~Snowcrystal of Thunderclan~

I'm okay for the most part :P Currently bored out of my mind, wheelchair-bound, and isolated from the nondigital world but decently well :D

Really? I'm Glad! :D The powers one is pretty old actually, and the thief one is actually a story version of a rp I did with my boyfriend :D

Hmm... Maybe I'll write more drabbles and include one that's Cinderleaf wilds where Holly doesn't reject her :D

~Featherflight123~

I'm hoping the surgery goes well, I already have nerve damage in one shoulder due to a screwed up surgery -_- I'm not torn up about it :P I'm not annoyed by the forced isolation my mom is putting me through -_-

Thanks! The powers one seems to be the fan favorite so far :P I enjoy that world and playing with Jay and Bree's relationship mainly :P The Seers concept is a whole different ballpark, it's brand spanking new and has about a million kinks I need to work out in it :P

~HollystormDragoness~

Yeah, I'm okay :D Currently bored out of my mind and isolated at home 24/7 :P I try my best to keep writing (this is the last chapter I have finished right now XD) this, but my to be published book does take priority :D

Thanks! :D I really enjoyed writing and reading the last one, it has a really complicated story behind it and I enjoy writing Cynthia being so motherly :D

So I made sure I had two chapters to upload before I uploaded again, although I have a new focus for the next chapter, I'm trying to write Boring Office Work's sequel, I have an outline half finished and really high hopes for it :D Although I really need to finish uploading all of these chapters onto Wattpad, one of my friends have been bugging me about it XD Anyway, here's a chapter and I have a few spoilers for different chapters down at the bottom of this short chapter :P Oh! I forgot to mention that this story is sort of a prologue and introduction to the world which is pretty complex and has magic! :D

Ready as I'll ever be

(Songfic, introduction to Swords and Arrows World)

Song: "Ready As I'll Ever Be" Tangled's tv show (I watched a Warriors MAP with the song to get the lyrics :P)

Braxton, Holly, Jay - 21

Ivory - 19

Bree - 22

Cynthia, Leon - 20

"Believe me, I know I've sunk pretty low," Braxton's dark amber eyes gleamed in the dark, putting up a malignant front as he stalked down the hallway of the dark palace, his black bladed sword glinting deadly in the dark of night through the small amount of windows in the palace. His black tunic and pants blended in well, the black metal of the Dark Sword Armor casted an eery look onto the Bloody Guard's appearance. "But whatever I've done you deserved!" He hissed as he passed his father hurrying toward the main room where no doubt Braxton's mother was.

"I'm the bad guy, that's fine, it's no fault of mine," Braxton growled as he flicked his wrist and the guards sitting around waiting all stood up and began to follow him, causing a solid marching sound to be heard through the palace. "And some justice at last will be served! Now it's time to step up, Or it's time to back down And there's only one answer for me." Throwing open the main palace doors the furious Blood Guard stormed out of the palace with a bang, his amber eyes raking piercingly over the palace grounds. "And I'll stand up and fight, cause I know that I'm right!" He walked down the palace steps and toward the black horse standing fenced to a fence post and munching on some of the red grass. "And I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready!" He untied the horse's reigns and swung himself up onto the black stallion. "Ready as I'll ever be!" With those last words he urged the horse into a run and without waiting for the rest of his team set off toward the Thundering Cliffs, his target.

:O :O

"Now it's time to rise up," Ivory's leaf green eyes glinted with a loyal ferocity as she carefully helped Diana pull Cynthia into a standing position, the latter's tunic was splattered and soaked with her own blood from the thin dagger now lying on the forest floor.

Diana shifted Cynthia's weight and looked worriedly at her sister worried that she was going to do something stupid. "Ivory don't-"

"Or it's time to stand down," Ivory told her as she put Cynthia's arm back down to her side instead of being around Ivory's shoulders. "And the answer is easy!" Her pale silver blade glinted in its sheath, taking after its name Eternal Loyalty by the way it was beginning to glow and pulsate, signaling Ivory's emotions were being subconsciously put into the sword to strength it's already unbelievable speed and strength. Ivory moved toward her horse, a white and gray speckled mare wearing silver armor and nervously cantering around the clearing. "And I swear by the sword, if you're in get on board!" She calmed the skittish horse with a light touch to its muzzle before she swung up onto the mare's back and pulled out her sword, the glowing silver shifting from it's cloaking of a typical sword to a more complex slightly curved blade and jeweled pommel. "Are you ready?"

"I'm ready!" Leon confirmed, swinging up onto his own horse, his amber eyes gleaming with anger and a dangerous ferocity. The Windy Hollows had tried to assassinate Cynthia, there was nothing in the world that could stop the furious blonde from getting his own form of revenge.

The other Lightning Guards spoke up as well, "we're ready!"

Ivory's green eyes were piercing and fiercely loyal as her blade vanished from her hands and reappeared in its sheath, which was glowing and emitting a massive amount of light in the moonlit sky.

:( :O

"Are you quite sure we can do this?" Jay muttered to Bree as they took their places hidden in the rocks bordering the clearing.

"Together we will guaranteed," Bree murmured in response, pulling back on her complex compound bow with three titanium tipped arrows notched in the string.

:O

"I'll make them hear me!" Braxton growled as he approached the border, slowing his horse at the bright silver light flooding the clearing. He pulled out his own sword, the inky black blade and handle losing it's cloaking and changing to it's more reaper scythe style, causing shadows to engulf light within a ten-foot radius of him, making it close to impossible to easily see him and his stallion.

"Now it's time to redeem or it's time to resolve," Ivory's green eyes narrowed as the shadows from Braxton's sword engulfed some of the light given off by her own silver sword, knowing exactly who that was. The one who had betrayed her. "Prove they can trust me… I'll save my home and family!"

