Chapter 422 - Gym

It was a few days after Daedalus had read about body building. It had utterly enraptured him, knowing that he could earn some pocket money doing it only increased his liking. He had gained a lot of attention and money due to his smithy, as it was seen as a novelty shop, this meant he would have plenty of capital to get into it.

As he had now done a lot more research into the topic though, he knew he would have to take it slow. A massive change would bring too much attention and though he was already muscular he could easily top most body builders in about a week. So Daedalus decided to start visiting the gym, first to get used to how it worked but it would be a good start.

Before he could do that however, Andromeda seemed to sense that he was up to something. So on the day he was going to go to the gym for the first time, Andromeda confronted him. Realising he hadn't told her about the idea he had for another hobby, Daedalus explained "I read something interesting in the library after someone told me about it, it's called body building. I was going to go to a gym today but if you want we can go to the library first so I can show you the books I read."

Seeing the childlike excitement in her husband's expression and words Andromeda giggled before saying "Is the gym men only, if not I'm sure I can find some women there to ask questions."

Realising he had been a bit to excited Daedalus nodded but he couldn't hide his excitement and said "Well we need to buy you some gym clothes, and don't buy too many like last time."

Saying that Daedalus picked her up and ran onto the dock and headed towards the mall. Andromeda sighed exasperated and said "Daedalus let me down, I can walk."

Daedalus only smiled at this and kept running they where only a mile from the mall anyway, it's why they both like to stay near this part of the island chain. After they came upon the parking lot Daedalus stopped and let down a pouting Andromeda and said "Let's go get those clothes."

An hour later Daedalus came out drained of his enthusiasm and holding a varitable mountain of clothes. It was times like this that Daedalus wished he was allowed to use his spatial storage in public.

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A few hours later the two had finally gotten to the gym, luckily it seemed that most people who lived around the docks liked working out so there was an easily accessible gym right by the house. The only reason it took that long was because of the clothes. Andromeda had forced Daedalus to carry them all the way back to the boat and then sort and put everything away.

Now that they where at the gym Daedalus looked at the sign and said "So it's called Gold gym, huh, sounds cool. Not thinking any further Daedalus walked into the lobby where a buff receptionist greeted him and said "New to the gym? It will be fifty for the membership, wait you're that blacksmith dude aren't you, make it twenty five for this month."

Daedalus nodded and handed the man a fifty and said "My wife is also joining is that alright?"

The receptionist chuckled and said "Using that discount to the max I see, yeah she can get in for twenty five this month with you, just remember you both go back up to fifty next month."

Daedalus nodded and went through the procedures before, eventually, being given a little gold card with his name, face and info on he back, the front said Gold Gym, in bold black in contrast to the cards gold colouring. Daedalus smiled and thanked the receptionist, John if Daedalus had heard right. Before walking into the gym.