Ok, school for me starts on Monday so hopefully I will be able to update as much as I have been doing. Not much els to say but thanks for reading and have fun ^^
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"Miss. Alisha. It's time to wake up! Please" Dalia urged, shaking Alisha in her sleep.
"What?" Alisha mumbled. She vaguely remembered getting up for her serum, then falling asleep as she headed back to her bed.
"Your lesson starts soon. You need to get up, dress, and get something to eat before you go down to the shore! Lord Fandral will be doing mostly endurance today" Dalia exclaimed as she pulled Alisha out of bed.
Alisha's arms felt light led weights. They just hung there as she struggled to stay awake while Dalia was giving her a swim suit. Alisha got dressed in it without even thinking, put a shirt and some pants on, and then headed for the kitchen, shoes in hand, still half asleep. She entered to find Halder, Dustin, and Fandral finishing up breakfast.
"I was under the impression that you where an early riser Alisha" Fandral said in a cheerful voice.
"So was I" she moaned, sitting down on the bench between Halder and Dustin. She was offered hot chocolate from one of the cooks and she chugged it down. The burning feeling in her stomach and down her throat woke her up within seconds. "WOW that was hot. Ok I am up" She said, taking a glass of water and chugging it down as well to compensate.
"Ok well for the next 2 hours we will be practicing aim from short to mid distance, starting with archery then throwing knives, then spears, then just basically throwing anything at targets to get aim" Fandral stated, waiving his hand.
"Then what?" Dustin asked.
"Then endurance, with swimming" Fandral said, winking at them.
"So basically a beach party. You really are like my father." Alisha stated. She could see that, like her father, he made a little work mix with a lot of play, but it could be different.
"Shhhhhhhhh, not so loud" he hissed, looking about him dramatically. "They could hear you!"
"Ok, ok so water training, sounds like a total bore" She said in a dramatic voice.
"Exactly. So get some food in you Alisha and let's get training!"
Alisha took some bread and meat and chowed down until the void in her stomach had been filled. "Ok I am good, let's go!" she said, standing up and walking to the door.
Halder and Dustin lead the way down a series of small, twisting trails down the side of the castle. When it leveled out, Alisha's feet met with warm, soft sand. She could hear the waives making contact with the sand. For some reason it sounded like crystal chiming with a mix of water.
"This place baffles me more and more every day" She said, trying not to let her engineer physics mind wander too much, knowing if she did she would end up having a head ace.
"Ok, first things first" Fandral said, handing her a bow. She took it and looked at it. She had never tried archery before; she had only seen Clint and Tera do it a few times so she couldn't use that as a reference.
"Ok what do I do?"
"Take your stance across the only target that is available." The blond haired Asguardian said, sitting down on a rock and observing.
She walked over between the boys and took the same stance as Halder and Dustin where. They were already shooting arrows at their targets, and each others. She took a sidewise stance; her feet shoulder length apart, her left foot in front.
"Good, now knock an arrow and fire at will"
She looked at Dustin as a reference since he was the smaller of the two. She grasped her bow in the middle and took and arrow from the tube at her feet. She looked at Distin and saw he was placing the black feather away from the bow, so she did the same. She pulled back, her right pointer finger above the arrow, her middle and ring finger below it. She pulled back to her cheek, aimed and let go.
She heard the twang of the string, felt it vibrate threw the bow, but for some reason, the arrow had slipped from the strings grasp. She looked at it for a few seconds, and did the entire process again. The same thing happened. A third time, the same outcome. By this time, Halder and Diustin had finished and where waiting for the all clear. When she tried for a fourth time Dustin snickered while Halder looked back at Fandral.
"Aren't you going to help her?" he asked.
"The best book of knowledge is the book of experience. She has to learn on her own" He said in a lazy voice, clearly finding Alisha's failing attempts amusing.
"Yes well a book of experience is made better by others experiences as well" Halder said, walking over to Alisha and stopping her before she hurt herself.
