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Chapter Five: Tarania's Training
As her mother tried to comfort Tarania, Tarania thought about what she was going to do. Her brother was dead, and she did not feel like just letting it slide. The once soft Tarania was starting to harden up. She let her mother finish hugging her, then stood up.
"Do I still have to be a priestess?" She asked. Her mother smiled.
"What else would you do?" She inquired. Tarania hesitated.
"Anything but be a priestess, huntress, warrior, anything!" She exclaimed. She looked up at her mother with eyes of silver. Her mother sighed.
"I do not know whether we can," She said. Tarania looked away.
"Well, we can try," Tarania said. Her mother left the chamber and Tarania waited.
Four hours later…
"I have consulted the High Priestess, and she does not believe it will be possible," Tarania's mother said. Tarania did not argue, she merely left for her room. She sat on her bed, and started thinking. She thought about her options, and started planning into the night. Around midnight, she opened her window and jumped out.
An hour later…
"Tarania? What are you doing here?"
"Teach me to hunt, like the others do," Tarania said to the trainer. He looked Tarania up and down.
"You have more of the look of a priestess," he said.
"I am a priestess, but I do not wish to be. Teach me how the others tame their pets," Tarania replied.
"Before we may do so, we must take you to your former trainer," the hunter trainer said. He led Tarania to a different area, where the priest and druid trainers dwelt.
"Tarania? What are you doing here at this time of night?" The priestess trainer asked. The hunter trainer, who called himself Sakeran, explained everything.
"Tarania truly does not belong as a priestess then," the priestess trainer said. She commenced the unlearning process. A few minutes later, the priestess came out of her trance. Tarania experimentally tried to cast a spell, but the magic would not come to her fingers. Already she was forgetting how to cast the spells that came to her so easily.
"You are ready to learn now," Sakeran broke the silence. Tarania made a small spark of light. Sakeran beckoned and they left for the training area.
"This is Tarania, she will be learning how to use the skills of a hunter, like the rest of you," Sakeran said to the group of relatively young Night Elves. Tarania was sent to one of the groups of hunters-in-training. She made a small spark, but it flickered and went out. She sighed, and went to her quarters. She unpacked and quickly fell asleep on her bed.
At Tarania's home, 6 hours later…
"Where is Tarania?" Tarania's parents were worried, because Tarania was nowhere to be found. Her chamber was empty, and there was no note or anything. Her chamber was almost bare. The mailbox did have a letter, however. It clearly stated that Tarania was going to be learning how to be a huntress, and that she had already unlearned her priestess skills.
"The High Priestess will not be very happy," Tarania's mother said. Once you have started learning to become a moon priestess, you are not supposed to stop. If Tarania were still a priestess, she would be about an hour late for training already. The High Priestess was not one who was patient.
At the hunter grounds…
Tarania let loose an arrow, but it missed the target by a few feet. She pulled another from her quiver and tried again.
"Remember, if these were real enemies, you would only get one chance to hit them," one of the trainers at the back said. Tarania pulled the bowstring back, but got distracted and let go too soon. The arrow fell short of its target. Tarania pulled another and released, aiming where she did before. Her arrow hit the target, but was off from the middle. Her next arrow hit in the target's middle however.
Only four more to go, she thought. As she was about to let loose another arrow, her parents came to the training area.
"Tarania!" Her father said. Surprised by her parent's sudden appearance, she let go and hit another hunter's target. She turned around.
"You must get to the temple for your training." Her mother said.
"She cannot go there now," Sakeran said.
"She has already unlearned her abilities, it would be a waste of time for her to just go somewhere where she is not needed." Tarania nodded.
"What he says is true."
"Say it is not so!" Cried Aria. Some of the other hunters had stopped shooting and were looking at the argument.
"Do something, cast a spell!" Aria cried, and she tried to make Tarania cast one of the healing spells she used to know so well. All that happened was a short flicker of light that quickly went out. Tarania's mother collapsed.
"It is true then. We must go to the High Priestess and inform her you cannot continue your training." As they turned to leave with Tarania, Sakeran spoke.
"She will stay here and continue her training. You can go on your own," He said. Tarania went back the shooting arrows, and her parents left.
Tarania was starting to pull the string so far back that the arrow was merely a blur going through the air.
"Stop pulling so hard, you'll break the bow," said one of the trainers as she came with a new quiver of arrows. Tarania finished shooting at the targets and was given a break. And so it continued…
I hope you liked this chapter, I will write more soon!