"GUYS COME ON! Speed up a little, my dad isn't going to let you two run with me if you don't speed up!" A thirteen year old Bianca yelled at her friends.
"Sorry we're not Freeshooters-in-training that's been running ever since they were two and a half!" Lea yelled at her as he caught up with his friend.
"I didn't start running until I was six." Bianca replied, her hand on her hip. "Bianca, three minutes and twenty seconds. Stop wasting your time and kick it into gear!" Braig's voice sounded from a clearing on the other side of a patch of trees. Bianca groaned and ran towards her father at full speed.
Have to break my record, I have to! Bianca though. She had only a few seconds. She burst through the clearing and past her father.
"Four minutes sixteen seconds. Sorry, princess." Braig told her. Bianca groaned Lea and Isa came in about two minutes later.
"Lea, I know I'm not training you, but a tenth of a mile in five minutes. Bianca ran a mile in less than that." Lea didn't say a thing. Bianca was laughing. Isa too, though he had no room to talk.
"Alright princess, go get out of your running outfit and into your training clothes, meet me at the shooting range in ten minutes." Braig instructed on his way over to the said shooting range. Bianca nodded and ran to the house, ignoring Lea calling her insane.
Quickly changing she checked the time, it took her three minutes to get to house and change, she could probably walk to the shooting range and be there on time. She left her room and saw Lea and Isa with a water bottle each. Lea tossed her one. Bianca caught it and left the house, Lea and Isa following. She got to the shooting range with a minute to spare. Braig was checking his watch when he saw her approach.
"Alright, you need to work on your aim." He told her. Bianca groaned, that was BEGGINGERS!
"But Dad!" She replied, Braig shook his head.
"I don't want to hear it, you didn't exactly pass with flying colors when comes to aiming. So I want you to work on it a little bit. If you can get five bulls eyes in a row on the targets down there, then we'll move on." Braig told her. Bianca fought rolling her eyes. It was a problem, and it pissed her dad off, bad. So she just summoned her arrow guns and took the appropriate distance from the target and waited for further instructions.
"Alright, you have ten tries on this. Remember, all you need is five." Braig told her as he walked behind her.
"Get over here you morons. I don't want you in front of Bianca. Your parents would kill me if you got hurt." Braig scolded Lea and Isa. The two boys scrambled up from their seats on the ground and went to join Braig at the tree line behind Bianca.
"Have at it Princess." Braig told her. Bianca focused on the first target, it stood mockingly down the range, along with ten others. Ten tries, five bulls eyes, seemed easy enough.
Center of the center. Bianca told herself, and pulled the trigger once she was certain she found the center's center. She moved on, not even bothering to see if she made it, repeated what she did with the first one, and so on.
"Alright ten." Braig said. He passed by her and went down the shooting range, inspected each target, he shook his head, coming back.
"Four bulls eyes, six misses. That fifth one down the row would've been a bulls eye if you had been patient enough to actually take the time to aim carefully. You were just outside of the bulls eye on that one." Braig told her. Bianca groaned, angry with herself.
"You're life isn't at stake. So take your time and learn to aim. I've already taught you how, you're just not putting time into it. You take your time now, and when a real threat shows up, you'll be able to aim quickly like you want to." Braig told her patiently. Bianca nodded.
"Alright, let me go switch out the targets and we'll work on your aim for about fifteen minutes. We'll have to cut training short a little today, Ansem wants me in early today." Braig told his daughter. Bianca nodded and waited for her father to change out the targets.
"You know, your dad is way cooler than both of ours combined." Lea told her. Isa nodded.
"They both just go to work and lay around all day after they get home from work. Your dad actually interacts with you." Isa told her. Bianca turned around.
"I know he's awesome. I've been telling you that for the past eight years, but NO! Dads can't be cool! They're lazy and lay around all day!" Bianca said, imitating her friends. The three of them laughed.
"When are you gunna take us on a tour of Ansem's castle?" Lea asked.
"She's not, Bianca, have you been telling them that?" Braig asked.
"No Dad, I've been telling Flamesilocks here that I'm not allowed in the castle unless one of you guys are with me. They definitely wouldn't let me in with these to goons." Braig laughed at his daughter's reply
"Flamesilocks. I like it. Good one, Bianca. It suites him." Braig told her Bianca smiled.
"Ah, man Bianca! You HAD to call me that in front of HIM!" Lea asked, pointing up at her father from the grassy floor while throwing himself on the ground. Bianca smiled and laughed.
"Yep." She said. Braig laughed again.
"Alright, lets get back on track, We got less then fifteen minutes to work on your aim and if you don't get at least ten I'll work you for thirty after I get home today." Braig warned. Bianca nodded and turned. She took a little longer than usual and shoot at each target. Braig teleported over to the targets, not really having time to walk over. He checked her handiwork and returned with a proud look on his face.
"Now you've made me proud, Nine out of ten. Now I can go to work happy. I'll have something new to brag about." Braig said smiling proudly. Bianca nodded smiling broadly.
"Alright Princess. I gotta get to work. Don't get into any trouble, Right?" Braig asked before he walked away. Bianca gave a funny little two fingered salute.
"Sir, yes, sir!" She replied happily. Braig teleported out of sight and Bianca turned to her friends. They were laughing.
"Does he seriously brag?" Isa asked. Bianca nodded.
"Why else is his name one letter away from being brag?" Bianca asked. Earning more laughs from her friends.
"Hey, yo, Bianca!" She heard him, Lea. She looked up, seeing her tall skinny friend. She smiled broadly and wraps him in a tight hug.
"Lea! Oh My God, I missed you!" She exclaimed. The feeling of her small crush on her friend was returning.
"I missed you too!" Bianca pulled back, looking her friend in the face. She smiles.
"I'm glad to see you Lea, what about Isa? Was he able to come?" She asked Lea, stepping away from him.
"Sorry, he's been busy tracking down Ariexan. Xemnas pulled a cheap shot and she went AWOL. I can't blame her. I did too." Lea said, looking to the ground.
"What so you greet him with a hug, and me with a bullet to the shoulder. Wow I feel loved Bianca." Her father's voice came, he was on the crest of the hill that rose above the shooting range. She looked up and saw him.
"Hi Dad. I haven't seen Lea in forever, I'v- wait, yeah, there's no excuse for that. Sorry, won't happen again!" She told him, Lea beside her laughed and patted her head. Something he had done since he got taller than her in their sophomore year. Bianca laughed and covered her head. Stepping away from him with a playful glare. Lea smiled.
"Ol' Scarface told me that you shot him in the shoulder, seemingly without even trying. Looks like you're aims gotten better." Lea told her. She replied with a wink.