With beauty comes pain. (open )

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Clockwork strode into the arena, rather down about the last fight he'd been in. He lost so horenously, and could have been killed. He lowered his head and took a drink from the trough.
" your not giving up that easily are you?" a voice called from his blind side. The metal dragon didn't quite jump, but did seem abit startled that someone was there.
"one defeat and your giving up? What if he comes after you again? Or worse. Comes after your rider."Clockwork eventualy found the source of the voice, comming from the teacher. Saxi. The one teacher everyone loathed. He was stern and somewhat mean. However, he was being nice this time. He was wiping down his swords, what intresting weapons they were. Most viking had large heavy swords, but Saxi's were made diffrently. They were thin and light, but razor sharp. Their edges did the cutting rather than the weight of the sword.
"Im an old man, Saxi. I can't win this fight." clockwork sighed. He wasn't rediculously old, but still he had some age behind him.  "he's just too strong. He's going to end me before I even have the chance to get decently healthy." Clockwork growled in irritation. Never had he ever felt so helpless against another dragon. Sure he'd won spars, but this dragon wanted to kill him. And he had the artilery to do it.
"soooo. Your not going to try at all? No training? No putting up a fight?" Saxi looked up from his sword, setting it back in the holsters at his thighs. The metal dragon remained silent. Perhaps just waiting to be killed wasnt the right thing to do... Prehaps fightinh actualy was the awnser this time. 

"but where will the training come from? I need a trainer.Honnestly, I'm scared. Everything rides on me killing him. If I die more will die. I- A loud metalic noise sliced the air as Saxi's sword swung inches from the dragon's face. 
"Enough." Saxi intreupted. His thin blade barely a centimeter from Clocky's nose. "You have no choice but to fight. Thats been established. But how you fight has not been. That fear of losing needs to go, its going to do nothing but hold you back. I love dragons but do not under any cercumstances underestimate me. If I fought like the others here on this island then I wouldn't be the man I am today. If I had no tattoos it wouldn't mean I was nice. And If you think my training is going to be easy on you, you are dead wrong. You will feel like you are on deaths door, and at times you will be. You will bleed and suffer for months before you actualy do fight but I will asure you, that demon is not doing the same. He's out there gorging himself on dragonflesh with no one to stop him but you. You stand between him and everyone else. Youve seen how he fights, and I'm going to help you beat him. I make myself clear?" Saxi's voice had remained completely serine. He didnt raise his voice at all, witch might have made him abit more terrifying. He sheathed his sword.
"We start now." He muttered. Sliding a bridle onto Clockwork and jumping on his back. 
Saxi started him in a smooth trot twice around the ring for a warm up, but then stopped him and pulled back harshly on the reighns, pulling low. The Dragon began backing up, forced to follow the pressure.  What was all this for? Saxi kicked his sides, wich instinctualy told Clockwork to lunch forward, but the second he did the reighns were unlovingly popped in his mouth causing pain. He screeched, throwing his head and partialy rearing up, spreading his wings. 
"Back." Saxi growled with another harsh pop. Clocky settled and continued going backwards, faster and faster, untill his muscles hurt. Saxi then released the pressure and let him bound forward, then signaled for a sidestep. Normaly sidestep was done in a walk, but saxi kept urging him to move faster. 
now then. Warm up is over. Im going to teach you a combonition strike. Saxi got off the now panting dragon.  land one of these hits and you'll beable to string together the rest and return to defenseive before your oponent can do you any severe harm or recover from the blow. But be warned. Do not miss. The last part was said with emphasis. 
"the combo is a left swing of the horns to the lower chest, a right swip of the horns to the base of the neck, then spin and slam your tail across his face.  But the first swing is essential. Miss and your dead.now try it. the scarred dragon just stared. He wanted him to try it on his dragon? He just stared at subzero, who was poised in the perfect defensive pose. He started with the left swing, but Sub-zero had stepped back, causing clocky to miss.
Punish him. Saxi ordered his dragon. Clockwork was promptly struck in the side with Sub-zero's horns. Not hard enough to cause serious damage, but enough to hurt. 
"Again." he ordered, watching from ontop of a barel, still cleaning his swords.

