I don't own Chrome Shelled Regios, this is a fanfiction only.

I for one was not surprised that I had a person with a bone to pick with me, my life had been a constant conflict so this was nothing knew. The thing that surprised me was that it was Savaris' little brother that had a grudge against me. I considered Savaris as close as a brother in all things except blood. To have the guy who was basically my little brother hate me that much was a surprise.

Nina was if anything very supportive which was another thing I was happy to see. In the first week, we had five competitions and each and everyone one ended the same way. Let's face it compared to the things I did as a Heaven Blade these competitions could only be called one thing, and that thing was boring.

There was no challenge, no difficulty. The steal the flag type felt like taking candy from a sleeping baby, and the team combat made me feel more like a bully than a fighter. The only upside to this was that winning had the positive effect of making most of my team real happy. Felli was upset that I actually was falling in line with what her idiot brother schemed.

"Say Nina want to go out on a date on our next day off?" I looked at Nina as I asked her during our lunch break. She smiled and something tells me she was happy about me asking her out, but even I was not expecting what she would reply to my question.

"You know Layfon we been dating for over a week, and I think we pretty much know each other well. How about we do something daring? Dinner and dancing or a movie are fine, but how about a picnic, some training and maybe get you to show me a few of those abilities you can do with your gauntlets. I even have something to ask you, but let's do that after our date."

Not once she had asked me to used my old gauntlets, not even for a competition. I saw no problem at all in actually letting her see those abilities. As I walked towards my dorm after a long night of scrubbing and cleaning in the machinery department I saw someone I was now expecting.

"So tell me Fon Fon, what is it about our squad leader you like so much that you are actually fighting so fiercely at the competitions?" I for one hated that little nickname she came up for me. I looked at her and wanted to tell her something along the lines of I like her nice rack, but that would be perverted and not entirely true. Her physical appearance was only one thing I liked about Nina.

"I like spending time with her and we do spend quite a bit of time in our job. As for me fighting fiercely you and the others haven't even seen me do a decent warm up yet. These competitions are so dull and so easy I could probably do it with my eyes closed."

I walked away not knowing someone was actually listening to our conversation. As I reached for the door I heard something move and it came from one of the branches of a nearby tree. A small girl came at me with a spear. I was simply to tired of being considerate to my attacker, I grabbed the spear broke it in half and gave my attacker a sound beating.

I left as she hit the ground unconscious, "Fon Fon that monkey you just beat is the good friend of Gorneo Luckens. Don't you think you went a little overboard by beating her like that?" As I opened the door to my dorm I looked back at my unconscious would be assassin.

"Should I show mercy to a person who tried to kill me? Would you do that Felli?" She wanted to argue that it would make things easier between me and Gorneo but I would hear none of it. I went to the phone in my room and asked for his phone. The operator did something better he actually connected me with him.

"What do you want?" Boy, this was going to be an absolute joy of a conversation. "Look I don't need your attitude. Your little monkey girl just tried to kill me. I know you have a bone to pick with me, but this assassination attempt was pathetic. Now I got some training tomorrow, and little to no patience left. So I will give you thirty minutes to come and pick this piece of garbage or I am calling the city police and press charges. If they don't come I might even consider the dorm trash incinerator. So shut your food hole and come and get this thing."

I slammed the phone on the receiver and I saw the shocked look on her face. "Relax Felli, I am not placing charges or putting her in the incinerator. That was to make him come get her as fast as possible."

Felli looked a bit relaxed as I told her that. She got done treating her injuries while I talked to Gorneo. "With the tone in your voice, I would not put it past you doing such things Fon Fon. It was rather scary hearing you say that."

It took twenty minutes for the guy to get to my dorm room, and he had the manners of a bull running through a porcelain doll display if the way he knocked was any indication. I took my would be killer and opened the door. I threw her at him and the broken Dite. "Be sure to remind her that I was within my rights to kill her, and I would not be in any sort of legal trouble. I got too much on my life to have to deal with this."

Gorneo looked at her and he could tell I was not kidding. "I guess she heard me complain about how you cowardly ruined my mentor's life." That was what he had a grudge on me for? I was now royally pissed off.

