Chapter 3: Training begins
Once they arrived at the palace they were both sent to rest for the day. The next day the Storm King called Max to discuss more about Earth and other things while Capper was sent to learn what duties he had as a Servant.
"So my boy tell me what happened leading up to you coming to this place." the Storm king asked.
"well I was at home with my family and friends celebrating my birthday when they were singing to me wishing me a happy birthday, when it came time for me to make a wish I wished for an adventure. Next thing I know I woke up in that town in an alleyway." Max fought hard to not tear up as he told his story
"Well dear boy that is an unfortunate set of events. if you help me with my work and tell me more about this Earth place I shall allow you to stay as my ward, however you must be trained in many things and must never bring shame to my name do you understand?" the Storm king said.
"Yes sir" Max responded.
"Good now my boy come with me we must go and meet your combat instructor." the Storm king said
The two walked through the palace before coming to an iron door. they opened the door to a room with Padded floors and what looked like like wooden weapons of all kind all over the room. as they entered Max noticed Capper and a small pony with a broken horn and scar over her right eye.
"Well well well what do we have here two more new recruits for me to train." A masculine voice called out.
Before max could question who said that a Large monkey creature swung down from the ceiling, looking up Max could see balancing beams above the ceiling
"Hello to you two my name is Wu-Kong I train all the special cases for the Storm king here." Wu-Kong spoke in a raspy voice
Upon closer inspection Max could see Wu-Kong was quite old with his features being pretty wrinkled however his body was the opposite being quite toned and fit.
"um hello sir" Max answered first with Capper slowly behind him "hello sir"
"Well now good manners rare in this place, where did you find these two Storm King? an Abyssinian and a creature even I have never seen reminds me of a hairless newborn." Wu-Kong said as he lifted several limbs of the two boys with all 4 of his appendages while he balanced on his tail.
"I found them in the street of the town below old general. I have need of you to train them especially focus on this boy here." He pointed to Max "I have need of him at times for the project so make sure to keep him up with the other two. the other is his servant, however it is quite rare to see an Abyssinian this far off from home so he is to be the Boys' personal bodyguard as well. Well then I leave them in your care old general." after saying this the Storm King walks off
"Well then boys let me introduce you to the other student over here, this is Fiz-." The pony cuts him off
"I told you my name is Tempest Shadow now General." Tempest said quite angrily
Wu-Kong laughs at this "Sorry little one forgot you chose a new name in service to the Storm King."
Max walks over to Tempest and Wu-Kong extending his hand "Hi I'm Max, nice to meet you both."
Wu-Kong shakes his hand while Tempest ignores him and starts to walk off.
"Forgive her she has always been a bit rude to people she doesn't think worth her time." Wu-Kong says to the the two.
"Well I'm Capper, Pleasure to meet you Sir Captain." Capper says whilst he does a faux bow.
Wu-Kong laughs at this "Well boy if your gonna give me that much fake respect we'll be here far to long. No need for the pleasantries here my job is to train you, and that's all your gonna get from me. Either just call be by name or call me Sir Understood?"
Both boys reply "yes sir."
"Well then first off, both of you seem to have adequate muscle tone for your age so for the most part we are just gonna keep up the same routine you've been doing while also fixing muscles which haven't been used as much. For you Max your gonna do Pull-ups and push-ups. and doing 3 reps of 10 of what you can manage with the weights over there. your arms are far to weak right now for any of the techniques I have to show you. For you Capper your gonna start on techniques for breathing while increasing how long you can increase your maximum speed, and how to use all your appendages better both your legs are toned enough but you need to loosen up a bit your body isn't meant to be as tense as you seem to be your constantly overexerting your muscles which will cause growth stunts. Relax your body then breath in and out and casually run around the room you need to be able to increase your ability while your body is in a relaxed state."
As the two of them go and begin their trainings Tempest takes a glance over at them before going back to her routines moving her hoofs in a fluid motion she incapacitates a training dummy.
"Woah that was awesome!" Max said aloud having witness a pony just do some form of martial art in front of him.
"Hmph it isn't anything that special kid." Tempest says dismissively before continuing her training with a slight smirk on her face.