The Path To Knighthood

By: MageInTraining

Chapter 1: A Gift

Two girls were playing in the streets of Alexandria. They were both 16 years old; they both had long brown hair and brown eyes. They stopped playing when someone hollered at one of them.

"Beatrix! Dinner is ready! Come on in!"

"I gotta go my mom is calling. Talk to ya tomorrow Lani!"

"Ok. Be sure to ask your mom about You Know What!"

"Alright! Later!"

Beatrix lived with only her mother, Jenna, and pet Chocobo, Holly. At dinner she and her mother started talking about stuff.

"Holly changed color today." Jenna told Beatrix.

"Really?! Cool! What color is she?"

"Dark blue. Now I can go to other continents to shop for herbs and stuff."

"Neat. Hey mom?"

"Yes Beatrix dear, what is it?"

"Um," Beatrix started, "They're starting a training thing at school for students who want to become Pluto Knights, can I sign up? Pleeeeeeease?"

"I don't mind. How much is it?"

"It's 300 gil for three months."

"300 gil is ok, but your gonna be gone for three months?!" Jenna said with a look of concern on her face. "You do know how hard this is gonna be, don't you?"

"Yeah, I know it'll be hard."

"You also realize that once you go there they won't let you quit,right?"

"How do you know all this?" "Because," Jenna started, " I tried out for it when I was your age. They wouldn't let me quit and I barely passed."

"Wow! I didn't know you trained to be a knight."

"Yes I did. But, If your seriouse about this then go ahead."

"YAAAAAAAAY!" Beatrix yelled as she jumped up and down, "THANKYOU!THANKYOU!THANKYOU!" She then ran upstairs to her room and went straight to bed so she would be rested up for tomorrow.

-The Next Morning-

"Beatrix? Why are you up at 5am?" "The training thing at school starts in two hours and I don't want to be late."

"It doesn't take you two minutes to get there on Holly."

"I'm walking to school today."

"That's still only a 10 minute walk."

"Yeah, but I got to wake up Lani so she can get ready."

"Lani is doing the training session, too?"

Beatrix was grabbing a piece of toast and an Elixir. "Yeah." Beatrix was about to go out the door when her mom yelled "Wait!" Beatrix stopped dead on her feat. "I want you to have something, hang on a minute." Jenna went upstairs and came down with a long, silver box with a silver ribbon tied on it. "Open it!" Beatrix did what her mother said and opened the box. She pulled out a long sword with red diamond-shapes on it. It was alot lighter than it looked and looked like it could use some cleaning in places.

"A sword?"

" Uh huh. It's the 'Save The Queen'. It was my old sword. It is alot stronger than any sword you'll use in practice or even a regulation one they'll give you. I want you to have it for good luck."

"Thanks, but, will they let me use this?"

Jenna started to scribble something on a piece of paper. "Give this note to your Commanding officer, the guy that'll be training you. You will only be able to use it during the war games but it'll be better than what they give you."

"War games?!?!?!"

"Go on,dear. Your gonna be late."