Love Tale || JINHWI

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A woman who is an animal lover was playing with her elephant by the water. She was smiling and laughing of joy as she was being hit with water from her elephant. The elephant noticed something floating across the water and walked towards it.

"Sally? Where are you going? Don't go too far out!"

She shouted as she stood up to see where Sally, elephant name, don't judge, was going. Once she realizes what Sally was going for, she hurried to the edge of the shore line to make sure what she was seeing is real.

"Sally, be careful when picking him up."

She continues as she watches Sally pick up the body and walk back to the shore laying the body down on the rock. She examined the body then noticed the sword in his hand. That didn't stop her from wanting to help. Elephant then started to rumble while watching what's happening.

Feeling the sun beaming at his face, Jinyoung's face scrunches up before slowly opening his eyes. He stood up slowly, still regaining his strength. He then noticed his change of clothes.

"Where am I?"

He thought as he walked out to find a group of ladies doing a routine. Walking passed them, he was met with one in the middle section. She noticed his presence then stopped what she was doing then approached Jinyoung.

"How are you feeling?"

She asked, Jinyoung was glad he was decent with his 2nd language. No struggles in translation, for the time being till he gets back home.

"I'm well now, thank you. Uh.. where are we?"

Jinyoung responds as he looked around him, when he look back at the woman in front, she smiled.

"Same country as you came over. Different city though. Here this is where we practice with our flexibility."

A spark of memory flashed in Jinyoung's head about the sword he was carrying.

"My-"

"Your weapon was confiscated before I took you to that place you came out of. If you want it back, you know you will have to do something."

Jinyoung gulped, she noticed the tension in Jinyoung then smiled softly.

"Don't worry, I think you can get it back easily."

She then started to walk showing Jinyoung a quick tour around the place while going to the training grounds, where Jinyoung's sword was kept. Jinyoung took in a lot of facts about the history that he's walking over which excites him a bit. They got to the training field, sure they were a lot of soldiers fighting one and another.

"The guy up ahead is who you need to talk to. Your sword is there next to him."

She said then left Jinyoung alone, Jinyoung looked ahead to see the guy staring at him. He walked over then stood in front of the guy while glancing at the sword.

"Where did you get this particular sword? Nowadays I never thought someone like you would hold one. Do you even know how to yield it?"

"I... I'm not sure.."

"Alright then, you can fight the gladiator here."

"A what-"

Jinyoung flinched when a blade landed right in front of him. The person grabbed his weapon while giving Jinyoung the dirty look and towards the sword too. The person gave Jinyoung his sword and they walked towards the middle. The person did tricks while preparing to fight while Jinyoung just laid the sword out waiting for the opportunity.

[Medieval]

Jinyoung was given a quick training before he has to go run off to meet Daehwi. Jinyoung was only using a sword while the other held a shield and sword. They were surrounded by the larger shields that was used in battle. They were only able to stay within the small square arena. Silence approached and quickly dispersed as the opponent rushed on Jinyoung. Sound of sword clashing to another and a shield surely sounds entertaining even when you hear someone being pinned against the outer shield. The two went back and forth colliding along with the shield. Jinyoung just happened to be lucky and somehow pierced through the opponent's shield. Forcefully taking it out of the opponent's grip, he threw it away while knocking the opponent down. He lowered the tip of sword at him before knowing his match was over. He pulled back and reached his hand out to his fallen opponent.

"Done better than last time, try using another set of your sword, you should work better without that shield."

Jinyoung suggested to him then take his leave through the open gap of the outer shields. Before he fully left the arena, he looked up to see the prince and emperor standing as if they were watching the match. He saw the excitement in the prince's eyes then looked back down to avoid showing his smile. Daehwi was going to wave but his chance was gone as his father left and Jinyoung looked away. He hurried to catch up with his father to continue their normal usual walks.

"Father, when am I leaving to do your work again?"

"Ah you really are impatient huh? Next month, you'll be fine till then. I assigned General Bae's group to watch over you on your trip."

"General Bae? The one that we just watched, right?"

Daehwi asked pretending that he doesn't know Jinyoung like that. He saw his father nodded, he celebrated on the inside while keeping his posture. Looking up at the sky, Daehwi remembered something that was meant to happen soon. And yet he still haven't gone to the location.

"Father, I'm gonna go first this time okay? Tomorrow, let's continue, yeah?"

"Ah yeah, go ahead. Just be careful wherever you going."

"I will, return home safely and rest well!"

Daehwi bowed quickly to his father then ran off to go to that location. Let's just say that if you see a prince running to one side then a second later you see him again going the other way, just know that he is panicked enough to forget everything.