Chapter two: my first real battle
I looked at my watch after I had left the Training Center, it said twelve o' clock. I took Night Dove and dashed off to the tournament grounds and signed up at the counter; the woman who was in charge of sign ups was a kind and young woman with blonde hair pulled into pigtails. I looked at the charts to see who my first opponent was. I scrolled my finger down the list of names and came up to a guy named Nakia with his Dragon Beetlebox.
I was very nervous, so nervous that my stomach turned and tossed the whole time I waited for my turn to battle. Nakia finally stepped up to the trainers' stand and I heard my named called; my heart raced, it felt as if it was going to burst out of my chest. He looked at me with an evil smirk and laughed silently. He called his Dragon to the ring; it was a Beetle species with aqua technique. I looked back at my baby Saurian and smiled, my nervousness went down and I became calm. I looked into my Dragon's eyes and smiled once again; I had nothing to worry about, my Dragon was strong indeed and if Nakia beats me, so what? I'll just fight him tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day until I win and move on.
I motioned my hand for him to come forward and told him to do his best and not worry about anything; I also stated that I would surrender if he were close to death. Night Dove looked up at me and nodded his head and walked off into the ring. He readied him self into his fighting stance and the referee called out fight. I told my Dragon to go back a space and to shield. Nakia's Dragon moved back and shot an aqua blast from his mouth; luckily I told Night Dove to shield. The blast hit the Pot Lid and reflected the beam back to Beetlebox and flung him to the ground. I repeated this process several times until I knew he was out of special energy attacks. A little tip I learned from Awazanak was to move in for the kill once you knew your opponent was weakened and couldn't gather enough energy for a kill. I yelled at Night Dove to take two swipes at him and we engage into a sword fight; Night Dove swung his sword furiously while Beetlebox did the same. After a few minutes I looked at my health meter and notice my life was down to thirteen; Beetlebox's was at eighteen. I knew there was no chance and I was about to surrender when Night Dove motioned his head no. I had no choice but to respect his wishes; Beetlebox took a swipe and took ten points of life off. I looked at Night Dove and saw him swing his sword so hard that a bright yellow crest came out of his weapon and made a crashing sound; Beetlebox was lunged to the third ring of the arena and an explosion occurred. That was the sign of a Dragon's death; Beetlebox died and my Dragon had three life points left. I ran towards Night Dove and hugged him; I've never praised anybody or anything so much before in my life. We went up against two other Dragons and they were a cinch to beat. We went home and looked at our new trophy. After a few glorious moments staring at our win, we headed off to bed and went to sleep. I looked at Night Dove and knew that tomorrow would also be a great day.