After walking for some time, Atma and his group arrived at the cavern in the mountains. "Well people, here we are," he said with a clearly ironic flourish. "We need to get this place fortified later. I already have a few traps set up within from when I found it. As for now," Atma got out his whiptail and the spear, "We need to do some combat training. Get your partner and spar with them for a bit."<br/><br/>The small group spaced out around a small clearing in front of the cave and began to spar.  They did know a few things about how to fight with their weapons, mostly swords and daggers, but they wouldn't survive for long against anything more challenging than a lone mid rank demon. A few cuts were exchanged, but nothing too serious. A few times Atma stepped in and fought for a little bit in order to show someone what to do, or what not to do with their weapons. Most of the rookies were too slow right now and that was a deadly flaw. "Speed up your strikes and blocks!" their leader screamed at them. "You don't want to die young do you?"<br/><br/>"Alright time for a change of pace. Which partners want to fight me?" He gave them an appraising look until a set of partners stepped up, a man with a katana and a girl with double daggers, looking eager to prove themselves. "I'll only use my spear to make it fair. Let's go!" The partners split one to each side and got their weapons ready while Atma readied his own spear.<br/><br/>The two charged at him at the same time, which was a smart thing to do. This forced their target to step back and block the katana strike with the spear. Sparks flew as metal hit metal. The girl with daggers had over stepped and momentarily lost balance that gave Atma the opportunity to kick the girl in the stomach. She took the kick and fell onto her back with the wind knocked out of her. The man with the katana jumped back and swung his blade in quick succession to try and buy time for his partner. The blade whizzed over the winged man's head as he ducked and used the spear to attempt to knock his opponent to his feet. The man jumped back away from the spear nearly tripped over his partner. It was then that One of the other rookies spoke up, "Uh, Boss, what's that in the sky?"<br/><br/>Atma looked up at the sky and saw a giant rock hurtling towards the city. "Oh shit!" He grabbed his mic and yelled into it over the general frequency, "So have you guys seen the giant fucking meteor screaming towards us?"