Thank you for pointing that out Lover girl and yes I will not use that word again. From now on, Carter will try to stop himself from swearing 95% of the time, the other half will be Will or June! Thank you for reminding me and really I guess this isn't a serious story, granted I tried to make it one but…well I fail. I can't make serious stories. I will try to make the chapters a bit longer and there's Will for a filter! Sorry for all the stuff before I'll edit those in the next couple of days! Again, sorry, I'll fix it! And to a certain degree, I guess this is a parody.
"Come on, let's go master." June said, poking the still unconscious body.
"Ugh…" He moaned.
"Get up, get up, get up get up get up get up!" She shouted.
"Shut the f-meep up!" Carter caught himself.
"You're getting better at that." Will muttered, nodding his head in approval.
"It's cause of June, I'm trying to be civilized." Carter said, glaring at the girl still poking him.
"Get up." She repeated.
"You get up." He replied, poking her.
"Sexual harassment." She said blankly.
"Che… touché. Fine let's go and let me wiped my face off from your doodles." He said, heading towards his tent.
"You drew the thing didn't you." Will said, noticing June's smile.
"Yup," She smiled wider.
"June! You drew a bloody cat on my forehead! WHAT THE HELL!" Carter shouted.
"Master! Your hurting my poor ears with your screams." June moaned, smiling. In response they heard a solid thump as Carter's head hit the floor. ( Told ya June'd handle it.)
"I hate you." He mumbled, washing his face quickly.
They arrived to the next strategic test almost late, but somehow or another on time. June sat down in one of the many stools as Will walked up with their question. He smiled at June who raised an eyebrow, then continued.
"If you're camp is coming under attack by a, enemy movement in twenty-four hours, what is the best and most effective way to hold out till reinforcements come? Your forces number two hundred forty. So, I'll come back in an hour when you have a plan of defense." Will smiled as the apprentices started contemplating. June however raised her hand.
"Yes June?" Will smiled.
"What's a geographical item that's close to your location and what's your team's equipment.
"Let's see…you're positioned on a cliff that has a small forest to its left. To your right there is a stream which you get your water from and the cliff is looking over an enemy encampment. You team has swords, standard issue tents and camping items, including shovels, a tinder box, light axes, whet stones, and light armor." Will answered.
"Done." June replied.
"Come again?" He inquired.
"I have a working strategy." June answered again.
"Well then… let's hear what you have so far." Will smiled, looking around.
"Disassemble parts of the light armor to make buckets and soak the hill your on with water starting from twenty meters down. Then use the axes to chop down trees. Soak the water around the encampment and dig a meter deep ditch, then plant the trees and sharpen the edges. Use the excess wood from the trees and spread the shavings along the area in between you tent and the wet ground. Continue shaving and digging ditches until the entire hill is mostly covered. Then re wet the grounds again heavily. Once the enemy comes up past the wet ground, light the shavings and roll extra logs down the hill. The fire should catch and ignite the entire hill. The encampment below will assume that their forces have wiped out the camp and set fire to it. By the time your team has evacuated the campsite, it will be too late to mount another assault at you camp." June lectured.
"…How will you defend yourself if they get past the fire?" Will said smugly.
"Simple, during the time that the fire takes to spread, cut more trees into crude pikes half into weapons and half into logs to add to the fire, then if anyone gets past the fire, push them back in or stab them with a sword or pike. As for the fire spreading, that's what the wet ground is for." June smiled.
"Um…What if the fire spreads into the forest?" Will answered.
"What forest? Your team cut all of it down. You said yourself it was a light forest, meaning one hundred or fewer trees. By using one hundred and fifty men and having fifty wet the grounds and forty dig, you'd be able to finish it in time or with time to spare." June said, folding her hands in front of her mouth smugly.
Will frowned and reviewed her battle plan carefully. True that a light forest usually wasn't bigger than a hundred trees or more and a hundred men could probably clear out up to two hundred trees in an hour or so. Then the diggers could begin cutting and fitting the logs in while the cutters sharpened and were reassigned else were. Then once the ones wetting the ground came back everyone was digging, and cutting. When somebody got tired, they could take a break because two hundred men on one site was cumbersome and slow. So logically with two site, up to one hundred men could work comfortably while one hundred forty to a break. It was a well thought out battle plan and could keep men in reserve for little skirmishing parties the encampment might send. Once the men were finished cutting and sharpening only forty or so men had to spread. The others could fashion pikes and spread more in the free time.
"How'd you think of this?" Will asked.
"Simple, a Ranger is supposed to see through deception and lies and find the truth. By sorting out your question you could narrow it down to simple two hundred forty men defending an area on a cliff. By sorting out geographical landmarks you could fashion a defense from wood from the forest and fire dowsed with water." June answered.
"…Okay, can you give me another answer to this defense?" Will asked.
"Certainly, use wood from the forest two fashion a plug for the river. Then built walls around it to let it build up. Make irrigation units leading all the way to the forest. Let the river build up and set up plugs for the irrigation. Then build the walls on those too. Once the enemy comes up to you, release the plugs from all the gates except for the on the bottom and let the water swamp the hill. The enemy will lose footing and ground, letting you men to release arrows. If they are still there, lock the river and irrigation again and let it fill up, picking them off with arrows as they come. Eventually when the start to get closer, release the locks again, pushing them back. If you have to, fashion pikes and drive them back. You can set up a defense line in front of the irrigation unites nad when you release them, fall back." June answered with a different strategy.
"Okay…um…uh…yeah I got nothing." Will sighed, putting his head down.
June smiled at her win while the other apprentices looked at her in amazement. First she pulled off that trick shot and now she makes a brilliant strategy in less than three minutes! Len smiled at her, catching her attention. She leaned away from him but smiled nervously.
