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Chapter 6 - Interesting days

I yawn as i stretch out my entire body before opening my eyes to look at the barracks ceiling. Still sandstone. I get out of my bed and walk outside where the sun is just rising. The first day of my second week with the humans and thankfully only people who were out travelling are staring at me now. Sky is alright and isn't quite as annoying but I need to keep training so I've ignored his many patrol requests and got up with the sun to see if the humans training court is as good as he claims.

When I get there I find a few people tiredly chatting on a bench to the side of a 30block by 32block training court. Theres a parkour course running around the side and when high enough over the court and a few people with safety equipment on are practising. The court its self has 4 areas: A basic sword training zone, a bow and arrow training zone (with a few moving targets), a zone for fist fighting and a final competition court. I give a bored go at each breaking the sword fighting dummy, acing the bow and arrow target and smashing into the scarecrow used to practise fist fighting.

By this point Sky and one of his friends, called Deadlox I think, have wandered in and spotted me. Sky waves frantically like a small child seeing their parents after getting lost except a lot more happy... Still annoying unfortunately.

"Shadow!" Now he's yelling, i turn and look and him as they walk over to me.

I say when they finally reach me "What did you want?"

"Well being as your in the competition zone we assumed you wanted an opponent and seeing what you did to those targets i got back-up." I turn to his friend and assess him. If I'm honest he doesn't look much and I'm not entirely sure what the headphones are for though I'm certain they're mostly just for show.

"Hmm... I guess i could do with a actual person to fight." I grumble it but Sky once again doesn't get the 'You're pissing me off' hint and walks to the other side with Deadlox who has barely even said a greeting.

Somewhere from behind me a bell rings once we're in position and they both attack me at once, Sky fumbling slightly with his sword. I wait until they're about to hit me before drawing and blocking with my swords in one easy movement. Deadlox looks impressed while Sky tries to sneak behind me. It almost worked but he trod on my tail. I jump back hitting Deadlox in the stomach with my sword handle before swinging round and slicing Sky's shirt.

This is a surrender or down-for-5-seconds battle not a knock-out-the-opponent-or-kill-them battle. I leap over Deadlox using his chest to give me extra height which i use to clamber onto the nearby parkour course. They quickly follow me going up the course like normal and race after me as i quickly scale the ladder climb. I wait for them at the top and attack Sky (he made it first) and almost knock him off again before knocking Deadlox on the head and sending him back to the bottom of the course. A 5 second count down is called out and completed and as I ascend the course I stop Deadlox, rubbing his head, being lead to the stands which had filled considerably since the fight started. In my second of distraction Sky knocks my feet from under me. I grumble an aether curse word (Sky thankfully didn't hear) before leaping up and after a few minutes of fighting up the course we make it to the top where the teleporter is. The people who were here before had probably got down when I first jumped up.

Sky gets up to me badly hiding his panting, and I knock his sword from his hand and send my own through the teleporter, I might have been grinning evilly…. Okay yeah I was, it has been a while since i got a fairly okay fight. He raises his fists in a basic defensive stance. I pull a trick, fake punching at his face before kicking out his legs from beneath him making him fall off the edge of the rather high course. Not enough to kill him but he'd break a few bones. I catch him by his fingers and it takes a few seconds of screeching like a girl before he realised he was no longer falling. I roll my eyes.

"Done screeching yet?" I don't even try and hide my confidence.

"Uh, hehe yeah…" He grins sheepishly and looks up at me. "Are you gonna help me up"

" Nope" He looks at me aghast in horror and I let him before laughing my ass off at him and throwing him slightly so i can re-grab and get better grip. He screeched again.

"STOP THAT! PLEASE SHADOW I SURRENDER DON'T KILL ME PLEASE!" I laugh a little more before pulling him up and going through the teleport.

Oh. Gosh. Ugh. Ew. Ow. I stumble off the teleporter pad as soon as I finish teleporting. Did not like that. Nope. Not one bit. I hold back some bile and turn to see Sky walk through completely unaffected. Lucky bastard. He smirks at me while he announces that, yes, he did surrender. The fairly sizeable crowd cheers for me and I stand a little straighter ignoring the teleportation sickness.

Call me soft. Or stupid. Or anything that doesn't describe how awesome I am. I do enjoy this, I just hope Sky doesn't get too pushy with the patrol thing. I'm not going to be able to avoid it forever unless I leave…

I mull this over for the rest of the day before face planting my bed and making the final decision. I'm on my second week away so I'll just stay here until this month is over and then go. I chuckle softly into the darkness wondering whether Notch will for once be on my side and let me do a plan.

Course not but it gives me another reason to punch him. I fall asleep chuckling gaining an odd look from my neighbour

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I do not own Minecraft or any of the characters in this story except Shadow. Obviously.