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Chapter 6

Climbing

Gregor opened his eyes only to find complete darkness. He let out a quiet breath, like he were still asleep. He sensed a people sitting in a chair near the wall across from his breath. He recognized them instantly, Margaret had a lit candle under a tinted glass dome while Lizzie sat next to her.

Gregor silently got out of bed and sat at their side without disturbing them."What are we doing again?" He asked getting both of the girls to jump out of their chairs. The dome fell on the flame and the candle went out. Margaret pulled off the dome which helped none."I'll go grab a torch."

He walked out of the room and grabbed a torch off the wall. He walked back in and his sisters covered their eyes."How did you get over to us so silently?"She asked clearly displeased.

"Because, I don't make as much racket as you two."He said with a slight grin.

"Were bored, will you do something with us?" Lizzie asked, putting her hands in front of her in a begging motion.

"Yeah I will, but what time is it?" Gregor asked walking out into the hall. He beggan walking towards the dining hall.

"It's a little after breakfast. We let you sleep in because you got back so late yesterday." Margaret said walking beside him.

"I'll take you two to train after I eat." He said walking into the dining room. He was greeted by Mareth who was the only one there."Hey Mareth how you doing?"

"Fine. I am going to be headed to the arena to train soldiers in a bit. Would you care to join me?" Mareth said. He didn't look to anxious about training soldiers.

"I was going to head there after I was finished eatting, so yeah I will join you. I was going to train my sisters there afterwards." He said and was suprised that food was placed before him, he hadn't asked a servent to go grab him some.

"It would be fine for your sisters to train. But I may need some help training the men if you could help." Mareth said as he ate the last things on his plate.

"I can help you with that."Gregor told him between bites. When he finished his food they all walked to the high hall where Andromeda waited for them. Gregor gave a nod and they climbed on Lizzie and Margaret holding onto him. Clearly scared of flying.

They reached the soft moss of the ground in the arena. Gregor led his sisters over to weapons rack for them to choose a weapon. Lizzie took a slim sword with a classic crossbar with an extra edge on one side. Margaret took a small knife and a long sword that made Gregor think it was a short sword but it was too long to be one.

They walked over to a small section of the arena and Gregor began to show them basic blocks."When something collides with your blade do not push back or to the side. Move against it so it doesn't move towards you." Gregor showed them a move and while the blunt side of Lizzie's blade was facing her Gregor hit her blade with enough force to knock it into her if she didn't push against it.

Lizzie gave a jump and the blade ran into her chest. Gregor shook his head."Why'd you do that? You could have stabbed me." Lizzie said furiously.

"I was trying to show you that you need to always push against something when it hits your blade. Certain cases you don't want to because you could lose balance and fall to your demise." Gregor said not showing any emotion on his face or in his voice.

Gregor lifted his sword into a defensive position and indicated for her to hit his blade. She hit the center of his blade and pushed against it and moved to the side.

"Some times you need to move to the side. If you were well trained you would have been able to bring the blade back around and into my side."

They kept training like this for an hour. When he was about to have his sisters go and do blood balls Mareth called him over."We are about to do the wall and I am unable to climb it. They need an instructor for this and sinse I lost my leg before we designed the wall I can not give any. Could you climb with them and give them tips. Your sisters are free to join if you wish."

Gregor nodded and signaled for his sisters to follow, they ran to the wall."All right everyone time for the wall. Mareth cannot help you here so I will."They all seemed suprised that he was training them."Well... lets go." He yelled and began climbing the wall. His sisters were quick to follow. He sensed the rest of the people climbing behind him.

He went this way and that, grabbing this rock with his left and and putting his foot on another."If you feel the rock is loose don't lift up on it. We cannot put our weight on loose rocks for they may break." He yelled at the men below(there were an even amount of woman as well).

Most of the men fell at least once. He and two others were the only ones not to fall. He watched a man hop off the flier and start half way up the wall. Gregor jumped down climbing down the wall hopping from one place to another like he was a mountain goat that could jump on a ninty degree slope.

Within seconds he reached the soldier,"What do you think you are doing. You fell. When you fall you restart. Not halfway up not a quarter of the way up you start at the bottom. Now drop."He yelled at the soldier with enough anger that he even scared himself.

The man dropped and fell to the ground landing on the bat assigned to the wall, then rolling off to land on his feet at the bottom. Gregor began to climb back up. He climbed up next to his sisters."How you two hol-"

He was cut off by a man falling above him and went right next to Gregor's side. Gregor grabbed the man's arm and lifted him back to the wall."Thanks." The man said. Gegor nodded.

Gregor turned to the rest of the men."Listen up if a man is to fall next to you try to grab him. Those at the top are free to go back to Mareth for the rest of their training."

"What if we are not able to grab them?"A young man asked to his right. Gregor sent him a look.

"That should be obvious. If not then you need a little common sense knocked into your head."He was greeted by a few laughs from the side. When he turned their way the laughs stopped."It is fine to laugh I do not mind a little laughter but do not let that distract you."

After a few minutes his sisters reached the top after falling four times. It took another fifteen for the rest of the men to reach the turned to the few that remained."All of you are to go back to training with Mareth. Next time if I can train you here I will see if I can get Ripred to join us." A few of the men looked at Gregor with worry. Then they started to laugh."I am not joking. I will try to get Ripred out here for this."

"I might as well break my leg now." One of the men said. No one laughed. Gregor walked over to him.

"I forgot to say something. You will not be allowed to jump off and take a flier to the ground. You will all be climbing down."The mean let out a sad sigh. Gregor motioned for the bat to come down."Any man who falls you bring back up. If they try to drop to the floor and run I will want you to make sure the feel pain. Hit your head into them a wing I don't care."

With that the bat flew back up to it's post. The men started climbing down. Gregor started hopping from one place to another until he reached the ground. He turned to see Mareth approach him."You enjoy giving them a hard time? It got boring for me quickly."

"They should be trained on this better. I told them that I would help you train them again on the wall. I said I would try to get Ripred out here to give them a challange.

"That will be fun to watch."Was all Mareth said as he walked back to his group.