Chapter 13! Thanks for all the nice reviews :P I loved them, my favorite was the one about smashing weapons into dust particles :D made me giggle for quite a while :P sorry if I've got to change a bit about the Black Shields but we don't know much about them :D
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The cabins were situated on the edge of the precipice, so perfectly balanced they were that half of it was hanging over the edge.
The examers from Sacor City's cabins were on the very end of the cabin line. They were rudely placed with a couple of empty cabins between them and all the others.
The girls' were alone in one cabin and the boys in the other.
The cabins were spacious with four beds, a mirror and one small wardrobe full of black uniforms. Karigan and Mara moaned at the lack of green, it was as if they were being forced to reject the colour.
"You girls alright?" Willis asked as the four entered their cabin cautiously.
"Of course we're alright." Mara replied. "We're fine even though we're on the end of the cabins where we'll be the first murdered horribly in an attack."
Karigan laughed.
"Sadly that's true." Fastion replied, his facial expression one of deep anger. "If anything happens just call us."
Mara nodded rather skeptically.
"So what's happening tonight?" Karigan asked.
"We have a dinner with all the other examers come for the secondary examinations, then we go to bed." Fastion explained.
"What happens tomorrow?" Karigan asked biting her lip.
"The tests start. We have to meet at the forest line. There we will meet our instructor and start the tests." Fastion winced.
"I'm not looking forward to that." Mara groaned.
"I don't think anyone is." Willis muttered. "Except those stupid Granite Hynmoufs."
"What?" Karigan's head snapped up. "The Hynmoufs are caves on the North boarder."
Willis looked down, suddenly red in the face.
"Good going idiot." Donald hit Willis over the head and all the weapons turned angry faces to him.
"Is that one of the other places you can be assigned to?" Mara asked.
The weapons looked at the ground awkwardly.
"Yeah," Fastion muttered.
"We better go to let you change." Rory muttered quickly and the weapons trampled quickly out the door.
Mara and Karigan exchanged looks and changed into the black uniforms.
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"Come on Willis." Donald called out angrily.
"I'm coming." Willis muttered, he was sitting on his bed putting his shoes on.
"Fastion where are you?" Donald asked.
"This uniform is too itchy." Fastion cursed as he emerged from the wardrobe. He was holding his black tunic at arm's length and he glared at it.
"Just put it on and let's go. We're going to be late and are probably going to get in so much trouble." Rory hissed.
Knock knock.
"Hello?" Rory said and opened the door. He frowned at the women on the step. Deadly, gorgeous Black Shields stood there, but Rory had never met them before.
"Ror, who is it?" Willis asked, expertly balanced on one foot as he pulled on his other boot.
"It's us, who else would it be?" Mara announced and the two green riders walked into their cabin.
The weapons stared at them.
"You look good in black." Willis commented.
"Thanks," Mara laughed.
"Let's go." Fastion announced and the group walked off.
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The dining hall was a low, long building that held around fifty weapons and twenty commanding weapons. There were five tables and six weapons sat on each, all together there were thirty secondary examers and ten older Black Shields that sat on the big table down one end of the hall.
No weapons looked up from their meals as if they were hesitant to meet anyone's eyes. Robert and Macy were sitting on the same table with four other weapons. No one had a sword on their hips.
Karigan took all this in while they were just beginning to eat dinner, rice and beef with a bit of spiced sauce.
"Is each table for one of the five places you can be assigned?" Karigan asked and Fastion looked up from his meal.
"Yeah, not officially but unofficially." He smiled and looked back down at his food.
This is weird, Mara mouthed to Karigan.
I know, Karigan mouthed back, reluctant to speak up in the thick silence of the room.
Everyone stopped eating and looked up at the Weapon that stood from the middle of the commanding table.
"Welcome back." He announced, his voice low and gravelly but traveling the distance of the hall.
"Who's he?" Karigan whispered.
"Felix Finbar. He's the high priest." Rory whispered back to her.
"Priest?" She raised a skeptical eyebrow.
"Shhhhh." Macy hissed from the other table.
"You are about to take your secondary examinations. These tests will be completely different to anything you have ever thought of, ever done and ever seen." Felix announced.
"Hopefully not too many of you will die, or fail. So do your best. Death is Honor."
"Death is Honor." Karigan and Mara jumped at the sudden calls from the weapons around them. They'd all cried out at once and scared the wits out of the unsuspecting Green Riders.
Felix and the other commanding Shields left the hall and the assembled weapons burst into talk. They turned to friends and spoke.
"That was scary." Mara muttered.
"That was terrifying." Karigan corrected. The two burst into laughter.
"People don't generally laugh at the high priest." Willis told them, but had a giant smiled on his face.
The six got up and went to leave the hall.
Karigan felt someone push her roughly from behind as they waited in the line to get out.
She turned around angrily. Macy was standing there with a group of other weapons.
"Sorry, did you want something?" Macy asked sweetly.
"Yes I did." Karigan smiled, looking rather kind. "I wanted an apology for pushing me."
"I didn't touch you, if I did I would never be clean again." Macy smiled.
"Please," Karigan scoffed, "I'm cleaner than you'll ever be."
"You disgrace that uniform. What are you doing here?" Macy scowled.
By now the examers had gathered around the two. All watching eagerly. Fastion, Willis, Donald and Rory were standing politely back, knowing that Mara and Karigan could fight their own battles.
"We're taking the exams because we are ready. Besides, if I were you I'd worry about disgracing your own uniform." Mara snapped happily.
Macy turned her glare on Mara. "What happened to your face? Did you burn yourself trying to light a camp fire?"
Mara took a step back and stared blankly at Macy. Her hand reached up to touch the melted flesh on the side of her face. She remembered being embarrassed for months about her face but had finally gotten over it.
Karigan felt her blood begin to boil. How dare she?
"Slug her in the jaw." Someone from the crowd called and Karigan punched Macy in the face.
Disclaimer: I own no one but Felix Finbar, Macy and Robert
Hope you enjoyed that chapter :D You give a nice review and I'll update the next one sooner :D sorry that I invented the word examers :D