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A few minutes later Alissia came in and she didn't actually seem like she was in a good mood.

"What was that?!" She burst out gesturing at the door.

"What was what?" I asked her calmly.

"Why did you do that to Luke? Of all the people you could have picked a fight with, it had to be him! He's dangerous, Scarlet, don't try messing with him again." She said, her voice trembling.

I opened my mouth to say something, when the door flew open and in came Konner and Trevor grinning widely.

Konner suddenly burst out, "Hey Lissia, calm down. It's not like she was actually killed." He turned to me and went on, "That was some stunt there Scarlet. In all the time I've been here, I have never seen anyone actually go up to Luke and manage to stand up to him without getting killed."

I nodded and grinned back at him. Once everyone was settled and back to normal again, I followed Travis to the outdoor arena, whatever that was.

We walked out the door and through the bland dimly lit hallways until we got to the main hallway and exited though a steel sliding door.

Sunlight streamed towards my face and I squinted. The sun was too much for me to take after just a while in that prison. Finally adjusting my eyesight I scanned the surroundings.

At the east side there were kids racing around a huge track. Even from here I could see they were going at an unusually fast rate. Farther away there were archery ranges and archers training. Trevor tugged me along to the west and I followed still looking at the new surroundings.

We passed a few buildings. Apparently this place could afford a school and not brighter light bulbs for the buildings. There was even a gym and a swimming pool. It was like a boarding school, asides from the part that there were people in greek armor and monsters everywhere.

We stopped in front of a huge iron gate and Trevor faced me, "First, we're going to get you geared up. Then we'll see what level you are in sword fighting."

I stared at him dumbly, following him again inside a building that looked like a large shed. I heard something whistling past me and I ducked screaming. Trevor shouted at someone and I heard an apology.

Looking up I noticed a guy with a bow and arrow in his hands, apparently having a hard time aiming at a target.

Someone beside him sighed and said, "Let's try another one, Max. That bow isn't right enough."

He nodded and sheepishly handed the person the bow. The man scurried around racks full of weapons and places the bow beside other ones like it, but in different shapes and sizes. "You need something more lighter, and sturdy… it can't be that flexible, your too strong for those."

The boy nodded dumbly at the man and looked towards me smiling apologetically. Trevor went over to the man and tapped his shoulder. He looked up from scanning a lower rack of bows and grinned, "Ahh Trevor, what can I do for you?"

"New sis needs a weapon." He said, going right to the point.

Nodding the man looked me up and down and scratched his graying beard thoughtfully. "Hold on dear, I got to find Max here another bow."

I looked at Max, he had golden brown hair that went up to his shoulders. His eyes were hazel and a medium built like Trevor. Bronze armor covered his blue t-shirt. He caught me staring and smiled at me again. I looked at my converse until I heard his voice, "Hey, I'm Max Baron, son of Atlas. You new here?"

Looking up, startled I saw he was in front of me holding out his hand. I shook it quickly and let go. Then responded, "Yeah, Scarlet Kieffer, daughter of… Krios." It felt weird saying that.

He whistled at this news, "Lucky, the Krios dorm isn't as full as the Atlas one, I can tell you that much. So… archer or sword fighter?"

"I don't know yet." I said contemplating on which one I would probably do good at.

Suddenly the man cried out, "Ah hah! I got one Max, this one better work or else you're just going to have to go make do with a dagger."

Max's face scrunched up at the thought of that and took the silver bow that the man gave him. He drew a silver arrow from his quiver and aimed at the target board, poorly positioned near the doorway. He let it go and it whistled though the air as fast as lightning and embedded itself right on the bull's eye. The man clapped his hands and shooed a pleased Max out of the weaponry. Max waved at me and darted out the door.

The man faced me and his eyebrows knitted in deep concentration. Then he snapped his finger and said, "Considering from your built and from what I can tell for now, you would do with a nice medium sword."

