Chapter 4 Nightingale
Kookaburra seems like a really friendly guy, but he was acting kind of nervous today, he must have been a bit shy, I was really enjoying my time as a defender and could really get used to it, I was glad that the king had given me lookout duty as it's what I seem to be best at and it's also my favorite duty, but I was relieved when it was over for my feet were aching like they've never ached before, when I got into my nest I fell asleep almost immediately, but was awoken in the middle of the night by someone knocking on my bedroom door, clambering up half asleep, I answered to see who would want to speak to me at this time of night, stood in the doorway was the king's messenger, he seemed very upset and concerned
"Nightingale, the king would like to speak to you immediately." he said.
"What does he wish to speak to me about?"
"He wishes to speak to all of you."
This can't be good, the king wishes to speak to us at midnight, I was out of my room and down the corridor straight away just in my nightclothes, Faetal, Gildar, Skabb, Vane, Knightriss and Madeva were already there, I didn't recognise them at first, they all looked so different without their outfits, Ballista, Thorne, Shaiden, Kookaburra, Crocness and Tinkor weren't that far behind me.
"What do you expect the king wants to speak to us about?" I asked.
"Don't know. Can't be good." said Tinkor.
Quickly Gildar knocked on the door, the king invited us in and we all dashed inside the king seemed very concerned and worried about something, he was stood with his hands flat on his desk shaking his head.
"Your majesty, what's the emergency?" Asked Skabb.
"I'm afraid something terrible has happened." said the king turning towards the window. "We seem to have angered our rival kingdom, and they're planning to attack...everyone...we're at war."
War? I've only been on the job for one day and we're already going into battle, I don't even know what to do, we were going to have to spend the days leading up to the battle training, me, Madeva, Faetal and Vane will probably be needing more training than everyone else as we're the new ones.
I couldn't get back to sleep that night, I couldn't help but think about the battle, the training was going to start tomorrow morning, I was both excited but also nervous both at the same time.
The next morning I was up bright and early, earlier than we would normally get up, we went for a quick breakfast and then went for the training, while we were having breakfast we were talking about what we were going to do about this war.
"So who is it that we're up against?" I asked.
"Well, we're known as the modern medieval kingdom, we only have one enemy, the medieval modern kingdom of Splazzer City." said Thorne. "They're always trying to overtake and modernize the kingdom."
"Who'd want to change anything around here?"
"Well they would for a start." said Kookaburra laughing.
"So what are we going to do?"
"Well, Tinkor has been working through the night making some new weapons for you guys, so we can start training once Tinkor's had a little lie down." Gildar explained.
I wondered what was going to happen in the training, I had a vague idea of us maybe using dummies and targets to test our fighting skills and our aim, after a quick breakfast, we went outside into the courtyard, we weren't even out there for even a minute when Tinkor arrived with the weapons, he looked exhausted the poor love, everyone got their weapons and me, Madeva, Vane and Faetal were shown which ones were ours, we all had a sword and shield each but there was an extra weapon for each of us, me and Kookaburra both had slingshots, Ballista had a crossbow along with Gildar and Faetal, Skabb was given a club and spear, Shaiden had her samurai sword, Vane was given a bow and arrow and Madeva, Knightriss and Thorne were all going to be working the catapult that Tinkor was working on right now. Now we were armed and ready for the training to begin.