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Aiusagi stands in her position for several hours unwavering, before she starts to get tired. She looks around seeing everyone training without her. She looks worried. Perhaps she is supposed to start, after all there was no one here giving her direct orders. She knew one thing for sure, if she didn't start her training now her legs would not tolerate much more of this standing. She took a deep breath, deciding she would start, knowing full well that it might get her in a lot of trouble. Either way she might get in trouble, depending on what she was supposed to do. She decided though that doing something was better than standing around doing nothing.

She gazed down the foreboding track with walls lined equal distant apart going down as far as she could see. She took a deep breath knowing full well that she was quite exhasted already, but if she didn't climb the walls now she would never respect herself for 'chickening out'. With a sprint she ran down the track gripping the first rope. Giving it a swift tug to ensure it was sturdy she began climbing. This wasn't so hard, she decided to her self on the way up. As she got farther up her opinion of the wall began to change. Her arms were soar when she got to the top and she began to sweat. All in all she made good time. She gazed apon the next one 10 meters away.

She jumped down the other side and made for the next wall. With another tug she noticed as she placed her own sweaty palms on the rope, it was quite a bit damp. She made towards the top wishing mildly that she could use her flight suit. She knew however that the character building part of the course would be lost if she did. Not to mention she would get into a heap of trouble. She leaped up to the top finally and looked down at the next one her arms considerably throbing.

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"Finally," Chili whispered to himself as he started jogging down the track. The sun seemed to be at it's peak making him sweat prefusly."Damn I should of came earlier," Chili groaned. The first wall seemed to be aproaching fast so Chili decided to speed up to gain momentum with the first jump. With a mighty leap he lunged at the rope holding on to it with an inhuman grip. He climbed the rope putting one hand over another trying not to slip due to the sweat from the seemingly unbearable heat. With a final heave up the rope he made it to the top. He sat surveying the course for a good minute."One down, only nine to go," he said as he began to propel himself down the side of the wall. He continued down the track in the intense heat.

As Chili approached the fifth wall fatigue started to sink in. "These freakin walls are annoying," Chili panted. He began the climb up the wall but when he reached fourty feet he felt his hands slipping. "Oh crap," he said as he began his fall from the enormous wall. His life had begun racing through his mind causing him to think, "What have i accomplished with my life. Nothing thats what. You are a freakin loser. You caused the death of your former squad and let your family be brutally murdered !" His family. He began to think of them and the times he shared with them. His wife and two kids. How he cared so much for them. But that fateful night when he was out on a mission. His enemies had taken his wife and children hostage. Unknown to him they had planned an ambush. When he returned they overpowered him and tied him up. They made him watch as the killed his wife and kids one by one. From that day he made a vow to avenge their deaths. "Those basterds !" he yelled as he snatched the rope. He began climbing again with an intense passion. The passion he had that night. The passion he had in battle. The passion he would never forget. The passion of his love for his family. So he continued the course hoping he could one day use his allies to annihilate those who had killed his family.

Chili reaches the top of the final wall. He shimmies down with the last of his strength and jogs to the finish line. He walks into the sunset unawares of the adventures that lie ahead of him in the Legion Of Fire.

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Kousetsu began to climb up the 5th wall with relative ease. "Come on, come on, come on!" He yelled at himself. "I got this maybe five more feet to the top." Reaching the top he sat there for a good half minute rest. Thinking to himself. "This is one thing that will make me better so I better not blow this!" Renewed with energy he repelled down the other side twice as fast as any other.

Quickly running to the 6th wall he grabbed the ropes in a firm grip. Pulling himself up with all his might he felt invincible. Standing on the top of the wall he said, "With this moral I could possibly win any fight I'll ever have!" Hastily repelling down again he felt something in his arms that started hurting. Noting that it was pain he disregarded it. Making it to the bottom, he massaged his arms while running to the 7th wall.

"I will not give up ever again!" Reaching the 7th wall he pulled himself up and over shimmying down without effort he finished the next few walls with effortlessness. "Last wall." He said to himself. "I will finish this in no time." Hurrying to the wall and climbing it was difficult but he managed. Again shimmying down he noticed that somehow he had learned something new about himself. Running to the finish line he jumped for joy at the thought that he may have even suprised some spectators. Believing he did a good job he walked to the other soldiers who had finished before him.