I'm baaack! After the load of messages coming in through my iPad, I just had to put another chapter up for you awesome people!
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M.K. tied the last piece of her armor in place," Finally. Done. Why do we need to wear this to practice anyway?"
Nod leaned against the wall, frowning as if thinking of a bad memory,"For safety, I guess. We are handling real swords and bows, you know?"
"Why?" She fidgited with the helmet, which was obviously bothering her hair. Then she untied it and let it curl around her shoulder.
"You ask a lot of questions." He observed, grabbing his sword," Let's go."
Clang. Shing.
Swords flew, an arrow whizzed past her ear. Another implanted itself the ground only a few inches from Nod's feet.
What was going on?
Nod watched the chaos with one eyebrow raised,"What happened here?"
Ronin was struggling to break apart some fighting leafmen. A sword went flying in his direction.
"Look out, Ronin!" M.K. yelled, taking a random sword from a leaf basket. She didn't care if it was weighted for her or not.
The general snapped his head around. He fell backwards, narrowly avoiding the weapon and yelled," Enough!"
The room quieted instantly. Ronin was mad all right. He rose to his feet.
"Is this how leafmen act? What if this happened out on the battlefield?" His voice echoed around the room.
The two leafmen who were fighting looked down at their feet.
"I want all this cleaned up when I get back." Ronin motioned for Nod and M.K. to follow him.
He was waiting for them in the hallway, arms crossed.
"What happened in there?" Nod asked, drumming his fingers on the hilt of his sword.
Ronin replied," Two of them were sparring. One won, of course. But, one thing led to another."
"What am I going to do? The solstice is this week and I can't have that-," He jerked his head at the training room's direction."-happening on the solstice."
"It'll all work out, Ronin. You'll see." M.K. assured him.
The general smiled,"You've got your father's personality too."
M.K. looked sheepishly at the ground,"Yeah."
"All right, you two. I'll see you in the next class." Ronin winked at Nod for some reason and headed back in the training room.
When she looked up, his face was berry red.
Nod rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly," You're gonna need the armor for the rest of the day. Uh, follow me, I guess."
M.K. wondered what that was about as she trekked after him.
"Oh, it's beautiful!" M.K. stroked the hummingbird's beak. It ruffled it's green, orange, and gold colored feathers and regarded her with a friendly look in it's eyes. Nod stood over to the side, holding the reins.
He watched her pet the bird and thought about how her hair looked like fire in the sunlight, how her eyes sparkled- wait, what?
He immediately emptied his brain. Nope, did not just think about that.
But it kept coming back when he looked at her. Did he like her?
Maybe, a small portion of his brain said.
He felt his face heat up. And it was not from the sunlight.
Ronin flew over to the class on his hummingbird,"Today, we will learn about flying a bird. Each of you have a flying partner, but one of you know how to fly a bird. Correct?"
"Yup." Nod muttered, adjusting the saddle.
Listening to Ronin's instructions, M.K. hoisted herself up on the saddle. Nod sat behind her, obviously, since she was the one who was supposed to fly the bird.
"Now, gently flick the reins." Ronin said, zooming over to watch the class. Their bird fluttered in the air unsteadily.
This is going to be a long day, Nod thought as their bird dove downward, "Whoa!"
I just love these two! Ronin and Queen Tara will maybe in the next chapter maybe after that.
Mub and Grub will come soon. Don't you guys worry.
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-Rosela