Ace It

Chapter 5

"We won't make it in time." Annie yells in frustration, as the horse lifts himself onto his back legs, getting ready to kill Dandelion and her unborn calf.

"Like hell I'll let you get away with that!" I yell, calling my magic forth and placing an earth barrier around the horse. I'm not exactly perfect with earth or fire magic yet, however I have learnt most of the others. Once the male horse had the barrier around him, Aslan quickly chucks a rock, which I saw was actually a magic stone, at the horse. It hit the ground around the barrier and formed a barrier itself.

"You can let him go now." Aslan nods to me. I release the magic, and the male horse is eating at the grass around him, acting as if nothing had happened. "Sorry about that. He was worse today then usual. I wonder if pregnant animals have a different affect on his kind?" Aslan mutters, watching the horse curiously.

"Are you okay? The horse bit you, didn't he?" I ask, hurrying over to Aslan.

"Yeah he got me good, but there is nothing much that can be done about it." Aslan starts to lick the blood around the wound.

"Here, let me heal it." I grab his arm and look at the wound. I can't just simply cast a healing spell, without knowing the problem. Depending on the type of wound that is healed, depends on what type of heal magic to use. "This wound is very deep, and would normally make someone pass out from the blood loss. How are you still awake?" I ask in shock, while already beginning to heal the wound.

"Beast people have stronger bodies then humans do. Our bodies can take up to three times the harm than any human could. But that is only a rough estimate of the weakest beast person, against the strongest human. I'm not sure what it would be on average. Humans usually avoid us beast people." Aslan explains for me as I finish healing him.

"Wow, I would love to see two beast people fight each other. Without death obviously, but it sounds like an amazing learning experience." I start to think of different types of beast people fighting each other.

"You want to watch us fight each other? Why? So you can learn our moves? Report back everything you learn in hopes of trying to defeat us in the next war?" A guy on the smaller side with long ears, glares at me.

"War? I am not from any country, so there's no one for me to report anything to. And I just want to see the way you fight. Do you fight with a more savage and instinctive nature like animals, or do you fight like other humans? There's also the possibility that you combine the two to make something even more ferocious. From what I know, beast people can't use magic except for the rare few, and even then, their magic is very weak, but that doesn't mean that they can't learn to fight with that, and they could be even better then any human who learns to fight with magic." As I speak, I walk right up to the bunny boy, and glare at him as I speak with passion.

"Even if a beast who had magic learned to fight with it, animals aren't meant to have magic in the first place. That is basically us going against what is natural for us." Bunny boy starts to argue with me.

"How can you say that? It might not be natural for you, however those beast people were born with that magic, so it's natural for them. There is nothing wrong with using what is natural or unnatural, just as long as you win the fight, and as long as there were no rules set beforehand. If you always listen to rules, don't you know that your opponent will use that against you and fight dirty, being able to easily defeat you, as it can sometimes be seen as a weakness? Not everyone will fight by the rules." I argue back with him.

"If someone is so easily defeated by cheap tricks, then they obviously haven't trained enough. One should be able to fight with their own strength no matter who they fight against." Bunny boy continues arguing with me.