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Cheer Practice

" Again , one more time !! "

May ran forward as soon as Dean barked the order and began to block Dean's onehanded swings at her , Dean was slower than he would have liked because his hand hurt everytime he moved it .

He had consoled himself with the theory that every time his hand hurt , it was healing more .

May was doing a good job of blocking his hits but she always tended to get too engrossed in one move, so, Dean suddenly kicked her and just like he had anticipated May fell to the ground before she could block it .

Dean shook his head and laughed at the scowl that graced her face as she stared up at him in utter resentment .

She pushed herself to her feet and turned her neck weirdly around to duste her ass aggressively .

" That was extremely low , especially coming from you one handed imbecile ".

Dean's mouth dropped open at the name calling , he had never been called an imbecile .

Not even the love of his life called him that and besides Jay had usually gotten angry when other people asides from her called him unsatisfactory names .

Once , he had been called in for an unplanned shift and had to bring Jay along to the diner he worked at .

He had sat her down by a corner that he could watch her from and given her a juice box and fries and then begged her to remain as quiet as she could while he worked .

A popular band was performing in town so all of the restaurants in the area had been packed full of young girls from all over the countries and even foreign countries, chatting loudly and eating while wearing costumes from the band .

Jaymie had wanted a milkshake as she watched the girls discuss animatedly , so he had made one for her to keep her quiet .

The manager had seen him making it for her and made a big deal of it , he had then deducted his salary for doing personal work when the shop was packed full while also calling him a slew of provocative names .

Dean had not argued and had just gone about his work after giving her the milk shake which she had accepted with a smile that was too bright.

About two minutes after he had given her the milkshake , his sister had screamed loudly and proceeded to shakily pull out a plastic worm from her cup while still screaming.

Total chaos had ensued as all of the customers ran out and away without paying while the manager had gotten severely jostled while trying to stop them .

The manager had discovered that the worm was plastic when he was getting rid of it and out of shock, he had promptly fired Dean and Jaymie even though she did not work for him , Dean had attributed it to the intense shock .

They had not left the shop till Dean had finally conceded to Jaymie's request and taken the milkshakes and fries he had been preparing for one of the escaped customers .

They had eaten it as they walked home , laughing and exchanging insect jokes .

Dean smiled down at May as he remembered the memory .

" Shouldn't you be ashamed of yourself ? You have your four limbs intact and you still can not land a solid hit on the one handed guy, very sloppy ".

May's eyes narrowed as she pushed herself to her feet and stretched slowly , staring at Dean all the while she stretched .

Without warning , she began to attack Dean , coordinating her attacks between punching , defending and kicking and also making weird faces at him .

She soon fell into a rhythm that Dean appreciated as he watched her move and tried to time her moves .

They stopped when the door opened and Blade came in , followed by Jade .

They both looked highly enthusiastic , evidence that they had been watching for a while before they gathered the courage to enter and disturb May .

Jade ran towards him and gave him a thumbs up while smiling wildly .

" You are pretty cool ,you must have been really popular in school , with boys and girls ".

Dean shook his head, wondering what that had to do with right now .

"No, I was more of a social pariah that did not exist on the social ladder , no one talked to me and I did not talk to anyone ".

Jade blinked softly , his countenance deflating immediately, he blew a raspberry .

" If it is any consolation , my classmates would not talk to me either, I was not a pariah though because I actually did want them to talk to me and I existed in the geek line of the social ladder ".

Dean scoffed in utter disbelief .

" I am sorry about that but it Is not a consolation , okay ? ".

Dean lifted his head to Blade and looked between Blade and May .

" May , Blade fights very differently from me , it would be a good idea to practice with several different people and their styles .Do you mind Blade ? "

Blade shrugged and unlatched his kevlar vest , throwing it to the side .

May was impatient yet again and rushed at him , hitting him like a battering ram would but this time , she covered all of her body from the openings she had created on her body and immediately pushed herself off of him and into a defensive position as she waited for him to decide how to go about it .

He ran forward at her with his right fist slightly raised and May abandoned it, letting it come at her as she put all of her body in to avoiding this blow , she missed because he had put forward a feint without a lot of precedent , he raised his left fist instead and sent her flying with a loud groan , when she opened her eyes again she had a look of insane glee .

She rushed forward, ignoring the pain that had to be crushing her like Blade had not just put is all into that hit .

She kicked and Blade avoided , he kicked and she avoided , He tried to punch her again but she was ready each time and moved forward just in time to avoid whatever it was but it seemed like the attacks were not affecting Blade , he had still managed to retain a steady stream and was not attacking her madly but out of a well thought about turn .

Dean had not seen this coming , even he had greatly underestimated Blade .

He had made them fight because he wanted May to see what it felt like fighting her old self but that had not turned out to be the case.

Suddenly , Blade stopped defending against her attacks and went after her like a bull , his impatience had finally shown .

He bent down and put his head forward as he ran towards her mid section and grabbed it before flipping her on to the floor .

May made a loud "oomph" as the air left her and Blade stood up victorious ,Jade began to clap as he looked around and wiped tears like he had just watched a rerun of the Titanic .

Blade held out his hand to May for her to take it , a mistake really because as soon as she grabbed it , she pulled him down and pushed him on to the floor before jumping up and waving her hands around while imitating the sounds from a crowds cheers as she bowed numerously , Jade stopped cheering and only glared scandalously at May .

Dean stood from the chair he had planted his ass on and began to walk out of the room .

His work here was done , now she could only practice harder till she did not have to be reliant on calculating her opponents next attack , that Dean could not help her with .

May ran towards him stopping him from leaving .

" You are leaving already ? "

He nodded and pointed at her door .

" I was taking a walk when I saw you excersising and decided to show you something that I thought could help , I should go back to my walk and get down to my actual work to make sure that Jade had no new plans or ideas of blowing us all up while I was gone ".

May nodded as she looked around , looking anywhere but at him as her eyes travelled skeptically about.

" I wanted to say uhm...unhm , I guess thanks for giving me pointers and teaching me how to fall even as you were injured ".

Dean nodded and continued on downstairs .

" I can not have you dying on me , especially at the gauntlets . Now rest up and do not get sleepy when you need to fight ".

Dean left the room without waiting to hear whatever May said later .

He headed down to his own room , taking the stairs slowly because he might have overexerted himself just now .

Dean felt old and constantly tired , no one had told him that he would be adding on age in the game .

He walked into the room and found papers that were not there earlier , he was about to read them when he saw that Nitroglycerin and been underlined somewhere in the middle , he immediately balled them and threw them at the door before roaring into the room in frustration .

He threw them towards the doorway, that way , the owner would easily find them when he came in .

Dean had intended to read some more but he could not resist the pull of the bed , so he slowly got in and took his own advice of not falling asleep at the gauntlet , that was after promising himself that he would sleep for just five minutes.

Or ten minutes really , one could not put a time limit on sleep .