"Now the line's in the sand and our moment's at hand!" The other warriors behind her responded to her words, waiting her orders to attack.

"And I'm ready!" Leon growled, amber eyes glowing in the moonlight and from the light of Ivory's sword.

A slight smirk spread across Ivory's pale skinned features, "I'm ready!"

Bree readied her bow, aiming for the three people on horses behind him, and Jay gripped his dagger's blade tightly. "I'm ready…"

Spoilers

(This Spoiler Is For a story I hope to publish, this isn't an actual snippet of the actual story because I don't want to release it till it's finished)

Ciliana wanted to gag. She couldn't describe how disgusting Lionel and Hailey kissing was, if she tried it would be like watering down Kool-Aid to the point that it's clear again. Not to mention it made her stomach clench and a metaphorical knife to be jammed into her heart and twisted painfully. The knife may be metaphorical, but the pain sure as heck wasn't. She was jealous, yes she could admit that, but at the same time, she had adjusted to the idea of Lionel being hers and only hers. After almost six months of dating the blonde, it made her sick thinking about the possibility of him being with someone else instead of her. Yet here she was, leaning almost too casually against the white car, silently watching the man she loved happily kissing back the woman Ciliana had risked her life to save and rescue. Add on that Hailey was his Ex. and it made the entire situation even worse.

Briley limped over to her, the blood coating the left leg of her jeans of which wasn't worrying for the scientist and genius. Ciliana could tell Briley knew exactly how she was feeling behind her unfazed mask, purely because Briley had been the one to comfort her when Lionel had found out about her real identity. "I'm beginning to think Lionel's nothing like his brother," the dark brunette sighed, her multicolored eyes focused on Lionel. Even Ciliana could feel the disappointment she was radiating. "The differences are disturbing."

Jayson gave a major roll of his eyes from where he was sitting in the driver's seat of the car. "Lionel is nothing like me. I show people respect and I respect other people's feelings. He does not. Clearly."

Ciliana couldn't help but agree with him, but then felt extremely guilty for agreeing to it. She knew exactly how caring Lionel could be, she had spent almost six months undercover and learning to love the blonde who's stormy blue eyes she could get lost in forever. "He can be considerate when he wants to be." She murmured in a flat tone, "and when people aren't lying to him."

"Well he's taking too long and we need to leave. Now." Hiaka's voice came in through the coms in the entire team's ears, "I don't care if you have to drag his sorry butt into the car, he's impeding the ending of a mission."

"Let him have his moment," Ciliana reluctantly said, understanding how much of a weight had just been removed from his shoulders, "even if it's the last thing I want to see."

"I'm sorry Ciliana," Hiaka's usually brisk voice was now a concerned sigh, "I know how much Lionel means to you."

Ciliana felt a lump grow in her throat, "I'm fine. I knew from the beginning that I was going to end up with a shattered heart." She paused for a second and took a deep breath before admitting the next part, "I just never expected him to be the one I dropped all of my walls to and now I'm paying the price. I may have saved Hailey's life but because I lied to him I don't get to be the one he's kissing. I probably never will be again." She could still vividly remember what Lionel's kiss felt like, it was something she probably wouldn't forget in her lifetime. He was different than others, despite the many guys she came in contact with in her line of work Lionel stood out. He was gentle, and above everything respectful. He was the only guy she had ever been involved with that respected her in every way, shape, and form, and she would always remember that.

"Hiaka, Hailey and Lionel will be stationed at my safe house, with three agents they won't be touched." Ivalyn's voice was as calm as usual, yet held a hint of sadness for Ciliana's situation.

"Make that four," Ciliana interjected despite how the pain in her heart made her want to take it back, "I'll assist in the protection detail. I will never forgive myself if he gets hurt or killed."

"Alright," Hiaka sighed, "how is everyone besides those two?"

Ciliana did a mental run through of herself to check for injuries and blinked before looking down at her abdomen, suddenly noticing the pain poking through her high adrenaline levels and her current numbed status. "Oh..." The assassin said weakly with widening sunset colored eyes, "I'm hit?" She blinked a few times while everyone, except the kissing and celebrating pair, turned to face her in complete shock.

"What do you mean?!" Hiaka's voice was shocked and worried, and Ciliana knew why. She hadn't been injured in an op in over a year, and even then it had been a minor stab wound.

"Oh my gosh," Briley's tone was hushed as she went over to Ciliana and examined the blood soaking her shirt. "Ciliana's been shot..."

Ciliana lifted her gloved hands, palms up and with a start that the black leather was stained with her own blood, beginning to feel numb and slightly woozy, something she hadn't felt in a long time. Hands shaking she carefully lifted up her shirt and looked at the thin, almost shirt thin, bulletproof vest she was wearing beneath, only to find that there was a small bullet sized hole in the fabric just above her belly button. "I forgot..." She said in a rather dizzy tone, "I got shot from point-blank range inside the compound, I thought the vest blocked it though."

"What in Heaven's name were you doing?!" Hiaka's voice was now borderline terrified, "how bad is it?!"

"We caught it in time, if we get her back to base and to 'The Capsule' within thirty minutes she'll be fine. Although I'm sure she'll pass out here in a few seconds judging by the ashy paleness of her face," Jayson told Hiaka firmly.

"I was protecting Hailey and had someone in a chokehold, but he shot me,"Ciliana said, feeling the world start spinning and her vision flicker. "Gonna... pass.. out... now..." She mumbled before her knees buckled and her world went black.

That's a hint to my new book, what do you guys think? :D The title's still a secret :P