Matthias
Matthias, grinned and was about to answer both as well, but when Lucian didn't wait for an answer, Matthias grinned all the more. He always enjoyed racing his brother. Both of them were in fairly good shape, and more importantly, usually even. They could more or less lift the same amount, and both could run a five and a half minute mile fairly easily.
Unlike the others, Matthias enjoyed swimming above water, much more. Well, enjoyed may be the wrong word. Manipulating the wind currents, to push his body along the surface faster, would be ther right phrase, I suppose. He was just catching up with Lucian, already having passed Adrian, when the bell rang. A part of him, wanted to wait to see if the other boys were going to finish the race, or turn back. But a larger part of him, wanted to win, race back to the shore, and beat both of them.
Zero
Zero grinned as he jogged to his would-be starting position. He unsheathed his Taper-Spear and gave it an experimental twirl. Zero coined the term Taper-Spear, specifically for his weapon. In it's sheath, it was a 12-inch steel rod with leather straps on one end and an additonal 6-inch celestial broze spear head on the other. However, if Zero spun it backward in his hand, the steel rod seemlessly extended to the length of 3 feet, what Zero referred to as Sword-length. If he grasped the weapon in the middle and gave it a staff twirl, the steel rod lengthened to become 6 feet long, Spear-length.
After his experimental twirl the weapon was in Sword-length, Zero's preferred fighting method. After a few more martial flips and spins, Zero began stretching himself, looking for his team mates.
"Me thinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet to say the truth reason and love keep little company together, nowadays."
"You are a villain, I jest not."
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it;"
"I do not know why yet I live to say "This things to do," sith I have strength and cause and will and means to do't."