Lucky Training Session

Will sat up in one of the tall trees by Halt's cabin, searching for his prize. He had been assigned special training classes; find all five of the hidden coins. Halt had taken the pleasure of hiding the coins himself, but only within a twenty meter radius of the cabin.

Will had found one; it was suspended at the top of the tree he sat on now. Will grumbled something under his breath and in return heard a whisper in his ear.

"I heard that." Halt said, and Will whirled around, slipping off of his tree branch as his master chuckled.

Will grabbed a branch as he fell; only to have it break as soon as he touched it, he sighed and grunted as his back hit a tree branch, stopping his sudden plunge. Will moaned and glared up at Halt, who smirked and disappeared.

Will scowled and got out of the tree, stumbling on a root, which had a coin hidden under it. Will smiled, he was getting lucky! Or so he thought as the ground crumbled beneath him and he was thrown into a dark pit.

Will rolled his eyes, realizing that Halt had placed a trap near every single one of the coins. This was going to be a long training session.

Two and a half hours later, Will had gathered four coins. The fifth he had given up on, until Halt walked over.

Will saw a small glittering circle hidden in the folds of his cloak, even worst, there were five glittering objects. Will snatched the coins from Halt's belt, muttering how ridiculous that was.

"Halt what was the point of that exercise?" Will snapped, glaring at his devious master.

"Well, everyone wanted to see you fail at something. Besides, he did the same thing to me!" a voice ran out behind Will, startling him.

"Gillian, you never found the third one, at least Will found four old coins, you barely found two!" Halt said, raising an eyebrow.

Gillian scowled and hopped down from his perch on the roof. He walked up to Halt, glaring venomously at him.

"You're going to regret those words Halt." Gillian said, and disappeared into the woods.