Akko arrived at Hyrule Castle and there she can reach a higher level as a warrior, after talking to the queen and finding out more about the legend of Claiomh Solais, Kagari is already starting preparations to close her great journey, being very welcome at the castle, which has already been warning Megan that she will warn Chelsea about Queen Laura's this time with her girl, who will still have a lot to go through, due to this huge threat from the kingdom ofAppleton.
The day had not even dawned and Akko was soon woken up by Queen Laura in her chambers, already to start her day training, being pushed, poked and all the attempts that Mrs McLaren made to get the girl out of bed and thus start her day.
Tiredly she woke up and noticed that it was still dark and it seemed to be night, the only light was from the lamps that her majesty was holding.
"What time is it? It's still night time, you sound just like your sister, you both wake me up so early to get my hands dirty" said the youngest Hyllian of Luna Nova yawning.
"So you're used to it? That's good to know, I don't need to get used to the habit of waking up early, so come with me, drink some water, eat a little and we'll start training, you have to wake up very early if you want to go far" Said the older woman who was already practically sitting on the girl.
"I don't know why wake up so early, even for you it would be bad, you could rest a little more majesty" said Atsuko rubbing her face.
"Leave it to my wife, she deserves to rest, I'll wake myself up to train you, it's something of extreme importance, you're our great heroine, so let's go" said Mrs McLaren.
Rubbing her eyes, the brown-haired woman gets out of bed, starting to do her morning hygiene, while the ruined one was waiting outside the chambers, which was somewhat tiring for her who was changing preparing for a day that will be full of training ahead.
She goes to the royal kitchen where she eats some bread and was not alone there, she also had the presence of the two princesses, who showed exhaustion due to waking up early equally, which was already noticeable their expression when noticing the presence of the crimson-eyed there.
"So that's the reason we lose our sleeping hours?" Diana asks, pointing at the warrior.
"Are you going to complain about me early in the morning? Leave me alone, I'm not to blame for your mum's crazy training ideas" Akko said yawning.
"Look at your petulance, how dare you refer to me like that in front of the queen herself? Have you not a shred of self-respect? Have you no manners? What a barbarian" Cavendish said while Kagari just shows her the middle finger.
"Here are my manners and here is how much I care about it, for me I don't give a damn who I refer to, queen, princess, commoner, if you treat me with disrespect I will not take disrespect" Said Atsuko showing her middle fingers.
"I like her" Queen Laura said.
"Mum! I can't believe you're going to defend such an outrage, did you see how she referred to us? Said the eldest princess.
"So what? I was a warrior once and I was like that too, you really are very stuck in Anna's etiquette classes, but we are not superior to anyone, she has the total right not to be treated with inferiority and disrespect, anyway, eat there that we will leave for your training - Said the majesty and with that the three were finishing her meals.
And so they were eating a breakfast with breads and a little cucco meat to give mood, besides milk to give energy, at the end of the meal they follow Mrs McLaren to where the soldiers' training hall is, there it was still all dark, but quickly the lights come on with the help of some lamps and that way they could see better what was around.
"Very well now let's start stretching and then doing the warm-up I want to see you in good spirits for the real training," said Queen Laura.
"Stretching? Warming up? Do we really have to do that? Said the eldest daughter.
The delicate little princess can't get enough flexibility, it must be because that corset there must have made her blood not rise to the brain" Said the brown-haired one mocking the platinum blonde-haired one.
"I'm not going to give rope to such foul language like that, my corset didn't do that, in fact I'll take it off and you'll see that I'm very flexible and my training is up to date" said the blue-eyed one.
"Woah looks like I have a rival here" Akko said laughing.
"Rival? Put yourself in your place little warrior, you are nowhere near that" The princess even turned around and started exercising.
"Talk less and exercise more, they even look like they're married" Hellene told the two.
"Shut up!" They both talk together which makes for a good laugh for the redheads.
(Honestly, I can't believe I'm going to be dealing every day with this Hyllian from Luna Nova who doesn't have a shred of manners and respect, it's jaw-dropping to imagine that this is the hope for Hyrule, to think that I have to rely on this idiot).
(This little ironer is a pain in the arse, she only knows how to show herself off and talk in this pompous way, "blah blah blah foul language", "lalala what petulance", it makes me want to stick a sword in my ear every time I hear this little pompous)
The rivalry dynamic was perfect since in the stretches there was Akko and Diana wanting to show each other who ended up doing better and of course Cavendish made a point of showing all this with elegance, while Kagari in her own way and this was already being well observed by Queen Laura who could already visualise something between these two girls.
