A Life Living

Ch. 3: First Meeting

~ Eight Years Later~

Jade's P.O.V.

I was watching my twin claiming up the tree to make sure she wouldn't fall down and get hurt. She was trying to get our kite that the wind blew into the tree, and for eight-year-olds we are very energetic, as well act like boys sometimes.

"Ha, I got it catch Jade." Mulan said dropping the kite down towards me.

"Okay, I got it, so please hurry up down." I said after catching the kite. "Now please come down before someone sees you up there, and we get into trouble."

"Alright, alright, I'm coming down, so calm down."

I watched her climb down and looked around to make sure no was around to see her climbing down from the tree. Once she got to the ground, we took off to where a clearing is at and nobody around to boss us around. We always went there since we were five-years-old, and sometimes we would stay there until sunset, but we always get yelled at when we get home. We play tons of games in that clearing, one of them is sword fighting that a father taught us in secret, and some other games. My sister and I mostly had to dress up like a boy to sneak away, and not to be noticed.

When we got to the clearing we saw some carriages and we hid from view, and watched to see who it could be in the carriage. We decided to climb a tree to find out, and had to go a little far away so the guards near the carriage won't see us. We found a tall round tree a little way from the clearing and climbed it to see on at the clearing where the carriage is at. When we gotten to the top we looked over towards the clearing to where the carriage sat at, and once we saw the carriage we just watched it.

It was an hour later and we a saw a boy our age came out of the carriage, the boy had black medium length hair, olive skin, and his eyes looked like a bluish gray. I saw Mulan looked over at the tree lines and I looked over there as well and saw someone wearing black clothing with a bow, and noticed that an arrow is about to be released from that bow and it is aiming towards the boy. I hurried up and took out my sling shot that I made by hand, and took a stone out of my pouch at my waist and aimed towards the archer's head.

When archer let go, I let go as well, when the arrow was half released. The stone hit the archer, and the arrow hit the carriage instead of the boy. I then saw the boy yelling for the guards and the guards went towards the archer. The archer was arrested and the taken to the boy, and they looked like they were exchanging words. The boy then told the guards and they started towards the where we were, I hurried up and told Mulan that we need to get out of here, for we never know what they might do if they catch us.

Mulan's P.O.V.

I saw Jade aimed her slingshot towards the archer aiming at the boy and stopped him from killing him. Once we saw that the guards heading towards where we were at, Jade told me that we have leave right away, for we don't know what might happen once we're caught. When we got down from the tree we ran home, but not after hearing another shot calling the other guards. It sounded like there's fighting in the clearing, and I can tell that Jade wants to help. I looked at her and shook my head.

"If you go, you might not come elder sister." I said to her.

"I know, but for some reason I feel a strong connection towards that boy, and I have a strong urge to help him." She replied. "I'll tell you what, if I don't return before sunset tell mom and dad, okay?"

"Okay, just be careful Jade." I said heading towards home, thinking that I should help my sister, but I know that she wants me to go home to make sure mom and dad doesn't get too worried about us.