The Tale of Blue [Hiatus]

Chapter five

Blue's POV

"Of course the thought has occurred to me, I just would not know what to call myself."

"Hmm... okay. So, are you also supposed to be training right now?" Red asked me

"I am, but my teacher has not arrived yet. I assume the same has happened to you," I answered. "My guess is that our teacher have a meeting to attend to, and has forgotten to inform us about it."

"No, I usually train alone. My teacher, his name is Finn, he decided that I did not need him to train me. So now I am training alone."

"Oh, I see," was all I could think of. Why was she allowed to train alone, and I was not? Was she better than me? Or did her teacher just not care about her. Maybe this Finn wasn't as talented as Erik, and she had easily defeated him, and now he did not want to become embarrassed again.
My thoughts were spinning in my head, giving me a headache. Red must have noticed, because she asked: "Are you okay? You look like you have eaten bad porridge."

What was porridge? Some kind of food? why had I never heard of it. It was clear to me, that Red and I was definitely not treated the same way.

"Would you like to train with me?" Red changed the subject.

I thought about it. Did I want to train with her? I think so. Something inside, was shouting at me, that I needed to defeat her, so I could prove that I was a better guard than her.

"Yes, I would very much like that," I answered, and smiled at her. She smiled back.

"Great. What do you want to do? What about shooting with bow and arrows. It has been a long time, since I did that for competition"

I nodded, and followed her to the back of the yard. All sorts of weapons were hanging on the tall walls, surrounding the  yard.
There were normal steel swords, with beautifully decorated handles.
There were knives of all sizes, with different colored blades.
The axes made me shiver. No one would want to be hit by those. They looked very big and heavy, and I could see that they were freshly sanded.
Near the end of the wall, there were hanging leather whips. They were rough and used a lot.

I wonder for what...

At the end of the wall, the bows were hanging. They were mostly carved out of light wood, and had patterns all over. Beside them, the arrows were. The arrows were decorated with colorful feathers, probably from birds all around the world.

She took down a bow from the wall, and gestured to me to take one, too.
I looked at all the bows, and ended up picking a thin, ebony bow, with silver markings all over.

"This is my favorite bow. If I am gonna challenge you, I will need to do my best," Red said, and showed me her bow.

I smirked at her comment. Apparently she could feel, that I wanted to compete with her.

She picked two quivers, and gave me one of them. Her arrows had red feathers, and mine dark blue.
I grimaced. Why must everything I own be blue?

"Come on," she said, and I followed her to the shooting area.

"You start," I said.

"Okay."

She aimed at the target, and for a second it was like the time stopped. The sound of the arrow hitting, was penetrating.
She had hit it almost in the middle. That was good, but I could do it better. I was sure.

I took an arrow from the quiver, and put in on the bow. I aimed for the middle.

My thoughts were wandering. I had to win this. I did not know why I felt such an urge to beat this girl, but nevertheless, I did.

I looked at the target, and focused my thoughts only on hitting the it.

I breathed in heavily,
And let go of the arrow...