Chapter 18 - Analysing Fenrir

The girls stood in line in front of the giant fire pit. Styxx stood in front of them like a Drill Sergeant addressing his platoon,

"Ok girls, you know the deal. I have trained you for the past month in everything that you have a talent in, and now it's time to show me the fruits of your training. If it's satisfactory I will give a reward, ok?"

"Steak?!" Fenrir exclaimed excitedly; her tail started wagging out of control.

"Shhh~" Tara hushed Fenrir to be quiet.

Fenrir mouthed the words 'Sorry' before looking at Styxx, who continued with his words.

"I want your all, not part of it, not 95 percent. I want you to show me everything you have!"

"YES!" the girls shouted,

"Fenrir you will go first. You will race Alpha to the lake, got it?" Styxx said,

Just then, Alpha broke through the tree line, got some head pats from Styxx before standing next to Fenrir, growling, and barking.

"She says she won't go easy on you," Styxx translated,

Fenrir nodded towards Alpha and readied up. She took her shirt and pants off revealing a black sports bra and black spandex shorts, this is what she would usually wear while she trained.

"Ready?" asked Styxx,

Fenrir and Alpha both nodded and stood ready.

"GO!"

Fenrir and Alpha took off running like bats out of hell, quickly disappearing in the tree line.

"Once I'm done assessing Fenrir, Bastet, you are next, prepare yourself," He disappeared leaving those words behind.

Styxx then reappeared just above the two racers and continued flying just next to them easily keeping up with them. Alpha was easily hitting 80kph as she dashed through the forest and Fenrir was only 3 meters behind her, slowly closing the gap.

The goal of the race, the lake, was on the other side of the mountain around 40 kilometers away, at their current speed they would reach it in around 30 minutes, but things are just beginning, and they are nowhere near their top speeds.

Styxx assessed Fenrir like a machine, analyzing everything with cold, calculating eyes. This was how Styxx was while training the girls, no need for anything else but efficiency and analysis.

'Fenrir Athanatos AKA "Rir-chan".

Quirk: Wolf, Mutant Type.

Her Quirk gives her an enhanced physique, enhanced senses, and monstrous stamina. In addition, she has an attack mode in which she goes berserk, an almost feral state. In this state, her nail and teeth elongate and become harder and sharper but as the name suggests, in exchange for power, her mental faculties are compromised and her stamina is halved, at least for now. I suggested only using it as last resort, as her mind is consumed with rage and bloodlust.

Her combat training was unique in some ways as she lacked talent in martial arts but her sense for combat was off the charts. I ended up just showing her the basics in which she turned into a new style just for her. It is an almost instinctual, wild combat style as she has no form of any kind. It is definitely something anyone would have trouble dealing with.

Although she seems like the happy-go-lucky kind of person, she surprisingly excels in mathematics and music, something I was quite surprised to learn. She saw me playing the guitar and almost immediately was able to copy me note for note. She can currently play the guitar, piano, violin, the Japanese koto, the Chinese Zither, and shamisen.'

Fenrir was currently side by side with Alpha but cannot seem to be able to overtake her. They were almost halfway there so Styxx decided it was time to stop playing games.

"Is time to go all out," Styxx said just loud enough for both of the racers to hear him,

With a howl, Alpha began to accelerate quickly reaching speeds of 100 kph and still getting faster, leaving a stunned Fenrir in the dust.

"Remember what I said, I want you to give me everything you got," Styxx said,

Fenrir narrowed her eyes and turned blood red. She lunges forward with a howl and her teeth and nails grew. Now running on all fours and lunging forward like an animal, her speed increased easily surpassing Alpha and hitting 130kph. She jumped off trees and even going as far as ramming through some of the thinner trees that unfortunately got in her way.

Watching on, Styxx continued his mental analysis of Fenrir.

'Current weaknesses: Experience, Trauma, Sisters, and Meat.

Her lack of actual combat experience limits her power significantly, although I do not think she would hesitate to maim or even kill her enemy, the first time is usually the hardest for anyone that is not a psychopath or sociopath. Her trauma is also limiting her from fulfilling her true potential, her current personality is also due to this. Trauma affects everyone differently, for Fenrir, her happy-go-lucky, head-first into anything personality, is all fake, a false bravado she puts up so her sisters, especially her younger sister, Bastet, will not worry. There have been multiple times where she would wake up in cold sweat and tears in which I would have to coax her to calm down just before the other two wake up. Although I am not sure if the other two girls have noticed but I can see the fear in her eyes and her tail shivering when she thinks no one is looking. This is something that will take time to fix.

Although I believe her will to protect her older and younger sister will eventually become a strength, for now, it is anything but that. I have no doubt that should harm come to any of them, all her training and reasoning will be thrown out the window, and will immediately lose herself to her 'Berserk' state. This could be solved as she continues to grow physically and emotionally.

And last but not least, Fenrir's final if not biggest current weakness… Meat.'

Just as Styxx was finishing up his analysis on Fenrir, below him the race was also coming to a close.

Fenrir lunged through the tree line, into a wide clearing where a pristine, crystal clear lake was located. Not having the capacity to think about slowing down, Fenrir crashed into the lake at 130kph, skipping like a rock before abruptly stopping in the middle of the lake with a big splash, signaling her to win.

Styxx hovered over the clawing and growling Fenrir, before reaching in, grabbing her spandex shorts and yeeting her toward the shoreline, still clawing at him in mindless rage.

He then softly landed right next to her, almost immediately leaning to the right, dodging the elongated claws of his berserk 'little sister'. Just as she was going to attack again, she found a juicy turkey leg right in front of her face. Her elongated nails and teeth shortened while the red in her eyes disappeared almost immediately like it never happened in the first place.

"Meat!" she exclaimed happily,

He stared at the cute little wolf girls with a little pity as she happily bit into the perfectly seasoned turkey leg he had prepared beforehand.

'Meat. Fenrir's love towards meat seemed almost instinctual, ingrained into her DNA, maybe due to her Quirk. But her behavior towards meat shows clear signs of behavioral conditioning… the scum I erased back then must have trained her like an animal. Using meat to promote good behavior while taking advantage of her ingrained love for it, was a smart idea but it messed with the girls' free thinking, her IQ seems to drop at the mere mention of meat as she is used to a reward system for her actions.

One good thing that came about this is that is the quickest way to return Fenrir to her senses. Although, I feel weird using this method until she can control her 'berserk' state it is the best option. I have already taken steps to undo this 'reward system' mentality from her by just simply giving her meat whenever she wants, good behavior or not. Slowly this should stop her from thinking of meat as not something to strive for but as something she can get any time she wants, like water or air.

Styxx then threw the leg of a deer towards Alpha and congratulated them on a job well done. He told them to take their time going home and teleported in front of Tara and Bastet.

"Fenrir did great," he said, "Bast-chan you're next,"

Bastet nervously nodded and began to stretch, getting ready for the challenge that was coming up next.

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Hopefully, I finally got out of this writer's block that has been bothering me for a while....

Bastet's and Tara's analysis won't be as long as Fenrir's, I wanted to flesh out the sisters a little more before getting into cannon.