The Lost Wielder

Chapter 3

The sounds of a spar echoed throughout the dojo, as Nina and Lyra continued to train.

Nina growled as she charged at Lyra, stabbing one of her whips forwards.

Lyra smirked and then jumped to the left and then took two steps back.

"Too slow on that one, captain," she commented.

Nina wiped the sweat off of her forehead. As the back of her hand ran across her forehead, her eyes narrowed, "You're pretty good."

Lyra's face brightened a little as she smiled, "Thanks. You're really good yourself." She remarked, her eyes closing, as she smiled. Then as she opened them, the captain and her eyes met. Instantly they were charging at one another again.

The two were in the dojo training. Nina had been working with Lyra the past couple days, studying her fighting style; figuring out her strengths and weaknesses. The others were welcome to join. In fact, they were supposed to be joining the two today, but no one had come yet.

Nina knew Layfon would not be coming. He had told Lyra to tell the captain that he would be helping Naruki with his dispatch job. Harley and Felli were in class, and Sharnid was being Sharnid, skipping class and training.

With that being the case, Lyra and Nina had started to train on their own with one on one combat.

It wasn't planned. They had pretty much just glanced at one another and grinned, and then they both charged at each other, their Dites crashing, sparks flying. That's how it had been going for the entire morning. As they fought, Lyra couldn't help but smile. She felt so much freer when fighting the captain now. There weren't any screw up with one releasing more kei then the other, knocking each other out. The first day, Nina tried to push her as hard as she could. Lyra didn't understand why the captain was so harsh. Her thoughts were this is because they were in the military and this is how it was supposed to be, but later Nina explained how she did not want her hiding anything.

Lyra could understand why. This was the military. Their captains should know their strengths and weaknesses so that they would be able to strategize for the next platoon match. Not only that, if any filth monsters were to attack, their positions would be based off of their skills. However, Lyra understood where Layfon was getting at. He was Layfon, a Heaven's Blade wielder. He did not have to show his full strengths. Like him, Lyra had decided as well that she would only use the amount of strength she needed to finish the fight. It wasn't necessary to use the strong attacks if she didn't need to. That, and certain attacks she only used depending on her intention.

A grunt of frustration brought Lyra's attention back to the fight. She had zoned out while fighting, but was shocked to see that she was still standing. She couldn't help but wonder how that had happened. However, she didn't have much time to ponder it as Nina was charging at her again with her whips in crossed in front of her like an X. Nina swung her whips, lashing out at Lyra, who brought her own sword up to block the attack. They both grunted and pushed towards one another, trying to make the other falter. Realizing this was not working, the two jumped back.

Nina was now starting to pant a little. Lyra watched as the captain lowered her whips and called them back. Only then did she lower her guard and did the same.

"This fights getting a bit intense. Wanna call it quits for today?" Nina huffed, bending over while catching her breath.

"This quick? I'm just warmed up. How 'bout a break?" Lyra asked with a smile.

Nina frowned for a second, but then smiled and nodded her head as she set her Dites down.

"Sure, we'll continue after that." She walked off to get a drink.