My 17th birthday.
When we went to get a meal. We were met with my friend, Trill. Now Trill is a, bird. A bird with a pretty big afro.
"Link, where have you been?
All I did was point, And he got the picture.
"Well, have you improved through the 2 months of training?" Trill says with an curious face.
I explained to him that I used to get thrown and tossed around, but I could decently hold my own now.
"Yep," Colin butted in, "He has improved quite a lot. Even caught me off guard today, nearly had me."
As I recall, me and Colin were training in a forest patch. When, Colin wanted me to do something.
" Link, try this,"
He showed me a technique that I had never been able to do before.
"A sword has no strength, unless the hand that holds it has courage. Summon your courage and be one with the sword." He called the technique a 'Helm Splitter.' I attempted it... and I did it! I was so happy that I might have fallen and hit my ass on the floor.
"Well done Link! You did a fine job, now. Try it on me."
This was the first time he said this so I was hesitant. Then he darted forward, and the fight began.
First was a normal vertical swing, easily stepsided. I attempted a good stab, that he blocked. Then, before he could look from his shield, I rolled around Colin, and attempted his own technique on himself, Colin just ducked and smirked at me. Without a second to react, Colin attempted a upward swing for my sword hand. My sword went about a meter behind Colin, but I wasn't finished. I ran full speed at Colin, and surprised him. He tried a horozontal swing that I slid under, and went through his legs. Then I grabbed my sword and went for a vertical swing, but he wasn't there.
"Do you surrender?"
He had his sword pointed into my back, when I said,
"Never."
When he raised his blade to knock me out I ducked and swept his legs out from under him. I attempted to strike but he did a back flip and got out of the way. This caught him off guard, though he recovered quickly.
"Not half bad" He said with a smirk.
I stood there and rushed him.
And ended up leaning up against a tree with a sprained ankle, and a few cuts and bruises on my back from rolling.
"Wow!" Trill exclaimed, "You must be pretty strong huh Link? To hold your own against Colin... you must have trained hard."
I just sheepishly scratched my head.
Colin said, "Well let's celebrate!"
The next few hours consisted of me doing various challenges, and a few fencing matches. And food, so much food. When everything was said and done, I was climbing the ladder to my house when a girls voice called my name.
"Link!"