WHITE AND BLACK. # BOOK.1 - THE SWORD OF SILVER

THE INVITATION

It was as if Aarav's life had completely changed after getting recruited. Nobody now troubled him at college , as Mayank would always be close to him. The guy was only a bull from the outside, but as any other bully , he was totally different from the inside, he was a softie.

Though he used to get some weird stares from the other students and he could clearly hear them saying things like, 'no self respect at all', 'always sticking in the bull's ass' and many more. But Aarav couldn't care less.

But his two biggest concerns were that, he had no time at all. He had to study, train using the sword twice a day for 2 hours at dawn and before sleep, and because of that he was always away from home and also from Disha. . For some unknown reason, his clan members and especially Reva , hated the girl so much , that if she ever saw Aarav talking to her, the next thing he knew , his training would be the hardest that day.

Aarav spent most of his time at Reva's place and so did his other clan mates.They were given individual rooms to stay . And so Aarav could only go home on week days.

His training included, meditation that after much of an arguement , was to taught to him by Reva. Defensive skills were to be learnt from Mayank , new sword charms and spells from Pranay and hand-to-hand combat from Megha.

All of them were awesome at whatever they taught, and not to mention Megha's training sessions were especially hard for him, for the reasons that she was too strict and also a beast at what she did.

Though he tried his best, he hadn't achieved much of anything in Megha's training. Pranay's training on the other hand was stressful , yet fun. He was trying to teach Aarav to use elements of nature while sword fighting. He had told Aarav, that sword fighting in the Black and White world was highly dependant , not on the skills but on the elements that a person could conjure. Though Pranay himself hadn't yet learned to conjure all of them , but he knew how to conjure fire from his sword.

And so far , Aarav had only succeded in making his sword warm . though Pranay said that to reach the level where Aarav was , he had taken almost a year.

But the most successful he was in, was to defend the blows from Mayank's maces. Aarav was quiet a master at defending and even Megha accepted this.

It was a fine evening when all the clanmates were sitting on the dinner table, when Pranay spoke.

"Reva , i think Aarav is quite trained to have his first match.."

"So, that means...." Reva said, but Megha continued her sentence, she said,

"...that means a friendly match couldn't hurt , but yet Aarav you haven't progressed at all in my sessions."

Mayank was stuffing whatever was on the table , and with a mouth full of food he said...

"Af if fyour Fraining if progrefable...." . He gulped whatever was was in his mouth and said,

" As if your training is progressable..."

Megha shook her head and ignored him , but Pranay now spoke, he said,

"Its true Megha , your training is too harsh, and tell me one thing , what is the need to stand for hours facing the wall? Its not even training...while i was being trained by you, you even gave me a remark saying that i stand 3 degrees backwards..."

"I didn't hear her telling me to do something like that!" Aarav said.

Even Mayank said," Neither do i remember doing that...."

Megha's cheeks turned pink and she said, " That training is for....learning patience....for stubborn people.... "

" Wait a minute, did u just call me stubborn ?" asked Pranay.