Skid the Hedgehog: School Survival/Act 2

== Chapter 1: The Stamina Class ==
"Welcome, one and all, to the Stamina class!" Headmaster Vibratus said, ushering the last few students into the reasonably impressive yet nondescript room. "Here, you will all learn how to expand your physical potential to its maximum capability, increasing your potential for stamina, speed, and strength. What this all means is that you'll all get very good at hitting things and not getting hit without relying on powers. I'll hand this to your class instructor for the specifics, which I am unfortunately not well-versed in. Cheers!" Vibratus hung up the microphone that it wasn't clear that he had on a small hook on the wall and moved to the side of the room.
The room was actually quite large, with different training equipment placed where it should be. There were things there made for the different teams, punching bags, targets, along with your generic workout equipment like treadmills and dumbells.
A blue hedgehog with a singular droopy quill walked from behind Vibratus with a serious expression on his face. With a white scarf tied around with light-blue shirt and dark shorts, he began to speak. "My name is Cobalt, but you may call me Mr. Clarisse. I will be your instructor for this class. I'll try not to be all too strict, now."
Skid looked over as he was viewing the room as a whole. "Oh, cool. Though as serious as you look, it didn't give off the semi-strict vibe," he said jokingly.
"That's good," Milssa muttered, trying to make herself unnoticed behind Madison (a difficult task given Madison's narrow frame). Fortunately for her, any attention that might have been drawn to her was likely pulled away by the sudden outburst from a piratical-looking dog at the other end of the room.
"Arr, mateys," he said, "at long last, we be havin' a class now! What challenges await us in—" The dog abruptly stopped speaking as he got elbowed rather firmly by Dave, resuming a moment later, "What be wrong with me speakin' in—STOP IT!"
"Now you're in for it," Dave muttered as a few students started laughing.
"Yeesh, cool it pirate dude!" said a white-furred, black and shaggy-haired cat. He walked beside the newcomer from the other side of the room, and alongside him was a brown rabbit with blonde hair that covered one of his eyes.
"Walk the plank, ye swaddlin' landlubbers!" the dog exclaimed, producing a cutlass.
Rinnahssiah-2 abruptly grabbed his arm and said in a tone of practiced and enforced calm, "Put down the sword and nobody has to get hurt."
The dog looked embarrassed. "It not actually be a real sword," he said, putting it away.
Dave quietly facepalmed.
"Hey," the cat said, pointing to a sword he pulled out from behind him with sharp, ragged edges and holes above its circular grip. "Would it be alright with ya if I didn't participate in the sword-putting-downing?"
The dog looked slightly stunned, largely due to the fact that he was being not-so-subtly pulled away by Dave.
"Mr. Clarisse!" Milssa yelled, sounding somewhat scared and apprehensive. "Any protocol on this?"
"Actually, it's quite ironic you mention that," Cobalt said with the smallest of grins. "These are three members of Team Knight. Squiffy, Crymson, and Bahn. Corey, Kadri, Ethan, Lia and Dee should be here soon... But yes, these eight exceptional students have come to master the art of blade-wielding with their instructor... wherever she is." Cobalt mumbled something that sounded like it had something to do with people being on time.
"Yar har, it be time for the actual blade now!" said the dog, Squiffy Bruce. Attempting to produce an actual sword, he was elbowed by Dave, who held off Rinnahssiah-2 while hissing in a stage whisper, "He didn't say you could work on this yet."
Madison raised her hand somewhat hesitantly, started to speak, then stopped and lowered her hand.
"Shut it with the pirate crap! You shouldn’t pretend to be something that you aren’t!" Andy yelled.
"Andy, that’s not very nice. Being a pirate could have always been his dream. Your words could easily shatter those dreams into tiny bits of a glass window," Lilly scolded.
"It may not be nice, but at least it’s true,” Andy remarked.
Dee snuck in, not wanting to make a scene despite being extremely late. She just watched the chaos for now, there'd be plenty of time to cause it later. Behind her walked a spiky orange quilled, green-furred hedgefox named Ethan who yawned.
Milssa pushed past the two as unobtrusively as she could manage, trying to see if she could find Team Knight's teacher and stop the mess.
Bruce, meanwhile, would have none of Andy's antagonizing. "Arr, matey, ye be insultin' the pirate code!" he proclaimed, drawing his actual sword (which was an absolutely typical cutlass). Attempting to continue, his mouth was muffled by Dave, with only the word "duel" being audible.
Rinnahssiah-2 had a different tactic. "" she said, an almost tangible psychic wave emanating from her in the direction of both Andy and Bruce as she attempted to mentally pacify the two of them.
