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Chapter Seven

Once they arrived, Lily and Bella saw that their opponents were already on the field. They saluted them, and then Sir Exer explained again the rules before wishing them good luck.

The dragons rose in the air. Immediately, Prince James, Sirs James, Sirius and Francis formed the triangular formation: Sir Sirius and Sir Francis behind and Prince James and Sir Severus before.

First mistake; thought Lily, It will be easy to break their formation.

She looked at Bella and made signs to her. Lady Bella nodded, having understood her friend's strategy.

Then the fight started.

Sir Exer, along with the other riders, was watching the fight. The two girls seemed to be in difficulty. Their moves were slow and unskillful, their hexes were weak and often missed their targets. At first this had surprised Sir Exer, but after a few minutes he realized their strategy. Their talent impressed him; faking weakness was hard and dangerous, and the rider had to control his/her powers perfectly. He smiled as he saw the other riders cheer.

"Riders!"

Every body looked at him.

"I advise you to watch the silvers' strategy closely."

"What strategy?" asked a blue rider, "they are loosing!"

"Watch more intensely. You may notice that they are always out of reach and that none of our fellow comrades are able to hit them with a curse. Now, can somebody guess why they are doing it?"

The riders looked at each other.

"They are trying to break the triangular formation. Prince James Sir Sirius, Sir Francis and Sir Severus have done a mistake by placing the slower behind. It will allow the silvers to separate them and weaken them. Look!"

In fact, Lily and Bella had succeeded in separating their opponents. The brown and the bronze, slower than the two goldens, were meters behind them. They were trying to reach their friends, and were focused on them, oblivious of everything else. Seeing it, Lily made another sign to Bella who nodded in agreement.

They let the two goldens come closer to them, and then they suddenly accelerated. Prince James and Sir Severus followed them at full speed. They were so sure of themselves and of their opponents' apparent weakness, that they did not see the trap. Whereas they were flying very fast, all of a sudden, the two silver rose in the air. The two goldens were so surprised by this unpredictable move that they were not able to do anything to stop the girls. Lily and Bella then flew the faster to prevent their target from realizing what was happening. They passed like a blur next Sir Sirius and Sir Francis, casting a tricky spell they had invented. It made the wand burn everything that it touched except the people who had performed the spell. As anticipated, the two men dropped their wands like hot potatoes. Lily caught them.

Sir Exer had seen the attack. It had taken the two girls a minute to disarm two of his best riders. The others were starring, amazed by what had just happened.

"Why have they disarmed Sir Sirius and Sir Francis and not Prince James and Sir Severus? They have eliminated the weaker two!" asked a brown rider.

"Thar is a very good question," answered Sir Exer. "Does anyone know why the answer to that?"

Nobody answered.

"Sir Severus and Prince James are unable to work together, whereas Sir Sirius, Sir Francis and Prince James can make a good team working together, Sir Francis and Severus too. These girls knew it and have spared the two who will be the weakest together. It requests a good knowledge of the opponents." Explained Sir Exer. "Watch them carefully, you will know what I mean by teamwork."

As soon as Sir Sirius and Sir Francis had been disarmed, they had landed near Sir Exer, a bit ashamed.

"So; do you still wonder why I asked them to join us?"

Sir Sirius had the decency to stay silent.

During this talk the fight had continued.

Sir Severus was chasing Lady Bella and Prince James was trying to hit Lily.

They're so predictable sighed Lily mentally. As soon as Sir Sirius and Sir Francis had been disarmed, Sir Severus and Prince James had started chasing them. But instead of joining their forces they had chosen to chase them alone. Lily and Bella had predicted that and that was why they had disarmed Sir Sirius and Sir Francis first.

Amaris, could you talk to Darais and ask him to say to Bella that I want to put our plan in action to end this quickly.

Sure Lily

Amaris was silent for a moment.

Bella agreed. She is ready.

Thanks Maris

Lily made Bella a sign. Simultaneously, they cast a spell behind them.

Mirifiltrium!

The boys, believing that the curse was aimed at them, dodged, but nothing happened.

In fact, this spell had formed kind of a mirror behind the two girls. People behind it could see trough it, but people in front of it wasn't able to see what was behind.

Then, Lily and Bella, making sure that the boys followed them, flew at full speed towards each other. Their entire plan was based on the dislike that the Prince and Sir Severus held for each other. The boys fell for it, and accelerated. Lily was getting closer and closer to Bella. Seconds before the collision, she dived on the right, while Bella did the same on the left. As the boys were no longer behind them, they were now able to see what was in front of them. But it was too late. Lily smirked as she saw the two goldens bump into each other. The look she saw on their faces when they realized what was happening really was priceless. The shock knocked out the two dragons, and they started falling. Quickly, as Bella was summoning the wands, Lily who was the strongest, stopped the fall of the goldens, and made them land safely in the field.