"Here, put this on your bow arm, and put this around your firing fingers" He said, handing her an arm and finger guard. She put them on and tried to knock another arrow.
"Hold on, you see this little cut in the back? That is where the string goes" He said putting it in. She smiled and then pulled back.
"Ok, now lower your back elbow so it is level to where you want to fire. Relax the grip on the bow a little, turn the elbow of your bow arm out a little to keep the string from snapping onto your arm. Now touch your cheek, breath in, aim and release."
She did as Halder said and breathed in. When she let the string slip out of her fingers, she heard it wisping threw the air and hit where she wanted it to hit; right in the middle of Dustins target. "Look I did it" She exclaimed.
"Ya, you did. Now let's see you do it again" Fandral said in an unimpressed voice.
"You know, I can hear the unimpressed emotion in your voice. I am only human and everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Even you, or els you would be teaching us everything and not just long distance weaponry and endurance" She said while knocking another arrow, going thru the steps and firing at her own target again. The arrow skidded along the sand before it came to a halt half way down the range.
"Nice" the blond haired man behind her said.
She shifted her stance a little more to her right and knocked another arrow, firing it. It hit the target but not the bulls-eye. It hit near the edge. "Yay I got it" She exclaimed.
"Nice, just keep it up and learn from your previous fires" Hal said, watching her. She still had a tube full of arrows and the boys were not allowed to get their arrows until she was finished. They both occasionally gave her tips before they were able to get their arrows and go back to firing. By the end of archery, she could get all her arrows onto the target, but not where she wanted them.
"I am not use to using something else to fire a weapon." She said a little embarrassed.
"Hay, don't worry. Like you said everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. You just need time and practice to improve on them" Halder said as he got his throwing knives handed to him. Halder groaned "I can never get these down".
"I am almost there" Dustin perked up. This was his form of fighting, aim and precision instead of brute force.
The boys had really nice and sharp knives while she had dull ones.
"Ok, I know I am a smart ass but really?" she asked looking down at them.
"Personally I do not trust your aim so I am not risking giving you lethal weapons until you can show me you have the ability to at least hit the bulls-eye or near it each time" Fandral said, sitting back down to observe.
Alisha glared to the side, her back facing him. She took the tip of the knife, aimed at the target, and flicked her wrist. She instantly knew that this was going to be much easier. It almost felt like using the repulsors and whips of her Iron Maiden suit. She hit the bulls-eye. She smiled and threw three more, one right after the other and hit the top right, top left and bottom of the first knife. She took two in hand and aimed at the boy's targets, getting in the bulls-eye but not perfectly in the middle.
"Looks like I am there" She said, throwing the rest to make a type of star across her target. She turned and smiled only to be met with Fandrals stern gaze.
"Ok, I am impressed with that one. Here are some sharper knives. Now learn control" He said, looking over at Halder.
Hal was barely flicking his knives but most of them where going right thru the target and landing on the other side. She took the tip of one knife between her fingers and flicked it like she would a card. It hit the target but sunk in deep.
She went a little softer the next time, but found that it didn't even reach the target. By the end of their dart session she had found her happy medium. Next were the spears. She didn't do very well with them because she didn't have the overall strength and momentum to throw them as far as she needed to. So by the end Fandral was not as impressed as he wanted to be but he was still impressed with Alisha's determination and focus.
"Ok now, time for the endurance. Let's see who can swim for the longest" He said, taking off his shirt and soes and running into the water. Halder and Dustin fallowing close behind him.
Alisha looked down at her swimsuit and rolled her eyes but smiled. Apparently, somehow, Thila had learned that her favorite animal was a wolf because on the bottom of her 2 piece swimsuit where wolf paw prints on each but cheek. The color of her suit was red, like her hair, with black lining. She took off her shirt, pants, and shoes and ran in as well. The water was cool and refreshing and it was fresh water as she had been told.
