Have a Heart

"Yeah, I guess it is kind of like siblings," Daniel replied with a smirk. "Can't live with them, can't live without them either."

"I could Hella live without Ellona." Gregory rolled his eyes, pulling the tunic on and fastening his belt. "So where would you like to go first?"

"Hmm, where's the most interesting place?" asked Daniel.

"My garden or the training yard." Gregory replied. "or at least those are my favorite places."

"Let's go to the training yard then," Daniel replied.

"Okay." Gregory smiled. "Do you want to take the stairs down? Or scale the wall? The wall's quicker"

"Scale the wall," Daniel replied.

"Alright" Gregory smiled. He moved over to a rope tethered to the window. "Heroes first."

Daniel easily descending down the rope. He had to do stuff like this for training since he was five.

Gregory descended soon after. "Well that was fun" He grinned. "Training ground is this way" He started off.

"Alright," said Daniel, following.

"You have to be careful when you visit the training grounds. Sometimes the matches can get intense" Gregory stated, turning the corner.

Ellona was there, in a green tunic and breeches, practicing her hand to hand with a larger man who looked to be having a hard time keeping up.

"There's the royal terror herself," Daniel remarked with a slight smirk. "Who is she fighting?"

"Looks like one of the newbs." Gregory stated.

The man tried a simple move to knock Ellona off her feet, but Ellona jumped and kicked him in the face, making him stumble back and fall on his ass.

"Yep, one of the newbs"

Daniel smirked a little. "Apparently so."

Ellona brushed her hair out of her face. "Who's next?" She growled, looking to the other recruits.

The other recruits suddenly became very busy.

Daniel stepped forward. "You fight well, Ellona. You earn your reputation."

Ellona glared at him. "I don't need your praise" She practically spat.

"Claws, retract them" Gregory muttered dryly.

"Shut up twerp." Ellona glared.

"Would you prefer a battle then?" asked Daniel. He would have liked to have seen more of her fighting, but none other of these possible combatants were acting very brave right now.

"Pick your poison" Ellona growled "I'll kick your ass any day of the week"

"Does right now sound good?" asked Daniel with a slight smirk.

"If you like being humiliated" Ellona replied.

"I'm not worried," Daniel replied coolly, and he wasn't. He was trained by the best, and while he didn't completely believe in bloodline theory he felt it did make some difference.

"Then pick your weapon." Ellona replied coolly.

Daniel glanced upon the weapons and picked out a long rod.