Here is the next chapter. Now I would like to respond to the comments that I have gotten on the last chapter yes the person really did stop her story. Yes I am going to keep continuing this story ext. Remember this though the more reviews there is = more motivation= more chapters so simple math.
Avina stared at the door for a moment, about to leave.
"You don't seem very excited for becoming the first female apprentice of a Ranger." The Baron noted.
"Well I was hoping to become the apprentice to someone famous like Halt. Imagine being an appetence to him. The hero of our country."
"True, but John isn't half bad either."
"Half bad!" she practically screamed at him, " I have never heard of him at all!"
"Well, Rangers are strange, and John is one of the strangest ones out there. But he obviously saw something in you, something I didn't see in you before."
Her eyes met his. "And now?"
"Well now I still don't see what's so special about you. Sure you can move silently, but your physical abilities will always get in your way. However, I have often learned in my time not to discard a Ranger's judgment. So if he says your capable then by all means go ahead and go."
She looked back at the door.
"You should leave to get some rest. I know for a fact that John is not happy when apprentices are late. And believe me, there's nothing worse than an angry Ranger."
Avina's lips twitched briefly and she tried to copy John's silent movements. She quietly closed the door and ran down the stairs, as silently as she could. However, she knew she was nothing compared to John and his ability. Something like what he did would take years and years of practice. Very hard demanding practice she realized. Then the realization struck her.
"Oh crap," she muttered. She now knew why he had been smirking and had said, "Don't worry ill fix her up." or something along those lines. She let out a involuntary shutter as she thought of all the physical training she was going to have to do.
She continued her down the castle hall ways until she had passed the tree line and went into the forest. She knew these forests like the back of her hand. For she had spent many of days just exploring them sometimes even camping out in them when she knew she wouldn't be missed.
Of course whenever she got back from those days she always got in trouble for sleeping outside. For some reason she never could be sneaky enough to get past the morning guard watch.
"Funny," she thought to herself. It had even gotten to the point of where most of the guards on morning watch actually knew her by name. Probably why they always seemed to catch her. As this was on her mind, she made twists and turns as if she trying t out run something. Something, that no matters how fast or hard she started to run always seemed to catch up wit her. Her past. She had spent many of nights trying to forget everything that she had been forced to do just stay alive in that… No she refused to even think those times. Now with her being apprenticed to a Ranger she knew she was going to be in for a world of hurt.
So she started a nice jog into the forest. As her mind continued to wonder about. Jumping between different tops till she stopped and put her hands on her knees. Her breath was coming in fast short gasps. She was in emotional stress. Her whole entire life was about to change.
"I didn't realize I went this far." She mumbled to herself, still breathless. Her eyes scanned around the unfamiliar territory. She realized that it would be very difficult to go back. And it wasn't like she could just go in any direction. Dangerous things lurked in the forest.
With a sigh, she realized there was absolutely no way she was getting back by herself. So deciding that she should go a little bit farther to see if she could find the end of the trees.
Of course in her dazed state she didn't bother to mark trees on anything. So as far as she knew she was stuck out her for a good while. At least until the Sun went down and she could head towards the North star. That always seemed to work whenever she was stuck out in the woods no matters where she was. Of course she had never featured this far so she didn't know if it would work this time.
"Great," she muttered, " Not even accepted as a Ranger's appetence yet and I have already managed to get lost."
All of a sudden, she heard a rustle and a scream. Her blood ran ice cold. For that scream that was emitted was no human scream. It was a blood-curdling scream of a crazed and deranged animal. Avina took off running to a tree faster than a Jack Rabbit. Any tree would do. However, she committed the fatal mistake of looking behind her. Her eyes widened. Avina was fast, however, she knew that the creature would eventually catch up to her. She was terrified, scared for her life, feeling an emotion that had never been felt as fierce as this.
She put in every ounce of strength she had. Her body using muscles that she did not even know existed. Faster and faster she ran. However, she could not keep this pace up for ever and this blood thirsty animal that was chasing her down would eventual run her into the ground. Then something caught her eye. A tree branch just low enough. But she had to act quickly, because she knew that whatever the beast was would kill her faster than a cow take to cutter. Hosting her self up into the tree just as the savage beast gave a roaring bellow. Seeing its prey escaping it turn to the tree.
Upon finishing it's turn the animal gave another scream and it charged into the tree that Avina was in. But she was ready. She had already been preparing herself, gripping a branch and the trunk its' self. She felt the tree shake violently. Almost losing her balance and fell to the ground.
However, she was able to hang on but barely. Another ram like that and she would do done fore. Then just before the impact of the tusks onto the trunk of the tree there was a series of hisses and the sound a bow being released. She looked down to find the boar that had been chasing her with a half a dozen arrows in it. The arrows were black and had goose feathers on them. Only the arrows for some unknown reason seemed to only enrage the beast.
However, before the beast could move another muscle a dozen more arrows pierced the boars flesh. These ones some how going all the way though the skin and muscle pinning it to the tree in which Avina was hiding in. Looking down at the boar she could see something in the boars eyes
Fear.
I was stuck at spring camp otherwise known as JCLC!
Now as always the basic outline of this and the main character belong to Yona Rider. However, I do own my own OC now ( John). Also before anyone go and say why did I take out the romance. I haven't it just wont be dominate till much latter so fear not.
