Rise of the Malactric Heir

After finishing his cold orange juice and eating, Alix and the others went out to the valley to train, while Adora watched from her balcony and noticed Alix and the others had improved in hand-to-hand combat.

"Maybe I will join them," Adora said as she left her room and went to the valley.

"Do you mind if I keep an eye on you guys?" Adora inquired, after arriving and they all looked at her.

"Sure, take a seat, you look sleepy too," Alix replied, and Adora scoffed before sitting under a tree, listening to her music and watching them train to see if she could help them improve more if she found something lacking.

"Sarah, you need to focus more, trust yourself," Adora said, and Sarah smiled before taking a deep breath and attempting to focus more because she was worried about what might happen and if they got into a serious fight now, if they would lose, and her concern was completely understandable to the others.

"Place your energy within the sword, focus on your environment," Kyris said, and Sarah sighed, focusing on everything around her. Her sword began to glow bright blue, and when she struck one of the trees, half of it fell to the ground and the other half remained standing, and she smiled when she opened her eyes.

"That's good; you're progressing quickly, pretty sure you can do more damage though," Ayden said, and Adora smiled.

"He's right, Sarah, there's no need to hold back, don't be afraid of hurting us," Adora said, and Sarah smirked.

"I know," she replied, "but I'd rather take it easy for now."

"As long as that's what you want, go ahead," Adora said, and the girl resumed her training.

"Adora, come train with me," Alix said and she looked at him as he approached her and she scoffed then took her headphone off and looked at him.

"Sure," she said as she stood up, and he smirked.

"I remember I said I would train with you, come at me when you are ready, don't push it though, I am a bit off balance right now," she said and he grinned then she looked at the time and saw it was getting close to night.

"All right, I'll come at you," he replied, and she smiled.

"Pick up a long piece of stick, we'll be doing close combat, let's put your skills to the test," she said, smiling, and Kyris went to get both of them long sticks, which they collected and pointed at each other.

"Begin," Kyris said as the two charged at each other, their sticks clashing like swords, and Sarah smiled.

"It's like sword fighting, you have to be good at close combat as well," Sarah said as Alix moved quickly and was about to hit Adora from behind, but she jumped up in the air and kicked him in the stomach, shoving him away, and he smiled as she turned to face him.

"I'm not seeing double, Alix has improved," Sarah said.

"Yeah, he has," Kyllan replied as Adora rushed towards Alix and he blocked her attack, then moved quickly, hitting her on her feet and she was about to trip, but she balanced herself on her hand, then spun around and was about to kick him, but he flicked back with a grin.

'He has grown enough to keep up with me, he has grown a lot more, nice,' Adora thought as she looked at him.

"Here I come," he said as he rushed towards her, and as he was about to strike, but she did a split, then jumped up in the air, and he smirked upon seeing his opening, and as she flicked over him and was about to land on her feet, he spun around, kicking her beside her knees, causing her to trip, then grabbed her by the arm, hitting Adora against the ground, and the others left staring as she kneed him by his side, grabbed him by the arm and pulled him into an arm bar.

"You've gotten really good," she said and he smirked, then his eyes glowed red and he pulled his arm out of the arm bar, then she jumped up and before she could make a move, he kicked her by the leg, held onto her arm and pulled her against the ground, pinning her while being upright over the girl, then she smiled while staring him in the eyes.

"This doesn't feel like a win," he said as he noticed her right knee by his side, then she grinned and he got off of her and assisted her in getting up.

"You won by a second, you should be proud of yourself," Kyris said.

"I won't call this a victory; I only got her because I caught her off guard for a split second; she's as slippery as a snake, hard to catch," he replied, and the others laughed, before Adora smiled.

"No, you even, managed to take advantage of me being off guard for just a second, that is more than progress," Adora said. "You saw an opening and took it by kicking me by my knee and using your own strength to get out of my arm bar, you won."

"I'm not going to change my mind, and you still owe me an extra training session, using our powers, though this was helpful, I need to work on my speed more," he replied, and Adora sighed in relief.

"I'm glad the training is paying off for all of you, and Alix, we'll have another round this time using your powers, I promise," she said, to which he smiled slightly.

"It's already night, guys," Zavis said, "and I'm hungry."

"Me too," Zack replied, and the others chuckled as thunder rumbled and lightning flashed in the sky, then they returned to the castle.

"You guys ready for dinner?" the king asked when they entered the living room and saw him sitting there while Vince was on his phone his father got him.

"Sure, I am kind of hungry too," Adora replied then he smiled and they went to the dining hall where the maids had everything set up then sat down and they took their food and began eating.