Inner-Selves, No. 20, Part A

Not a word was spoken, all that was heard was a soft clapping sound. "Alright Fidget, nice job" Speckle said, as he finished applauding, "you got your powers back, and not a moment too soon I'd say." "Uh, excuse me, could someone help me out please?" a voice asked, coming from the hole. Scratch and Fluff rushed over and helped Graham out of the pit, he was unable to see anything at the moment because of the bright light. "Sorry Graham, you jumped down there before I could give you your sunglasses" Speckle said, trying hard not to laugh. "Well anyway, how do you feel now Fidget?" Speckle asked.
Fidget quickly ran over to Speckle, jumped up, and kicked him in the face as hard as he could, Speckle fell to his knees and began rubbing his muzzle, trying to fight back tears. "Ow, what did you do that for?" Speckle said, his speech muffled. "Ha! To answer your question, I feel fine, now I got my powers back," Fidget began using his baby voice, "and that was just to fulfill a promise I made to myself, that the first thing I'd do if I got out of that hole alive would be to pay you back for almost killing me with that last lesson!" Speckle looked up, this was a bit more extreme than what he had in mind, but he should've expected something like this from a guy like Fidget. "Hmm, well in that case, why don't we jump right into the next lesson? I think you'll like it" Speckle said. "There's more, how could that be? I got my powers back, what else is there for me to do?" Fidget asked.
"You did get your powers back, but you had power that night you fought those two youth sprites, and you lost; we helped you become a youth sprite, and now you're gonna learn how to fight like one" Speckle said. Fidgets' eyes lit up and a grin grew across his face, this really did sound like something he would like. "I can see you're eager, that's good, and the great thing about lesson three is that there's no time limit! You said you wanted to pay me back for what I put you through so far didn't ya?" Speckle said. "Ya I did, why?" Fidget asked. "Well if you wanna learn how to fight, you're gonna have to get in a fight, so..." Speckle said as he pointed the end of his stick to his chest. Fidget could hardly believe what happened next. Speckle's body collapsed to the ground, lifeless, standing in its' place was a baby-sized dalmatian wearing nothing but a diaper with a dark green kite on the front of it, he carried a large rattle with a picture of the same kite on two sides of the rattles' head. "For this battle, I'm your opponent, if you wanna make me pay, this'll be your chance" the baby dalmatian said.
Fidget was in shock, he knew Speckle wasn't normal, but he never expected something like this. "Y-you're a youth sprite?!" Fidget exclaimed, chills running down his spine. "Don't act so surprised, how else do you think I could know so much about youth sprites and the ECC? I've been there before, and I spent many years as a member of the 13 youth sprite units" Speckle said to him. Fidget stopped gawking and remembered that he still had training to do, so he got serious. "Alright, you said that you and I are gonna fight, what're the conditions?" Fidget asked, remembering that his previous fight with Fluff a specific purpose to it. Speckle walked over to the head of his lifeless body and picked up the fedora it was wearing, he put it on his head, it was way too big for him now, as it fell down and covered his eyes, but he had a reason for this. "There's only one condition, you have to knock this hat off of my head, that's all there is to it; come at me with everything you've got, it'll take quite a lot to knock this hat off, remember, I've been a youth sprite way longer than you have, you'd better kill me if that's what it takes" Speckle informed him.
This made Fidget worry, those last words were certainly unsettling, what Speckle added next certainly didn't help matters. "One last thing before we get started, you wouldn't benefit from this training if it wasn't hard, so I'll be coming at you with everything I've got as well" the dalmatian said. "Oh boy, this is gonna be awesome, I hope they make it last a while!" Scratch said. "If only I could see it..." Graham thought to himself. Fidget shook off his anxiety, he was doing this for Kat, that's what he had to keep telling himself. "Alright then, I'm ready Speckle" Fidget said, determined to clear this lesson. "Ok, here I come!" Speckle replied. He dashed towards Fidget, and the fight began.