So I'm updating as much as I can,I hope, you guys like the story so far, and it will get deeper into the plot soon, and hopefully everyone will like how it turns out, I'm having my friend edit my story so hopefully all the mistakes will be correct for everyone! XD

"Other self talking"

"Flash back"

"Really" - Normal Talking

"Sure"- Thoughts

Also beware of cursing and some violence in some chapters.

Chapter7

Floyd, and tournament scares

Floyd was walking around the town for the third time, and it was the middle of the night, he was so far into is new book on magic's, he didn't even notice he was suppose to be off duty an hour and a half ago. He loves books, and gets too absorbed in them to now whats going on in the world around him. He can maneuver pass people when necessary, but right now unknowingly he was walking back to the castle, tired of walking around. He finally put his book away, now noting he was tired.

Floyd nodded at the guards on duty in front of the castle as he walked down the beautiful walkway to the front doors of the castle, the walkway, on both side had beautiful flower gardens that have small fountains, and walkways, that led to the edge, and fence of the castle. Floyd walked into the palace quietly, and was now lost in thought as he headed to his room. He sighed. He was tired, but didn't notice until now, even since he came to this country when he was young, and alone, he got absorbed into books to give him comfort. He loved them, and that's one of the reasons, when he sets a meeting up with Mina he was always reading a book, and had the tendency to be late all the time, because all he really did in his spare time was read.

Floyd went into his room and laid down with both his arms behind his head, and closed his eyes, as he drifted off to sleep.

Dream/Flashback

An eight year old Floyd run around in a huge castle. He wonder around until he stopped at the garden his mother usually sat in, but she wasn't there at the moment. He walked into the throne room, and saw his parents up in their chairs, and they smiled at their son, and he smiled back, and ran up to them."Mother, Father, I found you." He said, climbing up on his mothers lap, and she racked her hands through his gravity defied hair."Yes you did." His mother said in a soft, and sweet voice, with a light chuckle. His father laughed, and they went back to the dinning room, for food.

Two years later

A now Ten year old Floyd went to find his parents, but he knew something was going on, the castle was set ablaze, and dead body were every where, and a lot of people were running to get out of the castle. He frantically was running to find his mother and father, he entered the throne room, and saw his parents dead, and a masked person holding a bloody blade, the was soaked in his parents blood."MOTHER! FATHER!" He yelled. He was shocked, scared, and anger at the sight. He picked up a blade, by a fallen guards body, and held it in a professional manner.

He pointed the blade at the unknown person."You will pay,YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MOTHER AND FATHER!" Floyd yelled, and he started to run towards the person, and the person turned around towards the child, and their swords clashed."You are mad? Aren't you going to run? Are you scared?" The mysterious person asked in a montone voice."DIE!" The little Floyd yelled."Fool." The person said, and with a little power, he sword his sword, and Floyd fell to the ground."Run, and fight." The person said a disappeared, and left a crying Floyd behind.

A Year Later

Floyd heard his arranged bride from the Blossom Country was kidnapped, and was never seen again, now her was in Blossom Country looking for the same girl he met, before his parents died. He fell for her, she was a little hyper, but smart, and usually calm and cool, when she thought up pranks for certain people. He liked her of course, and he would never forget, her, now he made it his job to find her, and keep her safe.

Three years later

He found her. He found her, but she didn't know where she came from, or whom she really was. He found her is a place called Vister city, and was an apprentice under a man called Old Man Haru, a well known person, that could fight his his youth. He made the decision that day when he found her, and told Haru whom he, and Mizuna was. He made a promise to protect her, and be her body guard until her died. As a cat demon from the Wild Country, he would protect he so called mate, even though she didn't know it.

Dream/Flashback End

Floyd opened his eyes, as hi visioned cleared, he started to sit up and rub his eyes as he yawned. He had another dream about his childhood. He hated to be reminded of what happened when he was young. Yes, when was royalty, but didn't act like it, just like Mina. He never brought anything up that was about him, and Mina left all his deep secrets from her stay just that. He loved her, and would tell her everything when the time was right."I really don't what to do. I have to stay by her, and sooner or later they will find out both of our identities." Floyd thought standing up racking his finger through his messy spiky locks, and yawn as he made his way to eat some breakfast.

