“This can’t be good for your body.” I looked at the queen as she unbuckled the straps.
“There is nothing wrong with mine. Every organ is perfectly in place if that is what you are worrying about,” Lucian replied.
My legs wobbled as Queen Maggie helped me out of the chair.
That was a ride straight from hell.
Later that day,Micha showed me the soft spots that she was talking about.
He was so big that we walked underneath his body.
Lucian had paused the game so that we could assess him. She tapped on the spot on the silver flesh underneath him. That was one, but he was very protective of it. Everyone that tried to go for it, got trampled to death by his huge paws. Lucian barely made it out underneath him.
“This ankle,” Micha kicked the back left ankle, “Takes a lot of strain. He is a lefty and from what I gathered, this paw carries most of his weight. So he will protect it, Elena, as he knows this.”
I nodded.
He only had three weak spots, that was it.
“He has a fourth weakness but it won’t help you that much.”
“Oh my word, what is it!”
She laughed as Mia told me the same thing.
“Easy, you.”
I froze as heat crawled to my cheeks. “Me.”
“Yes. Or you will be.”
I got what Mia meant that it wouldn’t help me inside the ring.
I still feared him crushing me or pulling my limbs apart, releasing none of my abilities. With my abilities, I could distract him, but if he didn’t release them, I had nothing to defend myself.
We also trained one last time with Emanual. He wanted the same from me, to push the swamp or whatever my beasty was going to throw at me in that ring, back to the ring.
I did it partially, but just enough for me to see which boulder or tree was Emanual so that he didn’t catch me off guard.
Lucian told me many times that the Rubicon loved the swamp. He was once a boulder that Lucian didn’t see at all, and he saw his ass pretty fast and had loads of bruises.
Around six, Micha said her goodbyes. She wasn’t staying for tomorrow. She had to get back to my Papi. I wished they were both here.
“Remember everything that I showed you. Going for his three soft spots, might be hard, but it’s the fastest he is going to release his abilities. And then it will be downhill and you will claim your dragon.”
“A dragon wasn’t high on my list for my sixteenth birthday.”
She laughed. “We need him. I know you will do great.”
I hugged her again, and the queen gave her a small gift wrapped in red paper.
“What is this?” Micha asked.
“Something small from Elena.”
Micha’s gaze flickered to me. “Elena?”
“No, you really helped me a lot. I wished I had you for four months, then I won’t have this ball of knots inside my stomach now.”