"No I am not going to think about how that could be possible" She said to herself firmly as she swam out to where the guys where. She could feel her mind working how salt water and fresh water could be in the same water space without contaminating each other.
"Ok, time starts now and whoever wins doesn't have to lug everything back to the arena. You just can't hold on to anything or get into shallow water where you can stand up. Good lick" Fandral said, going back to shore.
"Well that sucks I…sink to fast" Halder said as his head went below the surface of the water.
"Ya well, I guess it's between me and Alisha then. Here is a log to hold onto Halder" Dustin said, conquering up a dry log. Halder grabbed it and signaled to Fandral that he was out.
"Cool, something to play with" Alisha said, swimming up to it. She dove under it and came up the other side. Her hair above the water was golden read but under it was as red as the sunset.
"Wow, how do you do that? It's like the water is bringing out something deep and dark about you" Halder said, lifting one of her locks out of the water then bringing it back down and shaking it in the water.
"It's always been like that" she said before she dove back down to the bottom some 12 feet below. She pushed off of the bottom, propelled herself up to the surface and over the log, barley touching it with her feet. She swam back down to the floor and looked out towards the deeper water. She was met with glowing red eyes, staring at her. She thought it was a trick of the light so she rubbed her eyes and looked again but there they where, staring intently back at her. She squinted at them, they blinked back at her. She kicked off from the bottom and swam to the surface, gasping for air behind Dustin in more shallow waters.
"Just wondering, is there any monsters in these waters?" she asked as calmly as she could.
"No, only Fenrir but no one has seen him since my grandfather banished him to the depths of the worl, though he is able to go to the waters." Halder said in a matter of face voice.
"How can you tell it's him? What does he look like?" She asked.
"Well, I don't really know. He is the oldest son of Loki though. No one wants to talk about it. But I did hear from Fandral that he has red eyes and that if you ever see them you should calmly head back to shore because he may try to drag you out to the salt water and eat you. But I think he said that to scare us the first time because I have never seen them. He is not able to come up to use because he is trapped. Chained with a magic ribbon called Glnipier, made by the dwarves. He has been unable to break it. Why you ask?" Halder said, seeing Alisha swimming to the shore.
"Because I saw glowing red eyes when I was just down there" She yelled, still heading for shore.
Dustin and Halder looked at each other then at the deeper water. "Does it feel like we are in a calm currant?" Dustin asked as he looked back to the shore that seemed a little more distant then before.
"Ok time to get out!" Hal said, getting up on the log and diving off. Dustin fallowing behind them. They briskly swam for the shore. They passed Alisha and where standing in the water before Alisha even got to them.
"Looks like Alisha won. That's strange, I thought you would like a bit of a challenge Dustin" Fandral said, laying his head back down on the sand.
"Well I would have but" Dustin began.
"Alisha said she saw glowing red eyes while she was under the water." Halder finished while he pulled Alisha so he was between her and the deeper waters.
"WHAT?! You saw WHAT?" Fandral shot up and ran over to Alisha.
"I saw glowing red eyes while I was under the water. I thought it was a trick of the light so I moved around a bit, but it didn't change. And before I went back to the surface the eyes blinked. That's when I knew they weren't a trick of the light" She said as she looked passed Halder. She thought she could see a small speck of red under the water but when she looked again it was gone.
"Ok lessons finished for the day. Now have some fun, stay in the shallow arias. I don't want to see anyone out in water past their head." Fandral said firmly.
"Obviously this Fenrir is a nasty dude" Alisha said.
"Yes he is. He is the bringer of Ragnarok, the coming of the end of the world." Fandral said, waiting into the water.
"I thought the two wolves who eat the sun and moon where" Halder said as he jumped up and down with the waives.
"Yes they are the start, but he is the bringer. They are his children."
"So why did he show himself to me now? Why not anyone els?" Alisha asked Fandral while swimming next to Halder. "Why not Dustin, his brother?"
"I don't know, maybe because you are not from Asguard? All I am sure about is that you will stay out of the deeper water when you are here, understand."