Floyd walking into the dinning room and sat down as a butler gave him his food, and he started to eat. Today he was the last person to get up and eat. He was up late, and he was still tired, it seemed like he didn't get any sleep at all."Stupid childhood flashbacks, they only make me feel worse." Floyd thought as he started to inhale his food. Mina looked over at his with a raised eyebrow, and sighed.

"Mina the games are tomorrow, are you sure you want to do this?" Misano asked. Mina leaned into her chair and sighed as she crossed her arms." Yes, I'm sure, and I'm going through with it, no matter what." Mina said as she rubbed her temples. Floyd peaked at Mina, she seemed sure, but wasn't., then looked back at his plate.

"If you insist, I'll give you the day off to do whatever you need to do to get ready for tomorrow." Toma told her, as he got up to leave for the throne room. Yukito walked up to Mina."I think I'll accompany you for today, I think I need a break from my training, and tutoring." Yukito said as he waited for Mina to get up."Whatever, you going to come Floyd?" Mina asked. Floyd looked up at her and yawned."No, I'm going to sleep some more." He replied, and got up, and headed towards his room, and waved goodbye to Mina.

Yukito and Mina started to wonder around the castle."You know you're in one of the first matches, as well as Floyd." Yukito told her. She raised her eyebrow at him."Oh, thank you the that valuable information." she replied to Yukito. Yukito sighed and smiled a bit."You are fairly hard to handle, just like someone I once knew, she use to prank everyone, and even they would laugh after it happened, she was a handful." Yukito added." Is that a good or bad thing?" Mizuna questioned." A little bit of both." Yukito replied."I also heard you had a fun in with Haruno." Yukito said back to her."The crazy woman in the prison isolation cell?" Mina asked."Yes, she took my twin sister away from us, and put her in the Forest of no return, or whatever it's called." Yukito said with sad, and maddened eyes."Really? When I saw her she was in the brink of insanity, and...well...she has a monster inside me, just like her." Mina said unsure of the answer she would receive.

Yukito looked at her with widened eyes."What?!" He said."Ya, Shard, the thing inside me, said she had one, and she could tell if other people has one too." Mina said looking at the garden." She also said her monster wasn't the cause of how she is now, Shard said she was like that to start with."Mina added."Really funny girl calling me a thing, somehow I'll make you pay for saying that." Shard said with a sinister chuckle that echoed through Mina's mind scape, and Mina herself sighed.

"I have to tell father this." Yukito said. Mina looked at him." Whatever, you tell your dad, and I'll go for a nice, and hopefully relaxing walk outside of the palace." Mina turning away from him, and left him with a wave, he stood and watched her disappearing form."Might as well tell father." Yukito thought, heading for the throne room.

Meanwhile Floyd laid down on his bed looking at the ceiling, and sighed. That was all he could do, no matter what he did, he couldn't sleep."Damn it, I can't even sleep!" This is going to get me frustrated." Floyd though to himself, and then he pulled out he ever so trusting book, and started to pick up where he left off last night.

"I see, so we need to be extra cautious then if she has one, I thought she would be able to break out if she has that kind of power." Toma said troubled. "I would of thought so too, but something is keeping her in there, here rather, but we just don't know what." Yukito replied to his father. "Or whom." His father added. Misano looked at her husband."You mean she might just be staying there, because she wants to maybe fight someone." Misano inquired, and she looked at her husband with a little bit of shock."Yes, she has been waiting for a person whom can challenge her to her fullest." Toma said."Father, I think it might be Mizuna, she saw her not to long ago, and Mizuna might be that person, when she went there, she told me Haruno asked if Mina wanted to play with her, and since the evil beings inside both of them know about each other, it's not hard to figure out, Haruno wants to fight Mina, to see if her power matches of to Haruno's herself." Yukito stated.

Toma looked at his son and thought."If it is as you say, then Mina has it a lot harder than we first thought."Toma said and sighed. Misano looked at the ground, and clenched her teeth."No child should go through life this way, it's not right." Misano said with a sad voice. Toma and Yukito looked at her with saddened eyes. "You are right Misano, but sometimes even we can't help it."Toma said."All we can do is try to help." Toma added.

The Next Day

Mina was eating breakfast, along with everyone else. Today she will fight against a foe she might not even win against, she might die, so of course she would be a little nervous, but it felt good, she hasn't fought for awhile, and now she wont let her skills get rusty, the same with Floyd.

