Elizabeth felt a bit out of place the next morning. She didn't want to leave her bed and be with everyone else. She just wanted to find her William. She almost wished now that she hadn't left her mother's diary behind on the ship, wherever it was. There was a knock on her hut door and Elizabeth pretended to still be asleep. The door opened (though Elizabeth was sure it had been locked the night before) and a person stomped their way over to her and ripped the light sheets right off of her.
"Time to wake up. Your training begins today."
It was another woman, someone she was sure she might've seen dancing around the fire the night before. The woman was dressed in a different shade outfit than Elizabeth and had a staff instead of a spear. She said it forcefully, much like how Norrington talked to his troops before a mission.
"Up you cockroach or else you'll be given the cage treatment."
Elizabeth closed her eyes and rolled them. The woman knocked her staff to Elizabeth's shins and made her way out the door. Elizabeth slowly followed after her not looking forward to any of this with her new trusty spear in her hand.
Three hours and ten minutes later, Elizabeth collapsed on a rock just so she could rest.
"Did I say we could stop," the woman Elizabeth had come to know as Isabella shouted.
They both glared at each other before the woman crossed her arms.
"Why are we walking all this way anyway?" Elizabeth finally asked.
"I don't need to explain myself or the queen's orders to you maggot."
The two of them had left the camp (Elizabeth got no explanation) and just walked and walked silently in the beating sunlight.
"And just what does this have to do with my training here anyway," she asked.
Instead of answering, she ran right at her with her staff outward ready to attack. Elizabeth got defensive and blocked it away. They went back and forth (Isabella giving a sort of war cry in between each attack) before Elizabeth tripped over the rock she had originally laid down on earlier.
"You have lost," Isabella said pointing the staff down on Elizabeth's stomach.
She began to walk away before Elizabeth glared at the back of her head and got up. She wiped herself off and followed behind. However, they weren't going back in the direction they had come from, they just continued to go further into the unknown.
They stopped once more and there was another woman there waiting for them apparently.
"Here she is Hope. Don't know why but the queen wants her to have the techniques down pat," Isabella said.
Hope nodded and Isabella faced Elizabeth.
"You are to continue with Hope and then you are to return to camp."
She walked away and Elizabeth turned to ask where camp was but she had already disappeared. Hope coughed and Elizabeth faced her next.
"Good day to you miss. Come, follow me."
She led Elizabeth into another, much darker part of the island and stopped. She sat down and motioned for her to do likewise.
"So, you are the queens new guinea pig."
"I suppose."
Hope began to start a fire and didn't say anything else. She took a few containers out of her bag and began to sprinkle them on top.
"I am the tribe's mystic. I can see all and I know all."
Elizabeth nodded and waited for her to continue.
"In our tribe, everyone is represented by an animal; it is time to find out your own."
She sprinkled a few more things before saying something in a strange language that Elizabeth didn't understand. Hope took a stick and put it into the flame. It didn't catch fire for some reason and she touched it to Elizabeth's forearm. She then chanted some more and Elizabeth began to feel a bit strange. Then, all she saw was darkness.
About five hours later, Isabella looked up to see Hope leading Elizabeth back to their camp. She had a blank expression on her face and stared at something that seemed to be off in the distance.
"Well," she asked impatiently.
"Wolf," was all Hope said returning to the forest.
"Come," Isabella said and she took Elizabeth's arm and led her to her hut to sleep off the rest of the night.
Well, that was interesting. Hope you guys liked it as much as I did writing it. I got a new laptop and everything's going fine. Please review. Later.