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CHAPTER 6: Morning
Victoria felt the sun hit her face and instinctively pulled the covers over her face. Then she heard her phone ring. She picked it up.
“hello?”
“just woke up?” she was surprised by the voice of Zetes.
“Zetes? Where are you I have been trying to get in contact with you all night”
“ I am sorry I was kinda busy. So how are you doing?”
“ this guy I am supposed to be protecting is really annoying”
“ you protecting someone?”
“ yeah, I am supposed to be on my summer break but look what father makes me do. So what you doing?”
“ oh nothing much I am back in town and thinking of going to a fair.”
“ h'm really? How close are you to me?”
“ we are in the same town.”
“sweet then can you come pick me up?”
“ aren't you protecting him?”
“ if I stay to close to him he would begin to think I like him. Plus my mom is thinking I should go out with him.”
“h'm I see. Well then I will call you when I will go to the fair. have to go on mission.”
she hanged up after he did. She decided to spend some of the morning thinking of doing nothing. Then her phone rang again.
“hello”
“daughter 1 this is mother, be careful. All missions are suspended for now, daughters 2,3,4 and son 3 should contact you, if they don't you might meet sons 1,2, and 4. that is all.”
veronica sighed and left to take a shower.

Mark could not help but let a small whine come out of his mouth when he woke up. He had nothing to do today so he had to stay in the house. He stood up deciding to do his morning routine and hoping he would not run into her.
The backyard of the house was more spacious than one would have thought. Mark was wearing black sweatpants and nothing else as he stretched.
“ okay mark come on you can do this.”
he slapped his face before he began his training. In the backyard mark had most of the maids and butlers with sticks ready to attack him. He nodded his head and they all rushed towards him. He smiled and ran towards them. He drooped into the phoenix stance dodging a broom and swept the butler. As he did he also rolled away from some of the maids. But when he stood up he was surrounded . He looked around him. Dodging the first blow by luck he grabbed the stick trying to bring the butler in only to be hit on his knees. as he drooped on them the butler whose stick he grabbed held him in a choke hold. One of the maids looked down at him.
“ you still need to train before you can handle this many people?”
a sigh escaped his lips as he saw Victoria.
“ trust me when I say I have only seen one person beat all my maids and butlers.” he stood up yawning and got back into position. “now if you do not mind I will continue my training”
“ sure I will just join you. this should be good.” without a second of hesitation the maids and butlers where on them. For every blow from a stick that he avoided he got two in return. Victoria was doing better then him but was still having all that she could handle.
Mark finally hit one of his maids in the neck, she bowed and left. It took them a whole hour but soon it was only them and one of the maids.
They stared at each other before they rushed her. She turned around Letting the stick curve in the air so that as she spun it started high and ended low. Victoria and mark booth easily side stepped her move. The maid smiled so faintly that when Victoria saw it, it was to late.
She let go of the stick and grabbing Victoria by her pink shirt, threw her into the ground. Two sai that seemed to appear out of thin air where pierced trough the bottom of her shirt and her pants making her stay on the ground. The maid rolled out of the way of a spinning hook kick. She stood up already in a fighting stance. She rushed towards mark. He tried to side step her but had to duck a back hand slap instead so he back stepped but she had already taken the fatal step into his zone. And using the snake style she struck him. He fell to the ground holding his chest.
“ still not good enough shrimp.”
a cold chill entered his spine. As he heard the playful voice. He looked up to see the cold snicker and the azure eyes. He bowed respectfully
“ pedagogue.”
Victoria was amassed by the moves of the maid. When she heard him call her teacher she was even more amassed. The girl laughed and went to Victoria taking out the sai and putting them back into her boots. She bent over and whispered in her ear.
“daughter 1 you should be careful about your moves, you will need to train more to stay in the group”
Victoria blinked, how did this woman know her code name. Mark stood up.
“Pandora sensie what brings you here? Aren't you supposed to be in Africa?”
“ well young tyro” she smiled as she said the last words. “ I came by to see you and to see an old friend.”
“and old friend?”
“ yeah, I told you about him.” her eyes soften for a second before a yell came from the directions of floras house. “ oh damn he is up again. You should come over. Flora says you are getting better at those games.” she ruffed his hair before jumping over the fence.
“ who is that?” mark blinked when he heard Victoria speak.
“ oh she is my teacher. She is the older sister of a good friend of mine. Come on I think its time for breakfast.” mark was glad that Pandora was back now he would finally have something to do that would let him to get away from Victoria