fandomhigh | Fandom Gladiators; First Period [06/07].

Should the students be a little concerned when they came into the Danger Shop arena that day to find their teacher already decked out with the pads herself?

Yeah, maybe a little. Not to mention the large stick she was leaning on that basically resembled a giant q-tip wrapped in duct tape.

As it was, the area was set up with several pairs of very small raised platforms set very close to each other, so if you hadn't been able to put things together by now, lucky you, Rosa was about to explain.

"Today," she said, "we joust. The concept is simple: each gladiator take a platform and one of these sticks, and the goal is to knock the gladiator on the other platform off. Simple, right? We're doing this tournament style, in randomly picked pairs, and, since there's an odd number of you, that means I'll be competing as well. So good luck with that. If there aren't any questions, let's just get started."

She...just might be way too eager for an excuse to whale on a kid with a giant q-tip under the guise of teaching valuable lessons. They were clearly just wasting good beat-down time.

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"If you insist." The thing wasn't balanced like a lightsaber, but Lana made do, feinting and slashing.

Mae had zero weapons training. Mae's version of fighting mostly involved wildly swinging things and hoping she connected. This had worked to her advantage many times in the past, but this time . . . not so much.

Lana landed a solid *whack* that very well might have sent Mae right off the platform if Mae's balance wasn't absurdly good. Heck, she could stand on things even when only the barest bit of heel or toe was still on top of it! "You'll have to try harder than that!"

Admittedly, not that much harder.

Lana grinned. "Like this?" She spun her q-tip thing and struck from the other side, low then high.

Mae was thoroughly whomped, and ~~the screen shook and blurred~~ she staggered under the blows. She wheeled her arms around, just barely catching herself before toppling off the other edge of the platform.

"I AM UNSHAKABLE!"

"Unshakable, but topple-able," Lana said, grinning down at her. "Need a hand?"

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