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Chapter 25 the bigger they are, the more bones they break

Nate just starts to run like hell all throughout the cathedral. He would look back at first noticing that Kat was not far behind. He kept speeding up going faster and faster, till he finally looks over shoulder to see that he finally lost Kat. He stops to take a breather near the rear of the cathedral near cathedral lake.

Meanwhile Katherine is just strolling around the Cathedral with no need for sudden urgencies. Thinking to herself, why didn't I think of this before? This should scare him really good, I'll keep pretending that I'm going to, how does he say it, ah yes pound his face in. If I do it right, I know he'll be even more humble towards me and maybe everyone else. I bet it will even cause him to be more obedient. Oh it's so much fun, when I stoop to Nate's level.

Katherine finally runs into Lord Grayson, who asks in a curious way." Good afternoon Katherine how is your training session with Nate coming along?""It's actually going quite well my Lord." Before she can continue, Lord Grayson interrupts her while taking a few sniffs around her. "Katherine what is that smell, it smells somewhat foul?"

" I believe it was a practical joke that Nate pulled on me, oh by the way have you seen him?" "Come to think of it Katherine, I did see Nate running rather frantically around the Cathedral towards Cathedral lake." "You wouldn't have anything to do with that?"

"Well to confess my Lord, Nate is under the impression that I'm upset enough, that I will strike him down."" I feel that if I strike enough fear into him, that it will make him more humble and perhaps more obedient."

" Hmm I can't say that I approve of this method by deceiving Nate like this, however I do like the creativity that you have in trying to make Nate more humbler and obedient."" So you will have my blessing on this matter, however Katherine don't let it get out hand."

"I will not my Lord; by the way will you let everyone know of my plan, if all goes well I can probably get him up a tree." "It will be such a spectacle for everyone." "That I will Katherine and happy hunting."

Nate is leaning against the wall trying to catch his breath. I make quick peaks all over to see it Kat is pursuing him. "Oh god I think I lost her as," I was huffing and puffing for air. It was a good thing that I decided to take off my upper and back plate armor off in my dorm. That shit just bogs you down when you're trying to make a clean get away. Then suddenly Nate hears his name being called out.

"Nate,…Nate,… come out come out where ever you are?" Katherine says in a menacing way. "Shit she works fast." I take a slight peek to see where she is; only problem is she's already focused on my exact location as if she just knew I was there. "Oh there you are Nate, shall we continue with the chase?"

I'm like no need to tell me twice. I just continue to run hard and fast, and without thinking I was running up into the largest and tallest tree I could find. Only major problem was that this tree's bark was really smooth, I could barely get a grip around it.

So I made use of a small boulder to jump up and pulled myself up on the tree limb. I continued to climb up higher and higher, till I was in the very top. I'm pretty sure I'm safe for now; there is no way Kat could climb up this tree.

While all this was going on, everyone was out near cathedral lake to see the spectacle that Lord Grayson told of. Brother Tryston and Brother Dunmore where just laughing at Nate's expense, which also included Caitlin and Priestess Verona.

Katherine finally catches up to Nate's position as she looked up the tree seeing Nate. "Nate if you think this simple tree is going to stop me, then you dead wrong." 'Now come down here and face me like a man."" Not until you calm down, and give me a five minute head start."

"If you won't come down, then I will shake you down." Now I started to laugh at her, "I like to see you try" "Very well Nate, I will show my power, now prepare yourself." She pulls out her mighty hammer," What are going to do, knock on wood?"

Katherine thinking to herself, I got him right where I want him, I'll just use a little bit of light energy on my hammer to scare him into coming down. Katherine lets out an evil laugh. "Alright Nate here comes the pain."

I'm looking at her hammer only to see that it was glowing with a white light, whoa how did she do that? The first hit actually shook the tree a bit, but not enough to cause me to fall. The next one however was stronger. The third was causing me to lose my grip and footing.

Katherine thinking yet again, Hmm I couple more hits should make him think twice, I just give this one a little bit of oomph. He'll be coming down in no time.

The fourth hit actually did cause me to lose my footing; I started to slip thru the branches till I fell like six feet down only for my mid section to catch on the limb. I felt a sharp pain in my ribs; I tried desperately to hang on to dear life.

The fifth and final blow to the tree was the last straw and I lost my grip and I just free fall all the way down to the ground. The only major problem was no matter where I hit, it was going to hurt. There were a lot of jagged rocks everywhere.

Katherine finally stops to see that Nate was coming down, only she didn't realized that she may have use a little too much force in getting Nate down. She hears a rather loud thud, only to put her hammer up and causally walk to Nate's position.

"Ok Nate I hoped you learned your lesson today?" She hears Nate moaning to himself," Oh Nate I'm sure you're not hurt too bad, just walk it off." Katherine gets nearer to Nate only to notice that the shine to his upper plate armor is not on him. "Nate why did you take off your armor, you know it's very well it is dangerous not to have it on while we are training."

When Katherine finally caught up to him, she gasped out loud. With look of absolute horror on her face to see that Nate landed on jagged sharp rocks. His face bloodied up with deep gashes. His lien shirt was covered in fresh blood which was flowing out near his collar bone on the right side. His arms appear to be ok, but she wasn't too sure.

Nate was in real pain; he tried to get up, only to cough up blood thru his mouth. He sees Katherine, but doesn't pay attention to what she is saying. His only instinct is to get away from this monster.

Katherine is just yelling and pleading him to stop. FOR LIGHT SAKES NATE PLEASE STOP YOUR ARE GOING TO MAKE IT WORSE. JUST BE STILL, WHILE I'LL HEAL YOU. Tears are starting to gather in her eyes as she rushes towards him to keep him from moving. Yet he is fighting her back as much as he could with whatever strength he has left.

