The dark days:

WRITERS NOTE: this is my first time doing this so don't laugh. This chapter is in Jake POV (jake is a werewolf) the main character. So here it is I hope you enjoy chapter one.

Chapter one: training

I was walking through a desert I hadn't eaten or drunken anything for four days I was tired but I knew that if I slept I would die of thirst in my sleep so I kept walking. After awhile I see a small cave in the distance. its carved out of a huge rock. Probably by a dried up stream. When I reach it I collapse and fall on the floor.

"Wake up dude! We have training with the prince today!" yelled my best friend Derek.

"Witch prince?" I ask. As I climb out of bed slowly. Im always either devastated or realy exited about training when its with prince mercury then im exited but when its with prince Peril I want to die." Why do we have to train now its only dawn for crying out loud!"

"Peril and were training now because peril said so." Said Derek as he shoves me out of bed roughly." Hey mind if I borrow one of your quivers and some arrows mine are still being fixed."

"Sure why not I have five take as many arrows as you want I have tons. Plus I don't care if I fail archery with peril I would care if we were training with mercury."

"Why do you hate peril so much he just tries to push us to the limit in training!" Shouted my best friend at me.

"Never mind Derek you wouldn't understand." I say with a sigh

Derek looks at me with a puzzled look." Well on the bright side were training with ella and milly!" He Says excitedly (he has a crush on milly)

"Well that's at…"

"SHIT! Peril told us to meat him in the battle clearing in ten minutes like twenty minutes ago!." Yells Derek interrupting me just as peril storms in to our room.

"Why are you late!".he yells." the girls have been out there for like fifteen minutes waiting for you! Are you realy telling me that you two are worse then girls". Peril spits the last word out with disgust (everybody knows that peril is a sexist pig)

he comes over to me and without warning he right hooks me in the jaw and I go flying backwards and hit the wall I scream in pain. I knew this was a test in mine and dereks fighting abilities. So I yell "SEVEN ALPHA TWO ONE!" Derek understood perfectly even though peril looked confused. we invented battle codes when we were just beginning training with mercury. Derek jumps on perils back and starts morphing in to wolf form peril is surprised and Derek (now fully wolf) used that advantage to claw perils stomach. while peril is distracted I silently morphed too. Just as peril was about to throw Derek of his back I jump up and ram in to perils side knocking him down. peril morphs in to wolf form and tries to get up but me and Derek keep him down. we roll him onto his belly and start clawing him.

"Hey! You guys are fighting peril and didn't call us". yelled Ella from the doorway her twin sister standing next to her they morph and join the fight .

Together we manage to get peril to give up so we all unmorph and start laughing our heads off as peril limps out of the room still in wolf form

"That was fun other then the fact that he gave me a scratch on my shoulder." Says Derek still laughing.

"Oh are you ok?" Asks Milly with a worried look on her face (I think she has a crush on him too)

"Yeah I'm ok." He says Barley able to stop himself from blushing .

"Hey our birthday is coming up we all say in unison." (we all have the same birthday even though were not related save then Milly and Ella) "what should we get us?" Asks Derek. (we always get all of us one big present since we all share one room)

"Hey guys" someone says from the door.

"Mercury!" We all say and rush over to him. "How was youre mission". asked Milly excitedly.

"I can't tell you guys. sorry fathers orders." He answers sadly." Hey" he said perking up." at least you get to train with me today!"

"Ok!". I say." What are we doing?" I ask excitedly.

"Broadswords fighting so go get your swords meet me in the battle clearing in fifteen minutes." He answers.

We all scramble off to our room to get ready.

Twenty minutes later were all sweating like pigs even though we were only working for five minutes (mercury trains us hard)

"Ok now work on the triple crossover!" Yells mecury above the sound of clashing swords

We were in the battle clearing a small cobblestone courtyard in the center of base 1(a base is a army encampment where you train apprentices and where the soldiers live. There are eight bases surrounding the city wall plus three inside the city)we all started working on the move and then as usual with practice blades did the move on each other.

"Good!" Said the prince.

We kept drilling the move until it was natural for us. as easy as breathing.

Suddenly I saw peril staring at me strangely from the edge of the clearing . I noticed that mercury was doing the same.

"Ok! Now you can duel each other. Jake you fight Ella. Derek fight Milly." Said prince mercury.

I was really annoyed Ella always creamed me at broadsword fighting I was about to complain when I remembered that peril was watching. Every time I complain when peril is watching he pulls me aside and screams at me how lucky me and my friends are. Because were being trained by the princes of the kingdom. But it's obvious he only hates me the most because I know his secret.

"HEY BEETLE HEAD WE DOIN THIS OR NOT?" Yelled Ella pulling me out of my thoughts.

Yes we are! I called back and ran over. We starteddueling she had me beaten in less then ten minutes. Oh well the broadsword was never my weapon I usually faught with bow and arrow and two katana Japanese swords . I could hammer any of the apprentices at either weapon . in fact I could beat most soldiers with those weapons.

Three hours later we were released from training to go on woods patrol with five soldiers and two other apprentices from base 3 (woods patrol is when a group of soldiers and apprentices go to search in the woods for food and serainians (werewolves from the kingdom seron)

"We're working on wolf battle tomorrow" .called mercury after us.

"OK!" We all yelled back. We all loved wolf battle.

WRITERS NOTE: ok guys that's it for this chapter hope you liked it I'd like to post at least once a week but that will never happen so I promise I update at least once every two weeks. Yo guys go check out my friends fanfic her name is kurby124 you should really check her out she's amazing. So bye guys c u next time.