Her Story
By: Hyper Mage

******Note to everyone, I made a terrible mistake on the last part, I had tried to say grandfather, GRANDFATHER!! She had never ever met her fater, thank you.

lol, my story is very interesting and unique, thanxs =). But, just a thought, if there are more ppl reading my story, please review, I beg you *Sobsobsobsniff* anyway, this chapter is going to show my way of thinking bout Merric.

"Absolutly not Kel, think about what a girl could do to the men. What if she falls in love with them, worse, what if they lack in their duty because they fall in love with her," Merric was hyperventaling. Kel just stood there calmly, waiting for Merric to finish.

"I don't remember any of you lacking in your training because of me, I think we should give this girl a try, she said her dad used to be a Queen's rider, maybe we could tune in her training by letting her train with some of your people, if she turns out better, then we'll move her up, sounds like a good deal?" Merric looked at kel.

"Kel, the only reason you never heard about any of us falling in love with you was because we hid it well, not everyone needs yamani training to hide their feelings (A/N: hint hint tammy, I can hide my feelings very well.lol.), and besides, we never knew what could happen. These warriors are not little 14, or 15 year old boys, they're mature enough to know what has happened in the world, and I bet this girl does to." Merric said softly, while his cheeks flared up to the color of his hair.

"My point exaclty, this girl knows what has happened in the world, if she does something to one of your men, then I will personally tell her to step out, just give her a chance, " Kel pleaded with her eyes, she knew she could command him to, but she did not like to pull stations on her men.

"Alright Kel, I give you permission to try her out with William Tunance, he is one of my weaker ones, but not so weak that it would insult her," Merric got up and left the room, shaking his head and muttering something about common woman and mixing them with common men.

Melody was helping a pregnant woman with her load when a warrior came up to her.
"Miss Melody Marcus, Lady Keladry would like to see you near the Guard Barracks, right next to the well," The guard bowed andleft, leaving Melody and the pregnant woman gawking,

"Now what would the Lady want you to do near the guard house, those nobles, first they say woman should be proper ladies, next they say we should learn how to fight, but that's okay, I like our lady, go dear, I can finish by myself," the pregnant woman made Melody go to the well near the guard barracks where Keladry stood waiting.

"Hello lady, how can I help you?" Melody bowed, hopping this was what she thought it was.
"Hello Melody, I have gotten permission from Merric to let you test your skills against one of the men, if he does not challange you, or he baraly chalenges you, he says he will cosider it" Keladry hopped that a little white lie would help her try harder.
"M'am, what if I'm his egual," she eyed the man, he was tall, much taller than her, ad he was well built of at least 3 years of man at arms service.
"The he says he will not consider you at all" Keladry said with a slight wince. Melody's color faded, she knew that if she dud not make it, she would feel quilty, as if she had dishonored her father's training. Melody nodded, then remembered something timidly.

"Um, m'am, do you have some, um, breeches? I only brought dresses, just in case the commander of the camp was rather, um, rather big on the rules of how a lady should behave," Kelady bit back the slight smile forming on her face, she nodded and gave Melody some clothes. Melody took the clothes and changed. Even thought she sort of prefered the free feeling only one layer of dressing felt, she prefered breeches, since they were easier to run with and less likely to catch onto something.

Finally ready, she went into the small circle formed by the men interested in what the woman was about to do. She looked at her opponent, just looking at him made her think that she was going to be rushed into the infirmary. He was at least a foot taller than her, well built, his muscles showing through his opened shirt. She was ready as he walked up to her.

"Well, you must be Melody, don't worry girl, I won't hurt you unless I have to," he gave her a kind smile, lifting Melody's spirits. She nodded, they both got into the ready position. He attacked first, one of those attacks to see how she would react. She jumped back, not wanting to have a black eye. She attacked next, kicking near the knee, he also jumped back, knowing by how she twisted her body that she would try to swing her leg up and jump, aiming for his head.

"Nice trick little one, good attack fora foe much bigger than you, who taught you?" Melody landed and backed up a little
"My grandfather," She saw an opening, she acted as if she was going to do the same thing but instead hit under his arm, hard so he would be unbalanced, then she kicked him in the face, since it would be in her reach, his head flew back, he tumbled to the ground, knocked out bye the kick to the face. When she realized it would be him going into the infirmary, she ran up to him, seeing if he was going to live. Neal came into the little circle.

"I'm going to need someone to help me carry this man to the infirmary," Melody went up to that mage, she gave him a quick bow.
"Sir, I'm trully sorry, will he live?" Neal smiled and nodded
Don't worry, miss, he will just have a big headache when he wakes up and a couple of days of rest, lucky him, you actually did him a favor," Nel got two soliders to help him carry William and left, leaving Melody with Kel.
"Very well done Melody, I think it's safe to say that you will be allowed to join, under some conditions, I will really be the one training you, and you will not really be asked to help until we need to battle, is that ok with you?" Melody nodded furisly(sp?) she had seen enough fighting for her taste. Melody bowed and left, not beliving her luck, she looked up and silently gave the gods praise for seeing her through the battle. Merric saw her look up and smile. He silently left to finish training his convicts.

~Later that night~

Merric was on the north wall when he heard someone come up behind him, when he looked he realized it was Melody, holding a cup of some hot liquid.
"Are you supose to be here miss?" He tried to make it sound nice, but both of them could tell the ice in his voice.
"I'm sorry sir, but it's just that I really like the night, It' so calming sometimes, to hear the night animals. I also came to give you this as a thank you for giving me a try," she gave him the cup, Merric looked at it suspicuosly(ANOTHER SP?), Melody giggled, "There's nothing bad in it sir, It's a special brew for soliders, to give them blessings and protect them through the cold nights and harsh battles," Merric took a swig, at once he felt warm and happy.

"Are you a mage Melody?" He thought that she was at least a healer.
"No, You could say I'm kind of a hedgewitch, not much talent in anything, maybe a little fighting, but those aren't really skills for a lady," Melody looked down, Merric could tell the resenment in her voice.
"You think there's something wrong in knowing how to fight?" Melody went a little closer to Merric, before she was behind him, she didn't want to distract him much.

"Well, it depends, I would have loved to have a chance to go to a convent, learn how to do so many proper things, but knowing how to protect yourself is important, but I still would have liked to have the chance to have many fine things," Merric looked out into the clearing, everything was calm, soothing.
"What do you think of Lady Keladry then? Is she not proper for you," Melody shook her head.

"Oh no! Lady Keladry is not a noble, she's a god!! She's a blessing to commoners, the way she treats us like equals," Melody looked happy for a second, "I wish I could be like her, so caring, yet so tough, no one would call her, a stupid bitch, with less rights than a whore," Merric heard Melody's voice was cracking.

"You know, you're not entirely right, I remember someone named joren who once got in Kel's way, called her many bad things," Merric took another sip of his drink.
"What did she do to him?" Melody asked, very interested.
"Oh, she beat the crap out of him," Merric streched out a bit.
"Oh," silence streched out between them, Merric thought he might have said the wrong thing. "Well, sir Merric, I must be going now," she bowed at him and started to leave.

"Thanks for the company Melody," Meldoy turned around and smiled.
"You're welcome," she turned back around, going down the stairs carefully

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