Three against one

Zulia P.O.V

Erin knocks on the door, breaking the bond of silence between the Prince and I.

"Captain, all preparations have been made" Erin says as he walks right in.

I forget that to Erin, Prince Travis is the captain to his squad.

"Lia make sure to knock them dead, and try not to die" Erin took my hands and placed it on his chest.

"What are you doing?" I flustered.

"It's good luck in our kingdom, touching the space closet to ones heart signifies Good luck" he says with a bright smile.

"Ohh, thank you".

I'm not used to the customs here, Erin walks out leaving The Prince and I alone ...again in awkwardness.

"That's true, we do that here" Prince Travis takes my hand and places it on his bare chest and stares at me,

"I'm sure you don't even need luck, but just in case, good luck Lia" he turns and dresses up, as we head out.

"Wait shouldn't we be heading to the training grounds?".

"And why would we head there?, the training grounds is for training but the arena is used in cases such as yours".

I tagged behind him as the Prince led the way, until we got to a large space of land, filled with sand and seats for the audience.

"This really is a battle arena".

Once again I'm reminded of how large this castle is.

"Best of luck" Prince Cyrus appears for nowhere, as he grabs my hand and placed it on his chest.

"How does it feel?, I'm quite muscular, right Lia?" He smiles, he takes delight in praising himself.

"Now let the battle begin" Prince Travis gives me my sword,

"All I have to do is to knock them out right?, that should be easy".

My opponent arrived then surrounded me, leaving me in the middle.

Seems they're not so foolish to attack me one at a time.

Hugh at my front, Prigio behind me at my left and Lothar at my right.

"You have quite a funny name Hugh, that's the sound you'll make when I land a blow on you".

I make a swift move gathering dust on my feet and kicking it to the air, first I have to mask my presence and knock down the weakest and that will be Prigio.

I gently walked behind him but in a quick manner and he hasn't realized my presence until I used the back of my sword to hit the back of his neck, he finally notices me but it's too late.

The dust fades slowly, but I have two more left to deal with.

I rushed towards Lothar who saw me approach him at full speed, he holds my waist tight alerting Hugh to me, Hugh runs towards me with his sword.

Is he trying to stab me?. Kicking the tip of his sword, his sword flies off, Hugh runs to pick up his sword from the ground, giving me time to deal with Lothar.

This is a stupid fight, "Are you three that weak?".

Lothar holds me tight on my waist.

Using my elbow to hit below him stomach, he groans and finally releases my waist and falls to the ground.

"Come on!!!, I didn't even hit you that much" Lothar groans in pain, more and louder, he tries to stand up as I land the finishing blow, kicking him on his mouth.

The crowd cheered loudly.

Seriously... I didn't even do a thing.

Hugh finally finds his sword among all the dust, he picks it up.

"Now a one on one combat, I desire".

"You should unsheathe you sword Lia" he runs over towards me.

I dropped my sword, "I prefer a hand to hand combat for weaklings like you".

I stood my ground as I prepared for his attack, folding my hand into a punch.

He swung his sword like a brainless warrior, hoping to land a strike, he finally grazed a bit of my dress.

Finally he gets close enough, I grabbed him by his hair and kicked him as hard as I could on his face, over and over, he's dripping blood right from his nose.

"Of you three, you have quite the endurance".

He's still standing with his sword in his hand.

"I'm sorry but I have to end this tug of war" I used the side of my hand and hit the back of his neck as he fell to the ground,

I felt a tight grip on my leg, "Prigio is still conscious" I kicked his hands off as he shakily stands up.

He tries to hit me, I grabbed his hands as I tossed his body away, flying the air, his body went.

"I hope I wasn't too hard on his arm, I only meant to dislocated it not break it".

The crowd cheered.

Prince Cyrus, Prince Travis and a man came forward.

"This is amusing, in Estrius we don't have a female Knight and to be honest you're quite strong, you even have Floating step" The blonde looking man said, as his steel blue eyes twinkled.

"Really you call that strong?, I didn't even unsheathe my sword all through the fight, They're weaklings". I said in a stern voice, to the blonde stranger.

"Lia has been declared the winner!!!" Erin shouts and the whole crowd cheered for me.