Richard woke up to the sound of footsteps. He got up and out of his bed, he sheathed his pistols and slung his bow on his back. He went downstairs and found that Conner had returned from his mission.
"Well its good to see you've made them already" Conner said as he gave a quick glance at Richard, he was currently going through some papers on the table.
"What are those for?" Richard ask stepping into the dinning table.
"Nothing, just some old documents" Conner piled the papers into one stack and picked them up. "Now we'll start training with them" Conner threw the papers in the waste bin.
Richard nodded and he went to the basement and waited for Conner. He came after a minute or two and before they fought he inspected the weapons.
"Everything is nice and tight...seems to switch fine" he said inspecting Chaos. "Sharp and straight...Sting isn't too tense" he was examining Shadow Striker. "Well I'd say you did a good job, now we can see what you can do with them."
Richard picked up the weapons and transformed them into a tomahawk and sword. In his right hand he held Chaos and in his left, Shadow Striker. His stance was based on defense holding Shadow Striker in front of Chaos perpendicularly. He kept his knees slightly bent and his elbows out. Conner took a similar stance with his own tomahawk, but instead of a sword he deployed his hidden blade and swiveled it to hold it like a dagger and his tomahawk was held farther back. Conner made the first move swinging his tomahawk from his right. Richard was able to block with his sword. Conner slid his tomahawk down the blade creating sparks and moved back into his stance. Richard now swung around to get momentum and with Chaos he tried to strike downward. Conner blocked with his dagger and tried to strike again with his tomahawk, but Richard once again used his sword to block.
"Not bad" Conner said with a slight grin.
Conner then went for Richard's foot and grabbed it with his tomahawk, he pulled bringing Richard to the ground.
He pointed his tomahawk at him, "still not as good as me though."
Richard got back up and said "Round 2."
The two of them got in their stances and prepared for another fight. Richard went for a slash with his sword, but Conner caught it and pulled it away, bringing Richard with it. Richard was disarmed of his sword and Conner tried to land a hit with his tomahawk, but Richard blocked with his own locking the two together. Conner went for a stab with his dagger, but Richard activated his own hidden blade and blocked it with his let hand. Richard pulled to two locked tomahawks between him and Conner, who went for another stab, this time from above. Richard held back Conner's strike, holding up his arm. This stale mate lasted a few seconds before *Click*. Conner looked down to see the barrel of Chaos was indeed pointed at his chest and he would have been shot if it was loaded.
"Your learning" he said relaxing and ending the stalemate.
They both got back into their starting stance for the last round. Richard went for a downward strike, Conner rolled out of the way. Conner went for a strike in Richard's blind spot, Richard jumped back to see his mentor's tomahawk swing in front of him. Richard moved back and got back in his stance. Conner went for another strike, this time Richard used both his weapons to block. Conner took the opportunity and moved his palm to Richard's side, without his hidden blade active. Richard relaxed knowing that he would have been staged if Conner had his hidden blade out.
"You still have a lot to learn though" Conner said to him.
"What now?" Richard asked sheathing his weapons.
"You still haven't brought any hares back, until then you'll get your next assignment." Conner said handing Richard a mini quiver full of arrows. Richard grabbed it. He walked back up to the main level of the mansion and walked out the door. It was around midday. Richard began to walk to Big Dave's stable to saddle up Silver. He rode out into the forrest on his own once more.
