The Animal Within

Today was turning out to be a pretty weird but yet awesome day. For not only did Lykos make some new friends, but he’s got some pretty awesome teachers such as Professor Discord. But now that the first few periods were done with, it was now time for the most hardest special in school. Physical Education with Coach Sombra. Lykos raised an eyebrow at the sight of so many of the students seemingly to dread, no it looked more like…. was that fear? The moment he walked through the doors to the gym Lykos instantly felt a cold sensation course through his body. The last time he felt this was when he met the wild animal that bit him. Before he could continue this train of thought he heard the sound of a basketball hitting the wood plank. He looked up and an instant shiver crawled down his spine at the sight of his teacher.

The man had ash grey skin that was covering a well muscled body. His eyes were a bright green that seemed to give off a glow. His hair was black as tar and seemed to be hazy like shadows. In the man’s mouth were fangs. Not sharpened teeth. Literal fangs like a predator. Lykos gulped for a moment as he realized as he saw exactly why the other students feared this guy. He was a freaking beast built up from head to toe in muscles and he looked like he didn’t take any crap, even Blueblood seemed scared of him but that was fine with Lykos and even caused him to giggle a little. He shouldn’t have done that as Coach Sombra’s head turned in his general direction and seemed to have growled.

“Now who are you?” Sombra asked in a voice that was a deep baritone and a little raspy as he walked over to the teenager, making the other students around him move a few meters away.

“Lykos sir.” He replied.

“Well Lykos, let me give you a few rules. Rule one, I do not allow laughing, chuckling, or even giggling in my gym. Rule two, you will not disobey my orders when I give you them. Rule three, remember rules one and two. Is that clear?” Sombra demanded from Lykos, glaring down at him the whole time, but Lykos wasn’t scared or frightened. No what he felt was stubbornness as he stared back at Sombra.

“Yes.” Lykos replied. Sombra leaned over again.

“Yes…. what?” Sombra asked from him.

“Yes…. sir.” Lykos said to the gym teacher who smirked at him. Guess that’s the closest I’ll get to a smile from him. He thought.

“Alright class, today, I want you to get your legs ready, for we’re going to have a little game of… dodgeball.” Sombra said making a few teens gasp but Lykos saw a smile on a rainbow haired girl’s face.

“We’ll split the class into two teams. Boys versus the girls. Now, get ready!” He said in a booming voice, making the students get into the opposite sides of the gym. Lykos ran over to where the boys were and saw that most of them had a stoic look on their faces in place of the looks of pure fear from earlier. “READY!” Sombra yelled before he blew the whistle. Suddenly both teams ran up to the line of rubber red balls that lied on the white line in the center of the gym. They grabbed the balls and began tossing them at each other. Lykos thought he was watching a war between the teams went down. But as he watched, he couldn’t help but continue to stare at Sombra. Something about him was… familiar. Lykos didn’t know how, but there was something that him and his teacher had in common. Before he had time to register what it was, he felt something zoom by him. He looked and saw the Rainbow haired girl from earlier smiling at him and realized that he narrowly avoided a dodgeball to the face.

What the hell? Why am I her target?! He yelled in his thoughts as he watched the girl grab another ball.

“THINK FAST!” He heard her scream in a tomboyish voice as she threw the ball directly at him. But then, he quickly grabbed the ball with one hand, did a full 360 spin, and tossed it right back at her. Sombra’s eyes widened in surprise as the ball zoomed back towards the girl and hit her in the stomach, knocking her on her butt. Lykos panted a little as he saw that the girl was staring at him in shock. “Oh…. my…. gosh. That was awesome!” She shouted which made Lykos drop his jaw in pure shock as he stared towards the girl as she got back up and sat down on the out line with a smile on her face.

Why would she- He started until he felt something ping off his shoulder. He looked and saw that a tan girl with blonde hair tied off into a ponytail just tossed a ball at him. Sighing, he then moved over to the outline next to the rainbow haired girl.

“Hey, you’ve got a pretty nice swinging arm there.” She said to him.

“Thanks. I’m Lykos by the way.” He said as he stuck out his arm.

“Rainbow Dash. It’s nice to meet you Lykos.” She said back as she shook his hand.

“So Rainbow, why were you happy when I got you out?” He asked as he scratched the back of his head.

“Eh it’s been a while since someone was able to get me out. The last one to do that was my brother and he’s already graduated and moved.” Rainbow said like it was a casual everyday conversation.

“Well I’m glad I made you happy. So what’s up with Sombra?” He asked as he stared at the man who kept a keen eye on the game.

“No one knows. They say he was born in the wilderness and raised by animals. That’s why he’s so muscular.” Rainbow whispered.

“Some rumor. So who was the one who tagged me?” He asked her pointing towards the tan girl.

“That’s Applejack. She’s really cool  but don’t get of her bad side because she will get even like the time she got payback on Suri.” Rainbow told him. Lykos raised an eyebrow but saw a light pink skinned girl with purple fancy hair. As she strolled across from him he noticed that she was keen on making sure that she was as far away from Applejack. But ultimately his attention went back to Coach Sombra who just seemed to snarl at him.

“Seems like he really likes you Lykos.” Rainbow sarcastically said with a grin.

“Very funny. So when’s this class over?” He asked.

“Until 2:15. So we’ve still got a bit before we get to The Doctor’s class.” She replied as she crossed her legs. “So while we’ve got time, why don’t you tell me more about yourself?” She asked. Lykos took a deep breath as he started his story again.