TRAINING WITH THE DEVIL

"He's a monster, why would you let us accompany you there?" asked Enri as he began to panic.

"What do you mean?" asked Grey.

"Come and check for yourself" simply replied Enri as he stood up and left his laptop on the reading table.

"What the hell did I sign up" cried Grey as he lost his appetite to eat his Sharwarma.

"Let me see" I said grabbing the laptop. The information on it was brief but very precise.

"The Devil's Coach, Michael Fable, a ruthless coach, who puts the athletes under his care into an almost soul crushing training regime, he single handedly coached Star athlete Tommy Rayans into becoming an international star athlete. Tommy Rayans in an interview once said in his own words 'Coach Michael is the most barbaric coach, although I owe my success to him, I have to say not even Olympic level athletes would be able to survive his training'.

Coach Michael, The Devil's Coach was just fired as head coach for the Olympic team after a series of complaints from Olympic athletes under his care, at the press conference held after his termination of contract the athletes said 'Coach Michael's training method are unconventional and dangerous'.

Two Olympic star athletes retire from the world of sports after undergoing special training session with Coach Michael for a week.

"Oh My God, what the hell did I sign up for" I wondered before I called out to Blue telepathically.

"Yes, you called" said Blue as he appeared.

"Did you know about Coach Michael?" I asked.

"Yes, that was exactly why I specifically made sure you would be trained by him" said Blue.

"What? Why would you do that?" I asked angrily.

"I did that because it would be the fastest way you would grow stronger" he simply replied as if he was stating a fact.

"Didn't you see the news about two Olympic star athletes leaving the world sports because of his special training?" I asked.

"I saw that." Blue simply replied before taking a drag from his pipe before asking "So, why did you call me?"

"Are you serious, that was the reason I called you?" I said angrily telepathically.

"Well, that was a pretty stupid reason" said Blue before he vanished.

"Blue, Blue, Blue" I called but he didn't even answer.

"That Blue, one of these days I swear I'll kill that stupid alien" I said to myself.

Grey and Enri were completely lost in thoughts the whole night, well I better sleep since there's no use in crying over spilled milk now.

"It's morning" I said trying to wake Grey and Enri but the both of them acted like they could not hear me.

I didn't think they would be this scared. I picked up my phone and called Enri, the phone rang but he tried so hard not to answer it but he couldn't resist it when I called him a third time.

"Hello, who's this?" he said into the receiver.

"It's time to go!!!" I screamed into the receiver as I cast him a smug look, "I got you" I said.

Angrily he dropped his phone as he fixed his gaze on Grey, I was pretty sure he would wake Grey up no matter what.

He stood up while looking at Grey as if he stole his girlfriend, he walked towards Grey's bed as he bent down and flexed his arms before he jumped on him like they do on the wrestling channel.

"Ahh!!" screamed Grey as he grabbed his stomach before looking at Enri who was smiling at him.

"I'm going to kill you" said Grey as he grabbed Enri before putting him a headlock. "How's that?" asked Grey as he ever so slightly choked Enri.

"I give up" said Enri as he tapped Grey rapidly on the arm he used to choke him.

"Humph… next time I'll make sure you pass out" said Grey.

"Well it looks like you guys are awake" I said, "You guys should go take shower, because if he's as bad as the internet say's we'll definitely receive some sort of punishment for being late" I said.

"Shit" said Enri as he rushed into the bathroom.

"Why would you even want to be trained by a person who star athletes dread?" asked Grey.

"I didn't know who he was plus there's no use worrying about it I already agreed to his offer" I simply replied.

…

"Let's get going" I said seeing as we were all done preparing.

This morning the receptionist was here but she treated us differently, as a matter of fact we felt like VIPs at a club.

"I forgot to introduce myself yesterday, my name's Roxanne" she said. "Coach Michael said I should bring you and your friends to the fifth floor" she said as she led us to the elevator.

"Ok" we all simply replied as we followed behind her.

"Pardon my asking but why do you guys want to train with Coach Michael?" she asked, "Most of the school athletes run the moment they hear he's coming" she said.

We all just silently looked at her before shaking our heads.

"We are here" she said as the elevators door opened up to the general gym.

Walking inside we saw a bunch of other athletes training with a different coach, the athletes also stopped training as they observed us. Samuel who we saw yesterday suddenly came walking towards us with a smile on his face until he saw Roxanne.

"Why are you guys here?" he asked.

"They are here to meet Coach Michael" replied Roxanne.

The moment she mentioned Coach Michael, the whole gym became silent as all the athletes had a look of pity on their faces.

"Is that any way to welcome my athletes" said coach Michael as he glared at them.

Instantly the crowd of onlookers continued whatever they were doing, but they couldn't hide the pity on their faces. To them we were like fish on a chopping board, that is we were as good as dead.

"This way" said Coach Michael as he directed us to another corner, "You may return to your post" he said to Roxanne.

"Since today is your first day I won't be so hard on you guys" he said.

Just as Grey and Enri breathed out a sigh of relief.

"The both of you will do a thousand jumping jacks, then cycle for fifteen kilometers with a five-minute break interval" he said to Grey and Enri who were more than shocked. "as for you, a thousand jumping jacks, two hundred squats, cycle for ten kilometers and some weight lifting" he said "right and you only have five minutes break interval if you think it's too tough you can tell me" he said smiling.

"Ok, I'll start right now" I said as I put down my bag, Grey and Enri followed my lead and we all started our workout.

All the athletes in the building were slack jawed as they heard his instructions, they watched us do our jumping jacks. Some of them began to whisper to each other, but that didn't mean anything since if I want to save the world as well as myself I had to get stronger and fast.