Wonderful timing Maris!

Thank you Lil, you were very good too!

Lily smiled, enjoying her victory. She saw Bella coming near her.

"You were wonderful, Lily!"

"You too!"

"Have you their wands?" asked Bella.

"I have Sir Sirius's and Sir Francis's. You caught Prince James's and Severus's?"

"Yes."

"May we land, my fellow rider?" said Lily, smiling.

"Yes, my dear Lily." Replied Bella.

They landed and climbed off their dragons. They approached Sir Exer.

"That was brilliant, Ladies! This fight was really fascinating!"

"Thank you Sir." Answered the girls.

"So riders, was I right when I decided to add these ladies to our wings?"

They reluctantly nodded, still stunned by the defeat of four of their best fighters.

"I had an idea, my ladies, and I would like to know your point of view. I would like you to take care of the fighter's training."

Lily's eyes widened with surprise.

"Your training seemed to have done wonders and I think it will greatly improve our forces." Explained Sir Exer.

Still shocked, the girls were speechless, as were the boys. The idea of silvers being their trainers did not please them at all.

The girls recovered.

"Are you serious, Sir Exer?" asked Bella.

"I am completely serious, Lady Bella. You would have full powers to train them and I would not interfere except in emergencies."

"Full powers…" Lily was deep in thought. Then she looked at Bella, an evil grin on her face.

Realization hit Bella. The same grin formed on her lips.

"We accept Sir Exer, it will be an honor for us. When could the training start?" asked Bella.

"I believe that you can begin tomorrow." Answered Sir Exer.

"Perfect!" said Lily. "Come Bella, we must prepare our schedules!"

The two women gave Sir Exer the wands they had caught, and left quickly the field to reach their quarters.

As soon as the girls were out of sight, the riders surrounded Sir Exer.

"Are you serious Sir!" shouted a rider.

"How could you let THEM to take care of our training?" added another.

They continued to complain for a moment. Sir Exer barely listened to them, slightly amused by their reaction. He finally stopped the complaints.

"Riders, have you forgotten so soon the lesson you have just learned? Do you think that any one of you can win against one of them?"

Nobody answered.

"That being so, they will be able to teach you some things."

"They are Silvers!" shouted someone.

"They may be silver but they were able to defeat four of you although they were only two. But perhaps you are scared? Maybe you will not be able to handle their training?"

Instantly, the riders started to whisper.

"If they can do it, we can!" yelled a bronze rider.

The other riders nodded in agreement.

"Perfect. I think they will explain their method to you this evening."

Then Sir Exer left.

The girls did not show up all day long. The boys spent their time talking and arguing about the fight. Most were sure that the two women would not be able to train them, but Remus didn't agree with that. He remembered how Bella was before training with Lily. The difference between her current level and her past one was very large.

At dinner, while the riders were eating, the redhead and her friend entered the room.

They stopped near Remus.

"Remus, these are your schedules. Could you give them to your friends?"

"Yes."

"Thank you."

"You are welcome."

The girls exited the room.

Immediately, all the riders gathered around the pieces of paper that Remus was holding.

James took one and started reading loudly.

"Wake up at 6.00 AM? They're CRAZY! Nobody could wake up at 6.00 am!"

"What! 6.00 AM? No you must be wrong!" shouted Sirius.

"See!"

Sirius read quickly the paper James was handing him.

"We have to get up at 6 AM to go RUNNING!"

The boys continued to complain for a while, and then most of them decided not to go to; they would stay in bed.

Sir Exer, who had heard all of this smiled a bit, but true to his words, he did not interfere.

I wonder how they will react to the boys' behavior.

The next morning, Lily and Bella were waiting in the field for the riders to come. At 6:20 about ten of them had come. Remus was one of them. Lily looked up at the sundial and read 6.29 am. As soon as the shadow reached 6.30, she turned to look at Bella.

"Bella, should I?

"Yes, you should, they have been warned.

"Alright. Accio riders!"

Immediately, all the riders who had not showed up were dragged out of their beds and onto the field, by invisible links.

They fell on the grounds. Most of them were in their nightclothes.

"What happened?" asked an angry Prince.

"Your majesty, as you had not come, we thought that you had forgotten, and so summoned you here to prevent you from arriving too late for the training." Answered Lily.

"I did not wish to come and I refuse to train with you!"

"Really?"

"Really! You cannot force us to do what you want! You are not even a noble!"

"I may not be a noble, my prince, but Sir Exer has given Bella and me full powers to train you, and I will do just that!" Lily replied sharply.

"I would like to see that."

"You will, your majesty. So everybody, we are going to run for about an hour. We will do it every day to improve our endurance."

All the riders did not look happy at all, but nodded anyway.

"I will not!"

"Sorry, Prince James?" asked Bella.

"I refuse do it."

"Alright." said Lily. She looked at Bella. "Bella, please would you stay behind to help those who need to be shown the advantages of running willingly."

