Like Eos and Caelum

Chapter: Confession

Chapter 2

The next morning after he finished his breakfast, Reggie head down to his office. But instead of going down to the usual route, he made a slight turn to the east wing where the military training ground located at the far end.

The east wing are specified for only militaries access, its holds the metropolis safety center and also the daemon barrier. It is the biggest section in the kingdom and was place in four place across Luminis. There are four leader who is entrust to watch over each section for security; Captain Mavic of the North Wing, Captain Hoxton of the West Wing, Captain Edward of the East Wing, Captain Kurtis of the South Wing and the Marshal Connor whom lead the Metropolis Centre security.

He passed a couple of soldiers on his way to the training room, each greet him with an awkward stance since he didn’t usually go to the room this early in the morning. The king doesn’t mind thought, he took a staircase going down to the ground, setting his foot on the soil. Reggie can already smells the earthy fragrance and it was somewhat relaxing.

The training ground is now filled with a couple of soldiers; from high-rankers to the grunts each fighting with a full spirit whenever in a fistfight or with a weapon. It bring him some nostalgic feelings when he was used to be kicked in the arse by his trainer, Nyx, every single day until he became king. Speaking of which, that older man should be in the ground, he usually spar with someone high-rank first thing in the morning; a warm-up he said. Reggie chuckle slightly remembering that, he walk pass soldiers without interrupting their fight although some still stop to give their respect to him. The further he walk inside the ground, the merrier it is. Reggie assume by the many of soldiers crowding in circle; they must’ve been watching Nyx fighting with a high-ranker again.

The hazel hair king tap one of the nearest soldier shoulder asking politely to pass through which he was given easily by everyone until he was on the front of the spectacle. Reggie was- how do you say- he was struck by what he saw in front of him; there she is, his queen face to face with his old friend, Nyx. They’re sweating really hard, clenching their wooden sword like it’s their lifeline. Kurtis was smirking, wiping off sweats from her forehead, her posture was on guard and her eyes stay sharp on alert while Nyx was frowning, the wooden sword was lift to his head as he put a defensive stance.

They was on silence for a second before Nyx charged at her and Kurtis was moving forward. Their wooden sword meet making a rough ‘clank’ sound, the older man lift his sword to a head level and swing at her with full force. Kurtis dodge every single one of them, countering his attack by swinging her sword from below. Nyx was distracted with blocking the sword he didn’t realize Kurtis’ foot was targeting his ankle, he was off-balance and the young captain took her chance to lunge at him, making a bionic elbowing at the man that he was forced to let go of his sword. Kurtis didn’t waste any times to jump and fall down on the man while driving her fist on his forehead creating a fist drop. Everyone winched seeing the action, seeing as Kurtis didn’t stop yet. She lock her arms around Nyx’s head making him gasp for air, yelling loudly asking for Nyx to yield.

Everyone was chanting for Kurtis and Reggie kind of feels bad for his friend.

“Yield, old man!” She hissed sharply, her breath quicken with strolling to hold down the wriggling big man. Nyx was not made to give up and Reggie knows that but surprisingly he drew a white flag making Kurtis let go of her iron grasp around his neck. Both sigh loudly.

The crowd was cheering wildly but none goes near the two. Reggie saw some soldiers gave money to the others, he assume they made a bet before the fight started. He look at the two of them and undeniably both looks like shit, their hair tousle wildly and their body was covered in dirt, not to mention their sticky-icky tunic. He was half-hoping he could see from the beginning, but he at least wanted to feel like his friend is still strong−even after his ass being kicked by Reggie’s future wife.