After stretching, the three went to the warm-up where it involved them running around that training field, doing some laps, with simply the two girls having a different way of running, competing with each other and Hellene in the tranquility casually going faster than the two.
"Keep pushing yourselves like that, you'll get tired of pushing and I'll laugh a lot, since this is just the warm-up, come on, it's only 20 laps, Hellene isn't even pushing and she's doing better than you" said Queen Laura.
Obviously the two don't listen and go on competing, which by the twelfth lap, they are exhausted from forcing themselves to run and go panting in the middle of the lap to rest a little, but they are hit in the arse that quickly makes them go back to running and doing laps.
"No messing about, you have to complete the lap - said Mrs McLaren.
"Ahhhhh, you didn't have to do that," said Atsuko tiredly.
And that's when they decided to take it easy and even help each other in the final laps to make it through the whole circuit while Hellene looked promising and didn't tire, managing to finish her laps, the two of them fell dead tired on the ground as they finished running.
"I told you so" said the older rugrat.
"Hmpf, if it wasn't for the petulance of this one challenging me, I wouldn't let myself be defeated by this non-technical way of running" said Cavendish.
"Ah stay in yours there, the cabbage head, you think you're the greatest, but the one without technique here passed you" Said Kagari who went to the water fountain tired of running so much she went to splash in the water, just like Hellene was already doing.
"Oh, what about you... You're just going to end up pulling each other too hard, now when you've finished your water comes the interesting part" said Mrs McLaren.
They are already getting excited for the sword fight, but the queen takes them to the stables which was quite strange, the three of them ending up in that place which were only imagining that they would actually learn riding combat which was already opening up more options, until the oldest arrives with brushes and buckets in hand.
"What is that?" asks the curious Kagari.
"Your training, washing horses, I want to see everyone very clean and also remove their faeces as well, I want the place to be an earring, I will be watching you" Said the majesty handing the three girls.
"Really Mum? What does this have to do with the training you're going to give us? This is just horse grooming" said the frustrated Cavendish.
"I don't care, wash a horse and then wash the floor" Said the eldest who sat in one of the chairs and just watched.
"Seriously, this is all because of you, before we woke up later and trained normally, I don't know why she involves us in this training" Grumbled the one with platinum blonde hair.
"Blah blah blah blah blah , this is all because of you, go see if you can find me in the bitch that gave you away" Said the brown-haired one going to wash the horses, which made the majesty laugh at seeing everything.
"Mum, those two won't stop being like that" said Hellene.
"They won't, I can already see it there, but Hellene, it's part of the training to do this" said Mrs McLaren.
The two "rivals" were washing and brushing the horses, looking at each other from afar, even with a little anger, for being in that situation, which did not take long to be competing to see who washes the horse and the stable better and with the right to criticise and discuss between each other, yielding some good conversations about who was doing the best job with Laura being very neutral putting fire in that environment.
"What was it little cabbage princess, do you want to think you are better at this? Soon you who must never have done this in your life, wakes up with the bed already tidy, the clothes already washed, you never needed to wash a horse, spare me, you washing there afraid of breaking your perfect nails" Said Hyllian of Luna Nova teasing.
"It's not because I'm a princess that I don't know how to work, I've worked a lot on my aunt's ranch, besides I'm not a little ironer worried about my nails, I'm not like Hannah and Barbara I'm not a noblewoman without a conscience" Said the princess who continued to wash the horses.
"Okay little cabbage princess, go on there, but it is evident that you are looking at your nails all the time, get used to it there I think your perfect nails will come out all broken after this hahahah - Said the warrior who was mocking the whole situation.
(These two will still get along very well, this rivalry is a good sign for Akko to try harder to be a warrior, she may one day become stronger than me even, so it is good to put her in a place like that, I know that one day she will be able to fight my daughter and I do not doubt it).
And there the three of them went cleaning the stable, with dedication even, already feeling the impact on their bodies and spending a good time doing it, since there were many horses, the stable was much bigger than the one at the Dublin ranch, as well as having more horses and each one took time to clean, which gave time for the sun to start appearing.
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Exhausted the three finished washing that stable completely, it had already dawned in Wedinburgh and with that they are being released, take some water and even are proud of the service, even more so that after so much rivalry, the three until they began to work more as a team, in an organised way, thus finishing leaving the stable in the trinques.
