After school I decided to head to the sporting goods store and buy myself a practice sabre . I also decided to make a list of everything I knew about Flaming star until now. So I also bought a notepad so I could write down all of his positives and negatives. There had to be something that he wasn’t good at , and I wanted to find out what it was.

As far as his positives ,he was pretty good at math, a master at playing with words and literature, a great musician, an expert fencer and archer.

On the negative side , he was very head-strong ,emotional ,and also very good at being annoying.

I have to say he is pretty talented . But still, I decided I'm not going to give up that easily to him. I practiced a lot that day with my new sabre. But still I couldn’t just let go of how I lost.

The next day I meet up with the girls and then I headed right towards the library . Just when I was about to go in, Twilight called me.

"Sunset!"

"What is it?"

Can you stay after school for a while to help me and Steely Armor with our magic research?"

Why do you need me?"

"Actually he wants to hear the whole story."

"About you and me?"

"About all of us.!"

"Oh"

That was not good news . I really didn’t want to talk about that again . But I just said "OK, I'll see what happens. "

Then I went into the library and sat down behind one of the computers. I needed to know more about flaming star so I started researching.

I was suprised at how much I found out. He's quite famous in this world. I was really suprised to learn he won a gold medal in fencing when he was only 10! But having duelled against him, I shouldn't have been that suprised . And his Father, "Bright Flame ," was a very well -known businessman , apparently from a rich family . There was more about his father ,to be honest ,but actually there were some more storys about Flaming star too, but it wasn't very helpful . Also, I couldn't find anything about his mother.

I understood that if I'm going to fight him again I'd be going up against a champion, so I decided I was going to take it more seriously . But as intimidating as it seemed, having to tell my story to Steely Armor .....I was not lookin forward to that. Not at all.

I met flaming star in the Music Room. I decided to go for it if I was going to fight him.

I walked up to him and said, maybe a little too grandly , "I challenge you to a sword Fight! "

"What?!"

"I said i challenge you to a sword fight.!"

"Let me guess: you weren't satisfied with the way you lost. Right?"

His smile was very irritating . In that moment I was full of hate.

"Come to Slaughter Alley downtown. I'll meet you there Friday. "

"I'll be there!" I couldn't back out now.

"Just to let you know: it's a real sword Fight. "

That was kind of a shock to hear since I didn’t really understand what he meant . Before I could ask he disappeard down the hallway.

Now I had to stay and tell the truth about myself about to Steely Armor. that was a challenge.

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