Tears Of Blood

Chapter 2: A Peculiar Man

The next day, all the groups had to meet their instructor at a certain place to make it their gathering point . The instructor will inform us about the gathering point in the practice field. On my way to the practice field , I tried to ignore all the people starring at me. Even if I didn't see them, I was able to sense their eyeballs like bullets throw me. I wondered for a moment about the reason, but then I heard a girl whispering saying" she is with Marco's group",and the other girl nodded then said" not only that she is the only blind graduate in the history of our training school".I was unsure if I was angry when they bullied me about being with Marco's group or happy when they said I was the only blind orphan to graduate. Anyway, I left that behind and went to the practice field.

Our practice field is a huge circular field usually filled with students sword fighting, hand combating, casting magic spells, and practicing many more skills. I usually used to have duels with my classmates or lift an overwhelming amount of weight ,but today it was more organized than usual their where a huge group of instructors on the left side and a huge group of graduates on the other side. I joined the group of graduates and waited.Then the same lady with her wavy long hair and fancy suit came in. She stood between the instructors and graduate on a wooden stage . She was wearing some type of watch I never heard about and was adjusting it. Afterwords, she slightly raised her watch beside her lips and said " congratulations my dear tribets " then I realized that the watch had a magic spell that enabled the user to talk loud enough to a large group of people then she continued" you are now quest holders and official defenders of the village Crest" then all the graduates clapped loudly. Then she snapped her fingers beside the watch and all the loud clapping suddenly vanished and she said" you may become a full group alongside your instructor, but you may not choose your own instructor...... I may on the other hand. I will be folding cards with the names of the instructors and I will say a group number. Each group is numbered by the following order" then she kept saying many numbers and graduates names. Finally, she reached our group and said" Matt, Marco, and ..... Raven are number 37".

After she finished saying the groups' numbers, she said" and now I will announce a group number and an instructor's name........ and both may reunite outside and decide on their gathering point". I wanted to know our instructor's name so bad I couldn't wait.

   Unfortunately, I had to listen to every single group's number and instructor's name. Finally after a long time, she said " group number 37's instructor is.....Mr.Charon". I feared that I won't like this. I heard Charon's original team, when he was young, died in a war among the villages years ago;that has greatly affected his job as an adult quest holder . Now, he is our instructor! However, I tried to keep a clear mind and walked slowly toward the exit. I already sensed Charon's presence. He was a man in his forties with long wavy hair and a small beard.To be honest, I can't determine colors,but I heard that he was a white man that used to always smoke and carry with him a bottle of beer that he always drank from.I sensed Matt beside him and Marco was on the way while I was still moving behind him.