Hullo citizens of Arluen!

Anyway, sorry for dropping off the face of the earth. I would love it if y'all would review and let me know how I'm doing. I'm relatively new at this, XD! It's probably obvious. This chappie is filler and Halt is a bit OOC. And many thanks to my new beta Unfocused and Confused! He is great!

Chapter 3- Training -Seriya Silvermist

THAWACK…HISS….THWACK
Gilan's last five arrows had missed the target by at least a meter. This was not going to cut at the gathering in a week. Frankly, Halt thought that he was going to lose his first apprentice because Gilan couldn't even hit a target, but the boy was promising in field of unseen movement. Crowley might cut the boy some slack. When Halt had taken an apprentice, he hadn't expected a hopeless one like Gilan.

"Well, why you can't hit a target!" Halt yelled angrily "Blaze could shoot better than you"

"Blaze can't even hold a bow!" Gilan yelled outraged

"My point exactly" Halt retorted "Now, hundred more shots"

"Halt, what I don't ge-"

"You're an apprentice you don't get anything"

"Why are you pushing me harder than normal?" Gilan yelled at Halt

"If you listened maybe you'd know!" "Now a hundred more shots"

The clearing behind Halt's cabin was filled from craters from Gilan's arrows and the trees were peppered with holes. Halt himself was sitting in the veranda sipping coffee, watching Gilan work, and occasionally offering criticism. But that was then. Now, Halt was pacing through the clearing and constantly yelling at Gilan to do better. Something was going on and it was plain obvious to Gilan. No amount of Halt's lying was going to keep him from knowing.

….97…98….99…100
Gilan was finally done with his shots. By that time the targets looked like someone had purposely stuck a porcupine to the trees on which his targets were on.

His thoughts were interrupted by Halt
"Now that your atrocious shooting is over with, shall we go and work on unseen movement"

"I didn't think it was that ba-"

"It was, now cowl up" Halt ordered

Gilan followed Halt deeper in to the forest. He inwardly sighed (inwardly because Halt frowned upon outward expressions) as they were doing that exercise again. It included Gilan had to track Halt down without Halt seeing him, but Halt always saw him, no matter what Gilan did.

"Three…..two…..one, begin!" Halt called

Gilan raced into the dense forest surrounding castle Redmont. He stopped at a clearing out of breath, looking for any signs of Halt being there. Little did he know, Halt was following close behind.

Gilan looked around his surroundings, mentally kicking himself for running blindly into the forest instead of biding his time. Gilan's eyes were glued to the ground and Halt crept closer and closer.

Halt had been following his damn apprentice for twenty minutes now and Gilan had still not even noticed. In fact Gilan hadn't even left the clearing; he just stood there looking at the ground. To say the least Halt was mad and Gilan was going to pay for disregarding all he had ever taught him.

He saw his opening and crept up on his oblivious companion. Closer and closer he got, his cowl shadowing his darkened face. Halt loved his job, to say the least. He walked up behind Gilan and put a hand on his shoulder.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" His unsuspecting apprentice screamed. He turned around slowly and met Halt's unwavering gaze.

"You aren't listening to me."

"What do you mean?"

"You just disregarded everything I have ever taught you" Halt glared at him
"It's like you never were my apprentice"

"Never your apprentice!" Gilan looked infuriated "That's taking it a bit far don't you think!"

"I don't know how McNeil even stood you, or even taught you in that case!" "You're impossible"

"You don't even think what it's like to know or be around you" Gilan shot back "You never give praise, you never seen to care about anything and you're worse than McNeil, far worse." His voice cracking with emotion

Halt looked around the clearing, the light was past gone and moonlight was filtering through the trees. It would have been a beautiful if not what was going on with him and the boy.

Gilan's voice broke through Halt's thinking. "Never even the littlest sign of affection or appreciation for all I've done" his voice cracked agian and Gilan mentally kicked him self for it

"Gilan, we don't have time for this," Halt almost pleaded. He had dealt with the most terrifying things a man could have named, but this was new ground, and he had no idea what to do with his teary eyed apprentice.

"No, you don't have time for anything it seems"

"Gilan" a warning tone creeping into his voice

"What do you want me to be, you?" "I've only been training for a couple of weeks."

Halt was over his head here. Bandits were a piece of cake, emotional boys, not so much. He looked at his young brown haired apprentice. "I'm not an easy person to deal with I know, but I have never thought about pushing you too hard I was just being…

Halts voice trailed off but he thought Gilan got the point. "Look, there is a gathering of all the fifty rangers and their apprentices and, well the apprentices are tested."

"Oh…. What happens if you 'fail' this test" Gilan asked looking worried and still very much angry.

"You don't continue your training."

"Oh" Gilan responded softly, self-doubt rang in his words.

Beta Notes

I did not, in any way, change the wording in the beginning. I am amazing.

Anyhow, onto the actual stuff. It took a short amount of time, really to edit this, so that can speak volumes of her (your, if you are reading this Seriya) improvement. The end of Beta Notes.