At this point, Roy was just staring in disbelief.<span style="font-style: italic">My teacher just threw his student. He didn't hold back at all... and that last blow didn't even faze him. Shit. First period of the day and I've already found out my combat teacher's a psychopath. That's just what I needed right about now.</span><br/><br/>Roy ran a hand over his face and sighed deeply. This was sucking. This was sucking very much.<br/><br/>Suddenly, what Mr. Winters said registered in his head.<span style="font-style: italic">Preliminaries? What are we going to fight for a class ranking or something?</span>But he didn't say anything, and no one else raised their hand. Roy had a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.<br/><br/>--------------------------<br/><br/>Melody had hardly had enough time to recover from their last teleportation/illusion/whatever pre-lesson, when suddenly it was happening again.<br/><br/>There was an endless mass of humans going all sorts of directions in front of her. It seemed, to pass this lesson, she had no choice but to barge through them.<br/><br/>"Excuse me! Pardon me!" She called as she pushed her way through the crowd. One man got angry at her. It seemed he didn't like the idea of a "kid" pushing him around.<br/><br/>"Hey, whadaya think yer doin'?" He shouted at her.<br/><br/>Melody quickly put on an act, but it was fueled more by fear and adrenalin than actual skill or experience. She put on a pouty face and huffed. "I'm not supposed to talk to strangers," she said in her best child voice (which wasn't much different from her normal voice).<br/><br/>Melody didn't wait for the man to answer, and instead kept pushing her way through the crowd. She wished she could just pass though it like the last time, but no one was going her direction and it was too tightly packed.<br/><br/>Eventually, she made it to Miss Chillan. People were looking at her curious why she had run toward that woman, so for good measure, when Melody ran up to her, she threw her arms around her in a hug and said, loud enough for those nearby to hear, "Mommie!"<br/><br/>Inside she was wailing, hoping she didn't get a detention for this, and feeling weird that she was hugging her teacher.