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"ROMANS MARCH" Octavian barked. He was followed by the 1st Cohort, the 2nd Cohort, 3rd Cohort, and then the 4th Cohort. To him the 5th was a waste of time, and the farther away, and the more out of the way they were, the easier this battle would be. Reyna, some 100 yards back was trailed by the 5th cohort, none of them uniformly dressed or in any sort of way. And their weapons were of various sizes and conditions. Some of them were highly polished imperial gold, other were wooden sticks with a tiny imperial gold cap on one end. They marched in a clump, wandering off, straying, they brought up the tail end of the operation.
"Allright here is the plan. There will be a tree with a Delta symbol on it. All we have to do is stand right next to it. The Vines will get hold of us, and then carefully retract into the underground anti-chamber where we will get suited up for battle. Is it understood?" Reyna said, pausing randomly in response to a weird tugging on her shirt.
"Reyna, COME ON, we've heard this speech like 500 times," moaned Lexi, giving herself a face palm.
"Yes? Meena, what is it, you can tell me know," Reyna said spinning around to face the 10 year old girl.
"Clara took my armor," she mumbled.
"What speak louder," Reyna responded by cupping her hand around her ear.
"Centurian Clara, took my armor after we painted the deltas on it," she tried to say through her tears.
"I heard you the first time, but needed clarification, wait. WHAT? Ughhh, why would she do that," Reyna gave herself a facepalm, "Who, when, where, what happened? Tell me the details."
"Well, we left the painting place, and she asked for my armor. I just had gotten it from my dad as a present a month ago for my eleventh birthday. She said if I gave it to her, I would be promoted, if I didn't, that would be disobeying her and I would receive serious punishment." She said finishing.
Reyna turned back to the group, "It's too late now, somehow, we need to get Lexi in, and figure away for Clara to not find out about this, until you know later. Anyone got a plan?"
"I do," Jared stepped up, "Right before the vine grabs us, you stand next to Clara. Then after the vines grab us, you take the butt of your sword and hit her helmet really hard! So she gets knocked out!"
"Shut up you idiot, thats the stuppidest thing I've ever heard." Maxwell said, hitting his friend's helmet with the butt of his sword, "See, your still conscious!" He jeered in a teasing way.
"What, last year, I had to give her my dessert for 2 weeks because I happened to come to marching practice 5 seconds late!" Jared protested.
"He may be onto something," Reyna paused and thought, "All Right who of you guys is the strongest, emphasis on guys." Almost every single person's hand shot up into the air, "Strong enough to hold onto an eleven year old girl," Reyna pointed toward Meena. Many of the hands went down. Only Caralina and James hands stayed raised. Reyna turned to the eleven year old, "Who do you feel more comfortable with? Caralina or James?"
"Caralina," said to Reyna.
"No hard feelings James, anyways, Caralina, stand next to Meena, then, Meena will fall down. A fake fall, and you pick her up. Then the vines come, BAM! We're off. Meanwhile, Jared and Maxwell? I'm going to give you too the pleasure of knocking Clara out!" Reyna finished with a mischievous grin.
"Um Reyna, hate to break it out, but they are going to leave without us," Lexi pointed out.
"Righto, lets go!" Reyna ordered, and they all ran in that direction.