Toma, Misano, and Yukito wished them luck. She and Floyd made their way to the participating quarters. Mina sighed, as she looked at some of the people, so looked weak, and about half of the room, looked like they could kill them in an instant. Floyd looked at the ground, and was trying to will it to burn up. He wasn't nervous, he didn't care, he just wanted to get this over with, and kill the assassin that was after Toma.

"Next Floyd Vs. Icho" the announcer called. Floyd walked to the entrance to the field, and so did a burly tall whit guy with a overgrown beard, and mustache that was all brown with some gray hairs."Hopefully this will be easy." He thought."BEGIN!: the announcer shouted. Icho ran towards Floyd with a huge Axe, and tried to split him in half, but Floyd was behind him a an instant, and knocked on the back of the man's neck, and Icho was out cold."WINNER FLOYD UYZUKI!" Floyd dragged Icho back to the participants room.

Mina saw Floyd dragging his challenger back with him and she smirked a little bit."MINA Vs. MIZAKI!" Mina went to the field. She was facing a man in his young twenties, with short, and wild blue hair, he carried a sword, not a wired one, but one that looked like it was going to fall apart."Well looks like I have to fight a girl, and a pretty one at that. How about you give up so I don't have to hurt you kid." Mizaki said."Tch. No way in hell. Thanks for the compliment, but I don't care about my face like some girls." Mizuna said."Well, at least you will be a challenge." Mizaki replied."BEGIN!" The Announcer Yelled. Mizaki took out his sword, now girly, how about a little sword fight, that is, if you have one." Mizaki said."Fine." Mina said. She took a scroll out of and inner pocket in her coat. She ripped it open, and a sword came out of the scroll in a silk cloth. She look it out, and there was a black metal sheath, and the sword that the sheath was holding. She put the cloth in her pocket, more like stuffed.

She had her sword in her left had still sheathed."Well un-sheath it."Mizaki said."Come." Was all she said, as she held her ground not looking like she used any kind of stance."Fine." He said and ran towards her. Mina put her hand on the hilt, and moved into a stance, as Mizaki came at her. He was twelve feet in front of her, she pulled out her sword swiftly, when he was at six feet, as he was going to swing, she swung way before him, and a burst of energy from her swing pushed him back. In her left hand was her black sheath, and her right, a sword, that didn't even looked use, and it had ancient writing on it for some reason, that nobody, but her, Floyd and her master knew what the writing was for.

Mizaki got up, and looked at her."All that power, and she only took out her sword, and it flung me back, incredible, I don't know if I can even get a hit on her, she has insane power. What an opponent I got. This will be no walk in the park, I already got hit." Mizaki thought as he got up, and held in right shoulder."Good thing I'm left handed." He thought. The crowd on her other hand was shocked, they never knew a half demon, let alone a girl have as much power as a high ranking demon. They were in shock, and some even disgusted by it.

Mizaki held his sword with is left hand, and swiftly went towards Mina again, and vanished, only to be behind her. Mina took her sheath, and guarded against the hit."She used the sheath? That's almost unheard of!"Mizaki thought, and looked at her eyes, and his eyes widened. Her eyes were now a piercing gaze, she was not new to battles."These eyes, they're.....she is an assassin?!" Mizaki thought as she swung at him in a swift movement, and cut his cheek. He jumped back, before she could do anymore damage."Damn it! She's way too fast, and she has almost and absolute guard, that I wont get through with a sword. Then I have no choice." Mizaki sighed and got up, and sheathed his sword."I give up." He said and walked off the field, and Mina looked at his fading figure. She walked towards his disappearing figure toward the the room she was just in. She put hr sword back in the sheath, and in it's red silk wrapping, as she walked back."WINNER MINA!" The Announcer yelled. Toma, Misano, and Yukito took a big sigh in relief, but the whole tournament wasn't over, it was only the beginning.

The Announcer kept calling names out for fights, and at the end of the day all the first matches were over, and only 150 were left, and the winner faced off with a dangerous criminal to win, but it was un-heard of anyone winner against this criminal, everyone whom had tried died in action. That is what Mina feared, whom the criminal was.

To be continued.........................

I hope you like this chapter, I hope to get a little better at writing battles, and also, this is the start of the true story line, and hopefully I have some reviews!!! XD PM me if you need answers, or are confused about something. Hopefully the next chapter will be out soon.