The Knights of Mount Luna

Chapter One

The sun is almost sleeping, slowly hiding behind the black mountains, the cold wind starts to touch my bruised skin. We've been here for almost three days straight and I can't even stand properly. I almost fell on the ground but luckily, I used my right knee to support my upper extremities. After being sick for a month, I know that I deserve difficult training but not like this.

"Are you just going to kneel and act like you are worshipping me? Hmm, what happened to my strongest Knight Major?" he asked me while looking at my state with his dangerous black eyes... No, it's not black...

His true blue devil eyes are just hiding with that damn darkness. He's really insulting me, huh? He's just going to stand proudly there while holding his black sword. I sighed heavily before trying to stand properly.

"Stop your bullshits, let’s just end this" I grinned at him and suddenly rush towards his direction.

Wait, where is he?! I stopped in midway and wonder where he'd go?!

A moment of silence filled the whole training ground but before I even utter a word.

"Too slow" I heard him and feel a huge amount of pain on my back. I hit my back on a freaking huge ass tree.

I can taste my own blood, what an asshole! Now, I'm frustrated! I badly want to end this but it seems that this training is only coming to its end if I can't bear to speak and stand anymore in short, he wants me to die.

I started coughing and he doesn't seem to care. This left-handed blue-eyed Knight Commander is going to be the death of me.

"Get up" he ordered me while looking at the other direction. Why? Are you feeling the guilt now?! 

I acted like I didn't hear his order. I can't stand to train with him anymore, at this rate my body will collapse, I badly need to see a healer right now. I suddenly shut my eyes close, I can remember how hard I hit my head yesterday.

"I said, get up!" he almost shouted at me but I just stared at him.

"There's no room for a weakling in this world, Euryale Stheno! Stop sitting like that and acting like you have no strength left!"

I can feel the rage on my body, how dare he to say that?! I am not acting like a weakling, if I have more strength left, he's not going to stand there properly and I will assure him that I'm not the only one who's going to be bedridden for weeks. If I can just really switch our positions right now, I would gladly do that so he'll know how much pain I'm enduring in this training.

I gathered all my strength to stand up again while doing that, one by one, the lights of the castle went open. The moon is awakening.

"I'm done" I blurted out while looking at his eyes coldly. I don't have the energy to have another debate with him.

"We are not done yet" he replied to me with the finality on his voice.

We are done, Ares. Wait, what?! That sounds something different, scratch that! I don't want to continue this anymore, I need to see a healer! He's unbelievable. Imagine, commanding every healer that no one must heal my wounds or his because they can only heal us if I succeeded in our training session.

What does he think of me? An immortal? We only have magical abilities, not immortality!

I slowly start walking and not minding him. I can feel his glaring eyes but I continue.

"One more step, Euryale Stheno and you know what will happen"

Say whatever you want to say, I just want to sleep now.

"Euryale Stheno" he called my name with more authority in his voice.

Go on, be mad at me. That's what I like because the feeling is mutual. I'm starting to hate you, even more, Blue-eyed devil.

"Knight Commander" a familiar voice suddenly comes out from nowhere. He supposedly not around! What on earth he's here right now?!

"Oh, here we go again. Your Prince in shining armor finally came to rescue his damsel. What a sweet moment, isn't it?" his sarcastic voice rings on my ears like a drum.

"You are starting to kill your own Major, Commander Ares. You have been given an authority to strengthen the forces of our kingdom and not to kill one of them. You exceeded the appropriate training hours and look at her! She can't even stand properly!"

Ares just raised his eyebrow and chuckled. He looks at me and slowly shook his head with disbelief.

"You are meddling with something you shouldn't meddle with, Prince Dimitri" he smirked before looking at me again

"Besides you don't even know why I am doing this to her"

Right now, the anger in Dimitri's eyes is evident while Ares' eyes are still looking at him annoyingly.

"I don't care about your reasons, Commander. The King will hear about this. The way you are training your inferior is still unacceptable, be ready for your consequences. And also, before training them, please, you must start to train yourself how to respect a superior" the grin on Ares' face becomes even wider after Dimitri's words.

"Go on, tell to your father whatever you want to tell him. Oh, wait! Should I come with you?" his devilish laugh!

I've never seen a blue-eyed devil laughing so gorgeously... Wait, what?! Gorgeously, my ass.

"Those two words are not on my vocabulary, Prince Dimitri." he shifted his gaze towards me.

"I am doing this for her own sake. After a month of being sick and not getting proper training, here you are expecting me to be easy on her?" he's talking to Prince Dimitri but his eyes are all on me. The way he emphasized every word that escaped his lips was annoying, to be honest.

"Enough, I don't want to hear your excuses, Commander"

Oh, come on! Why is Dimitri coming in my direction?!

