Arrowhead

Chapter 1

After trying to talk to my father and not getting through, i went up to my bedroom and closed the door opened my closet and found that most of my stuff had already been packed but it was a mess so i organised it for a while.

-(Time skip 5 days)-

I heard the sound of a carriage pull up outside my balcony so I call my handmaid to take my bags down and I say my goodbyes to the staff at the palace. I get in the carriage and the horses start to move along....

After a few solid hours of traveling we were starting to get tired and weary. we still had a very long way to go and it was hot outside. the carriage ride was getting bumpier by the minute as we moved from the smooth path through to the rough gravel. I opened my purse and pulled out a small round compact with the letter A engraved in the middle. i opened the clasp took the powdered puff out from the bottom and fixed up my makeup. The I pulled out my fan and started fanning myself.

Just as we were coming up to a crossroads, I heard a strange noise I looked out of the window and saw something moving through the trees. Suddenly the carriage gets faster and scarier as we zoom across the gravel swerving in and out of the path. I hurriedly look out of the window and see a flash of what looks like fire, and what i could make out to be green clothing, but it was too fast to see anything properly. I thought to myself i must be seeing things due to the heat.

I moved back inside the carriage and think about what i had just witnessed when all of a sudden a Black tipped arrow flew into the carraige window across to the other side of the carraige, pinning my velvet cloak to the oak wood window frame, and scaring my brother. Father was in a separate carriage.

i looked back out of the window and nothing was there. " its ok your royal highness it was a deer and the barbarians have gone now" I hear the coachman shout from in front.
"Very good, carry on" Shouted back my brother, who was sat in front of me.

We arrived at the summer palace and i stepped out of the carriage and looked at the beautiful but slightly overgrown palace walls, covered in ivy and other beautiful plants like a canvas of green. in between the plants you could see the bright stain glass windows full of color and sunlight shining through, the stonework worn but strong. round the back was the most stunning garden with a maze of hedges, a pond and an amazing field that you could just run through of coarse it hadnt been touached in years since mother dies so the grass was overgrown and unkempt. At the front of the summer palace there was huge oak doors with big siver knockers on them. Leading up to the door was a set of steps overgrown with moss and weeds. 

As arthur (our most trusted butler) opened the big doors, i walked up the steps, took a deep breath and walked inside. The inside was just as beautiful as the outside. The furniture was dusty and covered up but the sunlight through the stained glass windows lit up the whole place giving it the most wonderful ambience. i looked around in awe 

Evelyn's POV 

(time rewind back when alaras carriage was traveling).

Thump, thump, thump goes my feet as Pound across the forest floor racing through the forest getting further and further from my treehouse base by the second my eyes never leaving the target. my cloak swishing about as i leap from tree to tree. Twigs breaking under my boots, My hood staying firmly on, as i do a double flip onto the ground attracting attention from a nearby moving golden thing. i immediately become startled so i stop chasing the deer and i hide in the trees staying out of sight, but the deer runs in front of the moving golden thing and stops dead as the golden thing passes it. i go to shoot my arrow at it but it completely misses the deer and hits the inside of the big gold box instead. "Damn" i think to myself.
I wait for the clear, after i hear shouting from the round golden moving box like thing. and the sound of the horses, then i jump down and walk back to my base.

i get back to my treehouse, sit down and grab the dagger out of my boots and start whittling more arrowheads to make more arrows. After i restock my arrow supply and i have eaten i go outside set up the targets and begin my training for the day.  

First i fire a few arrows the first one a bullseye, the second one splitting the other into two halves. After my archery training, I then spend an hour sword fight training. Then i practice hand to hand combat for another hour, then slingshot practice, then spearfight practice for 30 mins and after that, i sit and whittle more arrows to replenish the ones i wasted on training.

I then go spearfishing, eat the fish i catch and go to bed.