My Odd Adventure - Chapter 2; What!? Me…

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Around a month later

Well I was starting to get used to the routine of helping Shàre with the meals. She never made me do any sewing, since I could never sow a straight line. But one thing I found out; I'm a natural when it comes to archery, which is rather scary… I have only been doing archery for about two weeks and I can hit the center every time. Gavin; the guy who is teaching me the archery, is curious to know about what else I'm good at. However, before we can try anything else for today, we hear a shout from across the village. I couldn't understand it but Gavin must have, because his face went totally white. He starts to run toward the other side of the village. I follow. When we got there, the village elder was telling a man on a horse that there were no young men to take. The guy on the horse starts to look around. He spots me.

"Then I'll take her." He says pointing at me. I turn to look behind me. Then look back at the guy.

"Me?" I say, hoping not.

"Yes, you. Now go gather your things."

After hearing this I practically sprint to the hut I shared with Shàre. I grab my backpack and shove my clothes, my iPod, my sketch book, my math book, and some other miscellaneous things in it. I look around one last time at the hut. Then I step out the door, and start to jog back to the guy on the horse. Gavin stops me and hands me a bow and a quiver of arrows.

"Live free, die well." Says Gavin.

"Well thanks, that's really encouraging. But I will live free, and if I do die. I hope it will be a death to remember."

"Good, keep practicing with the bow. I know you will be the best archer this world has ever seen, and will see." I blush after the compliment.

"Now that was encouraging. Well I better go. Wait, but I don't have a horse." I look around wondering about my horseless problem.

"Here, have this one." Share says handing me the rains of a horse.

"You sure I can take him? I don't want you to lose such a wonderful horse."

"Yeah. You are the only person who can get close to him, let alone ride him." Shàre hands me the reins to a beautiful black stallion whose name is 'Demon'. I take the reins, and then I drop them and give Shàre a really big hug.

"Thank you for taking care of me. I really appreciated it."

"No problem. It was fun. Yeah, you're weird and strange. I'll miss the music, but I won't miss your snoring. You're like the daughter I never had, and I'll miss you. At the end of your service, my home will always be open for you." With that she gives me one finale hug and runs off crying.

"Well then Demon, I guess we better get to riding." I grab his reins and jump up onto his back. I hate riding with a saddle so we devised a pack that can hold all of my things. It's actually quite nice. Demon really likes it as well. We then ride to the Roman man.

"I'm ready."

"Where's your saddle?" he asks.

"Demon is un-ride able when he has a saddle on. So we don't use one."

"Oh… then don't start complaining when your arse starts to hurt." With that he kicks his horse and rides off. I go and join the rest of the Sarmatians. We start to leave. I don't look back, knowing that it would only make me sadder. That village was my home for only a month but it felt like more of a home than my home in the future ever did.