After A couple of weeks training for the tournament. I found myself looking at a thousand screaming spectators yelling at all of us. The sight of all the people looking down at us scared me a bit. I was right next to the other competers heading to the center of the floor. The area changes when ever the challenges change. As we got to the center you could feel the excitement in the air. As i was walking to the arena center to show off my skills with everyone. I got booed from the front row of the seats I was near. "That kid doesn't even have any magic why is that punk here!?"
They said but I didn't budge a bit, I turned my fear into fuel for my skills coming up. First I showed everyone my skills with Archery. Every target that I had out moved quick and even some went into the stands. I pulled my bow back and I let loose the my first arrows. My bow made everyone look at me more with how simple and beautiful it was. A pitch black wooden bow with a dark red leather for my hand grip with black silk like bow strongs to match. My arrows were red so you could see them better for the test. Shot after shot, I hit every target as they flew around me.
I didn't miss a single one in the arena, I then aimed at the others and shot everyone as they darted in between the crowd. Sister was in the crowd waiting for her turn with her eyes closed listening to my arrows hit the targets. I saw one that went right next to her so I shot it right next to her head. The sound of the loud thud scared her enough for her to open her eyes. I watched her smile at me but the rest of the crowd glared at me. How dare I try to scare the schools darling. The front of the crowd booed me again right as I finished. I turned and walked off as everyone looked at the targets I didn't miss.
The announcer called for the other competors as I went to the waiting area. This Tournament is broken into four brackets, two for the High class students like those in the upper ranked classes. And those like for me that are in the lower ranked classes brackets. Everyone in my group had more fighting ability than magic power. My best friend Dean was in the same Bracket as my sister. I sat in the waiting area wondering how this tourny was going to end. I over heard one of my fellow competors say that the winners of each bracket will fight eachother at the end.
So if I beat the other lesser brackets I'd be fighting either Dean or my sister in the finals. This made me even more excited as I thought about fighting either of them. After everyone got to show off their skills I got to partake in my first fight. This fight was also the first fight of the day. The arena was silent, you could hear a pin drop outside the arena. Then out of nowhere I or we all heard the announcer speak up. Please Welcome the first competors, All the way from Willow city, He's a Demon Noble, it's Rourk Hister!" The voice yelled getting everyone hyped for the guy who tried to get me with fire.
Then as I stepped out only for a moment I got booed by the crowd. Till that was when the announcer said my introduction. "Now entering, Grandson of the great King Verith and first born son of Sir Jacob and Dianna Willow. Please I introduce to you, Girard Willow the Half Demon prince of Willow City!" Everyone booing stopped and looked at the idiots who started the booing. As I stepped out on the ring I saw my opponent was glaring at me. "You think just because you're royalty that I'm going to hold back you got another thing coming halfing. He said to me and my blood began to boil just a tad bit.
The low tone of the bell rang and the guy charged at me. He started to cast lightning magic at me and laughed as it hit me. I at the last second dodged it with no problem. The bolt passed by my face and I was suprised he would hit me with a weak move. But then I got hit in the face with a fire ball. That stung a bit but more pissed me off. Before the guy could launch off another attack I got really close to him. He went to step back but I caught him off balance and I knocked him to the ground with a heavy punch. As he went to the ground I hit him with my right free hand and I knocked him out.
The crowd who were cheering for the other guy were and for me to lose were now silent. Then the Announcer yelled out, "And your winner Girard Willow!" He was the only one to saying anything as I got down from the arena. I thought the silence was weird but I headed to the waiting area. When I was in the entrance of the tunnel I heard someone from the crowd say. "That Halfling is kind of a freak with that strength of his. Thats suprising since he has no magic power." I stood there for a moment not knowing what to think about that. I wanted to be offended but I know dad would take it and run with it.
Then after watching the rest of the matches I saw how weak people were in their fighting abliity. Till that was when it was my sisters time to shine. She was the first figher in her bracket to fight just like I was. Dean was in the other high bracket and would be most likely facing Beilz later on. Beilz took the stage and everyone was silent as the announcer called her name. When the announcer did everyone went absolutly nuts for her. As I watched her my sister seem to sparkle in the light as her match began. Though something about her demeanor seemed to be a bit off, like she was mad about something.
As the bell rang I watched her fly across the ring after her male opponent. She hit him with her wind magic then started to pound him in the ground with her fists. Then at the end of the massacre she sent the guy into the wall. "You keep my brothers name out of your mouth you scum!" She said to the guy after she dusted her fist off of the guy's blood. She turned to everyone in the crowd then turned back to the half dead guy on the ground now. "You're not even on the same level as he, I'm the only one on the same level as him." I saw her demon eyes glowed a bit brighter than normal and I smirked.
