Chapter 2
It took longer than expected for the road patrols to stop. It was two weeks later and the guards were still on patrol. During the past two week Kel had been taught all manners of the fighting style of the thief. She may not have mastered it all but she had a firm grasp on the concepts.
"I am so bored I want to get out for a while!" Kel told Eda.
"I understand that being cooped up in a tavern for two weeks isn't that enjoyable but if you get caught you would be sent back to the palace and be forced to wait until your parents came to get you! Do you understand why you must stay here for just a while longer?" Eda inquired.
"If I could just go out for an hour or two tonight... I will wear a cloak and have the hood over my head... I will wear skirts. They would never suspect me if I wore skirts." Kel pleaded.
"Fine you can go out tonight. But remember what you were taught in case of an emergency." Eda warned.
That night Kel borrowed a pair of skirts from Rick's latest girlfriend. As agreed she wore her cloak and hood. She was just walking the streets enjoying the freedom.
She had been enjoying it until she heard a scream. It was a little girls scream.
Kel ran as fast as she could in the direction of the scream. There she saw a little girl on the ground crying huddling over something. Standing above the girl was a man who looked to be her father.
The girl had bruises on her face that was now also full of dirt.
"I told you to get off him stupid girl," the man said while giving the girl a hard kick in the side.
"N-no!" the girl screamed to her father, "I won't let you hurt little brother! He didn't mean to spill your dri..." before she could finish what she was saying she received another kick but this time to her head.
"SHUT UP! I told you to get off him! I am going to kill him this time! I told him to be careful and what happens he trips and spills it. Do you know how much it costs to buy ale these days? Well do you?" Before he could hit the little girl again a hilt of a dagger hit the mans temple and he crumbled to the floor.
The little girl was so surprised at seeing her father on the ground she didn't cry out when a cloaked figure appeared out of the shadows and asked, "Are you ok now? Is this man your father?"
"Y-yes."
"Please don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. Is you little brother ok too?" Kel asked from beneath her cloak.
Just then a little head peaked out from beneath his sister. Kel was shocked. The boy didn't look older than six.
"I am going to take you to a safe place where your father will never hurt you again ok?" Kel asked them.
The little girl nodded hesitantly. "What are your names?" Kel asked to get rid of her nerves.
The little boy managed to get his sister off him and he smiled and said, "My name is Cameron and my sisters name is Alisa. She is very brave and she is going to be a Queens Rider one day aren't you sister?" the boy smiled up at his sister.
"Well I am going to try out anyways." She smiled down at her brother with the maturity that did not fit her age. "As my brother said my name is Alisa and I am nine years old. Thank you for helping us but how can we trust you?"
"I promise I won't let anything happen to you! I will see you safely to the chapel of the Goddess and then tell the maiden warriors what has passed tonight and they will see you have a proper home and if need be report your father to the King. He will never hurt either of you again," Kel reassured the children as the sent scared looks in the direction where their father lay still.
Kel took the children to the chapel and told the warrior what has passed that night and how the children need a save haven. The two who stood guard at the door turned to look at the children but when they turned back to thank the cloaked figure she was gone.
"She comes and goes like a shadow," Alisa told them the whole story about what happened that night.
The roads still weren't clear enough for them to leave yet so they stayed that day too. Since Kel's walk hadn't intensified the guards patrolling Eda let Kel go for another walk.
Each time Kel went on a walk for the rest of the week she ended up helping a person out when they were in great need and then disappearing before she could get any thanks. She was soon talked about by the whole village and was know known as Lady Shadow of the rogue.
By the fourth week they had given up the search for Kel and so Eda decided it was safe for them to depart.
As they were leaving Eda called to her brother, "Say hi to our father and your mother for me now will you! Tell them that I am sorry I didn't stop by to say it myself but with a potential new student I have to be on my way."
"Sure will sis!" Rick called back.
Eda and Kel road hard until they knew they were far enough from the city to be caught so they slowed the pace so the horses were walking.
"Eda I am sorry if this is too personal for you but I thought you said Rick was your brother but you said to him "your" mom don't you have the same mother?" Kel asked hesitantly.
"No we don't. I didn't even know I had a brother until about six years ago. You see our father was married to my mother at a very young age! And had me one year after they married! My mother died during the childbirthing. My father kept me until I was old enough to go to Shang knowing it was my mothers wish, she was a Shang cougar you see. Since Shang starts at an early age I never really got to know my father. After a few years he got married again to Rick's mom and now lives a happy life! I only started to get to know him when I started to train the pages at the castle!"
After that talk they decided to make camp for the night! The next morning they set off as soon as the sun started to peak out! The day passed uneventful.
It would take two weeks for them to reach the Shang camp along the way running into bandits and thieves.
Sorry not that long but this chapter is sort or a filler! In the next chapter Kel is at the Shang camp and will begin her training! SO please stick with me for just a little while longer!
Mystical Moonstar
