Hey, just wanted to apologies for this chapter, I uploaded the wrong one like twice by accident but thanks for pointing out the flaws because now I could fix them, well most of them as best as I could. I need to get back into the writing technique since I've haven't updated or written for so long. Anyway Enjoy.

The next few days at the place were certainly interesting once Gwen took her new post as the archery instructed for the pages. One her first day as a teacher the sky had been cloudy and little light was shone on the training courts. It had seemed the bad start to a bad day. First of all as she had to get up early to prepare herself for the stupid course, then she had to join the pages breakfast to be introduce by Lord ha Minch to her trainees and was received with little enthusiasm and finally when it came to the training session most of the students refused to do it; she was lucky to get some of the new students to practice (three of which were girls) however, the older pages would not be pushed over so slightly. One gave up his whole page course all together, since he refused to be trained by a woman. Lord Raoul had said it was probably a good idea that he left because he was not the proper material for a knight – at least she was helping get rid of the weak ones. On the second day she decided to get her revenge. As her class began she gathered her small group into the centre and began teaching her students how arrows could not only be simply used for killing but for traps as well, her famous electric blue eyes always darted over to the lazy lot who sat beside the castle walls playing games. Her demonstration was a special arrow she had made that had a bag filled with a special chemical she had come up with instead of an arrow head. Notching the arrow to her string she aimed it at the older pages and released, when the arrow landed dead centre of the small groups of rebels, pink gas was released – let's just say the girly colour wouldn't be coming off their clothes and skins for a while. The training master wasn't very happy about this but she assured him that she was a teacher and she would keep her punishments under law standards; there was nothing in the rule book that said you couldn't humiliate them, in fact it encourage it. Slowly, over time the students began to except her or accepted the fact that they needed to know who to perform a decent shot to past on to knight hood.

"Someone explain to me why I decided to teach little spoilt brats again." She muttered out angrily at dinner one time while she was dining with the king and queen, Alanna and George plus Raoul and Buri.

"Because you like teaching?" Jonathan point out to her but Gwen shook her head in disagreement as she attack another sausage with her fork and knife.

"I believe it had something to do with annoying Lord Burchard, not to mention the satisfaction she gets out of assaulting the poor pages." Alanna added, smiling at some of the methods that the new teacher had used against her students. Just like that, Gwen's faith in teaching had been restored.

"Yes it was fun staining their tunics with pink dye." She answered, not being able to hide the mischievous wide grin that was spread long across her face.

"I don't understand why I let her become a teacher." The king commented to his wife after seeing the evil look on Gwen's facial features. The queen laughed at her husband's poor misjudgement and patted him lightly on the arm.

"Don't worry my love, all good kings make bad decisions every now and again." She replied and took a sip of her tea. Both of their eyes sparkled with hidden amusement. Outside the sun was high in the sky and there was a soft autumn to help keep the sweat soaking into the shirts and dresses cloth material. Gwen couldn't help but let her attention be dawn to the window as she looked among the castle grounds. Lord ha Minch was out on the training grounds working the pages and new squires to death with extremely hard excises, then her attention turned towards the horses stables were she could just see some of third company bringing their horses back from lance training; As always Kel was with them, Gwen had not seen her miss a lance training session yet. Finally her gazes fell upon the edge of the woods that covered the eastern side of the castle barrier. She let out a deep breath as her gaze swam along the edges of the lush green scenery. She wished she could be out the exploring the wilderness but had to be stuck inside instead. Not that she could complain really the company was good and the food was even better. Just as lunch was coming to an end, Gwen's mind drifted towards the window again and landed back on the thick forests. However, something in the shadows suddenly shifted, catching Gwen gleaming eyes instantly, as she sat up a little straighter to get a better look. She could not see much except it had the outline of and animal.

"Earth to Gwen!" Alanna called out, slapping her around the head to properly get her attention. Quickly, she bit the end of her tongue so she wouldn't cry out in pain. Instead she had to settle with a moody pout and a sore head.

"Sorry, what's everyone talking about?" Gwen questioned, when she noticed everyone was staring at her, waiting for her to say something.

"We were just asking if you had any plans." Buri repeated and now everyone was watching her.

"Er… I and Alanna were going for a ride in the woods." Gwen answered rapidly and out of the corner of her eye saw Alanna opened her mouth about to say something. To stop her from saying anything the immortal kicked the purple eyed woman hard in the leg. The immortal watched the old woman bite down on her bottom lip to stop herself from crying out loud in pain. As soon as the lioness was able to suppress her painful cry she sent an evil glare over to her attacker, who was innocently looking in another direction.

"I can't believe I'm letting you drag me into this." Alanna cursed as she swept up on to horses saddle. I can't believe I'm dragging myself into this, Gwen wondered to herself as she followed the lady knights actions and placed herself on Misfits back. The woman was thinking of a million ways how the image she saw could have been a flicker of light or a smaller animal running around the edge of the forests but at the end of the day she had to be sure. Both of them strapped a quiver full of arrows to their side and hung a bow around their back, whether they were looking for a shadowy imaginative animal or not, they could not go into the maze of trees unprepared. There were many strange creatures running about and ever since the immortals began making homes in the trees it was better to be armed and dangerous then unarmed and becoming monster food. Not to mention Lighting hanging from its mistresses' belt and Gwen was carry a spear she had borrow from third company's armoury, just in case they named to fight on foot. Taking the lead, the immortal was the first to ride down the forest trail, the same one which she had seen the animal had disappeared down. Only a few minutes into the ride and they came across an odd set of foot prints. Both of the riding companions got down from their seats to get a closer look.

