Chapter II Archer Training

July 5 XXXX

The next day Archie wakes up to find Silver just staring at him. With a smile on her face she asked.

"When do we start?"

"Do you have any gear?" Archer asked

"Of course I do." She brings out a leather quiver with holes in it and arrows popping out of the bottom. A bow being hold together by string and tape.

"I told you they don't train Gnomes for hunters. So there is no gear out there for me. I've been trying to make my own gear."

"Is there leather worker nearby?" Archie asked

"Yeah just a couple of buildings in town."

They went down to leather worker and talked to her to make one. They took measurements of Silver and commission a quiver for Silver.

"Do you have a work shop?" Archie asked

"Yeah over at my place." They both go over to her home, at the entrance she walks up to the front door. Silver places her hand on a scanner and the house drops into the earth.

"Wow your house just disappears?"

"I made this house my self." After the house disappeared it just looked like a vacant lot. With a mountain behind it.

"Ok follow me." She started walking toward the mountain. She walks right into the mountain.

"What the hell."

"Come in, Illusion magic is covering the entrance. Mishka helped me with it."

"Amazing, there is so much space in here." Inside looks like a factory.

"I call it the Gnome Cave...you think its too much?" Archie just makes a smirk.

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Archie starts looking around and grabbing pieces all round to make some wooden dowels. Archie starts making the dowels. Starts making measurements of Silver to make the right length of arrows. Silver starts looking at all the steps that Archie was doing and started moving equipment closer to each other.

"What are you doing Silver?"

"Same thing your doing Gnome Style." She smirks

She combines machines to start making dowels automatically to her size. Archie starts walking over to the next step of making a bow. He starts grabbing pieces and started making a bow. Silver starts jumping out of joy seeing the bow being put together.

"Here takes this, can you pull the string" Archie hands over the make shift bow. Silver starts to pull the bow. But not far enough back.

"Ok that won't work." Recurve won't work so he goes back to the bench and starts working on a new one. Silver starts looking at the new bow with awe cause she'd never seen a bow with this type of design before. Archie finishes about evening time.

"Here try to pull this. This type of bow is called a compound bow. We have them in my world." Archie says as he hands over to Silver. Her eyes get wide.

"Wow (gulp) I'm grabbing a weapon from another world. One step for Gnomes, one giant leap for Gnome kind."

She pulls it all the way back to her cheek. Slowly starts letting it off and starts to cry. Tears start coming out.

"Your that happy Silver?" Archie asked

Silver stares at her bow with tears in her eyes. She places her bow on the bench where Archie is sitting at. She jumps up onto Archie lap and looks into his eyes. With out saying a word she pulls him down and kisses him. She hugs Archie (while he blushes red) and whispers in his ear.

"Thank you so much. This means so much to me to have my own bow...sniff...sniff."

"The kiss was a nice reward. But tomorrow we start training." Silver goes to a workbench and covers herself with some blue prints. Archie falls asleep on the floor grabs a nearby leather for a blanket. Silver half asleep gets underneath the blanket and cuddles with Archie for the night.

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Archie wakes up in the middle of the night and takes the first bow he made out. Made 3 arrows out of the dowels. He went out for second.

"Bacon sounds good, now I thought I saw a boar earlier when i came in."

Silver wakes up and just watches in secret. When Archie gets up, Silver sneaks over to see what he's doing. She see's Archie stalking a boar. Archie takes up the bow and shoots instinctively. The boar goes down in one shot. Without looking he took one other shot and it landed near Silvers feet.

"Silver come out here, I know its you." Archie cuts open the boar and takes the blood. He starts to make a target on a nearby tree.

"You start now. This is your target, count 30 steps away. Then mark the floor, that will be your shooting point. You take three shots. You pull the string back to about your cheek. That will be your anchor point. You do this every single time, otherwise all your shots will be different. Your first arrow will tell you, if you need to aim higher or lower. Use the tip of the arrow as your guide. Are you getting all this. (she nods) Go get your bow."

She is so happy she skips up and down to get her bow. She comes running back out. Archie hands over the three arrows and sets her up showing her what position to take.

"I'm going to butcher this for breakfast." Archie tells her

"Can i ask you something?" Silver looks at Archie

"What is it?"

"How come are you not angry with me for bringing you here? Why are you not freaking out about meeting a cute little Gnome and the Draenei Guild Master?" She ask with a puzzled look on her face.

"Well Silver….where i come from i see heroes on a daily basis, my father being one of them. Monster from all sorts of crazy places. I have friends that look weirder than you Guild Master." Silver lowers her head

"I've been ostracized for wanting to be a hunter, they call me Silver Loosegear. That i have a loose gear in my head."

"Its a pleasure to meet you Silver Loosegear. Take pride in your name since your going to be the first Gnome hunter. My full name is Archer Queen, family of famous archers."

"(giggle) Archie is a Queen."

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Morning came around and Archie started making bacon. The smell started wafting thru the air. Silver was about to shoot, but she couldn't focus do to the smell.

Sniff...sniff

"What is that delicious smell?" Silver says as she starts making her way to the Gnome Cave.

"How is your practice going?"

"Good, I'm hitting the target you made. I got use to it real fast."

"Thats good, now lets do moving targets. After you eat we start so take your time your arm needs to rest."

Silver just munches away at her plate of food.

"Silver i'm going to need a bow. Is there a shop who specializes on bows?"

"There are shops that carry some but nothing to fancy. Why do you need one?"

"I'm going to show you what your teacher can do."

"There is a Guild full of Hunters...bunch of buttheads. Wouldn't help me in training."

"Sounds good. Sound like i need to make a visit to this guild."

"To even to talk to the Guild Master your going to have to do the Hunter challenge."

"Do you know Silver what the challenge is?"

"Yeah there is very dark corridor with 9 possible targets. They give 3 arrows to hit the target. Nearly impossible to hit if you can't see the target. You think you can do it? It's a hard challenge to pull off."

"Sounds like fun Silver. You think i can't do it?"

"I can't wait to see this, I got to tell the rest of the Guild what's going on."

"Why tell the Guild Silver?"

"Your challenging another Guild, the Gotham Knights vs the Hunters Guild. These challenges are rare. Your going to represent us as a Guild member." Archie gulps real hard.

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