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Roxas woke up early that morning oddly excited. Last night Xion said that there set up some other things for him to learn as well. Roxas went to the dining hall to see that everyone but Axel got up early as well. Axel joined them after a small while after they went and woke him up. So they all enjoyed their breakfast together.
Roxas yawned and stretched once he finished his food. "So what do I have to do today?" Xion looked at the group of people around him. "Well starting today most of us are your teachers as well as friends." Roxas smiled, he liked having friends that would help him he didn't get along well with others back at the orphanage though.
Once everyone had eaten Roxas soon began his teachings. Since he was so excited and needed to do something physical Axel and Xilsu were his first teachers. Axel leaned on a horse and smiled. "So I'm gonna have to learn to ride a horse?" Roxas said confused but Axel smiled, "Yup alot of noble families ride horses so that means you'll need to know too." Roxas timidly approached the horse, he's never been around a horse before much less learn to ride it. "Roxas have you ever been around a horse before? You look a bit scared." Roxas shook his head, was it really that obvious? It made Roxas internally groan about how easy he was to figure out.
Roxas let the horse sniff his hand, which the horse did sniff but seemed really uninterested. So Roxas pet the horse which it seemed to like the attention. Now that he wasn't so timid he took a good look at the horse. The horse was a nice black stallion, he seemed to be calm in general but had a serious air to him as well. "Hey Axel what's his name?" Axel smiled, "Oblivion, pretty cool name huh?" "Yeah." Roxas continued to pet Oblivion. Roxas turned to Axel, "How may horses are here?" Axel thought for a moment, "Two but soon to be three." Roxas was confused but guessed he'd know eventually.
Roxas and Axel then began to talk about horses and Axel explained his basics of how to take care of a horse. Xilsu was able to walk the a storage room and grab the equipment needed for his lesson. When he had everything set up Roxas and Axel were finished. Xilsu smiled a picked up a sword, "I will teach you about proper combat." Roxas looked at the sword Xilsu held and the small choices of weapons laid out behind him.
Roxas felt a little intimidated by Xilsu, he looked as if he had years of training and practice. So Roxas went and picked up a sword and tried to mimic Xilsu's posture and stance. Xilsu laughed a bit, "Keep a straighter back and always have your eyes look up and ahead of you." Roxas straightened his posture and looked up at Xilsu. "You have freedom of how you stand as long as you keep good posture," Xilsu now moved to stand next to Roxas. Now that Roxas felt a little more confident Xilsu taught him about a weapons strengths and weaknesses, even demonstrating with Axel. "Swords are basic easy to wield and easy to master," Xilsu handed Roxas a thin and light sword, "First practice with a rapier on those training dummies."
Roxas swung the sword a few times, it wasn't heavy at all and it seemed so thin it could easily go into armor. Now he looked at the straw dummy, thinking for a moment Roxas ran to the dummy and slashed it across it's chest. Xilsu spoke up, "That type of weapon isn't made to slash. Aim for the rest and stab like this." Xilsu easily swung his sword into a ready position and withing seconds he lunged forward and knocked the dummy over with a perfect blow to the chest. Roxas nodded now focused on doing the best he could to match that, Roxas now lunged forward and stabbed the dummy slightly off center but barely managed to knock it down. Xilsu patted his back, "Great work Roxas." Roxas sighed a lil but smiled "Hey Xilsu where did you learn to fight like this?"
Xilsu sighed a bit, "I was trained since I was young." "Your really good I'm lucky your teaching me," Roxas laughed some and sat down in the grass and looked up at the sky. Axel and Xilsu joined him once they finished cleaning up the weaponry. Roxas sighed and closed his eyes, "Do you think life will always be like this? Us three and Xion learning stuff and teaching me together?" Axel smiled, "I hope so this is gonna be fun." Xilsu closed his eyes, "Even if life changes for us all, we are all friends." Roxas smiled and got up, "Yeah, friends."
Xion then called them inside so Roxas could continue the rest of his studies with history and manners. By the end of the day, once dinner was over, Roxas passed out in his room from all the excitement and work he had today.
From their perspectives that's how life would run until Roxas was about to become of age.