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Chapter 2: Wanting to see you.

As I slowly woke up my eyes, I appeared at a familiar place. It was my room, looks messy as always. But what am I doing here? Looking around, seeing my messy bookshelf and a sword that I tried to make but failed. The door slammed at a sudden.

"Jack Russell!" An annoying voice replied. Guessing it was Adele's voice, I turned around with a surprised look.

"Sis? What are you doing here?" I said, in a shock tone. Just saying that, seemed to piss her off more.

"What do you mean? Anyway, back to the point. Do you even know what today is?" I scratched my head, trying to figure out what she was trying to say. My eyes then popped out.

"The Knight Trial?!" I said, in shocked. Then that means... I started smiling. "I'm back, yeah!" I said, with a cheer and hugging my sister. Leaving her thinking that I went mad.

"Anyway, its good to see you full of spirit. But at this rate, you're going to be late. Hurry up and get change. Jack!" For the first time, I listen to Adele with respect. I headed back into my room and changed in the tunic, that she made for me. Heading to the main room, she prepared a packed bag. As I happily was about to leave to the knight trials, to see the person, I oh so long, to see. Adele stop me.

"Jack wait, take this." It was the Arbitrator. As I slowly, grabbed it. She responded.

"Jack, don't go around swinging your sword. A true knight..." I spoke, just as she was about to finish.

"A true knight, protects the people who most cherish about. Protecting them, with all their might. Right sis?" She gave me a smile. As I was about to leave, I said one more thing to her, before leaving her.

"Sis, don't worry about me. I'll try my best to win the trials and be a knight to protect the ones I love. Just like dad." Saying that, made her give me a cheered look.

"Try not to get yourself killed Jack." As I left, my house. I smiled with glee and began running. Full with excitement to see her again. It only took me a half and hour to get to Radiata Castle. Entering the place I knew as home. I looked to see, the castle.

"Radiata Castle, its good to be back." Heading into the castle, for the Knight Trials. I saw many familiar faces such as Daniel, Lord Star, and even Paul. I started to look around and saw Ridley sitting by herself. As I took a deep breath and tried to remember, that I'm back in the past. I tried to sit next to her. Noticing me, she tried scooting away from me. I itch my faced, to try to think of a conversation. "So, why are you trying to become a knight?". Turning around to say something, she immediately responded.

"I've been trained to become a knight." She then looked away from me. I remembered that Ridley, has been training to be a knight, at a young age. Thinking how lonely it was, I said, to her.

"Training to be a knight, huh. It must've been lonely." She looked at me again, with a surprised look.

"How did you know that?" She said in shock. I slowly, gave a smirk and responded to her.

"Oh I sort have this trick, to understand how a person feels. Sorry about that." Scratching my head, she took a deep breath of relief. Soon, she began to look more calm.

"Say what's your name?" I smiled at her and greeted with politeness.

"I'm Jack Russel. What's yours?" She responded,

"My name is Ridley Silverlake." Replying happily. Noticing her expression, she slowly turned away and gave a dark look.

"Hmph, it's not like I wanted to be your friend anyway." Speaking in a rude tone. A guard entered the lobby and he started calling out the next people.

"Jack Russel and Ridley Silverlake, please report to the coliseum for the next match." The guard responded. As Ridley stood up and entered the coliseum, I took a deep breath and thought. "Well, that went well. Great". I began to entered the coliseum and waited for the match to start.

"Welcome to the official Royal Radiata Knight Entrance Trial. I shall be your referee. My name is Junzaburo. The test you are about to face is a traditional Radiata knight elimination exam. For every hit you do, you will receive a point, however should a knockout occur the winner will be declared immediately. Understood? Then lets begin. Combatants take your position." I readied my iron edge, as Ridley readied her axe. Junzaburo then replied. "Selection trials, round two! Ridley Silverlake Vs. Jack Russell. Begin!" He shouted. This time, i'll make sure I win the Knight Selection trials. Ridley made the first move, by running towards me and trying to hit me. I parried the attack and counter her. Seemed like my skills, we're still intact when I traveled back. She tried to attack me again, so I simply blocked her attack and step backed away from her.

"Wow, I never thought someone like you, was this powerful, but I'm ending it right now!" She put her axe down and slapped her cheek. Wild Pitch!. She grabbed her axe and started spinning it around creating a shockwave, heading towards me. I started running towards in and intercept by thrusting it with my sword, distorting it. "Huh, no way?! How did you..." Just before she could finish. I decided to use my special attack.

"My turn." Limit Break! "Here goes nothing!" I ran towards her and started attack her with a combo of sword strikes. However, I made sure to hit her with the blunt part. I finished it off, with a upper slash. Causing her to get knocked-out. "Sorry if I went a little overboard." Scratching my head.

"The winner is Jack Russell!" Junzaburo shouted. I walked towards Ridley, to see that she was on the ground, bruised all over.