"Gahard knew I never used my Blade to fight in those underground arena fights, he also knew the only reason I fought was to support an orphanage I once lived in, there is no aid for orphanages from the government in Glendan. He doctored some images to blackmail me into throwing a fight in a Heaven Blade Qualification match when that didn't go his way he tried to kill me."

"Taking an arm only was downright merciful of me. You don't believe me go to Glendan it was a televised. Now if you will excuse me I need to see what a teammate needed from me, and then I need to go to sleep."

He looked like he wanted to call me a stinking liar, but he looked like he had realized that he might not have his facts straight.

I looked at him and told him something he probably would later use against me, but in all honesty, I could not stop myself from telling him this even if I tried. "Savaris Lukens is a brother to me in all things except blood. Talk to him little brother, if I come to see you I rather it be at in a friendlier manner and if we must fight let it be in a place I know you will survive."

I left the place and decided to go back to my dorm room and somehow I had a bad feeling that something was going to happen when I got there and if this feeling was any indication it was not going to be pleasant.

I got back into my dorm room to find Felli looking rather upset. "Felli why the bad mood? And how did you get in my room? I don't think I left a spare key anywhere."

She looked at me and glared. "My selfish, idiotic and scheming brother gave me a key. He wanted to make sure you came with me back to our home for dinner. I am only guessing but it might have to do with your past."

I didn't like that one bit. "Could you tell him to reschedule it? I just dealt with an assassination attempt, I am not in the mood to discuss something from my past. I don't have my Heaven Blade if that is what he wants to know. It was taken from me when I had my position and title removed by the Royal family in Glendan."

Felli for some reason smiled as she finished hearing me say that. "Sure, I will tell that worthless piece of garbage that I found you asleep and that from the dishes on your living room table you already had dinner. I am sure he will not be happy, but he will be reasonable since he obviously wants to ask you to do something."

I held out my hand and she understood what I wanted. She placed the key she got from her brother in my hand and left. I decided to get to bed when I realized I couldn't go to sleep. I changed into my work clothes and left as fast as I could.

As I got there Nina was nowhere to be seen, I guessed she must be late so I started my work. I continued until I was half done and I heard someone call my name. I looked up and saw Nina looking at me, calling my name and waving her hand at me.

"Layfon I been trying to get your attention for the last ten minutes. I heard people having tunnel vision but that is simply ridiculous." I looked at her and smiled. "I figured that you either you were tired or too busy with other things. I was trying to finish all the work alone and let you rest. An attempt of trying to be kind to the love of my life."

That made her blush and kiss me I guess nobody ever did something like that for her. "While I am happy of your good intentions, need I remind you we have another competition match tomorrow? I know you are tough but I don't want you to go to that competition sleep deprived."

I took the sandwich box she kindly offered me. "I wouldn't worry too much. These competitions are next to nothing compared to the things I had to deal with on Glendan. It's just that Zuellni keeps avoiding contaminods. The students in this city have no idea how horrible it is for a novice to fight a larva of one of those things."

I was not too excited to face yet another group of as far as I was concerned a group of rookies. Unlike before it was a direct combat competition. The rules stipulated that the squad with their members knocked out or unable to fight loses the competition. I decided to go in using my gauntlets only.

I had the other squad jumping, ducking and sliding trying to get away from my attacks. Sharnid and Felli were smiling as one by one our opponents ended up getting caught in my traps. I used by oldest steel wire technique and before long I had everyone but the captain do an impression of a bunch of flies caught in my web.

The captain used a staff dite and that made it rather simple for me to go in using the Luken style of fighting. I gave him what to me amounted to friendly taps, until he decided to insult Nina calling her a big boobs blonde bimbo who was better suited to being a whore. I was seeing red as he said that.

'Felli could you call the EMT team. I am sending this guy to intensive care.' Felli smiled and I knew I had her support for what I had in mind. Using the most painful techniques I learned from this style I beat the idiot so badly he was going to be in a full body cast for the rest of the year, and that was because the rest of the team held me back from trying to kill the idiot.

The crowd learned two very important things watching this competition. One was that I was very much in love with Nina, much to the disappointment of quite a few ladies watching the competition. The second thing was never and I mean never insult Nina, or face the wrath of her overprotective lover.