ORDEAL
Thom walked with Gary, Raoul and Jon behind him to the royal courts thinking; ' I wonder what my sister has in store for me to today.' They walked into the King's private courts and saw hundreds of men and a few women sitting on the stands, mostly all of which were shang. His gaze soon turned to his sister kneeling in front of a panel, getting up she bowed.
"Ah! The last of our guests. Please sit and we shall begin" A shang standing in front of Alanna told the boys as they went and found seats among the crowd. "Ladies, gentlemen, fellow shang, Royalty and of course any other nobles or commoners here, today we are here to witness the Shang ordeal of Countess Alanna, the Dragon's apprentice. There will be three contests in which she will be competing against the best three in Shang. If she doesn't succeed she will battle with the next best three and so on. Alanna will be duelling with the Shang Griffin, the Shang Dragon and myself, the Shang Unicorn. First shall be the swordsmanship trial in which Alanna will be versing the Dragon, Begin when ready."
With the clang of metal against metal the battle began. It was the longest fight Thom had ever sat through, twenty- five minutes of flat out defending and attacking that ended, only, with a flick of Alanna's wrist. The Dragon was defeated.
Next was the battle of the unarmed sort, in which Alanna would be fighting with the Griffin. This battle didn't go for nearly as long and was only seven minutes long once again resulting in a win for Alanna.
The last contest was Alanna's specialty. Archery. She never missed the bull's eye. Not only did she prevail she sliced the Unicorn's arrow in half. Everyone cheered as she walked over the panel and bowed then she moved over too the royal box and bowed again. She eared a hug from her brother and also the Unicorn and surprisingly the Dragon also. She then walked back over to the panel and they announced, then and there, Alanna as the SHANG SPHINX, the best in the order of Shang.
Hey everyone this is the little bit I forgot to type up for the 5th chapter sorry about that. But I'm giving it to you know so that sort of makes up for it. But it also means you will have to wait a little longer for the 6th chapter.
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