Hi everyone! It's me again, with another chapter to this book. I am excited about this, and I hope you will be to! If anyone wants to review, feel free to. I promise to not bite anyone! XD
Anyways, here it is!
Destyne's P.O.V
"Deep breath, Destiny…" I thought.
I was not very anxious to see Malory again. I was never too fond of him.
He was far too obnoxious, proud, and arrogant for my taste.
We walked down the elegant hall, and entered the courtyard.
Sir Malory was practicing fencing with a knight.
I looked at Christina, and saw that she had already begun to blush.
"Um…" she began. "Sir Malory?"
"Christina!" he said. Malory turned to the knight he was with. "One moment, please."
"Destiny and I need to speak with you." Christina fiddled nervously with sleeve. "Alone."
The knight nodded at Sir Malory and took a seat, allowing us to walk to a gazebo in the distance.
"What is it that is so urgent?" Malory asked. "Have you come to confess your undying love for me?"
I grimaced when I realized he had said the last bit without opening his mouth.
My mind-reading had started up again. I stroked my temples, and tried to get it to go away. It always happened at random times, and it was so annnoying.
"We need you to teach us how to fight." Christina quickly said. She added on another part in her mind, "And teach us how you always look so cute and perfect!"
I almost gagged.
"Destiny? Are you okay?" Christina worriedly asked.
I had never told her about my supposed "gift".
"Yeah, I'm fine." I told her.
"Okay, then… Um, why would you need to learn how to fight?" Malory asked. "When you have this completely hot hunk to do it for you?" he thought.
Christina and I looked at the floor.
We then exchanged a conversation just by looking at each other (Well, she did, anyway. I could read her mind). It went something like this:
"What are we going to tell him?"
"The truth, I guess."
"But-but, what if-!"
"But nothing. He's going to train us to be knights, or we won't be knights. There's no other way."
I hesitated. I had said I trusted her.
Sometimes, though, she didn't make the best decisions, like the time when she decided to jump in the water after the Lady of the Lake when we were six…
"Oh my gosh, Destiny! I just saw a mermaid!" young Christina exclaimed.
"Mmmm-hmm! That was the Lady of the Lake. "Remember the one from the stories Jane told us?"
Christina thought for a moment, and then her eyes lit up. "That was her?! I have to find her!"
Before I could reason with her, she jumped into the lake.
"Christina!" I yelled. Panic rose in my chest.
Christina didn't know how to swim!
I had to decide whether to take the time to go get someone from the palace, or go in after her.
I jumped in.
Thankfully, I found her and pulled her to the surface, but it scared both of us half to death.
I could only hope that this wasn't another reckless decision…
Christina saw me nod slowly, and she looked back to Malory.
"We're going to be knights." she said.
"Say whaaa?!" Sir Malory asked.
We nodded.
"Girls can't be knights! Especially not a princess!" he apparently had forgotten all about me.
I had gotten used to being ignored, and didn't mind it very much anymore. I had no right to have attention paid to me, Christina was the princess. I was just a commoner…
Christina turned red. Apparently she could in fact get mad at Malory.
"Well, they should be! I came here because you're my friend, and you're supposed to be able to count on friends! So, are you going to teach me or not?!"
I shared her anger at the stupid law King Artorius had made years before Christina and I were born, but I felt it wasn't my place to show it.
Malory thought about why he should teach us facys, and tried to determine whether that would out-way all the why he should not teach us facts.
"If I teach them, then Christina will trust me…" he considered. "If I don't, then Christina will hate me and I won't be able to-"
My mind-reading just had to stop right then and there.
"What did that mean?!" I thought.
He looked a Christina in the eye, and I could tell her heart skipped a beat.
"I will." he said.
"Yay! Thank you so much!" she hugged him, then realized what she was doing, and her face turned redder than it was when she was mad. "Sorry." she squeaked.
We walked back to the courtyard, but the knight was nowhere to be found.
Apparently he had gotten tired of waiting.
Malory glanced lovingly at his sword, and a smile crept upon his face. "It's armory time." he said.
Malory brought us to the armory, which was located at the back of the castle.
I nearly gasped at how unique every sword, shield, and piece of armor was.
There were small designs on each of them, and none of them looked exactly the same.
One set of armor caught my eye right away.
The sword was long, silver, and narrow. The handle was green, almost resembling a short stem and two leaves.
I reached up to my hair and felt the crown of flowers that my mother made when I was little.
She had muttered something under her breath, and said that it would preserve them forever.
I carefully took out a small yellow dandelion, and tied it to the sword.
"It's perfect." I said. It felt as if the sword was blessed.
The armor I had picked was silver with green trim, and a helmet that hid my face completely.
I glanced at Christina, and was happy to see she had found a set as well.
Her sword was silver like mine, with a green handle.
A rose fell out of my hair. Apparently when I had taken the dandelion out, it had loosened the rose.
I knew immediately to give it to Christina.
She studied the rose.
"It's beautiful." she said. "But… That's from your mother…"
I nodded, and put on a smile. "She would want you to have it."
I tied it to her sword, and it was complete.
She found silver armor and a helmet with red trim, along with two pairs of silver boots. She gave one to me, and I looked at my reflection from a nearby helmet.
We looked like real knights.
"Now," said Malory. "We can begin."
