Inheritance Character Correction University
By Kaldaka
Chapter 4- Arya Makes Use of Her Brain Cell
Everybody streamed out to the front of the castle, where on a large open field they found Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli standing by several racks of assorted wooden weapons. Some of the girls swooned, others just began drooling. Behind the men, an archery field had been set up.
"All right. Bob, would you like to demonstrate for everyone a duel with me?" The entire class looked puzzled except for Arya, Galbatorix, and Eragon, who was frowning.
"All right," he said. "But if I beat you, will you stop calling me Bob?"
"Of course," Aragorn said kindly, hiding his grin. Eragon smiled in relief and drew Zar'roc, setting it into the guard position. Aragorn drew Anduril, its blade gleaming in the sun. Just then, Kell rushed up.
"Ah, Legolas, there you are," she called. He turned and smiled. Several more girls swooned and a few began to run forward, but were halted by mini-dragons swooping out of mid-air. "Ooh, duel!" Kell exclaimed. "Just a moment…" Pulling out a spray bottle from her bag, she pulled the trigger.
Nothing could be seen, but suddenly Eragon almost dropped Zar'roc.
"Ow!" he muttered, glaring at Kell. "What'd you do to it?"
"Reality spray," Kell explained. "In real life, you'd have to have serious muscles and have trained to be able to lift that. Of course, in real life you wouldn't a sword prodigy either, but I'm afraid that if I sprayed you with the reality spray at the moment, you'd turn into cardboard." Then she grabbed Legolas' arm and dragged him off, smirking as she muttered to him, half the girls watching her enviously. The other half were too busy watching Aragorn to notice anything had happened.
"All right," Aragorn said happily. "Let's go."
"Aren't we going to dull the edges?" Eragon squeaked in horror. Aragorn rolled his eyes.
"I never did that when I was learning, and I never got anything particularly life-threatening." Gimli laughed.
"Me neither. Well, one time someone almost got me leg off, but I managed to leap back in time."
"Read?" Aragorn said impatiently, and Eragon lifted Zar'roc, wincing at its newly acquired weight, and nodded weakly. Aragorn swung his blade slowly and Eragon blocked it.
Then Aragorn attacked. Eragon valiantly put up an effort- ok, so on the third blow he just dropped Zar'roc and ran as Aragorn landed blows on him with the flat of his sword.
The rest of the class watched in horrified silence.
Aragorn stopped after maybe thirty seconds, regarding the whimpering Eragon with disgust.
"Well," he muttered, "He can't fight and he can't run! I mean, really, you have to be able to do one of them." Turning to the rest of the characters, he snapped out the orders.
"Everybody with a weapon, turn it in to Gimli, then come to Lego-" he paused and squinted at where Kell and Legolas were still engaged in earnest discussion and sighed. "Pick up your weapon from me and then pick a post to stand behind. Bob and Arya- stay in front. I want to keep an eye on you two." Ha! If I was him, I would too… either that or I would realize that Arya might be a threat and Eragon- er…. does not have much trouble-making potential.
The class was very quiet as it filed past Gimli and Aragorn. No one else wanted to be the one who got in Aragorn's way.
After several hours of basic drills, they stumbled out of class, ears still ringing with Aragorn's last (rather dire) words.
"If I find anyone in possession of any weapon, Miss Kell will have a field day." Arya's brain cell must have finally started working, because she turned pale along with everyone else.
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Notes: Sorry it was such a short one. I pretty much transcribed this one straight from my notebook, and it is short there too- maybe I'll figure out a way to enlarge it later.
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