Right on a hill stood a young ginger-haired girl, her hair packed in a bun.
She was wearing a light suit armour. She held a wooden sword in her hand.
Standing in front of her was a boy, probably older than her. He too was wearing a full suit armour but his was thicker as it was made out of strong leather. He held a wooden sword in his hands and had a smile on his face.
The boy in front of her.....was her brother.
Their stance made it obvious they were about to spar.
" Come on Neph, Show me what you got" The boy said smiling
Neph who was standing looking for a way to attack, felt something on hearing what her brother had said. Like she had heard something like that before or something, focussing on the task afront her she shrugged the strange feeling away.
She looked at her brother, who seemed relaxed. But Neph who had been training with him for a long while knew her brother had something up her sleeve and could be ready for attack anytime soon.
'Come on Dray, I am ready....I guess though' Neph said inwardly as she held on to her sword.
Since Nephenia had turned five, She would always ask to battle with her brother.
Not once did she win him in the way of the sword, she was always losing a fight with him. He would never stop mocking and talking about their fight and how he was always winning.
This was what had made her to keep asking for a spar as she was determined to beat him one day.
She wasn't the type to relent.
But Today...
She wasn't going to let her guard down.
Focussing on her Opponent she charged towards him. Her brother who had seen her running towards him also charged in.
Before, Nephenia would always find it difficult to detect her brother's next move. But now she could detect some of his moves and also follow him in any direction.
As they sparred on, she kept following his every attack and tried all she could to either deflect or dodge his attacks.
" Are you going to keep dodging all my attacks....I thought we were going to have a good fight today"
" But I guess, today is going to be like other days. With you losing and me winning" Dray said still swinging his sword towards her.
" Show me what you got Neph, I know you can do this....leave your comfort zone and spar with me" his brother continued
' What do I do to win this match' Nephenia thought dodging all of Dray's attack.
Then a thought had crossed her mind, she had watched Dray spar with other boys of his age and he had always won but she realized something.
Dray had always been a good swordsman and wasn't the type to dodge an attack, he was the type to take all attack head on.
In any of his battle, he do leave about of space for the opponent to attack but still he do end up beating them, due to him being used to attacks his body had gotten stronger. But Nephenia realized something.
All his other opponents which he had beaten had never thought of attacking him in the one place that might be his weak point.
Thinking about her new strategy on how to defeat her brother, she smiled slightly.
' Focus, you haven't won yet ' she thought to herself
After dodging an attack from her brother, she had moved closer to him wanting to use her strategy to attack.
She moved closer holding her sword in one hand and wanting to attack him, she smiled seeing he had no clue what she had planned and had raised her hand to attack.
She charged towards him fully determined to win this spar, she was happy with her strategy as it will help her and would also keep her brother's mouth shut for once.
She was about to attack him when ...
Whack!
The sound of wood hitting the flesh could be heard.
She was hit hard on her head by Dray.
Nephenia's vision went black as she fell heavily to the ground.
" Oh shit, I thought you were going to dodge the attack" She heard Dray's voice
But she could see nothing.
Her head began to spin and soon she began to feel slight headache.
She had no idea how he had gone past her within minutes.
' He really does have brute strength ' she thought.
Few moments later, She passed out.