Right then, though, a sound like two metal bars clashing was sent flying through the gathering. One of the claws was parried by the sheath of her Brigid’s weapon. A second later, the same happened to the second one. The thin Firbolg then started a barrage of strikes and swipes, aiming at any weak point he could conceive. He had a height advantage over her, but he never found an opportunity to use that leverage over her. Any time he tried to move in a more favorable position, Brigid would slightly tilt her body in his direction, switch the scabbard between her arms and enter a pose for a parry. When he picked a fight with her, he wasn’t expecting to be against someone with such training.
Still, he had other tricks up his sleeve. Using a faint kick he successfully tricked her to make a jump backwards, during which he launched his real strike. He quickly stretched his left leg into a wide arch backwards, then launched it into the air forwards and brought it down into an axe kick. The momentum gained by the large distance and speed pushed Brigid over her limit when she tried to shield herself from the strike, forcing her to drop the scabbard while defending. But before it could hit the ground, something made it fly towards his face, far too fast for him to dodge it. In a moment spurred by intuition, Brigid kicked the sheet as hard as he could, freeing her from the grip of the kick and she was now on the counterattack.
A quick burst from the spot made her sprinting look like that of an animal, launching itself towards its prey, making the viewers unsure if there was something wrong with their vision. She caught the scabbard once more, and with a swift turn around, she hit him another time, putting all of her might into the blow, making him spin around from the hit and landing face-first into the ground.
With that, she declared herself “ The winner!” But before she could gloat and celebrate her victory, a harsh and angry voice from the public made her cower in sweat. “ Ahhh…damn it. Morning street cleanings for a month probably. If I’m lucky.”
-” Teacher!” exclaimed Brigid in a forced surprised tone, attempting to mediate the situation. “ I’m so glad to see you back. And here…right now…”
-” Brigantia, who is this girl?”
She didn’t know if that was a trick question or a genuine one, so she wasn’t sure what the right answer was. “ Uh…that’s Aime, the human I’m taking care of whil…”
-” Exactly, she is supposed to be under your care and supervision!”. His yell turned the previously brash fighter into a small jelly of a person now. She was expecting him to give her a lecture about the fight, but she wasn’t expecting this kind of explosive reprimand from Perren. For the next two to three minutes he repeated to a silent Brigid all about the responsibilities when tasked with taking care of others.
-” But she seemed serious to me”, replied Aime in her defence. “ I told you, that guy tried to steal my glove, Brigid only tried to help me.”
-” I thought you said that he stole the glove, not tried to”.
-” Thanks for the assist, goalie, I appreciate it. But Perren is kind of right, I did promise to keep you safe.” She sighs, turning now towards her teacher. “ I wanted to show her some fun places around here, and one thing led to another…then I kinda irked into a fight. It was all my fault, teacher.”
Perren could only reply in an exasperated sigh, and while still miffed by the situation, he did feel a slight sense of pride when he saw her student winning using his teachings. “ We’ll talk about this later. And your punishment. Of which your parents will agree of, trust me!”
-” I know”, she acknowledged, knowing that appealing to her father wasn’t going to help her out.
-” Now, can you open your mouth for me? I had a worrying discussion with Victor before I even got into the city.”
Catching up to what he meant, she did as requested and pointed to her new molars, explaining afterwards how Victor’s food helped her out in the end. “ I don’t know what you’re so worried about, to be honest. He kinda trashed us around, but we managed to hold our ground this time!”
-” No, that just means he was just playing around. Trust me, Victor is not the kind to be holding back when wants to ‘trash around’. Ugh, that looks fine enough. I’m guessing that Arim and Zinc are also healed up as well?”
-” Yap.”
-” Alright, I think I won’t check up on them then. I still need to bring Ashen the cracked container for his ritual. Brigantia, don’t make that pact yet, we’ll talk about it later!”
Brigid then stood up, facing her teacher with a straight face and straight, upward back. “No offense sir, but this is not your decision to make. I’m of the same age as Arim and he and Zinc made a pact without any fuss from you.” The girl was having more and more problems to restrain her irritation.
-” True, but Arim has more experience than you ” Perren tried to reply, but his tiredness stopped him from formulating a more reasonable response.
-” And how did that turn…” but then the girl clenched her fist, lowered her head and apologized to him. “ I understand sir, but I know what I’m doing. Trust me on this…”
-” Fine…Little girl, were you educated about the Pact?”, to which the teen nodded back with a serious scowl, trying to imitate Brigid’s posture at the same time.
Perren massaged the bridge of his nose and gave up on his endeavour. “ You guys always make my returns filled with surprises. Alright, I give up. Do what you want. Little miss, it was a pleasure meeting you. And stay out of more trouble for the day, ok?”
-” Alright teacher”, waved back Brigid.
-” Nice meeting you as well”, yelled Aime. “ You were right, he is a nice guy.”
-” Told ya. Well, that was enough excitement for the evening. Let’s meet up with Arim and the others.”
The teen was intentionally showing her obvious dislike of Arim with a large frown above a pair of biddy eyes. “ Ugh, he seems really boring and overbearing.”
-” At a first impression, though. On a second one, you’ll find him to be a relaxed, serious and very anxious over-bearer. But he’s family and a good guy…You trust me right?
-”...Yeah, fiinee, I trust you. Whatever you say.”
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