FATE
Chapter 7 : Apprentice Training
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Rhadiel and Theresa worked hard for the years ahead. Their days were full with grueling exercises. The nights with study in the library. They became stronger, and more agile with every passing year. Then finally they were ready to become Guild Apprentices, just as Gloria has foreseen.
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A young apprentice girl at the Guild of Heroes named Theresa was leaning up against the doorway to one of the bedrooms in the guild. There, changing, was a 18 year old apprentice boy, he has been in the guild for 8 years. Training for apprentice ship, the years before. He became an apprentice last month. Over the years, grew taller, more muscular, and his hair has changed to black, along w/ a more adult look. This boy is Rhadiel Ragula next to him, his dog Buddy. Rhadiel got fully dressed and walked over to Theresa, " You ready?" she asked. "More than ever" he replied. They raced each other down the stairs, over the bridge and to the melee ring.
Today was the start of their official training as apprentices. As they reached the ring, they leaned on their knees to catch their breath. Standing on the outside edge of the ring, was the Guild Master. "I hope your ready you two, get into the ring, both of you." he commanded. "You two will be sparing together today. and years to come. You will be training w/ real weapons now. So be careful not to kill each other." he told them. Rhadiel grabbed a longsword from the stock of weapons, and Theresa chose a battle staff. "Get ready" she told him. Rhadiel nodded. The Guild Master raised a hand. "Begin!"
Theresa launched herself at Rhadiel, doing a jabbing motion with her staff. Rhadiel broke left, but barley
"She's improved" he thought to himself. He timed his strike and swung hard at her thigh. She dodged it, Theresa then struck Rhadiel hard in the shoulder. Rhadiel felt a hot pain go through his arm. He then lunged at Theresa, and in midair, he spun and caught her in her left ankle. She stumbled a bit as blood trickled down to her foot. She then, forgetting her pain, jumped and did a flip in the air, and landed behind Rhadiel. He noticed, and flipped his sword behind his back and blocked. "Impressive" the Guild Master said. Theresa then, using her staff as a pole vault, launched at Rhadiel with her feet. They then both collided in the air and landed on each other. Theresa on top, Rhadiel on bottom. They stared at each other and blushed. Theresa then got off him, and looked away. Rhadiel got up, and looked towards the Guild Master.
"Hmmm very good" he said " very good indeed" Theresa looked at Rhadiel and blushed. Rhadiel had noticed Theresa had liked him the moment they met. He like her a lot too, but never told her yet."Now, you did well. Time to move on the your archery training. Rhadiel and Theresa followed him to the Archery Range. The Guild Master turned to them and said " Each of you take a bow, Theresa, you go first, Rhadiel wait." They bot nodded and grabbed bow and quiver off the rack. Theresa, drew an arrow, and slowly pulled back the string. Rhadiel could see her concentration in her face. Then she let the arrow go.
The arrow flew across the range and hit a dummy almost in the center. She repeated this over and over. Rhadiel noticed she stays very calm. Once her turn was done, she got 100 pts in one minuet. "Your turn" she said to Rhadiel in a flirty voice. Rhadiel walked up and drew a arrow from his quiver
"here goes something" he pulled the quiver back and waited to focus on the target. He let go. The arrow flew across the range, just as Theresa did, but Rhadiel's arrow, hit dead center. This happened repeatedly, some he got dead center, and other close. Theresa watched him as he shot arrow after arrow. At the end of his turn, he got 120 pts in a minuet. "Very good lad, keep it up" the Guild Master told him. He walked up to Theresa "How was that?" he asked "Fine, you beat me." she said but the doesn't mean you'll beat me in will" she bragged. "We'll see about that" Rhadiel warned her.
They approached the will center. "Here you will learn about the ways of the will, you will learn the most basic will ability ; lightning." Rhadiel and Theresa looked at each other, then looked back to the Guild Master. "Rhadiel, I have a question, do you feel....light headed?" he asked. "Ummmm.....a little...why?" He replied. "Rhadiel, I need you to focus on your problem, your...light headedness. Focus on that, then wave your hand at the dummy.Go ahead, try it." Rhadiel did as he was told, focused on his light headedness, then waved his hand at the dummy. Then, out of a nowhere, a bolt of lightning struck the dummy. "Good, good" the Guild Master siad. "now, try it again, see how many targets you can hit in 20 seconds." Rhadiel did just that. Cast after cast. The end of his turn, he got 21 targets hit in 20 seconds. The Guild Master congratulated him. "Theresa, your turn. Theresa did as she was told, she hit just as many as Rhadiel had. "Hmmmmm yes yes, very good." the Guild Master said.
"You two have done well, and have learned the three hero disciplines. Mastering the heros skills takes time. I hope your ready"
Over the next year, Rhadiel and Theresa worked hard to master the heros skills. The grew stronger and wiser with every time they trained......
