Yay 2 chapters in 1 day to make up for updating late! Chapter 2- Blazing anger
-Seriya Silvermist
Gilan P.O.V
5:00 was way too early for Gilan to wake up, and luckily Halt did not bother to dump water on him this morning.
"Get up!" Halt yelled from the front of the cabin "Were going out."
"ugggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh where are we going?" "Why this early." "Do rangers always get up this early." "Halt, when do you get up" Gilan asked
"Questions, questions, please remind me to never take an apprentice again" "Now let's go"
Halt and Gilan walked through the woods for about three hours. Well Halt rode any way. Gilan thought.
"Where are we, boy?" Halt finally broke the silence.
"Somewhere, about 15 miles west of Redmont castle?" Gilan asked unsure, he didn't know the land around Redmont because he grew up in Caraway fief.
"Is that a question or a statement?"
"A statement?"
Halt rolled his eyes to the heavens.
"What did I do?"
Halt rode ahead and was muttering something about young people and their-well Gilan was not allowed to repeat the exact words. He had to run at full speed to catch up with Halt.
They arrived at a dingy looking hut in the middle of nowhere. It was surrounded with a high fence, it had a stable (that was none too clean, mind you) and a whole heard of not that impressive horses.
The horses were not at all clean and were extremely shaggy. They were tiny and that was the end of it. Gilan was used to giant battlehorses at castle Caraway and had ridden them for as long as he remembered.
An old and greasy man walked up to them "'ello ranger." "Who's this young'un"
"Hello Bob this is Gilan, my new apprentice" "Gilan this is Old Bob, the ranger horse trainer"
"Hello,….sir" Gilan said unsure of what to call Bob
"I insist that you call me Bob"
"So…why are we here Halt." Gilan asked his master
"To get a horse, you halfwit "Halt snapped
'"Okay" Gilan said looking a bit defensive
Old Bob looked from ranger to apprentice ranger, than broke the awkward silence by whistling, a horse trotted up to Bob. "This is Blaze, your horse"
"If you could even call that a horse." Gilan muttered
"What was that, boy" Halt challenged
"I said if you could even call that thing a horse"
"What else could it be?" Halt raised an eyebrow
"A Large dog" He said matter of factly
"Large dog, huh" Old Bob looked offended "Than ride her, she'll run any battlehorse to the ground"
"Maybe, I will" Gilan replied arrogantly and climbed on Blaze. His horse's muscles tensed the next thing he knew he was rocketed into the air. Gilan landed on his back and the air was knocked out of him.
"That little devil!" Gilan said and added some more colorful language of his own.
Halt and Old Bob were too busy laughing to notice Gilan's foul language.
"Learned your lesson, boy?" Halt asked "serves you right"
Gilan nodded, shell-shocked.
Old Bob snickered "Believe me now, young'un"
Gilan nodded again, still sitting on the ground.
"Why….why did she throw me."
"Wasn't anything you did, Blaze is trained to do that" Old Bob replied
"How do I not get her to do that"
"Every ranger horse is specially trained, they have a password." "Blaze's is brown eyes.
"Brown eyes?"
"Don't say it to me, say it to the horse" the old man crackled "never gets old"
"Brown eyes" Gilan whispered to the horse
Blaze P.O.V
Blaze studied the arrogant boy in front of her.
"A large dog" said the boy who was arrogant to the man who was a stranger
Nice stable man looked like a human out of air "A large dog, huh. "Then ride her, She'll run any battlehorse to the ground.
"Thank you nice stable man" She had always thought of herself beautiful, and a large dog was pushing it.
"Maybe I will'
Time to teach boy who was arrogant a lesson.
Old Bob P.O.V
"hahhahahahhahahhahahahahaha" Old bob was cracking up Blaze had thrown Gilan even though he had told her the password.
"That little she devil" and several other words he was sure Gilan had picked up from solders in the castle.
Halt interrupted Gilan's rant of curse words. "Language, and you kiss your granny with that mouth'
"Some could say the same to you ranger Halt" Old Bob laughed
Gilan P.O.V
She looked at him on the ground as if to say why would you do a silly thing like that? Then came the string of curse words flying out his mouth.
"Language and you kiss your granny with that mouth." Halt yelled at him
"Some could say the same to you" Old Bob retaliated "try to mount her again"
Gilan hesitantly mounted blaze again. She didn't throw him this time. Next he tried to take her a few steps. She still didn't throw him, so he urged her in to a slow cantor. Then into a fast gait.
"Yes! I did it" Gilan yelled "whoooooooo" and Blaze immediately threw him on the ground.
He walked her back to the stables, afraid that she was going to throw him again. He thought that it was pitiful that he had to say again.
As he was approaching the stables, Halt leaned down whispered Blaze's password into her ear and continued to mount her. Blaze let him mount without any problem. He rode her around the corral.
"What I don't get is how you rode those beasts of battlehorses, and when we put you on a nice and calm horse, you're immediately trying to get off again" Halt ranted
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