"I agree," said Indrek, who had at just that moment been dragged in the door by a hyper-looking Kadri. "We are here to learn how to fight better, not to use what skills we already have on each other, are we not?"
"I'm here to do both," Kadri chirped, ignoring the "not helping" look her brother was aiming her way.
Adelaide took advantage of the scene the siblings were causing to slip into the room unnoticed. Looking around at who was there, she walked over to Milssa, giving a small smile to the girl she had healed the day before. "How are you feeling?" she asked.
Milssa gulped, stopping in her tracks (as she hadn't really managed to get anywhere near the door). "Tired," she said in a small voice. "But thanks anyway. I—I'm glad you're still talking to me after what a jerk I—I was yesterday." Milssa stared at the floor and looked like she was about to cry for a moment before straightening slightly. "I need to go find Team Knight's teacher," Milssa said, trying (but probably failing) to sound more in control of herself as she started to resume her path to the door.
Adelaide watched the other girl for a moment, then ran after her. "Hey," she said to Milssa, "most people mess up pretty much nonstop. You're a kid. You still have time to learn how to not mess up so much." The flamingo shrugged, her wings fluttering out as her shoulders raised and then flopping back down as they lowered. "The kind of person who writes off other people for being normal people doesn't end up with anybody left, not even themselves, really."
Milssa stopped again. "...Thanks," she said, giving a weak smile to Adelaide before suddenly becoming distracted by what was going on in the rest of the room.
A blonde fox with a sword had rushed into the room, but since she was taller and looked older, it was pretty obvious that she wasn’t a student. “Here I am!” she chirped after she set her sword down and took a deep breath.
Rosebud started to sweat, and her hands fidgeted around. “It’s a pleasure to see you, mother!” she blurted out as she shook.
Plat could obviously see that Rosebud was worried, and so he whispered to her, “Rosebud, you shouldn’t be worried about your mom embarrassing you. I never thought you would be that kind of person.”
“That’s not it, Plat,” she responded. “I’m worried that she would make me join her class, and then I wouldn’t get to spend the day with my friends...although new friends do seem nice, I can’t let my old friends go!”
"Oh, yeah, your teacher's Alice," Mac said with a snort, having come into the room. "May the Lord bless y'all's souls, 'cuz it's gonna be like hell for you-"
"Mac! Children are in the vicinity!" Cobalt berated Mac, making the tiger smirk.
"And if she's your mom, then that's rough, buddy," said Mac.
Something about what Mac said bothered Madison. In tandem with this, a small cloud of darkness appeared near Madison, barely visible due to the students around Madison and made even less visible by Madison's vague realization of it and subconscious attempt to move it down to floor level.
"Arr, it be the swordsmanship teacher!" Bruce exclaimed, no longer being under Rinnahssiah-2's mind-affecting spell (as she'd dropped it after the teachers entered, figuring it unnecessary).
A pair of dolphins, one with a giant headset and the other with an ill-disguised pair of blades, entered the room, causing Bruce to proclaim excitedly, "It also be the rest of the swordsmanship team!" This caused the smaller dolphin to abruptly veer to the side, unintentionally banging into her brother (the other dolphin) and nearly knocking his headset off. Pretty much everyone in the class would get a momentary mental message of "" as he readjusted his headset.
"Wow, it looks like everyone in the school is here!" said Caleb, the headset-wearing dolphin (still mildly readjusting his headset, now with the aid of his sister, Lia, the one who had nearly knocked it off). "Well, everyone except for some of the teachers...Still pretty cool, though!"
Skid looked around, not having said anything and just watched. Then finally spoke up, as the need to be doing something was getting to him. "Okay, when are we gonna start doin' fun stuff? Don't mean to be rude, but the boredom's getting to me."
"Well, this is Stamina class after all, so I'm going to have you all run a lap around the room," Cobalt said with a hint of a smirk. "I have a surprise for you all afterwards. I suggest you... save some energy, to put it bluntly. Don't expect the expected."
Bruce, who had begun attempting to start the lap as soon as Cobalt said so, was yanked back by Dave, who promptly reiterated what Cobalt had said.
Corey and Caleb started awkwardly trying to get themselves into good positions to start going with, followed even more awkwardly by Lia and Madison. Rinnahssiah-2, who had no idea what they were doing, just stood looking blankly at a wall and waiting for the call.
"I guess it's time to stop talking," Milssa said to Adelaide, trying to pull herself up to her full height so that she wouldn't fall over the moment that it was time to start running.
"Good luck," Adelaide said, impulsively reaching over to pat Milssa on the shoulder. Elsewhere in the room, Indrek had closed his eyes and was breathing deeply, ignoring Kadri, who was running around him in circles, waving her twin arming swords over her head, shouting, "This is going to be so much fun!"
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