An Adventure Of Epic Proportions

Chapter Nine

~View Changes To Aiden's~
I woke up. It was dark out. Raining. The perfect day for a jog. I rolled out of bed, my eyes scanning my messy room. I walked towards my closet to get grab my sword , and slipped on a book. Rubbing my face I stood up, grabbed a sword and ran down stairs. It was early so no one stopped me as I ran down the stairs and threw open the large oak doors into the court yard. Jupiter and Liam were already there.

"finally, we've been waiting like an hour for you" Jupiter said as walked towards them.

"Wow, your so thoughtful" I said sarcastically.

"I am" Jupiter retorted.

"You know what's a good idea, running, the thing we came out here to do" Liam added.

"Okay, put we should go a slow, you know, for the amateurs" Jupiter said, glancing at me.

"Yeah, and try keeping up with me with out the hole in our side" I retorted as I motioned towards the wound where the arrow had it hit her.

"Guys" Liam said, "we really should start to run before people wake up"

I was right, Jupiter was pretty slow. And very tried.

"Why do run so early" she gasped out of breath.

"Aiden is quite the popular one around here, he's usually called away to pass some bill or something" Liam said.

"Shouldn't the King do that?"

"Oh no, my father is much to important for that" I said sarcastically. My father always needed to remind me that I'd never be as good a ruler as him. By the time I was ten, I was sure he hated more than peasants.

"Jupiter, are you alright?" Liam asked, noticing her sagging.

"Oh, I'm fine, it's just the asthma" she said. We didn't talk much after that. By the time we had returned to the court yard the sun had risen and people were milling about. Liam led us to a door off the right of the courtyard. He swung open the door to a dark and musty room and proudly grabbed one of the many swords off the racks.

"Welcome to the armory!" He said.

Standing hesitantly in the frame of the door Jupiter said, "It kind looks like a murder room"

Looking around Liam said, "Yeah we should definitely remodel" before throwing me a sword. Jupiter picked one off the shelves and we headed out.

"Were are we going" Juipter huffed as we walked up a hill.

"To the training ground" I said. The training ground was a flat pasture were the Kingdoms soliders trained. However, as we reached the top of the hill I encountered a problem. Unlike Lyth, Ender didn't accept any females in the army, and so as all the soldiers, I hadn't thought of this before but now, with the problem starting at me, or should I say 9,000 highly trained soldiers staring a Jupiter. Well, the one thing I could predict was, this was going to be very awkward.

Jupiter seemed noticed the stares and timidly whispered, "Why are they staring" . Aiden seemed to have realized to and looked at me for and answer.

I stood there awkwardly, "um...". Aron Redhook came jogging up to me. I trained a lot of soldiers and he was one of my favorites, he was liked by almost everyone here. It was hard not to, he was good looking, charismatic, and pretty nice. He kind looked at Jupiter in confusion and then looked at me, just as confused as everyone else.

He leaned towards me and whispered, "you were supposed to teach the new recruits, not frolic around with some girl". Obviously he hadn't heard the great news.

As a matter of fact I had thought of a solution. Simply bring Jupiter with me. Sure, it wasn't one of my best but in this position it was either that or let Jupiter fiend for herself.

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I came to realize that bring Jupiter to be trained with all the new guys was a good idea. They didn't seem to know women weren't allowed so Juipter was kinda doing whatever she wanted. Also, everyone else was just as bad as her.

~View changes to Juipter~

I was sweating. I couldn't breath. And my legs, and arms, were limp. I was pretty sure that if I hadn't been running for 2 hours before I could've dystoryed all of these baby. We had been paired up and were praticing basic sword fighting. Nto to brag or anything but I felt like I was doing really well by the time we had finsished. Aiden had dispared but I manged to find Liam.

"Hi"

"Hi" Liam said, "Sorry about today. Next time Aiden and I will train you by yourself, with like other weapons and even your powers"

I fiddled with my fingers. I was kinda scary know that my powers had been brought up like that. Thinking about having actual powers was frightening, but having actual friends like Aiden and Liam was even scarier. I kinda just nodded and ran off.

I was late by the time I got up to my room. At least I had a whole night before I had to do that again. I'd see if I could get out of training early to go see the city. In the Eathear it had been just me and my father but I always wanted to visit one of the big city's in Ender.

I laid down in bed. Thought of my father swam through my head, I wish I could've told him what was going on. Whenever something big used to happen, dad was always the first on to hear about, it didn't feel right not telling him about it. I blinked back tears, I wouldn't cry tonight.