Carlos POV- Classes seemed to fly by and soon it was time for fencing practice. Carlos was just finishing up with his fencing uniform when Jay walked into the arena.

"All right boys let's line it up. Carlos you're with me let's go" Jay said patting Carlos' shoulder.

"Yeah" Carlos followed Jay as the others all lined up.

"Assembler, salute. Lower the point. Masks down. En Garde" Jay ordered.

Once all their masks were down and they were all standing in en garde Jay attacked Carlos first then the clang of swords filled the arena. Carlos countered the attack but Jay managed to grab him by the arm and spin him around and away from Jay.

"Keep your center" Jay called out.

Carlos stepped into the ring and when Jay slid in behind him Carlos attacked again.

"Eyes on your opponent" Jay said, blocking Carlos' attack yet again.

"Up and over" Jay ordered.

Carlos jumped up onto the ring blocks and flipped over Jay and prepared to attack again.

Just as Carlos attacked Jay so did someone else. Jay blocked Carlos' attack, side stepped around him and blocked the other persons attack.

"Get him Jay" Carlos cheered as everyone else took off their masks and stopped their fights to watch the one going on in the ring.

Carlos looked up and saw Rayna observing the fight from the balcony. She looked calm and cool like she was critiquing them or something. The two fighters were not only attacking each other with swords but also with kicks. They flipped kicked and clashed with their swords.

"Oh Jay what happened?" Carlos yelled when Jay's sword was taken from him.

"Finish him!" Chad called out.

It appeared Jay was cornered and out of options. Then however Jay managed to kick a sword out of his attackers hand and grab it and signaled the end of the fight. When the other person took off their mask, it showed to be Lonnie.

"It's Lonnie!" Jane said up in the balcony.

Carlos looked back up at Rayna who looked amused and she was smiling then she started to clap and others joined in.

"Not bad" Jay said smiling.

"You should put me on the team" Lonnie said.

"Hey…w…what?! No no no. We'll be the laughing stock of the league. And what's gonna happen next? We'll have girls playing tourney? Come on guys" Chad said walking over to Jay.

"So?" Jay shrugged.

"So? Uh so have you not read the rule book?" Chad asked pulling his copy out.

Knowing Jay, he probably hadn't read the rule book.

"Section 2. Paragraph 3, 11-4. 'A team will be comprised of a captain and eight men.' Why don't you read the rule book?" Chad looked at Jay.

"Okay yeah but you're down a man. I mean since Ben had to leave to do all that King stuff" Lonnie said pointing out the facts.

"Exactly we're down a man" Chad said in her face.

"Jay…" Lonnie pleaded.

"I'm sorry. Coach trusts me. I'm not gonna stay captain if I just throw out the rule book" Jay said apologetically.

"If my mother thought that way, she would have lost the war" Lonnie said as she turned to go.

"Psh okay. Rule book. Rule book" Chad said waving it at her as she walked away.

Carlos saw Rayna shaking her head in both disappointment and disgust.

"All right guys, practice is over. Let's go" Jay said walking out of the ring.

Once mostly everyone was gone Carlos stood up.

"Rayna! Rayna hey" he said jumping up on one of the ring blocks catching her just before she also left.

"Hey Carlos what's up?" Rayna asked turning back around to him.

"Uh… not much. You?"

"Too much. Ben wants to have the Cotillion on a yacht on the freaking ocean so I have to think up all the security details and possibilities of what could go wrong. I mean I'm sure nothing will go wrong but you can never be too prepared but then again look what happened at Coronation with Maleficent she rendered my entire team useless with magic" Rayna explained.

"Oh yeah, no, that's a… that's a bummer. Um speaking of Cotillion…"

"Ugh right? It's all I keep hearing about nonstop. All the girls are like Cotillion 24/7 it's so… aggravating. Like no one has ever been to one before."

"Uh… I haven't actually."

"Oh…right…well they're fun. I mean I've seen people having fun at them. Food, music, dancing. I bet for you, you have tons of girls lining up for you to ask them to go with you."

Carlos smiled at how she bit her lip at first but was sad to hear she thought he would want to go with anyone else who wasn't her. He did however note a tone in her voice when she said it but couldn't tell if it was jealousy which he secretly hoped it was or simple anger that no one had asked her yet it seemed a touchy subject earlier.

"I was hoping…" Carlos started but Rayna's phone rang cutting him off.

"I got to go it's my second in command. Great practice though" Rayna said with a sigh before answering her phone and walking away.

"Yeah" Carlos said in defeat as he watched her disappear from view.

Behind him he heard Dude whine and he turned to see him looking up at him.

"It wasn't the right time all right?" Carlos said.

Then he decided he needed help, magical help and went to talk to Mal. He found her in her dorm room.

"Hey I need a magical favor please?" he asked hoping she could do it and would say yes.

"Magic? Absolutely what is it?" Mal asked grinning as she sat up on her bed.

"I need a spell or potion or whatever to make me say how I really feel to Rayna. I can never seem to get it out when I'm around her" Carlos explained.

"Oh okay yeah sure that shouldn't be too hard to whip up something" Mal said looking disappointed at his favor.

"Thanks, Mal. You're the best. I'll be in my room later if you get around to making it today, otherwise just let me know when it's done and I'll find you to get it" Carlos smiled and left her alone to check her spell book.

~RIP Cameron Boyce~