The Exam
In the realm of Terra there are many legends spread far and wide through the world but no better legend of the Students of Gaiden, better known now by Fable Academy. A long time ago during warring times there was a mercenary school that trained young students of all races. This is the story of just a set few who lived through the known massacre that happened at that same school and this is their story. In the School of Gaiden in your third year you are to be tested and weaned to see if you can handle the merc life, a few such students made the grade. As the third years entered the danger room the mood was tense as when they walked in they noticed the obstacle course as well as a one horned demon standing beside the starting ramp.
“Welcome my students welcome to your SeeD exam I am your instructor Dante Dear.'' The demon stood about 5’7 dark hair with orange skin but his eyes glowed a crimson red which intimidated a lot of students even though he had such a kind demeanor. “Now you will be running this course but there is a twist.” a demonic smile slowly creeping onto his face.”you will be shot at with these stim darts.” The dart no bigger than two inches being held by two of his fingers.”These darts are currently filled with drow poison with a special ingredient I added in it , one shot and yall will be down for awhile.” Just then a student interrupted. “Yes but only if we have a low immune system it will have any effect on us.” the student said very cocky like. With no second thought with his other hand pulls a dart gun from his side and shoots the student in the leg, which causes them to fall down in pain and lays on the floor paralized.
“True but I added some snake venom to give it a better kick, next time shut the fuck up and listen.” as he looks up at the rest of the students.” now keep this in mind while you run the course and dodge these darts, Good luck?” as some of the students contemplate whether to get through it or not 4 students walked onto the field on dragon born with green scales and oranges eyes standing at 6’3, a white haired 6’2 aasimar girl, a brown haired boy standing about 5’7 with feathered earrings, and Pinked haired girl standing at 5’3. All four looked ready and determined to take on the course before Dante took his place to start the course. The dragonborn and the aasimar looked each other in the eyes and gave each other a smile. When Dante fired the gun they all bursted into a full sprint the pink haired girl was agile and dodged all the darts in what looked like cheerleader-like flips & spins.
The dragonborn and aasimar were in a league of their own running like professionals runners while having near misses from the darts. Just then the pink hair girl comes running up from behind and tries to pass them when she suddenly gets hit by one of the darts. Not missing a step they leave her and run to the finish line when the aasimar picks up in a bit of speed and beats the dragonborn to the finish like by a few seconds. Needless to say the dragonborn was not assumed by the loss, a few moments later the boy runs over the finish line with the pink haired girl on his back. “So who won?” asked the boy “ Diana did.” sneered the dragonborn, Diana with a sneaky smile turns to the dragonborn “ well can’t win them all Rai.” as they both leered at one another. Diana then looks over at the boy and says “Oh you saved her, Ricard?!” giving him a thumbs up.” good job.” Just then Dante appears behind Diana “good job on passing you four make your way to the cafeteria you earned it.” as he said four Diana and Rai looked around and asked together. “Who’s the fourth?” Ricard caughted on and then turned to see the girl he was holding. “ her duh.” Ricard said sarcastically
After seeing these four take the run most of the students attempted the run lots of them failed to cross the finish line. But the more determined made it to the finish line my hook or by crook, but when the moment changed when more people failed then passed the mood turned dire. So Audrey, a human mage walks up to the starting line a bit nervous, just then a hand rests on her shoulder with a calming voice “ Hey don’t worry too much, we got this.” she turned confused to see a human boy with dark brown hair and feathered earrings. “Wait didn’t you already pass this?” Audrey asks “No, oh you mean earlier no that was my twin brother Ricard.” he then extends his hand and says “Hi I’m Travis and this is Fuu.” following his hand downward she sees a halfling girl with purple eyes and brown hair. “Oh?, Hi.” Fuu waves with a beautiful smile and winks at Audrey to be cute. “ Hi! ” Just then a tiefling boy comes stumbling to the line “hey guys, good luck.” he was wearing a hoodie but his curly black hair was sticking out and ripped up jeans which looked like he fights with animals all day.
Dante walks up to the students “so yall are the last of them are you ready?” all four of them look at Dante with fire of determination in their eyes and thumbs up. When the gun was shot they began the run, while in a sprint Fuu starts humming a sweet little tune, suddenly they all pick up pace and the darts miss their mark. The other three look down at Fuu, who happens to be still humming but with a huge smile on her face. They all knew now she was a bard and was using inspiration on them to boost them for this run, they weren’t going to complain about getting a nice lead and edge to the course. But as their hopes were getting high the humming stopped and Travis noticed first and turned back to see Fuu had been shot and was stunned on the ground. The others now notice and are beginning to slow down to help Travis when he yells “ No, keep going we will catch up!” they start to speed up to the finish line Travis picks up Fuu and holds her close and starts to sprint to catch up to the others. They focused on dodging and waited anyway as the group got back together the finish line was in eye shot.
When Travis yells ”Take her!” Suddenly the tiefling catches Fuu and keeps running, Audrey turns to see Travis slowing down and thinks “oh no could he have been shot?” her fears confirmed as he slowly falls to the ground but as he is falling he throws a pencil towards the finish line. The tiefling, Fuu and Audrey pass the finish line and look back at Travis when the pencil lands passed the finish line and Travis teleports to it still stunned but stunned with his thumbs up and a stupid smile on his face. They have passed and they all fall to the ground from exhaustion and laugh to themselves, when Dante walks up “did y’all have fun?” with a smile on “well you passed get your asses out of here and go eat.” as he points to the exit doors and walks away.