A/N: This is (officially) my first story. So please don't be surprised if it's a piece of crap. Thanks for reading :)
Will was running through the forest at full speed not even worried about what was ahead of him. The real threat was behind him. He couldn't figure out what had gone wrong. Crowley said that he failed his examination and that he had to be terminated. Then he pulled out his sax knife and attacked at the same time that Halt pulled out his and lunged at him as well. He barely had enough time to dive out of the tent and start sprinting away. Now with his former teacher and the head of the ranger corps after him he didn't know if he'd be able to survive.
"Think", he told himself as an arrow whizzed past his head and into the tree beside him. The only reason it missed was because Will had chosen that sudden moment to jump to the side on a different route. "Eff", he whispers to himself as he draws his long bow and nocks an arrow. He hides behind a tree and peers out hoping to get a sight of his attackers. He hears a bow string snap back and pulls his head just behind the tree in time so that it flies past him. "46 more arrows." he mutters to himself. He sees a slight movement to his right and he draws and fires in an instant just as another arrow flies and hits his own in its side out of midair!
"Give yourself up Will!" Will hears Halt scream. "We know what you did. There is no point in running from us." All of a sudden Will hears the steady "whoomp whoomp whoomp" of a throwing knife heading in his direction. He ducks just as the throwing knife hits him square in his left calf.
"Agh!" he says himself as he cringes in pain. "They've got me surrounded", he thinks. Will looks up at the tree he is standing underneath, finds a sturdy branch, then throws his longbow over his shoulder, and jumps up to grab the lowest branch just as another arrow pierces his right calf. His right arm drops instinctively to his calf gripping the upper part to try and cease some of the pain. "Now I can't walk." He says as he swings his other arm up, pulling himself up higher and higher in the tree with only his arms.
Now safely hidden, Will has a debate with himself over what to do next. Even though he has the highest respect for Crowley he would have no problem killing him when the time came, but Halt, he was another story. The mentor that had looked over him for the past 5 years was now trying to kill him. What should he do? He'll think of that as the time comes he says to himself. Right now, he needs to take care of one of the two men, prefferebly Crowley.
He nocks an arrow in his bow and looks around for any sign of movement. There! He pivots silently in the tree and releases the arrow all in a fraction of a second. "Ugh!" he hears a man scream as he nocks another arrow and sends it flying in the same spot and hears a faint, sickening smack. There were no more screams from the man. Will wonders who he just took out as he nocks another arrow and looks for the other man. Tug! He thinks as he searches the ground for movement. How could he forget Tug? "I need to end this fast so that I can get out of here and go get Tug." He thinks to himself. He sets the bow down on the branch beside him and starts to pull the arrow out of his left calf. "Boy did that hurt.", He says as he finally pulls it out and puts the arrow in his quiver. He then looks at his right calf and starts to slowly pull out the throwing knife. He successfully pulls it out and puts it in his backpack. "Always good to have a spare when on the run." he thinks as he starts rubbing some cream on both wounds to numb the pain. 5 minutes go by with no movement of any kind. The numbing solution is now working so he decides to grab his arrow and hop out of the tree. Not a moment before he hits the ground he sees movement to his left. In midair he turns and shoots an arrow in that direction.
He lands on the ground and hears the snapping of twigs as two arrows collide in midair and destroy each other completely. Will, knowing that another arrow was coming any second nocks his arrow and sends another in the direction of the shooter as another arrow flies straight at him. Unluckily for Will the two arrows do not collide again and he hears a sickening rip of flesh in the distance as he feels the impact of the arrow hit him in the neck.
He drops to the ground out of breath, wondering why he isn't dead. He looks down at his neck and sees the arrow lodged in his bronze oakleaf insignia. "What luck." he thinks to himself. He doesn't see anymore arrows heading his way so he feels it safe that he pulled the arrow out of his oakleaf and nocks it in his bow. He points it in the direction of the shooter and slowly walks over to the area where he expected the figure to be.
There he sees him, lying on the ground, Halt, with an arrow through his throught, blood everywhere and Halts glazed over eyes looking up at the man who killed him. Will drops his bow to the ground and starts crying his eyes out. "Why?" he asks the air a million times over the 10 minute course of time he is sitting there. He realizes that he needs to get moving out of the kingdom to start his wonderful life in exile. He looks through Halts belongings and takes his double scabbard and both of its weapons, his quiver of remaining arrows, all of the money in his bag and lastly, Halts silver oakleaf. He puts all of these things in his bag except the arrows which he places in his quiver. He slings his bow over his back and starts to limp back to where the camp was. He trips over something and stumbles to the ground.
It's Crowley's body. Will gasps slightly and stares at the man whom he had killed earlier. Not so shaken by this man's death he snatches the silver oakleaf off of his neck and stands back up and heads to the camp. Once will gets there he looks around the barren camp and cannot find Tug. He looks all over but because of his weakend legs he cannot walk far. He collapses on the ground and whistles for him. He hears Tug whine behind him as if he is in pain when all of a sudden he hears in an unnoticeable voice, "If you move another inch this horses head will be on the ground before you can shoot that nasty bow of yours."
Now wasn't that a nice cliffhanger! :D haha! I'll be updating this story soon so if you liked it watch out for the update thingy. Please review and tell me what you think about it!