"Dang it, how could I lose to someone like you. After, I've been training all this time." Seeing Ridley, blame herself. I started to wonder, if beating her. Will only lead her to death. I shook the thought, trying not to think that way. I walked up to her and picked her up bridal style.

"Don't blame yourself about it. The reason why, I'm strong is because I lost many times before, and reflect on what I did and tried again. You should think about, what you did." I smiled her,giving a faint blush on her face. I walked into the lobby with her on my arm and placed her on the bench. As I waited for the next round to start.


~Several Minutes Later~

*Whack* *Smack* *Whack* *Smack*. I continued beating all the other contestants and when I fought Paul in the final match. I only had to use my fist, to beat him. Finally, they called everyone to hear the final results.

"Alright the following applicants, that are qualified to become knights are... Da dadumm! Jack Russell!" Junzaburo exclaimed.

"And finally... Da dadumm Ridley Silverlake!" It wasn't very surprising, considering Lord Chamberlain Jasne Colton, Ridley's doting father. Gives her special expectations. So whether Ridley either win or lose. She still be accepted into knighthood. Thanks to her doting father. Lord Lark, came up and spoke to the two of us.

"Congratulations you two, as of today. You are now knights of the Rose Conchon Brigade. You will be led by Sir Ganz Rothschild and are officially knight trainees." The Captain, then greeted us and after that, we were shown to our rooms. Of course, I would have the knight trainees room. Yet, i'm used to living in these types of conditions.

"So you're that kid, that beaten Lady Ridley. Say, what's your name again?" It was Leonard, sitting in the chair. I introduced myself in a casual manner.

"Names Jack Russell, so you must be my cabin leader. Leonard, right?" I asked him.

"Yeah, and how did you know my..." Interrupting him, before him finishing. I replied to him simply.

"Al, told me about you. So it isn't very surprising you should know." Saying, in a calm and cool tone. I continued by asking if I was supposed to wear a knight trainee outfit as being part of the knight. Asking him this, he looked in the drawer, for a trainee outfit that fitted me and found the exact one I wore in my previous life. Having the embedded symbols of Radiata. I changed into it, removing the handmade tunic Adele gave to me. Into the dusty Trainee outfit. Though it felt comfortable to wear it again. As I headed, to the meeting room, where we Ganz told me to meet in. I met Ridley, at the door to the room. Ridley, spoke first.

"Oh, its you. Um..." Trying to remember my name. I spoke in.

"Its Jack Russell. Will be working in the same brigade now." I held out my hand to shake. She shook my hand, with a grin on her face. After that, we entered the room at the same time. Where the captain was already there.

"Ah, Master Jack, Master Ridley. Please come in." Ganz, welcomed us in. We then took a seat, waiting for Ganz to responded.

"Ahem, as you know. You are now officially Radiata Knight and part of the Rose Conchon brigade. Other, than that. I like to congratulate you two for getting accepted and thankfully, Lord Larks was so generous to give our brigade an assignment. Our mission, is to escort a dwarf. I will give out the full details tomorrow. But for now, rest and recuperate. For it, will be a long journey." Ganz, ended the meeting and we left back to our room. Before night falls, I decided to head out of the castle and walk around a bit. Man, everything looks the same. From when, I left Radiata. After walking, for awhile I decided to head back to the castle. Right before, I got to my room. I saw Ridley, waiting in front of the door. Walking up to her, feeling very tired. I snuck up behind her to surprise her.

"So what, are you doing up this late?" Shocked, by what happened. She turned around quickly.

"Oh its you, Jack." She breathed in relief. I began to wonder, what she was doing at my room.

"So what are you doing here anyway?" I asked her. She began to have a structured bewildered face.

"O-oh, its just that I wanted to talk to you about something. Thats all." I noticed a blush on her face, as she was talking.

"Well, what is it that you wanted to talk about?" I asked her. She began to calm down and took a deep breath before replying.

"I was just wondering. What you meant, about becoming stronger. What did you mean?" She responded. I was sort of disappointed to hear her say that. I thought, she meant something else. I answered her question.

"Well becoming strong, doesn't always mean of training by yourself and winning all the time. You have to challenge yourself, and fight people equal or difficult to your level. If you lose that battle, you don't simply quit. You reflect on what you messed up and keep trying until you beat them. Do that and you'll be able to protect the ones you love." I started blushing, and began to respond again.

"T-though, I don't mean you have to follow it. Hahaha." I laugh lightly, scratching my head, feeling embarrassed that she might think I'm an idiot. But she, just started giggling a little.

"You're funny, you know that. Well goodnight!" She began to run off, back to her room. I was confused at first, but realize why she asked me. I felt very sleepy, so I called it a day and headed to my room. Laying down, in my bed. I noticed when I looked at her. She seems more attractive, than the way I treated her when first meeting her. I soon remembered the incident of her dying and shook that thought of my head.

I won't that happen a second time!


~To Be Continued~