Cats claw

CHAPTER TWO

I walked around taking my picture with my friends and family, laughing and joking. I stopped dead in my tracks, Ryan was next in line for my picture, I took a deep breath and set my jaw. I walked to him, he bowed "hello Shade, congrats on the sword, and good speech, we should practice together sometime," Ryan was a gentle talker, his voice was deep and kind, and hot. We took a picture, and I moved on, "weird," I murmured and bumped into Thor, "sorry!," "thats fine, how do you feel?," Thor asked "I'm not sure yet, ask me again in a hour or so," I smiled "will do," Thor laughed and walked by. All night I made eye contact with Ryan, and they would be the same deep blue protected eyes.
When I got home I had my shower and went into bed, "tomorrow I'll go to school with my new sword, and tattoo showing," I mumbled falling asleep.
I woke up and got ready for school, it was a sunny warm day, I wore a blue shoulder shirt, and black shorts, my backpack was also blue, on the straps I added some flames, it was small and sneaky, so I was fine. I walked to school and found my best friend Christy, "how do you feel?," she asked "I feel great!, look!," I slipped my backpack strap of my right shoulder "see! My tattoo!," I exclaimed "nice I've only seen it when it peeked out from your bathing suit strap, I like it," Christy smiled. The bell rang "class!," we shouted and walked to our fencing class. We walked in and the coach Mr. Swish called "today is battle training!," "no!," sighed Christy "I hate battle training!," "I don't mind it," I said "of course you don't miss warrior," Christy smiled. We turned to go get into our gym strip, I came out with a dark blue shoulder shirt and my sword safely tucked onto my side, gasps of shock echoed around when I entered the gym. "Hello Shade, I see your ceremony was last night, why don't you tell us what your crest means?," Mr. Swish smiled "ok, well my last name is Cattra, and the cat paw is that we can be kind and gentle but we can also be stealth and dangerous, the star means that we have to stay bright even in the mist of darkness, and the flames, which are my favourite, means that the spark that starts from within can make you powerful, and strong, and can start the passion to your skill. Even the most darkest warrior can have light within." I finished and sat, then the battle training began. Mr. Swish called names to pair up, people won and people lost and went to sit in the losing circle, soon Christy got called "your be fighting JoJo," she froze and nodded, they started and they fought for two or three minutes then JoJo got her shoulder, soon it was just JoJo, Peter, Ryan and I. I thought I'd fight JoJo, I'd win, then Ryan would fight Peter and he'll win. But then Mr. Swish called "Shade, your'll be fighting this round with Peter," I looked up shocked and stood. I looked quickly at Ryan, his back was leaned against the wall and one knee raised, with his arms crossed over his knee, I walked over to the center to the room and raised my fencing sword and so did Peter, "fence!," Mr. Swish yelled. I lunged foreword and he fell back then lunged at me, I twisted away from him, he jumped towards me, I crouched down, his sword swinging harmlessly over my head. I jumped up and swung down, catching his shoulder, he stumbled in shock and gasped "your out Peter!," Mr. Swish called. "damn it!," he snapped and stomped towards Christy, when he sat next to her she stiffened "ok, Ryan, JoJo, your up next, who ever wins will fence Shade, now, fence!," Mrs. Swish replied Ryan lunged forwards and JoJo stepped aside, missing Ryan's blow by an inch. JoJo swung and met Ryan's sword half way, Ryan ducked and jabbed JoJo in the chest, "Ryan! Shade!, your next!," I stood, and walked forwards. I met his eyes, deep blue, and protected "ready?," I asked "ready," he replied "fence!," I jumped back right away knowing all his moves, and he moved left, him knowing all my moves. I jumped left almost hitting him, he swung back and aimed at my shoulder I jumped at him, he quicken his jump, and crouched, I copied him. His eyes met mine and his hands lowered an inch and I slowly tapped lightly on his chest we rose and Ryan called "I got tapped!," "Shade wins!," Mr. Swish cheered "good job!," I replied to Ryan, we shook hands and the bell rang.