Dragon Academy

Chapter 10

I am a tracker, someone who waits and observes before attacking.

Being born with a smaller frame on average even for females, I had more of a disadvantages physically especially in this male dominated challenge. I excelled at long distance battles and struggled with close encounters.

So this challenge may be the most difficult one for me.

The rules were simple.

I just need to survive...to be one of the last five.

One thing I was proud of was my speed. I had made it to the forest first and had the advantage to proceed with my plan without hindrance.

I found one of the taller trees and had scaled it in a couple of heart beats. My back and arm muscles stretched in that familiar way I was accustomed to.

Perching myself comfortably on a thick Branch, I braced myself behind a cover of leaves. I looked across the field as the battle on the open field was getting more bloody. As a tracker, I honed my eyesight and sometimes I can use my dragon bond to see farther.

Already half the competitors had withdrawn from the challenge as there were also some who were left bloody and unmoving on the field. Dead.

Having sympathy on a battlefield only spells out disaster. But I did feel pity as many people place their selves out of their depths in order to gain a small piece of a faraway dream.

Some of the other competitors had just now also reached the forest to get away from the battle.

At this moment as chaos reigned and the spectators roared in excitement, I realized that, I wasn't scared.

I felt oddly comfortable as the feeing of adrenaline expanded my senses to a familiar place. Whenever I focus my concentration heightens and I block out the Distraction as I focus only on my steady breathing.

I pulled my bow out as I knocked an arrow. Waiting.
.....

The sun dipped further down as time slowed down. From a hundred to a couple dozen competitors were left.

The remaining people were in hiding. To be exact there were 27 people left.

I could sense them.

I could hear The blood flowing through their veins and smell the fear in the air.

In my mind I was able to observe this as if I was looking down on the field. I had slowed my breathing and my blood ran colder as I become more invisible.

Due to the stale mate that the remaining competitors were in, I knew that a change would occur.

I sensed it before I saw it.

A tree to my left began to shake before it shrank back into the earth.

The examiners were changing the field.