New gym

"Wake up Ray! It's time to grind!"

Since Ray was taking the day off Slippy decided that they should focus on increasing Ray's basic level of fitness. As during the fight against Wu, Ray got tired out real fast.

Miley had left

"Ray we should do some basic research on endurance training first before we do anything else."

"Ok.."

They searched up 'endurance training for fighters', and the first thing that popped up was expertboxing.com.

On the website, it says that the number one tip for training your muscle conditioning for boxing is to do interval training. So they then looked-up 'interval training for fighters'.

The annoying thing about that was that there was a lot of contradicting information that popped up.

"What the heck is wrong with these guys. Can't they just put it in simple English?"

Basically, they were too dumb and inexperienced to understand what they were reading.

"Ray how about searching up 'interval training for boxers'?"

'Good idea Slippy.'

The information that they got from multiple sites were:

"Do your boxing rounds on the bag! 4-5 mile runs! 100m sprint by 6 with one min rest in between!"

Ray:"..."

What the heck do you want me to do?

"Wait Ray maybe we should join an actual boxing gym. That will help us a lot."

But we already have a year membership at the other gym!

"We'll just cancel it as it seems that we haven't really learned anything there about fighting, but at a boxing gym you could learn to box while at the same time increasing your endurance."

That's some good points, but you were the one that made me sign up for a year-long membership.

"Oh well, what can I say? Just cancel it and you can sign up for a year-long membership at a boxing gym instead."

'Um Slippy, this time around maybe I'll just sign up for a month instead.'

Reading Ray's mind Slippy immediately understood.

"You are thinking about the kick and knee that Wu used and you're worried that staying at a boxing gym wouldn't teach you how to counter them. That does make sense. A month of boxing training then we could go somewhere else to train!"

So then they began searching for a boxing gym online.

"There's a boxing gym called a pack of wild dogs quite close by. We should go check it out and then afterwards go check if your school office is keeping your dropped bag in the lost and found."

Nodding Ray stood up from his bed and he went off to get dressed.

…

The gym was two bus stops away on the 492 lines and unsurprisingly the bus was behind schedule.

Ray dressed in shorts, t-shirt and with his phone in a gap jacket. Stepped into the bus holding a plastic bag with a disgusting piece of soap in it.

Ray paid for the bus fare with his credit card on his phone and sat down.

"Ray."

Whispered Slippy.

"On the way, there could you buy a new bar of soap for me to possess."

'What about the soap bars at home? Shouldn't we have more at home?'

"No, there's no more at home. I checked before we left."

'Oh, then I'll drop by a grocery store before we head to school.'

Soon the bus arrived at its second stop and Ray quickly pulled the stop line by his seat.

He got off the bus and following his phone's direction he found the boxing gym.

It was a rundown looking place that looked like a place where shady activities happen. The entrance was unlike that of the modern-looking 24-hour fitness.

Entering the building he saw multiple symbols, but the words 'pack of wild dogs' stood out to him in particular. Underneath it was the outline of a wild dog that could be seen with P.O.W.D and the words combat club bellow it.

The shady look only extends from the outside to the entrance. As inside it had a much more modern look to it.

Ray went up to the front desk.

He took a deep breath and started talking.

"Um, excuse me. How does the price here work? It's my first time here."

The front reception was a casually dressed, but nice looking brown-skinned man with glass on.

"Oh, so there are two groups that are affiliated with the gym here. There is a pack of wild dogs which is a boxing club along with united mixed martial art which does mma. You can also just join the gym here, but you won't get access to their respective zones. Both groups have their own front desk in their zone."

"Thanks."

Ray headed through a hallway to see a massive gym way bigger than 24-hour fitness.

Oh yeah, Slippy did I cancel my membership with them yet?

"Not yet, but we could drop by after going to school."

They quickly found the mma place but ignored it as they looked for the boxing place. It took them a bit of walking until they found the place.

The first thing they saw was the boxing ring to which they headed.

There seems to be no one sparring here right now. Maybe I came at the wrong time?

"No Ray looks for their desk. There should be someone there."

They walked in further and saw a woman typing away on a light brown computer desk.

She was white-skinned and seemed to be engrossed in whatever she was typing away at.

"Hey, excuse me."

"Oh, hi there."

She stopped typing and looked up at Ray.

"What can I do for you today?"

Ray looked at the ground.

"I want to see what the membership price are for this place?"

"Oh, here you go."

She took out a piece of paper and handed it to Ray.

The price is as follows:

145 bucks per single month

130 bucks per month for a 3-month plan

125 bucks per month for a 6-month plan

85 bucks per month for a year-long plan

You will get access to the boxing facility as well as the gym facility. Which includes a locker room/change room, washroom/shower, and all the training equipment in the gym.

"Hm, I would like to pay for a month-long plan."

"Do you prefer cash or Visa?"

"Visa please."

"One moment."

She took out a payment terminal and Ray paid with his visa on his phone.

"There you go. A schedule of the boxing classes."

"Thanks-"

"By the way is this your first time boxing?"

Ray nodded with vigour.

"Then I recommend you to buy a hand wrap and learn how to use it. Because you can easily rip the skin off your hand through bag work."

Ray awkwardly walked off, looking down on the ground.

"Oh and if you plan to do sparring buy 16oz gloves."

"Um okay. Bye."

"Ray you're an awkward fuck."

Ray:...

'When did you start swearing? You were so polite back then!'