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The Sun God's Daughter
Chapter 14
I eagerly listen as Jasper starts to talk, always willing to learn more fighting ways and styles as I rest against, as Edward had said, my wolf.
I start to get really excited when he starts demonstrating, only Alice being able to beat him with her gift and ending it with an affectionate kiss on the cheek.
I smile slightly at that. Now I'm no Aphrodite girl, but they are kinda cute together.
When he asks for another volunteer, after thoroughly beating both Edward and Emmet, and his graceful defeat from his mate, I instantly leap to my feet.
Okay, so maybe I was wanting to show off for Leah, but I also wanted to prove Edward's stupid assumptions about me to be flat out wrong and rub them in his face.
Leah's teeth grabbing my sleeve and her high whine makes me pause. Her eyes are wide and pleading and even the other wolves look uncomfortable about me fighting.
"It's okay, Puppy, I'll be fine," I mumble, having started calling her that earlier today after she showed me her wolf form.
She whines again, letting go after I tug slightly.
Turning to face my opponent, he as well looks hesitant to fight me. He turns to Carlisle in silent question, but papa vampire just frowns worriedly.
"Are there any rules on taking off limbs?" I ask offhandedly, trying to get him to relax some.
He does, smiling slightly. "For the vampires, we can reattach our limbs but for sparing purposes, no beheading. But if you can get an arm or leg, go for it."
He is so going to regret that decision. My teeth flash in a grin before quickly drawing my bow and firing two bolts of glowing arrows at him.
His eyes widen and he quickly spins, twisting to avoid getting hit. But I had surprised him, and the first one sinks into his arm.
He hisses at the heat still radiating from it and rips it out quickly so it doesn't burn him much on his hands. He comes at me quickly in a crouch, fast and with a new seriousness.
I spin, hitting away his hands with my bow, twirling it and smacking him in the back of his leg. I shoot another three arrows while it buckles, but he's ready this time and spins out of the way.
Jacob yelps, barely ducking the arrow and Rosalie hisses at me as the other two lodge in the tree right next to her head.
I won't be hitting him with anymore arrows, and it'll be dangerous shooting them with the others around the edges of the field. My bow quickly goes back into my hair as I flip over Jasper, dodging his attacks.
Another grin splits my lips and a laugh bubbles up. I hadn't had anyone to spar against in months.
After creating enough space, I draw my spear, not yet letting it extend.
Jasper eyes the new thing in my hand wearily before charging me again.
He zigzagges, trying to confuse me, and when he finally reaches out to grab me from behind, I let my spear extend as I roll, letting it come up behind me and the tip slices right through his arm. It falls to the ground with a thump, but I don't stop there. I sweep his legs with the butt of the shaft, spinning and pointing the arrow at his neck, clearly marking that this would have been the killing strike.
"I win," I grin.
The whole fight didn't even take thirty seconds, it was that quick, but it was a good fight and Jasper was a good opponent. If he hadn't underestimated me so much, it would have been a little more difficult to beat him.
But as I said before, I have been training to kill things like him since I was a child and he has never come across someone like me.
Silence follows my words before the wolves start howling and jumping in cheers. They had already been standing at the beginning of the fight, ready to intervene if they needed to, but I just proved to them and all the vampires that I could hold my own.
I step back, shrinking my spear to put away, and offer my hand to his arm that is still there.
He finally wipes the shock from his face, smiling good naturedly as he allows me to help him up.
"You are an admirable opponent, and will be a great ally," he tells me, gently taking his arm from Alice who is now fretting worriedly over him.
Carlisle's curiosity gets the better of him, and he steps forward.
"If I may ask, what are your we opens made of? I have never come across anything that can cut through a vampire's skin so easily."
I smile politely, resting a hand on Leah's silver head as she nudges me from behind.
"It's the metal of the gods. My father gave me the bow for my tenth birthday and a boy from the Hephaestus cabin made me the spear for my seventh. He was a good friend of mine, like a brother."
"Was?" Alice asks, looking up from her task of holding Jasper's arm in place while the skin stitches itself back together.
"He died a heroes death," is all a say, allowing Leah to nudge me back to the edge of the field with the rest of the wolves that came.
Jacob stays next to Bella, but Paul head-butts me in congratulations and Sam seems to smile.
Leah gives me a tongue bath for the second time and I shriek, shoving her away.
We settle down as Jasper walks back into the middle of the field, arm in a sling, and partners the Cullens up to try fighting.
Since Jasper was out for a while, I got to spar with Edward. Sadly, Jasper took back the 'severing the vampires' limbs' rule, but I still got to beat him down and show him just how much I could hold my own and win.
Personally, I think Jasper just really didn't want me sparring against Alice, and I could understand that, though I am very determined to eventually.
I want to see how well I can do against a psychic.
For now, I just make do with dancing around Edward while he tries to catch me, laughing at him.
After a while though, I do get tired and sweep his feet, pointing my spear at his neck much like I did to his brother, only he still has an arm.
It's quite obvious that he can't fight very well without his mind-reading power; he's too reliant on it.
I battle Emmet next, at his insistence, but I'm slightly tired now and starting to sweat, so I take him down quickly, ending with him pinned to a tree with four of my aeros and go to sit a few feet from the wolves.
I'm hot right now, and their heat won't help. Leah seems to understand as she just crawls forward and touches me with her wet nose before laying her head on her paws.
The training session ends at about two in the morning when Bella yawns sleepily. After Edward takes her back, everyone else just kind of breaks off to go their separate ways.
I should be getting to bed soon as well because exams start Wednesday, and that will cause enough headache without the lack of sleep as well.
Leah takes me home, letting me ride on her back- and man she's fast!
I shriek in joy at the fast wind, not scary like shadow traveling (I shudder at the thought) but more fun than riding a centaur (those just hurt your butt).
I kiss her nose when she lets me off at the house and climb up the tree to enter through the window.
Bella is already asleep in Edwards arms, and I briefly think about calling Leah in to sleep in my bed like he is with Bella, but she's already disappearing back into the tree line across the road.
I fall into my bed with my weapons still on my person and fall asleep uneasily, plagued with demigod dreams of a drowning Percy and a giant ship being built at camp.