had started and all just turned sad sometimes, she didn't truly like to see Sindel and Cerbera spar with each other as of late, her Sis just didn't seem to have her head in the game, and that was not something you could do against Sindel, still today she was forced to watch them spar, one on one, and it was just like it had been before, a disappointment, Cerbera that had been doing so good lately and now it was almost like she didn't care, like she didn't want to be here.

The little demon watched as Sindel went in to make the finishing blow, and Cerbera just didn't do anything to stop it, the strike seemed so painful that Lucy had to admit that even she thought she could feel the pain just by seeing her Sis get hit, as Cerbera fell down on her back, Lucy darted of towards them, moving in to check on Cerbera.

"Hey...sis you okay?..." she said with a slight worry in her voice as she looked over her *sister*

Sindel had shut her eyes completely, avoiding the scene infront of her with the fallen Cerbera and the helping Lucy. While she did allow the two some time together and helping eachother out.. After this display of Cerbera, she didn't want it anymore. Cerbera was failing.. And she didn't want Lucy to follow that.

" Lucy. Leave her, you're sparring with me now. " That ice cold tone of Sindel made it pretty obvious she was not in the mood to deal with Cerbera nor the time she was wasting. She turned her back and walked off untill she was more into the clearing to spar with Lucy and away from Cerbera.

Cerbera did not answer lucy, just glaring at the ground with half open eyes, blood dripping from the side of her lips but she didn't even aknowledge that nor made any attempt to wipe it off. Cerbera heard Sindel's words and simply remained on her back, her eyes darting up at the sky while her thoughts surrounding her mind and clouded it from reality. Why did she feel like something bad was going to happen?

Lucy kept looking at Cerbera, wondering what was troubling her, she couldn't just have started to well suck, she used to be good, and they used to work together like a beautiful dance, their moves used to at least impress Sindel a bit, or so Lucy thought, but what was happening to Cerbera to make her act like this, not even wanting to respond to her, Lucy would rarely show worry for anyone, but when it came to Cerbera she always showed even the slightest bit of worry.

Lucy was then forced to turn away from her sister, as Sindel spoke to her, she didn't want to leave Cerbera, but what could she do, Sindel had been quite good to her and she couldn't deny that her trainings gave results, " Ehm...Okay..." Lucy said as she stepped up to her feet and moved over towards Sindel.

As Lucy began to move over to Sindel she looked back at Cerbera, truly worried about her, she was not in much focus today herself, if only because Cerbera wasn't.

Sindel had watched the two quietly from her spot and noticed how Lucy was still looking back at Cerbera. She couldn't blame her, they were acting like sisters after all and it even pained Sindel to see Cerbera in this kind of mess, which is why now she gave Cerbera the time to be alone while she focusses the training on Lucy.

Once Lucy was close ot her though, she raised her voice so her attention would be back to her teacher. " Pay attention, Lucy. You do not want to end up like Cerbera, do you? " Her voice was once again cruel, the way it was supposed to be. If they wouldn't take the training seriously, then there would be no hope for improvement.

While most people would see this more as torture then training, it was the only way that she could garantee the improvement of skills she could offer. It was the same way her older sister trained her when she went back to her family.

Decided to wake Lucy up properly for the spar, she moved into her and turned around so her side was facing Lucy's front, bringing her arm up before she shot it out towards Lucy's gut, aiming her elbow straight towards it.

Lucy was still not sure about doing this, she thought that she maybe should see to Cerbera instead, and she just couldn't get her out of her head, she didn't know what was wrong and she couldn't know what was wrong unless her sister told her.

Lucy looked over at Sindel again as she made the sort of proclamation that if Lucy didn't pay attention she could end up like Cerbera was right now, Lucy had gotten used to Sindel's way of speaking to her when they were training, she kinda liked it, it reminded her of the days when she started training to become a wrestler, if there was any other way to be thought than Lucy didn't know about it, and wouldn't care for it to much.

but she still couldn't get Cerbera out of her mind, she didn't know many people, and their were few that Lucy considered close, but Cerbera was one of them she held dearest of the people she had meet, but it seemed that Sindel was serious about the comment of the little demon ending up as Cerbera, as the teacher moved in and threw and elbow into Lucy's stomach, her mouth and eyes shot up in pain as she gasped for air, doubling over a little as she took a step back, almost falling to her knees by the sheer surprise of the move.

Sindel did not seem surprised when she managed to hit Lucy perfectly in the gut, her eyes fixated upon her student before she suddenly pulled away completely and got from her battle stance, speaking out almost harshly. " .. Ten minute break. "

She knew Lucy would not fight under such circumstances and with Cerbera not seeming to get up at all, she just decided to go back inside and get herself a drink while she waited for the two to get ready again.

In her mind however, she wondered what was really going on with Cerbera, turning and walked away from Lucy to head inside her house while those thoughts clung to her like a magnet.

Lucy coughed a bit as Sindel began to move away, feeling a bit insulted by it, but still grateful that she didn't press on with the training, but now she was kinda mad, she didn't want to disappoint Sindel, and she was making progress, and now she felt that worrying over Cerbera was making her into a disappointment as well.

She began to walk up and seat herself next to Cebera's prone body, holing her stomach a little, while Sindel walked away to get a drink, Lucy looked up into the sky, it was quite a beautiful day, a clear blue sky and a lovely sun shining down, but still there was a calming breeze that kept it from getting to warm, if not for how Cerbera was being, Lucy would have thought of it as a perfect day.

she had to at least check and see again what was wrong with Cerbera, "Sis...what's bothering you?....did I do something or?...." Lucy asked as she kept staring up into the clear blue sky, with her golden eyes, the breeze made her hair flow along with the wind.

Normally, Cerbera was never into speaking her mind. She always had trouble trusting others with such information that could leave her vulnurable but even now, there was little to hide anymore.. For quite some time she was trying to hide it and that alone gave such a poor display of skill she had learned. It was true that Cerbera was gifted in learning and adapting to the needs of combat.

While Lucy was looking up, that soft, almost quiet voice of Cerbera was heard, barely audable to anyone but those two as she spoke. " ..The Reaper is looking at me... " Her eyes were also up at the sky but for some reast they weren't narrowed, not fixated upon anything.. She was spacing out again like usual.. OR was she?

Lucy was quite disturbed by what Cerbera said and was forced to look back down at her, her golden eyes scanning her sister, before she went to lock at her face, she brought a sleeve covered hand up to Cerbera's face to wipe off the blood on her lips, but she still felt ill at ease, what could she mean, The Reaper is looking at me it was just disturbing, but she hoped that she didn't mean anything with it.

"Sis...The Reaper? is looking at you?....is that why you have been acting so weird lately..." Lucy asked as she tried to move her hand and grab a hold of Cerbera's, if something was bothering her sister, she hoped that she would tell her, over these few weeks she had come to hold Cerebera quite dear, and she hoped that she felt the same about her.