A normal life

Chapter 5: Charlie

Chapter 5, Charlie

After the meeting ended I decided that I would try and get my mind of the fact that my family had just ordered Maylin's death so I headed to the training hallf to train some more. While doing so, I was questioning the world on why it had to be Maylin. Why did she have to be the next leader of the Aven clan? How was she part of the clan anyway? And why hadn't they shown themselves before now? She was the first person that I had actually taken a liking to and now I was being ordered to hunt her down by my own family. Girls always seemed ready to throw themselves at me because of my looks but she never did. I remember when we were assigned to do an assessment together, it made me see her in a different light. When I suggested that she leave the assessment for me to do since I thought she would spend most of the time ogling me, Maylin actually glared at me and told me that if I didn't want to work with her then she would do her own half by herself. It was the first time a girl had actually glared at me and snapped at me, it made my heart flutter and it was the first time I felt myself falling in love. Now though I would have to throw those feelings away or at least bury them deep within me, all because of the clan war that had been going on for years. Then again maybe Maylin wasn't the clan heir and they were only trying to save her from that Blood Pixie like I did? Who was I kidding? There was no way that the Aven clan would save just anyone, sure if it was a normal clan member I could brush it off as them wanting to save someone but it was the elders that showed up after the blood pixie attacked Maylin so there was no way that she wasn't at least a small bit important to them and the only reason that she would be important was if she was the next clan leader.

"I don't see why you bother, brother dearest" said a voice breaking me out of my thoughts. Looking towards the voice I saw Joshua and Samual there, Joshua being the one to spoke.

"No matter how hard you train you will still be useless so why don't you just give up and beg father to disown you, after all that is what you deserve" taunted Joshua with a smirk.

"Let's go, we shouldn't be wasting time here" said Samual with a sigh. While Joshua always took shots at me and would taunt me any time he could, Samual never did in fact he was normally silent. Most of the time it was him dragging Joshua away from me so I wasn't surprised when he shot me a look that seemed to tell me to just hang in there and ignore Joshua. Sighing I turned back to the training room and set up another dummy to attack. Most of the clan trained in the forest so I was mainly the only one to train here which was fine by me since I didn't want to be around the rest of the clan. The reason that I preferred to train in the training room was because my father had prohibited changing into our Naga forms unless we were on a mission, an emergency or in the forest. It was too risky for us to be in full form around the house in case normal humans were around the house or walking past though that only happened rarely. Truthfully I really didn't like taking on my Naga form much so I only changed when I needed it. I was one of the only clan members that didn't believe that Naga's were born to use their skills in killing. If any one managed to get into the full snake form, which barely anyone could, they were a large species of snake and our speed was nearly on par with a vampire's, not to mention the venom that we could inject into our enemy. We healed quickly because our venom that would be poison to others was like medication to us and because our eye teeth released it we were constantly swallowing the poison. Our nails also grew so that we could rip people apart with our bare hands if we wished for it. The last and probably most important thing about our full half form was our legs being replaced by the tail of a snake making us able to move quickly. It was because of this that I trained in human form after all I wanted to knock my opponents out not kill them unlike my family. Hopefully if we ever did have to face Maylin in battle I would be the one to take her on, if not like many before her, she would be ripped to shreds by those I call family. Perhaps if I could get a hold of her by herself I could explain the true horror of what she had been sucked into and we could run away together not looking back at the lives we left behind. Shaking my head I started to stretch, as much as I wanted to believe in that dream it was exactly that, just a dream. We would never be able to run away and if we did we would be tracked down and both of us killed either for being a traitor or being of the other clan so for now I would just have to pray that she was okay and hope that perhaps she would be protected by the Aven clan so that she would never be hurt. I realised that while I was thinking all of these thoughts I had finished my training and I had also come to the conclusion that I would have to throw Maylin out of both my head and heart. It was going to be hard but it needed to happen after all if she were to die or if I had to kill her it would destroy me if I left my heart on my sleeve so to survive I had to hide my heart away. Looking at the clock I realised it was eleven at night so I decided to go for a shower and head to bed after all something in me told me that tomorrow was going to be even more hectic than today was.