The announcer marked her as the victor, she though didn't stay to celebrate. She instead came to see if I was alright, which was funny since I was just fine. Beilz, when she came into my the waiting room saw that I was smiling. "What, do you want a beating to brother?" She asked me trying act all tough for me. I got up from the bench I was sitting on and I gave her a hug. "Thank you for sicking up to me, but I can take care of myself sis." I said to her making her calm down with my hug. She jabbed me in the ribs as we heard Dean get announced for the next match.
He was just as popular as Sister was and his matches proved that with people cheering loudly for him. Dean is a prince of an old Vampire family that's been in rule since the dark ages. To a normal person that would treat him like the royalty that he is, but I treated him as what he was to me, A Friend. As we watched him play with his opponent he seemed to be smiling as he hit his target with an ice block. The other person fell to the ground and gave in from the simple attack. Disappointed, Dean won his match with in five minutes after waiting all day for his chance to fight.
Now with him done, all that was left was the semi and finals for tomarrow. Which the only ones left to fight were, myself, sister, Dean and an elf from another Kingdom. I would be facing the Elf tomarrow so I went to get some good rest at my inn room. For the rest of the day I stayed in my room resting on the couch as I heard foot steps outside my room. Then I heard a few knocks on my door and I got up from the couch. I looked to see that the people knocking at my door was my sister, Dean and a couple of Noble looking people behind him. Sister grabbed my hand and said.
"Brother come eat with us, Dean's parents are here with us as well. This is King Vladamire and his Wife Queen Trinitie, this young looking half demon is my older brother Girard." Beilz said pulling me out of the room. I was going to say no but my stomach growled, "Are you sure, I could be facing you guys tomarrow?" I said to them and sister swung at me, "I know you're hungry brother, lets go already." Beilz demanded and I sighed but smiled. She took me by the arm and dragged me along till I broke free. We were heading to a fancy resturant not to far from the competers dorms.
Dean's Father kept his eyes on me while we walked. I don't know why he kept doing that till we got to the table. He asked me as we sat at the table, "You've been told that you don't have magic haven't you?" I was starting to drink water when he asked me that, I slowly put my drink down and I said. "Yeah, Ever since I was born, i've never been able to do anything but a simple light spell." Vlad smiled at me, "You may not have normal magic but I feel theres something else in you." He said to me but he wouldn't tell me what he meant by that as he added seeing my confusion.
"I can't give you all the answers can I, what would your father do?" He asked me and I responded, "He'd find the answers on his own, wait how do you know my father?" He smiled and looked up to remember when he met my dad. (King Vlad's point of View) "Back a decade ago, When Willow was just a small town. Your Father Jacob, your mother Dianna and King Verith attended a party my late father threw. I remember he came into the ballroom with a smile across his face. I could tell from his face he was a human but his Aura he was something else, powerful but kind, and he smell was like that of a dragon."
"He talked to my Father unformally like they were close friends. At that moment I thought my father was going to be mad but he joked and laughed with Jacob. At the time it was years after the war and I didn't know that man was the same hero from the frontlines. The night went on and he came over to me and we talked for hours. He told me all of what experinced as in our world from day one. Then when the night got late a rival prince from the East demon kingdom started a fight with a servant. That guy hit a servant after she refused to make him another drink."
"Before I could give him a piece of my mind Jacob was already up and in the Prince's face. At this point The East King was going to step in to stop them both but Prince Rills the East prince spit in your fathers face. The King saw the look on his face then back off saying, "Do you what you need to Sir Jacob, Prince Rills just disrespected you." The King got out of the wat as Jacob, your father raised the prince off the ground with one hand. Then Jacob yelled at him like a little kid pissing off his parent. "You'll say you're sorry to the lady, then you'll leave unless you want to recreat that sparring match."
"The prince began to relise who was yelling at him and he began to panic. In all my years I've never seen a Demon affraid of a human as Rills was of your father."(Return to Girard's point of view) King Vlad said all that smiling about his old memory. We ate the dinner and talked about the matches. Then when I returned to my room, Mr Vlad said to me before I closed the door. "If I could give you advice son, it's that you're Jacob's son but that doesn't mean you're like him. Be you Girard. and tap into that magic power that's deep in you." Vlad winked at me then he left with everyone going down the hallway.
I headed to the bathroom and I cleaned my face off with all the dirt that was still on my face. I crawled into bed with what Vlad had said to me, "Be me not my father?" I left my hand tough my own face then I got a idea in my head. "Maybe I should try a different approach to my magic?" After I said that to myself I fell asleep with the covers off of me. When the morning came around, Father was knocking on my door. He had a smile on his face but I could see he was alone. He then held out a new spell book for me to read, something I assume he picked up at a cheap store near by.
