A Swords Tale: The Beginning ( Postponed)

Chapter Six: Following

" Madiline!Wake up! It's time to go!" She heard Sapphire say as she jerked awake and hits her head and jumps down from the tree she was sleeping in.

" Ow," She mutters quietly as she rubs her head and takes off her jacket and puts it in her backpack as she puts her backpack on. " Where are we going?" She asks as she looks at Sapphire expectantly.

She shrugs ," Somewhere we can train without being disturbed I guess. " She says as she looks at her." Do you still have some water left? We , well, I usually drink in the morning,middle sun, and sun fall." She questions as she starts putting the leftover coals in her bag .

Madiline was confused," Middle sun? Sun fall? What language do you speak?" She said as she saw Sapphire start throwing rocks and sticks away. " What are you doing?"

Sapphire sighed and looked at her," Middle sun is when the sun is in the middle of the sky and sun fall is when the sun goes down. I'm also throwing the rocks and sticks away because it looks like something our kind made and the police would know we were here."

Madiline giggles slightly," You mean 12:00 o'clock and sunset ? We have to work on your grammar." Sapphire looks at her offended.

" You think i'm dumb but i'm not. We are , um, teaching each other needs to make sure we actually fit in into each others lives. I know how to survive and not get captured, your better at whatever you call it ." Sapphire growls and looks at her . Madiline smiles slightly.

" Grammar?" She hints to Sapphire smirking. " And we are mentoring each other."

Sapphire looks back at her with a bored face," Yeah whatever. Anyway, you teach me grammar at night , I teach you how to survive during the day. Deal?" Madiline puts her hand out for Sapphire to shake but Sapphire just nodded. " First, i'll train you to.." Madiline puts her finger up blinking slowly still smirking.

" Gram-are. Grammar, you act like some foreign kid that speaks Russian. Knows nothing of English." She says laying both her hands flat palm up before putting them at her side again at Sapphire as she growls.

" Look, " She sighs as she puts her hand on her eyes dragging it down," I left my house before I even went to kindergarten, and i'm an official american ok?"

Madiline crosses her arms smiling ," Ok. So the lesson?"

Sapphire smiles ," Yeah, first lesson, running ." Madiline sighs. Why is running up first? Yeah, Sapphire looked thin ,but why did I have to be?

"Your chubby, anyway, so can you run for long distances ?" Sapphire smirked evilly as she looked Madiline straight in the eyes.

" I can try." Madiline shrugged.

Sapphire smiled, " I'll go easy on you, chase me as fast as you can." She blurred out of Madiline's slight as dust rose into the air and Madiline started following. She saw Sapphire a couple feet in front of her Sapphire nodded," Ok , spot me then." Sapphire jumped up the raced out of her vision again. She stopped and heard and snap behind her then saw Sapphire start chasing her and Madiline raced away seeing Sapphire beside her and she held an arm out in front of her and Madiline stopped.

" Good job, but that was easy . Hint, never stop unless you have your weapon out, or you might just get a surprise. Anyway, allow me to use my sword? I won't hurt you, and don't worry it's still going to be easy it's just that it might make you work faster."

" Uh, sure I guess, but if you hurt me, I get to hurt you, Ok?" She panted . She looks at Sapphire, as she started running and Madiline started to chase Sapphire. She started panting heavily , but Sapphire was breathing slower than her. " You're lucky , you got tons of practice." She saw Sapphire turn around keeping pace as she ran backwards still ahead of Madiline.