Riders In The Wind

Chapter 14: The training begins

*Mystical Time Skip*

I woke up long before the sun arose from the land. As always, I was alert and ready for a fight at any moment. I sensed no trouble in the area; I headed out. I grabbed my sword from the corner of the room then preceded to  quietly walk through Seragami keeping a sharp eye on all of my surroundings. There weren't many people out, but anyone who was, was nearly scared to death by my presence. It didn't bother me at all though. I was perfectly fine with everyone seeing me as a heartless killer from hell. I walked into the training grounds thinking that it was empty, but soon finding that this wasn't true. Rouge was there as well, I sighed in disappointment because I was really hoping to be alone and practice my skills. Then I sensed another presence, Sentraya, next thing I saw she was coming at Rouge in hand to hand combat, she had a horrible stance, so element of surprise, nothing that was working in her favor. Rouge easily side stepped her attack, and looked at me. 

"Hey Aurora, I was told to train Sentraya here so I thought we should start early." He said like he was my friend, I didn't have friends they were a distraction and a liability. Keeping my eyes fixed on Sentraya I said, "Landing a hit on him is going to be nearly impossible, you need to pay attention to what he says."  I said plainly."Why would I listen to this imbecile? I don't give a crap about he says." Sentraya snapped not even looking my way. "You've got quiet an attitude for someone who's loosing." Rouge said smirking. It was obvious to me that he was trying to annoy her but, Sentraya had easily fallen for it and lunged right at him. With no problem at all he dodged stepping to one side; twisted her arm behind her back and kicked her to the ground. I watched almost in amusement as Sentraya leaped up from the ground and tried leaping at him again. Rouge had even less trouble taking her down this time; grabbing her wrist then swinging her into the wall while putting her arms in a lock. She yelped in pain as her body was slammed into the wall. At first, I stayed back waiting to see how Sentraya would get out of this, but she couldn't. Rouge kept pressing her harder and harder to the wall. She let out a cry of pain as her arms almost reached their flexibility limit.

That's when my instincts kicked in the next thing I knew; Sentraya had collapsed to the floor and I had Rouge pinned to the floor, pressing on his throat with my forearm. "What do you think you were doing?!" I shouted in his face. "Teaching her." Rouge said with a burning rage in his voice. "No, you were trying to break her dumbass!" I bared my teeth at him like a wolf threatening an enemy. He scowled back. "We're suppose to be careful with her wounds!"

"Why do you care?!" He snapped back. Even though I wasn't completely sure; I didn't hesitate to answer. "She's our mission! We train her!" I hissed. "I think you've just gone soft!" He shouted trying to get up. I slammed him back on the ground before he could get all the way up. "Wanna bet?" I spat at him. Before he could fight back; there was a clatter of weapons that Sentraya knocked over trying to stand back up. I jumped up to catch her before she fell back down again. I was about to say that she was acting weak and helpless, but I noticed how beat she really was. Her arms were covered in bruises and blood was leaking from the side of her head where it was slammed into the wall. Not to mention that the wound on her side had opened up and the blood was now seeping through her cloths. Great, there goes training for today. I thought bitterly. I rapped one of Sentraya's arms around my neck to help her walk. Rouge was leaning against the wall on the other side of the room glaring at me. "You are dismissed of your training duties today." I said walking Sentraya out of the room. "You don't have that kind of authority over me." He snarled. "I do when you turn into a psychotic abusive trainer!" I hissed back. 

I took Sentraya back to my room, it was quiet and no body would bother her, and if Rouge showed up he was in for a world of hurt. I stopped most of Sentraya's bleeding and re-wraped her wounds. I tried to be careful as possible while wraping the wounds again but, I wraped a couple of places a little to tight which caused Sentraya some pain. "Sorry about Rouge, he sometimes gets a little to carried away, and must have forgot about you still being injured." I said appolegetically, "It's fine thank you for fixing me up, where are we anyways?" She asked. "My room. It's always clean and nobody will disturb you, I'm almost never here though." I said calm and plain while fixing the bandage on her head. "I'll go grab some food and water just wait here and don't push yourslef okay." I said as I left the room, I could tell she heard what people had said about me, she already knew I was an assassin, but the one thing nobody could explain were my 'tattoos'. There were neumrous rumors that went around Saregami but none of them were true. 

