Syn had been about to light up another cigarette when he heard a female voice behind him.  Judging by the feeling he got, he knew who it was and stopped in his tracks but didn't turn.  Instead he lit his cigarette and took a long drag before letting it out slowly, the smoke billowing out in front of him.<br/><br/>"You won't fail my class.  There's no tests and no homework.  Your goal is to get past me and reach that X, that's it.  You won't pass my class till you reach it.  You want to catch up, go pick a fight with one of the students and see how you fair against them.  Otherwise, the only thing you can do is learn from your failures...consider yourself lucky that you get to live after a failure."<br/><br/>With that he walked off.  He wasn't going to help anyone learn by telling them what to do because a fight didn't come with an instruction manual or with guidelines.  He wanted the students to learn through pain because that's how warriors learned.  Doing something, receiving pain.  Learn from that and do something differently to not feel that pain again.  Stopping a few paces away he twisted his neck so that he was looking at her over his shoulder.<br/><br/>"The spirit jump was a good idea, but you need to remember that I'm stronger than you.  So making it faster and guarding your mind is something you should look into.  If you don't know how to do that...I'd learn quickly.  I went easy on your mind today.  Keep making the same mistakes and it'll get more painful."<br/><br/>Turning his head back he walked towards the staff rooms and headed for his own room.  Teaching these kids was making him feel weak, like he was loosing his killer edge and he wasn't okay with that.  Sparring with the staff was useless since they were all weak and hadn't fought anything in centuries.  Sighing heavily he rubbed his neck as he sat on his chair and tapped his finger against the desk in complete and utter boredom.  Rolling the cigarette between his lips he bounced his foot against the floor for a moment before standing up and stepping into a shadow portal.  He was able to stay on Lancaster but he wouldn't be able to return to the human realm.  Heading to the 'staff lounge' he stepped out of the portal and looked around at the professors there and noticed that most of them were avoiding his gaze.<br/><br/>'Pussies.'<br/>Walking over to the bar in the lounge he walked around behind the bar and ignored the bartender as he made his own drink so that it was stronger.  A female instructor from the Void house walked over and mentioned that drinking that much wasn't good for a teacher.  Syn glanced at the instructor and smirked.<br/><br/>"The instructors can't beat me shit faced so the students still have no chance."<br/>"Oh-ho?  Someone's a little confident."<br/>Syn smirked as he looked at the female and sniffed her.<br/>"I don't smell any blood on you.  You haven't killed in a long...long time.  Up until two months ago, I killed daily.  Care to dust off those shadows and fight a real warrior?"<br/>Naturally that challenge led him and the female to the same course that he trained the kids and that small circle turned into a war zone as the two instructors were going at it much harder than the kids ever did, which earned them a little audience.  Syn had a smile on his face the whole time as he kept egging the female, Sammy, on.  She was strong, but she was rusty and it showed in her movements.  Syn was moving around her like a professional dancer surrounded by college kids in a night club.  Sammy had slow choppy attacks while Syn's were fluid and precise.<br/><br/>Every attack she had sent his way was met half way with a stronger counter that ended with Sammy flat on her back or her face.