Before the events of Angel of The Sea.

"... And then I shot an arrow through his eyeball."

Once again while the older soldiers were actually fighting their enemies, they left the young boys to their own devices, but if you asked the boys they in fact just last week fighting along side the soldiers.

This time Paul was telling the story of how he defeated a giant, with only five arrows of course.

" Then as the beast twisted and tumbled I aimed right for his left leg and left him defeated as ever!"

Shawn nods his head and goes on to tell his story.

" That's impressive and all but giants are child's play compared to ... Dragons."

The boys rolled their eyes

"Come on now Shawn everyone here knows the only dragons you seen are the flies in your bathroom." One says

" And yesterday I wrestled the Loch Ness monster, and if your going to to make up a story make it believable."

" Oh yeah! How would you know if there's any dragons around here! I haven't seen you do much fighting." Shawn yells out

" If you want a fight come get one!"

The other boy says

Shawn charges him until he hears the sound of the door opening wide.

In comes his commander, the well known Chief Makos. He smiles and begins to speak.

" Calm down lads, from what I heard the only fighting you lot do is fighting for who gets to eat first."

Makos laughs and one of the boys speak up.

" Why don't you tell us a war story?"

" Because laddie wars are mostly boring, and then after a while I get to chop a doofus' head off. Rarely do I fight giants and dragons." The commander says

"What do you fight then?"

" Didn't I just tell ya? Doofuses! I swear after I teach you how to use a bow I'll teach you how listen."

Makos grabs his sword from its handle and smiles widely.

"Aha ,but something has happened today that I feel you should know."

Questions fly across the table to the commander and he just shushes them.

" We lost, badly at that so badly that the emperor feels we may need to use more troops. Even those who aren't, uh what's the word?"

"Trained?"

"Old enough?"

" No the word is aren't going to survive, you know bait and all that."

Suddenly the whole table quiets and they just look at each other.

" Luckily for you they said I been doing such a good job you won't be used as bait, instead I'll be leading a flank with you lot."

The table still quiet Makos speaks once again.

"Well perhaps Paul will be used as bait, but I'll make sure to save him."

"Uh commander?" Says Paul

"Yes laddie?"

"Do I have to be bait?"

"Yes laddie."

"Why?"

"Because you been here a month and still can't hold a axe correctly."

Makos laughs

" Well that's all we should be out fighting in about a week, or so make sure to get some rest. Bye boys."

Soon after he leaves the table begins to slink down with them all silent as a predator hunting.

" Where's your stories now? Your all shook. " one kid pipes up

Soon afterwards he gets hit over the head with a club and they start to walk out of the room, getting prepared for tomorrow.

As Shawn leaves another boy, slightly younger then him stops him.

" Shawn guess what I found."

It was Timmy, who had a tendency to "find" something every other day.

"Did you go into the bear cave again?" Asked Shawn

"No, no no I found these two ladies in the forest."

" Tim, you know the barracks is near a town right?"

" Yes, but these ladies looked different! One was blue and..."

" Oh really now?"

" Yes you have to believe me!"

" I really want to but I'm going to go to sleep, and avoid any blue ladies."

" Come on Shawn go to the forest with me. "

"No."

"Please?"

"Nope."

" Ha your scared to go to the forest. I understand not everyone can be as brave as me."

" I am not scared I'm just tired."

" Your scared Shawn, but it's okay while you sleep I'll be finding those two ladies."

"Fine, I'm coming."

The two of them walked through the forest for quite a while, not seeing anything much more then trees, and some animals Shawn soon began to spent more time glaring at Timmy then looking for the ladies.

"Tim..." Shawn says

" Yes, Shawn." Says Tim

"If we don't find those blue people in the next minute I'm going to kill you."

" Only one of them was blue, weren't you listening?"

" She's not going to be the only one blue when I'm done with you."

Suddenly they heard a noise, a few rusting leaves then a voice from a old women.

" Oh lord it's that human again, didn't you tell him not to come back?"

Then another younger voice

" I did, but apparently he's not good at listening."

"No humans are good at listening! Didn't I ever tell you the story of those pirates."

"Yes mom, you told them not to attack us but they still did, and you turned them into chickens."

"And then I ate them."

They heard the old women laugh and then went back to ranting, Timmy began to grin.

"What did tell ya? Learn to trust me a little more."

" Fine fine, I believe you now there are crazy women in the forest, can we go now?" Says Shawn

"Noooo, you to see them one of them is a angel."

" Don't Angels have better things to do then hang out in forests?"

"Well she said she's a angel."

" So she's really crazy."

"Bah just follow me." Says Timmy

They went through a small bush until they saw the two, one who looked like any other old lady, and another who was as Tim had claimed was bright and blue.

While Shawn was okay with not talking to them, Timmy decided to make his presents noted.

" I have returned!"

"Oh he brought a friend." Says the blue one

The older one looks at him for half a second before, speaking quite clearly and summoning a blade in her hand.

" Alright silly mortal I gave you one chance, I suggest your friend leaves before your both turned into a kebab for the wolves."

And then the old women charges