Alexander McCall Book 2: The tale of The hybrid Alpha [#wattys2019]

Chapter 16: A True Warrior

It was the next day and Rose continued her mental with Allison, arrow after arrow was shot into every illusion of Josh that came her way and none made it even close to touching her. Allison leans against the watching Rose's progress, it made her smile to see how fast and far the young girl has gotten. Rose breathed heavily as she got tired of using the arrows, so she drops the bow and takes out a pair of daggers and let the Josh illusions get close enough. As each illusion got closer Rose cut them down with ease, she punched, kicked, slashed and stabbed each illusion as fast as she could. While she was killing those illusions one of them broke away from the group and hid in the trees trying to sneak past her, Allison sees this and gets her arrow ready to fire incase she needed to. As Rose killed a few more illusions the one in the trees tries to pounce on her but she turns around to kill it and while she does that Allison fires an arrow at a Josh illusion that was about to bite her killing it.

Rose turns around after hearing the shot and sighs making the other illusions disappear. She looks at Allison as she walks toward her "That was a bit too close don't you think? In a real battle you would've been dead if nobody was there to save you, try not to let this happen. Okay?" The huntress said to the exhausted girl, Rose collapsed on a near by log and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "I know this is all in my head and everything but I'm fucking exhausted, can I please have a break?" Allison sits next to Rose and nods "Yeah sure, I guess it's about that time anyway." Rose makes a bottleof cold water apear and gulps it down. Allison giggles watching Rose "We're in your head but you're still so damn tired, it's actually pretty hilarious. Instead of making yourself not tired your chugging down fake water because you got tired of killing fake people, this is actually very hilarious." She said fully laughing, Rose had to laugh at it to as the situation did seem a bit funny. "Shouldn't I try using other weapons instead of just these daggers and a bow and arrow? A huntress should be versatile in her weapons right, you didn't stick with one weapon did you?" She asked the huntress, Allison shook her head "You're right, my father thought it was best that I learned more then one weapon. So I learned quite a few more, and the knowledge will be given to you." Allison puts her hand on Rose's forehead and closes her eyes, Rose gasps as images and visions were shown to her and she now has all of the knowledge she could hold on every weapon that the huntress has used. Rose pulled away from Allison and shook her head, she looks at the huntress confused as to what just happened "What the hell did you do to me?" Allison took her hand away "I gave you my knowledge of every weapon I've ever learned, and then some." Rose squinted and shook her head "So you mean to tell me you could've done that this entire time, but then why did we do all of damn training?" Allison shook her head and waved Rose off "No no no it's not like that, you may have my knowledge of weaponry but you don't know how to use them yourself. You still need training and I will give it to you, I promise you everything we've done is necessary." After hearing this Rose sighs and stands walking to the middle of the field, she looks at the sky crossing her arms. Allison gets up and stands next to Rose, she turns to her and looks at her face trying to read her expression. "Can I ask you something, Allison?" Rose asked still looking at the sky but able to feel her presence, the huntress nods giving Rose the chance to ask her question "Did you know you were going to die that day at oak creek? Cause of you did you could've stopped it right? You didn't have to die for nothing, just like everybody else." The huntress placed her hand on Rose's shoulder making the young girl look at her "I didn't die for nothing Rose, I died to protect the people I love and care about. Maybe I could've prevented my death by not going, but then my friends could've died and we would've lost Stiles and Scott. Alex and Eric wouldn't have been born, you would've never met them and your father would've kept hurting you. You wouldn't have wanted that, so I don't think my death was for nothing. It was and still is worth it, my friends lived and I was happy that they did." After hearing that Rose was put into a new perspective on things, but she still worried about some things. She turned to the huntress "And what about me? I mean, after everything you've told and shown me it's just got me really thinking about my death and everything I haven't done yet. Will I die before I can do any of those things, is that gonna be my fate?" As Rose asked that question It made the huntress look at her with understanding eyes "What I believe Rose, is that we set or own paths and choose what to do with our lives. They say god has a plan for everyone, I'm dead and talking to you right now in a manifested forest within your mind. I can tell you that there is no god (sorry no offense to people who believe) , and there's no such thing as fate." She said with a small shake of her head and looking at Rose.