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Silfry flew towards the arena in her dragon’s back, Ironfang liked to train his fighting skills until they were perfect or he fainted due to exhaustion, thing that happened a little bit too often for Silfry’s liking, really, carrying a dragon as big as Ironfang back to the village wasn’t an easy task at all, and more than once she had to ask the other dragon riders of the arena to let her stay until her companion woke up. When they were training Silfry was really careful to not let Ironfang get near to other students or dragons, not after that experience a couple of years ago when a Monstrous Nightmare belonging to one of her friends had missed a hit directed at the Gronckle of his training companion, hitting Ironfang’s tail instead, who unluckily was too close at them at the moment. Things got really ugly in matter of seconds, as Ironfang took this as an aggressive challenge to fight along with an insult, since he was hit while he was giving the back at them, and this caused him to turn back and attack the dragon and its trainer viciously, intervention was needed to avoid any unnecessary injured and having blood spilled all over the arena’s floor, as Ironfang’s sharp teeth were at centimeters to close itself around the Monstrous Nightmare’s neck while the last one tried to retreat from the enraged dragon.

As they landed softly outside the arena and Ironfang started to walk towards the entrance Silfry noticed Clockwork and Saxi with his dragon inside, she never had been close to Clockwork before, mostly due to her messenger responsibilities, and though she had seen Saxi and his dragon before he never had talked formaly to them, she remembered them from when she trained here with Ironfang, the only words they ever shared were a tip or two about Ironfang’s fighting techniques here and there, Silfry respected him a lot and felt curious about the metal covered dragon. Ironfang respected Saxi and his dragon as well, not like if he was going to publicly admit it though, but he felt neutral about Clockwork for now, though his metal features made him involuntarily lick his metal fang, which replaces his long lost real fang “I don’t know if we should be here, apparently they are in the middle of something important” Silfry said, low enough so only Ironfang could hear her, or at least that’s what she expected to happen. Knowing that Silfry only knew dragonese basics, and not wanting to waste time trying to explain her anything, Ironfang just shook himself to make Silfry need to grab the saddle tightly to avoid falling before walking stubbornly inside the arena with a snort, his steps were heave, firm, proud and elegant while he held his head high “Ok, ok! Dear Thor!” Silfry complained, already used to her dragon’s behavior.

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Saxi stood with his arms crossed, silently watching the cycle continue, attempt an attack, fail, get punnished and repeat. By the end Clockwork was a beaten bloody mess, cuts gouged into his chest  from sub-zero's horns. But he kept trying and kept trying untill he succsessfuly landed the strike, stagaring Subzero and returning to his defensive stance. Saxi clapped for him in aproval. "perfect. I do know one thing that may help. Your necks too stiff." Saxi shrugged, slidding off hid barrel again. "Come. If your getting into a fight, you need to have as much flexabilty as you can. One wrong jerk and your heads gone. "he warned. 
Clockwork's head lowered and he laid down as Saxi's hand comands gestured. And that was when a trainer and a dragon walked in, diverting Clocky's attention. His one emerald eye scaning over them as Saxi threw a leg over the back of Clocky's neck. The man looked back over his shoulder and waved to the incoming rider. 
"Moody dragon.hm?" he asked, gently taking one of Clocky's horns innone hand and the bottom of his jaw in the other and abruptly twisting, causing a loud domino effect of crackling down his neck along with a sharp, pained yelp from an unsuspecting dragon. He then relaxed again, after the fact that felt kind of good. Clockwork lay reeling as Saxi got off him to talk to the other rider. 
"clockwork, when you get to feeling your tail again, get up and run about 20 laps."

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Silfry chuckled a little, looking at Saxi before nodding “More than you may believe” She said cheerfully at him, earning a nice hit with the dragon’s tail on her side, hit that now managed to throw her off the saddle thanks to a mix of it’s strength and the fact that Silfry was offguard at the moment. Ironfang looked at her with a ‘You really fell off with that small hit?’ bored face before she stood up, dusting off her clothes “And touchy too” Silfry added. Ironfang just rolled his eyes and snorted, now that he was sure that Silfry wasn’t hurt he walked towards his usual training area, ignoring the other two dragons.

“Sorry about this whole thing, sometimes Ironfang can be a true handful and he won’t listen to me. I hope that we aren’t interrupting anything important here” She looked at Clockwork with curiosity before smiling a little “What are you doing by the way? I can tell that this isn’t common training” She asked, since Clockwork’s state was a little hard to go unnoticed, and she wasn’t exactly referring to the metallic parts that covered his body. Ironfang decided to listen to this conversation, if there was any trick or especial training he was interested, but he was careful to not make this too obvious, as he started to train with one of the specially designed dummies on the back of the arena.


Ooc: Sorry for being away, real life caught up with me and I was forced to focus 100% on my work for a while