Caleb took advantage of the fact that he is still looking a little stunned by the news to grab his neck and press his lips against his, he wanted to be soft and tender with Daniel but to his surprise, it was Daniel who asked for some more, forcing the barrage of his lips and starting to play with his tongue, Caleb felt the power of the bond activate and reluctantly moved away from Daniel.
Daniel was feeling overwhelmed by his emotions, he couldn't resist the urge to want more from this man, but Caleb had just pushed him away ... he had pushed him away ... he didn't understand why, his body was starting to shake on its own and he clenched his teeth to try to stem this overflow of emotions.
He heard Caleb swear and he felt a strong pair of arms encircle him, he calmed down as soon as he felt the warmth of his arms around him and he rested his head on his shoulder, he heard Caleb saying : "I'm sorry kid, I didn't think the bond would be so strong ... Look at me Daniel."
Daniel lifted his head and looked at him, Caleb looked serious, he frowned, had he done something wrong ?
Caleb saw him frowned and swear again : "Damn kid, don't make this thing harder than it is already, how I m supposed to hold on if you look at me like that ?"
Caleb took his face in his hands and kissed his forehead he said to him : "I told you that it was not the right time to talk about it remembered, you have a fight ongoing and it's about to start so I need you to be focus on it, can you do that ?"
A fight, what was he talking about ... A fight ... Damn ! How could he had forgotten about this fight, he pushed away Caleb and said to him : "What the hell are you doing to me, how could I have forget about this fight, just leave me alone I need to get focus and you are disturbing me. "
Caleb smiled at him and left towards the other side of the combat ring, Daniel wanted to stop him again but he fought against this feeling and slapped his cheeks to focus back on his opponent, if that girl have been train by Caleb and his brothers it was not surprising that she was so powerful, all the advice Caleb had given to him came back in his mind and he felt finally ready for this fight.
Caleb saw that Celia had joined them, damn he was in trouble, he really liked Celia, as he had told Daniel, she was the most powerful mage he knew, and also the smartest and the most shameless of all of them.
She had helped him and his brothers put the pieces back together, and she always made sure that everyone had their place and felt good, he was going to have to ask her for a favor and he already knew that she would not refuse it, but he was a little bit scared that she will use Daniel to tease him in the future, he just had to think at what happened to Liam when Celia came to them to tell them about the wrath of a dragon.
Celia had come to see what was going on when she saw Aiden push Caleb towards the young man, Caleb looked a little embarrassed at first and then he had become rather tactile which was not really like him.
Celia was too curious to resist so she went to join Anaya and her little wife explained to her what it was all about because Aiden had just explained it to them.
They witnessed the kissing scene and Celia couldn't help but comment : "Looks like it is going pretty well for Caleb, at the same time if that bond is even stronger than the life partner bond it has to be hard to resist even more for someone innocent."
Anaya wasn't sure what to do anymore, she really appreciated Caleb like a big brother and she felt bad about having to fight his man, she asked Celia : "What should I do ?"
Celia looked at her confused : "Why, you don't want to fight anymore ?"
Anaya sighed and said : "Of course I want to, but it's embarrassing now that he has become Caleb's man ..."
Celia burst out laughing, Anaya was pouting as if they had just spoiled one of the best moments of her life, she calmed down when she saw that Anaya was sulking even more, definitely her baby wife was really too cute, she said to her : "On the contrary sweetie it's even better, you can really give it your all now, Caleb won't let anything happen to his man and our brothers won't let anything happen to you either, come on honey stop sulking and give us a good show."
Just when she finished her sentence she felt a hand on her shoulder she turned and saw Caleb, he said to Anaya : "You should get prepared, don't worry though, like Celia just said we won't let any of you get too much serious injures, and we will intervene only if your lives are in danger as we had already promised to you, go now Naya and give your best."
Anaya kissed Celia tenderly and approched that guy.
Crap, she had forgotten to ask Caleb what was his name, nevermind he will stay just "that guy" till the end the competition, she nodded to greet him and he nodded too, Dex the head instructor appeared right in front of them and said the last rules : "You can use all magic weapon you have to fight, to win you have to kick out the other fighter from the combat ring, knocked it out, or make the other one surrender.
I m rather confident that nothing wrong will happen with Liam out there so feel free to give your all, also a powerful shield will be set around the combat ring, I will give the countdown once it is set, you should prepare yourself."
Once the final instructions were given, Anaya moved away from him so that she could set up her shield, it would be used to test his attacks at first and see how he fared against her spells.
She had confessed to Liam and his brothers that if she had taken a beating the last time it was because her shield had shattered and she had to finish the fight only with her daggers, so they had worked on those two phases of combat, how to optimize her use to her shield and counterattacking him with her daggers once her shield will be broken.
Anaya heard Dex say in a clear and loud voice : "Here we are, this is not the way we usual end the competition, but this year we have two exceptionnable fighters who are much stronger than the others, the winner of the fighters competition will be the winner of this fight, so I hope everyone will enjoy the show, let's begins, five, four, three, two, one, Fight !"