"Perfect, now let's get to the real interesting part, get your weapons and let's practice combat, I'll go with Akko and you two fight each other, I want to teach the warrior here in a style that she should already be more familiar with" Said Queen Laura.
"You're lucky I'm not going to break your face with my rapier, but you're unlucky to have to face my mum, she's the best when it comes to combat, she'll show you that you have a lot to improve warrior of Luna Nova" Said Princess Diana.
"Well, whatever, I know I'm going to get beaten up, but I know that one day I'll come round, I want to learn more, take advantage and beat up your little sister" said Akko.
"Come on Akko, no need to hesitate, go all out on me, I want to see how you'll do against me" said Mrs McLaren.
Atsuko was starting to go up to the Queen who with a wooden sword was defending all the attacks of Kagari who went without fear, until she managed to break all the attacks and as if it were nothing, she barely moved, stood in the same corner, looking like all the movements of the warrior of Luna Nova were nothing.
Arriving at a point where the brown-haired woman was panting from trying so hard, she was thrown back a little with a mere blow to the head that made her fall sitting on the floor and having the sword pointed at her face.
"Too agitated, you need to be calmer, it's not acting like a crazy Berserker that will make you get something right, get up, I will teach you" Said the majesty.
"I know that, your sister taught me that I need to keep calm, I'm trying, but when you beat me it seems to activate a survival mode as an instinct not to be attacked" Said the crimson-eyed one.
"With me you will learn more deeply, keep calm, go slowly, you will realise the movements that I will make slowly and you will realise where it is better to attack, let's do it like this" Said the queen showing how she's pretty calm.
"I'll try" Akko said.
She was trying, going slower, trying to understand, better, but even so Mrs McLaren was moving quickly to defend herself, which she was noticing that always her attacks did not work out very well because of various reasons, but she was starting to control her movements more to do it in the most correct way she could think of.
She was starting to attack more quickly, but as she accelerated, she had the most broken defence the sword thrown to the ground, which she went to pick up and already tired of being surprised by being caught backwards, she picks up grains of sand and throws it in the queen's face.
"Take that!" Said the clever warrior.
But even so, Mrs McLaren showed that she did not play in service and even blinded by the sand she was able to defend herself as if she felt the movement of the swords and in this way she was even able to somehow disarm the crimson-eyed one who, when trying to catch the sword, was only kicked and thrown to the ground being stepped on in the chest.
"Did you really think that the dirty trick was going to guarantee you? I would say it was a clever tactic, you could win, if I wasn't so clever, I trained with it, so I have a sensory sense of where the sword is, I used to use it blindfolded and so it helped me a lot" Said Queen Laura wiping her eyes.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I just wanted to see if I had a chance to attack" said the brown-haired woman who was helped to her feet by the ruin.
"That's what I liked to see, you know how to deal with the dangerous situation, we can't always be a clean fighter, but don't do that again" Majesty said.
"I will not do it, Your Majesty, this blindfolded training, I wanted to know how to do it, maybe it will help me in something" Said the interested Akko.
"When you get better at training being able to see us blindfolded, your perception of the sword will change completely, now come on, we still have some training time, until the other queen wakes up" said Mrs McLaren.
Atsuko was again going up, failing every time, even almost dancing while Hellene and Diana also exchanged blows and even in a more equalised way, surprising by the fact that the younger McLaren uses gauntlets and so she attacked through punches and kicks, different from Cavendish's rapier style.
The focus was already taking more of Kagari's attention, she started to pay more attention to Mrs McLaren's patterns, copying more of her movements, as well as trying to find a loophole, but it seemed that she didn't appear, she always ended up losing and without having the notion that she was gradually picking up the queen's technique.
[...]
The long weapons training took place, there was even a part involving precision with bow and arrow and in this the Hyllian of Luna Nova can improve more in her skill, by learning more deeply the basics of using a bow, such as posture, since she only used the magic bow that already had a way to aim, the common one did not have that which she was learning to be more precise.
After this part of the training they will bathe and put on clean clothes since the physical part of the training is over, Queen Bernadette had woken up and she would direct the next stage of training, taking the trio to the royal library.
"What are we going to do here? Train our heads?" Said the jokester Akko.
