Family

I didn't realise how much of an effect my fight with Eric had caused. Eric was originally ranked 9th out of the first years while I had a low ranking of 280.

Usually, after basic training, we were forced to duel the person one rank above us. So a win or a loss would just end up in a swap between positions. When I had beaten Eric I had received the number nine position and he had dropped down to ten. This meant that everyone below the rank of nine had dropped down one position.

Usually, within the top ten rankings, the position would just often swap, or they would slowly rise through the ranks as Monk did. The fact that this, all of sudden happened and no one knew of a duel taking place, it was a shock to everyone.

Thankfully the ranking positions weren't publicly displayed and only recorded in our communicator. So no one had a clue that I was the one currently ranked 9th. But it didn't stop the students from talking about it. Many people had asked Eric who had defeated him but for some reason, he didn't share the information. Perhaps he was too embarrassed to tell everyone that it was me.

I was still on my hiatus from training so I used most of my time to head to the library. I tried my best to study up on any information I could find about the dragon knights and the divine being but had no real success.

When walking back to the dormitory I was surprised to see Gary and Kyle helping carry someone back to our room. The person had each of their arms wrapped around their heads. The body was covered in bandages so it was hard for me to recognize who it was.

When they entered the room, they quickly put the person they were carrying down on the bed. I had just then recognized them. The person in bandages was Monk. He looked like he had been beaten badly and even had a few of his limbs broken.

I rushed over towards the three of them.

"What happened?" I asked.

Monk wasn't even able to reply, he seemed to be unconscious at this moment.

"It was Sebastion, he did this! it happened after our training he came over and challenged Monk to a duel." Kyle said.

"Why would he do this?" I asked.

It was nearly impossible for someone to be hurt this bad in the ranking matches. The system would usually declare the other person the winner before it got this far. The only way for something like this to happen was if the other person carried on attacking after a winner was declared.

Gary was sat down on the bed next to Monk, his face was angrier than ever.

"It's all my fault, Sebastion is currently ranked 2nd on the rankings. So far he hasn't been able to beat me once during sparing. After he saw the fight with Monk and me he wanted to challenge Monk. Monk agreed but Sebastion... he just let monk tire out, after he had already beaten him he wouldn't stop attacking him. I tried to stop him with Kyle but he had his whole gang of people backing him. By the time we reached Monk he was in the state he is in now."

Monk's eyes started to open, they were so swollen all that could be seen was a small slit.

"Is that you Ray?" Monk said trying to smile.

"How are you doing? I'm sorry but I don't think I can make your bed for you today."

"That was you, but why?"

I was shocked for some reason every day when I got back my bed had been made for me the last few days, I had no clue why or who had done this and even in the situation he was in now, Monk was thinking about me.

"What do you mean, us black sashes have to help each other out, after all, were family arent we?"

Family, a word I wasn't used to much when I was a dragon and lately I had been losing a lot of my so-called human family.

Monk then turned towards Gary.

"I'm sorry Gary about our fight, I knew you weren't taking me seriously. I wanted to prove to you that I could do something, I didn't mean to take it that far."

Gary held monks hand.

"It's okay monk I know, Just get some rest, we asked Wilfred to get you a mage so you can heal quicker."

Monk had closed his eyes and fallen back to sleep.

"We have to do something about that guy, teach him a lesson, kick his ass for us, Gary," Kyle said.

"I wish I could but I can't."

Gary was clenching his fist hard.

"Why?"

Just then, another voice was heard from the corner of the room.

"Because Sebastion is part of the Delbert family."

I turned my head to see who was speaking and it was Slyvia.

Kyles's eyes had opened wide form what he had just heard.

"You mean, the Delbert family."

"Who cares about that, look what they did to Monk," I shouted, I don't know why but I was getting angry.

Slyvia started to walk over towards us.

"I don't think you understand Ray, there's a reason why he can get away with things like this. His father is the master Knight Delbert."

The fact that I had just learnt this just gave me even more reason to beat Sebastion. I never liked Delbert in the first place and it seemed he had something against me. If I could humiliate his family in the process then it would be killing two birds with one stone.

"Ray I know what you're thinking but don't do it, you could get kicked out of the school," Gary said.

"Don't worry, as long as it's through an official ranking match then I can't get in trouble, right?"

When I went to exit the room Slyvia had grabbed me by the sleeve to stop me.

"Where are you going."

"I'm going to do the same to Sebastion as he did to Monk, no one messes with my family."

Slyvia seemed to have instinctively let go of my sleeve. It seemed as if she was almost frightened of me. But I didn't care about that now, I just had one thing focused on my mind.