I didn't reconise the writing on the book but I knew from it's aura it was dark. "Father I think I'm going to fight without magic against the Elf." I said to him and he looked depressed but I still took the new book from him. "Come on and get dressed so I can acompany you to the arena. I would love to spend some Father son time with you, it's surley needed." He said to me pushing for me to get dressed quickly. I put on my school uniform from yesterday, I smelt it and it stunk a bit. Father saw my reaction and used his laundry spell on it for me. We then headed right to the arena after grabbing food first.
Everyone was gaulking at my Father and then Glared at me. TIll my Father said, "Son lets hurry up before we're late." I laughed, "We wouldn't need to hurry if we skipped the food vendor father." We ran into the building to see that everyone was watching us. I took a moment and I started to watch Father interact with everyone else. He was smiling at everyone but I could feel he was hiding something from me. We made it to the arena floor and I felt someone I knew staring at me from somewhere. It was Mother looking as me from the arena floor with Beilz.
"Father look Mothers here." I said pointing right at her, Father snorted but he did it to be funny. "Right I was suppose to talk to you're sister too I forgot about that. Let's go over there now before your mother kills me." Father said to me as we moved acrossed the arena to them. "Hello dear, sorry for the being late, we stopped to get a quick snack before the fights." Father said holding out some he bought for them. Mother gave him a stern, but scary face but then she smiled at him. "My love, you are always doing something like this when you need to be on time."
My Father then whispered something into my mother's ear, she blushed hard then she kissed him on the lips. They left after a minute of talking with us and I was left with my sister. Sister saw the book in my front coat pocket. She snatched it from me and read the cover of the book outloud. "Dark Flame magic for Anti Magic users. Did Mr. Vlad give you this book or did you just pick this up?" She asked me and I shook my head "No" then I told her Father gave me the book. "Dad gave me the book right before we came here, do you think Mr Vlad gave him the idea for the book?"
I asked her and nodded after she used her Yellow Demon eye magic on me. I then grabbed the book and I read the first flame magic spell in the book. We were still in front of everyone but I didn't care. I read the page out loud for me and Beilz. "A dark flame mage or magical fighter must be born with dark or anti magic. This magic can be activated with emotions and the image of the elemant or spell in mind." Beilz gave me a funny look then pointed at the next page, "This is kind of like what dad does for our training but he has us stay calm. Here it's telling you to express your feelings."
The passage went blurry after that and without even thinking about what was going on I ended up in the waiting room. Today I was to fight the Elf in my bracket but I saw there was a change in the line up. I saw on the crystal monitor, I was to fight Dean instead and my sister was to fight the Elf. I smiled at myself in the mirror that was infront of me. "Guess I can try to use what this book?" I said to myself looking at the page about dark flame magic again. I can beat him with this but I am not sure if it'll work with how fast Dean can be. An hour later after the last few fighters dropped and I faced several people it was time for me to fight.
Just like everytime I was introduced to the crowd but this time was or it felt different. "Please now stand and pay your respects for the Son of our Hero, (Guy points to Father and Mother sitting in their seats near the arena.) Girard the Magicless Willow!" The guy yelled as I bursted the door open with my sher force. The "magicless" part was a bit harsh but like Father always said, "Be proud of your Nickname!" This time everyone Clapped and cheered for me, the crowd even said some kind things about me.
"This kids been running right through this tournament like he's playing with children. Let's see how well he does against a real magical power house like Dean." The guy in the crowd said as I climbed into the ring. I looked across the Arena to see that Dean was just as raedy as I was. We didn't say anything to eachother but we did nod at eachother as if to say, "Lets go all out brother." As we waited for the bell to ring out I closed my eyes to hear it before Dean did. Then the low tone of the bell rang in my ears and Dean vanished from sight. As I went to look for him I felt a breeze at the back of my neck.
I raised my hand to catch Dean's fist right before he hit me. He was going for a quick knockout, that would of been his best chance with a fighter like me. He with his hand still gripped by mine, he broke my hold and dashed away from me for a second. I caught up to him and set him into a wall with my brute force punch to the side of his ribs. He pulled himself out of the wall laughing, he brushed off his side and shoulders as he looked right at me. " Ha I forgot you hit hard Brother." He used the wall to fly at me and then we clashed for a good few minutes straight.
We crossed fist for so long I could see he was getting tired but I could keep going on. Just when I was going to finish him off he jumped back and started to use his lightning magic on me. "Sorry my friend but I want to win this whole thing and you're in my way." He said sending a huge bolt of lightning right at me, I waited till It got to me to catch it. When I did catch the bolt of lightning and it shocked me a bit. It felt like fire in my soul as I held it in my hand, I smiled as Dean looked at me confused till He saw it coming back to him. The white lightning turned purple in color right as it reached him.
