The Tale of Two Sisters

Chapter nine

I run out of the room to see saga standing there. She looks like she is going to puke everywhere. I look at the wall and see blood splattered on the walls. I was gonna be sick. As I look more closely it read:
Nobody else shall die only if you bring the girl.

I looked away from the writing and looked around for a body, I didn't see one. I looked over at saga and I saw what she was looking at. It was a trail of blood. I was gonna start following it but then the guards came and told everyone to go back to their rooms.

I start to walk back to my room feeling like I'm going to puke. I look around and I see everyone else looking the same way.

I get to my room and I want to know who was killed.  So I walk back out of my room and the guards are still there. I go the other way and meet the trail of blood where the guards aren't.

I walk for a sometime until I stop and in front of me I see a giant metal door. I try to open it but it is locked. I'm trying to get it open when I hear some clanking of armor so I quickly get away from the door. And start to walk back to my room. As I'm going back to my room I try and remember everything I see so I can come back.

I get to my room and climb into my bed when I hear a knock at the door. I walk over and open it up. I see a guard standing there.

"Her majesty has decided that the search party shall be put off until the following day due to the recent tragedy that has occurred here tonight"

I nod my head " thank you and it shall be the same time tomorrow?"

"Yes"

I nod my head and the guard bows down and walks away.

I climb back to my bed and try to fall asleep, but I can't. I have to many questions. What is behind the door? Who was the girl? These questions just keep going through my head. I decide to take a bath to calm my nerves.

Melisa my serval who helps keep my room clean, does my laundry, gets my baths ready, and does everything for me is probably asleep so I don't want to disturb her. I go into the bath room to find buckets filled with water. There is a note it says:

Just warm up the water and enjoy!

How did she know I wanted to take a bath tonight? Maybe it was this morning. We were leaving before the crack of dawn and I did tell her she didn't have to come and get my stuff I can do it myself. She is such a sweet heart.

I go over to the fire place that doesn't have a lot of life left in it. And I start to put some wood on it and make another fire, but it is small just because I don't wants to boil the water. I put the buckets of water in the metal pot and it starts to warm it up it takes some time but when it's done it's worth it.

I climb into the tub and just sit there. I keep think about everything that has happened my sister missing. Finding my mom. The murder that happened not to long ago. The mysterious door. There is so much I would like to find out.

I get out of the bath and I climb into bed with two thoughts find my sister and find out what's behind that door.

I wake up and see that Melisa isn't here. Maybe she thought that she didn't need to come in till later. That's okay I told her that she didn't need to come in. I put on a plain gray dress with some white flats and I put my hair in a bun. I walk down stairs and sit next to Saga who is barely touching her food I don't feel like eating mine either. So we just sit there in silence.

I walk back to my room to find a note on my wall:

Since you aren't looking for your sister today we will be practicing again. So where your training outfit please
                                           -Tess

I walk into my room and change on to a riding outfit and put on my boots.

I walk out to the stalls and I see Tess standing there not with a horse but a sword.

"Today you learn to fight. I will train you how to use a sword, bow, spear, and cross bow. I will also teach you how to do hand to hand combat."

"That sounds good so what will I be learning first?"

"Sword fighting. And there is a lot that goes into sword fighting. Your stance is just as important as swinging the sword. Now for the fighting stance you will want to put your legs shoulder width apart and and your right foot slightly forward."

I put my legs shoulder width apart and put my right leg slightly in front of the other. I feel pretty stable. Tess nods his head and takes his hand and pushes my I don't move very much just a little.

"That's good. That means you are doing this right now for your sword. We will start you off with a wooden one so you don't kill anybody."

Tess hands me the wooden sword and I hold it in my right hand.

"You are going to want to bring up the sword and hold it in front of your face and wig both hands these swords can sometimes get heavy. "

Just bring down your arms a little bit. That's good. Now try swing the sword to your left."

I swing the sword to my left and I thought I did pretty good.

"Swing harder next time. Do it again."

We do this for what feels like hours and then we finally swing to the right. After that he tells me I did good for my first day of sword practice. I feel like I should have done better.

"Learning how to use a sword takes years to master, trust me. My dad started teaching me when I could first walk. I help train all the soldiers on how to fight. You will get it trust me" he smiles and walks me back to the castle and heads back to the stables.

I walk in side and I see saga standing there waiting for me.

"Took you long enough I'm starving let's go. " I laugh and walk with her to the dinning room. We eat our dinner and head back to sagas room and we sit there and talk about what we did that day.

I go back to my room and climb into bed. I'm ready to go find my sister tomorrow and find out what is behind that door. With those thoughts I fall asleep.