Brave Little Lioness

Chapter 4

Luria P.O.V

     Unfortunately for me, it rained that night. Yep, the same night I sneaked out of the house to join the army. Thank goodness I lived not too far away from the castle. I found a nice tree at the edge of the woods and slept under it. In the morning, I signed up into the army.

      I was escorted to my room which I was going to be sharing with four other boys. In the room, there were two bunk beds and a cot. It looked like all four bunk beds were taken, so I set my stuff onto the cot.

     "Well, well, well. What do we have here? Another brave little boy who thought he could fight, so he joined the army. How cute"

      I turned around and saw a tall muscular boy with dark brown hair that came down to his shoulders. Behind him were two other boys, one with blond hair and the other with slick black hair. They all seemed to be around Peter's age, 18ish. I stared at them, expressionless(which I learned to do a while ago).

      "Oh I'm sorry, - the one in front said, his voice laced with sarcasm, - let me introduce myself. I'm Killian." He then jerked his head towards the blonde, "This is Drake, - then towards the black haired boy, - and this is Finch. I slowly nodded,

 "I'm Caspian."

      Then Killian's eyebrows furrowed for a second, "That's a bit of a mouthful. I'm going to call you Cas. Why? - he shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, - Just cause." Drake and Finch nodded. Apparently those three were the "popular group". They walked across the room to one of the bunks and started talking amongst themselves.

      Then, another boy came into the room. He looked shy, was kind of short and had light brown hair. "Oh, hey Bradster. How nice of you to join us." smirked Killian. Drake and Finch snickered. I didn't think Bradster's name was actually "Bradster", so I decided to call him Brad. At least to myself. The Trio(Killian, Drake, Finch) seemed to pick on him. Brad just stood there, in the middle of the room, not knowing what to do. Then, a man in a uniform came to inform us that dinner was ready and we needed to come down to eat.

      Once he left, Brad started towards the door, but the Trio pushed him aside. Brad stumbled awkwardly across the room and fell. I felt anger build up inside of me and said,

       "You need to watch where you're going, Killian." 

      Apparently Killian didn't appreciate my words because he halted for a minute and then took a long stride towards me and got in front of my face. 

"You need to learn who's in charge around here."

      He was about to turn around and go, but then I retorted, "Yeah, and that's not you."

      He harshly slapped my face and then stalked out of the room with Drake and Finch trailing after him. Brad looked astonished at what just happened. Probably since no one ever stood up for him. But I had a feeling there was a war beginning to rage between myself, and the Trio. Especially Killian.