After checking up on Wing, Lupos once again returned to the viewing area just in time to catch the announcer. "And with that last duel, we have finished our first round! Our four competitors who will compete for the chance to fight in the final are Gale Foryst, Lucio Illio, Dante Cayton and Ophelia Reich. Our first duel will be fought by Gale Foryst and Lucio Illio."

Lupos silently cursed, if he was against Lucio it would be harder to fake a believable loss, especially seeing as the higher ranks from other schools would be watching now. But on the other-hand he supposed it was for the best, if he was put up against Dante he wouldn't be able to stop himself from trying to crush him, something that would do more harm than good in the long run.

Lupos let out a sinister smile, there was more than one way to get revenge, especially if you were as surrounded by people, easily manipulated people like Lupos was. He was just about to consider some options when he heard the announcer once more "can our two competitors Gale Foryst and Lucio Illio please make their way to the ring so we can begin the duel."

Both Lupos and Lucio slowly made their way down the stairs so as to take as long as time as possible allowing them to think of ways to deal with their opponent. However, all too quickly the walk was over and Lupos and Lucio had arrived at the ring. "Fenrir make sure to make this as believable as possible, make sure you land a few hits but leave some subtly obvious openings."

Fenrir laughed in mindspeak "It's sad that I no longer need to learn how to lose convincingly." Lupos grinned "Give it a few months and then you'll have some decent opponents." still grinning Lupos faced Lucio just catching the end of his speech that had apparently been going on for the last couple of minutes "and so Gale what I'm trying to say is that there is no shame in losing to me."

Lupos nodded a sincere look on his face "That's very generous of you to say." Lucio gave a self-important smirk and was about to say something else when the announcers voice rang out. "And now onto our first match of the semi-finals Gale Foryst versus Lucio Illio, let the match begin!"

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Lucio's POV

"Let the match begin," as the words rung throughout the stadium Lucio smirked and dashed forward while laughing in his mind. "Honestly there's no way Gale can beat me, all he's good at is dirty tricks and conveniently placed pit holes," slashing with the elegant swordsmanship he had been taught all his life Lucio almost laughed as he saw Gale's look of frustration as if he wished he could fight back.

"He must really want to fight but just can't find an opening in my perfect form and attacks," thought Lucio arrogantly as Gale's look of struggle and frustration grew, honestly though, even his wolf didn't appear to be much in comparison to Fyre heart. "Give up now Gale and I'll save you the pain of losing disgracefully!" Lucio noticed Gale's look of irritance continuing to grow as he struggled to reply against Lucio's eloquent words. Lucio smirked once more.

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Lupos's POV

"Agh that utter idiot!" thought Lupos. "How the hell was he making it so hard to lose convincingly?!?" so far Lucio had avoided every subtly given opening completely and because Lupos was trying to throw the match in what seemed like a natural way he couldn't give any obvious openings away.

"Fenrir, any ideas on how to make this look convincing?!?" practically growled Lupos in annoyance in mindspeak "nope afraid not...wait ok I'm going to give Fyre heart a slightly more obvious opening and get injured, when that happens rush over out of concern and leave an obvious opening that can later be played down due to your worry over me."

Lupos grinned, "That's brilliant, let's go with that!" Fenrir started to slowly manoeuvre himself into a more disadvantaged position while Lupos tried to prevent himself from screaming in annoyance as Lucio left one opening after the other and still felt he had the time to talk about it "Give up now Gale and I'll save you the pain of losing disgracefully!" Lupos gritted his teeth praying Fenrir would made his move quickly before he killed this spoilt noble kid himself.

No sooner had he thought the words that Fenrir suddenly let out an impressive howl of pain, turning to look at him in apparent surprise Lupos let out a cry of supposed worry "Fenrir?!?" seeing Lupos supposedly distracted Lucio FINALLY took the opportunity to strike pushing Lupos out of the ring.

Lupos looked up at Lucio "It was my loss, I guess I'll just have to train harder next time." Lucio gave a smug smile and Lupos resisted the urge to wipe it off his face "see that you do." Running over to Fenrir Lupos started to talk to him in mindspeak "Fenrir you ok??" Fenrir grinned "it's ok just a light scratch, wasn't my acting great though?"

Lupos laughed "yeah it was, great job Fenrir." Fenrir smiled proudly and walked back towards the viewing area to sit down, he was certain Dante would win his next match meaning Lucio and Dante would have to face off in the finals. This kept Lupos in Lucio's shadow and allowed for some payback on Dante, Fenrir noticed Lupos's expression "So what're you going to do to that Dante kid?"

Lupos didn't even pretend he wasn't hiding something and let out a savage grin before extracting one of the hidden daggers Darius had given him, "you know the best thing about these daggers is the poison." Fenrir's eyes widened slightly "wouldn't it be slight bit obvious if he falls down dead in the middle of his match?"

Lupos shook his head grinning. "Nope that's the best part, I've confirmed his spirit to be a small snake but not only that, apparently the people of his clan condition their young to be mildly immune to poison to avoid small nuisances in the desert so I can poison him without fear of him dying, besides I've coated the daggers in a weaker poison just for today so he won't be in any life threatening danger. Just a LOT of pain."

Fenrir grinned savagely "Well I look forward to seeing the results, so how are you going to get the poison into him though?" Lupos grinned "I didn't spend two years training with Darius for nothing, all it requires is a pinprick worth of poison to feel the affects, it's payback time."

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Unknown POV

In the upper most stands of the Arena, hidden within the shadows stood an old man who had been shaking for the last few minutes "impossible..." the man muttered under his breath "Fenrir...it couldn't be...but no other wolf would be bold enough to take the name for himself. Who the hell is that child?!?"

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Author's note

Hiya to everyone reading hope you enjoyed the chapter cause I finished exams recently I've been reading a lot of the fictions on royal Road so I just wanted to take twenty seconds to recommend one of the ones I really enjoy its called Singing life Book one - Hatchling. Anyway feel free to comment or review as always :)