Guardians

Chapter 23

'Mindlink'

'Thoughts'

"Speaking"

'Speaking to dragons'

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Aura's POV

The door opened, and a maid came in to tell us that the food is ready.

"Follow us, we'll show you where it is." Kano said. He walked out of the room followed by everyone else with Ace in the back. We walked into a food court, where Autumn, Chase, and their siblings were sitting along with the people they were staying with, at one big table. The King and Queen were at the head of one side of the table.

"Why is it that the Oceans are usually late?" One of the twin girls said jokingly. "I think we should get you here at an earlier time, so you're here on time." The same girl said jokingly.

"Well, Amaya, I didn't know there was a time limit on when we needed to get here." Kano jokingly said back.

We all sat down in the empty spots with Scar beside me. There were already food out, I'm assuming everyone was waiting before they dug in. I got some of the fruit salad and a little bit of fish salad.

Once everyone was starting to finish up, the King got our attention.

"Once everyone finishes eating, we will start training for Ace, Scar, Autumn, Ren, Chase, and Talia tomorrow. I would like for everyone to get a nice long rest before tomorrow." He said before continuing to eat his food.

Everyone finished up their food, the maids came and got the food out of the way. "Aura and Scar, follow us back. This place can be like a labyrinth if we aren't careful." Kano said as he was getting up. I started getting up along with Scar and the rest of the Oceans.

We made it back to the room, before everyone dispersed Ace told us a maid or butler would come and get us for breakfast. I went to my room first going to my bag making sure everything was still in there. I grabbed clothes to sleep in, changing into them before heading into bed. I nearly passed out the second my head hit the pillow.

~Hours Passed~

I heard a knock on the door in the distance, waking me up. I looked up just in time for there to be a knock on my door. "Come in!" I said.

A maid came to the door, "Hello miss, the King and Queen have sent me to wake you up. Do you need any assistance on getting dressed?" She asked.

"No thank you, I'm good by myself." I told her. I got changed into similar clothes from yesterday. I headed to the door, once I walked out I saw almost everyone was out of there except for Kano and Scar.

"Aura, the maid tried to wake up Scar, but the door was locked. Do you think you'll be able to get in?" Kai asked.

'Oh no.' I thought to myself. "Yes, I will." I walked over to his door. I looked at the door, before making a water lockpick, merging into the door to have it unlock. It took some time before the door unlocked. Once I got in, I instantly closed the door behind me.

"Hey Scar," I said softly. "Are you ready to wake up? We are about to get breakfast." I continued softly speaking to him until he woke up.

"Hmmm, Aura?" Scar mumbled, waking up. "It's time to get up. We are about to get breakfast." I told him.

"Okay," he said slowly getting up. "I'll let you get dressed, I will wait for you outside." I told him. I left out the room to see Kano still not out.

"He's awake. Is Kano not ready yet?" I asked them. "He's awake, he came out whenever you were in there, but he forgot something so we are still waiting for him." Kai said.

"Father asked how you and Scar were doing earlier, but he didn't stay long. They are still trying to rebuild the palace and the city. But if you would like we can see if he'll call back later." Ace said.

"If he isn't busy maybe," I told them.

Kano walked out of his room at the same time Scar walked out.

"Is everyone ready?" Ace asked.

I nodded my head while everyone else gave their approval. We walked through the hallways, in front of us was Ren and Autumn. Kai called out to one of the males of the group. The group turned around and waited for us. Ren and Autumn went near Scar and I.

All of us entered the room to find a long table filled with food. Near one of the ends, the King and Queen were sitting next to each other, on either side of them both were Chase and Talia and the group they were with. 

"Welcome, come take any seat over here. Come get some breakfast before we start the training." The King said as he raised his hands, as in saying to come over. 

Once we were over there, we started to eat our fill. The King started talking when everyone was almost finished eating. "So I know that you might have your own weapons, it would be good to have some practice on them, but I would like to for now to have a spar with wooden weapons. So we don't have to worry about anyone getting hurt at the moment. It would not be good for that to happen at the moment." 

"Once everyone finishes, we will be going to the training room." The Queen says. Everyone finished around the same time. "Alright!" The Queen clapped her hands while standing up. "If everyone will follow me, anything that doesn't get eaten will be given to the servants to distribute to other people or between themselves, so you won't need to worry much."

She seemed to have known what a couple of us would've asked. As we walked over, she asked us what specific weapons we like to use. She asked Scar and I first.

"Scar, Aura, if you don't mind me asking. What kind of weapons do you two like to use?" Scar answered first. "I like to use whips and daggers. We both like using daggers."

"Hmm interesting, I'll have to see what kind of whips we have that won't hurt anyone too much. Aura, I know Scar said you also like to use daggers, do you have any other preference?" The Queen asked. 

"I have double daggers, but I do like to use crossbows." I told her. She hummed again. "Interesting, we do have rubber points to some arrows, if you have any crossbows on you, do you know if it will work for you? Or should we get another one?"

"I do not know yet, I haven't been able to check it out yet." I told her. 

"Alright, that's fine! We will be doing some training with it soon. So, Chase, Talia, what about you guys?"

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Finished: September 23rd, 2024

Edited:

Published: October 17th, 2024

Words: 1,158

I have been working on a lot of things, but I have been going over this to try and finish up more. 

Have a great day/night!