Richard slowly made his way to the edge of the branch he was standing on, below him he could see a hare nibbling on some plants. Richard pulled out Shadow Striker in it's bow form with his right hand. With his let he took out an arrow from his quiver and extended it. He positioned the arrow and pulled the bow string back ready to fire. He took a deep breath in and let go. Direct hit on the hare, Richard relaxed and exhaled. He jumped down from the branch onto the forrest floor and went to collect his game. He pulled the arrow out of the hare and put it back in his quiver, he held onto the hare by the ears. He heard growling around him. He turned to try and see what it was but all he could catch a glimpse of was a black figure. Richard set down the hare and took out his bow once again with an arrow. He started to hear growling all around him now, these were not normal animals. Something jumped out of a bush in front of him, it was an armored Beowolf. No doubt he had companions and one by one they all jumped in front of Richard until he could see all 6 of them. Richard pulled back his arrow and fired at one, it slashed the arrow out of the air and let out a howl, the others joined him. Richard sheathed Shadow Striker and pulled out Order and Chaos and began unloading on the pack of Beowolfs. They dispersed and began to surround Richard who kept firing at the ones he saw. One tried to strike him from behind but Richard side stepped and the Beowolf went past him. Richard moved Chaos and Order and began to fire at the Beowolf, it tried to move to attack but the unrelenting fire go the best of it and it fell back dead. Another came from the front of Richard, he changed Chaos into a tomahawk and ducked under the beowolf's attack. Richard stuck the beowolf's leg causing it to stumble and it fell to the ground. Before he could finish it another tried to jump on him, he rolled back and kicked it away. He got back up and shot Chaos and Order at the beowolf's in front of him, but only about three shots came from each pistol, he was out of ammo. The one from behind him tried to sneak up on him, but Richard rolled away dodging the attack. He didn't see that he had rolled in front of another beowolf and when he stopped it slashed Richard to the side. Richard was sent flying a few feet away, he could see the four beowolves closing in on him. He sheathed his pistol and took out an arrow, he noticed it had a green glowing tip on it, he was going to take out Shadow Striker but once he saw the arrow he left it on his back. The four got closer and closer and when they where about to finish Richard off, he slammed the arrow into the ground and the beowolves were sent flying back. Richard stood up and drew another arrow, this one had a red tip. He took out Shadow Striker and shot at one of the Beowolves that had been sent flying back, on impact the arrow exploded and the Beowolf was blow into two pieces. He drew another arrow with a blue tip and once again shot it at one of the remaining Beowolves. It froze it completely in ice. Two left Richard took out a yellow tipped arrow and shot it at another Beowolf that had just stood up from the knock back of earlier. On impact the Beowolf began to twitch uncontrollable as yellow static was forming all around it, when the static died down the Beowolf fell forward, dead.
The last Beowolf had gotten behind Richard and slashed him to the side, Richard tumbled across the forrest floor. He tried to get up be he felt a burning pain in his side. He looked down to see blood stains and his cloths ripped, his belt had been cut off as well. He looked forward to see it on the ground not far from the Beowolf. All he had was Shadow Striker on his back and his hidden blades. Richard suddenly felt a power inside him, all of a sudden he grew angry, this anger was from the unfairness of his past, his lost, his failure. All these memories of the past suddenly reappeared in his mind and each one made him grow angrier. He began to glow grey and his wounds at his side slowly began to heal. The Beowolf charged at Richard, but once Richard looked up at it and stared it in the eyes, it stopped on dead in its tracks on all fours just inches away from Richard. Richard's wounds had completely healed and he was staring down a Beowolf that was actually scared of him. He walked closer to it continuing to stare it down. Richard got so close he could see the tiniest scratched on its head. He just stared at it and it didn't do anything. Richard activated his hidden blades and slowly positioned them at the beowolf's neck. The beowolf didn't do anything at this time but stare back at Richard. Them in an instant Richard slammed the hidden blades into its neck and could see the life in it fade away as it fell over on its side. Richard stared at it a while longer, he stopped glowing grey and he stopped feeling angry. He looked at his hands that where red with the blood of the beowolf. He looked over at his belt, it had his mini quiver and two pistols still attached to it. He picked it up and examined the tears caused by the Beowolf. He heard a slight growl and turned to see a Beowolf on the ground crawling. He walked over to it and watch it continue to crawl while bleeding out. Richard took out a normal arrow and slammed it into the Beowolf's head, killing it. He walked over to grab the hare he dropped and continued his hunt in the forrest.
Conner was sitting at the dinning table in the mansion sipping tea. He was reading an old book from Achilles' collection. He heard the front door opened and close and Richard walked in and placed three hares on the table. His cloths were torn and stained with blood, yet he seemed perfectly fine with no cuts or bruises. Richard simply stared at Conner for a short while then went up to his room. Conner looked at the game Richard brought home. Each hare had a noticeable hole in it signifying the use of an arrow. He simply sat back in his chair and continued to read, wondering, what could have happen to Richard while he was gone.