"That's exactly it Akko, you will learn how to be a smart warrior, a warrior also has to learn about who she is and how to face certain creatures" said Mrs Cavendish.
"Mum, why do we have to learn that too? We're not warriors, I understand the combat part, but we don't need to go into dungeons like ruby eyes here" said Princess Diana.
"You never know what can happen, you have to be prepared for everything, but come on, you need to have a sense of the basics of the basics if you want to venture out into the world and you really never know if you really won't go to a dungeon or not, anyway, let's start here with the creatures of Hyrule, there are hostile, peaceful and neutral, hostile will come to attack you in any way, peaceful will not and neutral only if you provoke, as an example of the cuckoo, if you hit one too much, he can call for all the cuckoos to come and defend him" Said the majesty explaining very briefly to the girls.
"This is going to be just like the lessons I had in Luna Nova, I already know this stuff, I don't need to learn it again do I?" Kagari said.
"Are you sure you've learnt everything? The universe of Hyrule is very complex and we have more information besides much more complex and descriptive here, just watch the classes and you will understand, who knows there may be information here that can save your life" Said the queen to the warrior who was almost asleep.
"You better listen to my mum or I'll wake you up so you pay attention, you heard me right warrior" said Princess Diana.
"Oh come on, don't give me that, are you going to put pressure on me? You'll hear things you don't want to hear" said the crimson-eyed one yawning.
And there was Akko almost sleeping for all the explanations of the various creatures of Hyrule that were very detailed, but in the end by the way Bernadette interacted she ended up staying awake, since the class was even well unfolded and interesting, she listened to everything and was even interacting too much causing a little envy in Diana.
The three were talking and asking a lot of questions about how each creature worked and its weaknesses, being even a very interesting class by the words spoken by the majesty, they were nothing like the classes that Hyllian of Luna Nova used to have in the village of Luna Nova.
"This is better than Luna Nova classes, I swore I was going to fall asleep, but no, you're a lot of fun Queen Bernadette" said the smiling Atsuko.
"Oh thank you, but let's continue here, you have understood well how to deal with dodongs, they have a very special way of defeating, it is good not to forget the bombs and also that each bomb has 3 seconds to explode, so always put it already programming the time of everything" Said Mrs Cavendish.
"Well I really need to know, otherwise I won't get very far, maybe I'll open up places where the bombs are covering, like cracked walls, they're always places that hide something" Kagari said.
"Exactly lassie, just don't do it on the castle walls, that could give some problems" Said the queen teacher.
"Well, this may help you not to end up dying to the first bug that appears in any dungeon, I hope not, otherwise we lose all hope, as well as I hope you know well what you are doing in the dungeons" said Princess Diana.
"You don't have to charge me like that, it's like you're my wife" said the warrior, which earned a few giggles from the majesty.
"Please focus on the explanation, there is still a lot to explain" said Mrs Cavendish.
The classes went on for a while until it was time for lunch, where they were entitled to a banquet with a lot of food and hungry they were attacking anything that came their way, without having the slightest pity for what they had, they swallowed the food, especiallyAkko who was eating aggressively and leaving Diana a little disgusted.
"Behave yourself in the table Akko, that's not how you eat on the table where are your class?" Cavendish said.
"If not why is my stomach filling up? Is there a right way to eat? I didn't know that, it's yummi" said Kagari teasingly as she filled one hand with mashed potato and the other with a cucco thigh.
"She reminds me of you, doesn't she, love? Remember when she was younger and stuffed her cheeks with food looking like a little squirrel" said Queen Bernadette.
"Did I eat like this? I used to use a spoon sometimes, it's just that in Luna Nova we only had a spoon or ate with our hands when we could, it's much better in the hand, you can gather all the food, you have to eat like this Akko, like a real queen" Said Queen Laura who also started eating with her mother and they even toasted the cucco thigh.
"Mum! Stop encouraging her to act like this, she is our warrior, imagine what the other kingdoms will think of us if they see her without table manners we would be seen as something not serious" Said Princess Diana who ate with all etiquette.
"You'll say you're not hungry, you'll be eating there so long that you'll end up leaving the food cold" said the ruined majesty.
"Whatever, even Hellene is eating with cutlery and being polite at the table" said the youngest Cavendish.
"Implying like that with Akko is a sign of something, little sister" Hellene said, mocking the situation as she ate.
