So this is my first Ranger's Apprentice fanfiction... My second fanfiction actually... Anyways (just a little of an insight) this is overall a romance between Will and Alyss, that takes place when they were still pretty young (there is no set date but I say anywhere between 9 and 13.)
Just a reminder; none of the characters, settings or anything else in this story belongs to me, they belong to the talented author John Flanagan (I hope I spelled that right.) Heck, as far as I care he can take credit for the whole story... Please enjoy! (^_^)b
"I'm so impressed," Will muttered sarcastically under his breath.
"What was that Will?" Horace inquired. "Oh nothing, Will replied, just pointing out the fallacious technique you're using." "Why thank-you Will, though I must point out the way you talk... Well, have you eaten any dictionaries lately?" Will laughed; Firstly, the look on Horace's face told Will that he actually thought eating a dictionary would improve your vocabulary, secondly fallacious was a synonym for awful. "Horus wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, just the biggest," Will thought to himself.
Will, Horace, Alyss, Jenny and George were at a creek not far from Castle Redmont. They were having a contest to see who could skip a stone the farthest. "What I want to know, exclaimed Jenny, is how did you even skip a stone that large?" "Well it's all in the wrist," Will heard before he tuned out everything around him.
He had spotted a stone roughly the size of a pumpkin and was planning on skipping it across the lake. "I'll show them, he said to himself, they'll be worshipping me soon enough." He trailed off into a daydream, involving him succeeding in skipping the stone, and Alyss running into his arms won over by his grace and strength. He slipped his hands around the stone and pulled.
Nothing happened; he tried again and fell back into a tree. Will let out a cry of pain! Hearing this, his fellow Wardmates turned around. First to react, Horace walked over to Will. For a second Will thought that Horace was coming to help him up, but instead he picked up the stone in one hand. He then proceeded to throw it, not skip. It ended up landing on the other side of the creek.
"Wow," exclaimed George. "Yeah, how'd you do that," Jenny picked up. "More like how couldn't Will do that," answered Horace.
Horace was answered by a torrent of laughter. Will felt as if it was piercing through him, building up a wall of pain. He ran, not bothering to look behind. He didn't realize; not everyone was laughing.
Will ran. He didn't stop until he reached his haven. It was a tree in front of castle Redmont. "I don't want to give them the pleasure, he whispered, I don't to give them the pleasure, that's all."
Will felt crushed, he always tried to tell himself that he was tough as stone; unbreakable. In reality he knew he was quite the opposite, weak and brittle. Though, even alone he wouldn't give in to the tears...
So there's the first chapter... Hope you enjoyed... Expect more soon because my computer kind of broke and... Well now I'm quite ahead of myself. By the way, I'll try to make the chapters longer because I like to type these up on my IPod and, well they look a lot longer there...
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