I got up and went out side, even though it was Monday, I didn't care if I got caught. But to my surprise Dumbledore and Bache were waiting for me and Will outside. "I'm glad you could make it, I was about to send for you two." Dumbledore said smiling.
"What?! You were waiting for us?" Will said following me.
"Yes, we were going to give you the day off to get ready for the meet." My father said with his arms behind his back looking for proper, which was often.
"Okay, we'll get our stuff on and warm up." I said turning around to go to the locker.
At the locker room I saw that our swords, Helbert, and daggers were polished and looking brand new, and never used or touched. We stared at their magnificence and then put our armor on, and put our training swords in their seaths.
We ran our 30 laps and did an extreme number of push-ups, 500! Our adrenline was pumping for this was the day to show what we were made of, and we wanted to be in our best condition. We did our sword excercises at double time and triple time. When we were done we followed Dumbledore and my dad to the new arena, that wasn't there before, it must have been put up my magic. It was right beside the Quiditch arena. It looked like an old fashioned colloseum, it was built in the style of the roman colloseums, it was oval and it was alittle taller than the Quiditch arena.
We stepped out onto what was called "The Floor", it was were the meets were held. The ground was made of sand. "I will now tell you how the meets work." Dumbledore said.
We sat on the sandy floor and waited. "In this arena a team from each school in the meet will battle. You do not battle each other, that's dueling which your not qualified to do as first year students. Rather each team of two will take turns battling monsters, and whoever can get to 100 points first wins the meet." Dumbledore said.
"How do we gain points?" Will said iI raised my hand for the same question, but Will beat me to it.
"Good question. You gain points by defeating monsters. You can select what monsters you want to battle. There will be a sheet on a table in the tactic room, were you can look and decide which monsters you want to face." Dumbledore explained.
This time I beat Will to the question, "Can we fight any monster in the realm? Or is there a limit?"
"Another good question, you two must be excellent students. Each monster has a rank from E all the way to S. You can only choose E rated monsters, but you are aloud to pick monsters a class ahead of you if you so desire. On the tablet will be the monsters name and the points given if beaten. Anymore questions?" Dumbledore explained.
We shook are heads no and he continued, "Then you have the rest of this day to figure out different strategies and look at the names and points to figure out how your going to get the 100 points needed." Dumbledore said. He then walked off out of the colloseum, and we explored the colloseum, we went up and down the rows of seats and we went in every room to see what they were used for.
When we were done we went to the Tactic Room, and saw a chalkboard, benches, books on bookselfs and tablets, each titled by the rating. We picked up the tablet that had a big E written on it. We sat down and looked through all the monsters and decussed what we wanted to do.