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

go with the family and maybe meet a girl to dance with there. He had always been a rather outgoing and popular guy and he knew that there were a number of girls that were interested in him. He could have any one of them, yet he did his best to be respectful of all the girls he knew. Yes, he dated and he had taken a number of girls out when he was in school, but he still hadn’t found the right girl for him. Since he had become a knight he was dedicated to serving his King and defending the kingdom and planet. He was very proud to serve and had worked hard to advance himself in the ranks of his division, and he was rather excited to see Trance develop into an excellent knight.

Shortly after Trance had breakfast with his family he was summoned to meet Neklon and his team in twenty minutes so they could head over to the tournament site and start filling out their registration forms. He kissed his mother and told everyone good-bye, left the apartment and made his way to the elevator.

He pushed the button and waited. In a couple minutes the elevator stopped at his floor and the door opened and to his great joy Corena was inside on her way down also. He greeted her warmly and kissed her quickly as they descended to the ground floor. Along the way more kids boarded the elevator as they were all headed to the same place.

They all got off the elevator and went to join their appropriate teams. Neklon and Sorvana gathered the teams together and made sure that everyone was there so they could proceed to the awaiting coaches that would take them to their destination. Trance was delighted that both his team and Corena’s team were to go on their own coach so they had a chance to sit and talk as they rode the four miles to the tournament battlefield.

The tournament site was awesome to behold and Trance was stunned as he gazed at the massive stadium. Trance was speechless as he looked out his window and stared and tried to approximate how many people could be seated. His best guess was absolutely staggering. He had never seen any place that could hold close to a million people. Corena gently nudged him as he sat back and whistled. He could already feel his heart start to beat faster at the thought of competing here.

“This place is huge,” he commented as he tried to possibly imagine that many people watching the tournaments. Vividly he remembered that there were events on Earth that had been quite large. Mainly the Olympics were this huge; however, they were spread out at several different stadiums for all of the various events, and not one single event was ever this big.

“Haven’t you ever seem a stadium this size?” asked Corena smiling at Trance’s stunned expression. She had obviously been to this stadium before and completely knew what to expect. She had come to know that Trance was a good knight and performed very well under pressure. She smiled more broadly at her memories of him winning many victories in front of some rather large crowds. In her mind she had no doubts that he would succeed here. He’ll find his way as he always does and as long as he concentrates on what is at stake and focuses on the task at hand.

“Well,” he tried to organize his thoughts, “there were some very large sporting events on Earth that were this large, but they were contested at several different stadiums and arenas. Remember me talking to you about the Olympics?” He elaborated more as the coach made its way to a parking slot near the stadium.

After the coach was parked Trance and Corena disembarked and were followed by their teams. Neklon took the lead, followed by Sorvana and then by their students. Trance was more and more in awe as he followed. Neklon led them to the participants’ entrance and showed the initial registration forms to the guard who then let them enter. Once inside Trance was even more amazed. There was a grand entrance that led to a hall that stretched out and had locker rooms set up for all of the teams that would be competing in the upcoming events. They had to walk quite a ways to reach their locker rooms.

Trance noticed that the boys’ locker room was always on the right with the corresponding girls’ locker room on the left. He was curious about the locker rooms, but Neklon kept walking so he continued to follow trying to remember landmarks that would help him find his way tomorrow. They went on for a ways before turning to the right and down another very long hallway until connecting with another hallway that took them to the left and finally to the great doors that opened to the field.

Neklon opened the door for them to pass. Trance walked out and was once more in awe as he saw the field. It was huge and looked like eight battles could take place all at the same time. He saw eight tables set up with officials getting several other teams registered for the tournaments. Neklon and Sorvana lined their teams up and joined the line of teams waiting to get registered.

Trance was fourth in line for the boys of the Gray Mountain Warriors and waited patiently for the team to move forward. It was thirty-five minutes before they were at the first table, where Neklon started registering the team for all of the team-related events. After all of the appropriate forms for the team events were filled out on the small computer terminals, the individual boys were free to register for any and all events that they wanted to try for.

Trance was ready for his turn and registered for everything. As he finished he took a quick look around and decided that he probably didn’t