Taking a walk

Joanna had a bright smile on her face at the moment, because she finally had time, to be with Adrian for a little.

Adrian was looking and her with a curious look, and before he could ask what she was doing, he heard.

"Adrian, let's take a walk together" Joanna again pulled on his arm. He just followed, having a small smile. He thought this was a cute side of Joanna, he didn't know a lot about her, but he quite liked this energic side.

Adrian had the feeling that they had known each other for a long time.

After a while of being pulled, they made it to a huge flower garden, with a lot of different flowers, in different patterns.

When you walk into the garden, it feels like you are walking in a hallway made of flowers. The flowers was placed in a need fashion on bend wood, that made it look like the flowers was flowing in a large arch.

the ground was littered with small stones, you could hear a crunch every time you took a step.

At the end of the tunnel, you could see a big field of flowers, with small roads that going through in a snake like fashion.

The garden was absolutely gorgeous. Adrian was in a stupor for quite a while.

"Very beautiful right? This is my favorite spot in the whole mansion" Joanna said, and made Adrian come out of her stupor.

"It is gorgeous, I don't know what to say!" He was stunned speechless.

"Then don't say anything, just ... enjoy the moment!" She said, while looking at Adrian with a smile and a glint in the eye. She was thinking that he is becoming more and more charming the more she is together with him.

They started to walk through the garden some time later. They were walking for a few hours. If there was anyone in the garden, you could occasionally hear a giggle, that could draw any mans attention.

When they made it to the end of the garden, a young made came over to them. As the maid came over, she looked at Adrian.

"Sir Adrian, Master Gus wants to see you!" she starts walking towards the mansion "Please follow me!" she continued.

Adrian was a little confused, and started to follow the maid out of instinct. Joanna also followed them, since she was there anyway, and she was also very curious about what her dad wanted.

When they came to a big door in the middle of the mansion, the maid turned around and said "He is in here" Adrian thought the maid was a girl of few words, he didn't really mind though.

He walked through the door, to see a big hall, with four big pillars in a square formation. In the middle of this square formation, was a big circular table with 8 chairs around it, which looked like the tables they use at the strategic meetings for war.

3 of the chairs was occupied by three men. They sat in the formation of chair 1,2 and 4 was in use. Chair 1 and 2 was occupied by Gus and Alex, while the chair 4 was in use by a stranger, that neither Joanna nor Adrian knew. He looked quite average, there was really nothing special about him.

"Oh, Adrian you came! please come, take a seat!" Gus saw Adrian and said. He had a childish and very happy smile, it looked really weird on a middle-aged man like him.

Adrian walked over, at took a seat on chair 6, when suddenly he hears from behind.

"What about me, am I not allowed here?" Joanna said, while she popped out from behind Adrian's back. She was looking at him with an amused look.

"Oh Joanna, of cou- ..." Gus said while looking at his daughter with a loving smile, but his smile bean to twitch, when he saw that she had already sat down by Adrian's side, before he was done talking.

He didn't mind that his daughter had taken a liking to Adrian, he had too. Adrian was a respectful young man, who would do selfless things, like saving a damsel in distress. He was also a battle maniac like himself, which made Gus like him even more, but he could see that Joanna was falling for Adrian, she was just falling too quickly.

"Hmm" The third man, than Adrian didn't know said, he had a very amused look, while he was looking between Adrian and Gus "So ... you are Adrian?" he continued with a small grin, and a little battle intent.

"I am, and who are you?" Adrian could feel the battle intent, and he was getting excited. He could feel that this mans battle intent was much stronger than his.

"Oh me, I am your new teacher!" He said, while his grin became much ... much wider, his battle intent suddenly flared, and it was kind of suffocating "My name is Sandro!" he continued.

"Oh, my teacher!" His battle intent disappeared while he got up, and bowed to him "Thank you for dedicating your time to teach me" He might be a battle maniac, but he do know how to be respectful.

"Oh stop that, I know you want to fight!" Sandro said, his grin never disappeared, neither did his battle intent "I need to see how good you are at fighting anyway"

Through this whole ordeal, Alex, Joanna and Gus was just sitting there with different emotions. Gus was looking at them amused, Alex was looking at them quite confused and Joanna looked at Adrian with a worried look in her eyes.

They all made their way to the training grounds, to start the training session.