Friendship 18

I hated this game immediately. I'm nobody's possession. If Lucien thinks I'm his, he is mistaken. I don't think I can practice with him sniffing around me. I still had plans to entrap him with my charms, but I don't want him to own me. I want him pliant, not difficult. I have no idea how to convince him to leave me alone. Now that he is my trainer, I hardly think he will let me go.

"You don't train anymore?", asked a voice behind me, it was Lucien. He looked serious, but I could see amusement in his eyes. I couldn't believe he is serious about us. "I thought you were joking ", I said. "I don't joke at all", said Lucien. I rolled my eyes. "I think it's a joke, are you even qualified to train me?", I asked. He cocked his head and said, "I'm more than qualified. I have waged and won many wars. Amir could only teach you theories while I know the practical which is more useful to you ", said Lucien.

"I want you to train me, but I have some conditions though", I said. He just looked at me, his eyebrows raised. "First one, you will not kiss me again. The second one you will allow me to train with Amir as well, and finally, you will treat me with the same respect you give anyone else here", I told him with my arms crossed.

He pursed his lips and said, "Done. I heaved a sigh. I will let him entertain himself for a while, thereafter, when he slacks I will strike he won't know what hit him. "Now I have a condition. I don't want you talking to any other person here except Amir, he said. "What that rule makes no sense", I told him. "And yours does?", asked Lucien. "Mine were clear, not some absurdities like yours", I shot back.

"What about no kissing rule?", he asked me. "I hate it when you treat me like a whore", I told him. My voice nearly breaking by the end. His expression went from surprise to frustrated.

"I have never treated you like a whore Mara", his voice surprisingly tender. "Never except today ", I told him. "If I made you feel cheap, forgive me. I won't do that again ", he told me.

"Ok. If we are done, I want to get back to training", I told him. "I have one more condition. If you want me to train you, I want you to be my friend ", he told me. "You want me to be your friend ", I almost shouted in surprise. "Why are you surprised? Why do you think I'm your enemy? ", he asked me. Because your father killed my parents I thought,, but I didn't say that. Instead, I said, "Because I'm a human, and you are a Lyman".

"That doesn't make us enemies ", he said. "Then what else does?", I asked him. "Your mind makes us enemies ", he said. I reluctantly smiled at him and said, "Ok, I will tell my mind that you are not my enemy any more ". "Friends?", he asked me, raising his hands towards me. I gave him my hand and said, "Friends". I added in my mind for now because I didn't know what will happen in the future.

He asked me to go to an empty area no one was training there. "Why is this place empty? ", I asked him. The entire place was packed except this corner. "Because it's mine. I have asked Amir to not let anyone train here", he said. "So can I train here?" I asked him. "Yes of course ", he said. I could tell he was trying at this Friend's thing. I hardly doubt it will last until then I will enjoy this little perks of being friends with the prince.

"I know you don't have any basics, so it must be better for you to train and put up some weight because I don't want you to hurt you", he told me. I didn't have much time to waste in that respect, it could take months to gain that much weight. "No, I want to train I don't care if I got hurt, I told him. I know I was being childish,, but I know I will get my way. He sighed because he knew it was useless to fight with me.

"We will start with some basics. I want to avoid teaching you an attack because it's useless,, so my first advice would be to run as fast as you can", he said. "So you think I could outrun a lycan?", I asked him. He didn't reply,, but I knew he didn't know what to teach me because I was perishable. Anyone could kill me, and I stood no chance unless armed with a bow and arrow. This training was only to appease him. My real training will begin with Amir. It never hurt to learn a few tricks. Some of them I could incorporate into my archery.

"I know I should teach you against humans,, but I'm assuming they are no threat to you like us. Also, I worry about you running around with a lot of lycans. So, I want you to kick ass any lycans who tries to grope you. Understand? ", he asked. I smiled at him. He had some wild notion like I was the prettiest girl in the world, though he has a point there are hardly any woman here. So out of scarcity, I could be the hottest commodity.

He taught me some basic self-defense moves. The first one was to block and second to punch and third to run. I didn't like the running part,, but I did as he asked. I managed to get some key information from him. Lycans were vulnerable most when they were hit on the heart. If I'm strong enough I could stop their heart with one punch,, but he didn't think I could be that strong ever. He didn't think any human could. But an arrow could do that job, I thought. I know now training with him was the best decision ever.