Royal Vampire Sector by Melody Rose

Author:Melody Rose [Rose, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

18

Vanessa

I did not do dagger training with Arrow. Instead, I trained with the entire Cascadian army.

Every day, after spending the morning in the alchemy lab, continuing to soak in every bit of alchemy related information that I could, I would meet the troops who had been training all morning out in the west courtyard. At this point, Arrow had figured out that it was best to divide the troops into separate courtyards for different drills. Most of the army was still mainly made up of gargoyles and other supernaturals, mainly vampires, fairies, and the occasional werewolf. Recruits from the West Village, particularly humans, were minimal despite the increased recruitment effort in the area.

On the first day of my training, I met Arrow and a hundred other troops in the west courtyard, dressed in my usual workout attire that I usually wore in the armory. I was one of the very few women there, and I was by far the smallest, especially compared to a few beefy, heavily scarred elves who lived to fight and train. We broke up into groups of twenty or less, running through drills led by Arrow’s captains. Unfortunately, it was sword training that day.

I, being the inexperienced West Villager that I was, had never held a sword in my life, and it showed. At first, it didn’t seem so bad. Despite what I thought, a real sword wasn’t that heavy, but after just a few swings, I discovered that the balance was totally different, and those few additional pounds made all the difference.

Ten minutes into the first drill, I was panting, sweat dripping down my back as we all ran through the same movements together, repeatedly. The soldiers around me wore armor, both as protection from getting nipped by their neighbor’s swords as well as to weigh them down for extra endurance training.

I was not even close to reaching that level of strength. My fellow soldiers gave me a wide berth while I trained, tossing me looks of concern or sympathy every now and again when they would hear me curse under my breath or hiss in pain. By the end of the day, I was exhausted. Muscles that I didn’t even know I had ached, and nicks from my sword covered my upper arms and hands, mainly from my own clumsiness.

Before my second day of training, a hanger with padded leather armor appeared in my closet with a note from Matei that read:

My lady, I hear you had an eventful first day of training. This should tide you over until you can build up to using metal armor.

A small smile formed on my lips as I read the King’s beautiful cursive scrawl. Compared to his beautiful penmanship, mine looked like chicken scratch. I glanced over at my desk to the half-written letters to my family that I never got to finish. I sighed. The letters could wait. Until when, I wasn’t sure.

On my second day of training with the Cascadian army, I received more than a few impressed glances when the soldiers realized that I hadn’t quit after my first day.

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