While this was going on, as everyone was laughing at the huge spectacle, Brother Dunmore stops since they were a few hundred yards away from hearing their conversation. He notices that Lady Katherine is now crouching down on the ground near where Nate had fallen.

"Hmm something's not right; I think Nate might have gotten himself hurt again.""Don't worry about it, I'm sure it's nothing more than a scratch, it's nothing that Lady Katherine can't handle Brother Tryston insisted."

"None of the less I will go and check it out, priestess Verona will you come along with me?" she nods in agreement, and they were off.

Katherine was franticly trying to keep Nate from moving as he is bleeding profusely all over the ground. By this time Nate's blood was getting all over on Katherine's armor and gauntlets. She tried to give him to drink a heal potion, only for him spit it out into her face. This is so hopeless; he doesn't want me to heal him. He is going to die right in front of me. With tears flowing out of her eyes," Nate please stop and let me heal you," as Katherine pleaded with him.

Katherine turns her head to take notice that Brother Dunmore and Priestess Verona where about a hundred yards away from them. She yells out to them get their attention. And Immediately due to the distress of Katherine's voice both Priestess Verona and Brother Dunmore run to their position.

Brother Tryston and Lady Caitlin finally see both Brother Dunmore and Priestess Verona running to Nate's position, and the both of them follow suit.

Priestess Verona finally sees the horrible state that Nate is in and her instincts as a healer took over. Dunmore inquired," what happen here Katherine?" Lady Katherine not taking her attention away from Nate, "he fell off the tree and landed right here, I, I, didn't use that much force to get him down."" Where is his upper armor?"" I do, do not know?" "He knows better than to take it off." Dunmore starts to motion to Brother Tryston and Lady Caitlin to hurry up to where they were at.

Nate is trying to fight off Katherine attempts to heal him till Priestess Verona gives her shot at it. She calmly says, "Nate please be still." Nate groggily says, "Not with that monster near me." Priestess Verona gently pushes Nate's face to focus on her. "Nate, do you trust me to heal you?" he nods in agreement.

"Good now you have to drink these large heal potions that I have, can you do that?" Nate starts to drink it down. "Very good Nate, I have to stabilize you before I can move you ok." "You have lost a lot blood by moving, so be as still as you can Nate."

Brother Dunmore just shook his head saying to Katherine to ease her pain, "Thru Nate's misjudgment he chosen the one Plane tree, it has the smoothes bark, and it's like glass."" There was no way he could've held on."

Dunmore starts to climb up the tree to see if Nate's armor was up there. In a matter of minutes he came down signaling that his armor was not up there.

By that time Caitlin and tryston reached to where everyone was. Priestess Verona orders them both to get a gurney from the infirmary. They immediately took off without hesitation.

Nate was in such horrible pain, that he often slipped into unconsciousness. Within a few minutes both Tryston and Caitlin came back with a gurney. With priestess Verona's careful instruction, Brother Dunmore and Tryston moved Nate onto the gurney and lifted him up to take him quickly to the infirmary.

Katherine remained sitting on her knees, only to see the absolute horror of her gauntlets and armor being covered by her student's blood. She continued to cry to herself, when Caitlin who was nearby and decided to comfort her as best as she can.

With a steady flow of tears coming down Katherine's face she mutters to herself," What have I done?"" I have failed him." Caitlin did her best to console Katherine in reminder her that it's was not her fault. She softly says, "Lady Katherine it is not your fault that this happen, Nate is in the best care."" He will surely recover; now let's go get you cleaned up."

Later that night Katherine was sitting in her bed dorm contemplating in deep thought. She hears a knock on her door, but doesn't get up to answer it. She instead just says "come in" softly. She continues to look down, not caring to see who came in. judging from the footsteps and breathing she could only assumed that it was Lord Grayson.

Lord Grayson enters into Katherine's chambers and decides to take a seat in her chair across from her. He notices that Katherine is staring down to the floor. He finally breaks the silence. "I heard what happen today."" I am here to let you know that it was not your fault entirely on what happen today."" It was actually Nate's fault for taking off his armor and climbing on the one plane tree."" I inspected the tree with Brother Dunmore to see that you did use a lot of restraint." Katherine still remains silent.

Lord Grayson gets up and walks towards a grieving Katherine and puts his hand on her shoulder." Nate will be alright, he will be out for a few days, but Priestess Verona does expect him to make full recovery."" I implore you to continue in your teachings with Nate, don't let this minor setback hold you back Katherine."" You are doing a lot of good to him."

Katherine finally broke the silence that she was holding in saying, "he thinks of me as monster."" I cannot be his teacher, because I failed him."

Lord Grayson thought of the moment that day when Lady Proudmoore reassured Lady Caitlin of her teachings with Nate, when she too was faltering in despair when she felt that she was not worthy. I will do the same with Lady Katherine.

He pushes her chin up looking her square in her eyes with sternness. "Chin up Lady Katherine you are an excellent teacher to Nate, and I most certainly think that you are not a monster."" I will remind Nate that he has one of the best instructing him that I will promise you Katherine."" Now wipe those tears and I suggest you rest up and continue on with your routine, and be sure to visit Nate when he recovers, that's an order, do you understand?" Katherine responded in a soft voice of "yes". Lord Grayson barked at her in a louder tone," I can't hear you Katherine!" Katherine responded in a much more confidant tone, "Yes Lord Grayson!" Lord Grayson then nodded and patted his hand on her shoulder in approval and took his leave.