22. Drill Sergent

Eric

I watched as my car pulled and I came over wanting to see my mate. I figured it would be easiest to wait every day by the garage so I could see both Lilith and Noel right when they arrived. Lilith got out and I noticed she had a split lip, and I was there in a flash running my finger along the busted lip. “I am fine.” She said as she removed my hand from her face. “What happened?” I asked and glared at Noel.

It was his job to make sure she was healthy and safe, and her lip was anything but that. “Look, she wanted to spar with Rob.” Noel said and my blood boiled in my veins. He was the bane of my existence, a freaking rogue who was no good to anyone. He shouldn’t be hurting her even if it was sparing. Lilith snapped at Noel and me “Stop, both of you. I said I was fine and I am. Part of learning to fight is knowing how to take a hit.”

“Lilith you don’t heal like us, it is not as simple as taking a hit.” I said but Lilith pushed away from me. “I can take a hit; I don’t care that it may take a little longer to heal. Grey Crest Pack needs some of this kind of brutal training. No wonder I kicked Mia’s ass. You know I am much smaller than her, but she was easy to take down, why because I don’t wail over a busted lip.” She walked out of the garage in her tiny uniform.

Noel shrugged at me. “Oh, Eric I invited some of the wolves from the gym to come here sometime.” I glared at him. “I didn’t invite Rob, but the others they don’t have a pack never have. Wouldn’t be the worst thing to have more in our pack, especially since they are pretty similar to the Luna, we could use that around here.” I glared at him. “You do know those shifters that go to that gym are criminals, right?” He sighed. “It is not like with Lilith though they are not prone to crime. They are just doing it because Rob has pushed them into it.”

He went on. “Eric, they are living in a pack without an alpha and they don’t know it. They treat Rob as their alpha, but he isn’t one. They don’t even know about packs, if they know what it could be like they would probably drop the crimes and Rob, and come be a part of our pack, they are not as strong or skilled as Lilith, but they are good. Rob for whatever reason slaved over Lilith, at least according to Mor.” I looked at him like he was nuts. But Noel did have a way about him, he had good opinions. “I will think about it.” I said. Noel smiled of course. “I think we should have a massive BBQ; we haven’t had one in a while.” I turned and left.

I knew where my mate was heading, she was heading to the training field. Her equipment she got would not get here until Monday morning. I would have some of the pack help set it all up and then she could get to teaching them on the equipment. I saw her running towards the field. I started to catch up to her. I planned on watching her lead the training and wanted to know what she had in store. I caught up, Lilith’s pace was fast but she was not sprinting, so I kept up just fine.

I knew Lilith could outrun me if she tried, but that was not her goal it was just to run. “Sorry, again about your lip.” I said and Lilith didn’t respond. “Anyways what are you going to be teaching today?” I asked, she turned to look at me. “Maybe I should teach them to handle a punch.” I frowned at her smart alec mouth. “No, I am teaching them endurance, you should have seen Eric, they could hardly run. I am not trying to be a bitch, but these are full blood shifters, they should be able to run.” I agreed with her. I don’t know what had changed with training but from what she told me it had become apparent the younger generation of shifters in Grey Crest Pack were behind.

“Are you staying to watch today?” I kept pace. “Yes” I saw the corner of her mouth lift. As people arrived at the field, I saw that more than those who came to training were also there. Some sat down to watch, and others formed their lineup. Lilith and I stood in the center of the line in front of them, with the other trainers. Lilith looked at them. “You need to get in line, it is apparent you don’t know what you are doing. Or that you were never trained properly.” The middle-aged men looked to me.

I told Lilith I wouldn’t interfere, so I ignored them, and remained quiet. When they didn’t move Lilith used her authority. “I am your Luna, and I am telling you, get in line with the others here to learn, or fuck off.” It was hot to see her accept that kind of power. Two of them got in line while the third marched off. Lilith didn’t care. She looked at those in front of her.

“All of you have shit endurance. You can’t run, you have no arm strength, your abs are fucking shit, and if the fight I had yesterday was evidence of the lot of you, you also can’t fight. Which is fucking ridiculous and honestly disappointing. Most of you are a head taller than me, I should not be able to run you into the ground. Pull your fucking heads out of your asses.” I was trying not to interfere. But Noel was in line laughing his head off at the language, he was the only one. The others had horrified faces.

Lilith had a mouth on her. She had grown up in the inner city among criminals of course she spoke like that. I didn’t even want to see the elders faces as they were watching the training off to the side of the field. If they didn’t like her before her swearing, this wasn’t going to help. Lilith marched in front of Noel who was laughing still. “Beta you think what I am saying is fucking funny?” Noel through his laughter said no. “Pushups until I tell you to join the others.” He didn’t move. “Fucking move Beta.” He did and started doing his pushups. As Lilith walked back to where I stood, I could see her slight smile.

Lilith ignored Noel as she asked the Pack “Does anyone know why endurance is important?” No one raised their hand or spoke. “Fine, hopefully one of you will have the answer tomorrow. Maybe today you will learn the answer.” Everyone was silent. “Run, and I mean not fucking slow like yesterday. No dragging ass. If I see you going to slow you will have consequences.” No one moved. “Fucking go!” They took off while Noel kept up his pushups. Lilith took off and began running with the pack.

“Fucking faster.” She yelled as if they were not fast enough for her. Then there was a girl who was really dragging. She grabbed her shirt. I heard her yelling at her “You run worth shit. A fucking disgrace. Push.” The girl trembled. “Fucking Pushups until I say stop.” The girl dropped and Lilith went on. Pulling others out to do pushups. After an hour she told Noel to get up. The first girl was face down in the grass as were some of the others. After two hours everyone was on the grass, they couldn’t keep up with the pushups or the running. Noel had been the only one. “Everyone get their ass back in line.”

They all moved slowly, which Lilith yelled. “Hurry the fuck up.” They tried to run but were wobbling. “Absolute shit. You all fucking suck. You need to drink water, lots of it. Your muscles need it. Walk as much as possible. It will help with the stiffness that you will all have since you can’t even run for two hours. It is just going to get worse from now on.” One of the boys mumbled something. Lilith moved in front of him. “What did you say to me?”

The guy said, “You are asking us to do stuff you can’t even do.” She nodded. “Does everyone feel this way?” she asked loudly. There were lots of those in agreement with the guy. “What is your name?” She asked. “Lance.” She smiled and announced it to everyone. “Well, thanks to Lance, you will all be watching me do the same thing you all have been doing but the right way. So, I will run for two full hours, and you will all watch, and Lance is that two hours of pushups or would you like one hour.” He looked at her like she was nuts.

“Luna, I didn’t want.” Lilith cut him off. “No, it is fine Lance, maybe seeing that it is possible will motivate this fucking lot.” He paused but said “What about dinner, training is only an hour or so and we have been out here for two.” Lilith smiled. “Oh, my god, you can tell fucking time. That is great.” she said sarcastically. She yelled at everyone. “You will all have dinner later thanks to Lance.” They all grumbled. “Beta Noel should it be one hour of pushups or two. And which should I do first?”

Noel didn’t answer “Beta Noel I asked a fucking question.” He nodded. “Luna do 30 min of pushups, two hours of running and another 30 min of pushups.” She nodded. “You will all stand here and watch. If I catch any of you leaning or sitting you will be running for the rest of the night, do I make myself clear.” They nodded. “Fucking good.” Then I watched as Lilith did the whole routine flawlessly. Not missing the comments of the pack in astonishment as she demonstrated and kept a fast pace. They were angry at her but also impressed. When she was done, she said. “Fucking leave and be prepared for tomorrow.” Everyone scrambled off.