Lost at sea

Chapter 12

Nikolai and I continue talking as we head over to the training grounds. We could hear the sounds of metal clashing against each other and the grunts of people fighting.

"Hey Lena you're awake!" My focus goes away from Nikolai to see Adrik. He hugs me as quickly as he could. "Adrik hi!" I laugh. "You have no idea how much I missed you". I smile at him as his hand slides into mine.

Nikolai clears his throat to get our attention. Adrik says a very rude "moi soverenyi". I squeeze his hand a little to correct his actions. All he does is fake smile.

"LENAAAA!!!" I hear Paja yell at me from the field. "PAJAAAAA, ZOYAAA!" The three of us do an over dramatic slow run to each other, hugging one another at the end. I hear Adrik and Nikolai laughing at us. "Oh guys I missed you so much". I let go of them. "You have no idea how much we needed you here. All Zoya did was talk about boys." Zoya nudges her to shut up.

"Oh yeah Z? Who?" Zoya rolls her eyes "just a first army boy". Paja points to a soldier walking by the palace. "Ew Z thats my brother!!" Paja laughs nonstop as Zoya covers her face with her hand. Paja tries starting a sentence but keeps laughing. "Hey shut up! Lena is dating your brother!" Paja inhales to stop laughing "at least she knew!" She continues laughing. "It's okay Zoya, I prefer you over Alina." Paja stops laughing at looks at Zoya. "What?" Paja starts laughing again "Z and I aren't a huge fan of her either." I high five her as a chuckle lightly at how hard Paja was laughing.

"Saints even your friends are crazy" Nikolai says. "Who is he?" Zoya whispers to me. "I'm sorry, I'm Nikolai Lantsov. The prince." Paja widens her eyes as her expression goes straight. "I apologize moi soverenyi about my recent actions." She bows way to low. I laugh. "Oh it's fine" he says politely. "I honestly enjoy your friendship."

Zoya was eyeing him down. "Ew Zoya! Stop it!" I shove her away. "Hey he's cute!" I roll my eyes as I push her back to the field. Paja trailing behind us.

Nikolai POV:
I watch as Lena and her friends run off to train. "She's so beautiful" I mutter. "What?" Adrik looks at me with an irritated face. "Oh nothing." I walk off to the field with my hands in my pockets. He grabs my arm. "Hey, she's my girlfriend. Not yours. Keep your eyes off of her." I chuckle and turn to him. "I'm just saying your girlfriend is pretty, not that I'm stealing her." I smirk at him and I squint my eyes a little. "Just know lots of other guys would kill to be in your shoes."

I walk off and stand on the side of the field watching everyone train. Lena waves to me as she waits her turn to get in the ring. Botkin hits her back to say hi. She gives him a rude face and holds her back. I see her mouth "ow you bitch". And I couldn't help but laugh.

As I stood there watching her I could see and hear people looking and talking about me. It must be because I'm the prince. I hate this.

My attention goes away from the onlookers as Lena steps into the ring facing off an inferni. This ought to be interesting. I turn my matching ring around my finger.

Lena opens her hands, her palms facing the sky, as it starts surrounding with water. "Go!" She charges at the inferni and attempts to hit him in his chest. The water goes off of her hand and onto his body, the water encasing his right arm. She smirks as the boy tries using his power with his right hand but fails. How'd she do that? The boy shoots a flame with his left at her. But she quickly grabs his hand with hers, sending a blast of steam in the air.

You could hear everyone coughing or asking what's going on. I myself wondered the same thing. A squaller blows the steam away revealing Lena behind the boy her hand on his neck. She smiles "I win!" He rolls his eyes, cursing as he steps out.

Up next against Lena was Adrik. "Botkin please partner me with someone else." Botkin shakes his head no. "She's your girlfriend why wouldn't you wanna go against her" Zoya says. Lena was stretching out her arm in the ring. "She's gonna kick my ass!" Adrik whines to Botkin. "That's how you get better." Paja was being nice and helped him. "Sir, Lena might go easy on him for that reason." Botkin nods as he tells Lena to take a break as Adrik steps in with another squaller.

Lena walks up to me. "Hey pretty boy!" She smiles at me with that adorable look. I swear she was so different from when I first met her. "Stop staring it's weird." I chuckle "I'm just admiring you". She nudges me. "Stop it." "What can I say I have impeccable taste."

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