As the other apprentices walked away disappointed Len caught up to June. He put his hand on her shoulder to turn her around nad suddenly he needed to get back up.
"S-sorry, you just scared me, I don't like people behind me. Sorry, I'm June." She smiled nervously as Len got back up.
"It's fine, I should have said something. I'm Len, apprentice of Marco. I just wanted to say the strategy was brilliant! I couldn't believe you thought it up that fast!" Len smiled, cracking his back.
"Oh, it was nothing," June blushed a little. "I'm pleased to meet you. How long have you been an apprentice?" June asked.
"One year! It's really hard to begin with but it gets easier as you go! How long have you been an apprentice?" Len asked.
"About two weeks."
"Come again." Len said, his eyes wide in amazement.
"I guess he's harder on me because I'm a girl and all. He's an idiot." June smiled sheepishly.
"Oi! What did I tell you about calling me an idiot!" Carter came running out of now where at her.
"Master, sit." June snapped.
"No!" He replied, falling head over heels. "I will roll." He stated, continuing his roll at her.
June yelped as she became Carter-kill. Carter smiled, jumping up to his feet as June groaned, holding her head.
"That's your master? Bit of a wacko, don't cha think?" Len raised an eyebrow.
"He means well…I think, but he's not really all that bad. We mess with each other and get into arguments. He won't tell me his age so it's annoying." June said, casting an angry glare at Carter. "And he used to swear a lot, but Will and I have him on a rehabilitation program. It's been working so far." She smiled.
"What's his name?" Len asked innocently.
"If you knew, you'd be dead." Carter whispered into his ear, causing the poor apprentice to shiver uncontrollably.
"Master!" June fumed as Len fell to the ground white as a ghost.
"Sorry! It was too good to pass up! Anywho, Will's fixing his famous rabbit stew! It's yummy!" Carter smiled, racing off towards the camp site.
"Ugh, now what do I do~?" June mumbled, looking at Len who was still shivering.
Doodle on his face, go join Carter, eat a pie, throw Carter off a bridge or wait quietly for the next test in two hours. A voice in the back of her head said. Nah, maybe throw Carter off a bridge, just have to find a bridge. June thought.
"Ugh." Len grunted, sitting up, "Is he always like that?" he asked.
"…Yeah, except on Wednesday, then he's quiet, calm and patient." She answered.
"Why?"
"Cause I make him stay asleep until the afternoon."
O.O
"What? He's Like a squirrel on coffee every other day!"
"Well, nice meeting you June, bye!" Len smiled, walking off.
June shrugged and walked back to her tent and found Carter snoozing on his bedroll. She rolled her eyes and set her cloak down on top of his before going back outside to help Will with the cooking.
"Huh?" Carter blinked, before falling back asleep.
June shivered as a cold breeze swept through the campsite. Will had offered her his extra cloak, but she declined, saying the bulkiness of it would get in her way. So now, shivering behind a tree she waited for the watching Ranger's eyes swept past her position. She shot out from behind the tree and behind a bush before he could scan back around. She stiffened as the bush swayed slightly from her movements.
Then Ranger gave a mental shrug, figuring it was the breeze before continuing scanning for the apprentices. Carter woke up again, and noticing the time, headed out to see June. He also noticed he had her cloak. Reverting back to original, He swore loudly, then dashed out towards the wooded area they were practicing stealth at.
It freakin' cold! She shouted in her head as one of the other apprentices moved ahead of her.
She paused a moment, letting the Ranger pass her before moving up dangerously close. Out of the corner of her eye she spotted and arrow flying at the tree the Ranger was at. The Ranger stiffened, then relaxed as it buried itself into the trunk of the tree carrying a cloak.
June was gone in a flash as she took the cloak, shivering violently as she put it on. Across the field Carter shook his head at her before putting Will's longbow away. The Ranger blinked, looking down on the girl huddled in a cloak under the tree. He hadn't seen her once before, he caught flashes of the others but not once had he seen her! And yet here she was at the goal shivering in a cloak.
After a few more minutes Carter walked across the ground as the Ranger got out of his tree. He shook his head at June saying, "you do realize that my cloak was only two feet to your right." Smirking.
"And you do realize you were laying on it." She returning his smirk.
"…Whatever, but if you do that again, you're going to regret it." Carter scowled, stalking back to his tent with sleeping in mind.
"Told ya he wasn't that bad." June said, looking at Len.
"Still, he's weird." Len replied, crossing his arms.
"Maybe, but he's a whole lot more fun than anybody else I know." June smiled, going back to her tent.
As she arrived Carter was snoozing on his bedroll again, without a blanket, again. His cloak was covered by his body and June growled. She kicked him over roughly, waking him before throwing the cloak on him.
"What was that for?" He whined, sitting up holding his chest.
"Being an idiot!" She barked as she walked out.
"What the hell?" Carter snapped, throwing up his arms.
"Did you just swear?" Will asked, poking his head in.
"…Noo…"
"Die!" Will said, throwing a hot cup of coffee at his head.
Carter yelped, catching the cup as it sloshed and spilt on his face. He stiffened the urge to swear again, and clenched his teeth instead. "Ow." He managed.
"Oh yeah, Crowley called you to the command tent. He says he has an assignment for you." Will said.
"…Da-Crap." He corrected himself.
If you see two lines, I'm having trouble with them. Anywho, sorry for the swearing! I promise I'll try hard to not swear from now on! So Carter's on rehab. Read, review, don't eat me. Thank you! Again, sorry guys (and girls) I'll do better. "Really?" Yes Carter or I'll put you in a toaster. I'm hungry any way. Btw does anybody every really read these? "No." Carter, go away. Hope this makes up for my mistakes!
