Chapter 9
Are you sure?
"Are you sure? I mean, it's only a month or so?" the instructor asked.
"Shut up and let me get started!" June snapped, tapping her foot impatiently.
"But you're a girl-" The instructor never got to finish that sentence before he was nailed in the head be a soft leather boot.
"Wasn't that just Corey, the combat specialist?" Crowley asked.
"That's my apprentice!" Carter smiled, fist in the air and another on his two gallon cup of coffee.
"Master! Shut up or I will stick an arrow down your throat! And is won't be a practice tip!" June snapped, glaring at Carter as she stepped up to the shooting range.
"Still, that's my apprentice…" Carter mumbled quietly, sitting down next to Will, who smiled.
"And go! Fifteen shots, twenty seconds, no shot requirement!" The other instructor said, "And can I get some ice for him!"
June paused, looking at the three other apprentices around her, who already shot once each before beginning herself. Carter, was twitching slightly annoyed at her hesitant stat. June fired, and hit one of the inner rings, while the others hit the dead center, twice.
"June get your a-mep in the freaking gear or you're dead!" Carter snapped, his foot now stomping a hole into the ground.
"Screw you!" June snapped, nocking two arrows and firing them at his head before sending another three rapid fire at the target.
"Holy…" Carter mumbled as the coffee leaked out of his jumbo cup, with two neat arrow holes in it.
Len, one of the apprentices beside June whistled as his seventh shot flew into the middle inner ring as June shot her sixth. According to his calculations, there was nine seconds left. He knocked and fired another as he counted the eight arrow from the other apprentice.
"Five seconds apprentices." The instructor said, yawning.
June snapped off her eight and immediately shot another after it, correcting its faulty aim, burying them both in the center.
"Three." June nocked another as the others fired, "Two," and surprisingly she nocked two more on the bowstring. "One," The instructor said, yawning as she fired the triple shot.
The arrows flew in a triangle way out of the targets rim, the curved back in, hitting dead center on the foam circle. Carter cheered as the other rangers exchanged looks of surprise, and dumbfounded ness.
June smiled from under her bangs and nocked another arrow, skewering Carter's cloak and pinning it to a tree. She gave a little wave as she walked by and picked up his large cup before drinking out of one of the holes.
"You little! You're so dead when I get out of this! Oi! Gilan help me out here!" Carter called as the said Ranger walked past.
"I'm sorry who are you again? I don't seem to know your name? Must be new around here, eh Halt?" He said, nudging the gray bearded man.
"Tell ya what, you tell all of us your name, and we'll let you down." Halt sad, spreading his arms to show the crowd of Ranger's that had gathered.
"…" Carter mumbled.
"What? Couldn't quiet catch that?" Gilan said, edging closer.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Both Will and June said at the same time.
"Either let me down or die!" Carter yelled, putting Gilan in a headlock with his legs.
"Help me!" The strangled person cried, reaching out to anyone.
"Sorry Gil, gonna have ta take one for the team." Will smiled, walking past.
"No! I'll take one for the team some other time! I can't die yet!" Gilan cried, flailing around.
"Any other time?" Halt inquired, smiling.
"Fine! Any other time! Just let me live! I have so many things I want to see, things I want to do with my life!" He said.
"Fine," Will said, pulling the arrow out of Carter's hood with a grunt of effort.
Carter released Gilan as he flipped gracefully onto the ground, and then took off after his fleeing apprentice, a spear suddenly above his head. The other Rangers looked around, wondering where he got it from, then shrugged and went to set up their tents and eat before the midday events.
When Will, Halt and Gilan showed up Carter and June were already eating a rabbit, that June shot. Will smiled and joined in they're meal. Halt and Gilan looked at each other and shrugged, before tackling Carter in name taking attempts.
"Let go! I can't get my meat down!" Carter cried, trying unsuccessfully to swallow a piece of meat.
"Name!" Halt grunted.
"Neva!" Carter replied, kicking violently.
"Name or suffocate in Gilan's armpit!" Halt cried.
'Oi! I showered last week!" Gilan glared at him.
"I showered yesterday." Halt smiled.
"Well, some of us don't have the privilege of owning a large castle bathroom." Gilan replied flatly, tightening his grip on Carter's neck.
"Like you have a mission every week, I bet you were sleeping all the week!" Halt rolled his eyes.
"No, I had to sleep in a ditch because Crowley assigned me something at the last minute!" Gilan growled.
"I work with Crowley, I would know if you got an assignment. And you didn't." Halt growled.
"Maybe he was doing extra at midnight with a low light! Maybe you fell asleep! Maybe ha grew a large pair of wings and did some while chasing a bird!" Gilan proposed.
"That's preposterous." Halt waved it away.
"Umm… Halt." Will interrupted.
"Oi! Unless my wife is dying, dead or coming at me with a form of cooking utensil DON'T interrupt me!" halt snapped.
"But Halt-"Will started.
"No!" Halt growled, an ominous black aura surrounding him.
"Aye sir!" Will smiled nervously.
"Shall we continue this argument elsewhere?" Gilan inquired, suddenly polite.
"We shall." Halt nodded.
"But…but…but…he died." Will swear dropped, looking at Carter.
"Yay!" June smiled pulling out a bottle of ink.
"Should we wake him up?" Will asked a moment later.
"No, he would like this too much and it would be perverted." June answered, sitting on Carter's chest as she carefully drew glasses and a mustache.
Then why are you sitting on him like that? Will sweat dropped again.
Yay! Summer! The time for lazy ness and slacking off! And having all your viewers on vacation. Oh yeah and can somebody answer a question for Carter? If it's summer in America, would that make it Winter in Japan? Also I own nothing! Except Carter and June. Haha! You shall neva escape my hands! "Crap." "Shit." "Carter!" "What? I swear every where I go! Don't you read this story? Geez, lazy apprentice." Carter… "Aye?" Go jump off a cliff and see if you can catch on. "Aye!"