Space Knights: The Arrival by Gregory Samuelson (buy e reader .TXT) 📕

that Corena and her family were being interviewed by a number of news people and were greeted by the king and queen of the kingdom on Caldar that hosted the tournaments every year.

Trance also looked around at the station and took in its décor. It was very much like the one back on Althora. It was very modern and had all of the conveniences, yet the décor was rather rustic. All of the benches were made of polished and sanded logs. There were paintings of mountains, rivers, lakes, and wildlife everywhere. It was rather nice Trance thought as he checked out a few of the paintings. One painting in particular caught his attention. It was of an animal with a face that resembled a fox, only it was sitting on a tree limb, had dark fur around its eyes and a striped bushy tail. Trance chuckled as he walked away. Raccoons were his second favorite animals, but his most favorite animal was the mountain lion.

Trance looked out of the windows and tilted his head with a slightly surprised expression on his face. His gaze had focused on the ships lined up at various landing pads. There were many ships like the Scorpio as well as some ships that were designed like great birds and some that were dragons. He looked out further and was really not surprised to see a few flying wings and a few saucers. Suddenly he glanced up at the sky and actually watched a saucer come in for a landing.

Trance turned away from the windows and he started to look around for his family and teammates. As he looked for them he began to notice the people in the area, many his age who looked to be other kids in knight classes here for the tournaments. Most of the boys were like him, looking for their families and greeting teammates.

Some seemed friendlier than others and started greeting fellow competitors and friends from other schools. There were some boys and girls that stood and strode about in strict military precision. Trance looked around and spotted more and more kids that were probably going to be his competitors over the two weeks. He wasn’t really shocked or surprised to see that he was also being scouted. He stood a little straighter to make more of an impression.

As he looked around at all of the kids he even spotted some that were quite hard to miss. There were several that were well over six feet tall. Trance was even more amazed to spot what must be a whole team of boys that exceeded seven feet tall, and further on were some that had to be better than ten. He was amazed and somehow not very surprised to spot one boy that was thirteen feet seven inches. He grinned to himself at the thought of these kids growing to their full height, giants. Trance was also amazed at the diversity of the boys and girls here for the tournaments. There were kids that looked as if they were from different ethnic backgrounds such as Trance remembered from Earth, white, dark, Asian, brown, and some that could be one or another.

He turned his attention back to finding his family again and started to make his way to them. As he strode toward his family he passed and greeted some of his teammates and met some of their friends along the way. Trance found himself being sized up as he moved about. He enjoyed greeting some of the other kids and kept heading toward his family. His eye suddenly found Corena and the girl she was talking to.

The girl was a very striking beauty. She was six foot one with dark hair and green eyes with a near flawless complexion. In Trance’s opinion she would make some guy extremely lucky to have her as a girlfriend or wife. The girl he noticed also had a rather regal bearing and something else, not really condescending but a sense she gave that she was rather superior.

“My team is quite ready for the tournaments. We set a new record of wins this year. I think that will help carry us into the tournament and give us an edge to give you and your girls a real competition Corena,” said the girl as Trance stepped up to them.

“Hi Corena, how are you doing?” Trance asked politely, shifting his eyes very quickly at the girl and trying to mentally ask who the girl was.

“Hello Trance,” replied Corena as her eyes lit up when she saw him. She had seen his questioning look and knew what he wanted. She felt better that he was there to stand by her and she quickly reached out and linked her arm with his. “Trance, this is my friend Pelleena. She is the Duchess of the kingdom of Caleo on the planet Gollion,” she introduced in a way that wasn’t very sincere.

“Hello,” said Trance extending his hand.

Pelleena took his hand graciously and looked Trance up and down, appraising him. “Hello. You must be the boy from Earth everyone is curious about. Corena was just telling me about you and how well your team did this year. I can’t wait to see how you lead and compete on the field.”

“Thank you,” said Trance a little flattered and at the same time felt Corena squeeze his arm.

Pelleena eyed the pair and started to feel jealous. As yet she didn’t have anyone special in her life. She had always been jealous of Corena and the fact that she seemed to have the most handsome guy on her arm. Up until recently Corena was with Rex, who had been regarded as the best knight prospect in years. Trance was rather boyishly handsome and had a fairly good build and she had heard stories about him and his battle exploits from Althora. She had actually been very curious to see him and find out if he was as good on the battlefield as she had heard. She