The ground behind the path of the Lightning leaving my hands were scorched by the heat coming from the magic. Dean reflected the lightning but then saw me with my eyes closed. I was feeling the magic coursing through my body. I felt was like a fire in my stomach as I pictured a ball of fire in my head. I raised my hand and I casted my first fire spell but it felt alot different. It was the size of a the boulders at home. The color to wasn't the normal red or yellow, it was black and purple and felt really hot. I looked right at Dean as he gave me a funny shrugge then tapped the floor three times to give up.
Everyone gasped in shock that Dean would do that but then Dean said. "I'd continue but I don't want to die now that you've unlocked your magic." I didn't know what to do with the fire ball now so I looked at my Father. He smiled at pointed up, I followed his intructions and shot it up. He put it out with his Ice magic, he then said laughing. "Looks like you'll be facing your sister next son, make sure you're ready." He said as Dean walked off the Arena, for me I was still in fighting mode and I could feel my heart pounding. I guess that negitive energy from my new magic power was effecting my body a bit.
After my thirty minute break, I started to get ready for my next challenge. I had to fight Beilz in this next and final battle. When I got to the arena you chould feel how tence everyone was. All except for my parents who wanted to see me and my sister do well. I looked at Beilz and saw she was ready for me but looked unsure about how to face me know. She said nothing to me like Dean and she didn't even give me a smile. I knew she wanted to win this fight but she could of aleast nodded at me or something. I looked up at my father and saw he was enjoying one of his cigar things, just smoking away as the fight began.
As the bell toned I dashed rigth for Beilz without a second thought. We started to trade blows as we collided with enough force that crack the very ground we walked on. We did this back and forth for about five minutes till we clashed with our magic. The sher force of my dark fire magic and her ice magic she learned from Father. We caused an explosion that sent us out of the ring and on the ground hitting it hard. I looked up to see that Mother and Father put up a protective barrier to keep the crowd safe from us. I got up and dusted myself off as I saw sister was getting back on the stage.
I dashed at her once more getting a clean hit with my fire magic just as she got me with her own magic. We both fell to the ground knocking eachother out cold. The crowd around us went silent as Mother and Father came running to check on us. The match ended in a tie as we were slapped awake by our parents. I woke up to see my sister sitting up before I did. We looked at eachother and we smiled at then laughed at how we ended the fight. "We just knocked eachother out, we are truly twins aren't we brother." Beilz said laughing as we heard the crowd begining to clap for our match.
I stood up and offered my hand to help my sister up and she grabbed on to me quick. We then turned to the crowd and bowed to everyone as our Father getting closer to us. He picked us up and put us in his shoulders. "Never thought my kids would be so equal to eachother I'm proud of you both." He said to us getting the crowd to cheer louder for us. As we sat on his shoulder we realised that this finish was the first time this tournament had. In the last ten years of these tournaments we were the first draw ever. I could see the looks on my parents faces and it was kind of funny.
Then Father said, "I'm happy that you unlocked you magic my son, now you'll have to work harder to develop your power." I smiled at Father as I took in all the cheering from the crowd. I even got praised for gaining my magic when I needed it. This was such a good moment for me that it became a little to much for me. Then the annoucer came down from his spot to hand my and Beilz our new trophy. We later went to the banquet for the end of the tounrnament. There I sat with Dean and Beilz in the back to eat in peace. Dean the whole time was making fun of us for ending the match with a double knockout.
"You both now eachother so much you new eachother's weak spots. But from what I saw was you both have the same weakness." He said to us poking me in the arm, I laughed with him. "Yeah being twins we might be more simular that different. But all I can say is that family knows family and I'm dissapointed I didn't win that knowing her that well." I saw that sister was getting up for whatever was going on upfront. She turned and grabbed me to come with her. I was going to sit back down but she gave me a scary look that made me stand back up. We were being given a award for have the best match but for it being short.
Sister said her acceptance speech then I said mine. I was about to say something but a person in the crowd said, "Did he always have magic and was he just hidding it or did you really just unlock it with Dean?" The man who asked me that was a large man and kept his eyes right on me. I cleared my throat a bit then I spoke up after I looked at my Father. "I've been trained in the magic arts for years, ever since I was little. But for you're question, no I've just unlocked my Magic durning my match with Dean. Even with me not being able to use magic till now, my Father still taught me in hopes that one day I would be able to use those lessons."
"I knew the fundamentals and I could combat them with just my own power. Like I said before I unlocked my powers when I faught Dean in that match. With this new dark power of mine I will use it to be great and use it for good. Just like what my Father did for years when he was my Mother's personal Guard back in his younger days." I ended my speech to see that everyone wanted to know more about what I called my Dark power. I went right up my Dad who was by Mr. Vlad, "Thank you both for showing me that I wasn't magicless, I'll do my best to become stronger."