Four walked back in to see J sitting on the counter by the sink. She was eating an apple while watching Eric. He was throwing knives at the target.
'Well at least no one is in front of it this time' Four thought. He walked over to where J was sitting. "How you doing?" he asked quietly, so Eric couldn't hear.
She finished chewing, "Yea, I'm fine, Eric wrapped my hand" she said showing him the hand that wasn't holding the apple.
He looked at it uncertainly but didn't get the chance to say anything. At that moment, the other initiates started to walk in and awkwardly stood in the middle of the room. Eric turned after he had thrown his last knife at the target.
"Alright initiates your first lesson is knife throwing. You already saw how it's done so let's go. Get started."
They all grabbed a few knives from the table, lined up and started throwing. Almost all of them missed the first time, and most of the time after that. All except one initiate.
Thud, the knife stuck in the center of the forehead of the target.
Thud, center of the chest.
Thud, throat shot.
Thud, right were the mouth of a real person would be.
Thud, the targets left eye.
Thud, the targets right eye.
The initiates all stopped to look at the initiate who kept throwing kill shots, and hadn't missed yet.
"Did anyone tell you stop throwing?" Eric shouted.
Four who was standing next to him, tapped him with the back of his arm
"What" Eric said "Look" Four gestured to where J was still throwing.
Eric looked astounded, but quickly regained his composure, no initiate ever has that good of aim, "keep practicing" he shouted to the initiates who had stopped.
They hesitantly did as they were ordered, Four walked over to where J was, at the target on the end. Just as she was about to throw, he placed his hand lightly between her shoulder blades. She wasn't expecting the contact and didn't release the knife at the right time. It bounced off of the target and clattered to the floor.
She whipped around to face the guy who had touched her. His hand had move from her back to her shoulder. "What the heck man? You made me mess up!" she almost shouted at Four.
He chuckled "I don't think you really need to worry about that. But I do want to know, how are you doing that?" he gestured to the target. She shrugged and turned back to the target so his hand fell off of her shoulders, he put both of his pockets.
"I don't know" she said "I just watch and do what I see."
She threw again and it stuck in the center of the forehead, so close it was touching the knife that was already there.
"There is no way you can do that, as well as you do, by just watching" Four said, no believing her.
He spoke quietly so no else, except J, could hear. "Did Eric teach you while you two were in here alone?"
J lowered the knife that she was about to throw, she looked Four in the eyes and said "No, the only thing he did was wrap my hand and throw knives. I just watched, but on the other hand that was pretty good training. Just watching the form was is what taught me, he hardly even said anything to me." Four nodded, but J wasn't done, "I don't like what your implying, Four. You think I'm a cheat? Is that it? "She was pretty much glaring at him now.
He shook his head, "no I was just wondering."
J watched him walked away for a second before going back to throwing knifes.
After a little while, Christina turned to her right to face J. "If you keep that up, we'll have to call you Blade" she said with a smile. J returned her smile and said "Blade, that's a pretty cool nickname!"
Then, as if to emphasize the appropriateness of it, she threw a knife so hard that it shook the target board when it stuck mid-chest of the target. J smiled at Christina who quietly laughed to herself.
Across the room Four stood next to Eric, "Did you hear that" Four asked him.
"What?" "J just got a new nickname from Christina"
"What is it?"
"Blade"
Eric made a noise that was somewhere between a snort and a laugh "Well, I wonder where she got that idea from? "
Then they both looked at the target in front of said girl. It looked like a porcupine.
(A/N: hello people, thanks for reading this! It's summer for me now, so I might be updating more frequently then I have been. Please leave a comment and that would motivate me even more to update. Please tell me if you have something in mind that you want me to write. Have a spectacular day/night! J)