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The next day they all received notes about how the events would be set up. The Magical weaponry was first going in order of E, N, R, A, S. The next event would be a Magical Marksmanship contest. Lina looked over the list of events for the day and asked. "Are you guys in the marksmanship contest?" She asks Amelia and Zel knowing that Goury no magic to use. "Yeah, I'm in the over all contest." Amelia informs the happily. "Same here." Zel smiles, secretly pleased to be showing off, Goury just shrugs. "I think that that's one of the main events for prizes." Lina tells them. "Me too, the first match starts in two hours so lets go down and get something to eat before you two have to warm up." Lina comments. "Yeah let's go eat." Goury seconds as he and Lina race for the free food with Amelia in tow, Zel left in the dust just shakes his head. "MMM, so how do you think you're gonna do Goury?" Lina asks while chowing down on a village-sized omelet. Goury thinks about that for a moment. "I duno, alright I guess." He answers and dives back in to his breakfast. "I know I'll do fine, thought Goury and I are in different classes." Zel comments.
Not one of them noticed the small group of absolutely-normal-non-suspicious- anonymous-spectators that was closely observing them from a table near the back of the dinning room. "Do you think?" Asks one of the nameless unidentified bystanders asked the others in the group. "Hhmm. Maybe, maybe." The leader considers aloud. "I don't know…." The third unspecific passerby said. "Ssshh. I think they're looking this way."
"Achoo" Lina sneezed she rubbed her nose gentle. "Some one talking about you?" Zel asked her curiously. Lina just shrugged not caring. "One of the competition must have realized who I am." The others wisely decided to side with her on this.
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At the competition Lina was watching Goury win from the stands. "Bash him Goury, ooh, watch out on your right, yeah." Lina it turned out was a very active spectator, and watched excitedly as Goury nailed his opponents one by one. "Alright! Get'em Goury!
Lina was equally enthusiastic about Zel's matches, as was Amelia. "Get them Mr. Zelgadis." Amelia cheered at the top of her lungs.
"Are you sure?" The leader asked. "Look, don't you think it's…?" Was the response. "Ssshh!" The paranoid member of the group said. "We'll know better later." The leader whispered, silencing them.
"Achoo!" Lina sneezed loudly. "Catching a cold?" Amelia asks. "I don't think so." Lina replied shrugging and rubbing her nose. 'Wired, why do I keep sneezing? Must be the dust.' Lina thought before going back to watching the ferocious competition between Zel and a beast man. "Go Zel, kick his scrawny lycanthropic ass." Lina yelled encouragingly down to her friend. Zel, for his part must have been great at taking direction, because he was doing just that.
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The Magical marksmanship contest right in the middle, with the royalty just starting to take aim with their spells at the targets. Each person would get two of their most accurate projectile spells with three turns for each spell, Amelia had chosen emekial lance, and freeze arrows. The crowd was pin drop silent knowing that aiming the potentially deadly spells took concentration. The next moment hundreds of spells went flying through the air, many completely destroying the enchanted targets. Six hundred targets later Amelia was accepting a third place medal. This was the only event that could be wrapped up in the first day, the other ones going in heats.
The completely unnoticeable anonymous spectators watched, unnoticed.
Zel was next to accept a silver medal.
Still they watched.
At last Lina was up, she was using earth spears first, and eradicated her targets time after time, her aim perfected so that she scored nothing short of a bull's-eye each time. But the crowd had seen nothing of the dramatic and flawless performance she could put on with her marksmanship. Lina spoke to the judge after the first round of spells, she did not participate in the next round, but waited for it to finish, leaving both the crowd and the nameless bystanders to wonder what was going on.
"Why isn't she continuing?" Wondered one of them. "Maybe she used up her magic, or was injured, the guy next to her had a pretty shaky ice lance." The paranoid one mused worriedly. "I don't think so."
When the smoke had cleared Lina had set up the target boards twenty-eight of them in total, in three groups. The first one with three of them in a triangular formation, she aimed and fired, burning the targets to ashes. The crowd cheered. Next she had five in a star shaped pattern. Ready. Aim. Boom! For fifteen seconds there was a bright blazing star. The remaining the twenty had been arranged to spell out LINA. She released the spell demonstrating how she could control it's speed and direction by making it spin and zigzag gracefully in the air before having it put her name in lights. The crowd went wild. Lina for her show received a gold medallion and a change in rank to 1/S.
"Alright!" Exclaimed one of the indiscriminately bystanders, holding up a ticket. "You bet on her, you know we're not supposed to be gambling, we're to do something extremely important, and you bet on her. Even knowing who she might be!" The leader demands. "She just seemed so likely to win." "GGRRR!"