Nephenia woked up rubbing her head as she felt her head splitting
'it still hurts '
She flushed at the thought of how Dray had won in their little spar, she had thought she had it all planned out and had figured she was going to win the spar.
" geez.....I really do need to think straight"
*sighs*
' Maybe I should ask him to a fight again ' she thought
' But I can't till I have figure out the best strategy for him '
Nephenia stood up as she paced back and forth in her room.
She knew she needed to cool off her head and at that moment she knew the best thing to do.
Nephenia sheathed her wooden sword in her scabbard and had walked off out if the house towards the wood.
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She walked through the woods looking around, her hand resting on her scabbard.
Although she was familiar with the woods,the eerie noise from other animals had always kept her on edge and she had always been cautious while going through the woods.
Who knows what might leap out of one of those bushes.
It wasn't long before she arrived at the meadow.
A smile appeared on her face.
She ran through the meadows happily humming with the melodious chirping of the birds.
She stopped on getting to a large field.
The grasses were green and soft that she had thought of lying on it.
But had shrugged it off on remember the reason why she was there.
Nephenia unsheathed her wooden sword and raised it slashing it in the air.
While growing up she had always come here to train all by herself.
Mostly after losing a fight with her brother.
She walked towards a small shed, she opened the door and walked in.
The shed was dimly lit but Nephenia could find her way as she was familiar with the shed and knew every nook and cranny.
Finding her way through she stopped afront a dummy and placed her hand on it feeling for something.
Her hand had gotten hold of something, she pulled it and the dummy jerked.
Immediately Nephenia ran out of the shed and stood waiting for the dummy to come out also.
Nephenia had the dummy in the shed while she was younger and had told her brother about it.
He had figured a way to operate it and since then, they had both been training with it.
Mostly Dray though.
Nephenia had liked training all by herself but today she had decided on using the dummy.
As the dummy moved outside it could be seen clearly.....
It was mainly made up of wood, in it's hand were two long wooden sword.
The sword has a sharp tip.
Nephenia got in a fighting stance with the dummy.
The dummy got into a fighting stance but it looked funny in a way.
The dummy moved forward swinging it's sword towards her, as he had gotten closer to her she dodged then turned to attack.
But she was too slow.
The dummy had kicked her with full force
The force had pushed her backward as she fell on the floor.
Not wanting to give up she stood up and ran towards the dummy.
' Focus...i have to turn off the operator '
' It's just a dummy, I doubt he sensed impromptu movement '
She ran towards the dummy swinging her sword in the air, raising it high towards the dummy's head.
The dummy had raised both sword to block Nephenia's strike when....
She had kicked him with all her strength, the force had sent him flying backwards.
"Damn it" she shouted in pain as she raised her leg, rubbing it slowly.
Not quite long the dummy had came back seemingly unhurt, he moved towards her swinging the sword.
Nephenia not wanting to wait for the dummy to attack ran towards it.
This time before the dummy had attacked ...
Nephenia whirled up in the air, moving towards where the dummy was.
The dummy had stopped moving as it was confused on what was happening when it something had hit him hard on the head.
Immediately the dummy had fallen to the ground.
Nephenia who had seen what had happened yelped in delight.
" It worked" She screamed.
Nephenia had forcefully stop the dummy from fighting, by hitting it's operator which was located at the head region.
Unknowingly to her her screams had attracted something towards her direction.
Nephenia walked towards the inoperative dummy and carried it into the shed.
She was so happy that she could turn off the operation without getting seriously hurt.
Years back she had tried turning off the operator but all to no avail.
Dray had always been the one who would help her but today she done itself.
She was so consumed in her happiness that she had no idea what was lurking outside the shed.
After placing the dummy carefully in the shed, she walked outside locking the shed.
When she turned to leave....
Nephenia stood unable to move, her eyes wide opened in shock at what she was seeing.
Right afront her stood an hideous looking beast.
It had green scaly skins, one horn at the top of its head, it had no eyes and no nose, its mouth was naturally stitched together.
It seemed like it could only knw it's prey movement by the sounds they make.
Nephenia stood staring at the beast towering over her, unable to move.
She had tried moving her body but couldn't as a result of the amount of shock her body had absorbed, she has never seen anything as scary as this creature before.
" Why don't you take someone your own size?"
She heard someone call out and immediately recognised the voice.
" Dray? "
She turned to look at where the voice had came from...
The beast who had picked up the direction of the sound he had heard, turned also towards the same direction as Nephenia.
And truly standing a little bit afar off was her brother Dray.
' What is he doing here?.....he is going to get himself hurt ' she thought