Chapter 0507

"I am," Luca says seriously, pushing up from the floor as he intuits that the lesson is done. "Well that taught her."

then," Blaze says, looking at him for a long second and then shifting his eyes to me. "Perhaps you can put our Ariel through a different set of paces. See if her dodging skills adapt well to a different fighting style, or if she's only able to dodge me because I'm the one My eyes go wide a bit as I start to understand Blaze's proposal. "Wait, you want me to fight Luca? Do you - do you know who he is? What he can do with those fists!?"

"You said he is your creature," Blaze says, shrugging, I think a bit pleased with himself as he turns quietly and heads towards the other door in the room - though I don't know where it leads. "I doubt he will punch you very hard, Ariel. See you tomorrow!" And with a little wave, Blaze disappears through the door.

"What do you say, gorgeous," Luca says, grinning at me and moving to the center of the room. "Wanna fight me?"

center of the room where I always start with Blaze. When I get there, Luca raises his fist into his boxer's stance, his muscles

taking up my own much less threatening stance. "Don't hit me in the face,

fists almost imperceptibly lower, but then suddenly he's moving - starting to swing. I gasp a little, taking my first step back, but Luca's fist and long arm is already there, coming from my right. I gasp a little as his fist takes me in the arm, knocking me to

size of small melons. Still, it was light enough that there's no chance that I'll even bruise - except,

at me, I think kind of loving

get pissed. "I wasn't

center and raising his fists again. I bend my knees, getting ready, and then we're off again. I duck under Luca's fist this time but Blaze was right - I was getting used to his

Blaze to stay out of Luca's reach, dodging lower and feinting different directions to confuse him. The result, I'm pleased to see,

of victory when I get there, throwing my hands up, but Luca - scoundrel he is - snarls roughly and dodges forward, wrapping his arms around me and yanking

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