My Hockey Alpha

Chapter 268: The Drill Sergeant

Nina

That day, Enzo was clearly agitated after the training session. I couldn’t quite tell if it was because I reprimanded him, because he felt guilty for going too hard on the new recruits, or maybe if it was a mixture of both.

However, over the next couple of days the training sessions hardly improved in intensity. It really was beginning to feel as though Enzo was trying to weed out any weak recruits, but I felt as though he was just going too hard for anyone to be able to keep up. Even though the new recruits were all werewolves now with their own healing abilities and newfound physical abilities, he wasn’t giving them time to adjust.

On the third day of training, it was an especially cold winter morning. It had even snowed a bit the night before, and the athletic field was covered in a fine layer of white powder. I had spent the previous night alone in my dorm as I needed to study for our upcoming final exams, and so shortly after sunrise I woke up and quickly got dressed to meet Enzo outside.

By the time I arrived, Enzo was already beginning to have the new recruits warm up on the athletic field despite the frigid weather. I was bundled up in my winter coat and warm clothing, but the new recruits were in their athletic gear. Even though werewolves were less susceptible to cold weather, it was still quite cold and especially windy on the open athletic field, and I was surprised that Enzo wasn’t at least allowing them to warm up inside in the gymnasium.

As I approached, I saw that Enzo had set up orange cones all around the athletic fields. At the moment they were just warming up and doing some calisthenics, but even then he was still drilling them and pushing them to go harder.

“Come on, hustle!” he yelled, waving his stopwatch in the air. “I wanna see some improvement in your times! It shouldn’t be taking you thirty full seconds to do twenty push ups!”

“But the ground is cold and it makes my fingers hurt!” one girl replied.

“You’re a werewolf. It’ll have to be a lot colder than this for you to be affected by the

down my spine as a particularly cold wind blew across the athletic field, causing my hair to whip in my face and

I asked, feeling myself stiffen against the wind. “Maybe you

as they struggled through their calisthenics circuits. “The Crescents won’t be giving us the luxury of staying inside when it’s cold,” he replied. “They need to

felt too soon to be drilling the recruits like this. However, despite the dipping morale no one was giving up just yet, so I decided to just do my job as the

the cones that Enzo had set up, practiced combat training, and even played a game of touch football to work on their strength and cardio. If I had thought that Enzo was a tough coach before when he coached the hockey team, he

see what was going on. Matt stood beside me with his hands in his pockets, watching with me while Enzo coached the

guys on the hockey team?” I asked,

“Maybe not quite this bad. But when we first started out, none of us were very good, and we had some people on our team who weren’t very serious about it. For the first few months, Enzo drilled us like hell. I remember going home and being so sore I could hardly move. It was worth it,

Maybe to him, the new recruits were like the new hockey team to him, and he needed to whip them into shape. I supposed that I should trust him, seeing as how his training methods had resulted in one of the best hockey teams in this part of the

help but get even more worried about the new recruits. They were noticeably fatigued by then, and it just didn’t feel

said, walking up to Enzo. Enzo whipped around to give me a surprised look, but said nothing. I could tell just from the look on his face that he knew what I was about to

thirstily, panting and moaning, I stopped in front of Enzo with my hands on my hips.

sessions that all werewolves

harder than this doesn’t mean