Chapter 2. First Meeting.

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It's been a month since Lara's death and it still taunts me everyday and always will because I was too weak. From what I remember,I snuck out of the Palace without anyone's notice and went out of the village to play with Lara. She was picking herbs with her mom and dad at a field a bit far from the village, Lora always knew who I was but her family didn't, they wouldn't have let me play around with her if they did. We met when we were just 5 years old, both me and Saber, we've been friends ever since. I and Saber would always fight about something while she would be the one to resolve the whole issue either peaceful or with brute force. Life was fun outside of the Palace. Saber used to be my only friend before I met Lora, and yet we didn't see much often because of our standings in our family. We were both too busy trying to please our fathers. We met Lara when she and her parents were delivering herbs to the Palace Physician and she got lost while chasing a butterfly. The palace was busy that day so the guards on standby at that section were few and not too active. She stumbled into the study room where I and saber were hiding from our tutor. She looked sad and I was scared cause it was the first time I saw a girl of my age. "Wh wh who ar are youu?" I asked hiding behind Saber, he then pushed me away and asked "Are you lost?", She nodded. "What's your name?" Saber asked again, I didn't really understand why he kept on asking her these questions or why he was so friendly with her, as Nobles we were taught to feel like gods and look at others like ants beneath our feet, but I and Saber felt different so we were casted out by other Noble Kids. "My, my name is Lora" she answered in a very low voice, "I didn't get that, sorry, can you please say it a bit louder?" He asked, "She said her name is Lora, you're just 5 and you can't even hear properly" I said, teasing him, and we started arguing not minding her presence anymore. We then stopped after we heard her laugh, then we looked at each other and then laughed also. My awkwardness around her disappeared and I felt comfortable. We took her halfway to where she said she left her Dad and showed her the way back. Ever since then, I would sneak outside the palace to meet Saber and then we would both run off to play with Lora somewhere no one would see us or recognize us.
When we were 15, Saber's dad sent him off to a Faraway place to broaden his education, his father didn't want Saber to be involved with anything that involves the Military, instead he should be a businessman like him. So it was just Me and Lora, we would occasionally try to imagine what Saber would be doing and then tease him, we did miss him a lot.
On my 16th birthday, I snucked out of the Palace to meet up with Lora at the field, it's not like my Father would notice anyway, he's never around and he doesn't care, We were then attacked by bandits, her parents got slaughtered before our eyes and she got killed while trying to hold one of the bandits for me to run away. When I was found by one of the B5, I was  unconscious and the bandits were all dead, they said that was how my powers awakened. Turns out I got my powers after watching who I cared about died before my eyes, I was too weak. I was carried back to the Palace where I slept for days and after I woke up, I was told the people that attacked us were not bandits, they were sent by the Kingdom of Ikris, a kingdom we've been at War with even before my Father became the Dark Lord. They claim to be holy and Righteous and yet they could do something so despicable. I swore to be the one to end the war and end their king and nobles for conspiring and killing innocent civilians for a stupid reason called war.
Ever since then, I've been going through training by each of the B5'S, they said I can't go to war or lead an army until I could stand my father's presence. And how is that possible?, I can barely stand their own presence not to talk of my Father's.
The last time I was in the presence of my father, I thought I was going to die before I get revenge. All he did was walk passed me and in a blink of an eye I was on my knees grasping for breathe. I still have a long way to go.
Darkest Bullock is in charge of my training today, no one knows what their powers are, except the Dark Lord, even the 12 Elders do not. Since they never had a reason to use it except with a worthy opponent which is quite rare to get on the battle field, that is how strong they are. The ones that they have used their powers against, never lived to tell the tale.
"Here I come!" I screamed facing Bullock. it was a hand to hand combat training but the feeling was intense. Black lightening kept flashing all over me, I moved a step and just like that I was gone. I kept changing my position at a high speed so I doubt he could see him, or so I thought. I appeared behind him since it was his blind spot, and rushed towards him with my fist tightly clenched, He quickly turned around and blocked his face which I was aiming for with his hands crossed with an x shape. The impact was massive that it created a space on the ground behind him with electricity flowing all over him but it didn't do much damage. He smiled, "Not enough" he replied. I jumped back in defense inorder not to take any surprise hits and I quickly dashed to his left side and rushed towards him again, this time attacking using my right leg, again he stayed on defense. rather than avoiding my attacks, he took them on like it was nothing. I felt intimidated but I didn't give up. I dashed towards him bending down and tried to give a uppercut, he took a step back and dodged the attack but this time he held the hand I used to throw the uppercut and smashed me on the ground. My eyes opened wide as my back hit the ground. "Still not enough Young master" he said with a smile, "Shut up" I said while struggling to stand up with blood rolling down my mouth. "You need to stay calm so you can access the situation in a smart manner" he said again. "I said you should SHUT THE HELL UP" I screamed and dashed towards him for the third time, this time faster than the last time. I kept throwing left and right punches in a fast pace while he kept avoiding them and slowly moving back. "An opening" I thought to myself, I threw a faint left punch and as he tried to avoid it I quickly switched to the right, I'm sure he didn't expect that since he thought I wasn't thinking straight anymore. I was about to land the punch and then....."he ducked?!" before I could move back to avoid his attack it was too late. He threw a punch straight to my stomach, I'm guessing with 40% of the strength he had since it sent me flying few meters from him. And that was how my training with Bullock ended, I couldn't stand for the whole day. "You're not as bad as you used to be" He said. "but you still have a pretty long way to go". "Jeez, thanks for the perp talk" I said, looking the other way.
Bullock, as his name sounds is a really tough guy, he relies on his big physical self to intimidate his opponents and breaking their little assurance of winning a fight. He was bald, and had a light dark skin. He finds it hard to hold back, even while training with me. The first time we trained, he knocked me out with his first attack. "I really have to get stronger" I said to myself.

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