May 12th 3019
1:12 P.M.
Cambridge, Real Household
"Max, please stop! you're hurting me!" I moan in pain.
"No! I'm gonna keep going so you better keep still"
"I can't take it anymore please! it's too much I can't handle it" I grunt
David comes in.
"What the hell!? Max! you're gonna kill him" He rushes to my aid and starts taking the weights off of me. I collapse and gasp for air.
"You dumbass, what were you thinking? this is way too much for him"
"This is what I always do when I train. What's wrong with that?" He asks confused
"How many times do I have to remind you that his Constitution isn't as high as yours! Not even mine is and I'm a higher rank than you"
"Well that's because you specialize in Agility" Max retorts.
"That's not the point you can't keep stacking weights recklessly like that!" David turns to me as I sit on the bench panting and drenched in sweat. "Are you Ok?"
He asks and I turn to look but just doing that makes my neck hurt so I look back down. "Yeah... I'm... good" I barely manage.
I stay still for a while before heading to a machine at a corner of the room. I lean on it and stick my arm in a concave gap in the middle. I press a button and the machine whirrs to life, a blue light scans my arm and my stats are displayed.
[Scanning...
Con: 23
Agi: 21
Vit: 30
Scanning Complete]
These are the results of training for three days without stopping, it's better than I expected even Max and David are impressed but I can feel that my little breakthrough boost has run its course. I can only train normally like the others until it caps again. Luckily my parents had a scanner in the weight room to keep track of progress so we didn't have to wait in a long line at an agency or anything.
"Nice going Kris!" Max slaps my shoulder and I nearly fall again. He squats down to pick me up again, his arms around me.
"Oops my bad, you good?" He asks like it isn't his fault I'm like this to begin with.
"Oh... I'm great... thanks" I don't have the energy to even express an emotion. David speaks up.
"Seems you can only improve normally now, you two go take a shower I already finished mine so I'm going to your room to rest" He says and walks away.
Max looks at me and smiles "I don't have to help you with that do I?"
My response is a swift but effective hit to his weak spot below.
"Ow!"
"You get what you deserve" I smirk at him as I undress, Max does the same, we get our stuff and head to the shower room. It is a big open room next door to the weight room with several shower heads on the wall, the shower knobs have a small outcropping underneath them where you can place your soap and stuff, it's very reminiscent of the showers back at the school.
"So what's the plan now?" Asks Max.
"I was thinking eating first before anything else, I'm starving after all that, we barely ate anything during these past few days" I say.
"Let's have a feast! spaghetti, beast meat, some beast milk and cheese"
"Whoa, whoa slow down, one thing at a time or you really will make my family go broke" I have to stop him or he really will keep going and order all of that from the staff.
"But-"
"No, we will get your spaghetti, meat and stuff but that's it, ok?"
"Ok then" He whispers as his head droops down like a kicked puppy 'Damn why must he always do that? It always makes me feel so guilty'
I shake my head and we both finish up and as we dress up I notice something. I have to put my hand to my mouth as I try to hold in my laugh.
"What?"
"Uh Max there is- how do I put this?" I start chuckling and struggle to keep it in.
"What? What is it?" He checks his front, his legs, even his face and stares at me confused.
"There's something on your lower back" I barely manage to say.
"Look I can deal with the team calling me 'BB' but you too?"
"No no this is arguably worse and much more obvious" I say as I smile looking behind him.
"Huh?" He checks his back and freezes as he comes to realize. "What?! How?!"
I burst out laughing as Max finally comes to realize he's sprouted a thin tail that ends in a tuft of hair much like a lion...