Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

Chapter 108

Zenovia

Matteo walked out of the room and I fidgeted with my fingers as I heard him greet the crowd.

I did not know all of the people inside the room and it was not the time to bond over either. I was feeling nervous and second guessing if it had been the right decision to show up here when I could have been sleeping in my bed.

“Thunder?” I tried to speak to my wolf. At times like these, it was good to have her to talk to.

“You did the right thing” She replied, making my racing heart calm down a little. “Sorry to drag you here when we trained so hard in the morning” I offered but I felt her stifle a yawn.

“No worries. I never see people around us. It’s usually just the grumpy King and his minions and as Matt said, it is going to be a friendly spar. So we will be fine.” I felt relieved to hear her words which gave me some encouragement.

The next moment, the door to the common room was thrown open and we all walked outside.

The crowd erupted in cheers as we all made our way to the arena. There were referees stationed on all four sides on a small podium elevated above the boundary of the arena for them to clearly see everything.

We went inside the huge arena and I looked up. The seats were filled to the brim and people were cheering and clapping. That made me feel both nervous and excited.

Matteo made us all walk in a line to enter the sandy arena and the first twenty-five were put in one group, Team A while the rest in another, Team B.

I belonged to the first group.

“OK, you might want to remove your shoes and socks. We start on the count of three”

We did as asked and stood facing each other in a large group face-off. My heart was pouding and I felt the heartbeat drowning all the noise around me. “Your task is simple for this round. Simply push the other team members to the ground. Once your back touches the ground, you are disqualified. The team with the most members who did not fall down by the end will be the winner.”

I looked ahead at the opposite group. I barely got a chance to look at half of them when the referee announced,

“Three…two…one…go!!”

And then chaos ensued. Everybody just ran at each other and people began

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pushing at

that a few fell down when the opposing team came running at them and smacked their bodies

I had been standing a few feet away from them so narrowly avoided falling down. Our team had already lost three

“Out”

out of the arena with a disgruntled look. Our opposing team felt motivated by their headstart win and they began forming groups of two or three to repeat the technique

the loss and soon we lost two more. “Shit” I muttered and that was when the group of three

gazes quickly looked away, making me

“Oi” I shouted and ran into them as they formed a human chain and went after three more members of my group. “What are you looking at? Fight back!” I yelled at those three young boys of my group who

on all fours and snaked on the ground, crawling on all fours

“What the-”

not wait to

referee announced, “Seven all. The match will resume after two more minutes.

team glaring at me. Particularly a group of girls.

walked back to our group, Team A, most of whom were surprised that we had managed

the one who took everybody down?” A young girl

The rules didn’t state I could not crawl on all fours”

“Smart move”

too and for the first time, I felt I was a part of something, not an

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of Team B?” One of

to punch or kick at the incoming

replied, “But are you sure

fought in large groups either. But it is all about teamwork. We stand strong as a team and

did and we all formed a big human chain and ran towards the other group, making four or five of the other team fall down. “Great!! Keep up the formation!!” I yelled from the other end of the human chain as a

up, now!!” I thought on the spot and we circled the five opponents,

and punches later, they were down. They did put up a

had an upper hand. My eyes flicked to the huge timer that reflected