As I came back into my room something was off... Sentraya appeared to be fine, nothing was out of place, but hostility was  surrounding me. Rouge.... That's the name that came to my mind, right as a blade was pressed to my neck. "Nice to see you again Rouge." I said calmly, I looked over at Sentraya who was terrified, then looked at the blade pressed to my neck. "Shut up." Rouge hissed at me; he was pressing the blade against my neck even harder making me bleed, I knew he wasn't going to be able to kill me that easily. No, no, no, I'm not going down without a fight, and Rouge wasn't touching Sentraya as far as I'm concerned. Time to remind someone where their place is around here. I jabbed him in the gut as hard as I could, this blow made him loosen the grip on the blade just enough so that I could pull it away from my neck. I twisted his arm behind his back and he dropped he blade. I wasn't finished yet though he needed to pay for attempting a second time to attack me. Naturally I rammed his head into the wall not enough to knock him unconscious but hard enough to make sure he'll have a head ache in the morning. "That's payback for what you did to Sentraya earlier." I said to Rouge with some anger in my voice. When I finally let go of him he slid to the floor, then tried to stand back up, but I knocked his feet out from under him. 

"Sorry you had to witness that Sentraya, but he was really getting on my nerves and someone had to put him in his place again."I wiped the blood away that was streaming down my neck from where the blade had cut me. Looking at Sentraya her eyes were filled with fear, and curiosity at the same time. I couldn't understand why though, I understood the fear but the curiosity was what confused me. "Your eyes..." She finally said after a moment then continued, "they changed, when he attacked you. At first they were normal, then they turned blue, deep blue in fact, but they shone with light blue as well. It's hard to describe how they looked exactly, but right before you attacked they turned that way for a split second." I stood there acting confused but I knew exactly what she was talking about. Damn it... I thought I had that under control by now, but he did attack me whenI wasn't expecting it. Great even more rumors, and shit I have to deal with. I didn't say anything, I went back to being expressionless, found a near by guard and told them to get Kystetra to pick up her brother. 

Kystetra showed up about 20 minutes later, asked what happened, and I told her . I didn't get chewed out to bad, but I'm definitely not on Kystetra's good side now. "Sentraya, Blade will train you in hand to hand combat from now on. It was an obvious mistake to send Rouge to train you, I apologize for his actions." Then Kystetra left the room, with Rouge who was arguing with her the entire way to where Nara was. "Glad that's settled now." I said with a sigh of relief. "Blade should do a good job and at least teach you the basics. Watch your back though Rouge is not one to give up easily when he believes something is unfair." "Okay. Wait do you think he'll go after Mau as well?!" She asked with alarm in her voice. "No, not really but I'll keep an eye on both of you in case he tries anything. Alright?" Sentraya nodded her head in agreement. "People say your cold and don't care about anyone but yourself, so why are you helping me?" Because I'm going to have a lot of fun training you... "Because if I don't your most likely to get killed, and I'm not letting to innocent people get hurt. Not on my watch." 

I took Sentraya to see her sister, who was at the library with Alex. Once Mau saw Sentraya her face lit up, and I could definitely see why, Alex was reading everything he could find about dragons since his encounter. "Sentraya what happened to you?" Mau asked looking at the new bandages that now covered her sister. "Um, training was just a little to intense, but Aurora here-" Sentraya turned to look over at me, but I had already disappeared. Rouge was approaching and I couldn't tell if I had sensed hostility or what so I made my self scarce, but I stuck close to Sentraya and Mau. 

Sorry for the SUPER short chapter ill try to make the next one much longer to make up for it! And yes i'm trying my hardest to get the next chapter started even tho my momentum and draining out of me to write this story.