Knight

Arrogant Second Prince

Cecile's Pov

When we arrive, we are lead by an older knight to a certain area near the middle of the castle.  There are many young knights and some older ones too.  Surprisingly there is also the second prince too. He has brown hair and blue eyes, he is wearing a armor that is silver, black, and the right part of it has something over it and it is blue.  There is also a sword by his side thats attached to a brown belt like thing.  Many people are trying to get on his good side, others are asking him why he is here.  Some are ignoring him because they appear to be a nobles child or gossiping about him.

"Sage, do you want to walk around with me?  We should try to exercise a little before the tests begin.  I also want to get to know you more too so this can give us an opportunity to talk and bond," I say excitedly wanting to explore.  Sage looks at me and laughs.

"You just want me to show you around and talk about the castle, don't you," he says hitting the mark behind the truth of why I asked him to walk around with me.

"Eh, heh, heh," I say laughing a little and looking down.  My ears are red and so is my face so I try to hide it.  I feel someone grab my chin and force me to look up.  My golden eyes stare into his ,midnight blue almost black eyes.  There is a sparkle in there and I can tell he is laughing even though his face is emotionless.  I quickly turn my head away again and Sage lets go.

"Your acting like a girl Ciel, the knights might not recruit you if you appear too weak.  Your body is already smaller than most and you don't look like you have much muscle, will you be ok?"  He asks and I look at his.  Again his face holds no emotion yet his eyes says it all.  There is concern in them and my heart skips a beat. 

"How rude!  I'll have you know that just because I'm small and look weak, doesn't mean that I can't fight," I say annoyed but in truth I just want Sage to show some emotion in front of me.  I don't like that he is not smiling and is only showing it through his eyes.

"My bad," his eyes are now amused and I decide to give up.  When no one is around, perhaps he will smile or show some sort of emotion.  "How about after the tests, I take you out and show you around the castles city," he offers and I immediately accept.

"Really!  Ok, let's do that," I say excitedly and my eyes sparkle.  Then remembering what  Sage said, I act like I didn't care, "I mean, sure I can allow that so you can redeem yourself."  Looking away, I secretly smile before an announcement is made telling us that the first test is about to begin. 

"Everyone, gather around.  As you all know, I am the head of knights Bard, the first test is going to test your strength.  Groups of ten will start at a time and if you are able to break 100 of our special training dummies, you will advance to the next round.  But be warned, these dummies are made out of tough material and it will be hard for you to destroy.  Now you may begin!"  An old man shouts enthusiastic.

No one in the first thirty groups passed yet except for the second prince who was in the third group.  So 229 people failed.  Up next is Sage and after him will be me. 

"Begin!" A younger knight with blonde shouts.  He appears to already be apart of a certain knights group, by the dark armor that he is wearing,  he should be apart of the shadow knights.

Sage takes out a silver sword thats by his side and immediately almost half maybe more of the dummies that were stacked behind on another is cut cleanly in half.  And after that, the rest of the dummies are cut down.  Everyone stares at Sage shocked and some knights that is participating along with Sage stopped are so shocked that they drop their swords.  When the young knight with blonde hair shouts that there is nine minutes out of the ten given left, they hurry and try to destroy the dummies but in the end, no one else in that group passed.