Dragon Warrior

Combat School

About three months have passed since the day I was brought here and don't see myself leaving soon. So I learned more with Greil about blacksmithing. He taught me how to actually create different weapons, nails, and a few other little things. I moved from the back of the smithy to a house out in the forest that was extremely cheap because it was so far out of the village.

I came into the smithy and put on my apron "Mornin Greil." I told him walking over to the sharpening pile. I grabbed a sword and walked over to the grinding wheel. Greil set down his hammer "I need to talk to ya Dave." He said. I put down the sword "Sure, what's up?"

"I've been meaning to ask you how well ye fight." He asked me. I raised an eye "I uh, don't really know... why?" He hummed to himself "Well, I guess you should sign up for the training then." He said pointing outside. I looked out in the distance to see people around my age lining up in front of a building "What's that?"

"That, is our training program for young vikings." He told me "So... why would I go?" I asked him "Have you never been raided before?" I shook my head no. He looked at me with a surprised look "Well when we get raided I would highly advise knowing how to use a weapon unless you like being dead." Yep, death is not on the agenda.

I sighed "So how long will this take and how much does it cost?" I asked him understanding that I will probably need this "About a month or two, and it's free." Well that's a plus I guess "What about my job here?" I asked him still needing money "Come in on the weekends and I'll keep you well paid." That seemed like an amazing deal "Go and sign up now."

I put my apron back and went over to the building that everyone was going to. I walked inside the building to find about 15 teens standing in front of three men. I joined them hoping I didn't need to do something else first. One of the men started to talk.

"This is the Spearhead viking training. You will have the option of training with me, Grong, or... Drack. Go to the left wall for me, right for Grong, and the back for Drack." I watched as most of the teens went to the left wall and a few went to the right... but none to the back. I looked around and shrugged before going to the back wall. If no one else does it than maybe I can get a little extra help considering I've never used an axe to defend myself.

I leaned up on the wall and looked around. I was getting quite a few funny looks from the others "Alright whoever you're with will be your trainer and you will listen to them." The the other trainers led there trainees out out of the building. I turned to see Drack, he looked a bit older than the rest of the trainers.

"So uh... just me I guess?" I asked him. He nodded and motioned me to follow him. He brought me out of the building and I followed him into the forest. After a couple minutes of walking we came across a clearing. I looked around and seen a couple of dummies and a weapons rack.

"What do you know?" He asked me. I turned to look at him "Well I uh... I can use a knife?" I half told half asked him. He rolled his eyes "No matter, I'll teach you the key to winning a fight either way." He gestured to the weapons rack "Pick one."

I went over and looked at the weapons. There was axes, maces, and lots of others. I pulled out a short sword and slashed it around a bit. I liked it, it was fast and light "I think I'll use this." I told him showing him the short sword "You don't want an axe or a mace?" I shook my head no "Not really, to heavy and slow for me." He nodded.

"Hit the target." I looked over at the dummy and back to him. He nodded and gestured to it. I shrugged and walked up to it jabbing the torso. I looked back at him feeling stupid "Keep at it and aim for the head this time." He told me. I nodded and swung at the neck of the dummy to have it get stuck. I yanked on it for a few seconds before pulling it out.