(Open Ground)
(Fighting Arena ,outside Palace).
"I have to win in order for me to survive." thought Darcel,with a glittering bright shine in his eyes.
"The crown prince has arrived ."the crier announced and bowed down,all of the knights and the trainers there bowed .
Darcel took a quick glance,To his surprise he found that the Prince had his eyes on him .
This just made him more irritable as he knew the prince was the reason he was facing these difficulties and, with the sudden announcement of him to make Darcel the assistant ,was nothing more than bringing him more trouble.
The crown prince understood but instead of saying anything he just sneered, while looking at him.
"Today Darcel,the to be assistant, is challenged by our Prince for a 'worth-proving' trouble. " said the announcer with a loud monotonous voice.
All the trainers and other knights were startled at this because it was the first time a member of the royal family had openly chosen someone as an assistant ,and challenged them to prove their worth.
"Darcel ,you already know the rules ,try to not die." Said the crown prince as he signalled with his hands for the trial to start.
The gatekeeper of the Royal family's lion understood and with the help of his fellow comrades opened the gate slowly.
A 'quiche' sound was heard when the gate was being slowly pulled upwards.
Soon the gate was pulled over and all of them left ,leaving behind the dark inside view of the dungeon and the boy to face it.
Two shining ball-like things emerged from the darkness ,those were shining with blue light and they were visible so clearly because they emerged from the dark,those things were slowly coming near.
Soon ,Darcel became alert and took a fighting position as he saw the vision became clear and after the shining eyes the four legs and a mouth with brown furnish hair surrounding the face was visible.
Finally the whole animal came out of the dungeon and Stood on front of Darcel.The lion didn't look like the ordinary Lion, rather it was way bigger and it felt like he was made from four lions ,his skin had scales surrounding him and he emitted a yellowish ,fire aura.
It just stood there for a minute or so and suddenly ,with a extreme loud grating roar jumped straight away to
Darcel.
Darcel was quick enough to dotch the attack but he got some injury marks on his arm ,the injury mark was not a problem but as soon as they deepened a fiery sensation was felt by him in flesh.
However, the lion didn't take any notice of his opponent's injury and proceeded to attack again ,this time too Darcel ditched the attack but he injured his legs recklessly.
(The Gallery ).
"Crown Prince ,can he sustain these injuries?" Asked Refrain,who accompanied him to watch the fight.
The crown prince was silent ,it could be seen that he didn't lose any hope in Darcel but was rather waiting to see the comeback of him as an injured wolf made his comeback.
The other soldiers were whispering amongst themselves and some even teasing him.
The Arena.
Darcel was continuously running and escaping the attacks without any counterattack, it was hard for him to find any weakness and attack.
However he knew that he couldn't run the whole time because he doesn't have much energy left and lions are naturally faster than human beings let alone evolved.
Now ,it became more interesting and dangerous because the lion was fed up with chasing him and started pouring fire lance from its mouth.
Darcel dotching it jumped as high as he could and climbed to the side wall a little below a statue placed there.
This sudden climbing gave him some time to think as to how to face the attack because he was hanging at the opposite side of the lion's face.
Darcel then closed his eyes to focus and remembered that the lion can only attack his target when he is at a distance with him and if the target is closer he did rather physically attack then use the 'fire lancer' .
Darcel then opened his eyes and jumped down ,that made a noise and the lion turned around ,using his fire lancer to attack him.
Darcel jumped as high as he could and coming down the run in a circle ,the lion turned to all the sides from where he ran and passed .
Darcel saw everything while running and made a second turn repeating the pattern .
All the viewers were confused as to what this boy was trying to do and they looked at him with great interest.
This time the lion thought Darcel would make the same turn and he used his fire lance to block the path ahead in order to burn him and stop his advances.
"Bingo!"said Darcel as he stopped at the previous spot and didn't move and directly jumped in front of the lion with a swishing speed.
Before,the lion could understand and use his lancer in the air Darcel reached very near to its face and the lion, withdrawing his fire lance, tried to physically attack him.
Darcel knew it and he used his water power to assemble the whole power in his fist as to make the attack more stronger and attack with a single punch having all his energy.
Soon both of them used their respective mana power ,Darcel in an attacking mode and the lion in a defensive mode.
The speed of both was so fast that the wind that blew became stronger ,holding up the dust particles and the cohesion of 'opposite power 'laid to the rising up of mist covering the last move.
All the Viewers along with the crown prince were surprised their eyes remained wide open and they were waiting for the final result.
Soon,the mist disappeared and two figures were seen standing in front of each other with heavy injuries,for a
moment it seemed like it was a draw but the lion with a grating wounded roar fell down.
There was only one of them standing with heavy injuries.
"The match ended and the lion was defeated, Darcel won the competition. " announced the crier, upon this announcement everyone's face became more astounded.
However, Darcel didn't pay any heed to their expression; he looked at the prince with his two brave eyes piercing the gallery walls….