"Defiantly larger than the average wolf print." She commented, grazing her fingers against the outline of the footprint that was three times bigger than her own foot size. Looking at it her mind flashed back to the whole animal fight. Why is it here? Why the palace woods? She wondered to herself. Something just didn't feel right about the whole situation. Again her memory flashed back to the beast, she had looked into its eyes and they were not normal. They had something… human in them.

"Do you really think it's the same wolf?" Alanna questioned her and Gwen nodded her head in response.

"Has to be, unless someone decided to wear giant shoes in this shape of a wolf's footprint." She responded to the question then looked at her friend who was looking at her with a strange expression on her face. "Too early to make jokes?" The experienced archer asked as they made their way back to their horses.

"Nope that was just a really bad one." The old woman sneered as she jumped on to her horse. That was beyond all forces of evil! Gwen thought as she sent daggers to the back of the red head; there was no need to be cruel about her jokes like that. The sun's rays began to grow dimmer as both warriors made their way further into the woods, following the trail the so called beast had left behind.

For something Gwen thought was intelligent the beast seemed not smart at all. The tracks were easy to follow. As an experience tracker, Gwen knew that an animal knew a couple of human tricks like crossing rivers and trying to get through crowded bushes to lose track of its hunters but whoever or whatever this creature was doing the complete opposite. All of her instincts were telling her she was heading into a trap but overall she wanted answers and she had a feeling that this beast was going to lead her to many of the answers that she wanted. Only time and Mother Nature were against her curiosity. "It's getting dark, we should head back." The woman called out from behind her. She was right of course. Even though they had followed a certain route, it was not uncommon for people to wonder from the path and get lost and the last place you wanted to be is in the woods at night. The girl was not happy by these turns of events but she knew the lady knight was right. Turning our horses around Lady Alanna now took the front while Gwen brought up the rear and began heading back in the direction they came. However, as we got closer to the castle walls something just didn't feel right. She took the opportunity to ride her horse up next to her stallion as the path was begin enough to contain both of them without falling off.

"Can you sense it?" Gwen asked as she looked up to see the sky had less orange in it and was slowly becoming a dark shade of blue. The wind rustled around us but could not break through the silent atmosphere.

"Yeah it's too quiet." Her partner answered and her hand was secured around the cross shaped handle of her sword, as sign that the mighty swordswoman was getting a little too uncomfortable. The woman was right about the woodland surrounding them being too quiet; the forest was never quiet. Looking at each other both of them knew what they had to do and with a few hand signals from Alanna, the immortal pulled her own stallion back behind and ready herself. Simultaneously, the women had the bows out and noted with a fresh arrow, in place, strengthening their defences. The crack of a twig made each women halt as they stood still. Forcing all her energy to her to her ears, Gwen listened intently for any other sounds that sounded similar to that one. With such silence and intensity mostly what she could hear was her own breath and her companions. Just as she was beginning to believe that it had just been her imagination something large sprang out from the undergrowth. Without thinking, both women took aim and shot. Both of their arrows hit their targets, Alanna's through the chest and Robins through the middle of the eyes. How can these things be so big and yet so stealthy? Robin questioned as more of them leaped into the scene, charging at them as they held their double axes above their heads. The fur was stained with dried blood, the clothes more armoured then before and their eyes glowed red with madness. Her fingers flew like lightening as they reached in in and out of her quiver to reload her weaponry.

"Alanna!" Gwen cried out when she saw one of the beasts get to close to her. Quickly she whizzed her bow around and unleashed her arrow, it hit the Minator in the thigh, wounding him enough for the knight to finish into off with a crushing blow from her sword that she had unsheathed from holder. On the other hand, the short moment had left her open for attack. Quickly her hand reached for her spear and she aimed it at its chest. Though before she had a chance to properly use the weapon, cold air whizzed past her hair and looking up saw a dark shadow leap over her. No way! She thought as for the second time in her life the same monstrous wolf came to her rescue and tackled the advancing beast. She didn't have much time to take it in as her mind went back to the on slaughter. There were only two left. Alanna actually was taking one of them head on and was doing a good job, though the second one stampeding towards her might cause her some trouble. Kicking her heels into Misfits side, horse and rider charged between her friend and the advancing monster. With her spear held high she thrusted the spear forward, piercing the beast through the chest just as it was about to swing it's axe at her. These beasts had too much strength but not enough skill. The beast collapsed to the fall, Misfit moved away from the beast as it had a small fit before going suddenly still. Reaching down, Gwen ripped the weapon away from its chest and moved towards Alanna, only to see that the woman had also finished her beast off by despatching its head from its body. Lovely, the immortal thought as she watched the red liquid cover the ground.

"What happened to the wolf?" Alanna asked her as she got back on her horse, her sword still out in case anymore were left. The immortal was glad she was not the only one to notice and began searching the area. Though they didn't have to search long as they saw half its body laying out of the hedge. Getting off her horse, Gwen made her way closer to it, keeping her spear steady. Using the bunt end of the sphere, she used it to gently poke the still figure, a little harder than expected since the body flopped over. Suddenly, the flesh started to move. Gwen had to blink a few times to make sure it wasn't just her vision playing up on her.

"By the Gods!" Gwen cursed as she did the sign against evil on her chest.

"What is it?" Alanna asked as she made her way over to Gwen, who meanwhile had totally frozen at the sight. As soon as the lady knight got a good glimpse of what the immortal was looking at she became just as shock as Gwen was. "It's a man!"