“Ok Class Today I have the current chief of war of the Kingdom of Protalade with me, Mr. Schwartz” Said Mr. Emblem as he indicated towards the man on his right. “He is a veteran of the civil war at an age of 163 and is here today to scout out potential recruits for the army, as you all know you will be turning 16 next year which is the age for army recruitment. If you want to have a good chance to get in, you’ll want to do perform well in this class”
“Ugh, training is the worst” Muttered Calix “like what if I don’t want to enroll in the army. Can’t I just skip it?”
“Well it’s not all that bad” Whispered Owen back “Sword fighting is all right, I’m not that good at it, I won’t mind a bit of sparring though”
“What’s the point of Sparring when there are dragons’ ou-”
“Calix it’s my humblest request that you please, shut up” Offered Mr. Emblem
The glass giggled at Calix and he went red. “Now” he continued “we will be doing sparring today, Brandon you will be going up against Reza, Calix you will be going up against Owen, Peon you will be-”
“Hey Calix, I’m not going to go easy today, got to impress the army general standing over there” Owen murmured to Calix who in return grunted.
Calix and Owen were to go up on the mat first. They got their gloves on and the match began. Owen went on the attack with a right jab that Calix deflected and then Owen followed up with another Right jab, this one had more force than the previous one and Calix was barely able to deflect it.
A series of right and left jabs followed and Owen found an opening and was able to strike Calix in the stomach who grunted out loud. Owen retreated a bit to give Calix time to recover. Calix got up and went on the attack but his punches had almost no power behind them, on the attack he left his side un-guarded and Owen was able to land a quick jab which made Calix fall to the ground.
Owen took out is hand and Calix took it and muttered “Ow, good game”
Owen responded “Yea-Goo-”
Mr. Emblem interrupted “Yes good game boys, Owen could I speak to you for a moment”
“Oh uh sure” Owen walked off to where Mr. Schwartz was who muttered something to him, all the while Calix was left standing Stupidly on the mats.
After class Calix walked down the school corridors towards the exit. At the same time he pulled out a Numate Cube from his bag which is a cube no bigger than the size of a sugar cube that dulls pains. The sides of Calix’s chests were still hurting so he swallowed two whole.
As he reached the exit Owen ran up to him. He gasped “Hey dude I was finding you, Um yea listen there’s a special sword fighting class happening right now in the courtyard and Mr. Emblem said that I should come. I think it would be a good idea if you came also because Mr. Schwartz will be doing a demonstration and you might pick up a thing or two oh and also-”
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“Owen thanks but I’ll pass, fighting’s not my thing anyways.”
“Suit yourselves, well bye then”
“Yea, see you later”
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Calix hopped on his bicycle and headed home. He lives in Dograde city which was home to of the most prestige schools in all of Protalade, The Dograde Vista Academy, which mainly revolved around fighting and training for the army. The only reason Calix was enrolled in this school was because of his parents. If he had a choice he would have gone to Creek Academy which was in Seon Capital and focused more on Academics and less on fighting. Truth be told he wasn’t interested in either academics or fighting but in dragons.
The path home was a windy one, full with greenery and flowers, Calix’s favorite one being the naetal flower which was a shade of navy.
Calix reached home, dumped his bag in the corner and headed for the stairs to go inside his room but his mom intercepted him.
“Oh Calix honey how was school”
“It was fine mom”
“Anything special happen”
“No nothing much”
“I heard General Schwartz was supposed to come”
“Really? Nope today was an ordinary day” He lied
“Oh ok” His mom said puzzled
Calix turned to head up and as he reached his room he heard his mom shout “hey don’t forget to do the dishes”
Calix responded with “ugh. OK.” and went inside his room locking it.
He proceeded to open his drawer which had a locked journal inside it. From between his book called ‘Everything to know about Dragons’ he pulled out a key and unlocked the journal.
Two hours passed while he wrote his journal entry which finished by ‘I have done enough theoretical research to know how to calm the dragon down, now the only thing is getting to the Volcano and hoping it’s still there’
As he finished someone banged on his room door. It was his mom. “CALIX I told you to do the dishes two hours ago”
“Wait what, its been 2 hrs actually, Oh ok coming”
Calix locked his journal and it put it back in the drawer and put the key back in the book. He went downstairs and started washing the dishes while his mom prepared dinner. Halfway through the dishes his dad came home.
“Today was amazing, finally sold that ancient tea set and launched the produce section of the shop” Calix’s dad announced.
“Oh that’s great honey, I’m cooking your favorite today, lobster”
“Amazing. Calix how was school?”
“Oh um school was fine” Calix said as washing the last few dishes
“Nothing special”
“No it was the usual”
“My boy, it’s your last year in school, I want you to work extra hard so you can get into the military, your previous grades have been amazing and I know you can keep it up”
Calix said feeling guilty “Oh yes I’m putting my full effort into it, but dad what if I don’t want to join the military or the government”
His dad started “Son-”
“No dad look practically, what use is a sword against dragons, what use are swords going to be against the mages and dad there’s a civil war happening in our country, I have 175 years ahead to look forward to in my life and I want to live them not die in the war-”
"THAT'S ENOUGH, you're living in a damn fantasy! those dragons were only sighted twice after your great grandfather encountered it and those pathetic mages have no power here, they cant even wield an element! not only that but the civil wars been locked in a stalemate for two years... have you been living under a rock?
Calix said nothing.
‘“You have the grades and you are going to enroll in the army this year. Now eat your dinner"
Calix ate his food quietly, went up, pulled the covers over himself and slept.