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

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

so

“Out”

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

lost two more. “Shit” I muttered and that was when the group of three noticed me.

gazes quickly looked away, making me fume in

of my group. “What are you looking at? Fight back!” I yelled at those three young boys of my group who nodded furiously and raised their hands to hurl a punch.

At this rate, we would lose pretty soon. So I crouched on all fours and snaked on the ground, crawling on all fours while making my

“What the-”

the back of their knees and they all went down easily. I did not wait to see their reaction and quickly went toward the other group that was utilizing a similar tactic.

“Seven all. The match will resume after two

the opposing team glaring at me. Particularly a group

to our group, Team A, most of whom were surprised that we

everybody down?” A young girl asked

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

“Smart move”

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

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we tackle the rest of Team B?” One of the boys asked and I answered.

hands tightly. Use shared strength to punch or kick at the incoming attacks. But if we lose balance, then we let go of the

The girl from earlier replied, “But

head, “I haven’t fought in large groups either. But it is all about teamwork. We stand strong as a team

to me but they 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 spot and we circled the five opponents, leaving the remaining

they were down. They

My eyes flicked to the huge timer that reflected the