The following days ended up being different martial arts training. This instructor kept changing them week after week in order to keep me in shape while making me read every book on martial arts he could come up with: from unarmed to even martial arts involving guns. Of course these books had all the info on how to learn these types of fighting. He personally taught me the weapons such as bo staves of different kinds as well as many types of blades. I could only recognize some of them due to my gaming habit. 

Most of the blades are just a same style of a set sword but different shapes and sizes. The worst part of it is after the books he made me read and memorize, he started just using the ones he knew and told me to try to defend myself and it took all I had to not give up. If it wasn’t for Rose, I doubt I would of kept going; I am glad this part of the training only took three months, even if it was painful, I learned at least half of the styles of unarmed combat and was decently useful in using melee weapons.

After that, he was satisfied enough that he started giving weight training to build up my stamina. This was the worst by far, it is like I had to run the same way as before only with full weighted clothing that covered most of my body and felt like it weighted over two-hundred pounds itself. I know this body is slim and light… but this type of training for the remainder of the year made me really miss my old days of being the useless, normal guy that did computer repair jobs or occasionally sold food I cooked to different people that wanted the recipes.

But the year was over, I think I can relax… hopefully… even if I am not that strong, I am decently able to dodge all his throws. It got to the point he started coming in and trying to hit me in his fighting style, he told me to only dodge and keep running to the point that it felt probably just as bad as the body transfer only without the magma in the blood stream.

“Ahaha, good, good. You were very obedient and learned to defend yoursel. Now is the time for other lessons such as math, science, etc. You will learn all you can before we toss you into the portal we found. As to what it is, we don’t know; we sent everyone we could send in none has yet to come back out. And to make matters complicated, apparently anyone too strong is kicked back out. So we made your knowledge just enough to pass barely for an advanced user of the arts, sadly we can’t supply you with guns or ammo but swords and a durable clothing that is strong enough to resist cuts by a sharp blade or bullets itself. And as to why we can’t give you guns, this portal refuses to let them enter if you have tried you would have lost an arm at the worst, or not allowed entry.” The crazy lady appeared.

While letting me take it all in, she has decided that she would wait for a reply from me, like some sort of weapon or soldier trained for war.

“…. Understood, but….” Jona.

“But?” Lady.

“Keep your promise.” Jona.

“What promise? The one that your family or you won’t have a want or need? Meaning that all bills are paid and food and a place to stay with money to get things they want?” Lady.

I only nod at her wondering if she is playing me.

“That’s already done and taken care of, though you can’t see them anytime soon. If you come back, you’ll be able to reunite with them, but they already think your dead. The reasoing being your body was sent and had a funeral only a week after you started training. It was all paid for and the money they received is still going to go even to their children’s children are dead.” Lady.

“Good…” Jona.

After that, she led me to a room that was like a library and an instructor was there. This tim it was an old man with glasses, the other instructor was a typical white guy that you see retired from body building, bold and ugly, with this old guy you can feel how fragile his body is but the air around him is as if he seen many wars, and has enough knowledge to probably put these crazy people to shame.

This time she just let me in and left like there was no need for her to be in the room. The old man just pointed at a book and forced me to read, each book was different medical herbal books, history, math, science, etc. but the thing about them is they were more for people that already has a basic knowledge of the subjects but I kept silent and read every book he gave me.

Really, every book here was enough to blow my old brain into a steaming pile of meat, but this body seems able to retain everything I read, though from time to time Amanda helped me with things I didn’t understand and explained them in the best of her ability, while the old men just silently red his book without a care in the world.

(Nuux: I know I am time skipping too much and for that I am sorry T.T)

But the terrible training still does not stop, even though I had some acting skills, Amanda took it on herself to teach me more manners than I basically had seen on TV. This really took most of the time. She kept scolding me when I slouched or didn’t sit right, or moved my arms the wrong way even the way I had my legs positioned, to the way of speaking to people but… I really failed on that part simply because I didn’t wish to speak to people.

‘At least, for now.’ Rose.

Well, look who finally talked? I thought that maybe you went back into the depths of our mind afraid of what could grab you.

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‘It takes more energy from us if I stay active and you really needed most of it. I sat back and learned most of the books you just skimmed through because you found them boring, you do know this stuff is useful right?’ Rose.

Well… it might be but I never prided myself as a smart person, I just want to have the knowledge of survival… no way would I need to know how to make girly clothes… and everything else in there that probably is useless to me, as well as most of the history of this world that was documented… if we are going into a portal of possible of no return, what use is that?

Apparently, Rose decided to stay silent after that while desperately trying to remember the current books that are there, mostly because she thinks I won’t dress properly in the future and probably continue dressing in the training gear they have me in since I got here. Well, different colors and designs but mostly seem made by Amanda and she has a bad habit of these pants and now long sleeve shirts with straps on them. I know it’s winter but the straps aren’t that needed, she seems to think they were cute and keeps me in them, well not that they are not comfy but they would need to be a different color, she seems to have all the girly colors… to me black… or red…. Or a color that isn’t so bright is more appealing to me.

