“Yawn~! Damn, I couldn’t sleep from all the excitement”
As I was slowly dragging my exhausted body out of bed I heard a loud pair of footsteps that were slowly getting faster and louder the neared they came near my door.
“BOOOOY!”
Suddenly my room’s door slammed open and standing at the doors entrance was the one and only Persephone with a very excited battle frenzy expression on her face.
“Uhhh… Morning”
A slight pissed off look on Persephone face appeared after hearing what I has just said.
“What do you mean morning…? It’s past 11am god damn it!”
To try to break the tension and avoid the slight possibility that Persephone would beat me up before the fight I let out a small laugh.
“Hahaha. Sorry about that, I couldn’t sleep last night”
“What, were you scared thinking of the fight today human?”
“No… Actually it’s the opposite I was looking forward to it a bit too much”
Suddenly Persephone started laughing so loud it felt like the ground was shaking.
“HAHAHHA! I like you human. If you manage to beat me today then I will honour the agreement and become your comrade. So try your best to win today~!”
“Trust me I will.”
“Good, I like your enthusiasm human. Well follow me to the arena”
“Grooowl~!”
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“What was that?”
My face instantly turned red in embarrassment when I noticed that the sound came from my stomach. Awkwardly I let out a laugh to try to distract everyone from the incident.
“Haha, sorry about that. I haven’t eaten yet.”
“Sigh. Fine on the way to the arena we will stop into the kitchen.”
Quietly I replied still embarrassed from the incident.
“Thank you Persephone.”
“Tch. Its fine human just make it quick.”
Persephone started slowly increasing her walking pace to the kitchen faster and faster so we could start the fight ASAP. As we were walking, basically running we eventually arrived at a big wood door.
“Oi, open up the boy needs food before the fight!” Yelled Persephone at the top of her lungs.
Shortly after the big wooden door slowly creaked, open to reveal a small females figure.
“STOP YELLING DAMNIT”
A breeze emerged from the yelling of the small females figure
“… uhhh, sorry? [Lowers voice] Persephone, who is that?”
“That small runt there is my younger sister.”
“Who are you calling a runt?”
“That’s your sister. Seriously!”
“Yup, sadly it is.”
“OI, I can still hear you!”
After the two were finished arguing we finally got back to what we came for.
“Hey runt, make some food for the boy.”
“Why should I make food for a lowly human, huh?”
At that moment, Persephone face turned from bad to worse with anger. Literally. Her sister had no choice but surrender to her commands from fear.
“Ugh, fine but only this once.”
“Thank you… By the way what’s your name?”
“Tch. My name is Krystal and ya better remember that boy.”
I thought to myself silently making sure I didn’t let my thoughts leak out… Seriously, why does everyone here call me boy, or human…? Sigh
[30 minutes later]
“Phew I’m stuffed, that was the best meal I’ve had in a while.”
Around that moment I started thinking of my mums cooking before I was involved in all of this and was slowly starting to get into a depressed mood.
“Oi, Human… Stop daydreaming!”
“Wh..What, I wasn’t”
“Yeah, yeah whatever… Anyway are you finally ready to start our fight?”
Suddenly snapped out of my depressed mood from Persephone sharp comments. A grin managed to appear on my face from the thought of the excitement to come.
“Yeah I’m ready”
“Good, let’s go then”
We walked for around 10-20 minutes around the castle like building when we eventually arrived in a building that looked like a smaller version of the coliseum however was a lot darker thanks to the storm clouds that constantly hang over Persephone territory to scare of wandering beast and invaders.
“Phew, finally here... Get ready human cause this fight isn’t gonna be easy.”
“Good, that’s how I like it”