I can smell his strong perfume, the mixture of musk and red roses. Sweet but sexy... I immediately look at Ares and he starts walking in our direction, what is he doing?! Does he want to pick a fight with the First Prince just because of me?

"Those are not excuses, Dimitri," he said while gently tapping Dimitri's shoulder

"She needs to suffer to survive in a bigger war, you are not the one who's going to risk your own life and I can't always save someone who's going to die in a middle of battle" he looked at me and also looked at Dimitri's eyes, he raised an eyebrow and I can clearly see how his jaw tightened. Damn, are you mad or what?!

"Just a piece of advice, next time, stop sticking your nose in someone else business, ha?"

Before walking away, I caught a glimpse of his eyes. It turned blue...

That's a sign that his power is overflowing. He's really mad. Even if Dimitri has the gift of lightning, he doesn't stand a chance to Ares if they will fight each other.

"He's annoying" he murmured to my ear and gently placing his head on my shoulder. I can feel the nervousness on my body, I don't want anyone to see us this way.

It's just actually inappropriate. We're close to each other because I came to this place when I was 7 and he's 12 at that time. We trained, slept, ate, and played together but when I started to understand our difference that he is indeed a Prince, I told myself that I shouldn't be too close to someone like him even more now that I'm one of their Knights.

"I need to go, Prince Dimitri" he slowly gets his head upon my shoulder.

"You're still avoiding me?" he asked while pouting. Come on, you can't use that to me anymore. You're 25, not 12!

"I need to find an available healer now. See you around, Prin---"

"Stop calling me Prince" he cut me off and looked away

"Prince Dimitri, we've talked about this a hundred times. You are a prince and I am just your Knight Major."

He looked at me with his pleading golden eyes, I am very sorry but I am just doing what's right.

"But...You're not just a knight..." he pouted and I can't help but to sigh heavily.

"I need to go, see you around"

I slightly bow at him as a sign of respect and run as fast as I could even if I can't feel my legs anymore. Why is this training ground so far from the Clinic?!

"Eury!" he instantly grabbed me to sustain my balance. I almost fell on the ground again. The throbbing of my head is getting worse, this is his entire fault.

"Are you all right? What happened to you?" Eros asked me. I just looked at him and didn't say anything, he has the resemblance of his brother. From the color of their hair to the color of their lips aside from the color of their eyes, Eros have reddish colored eyes while that devil has the damn blue eyes.

"Stop staring at me, I don't want to die!"

I came back to my senses and tried to sit on a step of a stair.

"Careful!" he looked at me deadly and pout afterwards.

It's like I'm with the second version of that devil but this one is way better.

"Ah! Why are you staring at me?! I told you, I don't want to die early!" his face is really funny right now. He's so frustrated just because I am staring at him. He messed his already messy hair. He is literally a kid. I let out a soft chuckle and just shook my head in disbelief.

"Stop messing your hair," I stopped his hand and continue laughing.

"Just answer my question first, you look terrible" he looked at my state and pout again.

"You just came back from being sick and now, you look like you came from a terrible battle"

Come on, he's still pouting. I can't help but smile, after dealing with two headaches, I am dealing with a kid now. He's not a kid but he's acting like 10 years old even if he's already 17.

"Call Elaine, I can't make it to the clinic" I commanded him.

"Fine but I'm going to tell Mom what Ares did to you!" I just shook my head to him, even if I didn't answer his question, he already knows where I got these wounds.

I squinted my eyes because of the sudden pain in my head again. Eros is taking too long, I gritted my teeth and starts to walk to the clinic's direction. If I will wait for him, I'm going to die.

"Knight Major!"

A nurse shouted upon seeing my condition, I caught their attention but I remained silent. One of the nurses rushed to me and immediately helped me to lay on a bed.

"Knight Major, I'm going to remove your armor"

"Just do your job!" I almost shouted at her because of the pain. It is not supposedly hurting this much, my back should but not my head.

I bit my lower lips because of the pain all over my body but after a minute I slowly feel at ease, there's a healer on my side now, I can feel her presence.

"Where's Knight Major Euryale! Is she here?!"I heard Eros' voice, he must be so furious because I'm gone where he left me minutes ago.

"I'm here..."

That's almost a whisper but I bet one of the nurses told her where I am.

"Why did you leave?! You asked me to find Elaine then when we came back, you are nowhere to be found!" he's still catching his breath because of running and speaking too quickly, I didn't open my eyes, I just smile at him. I just want to assure him that I'm fine.

"Shh, I'm going to sleep," I told him and I can feel myself slowly drowning to darkness. Before sleeping peacefully, I can hear him saying something about Ares but I can't understand it anymore...

"He told me to..." that's the last word I can understand from Eros before finally going to the dreamland.