Her Devotion As A Knight ✔

Chapter 6

"And you're out again Haku!" Gaia exclaims as he scowls at Haku. Haku sighs as he stands up and brushes himself off. It's already the afternoon. We've all been training so hard since early this morning. I'm beat and getting hungry. I hope whatever they have for supper tonight is good. I could probably eat a whole boar right now. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating, but I'm still super hungry. Anyways, the princess knows that I'm actually a girl and has known this whole time that I've been here. I told Clover yesterday on FaceTime and Rin came by yesterday too, so Clover got to meet Rin. They got along pretty well. We talked for hours. I can definitely see a new friendship forming between the three of us.

"Well, looks like you surpassed me..... twice....," Haku states with a sullen look. I got my revenge on Haku, for when he poured ice cold water on me, and surpassed him, like I said I would. If I really put my mind to it, I can easily do lots of things.

"Good fight Haku," I respond as I reach my hand out to shake his, "You were a good opponent." He nods as he takes my hand and shakes it before giving me a hard pat on my arm. Of course, he had to do it right where I got injured by Lute's blade. I bite my lip to stop myself from groaning in pain. I still haven't told them about it not even my brother. I haven't told him mostly because even though Lute didn't do it on purpose, Ken is kind of overly protective of me, so I feel like he would take a mental on Lute. Ken's been more protective of me these last few days since now I'm training with him and the other knights. He's still worried about me getting seriously injured.

"Good job Rikiya!" I hear my brother's voice call out to me. I glance in the direction that it's coming from to see him walking towards me. Since he's my brother, I feel like he deserves to know when his sister is injured, but I really don't want him to go all postal on Lute, plus the others will find out and that will lead to suspicions about me being a girl. Pretty much too much drama and I prefer to stay away from drama.

"Thanks," I thank him with a smile as he throws his arm around me. I stiffen when he pushes his body into my arm, but I manage to keep a strong expression. "I'm almost close to surpassing you and Lute."

"Yeah, let's not get ahead of ourselves," Ken replies as he puts me in a headlock and messes up my hair. Dammit Ken, my hair actually looked good today! Why did you have to go and ruin it for me?! Have you ever had those days when your hair just looks on point, but then your sibling just goes and messes it all up? Well, I am having one of those moments right now.

"Ken, really? Why?! My hair was on fleek until you went and messed it up," I state with an annoyed expression as I give him a slight push away. He chuckles at this.

"On fleek? Who says that?" He asks as he laughs. I roll my eyes at this. Everybody says that nowadays. Gosh Ken, keep up with the times here! Just then, out of nowhere, something fast whooshes past me. I follow it to see a long arrow hit a bucket of water behind me that Haku had holding in his hand. He tumbles backwards into other knights and they all fall to the ground. "We're under attack!" Gaia storms his way into the bushes where the arrow had come from.

"No! Wait! Stop!" I female voice protests in panic. I've heard that voice from somewhere. Before I'm able to figure out who it was, Gaia pulls the person put of the bushes. My eyes widen when I realize that it's Clover. What is she doing here and why did she just try to shoot Haku? I mean, I understand that, figuratively speaking, Cupid shoots arrows through hearts, but in real life if you do that then you can kill that person.

"Who are you?! Are you a spy?! Did a neighboring kingdom order you to come?!" Gaia questions Clover menacingly. I rush towards them in panic.

"Wait! Stop! She's not a threat to us!" I holler as I try to get in between her and Gaia. Gaia eyes me suspiciously. "She's my friend, the one you saw with me when you came to my house." Gaia seems to relax at that when he recalls their first meeting. He slowly lets go of Clover and steps back a little bit.