Yeul backed away as her teammates advanced on her with sticks. “What are you doing?”
Serah raised one eyebrow. “Shouldn’t you already know, Miss Sees The Future?”
“Well, I am standing right here,” Vanille pointed out. “And my presence can mess up precognition.”
“True.” Serah nodded sagely. “Your Semblance is almost as bullshit as Saviour while somehow making even less sense.”
“Basically,” Lumina said. “We've been thinking, and we noticed that your Semblance has one big weakness in combat.”
“Oh?” Yeul continued to back away until she realised that there was nowhere for her to go.
“Obviously, seeing even a second into the future is immensely helpful in combat.” Vanille cackled. “But it won’t matter at all if you don’t have the speed to capitalise on what you see.”
“To make sure you have that speed.” Serah brandished her stick. “We’re going to give you some special speed training!”
“In other words,” Vanille explained. “We’re going to chase after you and whack you with sticks until you get faster.”
“What kind of crazy training system is that?” Yeul asked.
Lumina shrugged. “My sister came up with. It worked for Serah and I, and it’ll work for you too although we do need to be careful.”
Serah made a face. “Yeah. Lightning did have Saviour to make sure that she could whack us without doing any real damage. We’ll just have to pull our punches a little.”
“Not me.” Vanille raised her stick high above her head. “While you two were busy discussing where you should whack her, I was busy modifying my stick for optimal non-lethal whacking efficiency. I call it the Yeul-Whacker 9000!”
“...” Yeul swallowed thickly. “You three are jerks!”
“Maybe.” Serah stepped forward. “But by the time we’re done with you, you’ll be fast enough to survive fighting three jerks at the same time.”
Caius stared in disbelief as Yeul ducked and dodged through a storm of blows from her teammates.
“What kind of training exercise is this?” Caius asked. “They’re just trying to whack her with sticks.”
“The Yun do stuff like this all the time,” Fang pointed out. “Heck, they didn’t even bother with sticks when they were training me. They went straight to swords, clubs, and all that stuff since I’d just heal from it anyway.”
“So Vanille was the one who came up with this?” Caius asked.
“I’m not sure about that,” Snow murmured. “I remember Serah mentioning something like this to me.”
Lightning glared. “It was for training, and I used Saviour to make sure I could whack them as many times as necessary without doing any permanent damage.”
“...” Caius gaped at Lightning. “You used your Semblance for that?”
“Caius,” Lightning explained, as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. “I love my sisters more than anything in the world. Of course, I used my Semblance to make sure I didn’t do any permanent damage while I was whacking them to improve their speed and agility.”
“Do you have any idea of how insane that sounds?” Snow asked.
“I don’t know,” Fang said. “That actually sounds like one of sunshine’s more reasonable ideas.”
Aquila backed away as Diana, Averia, and Claire advanced on her with sticks.
“Why do you have sticks?” Aquila asked.
“You have your mom’s Semblance,” Averia said. “So you need to be trained the same way as she was.”
“And what does that have to do with sticks?” Aquila continued to back up.
“Well, it’s like this...” Diana took a deep breath and then jabbed her finger at Aquila. “Get her!”
Lightning’s tyranny ensured that Lumina and Serah were two of the most dangerous people on the planet, even without their Semblances. That same training, when applied to Yeul, vastly improved her proficiency in using short-range precognition in combat. It’s only natural that Diana, Averia, and Claire would want to make sure that Aquila reaped similar rewards.
Or maybe they thought chasing after her with sticks would be funny.