The next day when I thought the training was over because I read every book in that library. However, I was forced to get in a plane then, with the help of the demon instructor Jeff, was forced to jump out of it… God I hate high places… and to add to that, I have to hunt and survive on my own for the last of my training, and that this place has a lot of failed subjects that are more zombie than human or animal. They aren’t infectious like the movies and such; they would still rip me to shreds if I'm not careful. I am left alone in a cabin with a few weapons, no guns, and some dried food that could last a month or so if Ican ration them.

“Growl”

There was a sound that sounded more like wheezing then a growl, but it was loud enough just as if it was outside the door. I grabbed one of the swords that was laying down in the pile of weapons, not really caring which since they are all pretty much the same, it was built like a half katana and half normal sword, since unlike normal katanas the blade really curved into the middle slightly instead of following to the back and is probably lighter than normal ones.

But what I saw almost made me lose whatever I had in my stomach, it was half human and half horse or something? I have no idea. It had most of its bones sticking out of it like there were makeshift claws with horse legs on its shoulder blades. A horn is sticking out of its head and it’s eyes were dangling from its head with a slight filmy string attatched to it. The thing has hairy legs with parts of its bones showing, ontop of it all, there is a clear view of its heart that is still beating slowly with its broken open rib cage. It is just standing outside the door, facing it with sharp teeth with a horse head that really has no skin on it. It  has two different sets of heads or faces, some sticking right out it’s back facing the other direction while the normal set is facing outwards broken and dangling. And the moment it saw me it let out a growl that, I felt I was going to fall over.

What in the world… is this place…?

Left with no choice but to fight, I went running at it with the basic knowledge I have of fighting, hoping it had a similar anatomy as humans, but the moment I got close it threw one of the claw like things on its shoulders at me making me back step. But not being really use to being hit or attacked from both sides, the other claw got me by surprise scratching across my back.

Even though these clothes are suppose to be resistant to cutting and such, it doesn’t stop bones from breaking and skin from ripping. I was pushed over from the back side nearly tripping over my own feet trying to stay in a defensive stance or else I will probably die.

The beast didn’t want to give me a chance to catch myself and came lunging after me with the intent to eat me alive while keeping the pressure with its claws coming after me as if it knew that it had me cornered. The moment it got too close it did a stupid move; I didn’t expect it to run itself into the sword I had pointing outwards to try to defend myself while my footing was really unbalanced and it pierced right through its skull and brain out of dumb luck. But i'm not that fortunate, it was able to pierce my leg with one of its claws during the exchange.

The scuffle left me scared and alone here with this thing finally dead. Though, its horn would have fell if my sword didn't pierce it as well… and it would have stabbed me. It would have still stabbed me while it was trying to eat me anyway…

I got myself inside the cabin and started looking for bandages and started the fire inside the oven as to not use the fire place to draw more attention that I didn’t want. I am sure… that growl was enough to notify almost any of the creatures here to my location.

Once I heated up the blade to it was hot enough, I put a cloth in my mouth to muffle some screams whie I poured the cleaning and anti infection liquids on the wounds, though during the fight, I didn’t really think too much about it… I know I screamed pretty loud when I was first hit and then when it stabbed me…. I need to stop being side tracked; I can already feel Rose about ready to snap into a lecture on how it is important to clean the wound and close it, so I put the scolding hot blade onto the wound but this time even with the rag in my mouth I couldn’t help but scream, although it was muffled, it was really painful and probably way worse than any of the training, and about the level of the torture it took to get into this body only on a smaller scale.

After wrapping my wounded leg up, I was able to put some sort of splint on it enough to just keep me stable enough to walk slowly; I know getting far is nearly impossible… and the fact they didn’t tell me how long I would have to stay here doesn't help. I had the feeling I ended up using more medical supplies then needed, but I was certainly not in the right state of mind as there was a freaking monster zombie tried to eat me hell… I can still feel the guts and other organs that were in it when it slightly fell over me. The organs dangled out of the body, although… the body itself was like it came out of a nightmare… so was the smell that it gave off… hell… I can still smell it even from inside here, but I know there is no bath in this cabin since it’s just a one room cabin with weapons seemingly well defended since all the windows were already boarded up.

Maybe I was stupid for trying to go and fight it…. Maybe if I would of hide myself and waited to it left, I would have been in better shape….

‘No duh….” Rose

Great, well deserved sarcasm… I probably thought it would be easy kind of like the zombies in games where they are slow and super dumb… this one… I was lucky that it fell onto my blade and killed itself if. It’s not like I would get that lucky again, especially with my luck that was considered the best out of the stay here…