her king to the coronation, she was captured in a battle by the English and handed over to the Burgundians. There she was tried in front of the Catholic Church and then burned. Well, I didn't want to end up at the stake, but I really wanted to be a knight too. "OK, your role model is Jeanne, but you know that this woman is just a fairy tale! She didn't really exist!" - "Of course there was!" Maik looked at his girlfriend: "Carolin what do you think of the matter?" Everyone turned their eyes to the young creature. "Well I think that Jeanne existed! I think you should believe in your dreams!" then she took a big bite of her bacon. I felt joy come up inside of me. I felt an infinite gratitude towards Carolin. “Thank you very much!” Carolin looked at me and smiled: “I also wanted to be a knight once.” - “Really? And why aren't you?” - “Well, men don't like women going to war how they are equal.Wasn't my darling? "Maik looked at her slightly puzzled. Apparently he didn't know anything about his girlfriend's secret dream." And why didn't you hold on to your dream? "Carolin looked up again and smiled at me:" Well, I've found that I don't need a knight title to be happy! "There was a slight tone of knowledge in her voice. But be that as it may, I wanted to be a knight, whatever may come." Oh, you see! You can have my things if you want. If you want to go to the Drachenberg then you will need a sword and protection! "I made big eyes:" I can have your sword? "She nodded. The hamster man looked carelessly from one to the other. Then Carolin got up and asked me and the other two to follow her. We went up the stairs from which I had come. Then we stopped in front of the storage room, where I had previously done Bad suspected, she opened the door and, as expected, there was nothing great there, just an old broom and a bucket.She went in and like others watched her. Then she took out a long box from under a shelf. She blew hard over it once to drive away the dust. Then she turned to me and opened the wooden lid. Inside was a long broadsword, bedded on velvet. The blade was silver and there were ivy vines carved on it. The handle was made of sturdy steel that was wrapped in a leather strap so that you could hold it better. It wasn't particularly long, but it was perfect for my size. She handed it to me. "Here! I don't need it anymore and if you want to go to the Drachenberg anyway you need a weapon!" - "Thank you very much! It's beautiful.". She laughed at it. Maik and the hamster man looked at each other in amazement, but then they too had to laugh. “Tell me little, can you handle this thing at all?” And then it occurred to me: I had no idea how to fight with a sword. "Well that's not a problem. Marvin will show her!" Carolin answers Maik's question for me. "What?Who is this Marvin? "I asked excitedly. I wanted to start training as soon as possible and this Marvin apparently had to be a strong man if he knew his way around a sword and could show me." It would be an honor! ", I turned around in horror. No! That couldn't be! Hamster man could wield a sword. At first I felt strange, as if I had been shocked by a strong lightning strike, but then this shock vanished into thin air." Aha aha ahahahahaha! "I curled up on the floor with laughter. That was too delicious. The hamster man and a sword, that was something like when I, a little girl, would try the Dragon Mountain .... Wait a minute! Why was I laughing? I fell silent after this train of thought. What would speak against that this guy can handle a sword ?! Nothing! Just as so little spoke against the fact that I would save the princess Llam Llap. I pulled myself together and put on a serious expression.Carolin, who doesn't seem to understand my sudden silence, began to laugh cheerfully. I didn't mean to be like that and kept her laughing. Then after a while Maik joined in too. It was getting embarrassing. So I interrupted the cheerful get-together: "Please, can you show me how to use a sword?" He just nodded and then asked me to follow him. Maik and Carolin didn't want to miss out on it and they followed us. We left the house and went into the garden that bordered the forest. It was beautiful outside. The birds chirped and the sun shone. Marvin, the hamster man, stood across from me and said something that I will probably never forget: "I would like to ask you to attack me!", I thought I was crazy at first, but he seemed to be serious. He had nothing to defend himself other than his belly, which he carried in front of him. Determined, I firmly gripped the hilt of my sword with both hands and held it, or rather I tried to hold it protectively in front of me.Then I let out a deep breath and ran towards the guy with a mighty battle cry. He didn't move an inch. I considered stopping, but couldn't. Then the unbelievable: Just before my blade threatened to pierce him, he jumped high into the air. Incredible that the guy could jump at all, but then so high that he jumped over me and landed behind me. “You have the right fighting spirit!” Then he slapped me on the back with the flat of his hand. Something went through my body. The feeling went into my hands, I could no longer hold the sword. It fell to the ground. "But how?" - "The aim of a fight is not who I kill with my sword, but who I let live! You should take that to heart." I just nodded. Without a weapon he had managed to defeat me ...
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I stayed in the little house in the woods for a few more days. Marvin taught me how to fight and the code of the old knights. He told me about his countless crusades that he made for the king and he told me about his sister.I will probably remember his words forever, because they gave me the courage to believe in myself and in a legend, a legend that, as I have always known, was true. The day before I left for the next village, I looked at the night sky. The stars glittered like little gems. I always knew that I was not like others, but on my way to the Drachenfelsen I would apparently experience all sorts of more adventures. I closed my eyes, my head turned towards the sky, I dreamed of the day when I, Miko Tonai, would be knighted. I dreamed that my father would be proud of me as I stood with my banner in hand and I also dreamed that it would be me who would save Princess Llam Llap and not only in the service of her father, but to work in theirs too. As I was dreaming, I didn't even notice that Heaven was holding his hand over me protectively.I opened my eyes. "Do you know what Jeanne d Arc? I will one day be a very great knight, because I learned from the master. Your brother ..."