After breakfast was over Diego told me he was going to try to teach me how to fight. He led me outside to giant court yard that was mostly covered in vines that had beautiful red and white flowers on them. "This is my very first creation" he introduced me to a tall woman wearing a long sleeved white shirt and white pants with a black belt tied around her waist. "Her name is Okashiwa" he told me. (A/N: Just came up with that name!) She smiled at me and raised a hand. I shook hands with her "She will be your combat trainer" Diego added.
Suddenly I was flipped over her shoulder like a lifeless doll. I slammed hard onto the cemente ground. "Lesson: one do not come unprepared." Okashiwa said. I sighed and got up barley missing a blade being thrown at my head. "Are you trying to kill me?" I asked "No I am handing you the weapon you will be using." she said "Well I'll be watching...from all the way over here!" Diego called out from the other side of the court yard. "Take the blade child hit me with it." she said. "H-hit you? Why on earth would I hit you with such a deadly weapon?" I asked "I do not feel pain. I also do not injure very easily. A simple hit from you will do nothing to me." she said.
"I don't really like your teacher Diego" I said as I was thrown on the ground for the thousanth time. "Really? I love her! She is the reason I am who I am!" he said "That's marvelous Diego it really is." I said before charging at Okashiwa with my sword raised. She stepped aside and I bashed my head off the wall behind her. Okashiwa gave Diego an odd look that I couldn't really describe. I got up "Stop stepping aside and fight me!" I yelled. I was tired of being thrown around like a ragdoll and stepped on like a beetle. "As you wish" I barely had enough time to raise my sword to block her attack.
"You wanted me to fight you girl. Now it is for you to fight back" Okashiwa butted me in the head with the hilt of her sword. I swung around and by pure accident cut off one of her hands. Blood squirted into the air heavily. "By the gods I am terribly sorry I really am! I swear I didn't mean to!" I cried out "It is fine see?" Okashiwa laughed rasing a growing hand. "It's growing...back?" I said confused "My creations can grow limbs back at any time. The only thing they can't grow back is their head." Diego said. I lifted my head "I really am sorry Okashiwa" I said "It's fine" suddenly she grabbed my hand and was about to flip me over her back but I flipped her over mine. "Lesson One: Do not come unprepared" I said "Quick learner" she remarked.
As days passed I got better and better at learning to fight. Diego often trained with me as well. Sometimes Okashiwa and Diego would go up against me at the same time. Diego showed me who we were up against and why he wanted them gone. He had told me that without the humans in control everthing would go downhill. Fast. "Diego why would someone want to pretend to be my brother?" I asked him one day "I don't know my sweet Bethany...perhaps they thought it would gain your heart. However they are wrong! You are my friend! Not theirs...that man is not your brother." he said "How do you know?" I asked.
"What?" Diego was shocked by my question. Before this I had never dared to question him but the thought of my brother possibly being alive..."You dare question me?!" I recieved a hard slap to the face. "You give me every reason to question you! If my brother is actually alive then I want to know! I need to know! Don't you understand what it's like for me? To love your family to the point of wanting to do anything for it?" I asked him. "My family hated me when they saw what I could do. They disowned me believing I was the spawn of the devil!" he said "Maybe you are and I was just to stupid to see it." I frowned "Take her to the dungouns! I never want to see her face again!" he told his created gaurds. It was then that I noticed the eyes of one of the guards. "Who is the the real terror in this battle? Is it you? Are you the one who wants to rule over the humans?" I yelled as I was led away from him.