Dragon Breeder 1 by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“All right,” Saya said, “you need to lose any jewelry, your belt, your shirt, and your boots.”

I had to laugh at that. It was turning out to be quite a lot like Fight Club.

“What’s so funny?” Saya asked.

“Nothing,” I said. “Just noticing certain similarities.”

As I pulled off my jacket and began to unlace my Timberlands, I had a quick glance around the chamber. It was obvious that the cleared space in the middle of the cavern was the fighting floor. It was about as rudimentary a combat space as you could possibly get, and I imagined that was exactly why the squad-choosing fights were fought here. There was no way that anyone could gain an advantage from the environment itself, as there was none. The fighting arena was literally a bare dirt floor.

There’s always something you can use as a weapon, I reminded myself. Even if it is just a floor to bounce someone’s head off.

“Hey, have you thought about who you’re going to call into the arena first?” Saya asked me, taking my jacket from me and watching me as I unbuttoned my shirt. “Have you thought of the order you want to face your opponents?”

“Are you going to tell me anything about them that might sway my decision?” I asked.

“No,” Saya said simply.

“Thought not,” I said, pulling my shirt off and handing it to her. I rolled my shoulders, twirled my arms, and touched my toes a few times. I straightened up and saw that Saya was looking at me approvingly. “What?” I asked.

“I just… I mean, I have heard so little of Earth and its inhabitants,” she said. “The last Earthling dragonmancer we had was in her dotage when I first arrived and had taken up a post as a Master of Histories. I never saw her leave her library and workroom. She was a brilliant tactician, but I could never imagine her as a frontline warrior. You though…” She reached out a hand, traced light fingers across the muscles of my chests, and ran her hand down to trace the lines of my obliques.

I grabbed her hand to stop it traveling even further south. “Ah, I’m trying to get my head in the game here,” I chided her good-naturedly. “Kind of hard when my imagination is running all over the place. Besides, you’ve seen all this and more, you minx.”

Saya gave me a small smile. “I’m sorry,” she said. Then she cleared her throat and said, “You have nothing to fear, I think. You look strong. Stronger even than I thought at first.”

“Rosco would be glad to hear that,” I said.

“Who’s Rosco?” Saya asked.

“My old trainer back on Earth,” I said. “Now, I think I’ve got my order sorted. I’m going to start with Rupert and knock him out as fast as I can. I don’t want to embarrass him too much in front of these people, who I think have a pretty low regard for him.”

“Admirable but, as a dragonmancer, an unnecessary concern,” Saya said.

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