He went over to another rack filled with swords of different shapes and sizes. He hovered his hands over each one and examined it before pulling out a medium length bronze sword with a black hilt. He went over to me and handed it.

"Here kid, try this out." He gestured towards a dummy at a corner, apparently used as a test run.

I looked at it and then said, "Uh Mr…."

"Silly me, names Doneven, kids here usually call me Donny. And you are?"

"Scarlet Kieffer."

"Ahh, child of Krios, right Trev my boy?" He commented looking at Trevor.

When he nodded the man beckoned me to continue. I looked at the dummy and back at him saying, "I… don't know what to do."

He grimaced a bit and gave me directions on how to use a sword properly and how to swing and strike for the next 30 minutes until he seemed satisfied at my progress.

He leaned against a rack pleased with my accomplishments, "That's the right sword all right. Now go over there and get your armors and shield." He said pointing at a wide door opened to another room stocked with armors, helmets and shields.

I went in all confused and noticed each aisle had a certain size. I walked over to what seemed like my size and looked around. All kinds of armor where there. Heavy, light, small, big. I found one that wasn't too heavy and fit me well enough. I grabbed the helmet and shield beside it and ran out the door.

Donny checked my armor and nodded approvingly. I grinned at him and walked over to Trevor. We were about to leave when the main doors flew open and in stormed… who else?

Luke.

He went over to Donny, not even noticing me or Trevor and waved a broken sword hilt at him. Through gritted teeth he said, "Is this what you call a sword!?" He threw it down at the floor and crossed his arms over his chest.

Donny's face turned white and he trembled in fear, "I… I'm sorry master Luke. If you just wouldn't exert too much pressure on the hilt… it wouldn't have broken."

"Well you should think about that next time you go giving me a sword then! Get me a hilt that isn't going to break easily for once."

Donny quickly ran to a metal cabinet and unlocked it with a brass key. Opening the lid I leaned sideways to see what was in it. Leaning on a glass rack stood three pure black swords. Donny grabbed the one in the middle, and rushed over to Luke.

Luke grabbed the hilt of the deadly blade and smiled evilly. Then looked at Donny, "Why haven't you given this to me earlier swordsman?"

"I… the blades are strong master Luke… I didn't know if it would be just right for you yet." Donny said fidgeting with his sword belt.

Luke grabbed old Donny's shirt and I pretty much blew it.

You see, I can't stand people who pick on others like that. It just isn't right, you know? So I did the only sensible thing I could think of. I charged Luke.

Now, as you found out, I new squat on anything about fighting with swords and I just went with my impulse… which pretty much gets me nowhere all the time.

I was about to deliver a blow to his back when Luke snapped back and knocked the sword out of my hand and pinned me to the ground.

His blue eyes pierced mine and I could feel the coldness in them. He glared at me even more when he found out who I was. Shoving his new sword up my neck he whispered in my ear, "If you try that again, you're dead, no matter how much Coeus would complain."

I shivered at his voice and whispered back, "You don't scare me."

"I don't do I now? Well you will when you're out there in the arena. Against me." He drew back and stood halfway out the door, about to leave, "Tomorrow after lunch, you and I are going to have a little fight. Then we'll see how scared you are."

The doors slammed behind him and I pushed myself up. Trevor stepped in front of me and yelled, "Are you fricking crazy Scarlet? No one ever beats Luke in a battle. You are going to be seriously hurt, even if he spares you your life."

"You know, since I got here, it had always been Luke this and Luke that. Well you know what! I don't care about Luke! He can go take his dumb pride and stick it up his ass." I yelled back at Trevor.

I heard some gasping and whirled around to find a few girls staring at me menacingly. I didn't even notice they entered the building. I scowled at this and stormed out, past the group of girls who started whispering.

I heard Trevor shuffling out to follow me. This day was getting to be one of my worst days ever.

I think that's a reasonable length of writing for this chapter. The next one is hopefully going to be longer =) And possibly more twisted....