For some reason, Alisha wanted to do just that. She didn't want to take orders from someone who laughed at her inexperience, but she knew she had to for her own safety. "Ya, I understand" She said.
After they swam for a little bit longer, they got out and dried themselves off. The boys headed for the arena, taking the weapons back, while Alisha headed for her room. She only had 5 more chapters to read in that book. She had learned about all the different animals that lived on Asguard, what their tracks looked like, their temperament, their strengths and weaknesses, and what to do when encountering the more dangerous ones. Once finished she asked around for the library so she could return it.
Down a darker hall was where she had been directed. The door at the end was made of a darker wood. She walked to it and knocked on it. A few moments later a thin older man came out and looked at her.
"Ah you must be the midguardian Alisha I have been hearing about. What can I do for you." The man asked, giving her his utmost attention.
"Yes well, I had to read this for homework and I just finished so I thought I would bring it back." She said while holding the book out.
"Ah yes, the Lady Sif had taken it out of here for one of her students. Thank you for bringing it back." He took the book from her and smiled. "Would you like to see our library?"
"Yes I really would, but will I be able to understand the words written in your books?"
"Yes I believe you will" The man said and opened the door for her.
"My lord is everything here to such a grand scale that it makes me feel small and insignificant?" she sighed out in astonishment, once again. The library here was practically as big, if not bigger than the great hall. Wish multiple levels of shelves and books upon books that reach right to the sealing.
"Well, to one who has never seen it I would think so. But over time one grows accustom to it and in my case, enjoys its largeness. Most of the books are on the history of Asguard with detailed descriptions and images of the battles our warriors' fought in."
"Sounds like a lot of effort, but well worth it" She said with a smile. She had decided that this would be the place she would like to visit as often as she could. "Thank you very much for showing me. I will be back some time to read some books but I must be going back to training" She said as she turned around.
"Please do. All you have to do is knock and the doors will open" The man said before closing the door behind her. She walked back down the hall and came face to face with the All Father himself.
"Oh, Odin you startled me" She said with a jump.
"I heard about the incident today. How are you feeling?"
"Not much different but considering that I don't know the magnitude of this." She said, letting the last part hang in the air.
"Well just be on your guard when you are near the water and do not go swimming without someone there with you" He said, then looking behind her.
"I will, and I really do love your library. So much knowledge in one place makes my circuits pulse" She said with a smile.
"I am glad you are having a wonderful time here. Just be careful" He said before continuing his walk.
Alisha headed to her room, partly because it was getting late, and partly because she could feel the effects of her serum wearing off. Once in her room she applied her serum and began to lift the weights doing 10 reps of 15. By the end she was sweating and thinking she wasn't going to get any stronger then she already was. She washed up and then sat on the cushioned stool to meditate.
The All Father is right Alisha; you need to be more careful.
Yes, and I will Heimdall, what does this mean?
It means that Fenrir has taken a liking to you, which is either a good thing or a bad thing. Personally I will not allow you or anyone to risk finding that out.
I agree. I personally don't want to get eaten.
Alisha did her sweep around her room and even to the small forest outside and found that animals and even plants have feelings. Once she finished, she was to amped up to go to sleep just yet. She put on her long flowing light green night gown and walked out onto the balcony. The sun had set long ago and the stars where shining out in the universe. She looked down at the water, still a little apprehensive about everything. She looked for just a few moments before she saw, even at this distance, two glowing red specks under the water. She slowly backed away and closed the door.
"And I was thinking it was just a prank to scare me. If it is then they are putting way to much energy into this" She said jokingly to herself, trying to calm down. She slipped into bed and closed her eyes. Her mind was going too fast for her to fall asleep so she concentrated on relaxing each part of her body, one at a time, before she finally slipped into the dream world.
I really do like the legend of Fenrir and Regnorok. And yes I did do my research about his trapping and the bringing of the end of the universe. I hope you liked the chapter, please review
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