"Don't make it up sis, I just want the best for Akko, she has to behave, it's good for the kingdom, it's good for our image, imagine thinking that the kingdom is in her hands like that" Said the platinum blonde haired and blue eyed girl pointing to the brown haired and crimson eyed girl while stuffing her cheeks with more mash and mimicking Diana's mouth movement with her left hand.
And this only gave a moment of laughter among everyone, the princess was getting a little embarrassed about the situation, since they were picking on things between them, but the carefree warrior only cared about leaving her stomach full, eating as much as she could, filling her belly and just thinking about it, so much so that she barely heard what they were talking about.
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After the lunch banquet, Atsuko went out to walk around the castle since after the morning training the afternoon is free to rest and do whatever you want, since the queens would be working in the throne room solving the royal issues.
Kagari was arriving at one of the towers where she was looking from the top of it the landscape of the city and the field of Hyrule ahead with the movement of the whole city, being approached soon by Princess Diana who was arriving to talk.
"Get away from me, you're not here for me" said the brown-haired girl.
"I just came here to look at the landscape and also to call you to play, Hellene is there alone and she doesn't get along with Hannah and Barbara wanted you to go there with her, we can enjoy and walk around the castle, my sister really liked you here" Cavendish said.
Apparently only her, you can't wait for me to get out of here soon, but I'm going to go play with Hellene soon, not for you, but for her, I don't know how one sister is a sweetheart and the other is a great of a cavenchata princess Said the one with crimson eyes.
"I only pick on you wanting the best for the kingdom, it's not because I want to bother you, I just think about the future of Hyrule, it's not good to look at a warrior who doesn't carry any nobility, I just want you to be well seen, imagine seeing the great heroine of Hyrule being a plebeian shit who is all clumsy?". They won't believe you ever" Said the blue-eyed one until the 1.54m tall warrior passes by the shoulder of the 1.63m tall princess.
"I don't want to keep up appearances Princess Diana, I've lived in a place that pressurised me to do that and I don't want that again, I'm Atsuko Kagari and not the starched and enchanted warrior that you keep imagining I have to be no, you have to understand that I'm an individual person and not what you think I should be, your mothers are such a sweetheart how can you be so different from them? Who taught you that way? - Akko said.
"I learnt manners from my teacher Anna, she's the best at it, she's the one who's been teaching the Cavendish manners since my mother's generation, I know what it's like to be a noblewoman thanks to her" said Diana.
"Well, I didn't learn that and I'm not interested in it, I'm a commoner and I'm proud of it, better a commoner with a soul and personality than an empty noblewoman stuck in impressing others" Said Atsuko leaving the tower, which even left Cavendish alone there very reflective.
(An empty noblewoman bent on impressing others... What does this girl think she is with such petulance, I am not an empty noblewoman... I'm more than that, I'm just very courteous and polite, things I've learnt to do, she doesn't understand that, this warrior gets on my nerves, she never tires of an opportunity to speak ill of me, it's outrageous, "Ah little princess starched this", "Little cabbage princess that", she annoys me that's for sure, I really hope I don't have to deal with her for the rest of my life, although her friendship with Hellene worries me, if the two get married... Legend always says that the hero marries the princess, if it's not me... It will be my sister... I will have to deal with this woman every day in this castle and if her interest is in my sister all the time? Oh, that can't be true, Hellene is a year younger and she just wants to play now, she doesn't care about marriage, she doesn't even have suitors).
While Diana was getting reflective sinking too much in thought, Akko was going down the stairs of the tower, reaching the castle garden where she was seeing Hellene drawing in her notebook copying what seemed to be some of the plants, which she soon notices the presence of Kagari and gets a smile on her face showing her what she had done.
"Look at this Akko I'm drawing the flowers in the garden, can I draw you too, I promise you'll look great" McLaren said and the brown haired one agrees.
"Sure, I'll love it, you draw really well, I didn't know you were such an artist" said the crimson-eyed one impressed.
And there was Atsuko posing holding a sword looking at the sky in profile, which Hellene went to copy to make her portrait drawing in the notebook, taking a while, since she couldn't even move and from afar who realised that was Diana, who was already getting a little strange feelings about it.
The royal training is a training that will be a little hard for the three girls, who will become stronger warriors, waking up very early to wield weapons better and also strengthen themselves to become better at what they are, in preparation for the great journey that Akko is about to make, also getting to know the castle better and also the royal family, especially Princess Diana who has been picking on Hyllian de Luna Nova a lot.
See you, training witches...