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Inside a ramshackled building just off the edge of the slums of the city is the elaborately decorated studio for Kill Training. You enter into a lobby dimly lit by Japanese oil lanterns and approach the receptionist at a desk. "Konnichiwa young grasshopper, you here for lessons?" She asks, eyeing up at you with her round specticals since she is a short, old Japanese woman. You look down at her, wondering what she is talking about because you can only see her desk and the small 10x10 room you are standing in now.
"What are you talking about ma'am?" You ask as you hint what you were just thinking. She eyes the $19.95 in your hand and you give it to her.
"Enjoy lesson!" She says to you- a big grin on her face. You stand there for a moment after she takes your money. "Bye bye!" After saying this, she gives you a bow and you stand for a few minutes in silence just realizing you were just jipped of $19.95...
'Damn old Japanese women and their dirty tricks!' You think to yourself... Just when you are about to turn around and leave the place, the wall slowly slides open, revealing a hidden hallway.
"Down hall and to right, that where training start." She bows her head and stares back forward, waiting for the next customer. You enter the hall and walk past a peaceful pond full of Koi, with a waterfall cascading down to it. You then turn through the first entryway to your right and enter a large room with tatami mats on the floor and mirrors along the far back wall. Along the left and right walls are ancient Japanese Samurai blades, armor and artwork. You realize you are the only one here so far so you sit with your legs crossed and wait for the other students... or the instructor to arrive.

Another old Japanese lady who looks remarkably like the one that was at the receptionist desk- but isn't- approaches Sno, a tray of cookies in her hand. "Cookie?" She holds it out in front of her, "you take cookie! Cookie will fill tummy while you wait for othar student and Icurus san!" She holds out the tray demandingly, indicating that Sno should take a cookie before this lady goes berserk.

*takes a cookie from the weird old woman who kind of looks like Icy sensei* Arigato *munches on it* ..........*finally notices the girl sitting next to me, I just give her a simpl head tilt*

*came for the training staying for the cookies! rofl *

The cookie lady approaches Smalls, "you find secret back-door enterance, you get special cookie! You pick two for first grab, though you can have more as well! Now eat! Icurus sensei will be much pleased to see such fine students- though he will be disappointed at such a low number- but the fewer the better...!" She chuckles, "anyone want more cookies? Or some milk and cider while we wait? I'm very sorry that Icurus sensei is taking so long, he shall be here shortly."

The cookie lady lays the tray onto an oak table toward the back of the room and approaches the students, slowly peeling away her face- which wasn't a face at all, but a latex mask covering the face of Icurus. He slips his cap out from a pocket inside the kimono he was wearing and places it onto his head while hanging the kimono up. He approaches Sno and gazes down at her.
"My my... you were the only student who knew the proper way to sit- NOT cross-legged but lotus position." He bends down next to her ear and whispers- "though you disappoint me since you are..." And then he yells. "SLEEPING!!" He watches her stumble as he approaches his next victem. He approaches the crazee looking girl sitting cross legged next to Sno and quckly but snobbly mumbles, "by the way you are sitting wrong..." and keeps walking and stops in front of Smalls.
"And then we have Mr. Smart-a**... You're lucky to be alive after coming through that back door while my assassin guards were off on a coffee break..." He swiftly unsheiths his katana and slashes just inches from Small's face, catching that he didn't blink and sheiths it again in a matter of seconds. Icurus smirks to himself and backs up so he can see everyone. "I am Icurus Tyrannus, and I will be training you. Welcome to a semester of what I like to call 'Kill Training'- or in other words, Hell."

Notices Sno yawn. "You didn't take a cookie did you...? If you did, you wouldn't be yawning, they are infused with ginsing and caffine." He looks at the rest of the students, "and I hope the rest of you did as well! You are all going to need it!"