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Chapter 4
When we got down from the floating table, it was much busier than before. People walked past leading horses or in one case a llama and wolves strolled around the place growling at something or someone once in a while. The camp was filled with popping noises and morning chatter.
"Where to first commander?" I mocked saluted him.
He laughed
"I wish I'm just a sniper" he said mimicking shooting something.
"Don't we all wish, but I'm serious, where to next, you were mentioning all this stuff about transformation, and weapons and crap"
" yeah, I think we'll get your gear first, you know, your armour, cloak, training clothes, and well I think that's it" he said walking out of the camp site and down a path.
"Alrighty, but the place is not in the air is it?" I asked.
He just laughed
"Man, why does everyone else think everything floats after they've seen the dining table" he asked himself "oh and to answer your question, no it is not floating. It is set firmly on the ground" he chuckled, smiling to himself.
"How do you even get there, the dining table I mean? Joey just snapped her fingers and poof, were sitting on a floating table" I asked him, walking around a clump of black berry bushes.
"You'll learn that from Teddy and Liliac" He chuckled
By that time we had reached another tent. This one was slightly bigger than the normal tents that I had slept in, and vines were covering it like a little cottage, and also had smoke coming up from behind it from a chimney
"Before we enter, I would not even bat an eye towards Kelly and Portia because A: The real commander will be after you, which is not what I would recommend and B: the guy behind the tent in the forges will also be after you" Mice said with a smile before entering the tent.
"Do I really need a bow and quiver of arrows?" I whined as we dumped all my new stuff on my bed.
"Yes you do, now shut up" Mice said, annoyed.
"But I suck at archery" I said seriously
"Well we will have to work on that won't we? Now come on I'll have to show you around the place" he said walking out of the tent.
I sighed and trudged after him
"There's more?"
"Dude there is a whole damn island full of stuff to do"
"Yippy" I said sarcastically
"Great to hear the enthusiasm"
I just grunted and followed him to another clearing that we saw earlier that had a herd of horses grazing.
"See that palomino paint at the back there, you can have her" he said pointing to a young palomino paint mare"
"She's young, just turned 3 a month ago" he finished
"Uhh ok" I said unsurely walking slowly to the young horse. Sensing someone was coming towards her; she lifted her head and looked at me. I raised my hand slowly towards her, and she slowly walked towards me, her head stretched out to sniff my hand once she came close enough. Once she was satisfied that I wasn't any threat, and nickered and head butt me.
I laughed and stroked her neck.
"Hey does she have a name? You never mentioned it" I asked mice, who came over to me riding a chestnut horse.
"Nope, you have to give her a name, since she does gonna be your horse till you die and make sure it's a name that suits both her, so wait a little bit, get to know her, sometimes a hunter came take up to 100 years to name their horse, so take your time" he said while I scrabbled to get up bareback
"Alright, and wont she dies before, because I'm immortal, and stuff" I asked trying to get my balance
"Nope, she'll live as long as you do, and when you die, she'll die alongside you, and here, use this" Mice answered passing me a bride.
It took me a while to get the bridle on. And 20 minutes later we were headed down a path. We didn't say anything, just rode on in silence, observing the scene around us. The tall forest trees, the berry bushes, burrows of the animals, and the animals themselves going about their daily duties.
About half an hour later we got to the end of the path, and the forest itself, and spread out front of us were huge grassy plains, and in the distance you could vaguely see the ocean.
We rode on for about 5 more minutes before Mice spoke up
"Beautiful isn't it?" he spoke softly, as if not to disturbed the peaceful sounds of the light winds, the light rustle of the grass or the sound of the horses hoof beats.
"Yeah, it's quite amazing that the mortals will never see this" I whisper back to him, already excepting that this was like camp-half blood, shielded from the mortals eyes, unless they were clear sited
"The gods, monsters, demigods, or anybody besides the hunt, residents of the village or Lord Chaos himself will never see it, for this is a place where Lord Chaos gives the people he finds worthy, the sanctuary of the Void" Mice replies, halting.
"So there's a village?" I asked, halting alongside him.
"Yeah, it's just northeast of here, along the coast, we'll go visit it another day because if you're as bad as you say you are at archery, then we'll have to start right away" Mice laughed, turning his horse around
I sighed but still I couldn't help but smile.
We rode back to the campsite talking, or more precisely, bickering the whole way.
"Dude, I am never teaching you archery again, you are completely hopeless" Mice groaned flopping on his bed
"Told you so" I replied grinning
"Anyway, what do you think of teddy?"
"I'm never looking at teddies or midgets the same way again"
Mice just laughed
"Don't worry, he's normally nicer than this, you just got him on a bad day" he said flinging a muddy shirt across the room
"Ever think about cleaning this room?"
"Nope"
"Oh Gods"
"I'm just kidding man, keep your knickers on" he laughed flinging a sock at me
"Mate, keep your socks to yourself"
"This is gonna be a great time" Mice grinned flinging another sock at me
"Oh yeah, this is gonna be a wonderful time" I replied sarcastically, and but I couldn't help but smile.
Well hope you enjoyed
Foxie