Tasidia has given me permission to write her fic (this one duh) so nah! Of course she has to approve it, but if she knows what'sgood 4 her she'l agree(after all I can play the french horn VERY loud.)
This is Tas sorry but I can?t continue this fic cause I don?t have time with gym, and EoCs, saturn on the other hand has no life(saturn "true true"), carry on.
Alanna woke up to the sound of fighting. Oh no I overslept she jumped out of bed and got her clothes on a s fast as she could. When she was finished she looked around for her staff and noticed Beth was still asleep. She put the staff down and looked out the window. It was still night but she still heard the fighting so she decided to see what was going on she walked out of her room and over to the practice courts. What she saw made her stop in awe.
Two Shang warriors were fighting they moved so fast it was as if they were one big blur the smaller one with the red hair threw a final kick and sent the other one flying. When the other fighter got up they shook hands and got in to the fighting and called over to her. "Hey you what are you doing up so late?"
Alanna was shocked. She'd just been ready to leave. The Shang had strict laws about getting out of bed in the middle of the night. "I-uh- woke up to fighting. I wanted to find out what it was. I-I was just leaving."
The red-haired one smiled, "Very well, what's your name."
"Alanna, sir. Alanna of Trebond"
" A noble, and a girl at that," the other man, tall and muscular with brown hair and green eyes, commented.
The red head nodded, "So, Alanna of Trebond, I'm sorry to have gotten you out of bed. But I'm curious, how good are you at Shang?"
Alanna was shocked. What should she say? "Well the masters say I'm good, but I've only been in Shang for four years. I?m nine years old."
"Why don't we have a fight?"
" A fight, sir? But you'd hurt me. And besides, it's the middle of the night, I'm not allowed to be out, and we might wake somebody. Also you have more experience than me, I'd surely fail."
The other man chuckled, "She has a point."
" I know she has a point, Bruce, but I'll tone it down. I'm not known for being mean to students." The red head turned to Alanna. "So what do you say? Will you show me what you got?"
"Of course, sir." She couldn't refuse an accomplished Shang, much less one that seemed as important as this one. She didn't know who he was, but he carried this important air about him.
He led her to the practice courts. While she stretched she noticed him staring at her. Making sure she stretched right, she blushed. She didn't feel ready. She could fight her peers, but a grown Shang who seemed important was an entirely different matter. But she'd been raised not to show her fear, so she didn't. She stood up, done stretching and walked over to her competitor.
" You're done? Good, now we can start. Bruce, will you watch? We need someone to stop the fight and do decide on her technique."
" Do I have a choice?" the red head glared at him." I'd be glad to, Liam." Liam. Where had she heard that name before? Puttng that aside to think about later, she walked onto a practice court.
They bowed, and then assumed the fighting stance. (A/N I suck at fighting scenes so heed this warning and no flames on this). Alanna's heart fluttered and her stomach started doing flips (something her body hadn't mastered yet). He striked with an upper hit, she blocked and tried to strike back, but he blocked and snuck a punch through her defense into her stomach. She blushed, that had not happened in many months. She started trying to get a leg up through his legs(his weakest area), but he kept blocking. He got many hits in, but she could tell he didn't hit with full force so neither did she, but she still hit hard. Finally, he knocked her down, and placed his foot on her stomach to mark a victory. Then he reached a hand down for her to grab.
"Wow, you're good. Especially for a nine year old. But you need to work on some muscle control. You weren't hitting hard enough," Liam commented.
"Well you weren't hitting hard so I figured I shouldn't sir, just to be fair," she told him.
Bruce chuckled, as did Liam. "It takes a good person to get a compliment from
the Shang Dragon. He's very conceited, in that way."
Alanna was shocked! She had just fought the Shang Dragon, and he'd complimented her!
"Don?t look so shocked youngster. Our Dragon may be conceited, but he doesn t ike to reveal who he is."
" Bruce, you shouldn't be spreading lies to Alanna." Liam remarked.
" I wasn't spreading lies," Bruce grumbled.
" You have a remarkable catlike grace. And you seem fearless. Like a lion." Liam said.
" Lioness, Liam. She's a girl." Bruce corrected.
" I know that." Liam retorted. Then he remembered Alanna was there. "Are you ahead of your studies than most of the students?"
Alanna nodded.
Bruce saw where this was going, " Liam you know you can't take her out of Shang."
"But if she's ahead maybe in a couple of years I could take her out and show her some other stuff. You know train her."
Bruce snorted, "Train her better you mean."
"Yeah I guess." Then Liam remembered that Alanna was still there. "Come on Lioness let's get you to bed."
Alanna looked up at him, " Do you really mean it? In a couple of years you
could take me around the world with you." Her eyes filled with earnest.
Liam chuckled, "I'll try. You seem like you really like Shang."
" I love combat. To be able to defend yourself no matter what, with or without, weapons is so amazing."
They reached her room. " Then little Lioness I'll try really really hard."
Alanna went back to her room, and went to sleep with a smile on her face.
