Serena nodded her head when Sebastian said to check on Gunner first and headed out. She walked to the gym to see him already working some of the Dhampirs through drills. She caught the attention of some and whispers began, although it wasn't her being known as a Guardian, it was because of the scars on her neck. She stayed strong though and walked over to Gunner, "How is everything?"

Gunner looked at Serena when she spoke, "Good... There's a lot of work to be done... But they are good."

"I mean with you, Gunner," She said softly. Gunner tensed slightly, not looking at her, "I don't think this is the time to talk about it, Serena."

Serena sighed, "You know you are going to have to talk about it to someone."

"I said this isn't the time," Gunner said with a little more force. Serena jumped a little, she'd seen Gunner angry but he had never been angry at her. He'd always be nice and protective in a way, like she was his little sister more than his peer. She hit his shoulder lightly, "Come on," She turned to face him and took a fighting stance, "You have some anger to get out and these kids need an example of what real fighting is like."

Gunner looked at the small girl before shaking his head. He rose his hand into the air, "Alright, enough. Guardian Abatangelo has been kind enough to offer her services as a demonstration. I would like you to keep a close eye. This will be a good learning experience on how to deal with fighting people smaller or larger than yourself and using your size to your advantage."

He turned to Serena and took a stance, the class seemed to hold their breath. Gunner seemed to drawf the small Serena and it was clear that not many people were thinking she was much of anything. Then the fight began. Serena seemed to dance around Gunner with ease, moving in and around his punches and kicks. Although, she landed more blows, he caused more devastation with his few. He didn't hold back and Serena was okay with that, she would have been angry if he had. The thing was that he was angry and threw a wrong punch and clocked Serena in the jaw. She didn't hesitate though before she grabbed his wrist and threw him to the ground and placed her foot on his chest. The class erupted as Gunner got to his feet, "You're all good to go."

Once the class left he looked at the bruised and bloodied Serena, "Sebastian is going to kill me..."

Serena laughed and wiped away some blood from her split lip, "Don't worry about it. You needed this."

With the orientation over, she left Gunner to take his anger out on a punching bag and returned to Sebastian's room. Her chin was already starting to bruise and her lip was still bleeding. She held her arm as it was tender from a blow to the shoulder but otherwise, she'd survive. She leaned against the wall and waited for her ward to leave the room.
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Rae left the orientation and stuffed his hands into his gray dress pants. His coat was drapped over one of his arms, leaving him in just his crisp white button down dress shirt. His hair stood up on ends in a stylish fashion and he had a bit of a shadow from not getting a chance to save that morning. His brown dress shoes walked through the slightly wet grass making it squish under him. When he reached the area that Jace had instructed him to go, he looked around until his eyes fell on Anna leaning against a tree with her eyes closed. He stared at her for a moment, not staying or doing anything to give away his presence. His eyes looked her up and down confused by what it was that Jace had planned setting him up with his ex-girlfriend who hated Rae's guts. He sighed, finally revealing that he was even there, "You've got to be fucking kidding me...."