CHAPTER 189: I Really Was Conceited

Ridge shrugged, "I think what you noticed is the same as what I have noticed."

"Then what happened during their training?" she asked.

"Well, Stormie and Felix had been doing some combo before Chester appeared and their synergy improved a lot. In the end, Stormie actually compared the two of them over and over again causing Nixon to actually snap."

Ridge sighed.

"I think even if its just me, I would snap as well. Instead of performing better, my performance would surely drop instead. This is not good. You two check on him, I will speak with Stormie."

They went their own way.

Upon reaching where Stormie and Willow were training, she heard Stormie's complaints.

"If he couldn't perform well, then what is the purpose of training together? Why don't he just go and trian on his own?"

Stormie defended from an above attack from Willow.

Willow's sword was deflected just as her foot landed on the ground.

The deflection caused her to lose her balance.

Stormie moved forward ready to his her but Willow was able to bend backward instead and using one hand, she jumped away from Stormie's attack.

"He was the wrong, yet why is he the one walking away like that?" Stormie complained again.

Willow actually has no idea on what to say right now.

So she left Stormie to complain on her own.

Yet both were stunned when Stormie who was rushing to attack was blocked by another sword.

Saphira single handedly deflected her two hand attack.

Then without waiting, she rushed forward and the sword was placed directly at Stormie's neck.

"If that was Willow, she would have been able to move back."

"Hu-?!?!" Stormie was shock when Saphira suddenly said that.

"One more time," Saphira stepped back before readying herself for another bout.

Though shocked, Stormie could only regain her senses and ready herself again.

"Willow could have blocked that!! Again!!!"

Their bout continued and Saphira kept using Willow's name.

"What is that? Willow would have attacked there and not simply stop!!"

Willow furrowed her brows.

Why is Saphira using her name over and over again, she could see that Stormie was starting to become agitated.

Then realization hit her.

'But still why not use another person instead?' she asked internally.

"SAPHIRA!!!"

Finally after a few more bouts, Stormie lost her cool and shouted in complaint.

"What?" Saphira asked with indifference.

"Stop getting Willow's name involved, we are the ones dueling here," Stormie replied.

Saphira simply looked at her watching her being agitated.

"Saphira!!!" Stormie stomped her foot on the ground.

"Do you understand it now?" Saphira asked making Stormie stop in confusion.

"Do you understand what you have done with Nixon?" Saphira asked again.

"I-" Stormie was stomped for words.

"Be grateful he simply left and didn't throw a tantrum just like what you are doing now."

Saphira changed her attitude into that of the one leading them.

"That's because... he... I mean..."

"You have no right Stormie."

Stormie bit her lower lip when she was reprimanded.

"What right did you have to compare him? Is it because your synergy with Felix has become better?" Saphira asked seriously.

"I..."

"Sa-"

Felix, who was also there with Drake and have witnessed everything, wanted to speak up but Drake stopped him.

"Don't or you will be the one being reprimanded instead. What Stormie did was completely wrong, no matter what you feel, Stormie was in the worng."

Felix's words were stuck in his throat.

He felt good that Stormie sees him as someone good but he had forgotten that the way she expressed it was completely wrong.

"Answer me Stormie, I am asking you a question," Saphira didn't let it go.

"I have no right," Stormie answered while bowing her head.

"Anyone who was continuously compared to others would lose all desire to keep going or to keep improving having thoughts that no matter what they do, it won't be acknowledged at all. So why do you think Nixon should continue training with you? Who was the one who has the right to be angry right now? To complain?"

Stormie didn't answer but her head lowered even more.

"No matter how strong we may become, whether we leave the rest behind or we improve with the rest. Never put the others down. Because they were also doing their best on their own."

She then looked at Felix.

"Don't speak for others when they are the ones who are obviously in the wrong. If you can't even tell that much then go back home. I don't want to work with anyone who would compliment or protect those who are wrong."

Felix was hit hard, he didn't expect that Saphira would notice his reaction, albeit it was just a short reaction.

"You know what you need to do Stormie, I don't need to spell it out to you," she commented.

"I understand," Stormie replied.

Saphira sighed, "We were just enjoying ourselves almost an hour ago."

"Sorry," Stormie apologized.

"As long as you know, I wish that such a thing won't happen again. At least allow us to have a good atmosphere far longer before something like this would happen," Saphira said with a shake of her head.

They have so many things to do that Saphira wished for their breaks to be a longer one and that no such thing as hurting others would happen.

"I really was conceited," Stormie then said.

After thinking back to what had happened and what Saphira told her and showed her, she could clearly see just where she went wrong.

Stormie looked at Drake and Willow and she could see that they agree to what Saphira had just taught her.

They simply didn't speak up because the authority wasn't there.

The reasn that she listened to Saphira because of the respect and authority that Saphira has.

Willow was actually thinking of asking Saphira to speak with Stormie as she listened to Stormie's complains even though she was the one on the wrong.