"With pleasure Lily."

"Perfect. Now everybody, follow me. I am sure, they will join us soon."

"Ladies," asked Sir Peter, "could you let us go change?"

"No. If you had woken up in time, you would have been ready." Answered Lily.

Then she started to run. More than half of the riders followed her, but the others stayed in the field. Bella suddenly whistled loudly. Immediately five very big dogs came and begun to jump around her, apparently happy to see her.

"Calm down boys," said Bella, laughing. She turned to face the remaining boys. "May I present you Fang, Teethie, Molarth, Jaws and Incis. Master Hagrid gave them to us. They will accompany us today, and how ever many days to come that they will be needed."

The boys looked at the dogs a bit scared.

"My babies go help these boys run, I think they need some encouragement."

Immediately, the five dogs surrounded the boys and growled, showing them white long teeth.

"I would advise you to run sirs, they do not like lazy people. Oh, and do not try to stop, they will not be as kind as me and they knew very good methods to make people run quite fast."

The boys started to run. Bella and the dogs followed them closely.

"Very good sirs, at this speed, we shall catch Lily up very soon."

Indeed they caught up to Lily in ten minutes.

"I am impressed, Bella" said Lily.

"The dogs were very convincing."

"Do you want to lead?"

"Why not?"

Bella took the lead, and they continued to run. Soon the boys started to slow down, but every time they tried to stop running, one of the dogs approached them, showing their teeth.

One hour later, they were back at the field. Lily and Bella stopped and immediately the boys fell on the ground, panting.

"Tired?" asked Bella, raising an eyebrow. Lily and she seemed as fine as they were used to running before this.

"I hope for them that they are not. We will work on the trap circuit in about ten minutes." Stated Lily. "Bella, I have to go prepare a few things for the circuit, do you want to come?"

"Sure."

Lily kneeled near the dogs.

"Listen boys; watch them. If you see that one of them is trying to leave the field, stop him. We will back soon."

The dogs panted lovingly.

The girls left.

"They can't be human." Said Sirius.

"I agree." Answered exhaustedly Sir Amos, one of the Bronze riders.

They remained silent until Lily and Bella came back, too tired to even think of leaving the field.

The two women came back a few minutes later.

"Get up Sirs, the training continues! But before it does, go change yourself. You have twenty minutes." Lily said in a cheerful voice.

The men got up quickly and went to their room to dress up. As soon as they were, all came back. Lily turned to face Amaris.

Maris can you call their dragons?

A minute later, around sixty dragons had landed in the field.

"Mount your dragons and follow us, we are going to work on a trap circuit."

The riders groaned. But slowly, they approached their dragons and climbed on. Then they rose in the air and followed the two silvers.

They arrived near the shack that Lily had hidden. She motioned to them to land.

"Alright, this is our trap circuit. There are magic traps, natural traps, weapons, and so forth. The purpose is to cross it without being hit." Explained Lily.

"Everybody will try, it will also allow us to see your level." Added Bella.

"Understand?" asked Lily.

They nodded. James stood up first.

"I want to go first!" He said smugly. They don't know that Sir Exer had us work on a circuit like this too, he thought.

"Go ahead." Said Bella.

James sprang in the air. He dodged a few traps, like fireballs, arrows, and bolts, but as he had dodged another ball, he was hit by something. Turning to see what had hit him he saw a huge phoenix diving towards him. He flew on the right, but didn't see the ball coming near him, his attention focused on the big bird.

Without realizing it, he was hit square on the head.

He fell off of his dragon, but was stopped before hitting the grounds.

All the riders tried to go across the circuit, but no one managed to even reach the half of it. All were stopped by the phoenix.

"It is impossible; nobody can do it!" said Prince James exasperated.

"Never say something is impossible your majesty." Said Lily.

"Then show us, I am sure you cannot!"

Without a word, Lily mounted her dragon.

"Watch closely sirs." Said Bella.

In less than five minutes, Lily had reached the end of the circuit. She came back. All the riders were starring at her in awe.

"Bella, we really have to finish our other circuit, this one is much too easy now." Lily said smugly.

"Right, I think we will be able to finish it in a few days."

"Back to work!" said Lily. "Bella and I have put you into two groups. The ones I call will work with her." She called about thirty names. "The others will train with me." She added.

The day passed quickly. When dinner came, all the riders were completely exhausted.

"Good night Sirs, I advise you to rest this night. We expect to see you tomorrow at 6 am in the field." Announced Bella.

"I hope I will not have to use the summoning charm again." Added Lily.

With that they left.

All the boys looked at each other.

"What have we done to deserve this?" asked somebody.

They went up to their dorms and fell asleep after having healed their numerous bruises, cuts, and sores.

Little did they know that Sir Exer had watched them throughout the day. He smiled. This is going to be fascinating…