chapter 8 waking in valyria (6)

There are many words to use and describe bahamut, Majestic and beautiful are one of them but from the build on him he would grow to be a war machine that nothing would stand, before bahamut everything be it dragons, men or beast would be either food or fodder.

Rubbing the scale of his neck he purrs in satisfaction, the other come closer and bahamut turns to them then looks away. Taking it as a sign they inch closer and rub as well.

We feed him the fish we brought and I entertained the thought of mounting him because although he is young his strength is far beyond a dragon his size but still I chose to wait till his bigger which will not take too long at the rate his growing. My siblings and fiancee use their horns to call for their dragons my brother's dragon had blue scales and some white scales spotted around the chest and stomach areas with a lot of spikes on the tail making it look like a morningstar, my sister's dragon was brown and looked like it's on steroids with it's hulking muscle for it's age, a testament to how the exercise and diet she puts it through is playing out then there be my fiancees which is bigger than the two and has red scales with black horns and spikes jotting down the back till tail.

I could already see them laying wastes to armies not because I want it to happen but because it is bound to happen, the dragons aren't for fancy and intend to use them to secure my kingdom in the future.

For some reason all three of their dragons were hatched at the same period, only Eliana's elder brother who is older than me by four years hatched his separate and much earlier, his name is aether carax by the way and I have not seen him for quit some time now, I guess his heir duties are keeping him away as soon as he came of the age. Come to think of it I remember something the system said about two new war units or something.

"gods, brother your dragon is growing too fast, I think it's beaten dad's record and would brake his size and house magear's prized dragon belfar the sky eater" says Selina.

"I have not seen belfar before but for the title sky eater it most be large" nods branton

"Well I have and I can say the name is well deserved but the record will go to bahamut from what we are seeing" reply's Eliana

Bahamut puffs his chest at the words of praise coming his way, showing he understands human speech. Although dragons understand valyrian but it's mostly commands, they are not stupid in anyway but still the have limits to understanding but it seem not to apply to tempests dragons.

"Aww look his puffing his chest out"Selina "that's so cute"

" " Viston

" "Eliana

" "Branton

" "bahamut

"My lady forgive me, but which part of bahamut looks cute" the dragon keeper scratches his head

"Well we could always fix that with a dress " replies selina

Bahamut took a stance, looks like his ready to fly away to defend his honor or die trying.

"I am speechless truely"I reply slowly.

We feed them again and get on the carriage heading to the training grounds we use near our castle.

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POV- foton veldora

Location- main castle training grounds

The words of my brother from the morning still rings in my head, in order to save us all he is giving himself up to the gods. Although I always blamed for Sheria, my wife's death. If he hadn't been so full of him self and charge with his dragon against the prior plan she would have still been with us. Still I forgave him as he is my brother and I couldn't find my self striking him I left and only came back after branton was born.

I know this is way of atonement and if given the choice I'll take his place but he says the sacrifice needs his blood as it's stronger magically and his dragon as well so he is the most suitable for this.

Some might think me weak to still love him the way I do but no it's the same for him, he would do the exact same for me and the family, he would forgive, he would sacrifice himself and that is strength not weakness, that is us veldoras.

He called me aside to apologize once again, he regrets his younger days and all it's foolishness. We sat for sometime as he talked about many regrets and ask me to guide viston as he would be gone by the time viston is to rule valyria reborn, to protect him form his enemies and himself.

And that I shall.

I hear footsteps coming towards the training ground and it must be them, as i cleared the grounds today just for them as i usually do.

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"Ah, what I'll give to skip this today"whines branton

"Haha to bad so sad" Snickers Selina in reply to branton's wailing.

"Man up bran" Eliana say to branton "we are already here and it's not like it would kill you to train"

Just at the end of the passage we see the open training ground, with racks full of different blunt weapons, the spears, swords and the like and right to the side you could see the archery set up.

At the middle of the middle of it all was my uncle foton looking as dashing as ever. Walking up to him we greet him.

"How was your lessons with aldin"he asks

"Well it was as exhausting as auntie said it would"replies selina

"Hmm, well you guys don't really have much I could teach you except to improve what I have taught, so we would pair you up against a knight each from now on " uncle continues "except you branton stop looking like you evaded an arrow, you still need a lot of work on your forms your learning slower because your not putting your mind to this"

"Sorry" branton bows his head

"Well boys come on up" uncle motions for the men staying near the walls to come forward. Each of them were tall and buff carrying a great sword but changed it for a training sword to begin "they are Samuel, erit and abimal, they will train with you everyday and if you need more guards to train with you would ask them the will bring the remaining guards I have assigned to help you improve"

"As for you branton we are in this together" my uncle says as his gaze fix's on my brother and I wish him good luck as it seems my uncle is out to wip him into proper shape.

Erit steps forward to me, Samuel to my sister and abimal to my fiancee. We pick or weapons, I my spear my sister her sword and Eliana her dual blade.

And I go into serious mode as I and my opponent circle each other, seeing as I would not make the first move he charges at me with his sword going for a stab which I allow to come close then side stepped and he changes while in the motion to a slash and I blocked it with my spear shaft, using the more force I get him off balance as he didn't expect me to have such monster like strength then I kicked him in the stomach sending him to the ground.

"Stop! Viston I want you to go again but not with your full strength, I want to see skill not your strength" says my uncle looking exasperated "skill is what I want you to work on "

"I understand"

"So go again if one is easy you will go on to three knights" my motions for two more of his men to fall in this time everyone of them is with a shield as well.

'Well this is...going to be fun actually' I think with a smile

Glancing at my sister I see her go at it with the knight known as Samuel they move back and forward and she flips, slashes and staps. Then my Eliana beating back her knight with her dual blades that could detach and attach within seconds giving her style a unique and deadly beauty to it like an evening dance with death and the blade clashing are the music.

I focus back to my now three opponents with thier shields at a ready as the close in on me from all around. I don't let them get close using my spear length advantage I attack the one from my left with a low strike to his knee he uses his shield to block low while keeping his sword ready to reflect or go on the attack while the one at my right charges in, I pull back my spear and throw it backwards using the end point to hit him right on his forehead as he didn't expect me to be able to react with my weapon quick enough, the third guy comes at me with a shield bash and I go rotate my spear going for his ankle which connects and the first guy comes to his rescue and we engaged going back and forward then I deflect another strike from the other two, I could finish this fast if I add more power to my strikes but I guess my uncle wants me to do this as though I'm fighting someone on my level or something. I know my uncle could take me on and win even if he didn't have my strength he was still strong and had a lot of experience.

So I keep going at it as the knights adjust to my pace and attacks I adjust to their team work although i know they are holding back, I've heard of our family knights and let's say you don't want to be caught in the middle of two in a fight as they are taught to fight well together and predict their partners move. So although it looks like they are being teased they are actually learning each other, I could prevent this in one strike but where is the fun in that.