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Once Thorin picked out a sword for Fili that was his size, and one that Thorin thought was worthy they paid and left. Thorin had a bag he had bought and placed some stuff in it that he knew would help in training.
Kili was jumping around his small bow in one hand and his new quiver in the other. He had just told Thorin how he was going to be the best archer there ever was before he ran off. He was just so excited about his new weapon even though he had no clue on how to use the bow.
Thorin could hear Kili singing to himself as they made their way out of the village. Fili had been looking at his new sword since they had left the shop. "You going to give it a kiss?"
Fili looked up at his uncle shaking his head but he had a smile on his face. "I just can't keep my eyes off it."
Thorin was glad Fili liked it but he didn't understand what was so exciting about it. He never acted that way towards his first weapon. But then again it was a bow like Kili's but he hadn't wanted it but his mother made his father get it anyway. Like Thorin his father wanted his son to have a man's weapon. But then Thorin looked over at Kili who was so excited about his bow. A bow was a man's weapon…it was just not his first pick was all.
Once they got to the forest Thorin picked up some mud and rubbed a circle on the tree that was close by. "Ok Kili!" Thorin yelled as he ran over to the small boy placing the bag he had over his shoulder behind them.. "Now take the bow with your right hand." Thorin placed the bow in Kili's right hand while placing his left on the string. "Just like that."
Kili looked up at his uncle not liking the way he was being treated. Thorin was treating him like he was a baby who needed help feeding himself.
"You forgot your arrow." Thorin bent down picking up an arrow that lay at Kili's feet and placed it on the bow. "Now slowly pull back the string and straighten your back." He placed a hand on Kili's back. "Now take a deep breath and hold it in." Thorin went from Kili's side to behind him and he kneeled down not wanting to get hit. He could hear Kili take in a deep break. "Not that deep."
Kili exhaled Thorin was not making it easy for him to concentrate. He was starting to find himself not wanting to learn.
"Now shoot when you're ready. Not before, just wait for the perfect time. Listen to the wind."
Thorin didn't know if this was the right way to teach a dwarfling to shoot but he hoped it would work. He kind of felt as if he was making Kili nervous. And he knew he was talking to him like he was a little baby again.
Fili watched his brother from a good distance away. He trusted his brother but he didn't trust the tree to spit the arrow back out and hit him. He was also trying to hold in a laugh at how his uncle was treating his brother. Fili was so glad he was himself and not his brother right now. He watched as Kili let the arrow go but the arrow missed the tree by what seemed like a good mile.
"Don't worry you'll get it." Thorin told Kili as he ruffled his hair. "I'll leave you to it."
Kili was so glad Thorin was going to leave him to practice on his own. He let out the breath he didn't know he was holding in.
"Now Fili. Your turn." Thorin said as he walked over to his oldest nephew smiling.
Fili didn't know if he should be excited or ashamed but he was just glad that no one was around to see the over baring uncle. Fili was just glad that he would be the only one that he knew his age that would know how to use a sword. Fili took out his sword and flicked it in his hand getting the feel for it. He would often see his uncle doing that just before practice.
Thorin drew his sword and pointed it at Fili thinking. "You know what. Why don't we try wooden swords first." Thorin put his sword back in its sheaf as he walked back to his bag he left near Kili.
He came back with two wooden swords handing one to Fili. "Much safer."
"Why can't we practice with the real ones?" Fili whined all disappointed.
"Your mother would kill me if you got hurt." Thorin knew good and well that Dis would end him if he was teaching Fili how to fight with a real sword. Especially if he cause Fili to get a scratch or cost him a finger. Thorin cringed at the idea. "After a few weeks of these we will see about the real ones."
Thorin and Fili play fought for a good half an hour and Thorin figured it would be a good time to stop. Fili was picking it up fairly quickly and he looked over at Kili. "Kili!"
Kili looked over at his uncle with sadness and Thorin looked over at the tree. The tree had not a single arrow buried in it. Thorin smiled anyway he didn't want Kili to feel badly about not hitting the tree. And it was only his first day anyway and the small amount of time he had been doing it was not long enough to get good. "It's ok Kili. Come here."
Kili threw his bow down on the fluffy green grass and ran over to his uncle. "I hate bows!"
"Kili…You haven't even been doing it that long." He placed a hand on Kili's shoulder giving it a small squeeze. "You will get it. I bet you will hit that tree tomorrow." Thorin reassured him.
"I don't wanna try anymore." Kili looked down at the grass sadly.
"I want you to fight with your brother." Thorin said leaning in the grass to be at somewhat an eye level with the small child.
"What?" Kili asked shocked. "But you said to never fight." But Kili's eyes lit up as Thorin pulled out a wooden sword from behind his back. "Cool!" He took it from his uncle and looked over at his smiling brother.
"Can't get me!" Fili yelled as he took off, Kili chasing after him a short while later.
Thorin watched as the two little ones ran around while Kili tried to hit his older brother with his little wooden sword. Thorin smiled happy that he had made his youngest nephew feel better. It never took much to get the little dwarfling to smile or laugh.
Thorin could remember back to before the two of them were born. It was hard to ever image that his two nephews were once not on this earth bugging him. Especially since he loved them so much and cherished every moment he had with them.
He could remember the day that his sister had run up to him in the halls jumping around with excitement. She had on a lovely light blue silk dress and her hair was pinned up and half of it was down her back all curly. Her face was free from any scruff that was there the last time he had seen her. He often wondered what he would look like if he shaved his beard off but that would be undwarfly. "Why are you so dressed?"
"I have a date!" She announced so proudly her mouth wide with a smile.
"A date? With whom?" Thorin couldn't remember the last time Dis had ever had a date. But he could remember how the last guy was grabby with her and he had to have a talk with him. He had introduced him to the brothers, right and left fist and gave the guy a pick.
"Bili." Her eyes looked up at the ceiling.
Thorin could see how her eyes sparkled and looked to be daydreaming. "Who is Bili?"
"Some man from town." She looked at Thorin as she said man. "He's dwarflious!"
"Dis…I have no idea what you're talking about." Thorin would have to ask around about a Bili as soon as his sister left.
"Well don't you want to know what he looks like?" Dis asked clapping her hands together.
Thorin thought about it and it would help find the guy if he knew what he looked like. "Of course."
"He had long wonderful blond hair. The best blue eyes I'd ever seen in my life! He's not as tall as you but he's taller than me…" She didn't get to finish her sentence for Thorin had interrupted her.
"You're not very tall Dis." Thorin told her looking down at her as he patted her on the top of her head with little effort.
Dis smacked his hand away. "Not funny brother." She told him with a dry tone. "As I was saying…he had a good heart. He makes me laugh…let's see." She looked back to the ceiling daydreaming once again.
Thorin took that time to turn around as quietly as he could as he tip toed away. He would find this 'Bili' guy and have a nice long talk with him. He knew he would be easy to find since there wasn't as many blonds as there were dark haired or red headed dwarfs.
He knew he wouldn't be a very good brother if he didn't check out the dwarf that dared to think he was worthy of a princes daughter. Thorin wouldn't tell Thrain about him just yet. The last guy who was so grabby and that Dis liked got to meet dear old dad and for some strange reason Thrain liked the guy…that was until he caught word of his grabbyness. He had made Thorin promise to always make sure that if Dis was going on a date to make sure he was a worthy dwarf. And Thorin would keep that promise to his father and honor his sister by making sure that guy was right.
I'm better with flashbacks it seems. :D Hope it was good enough. Next one will be fluffy and cute. And more flashbacks. I never put Dis in for more than a little bit so I wanted to try her out.