Chapter 3: Talent

After 6 years ,Ivon now 12 years old,with white porcelain hands, a heart shaped face with chiseled nose and brownish hair wearing a training tight dress with white shirt top and blue tight pant showcasing his small plain body. Ivon was walking in the garden of their home looking at flowers and plants around him with a happy face. The air was filled with sweet fragrance of blooming flowers.

Then he heared his father's voice echoing in the garden making him to stop and look back ,

"Ivon come here!!"

Then he saw his father wearing a long robe standing there with another man of similar height as his father but wearing knight's armor on his body.

" I have someone to introduce you", said his father while holding his hand and dragging Ivon towards the man.

When they reached near the person , Ivon saw that this man was in his early 40s with short black hair wearing knight armor, with a sword on his waist. His eyes were looking at Ivon as if inspecting him from top to bottom.

"This is sir Eynar Thorne", said his father.

"And he will be your instructor for the next coming years untill you learn everything from him " . And he left them alone making Ivon shocked by what he heared from his father.

After his father left, sir Eynr asked Ivon if he had any questions. He looked up and saw that the man was looking at him as if waiting for something. Then suddenly a question struck in his mind .

"What will I learn from Sir Knight ?" asked Ivon .

Eynar smiled at his question.

"I am a knight of this village and have been practicing for over 20 years. I have been tasked to teach you how to fight and hunt with a sword to kill wild animals in the forest and also to defend yourself from enemies" said Eynar .

" Are you ready to learn?". asked Eynar with a serious look .

Then he looked at Ivon's face , he saw spark in Ivon's eyes.

"Then lets begin your training" , said Sir Eynar.

Hearing this Ivon was excited , he had always loved to read stories of knights from those story book he read when he was child . He thought it was going to be fun

but reality was different from stories , he has yet to know .

Sir Eynar then took Ivon to a cleared hall then Eynar brought a wooden sword and shield .

"Take this sword and start practicing , first we will lay down your foundation of footwalk for sword fighting" Eynar said to him.

He then started teaching the basic posture and stance of sword fighting but Ivon body was too weak to handle it , he falls down everytime . Seeing this Eynar was disappointed then he told Ivon .

" Young Master your body is too weak , it seems you need to practice your body " said Eynar .

Then Eynar told Ivon to stand in frog posture for 1 hours . Hearing this Evon started to sweat , he understood that reality is lot more harder than stories.

Still he tried his best but at most of 13 min he could handle then he fell down gasping for breath .

" From now on you will practice it everyday and try your best to maintain this posture for 3 hours after completing the training come to tell me " said Eynar in disappointed expression.

The sun soon started to set and Ivon went to his house to rest.

While Thomas , Ivon's father, was watching this whole time but seeing it he was disappointed but he knew that his son will do his best and give satisfactory results soon . But then a soldier entered his room—

"Sir , there is letter for you "

Hearing this Thomas took the letter and after reading the letter his face expression changed completely to serious .

" GO AND INFORM ALL THE SOLDIERS TO PREPARE FOR BATTLE " He ordered in strict loud voice .

The soldier was shocked hearing the order , he nodded and left the room .

Then ,Thomas walked quickly towards his wife's room .

After walking in fast pace he reached the room .

With a loud sound the door opened while Evilia got suprised the sudden opening of door . She looked at the door and saw Thomas entering .

" Darling, it seems many wild beasts from Evory Forest are going to attack our village , it seems someone has planned this attack and used forbidden medicine to drive the beast rage in anger and diverted it towards our village , it's probably the work of Garyon and Surbion Village ". Said Thomas

Hearing this she understood the in and out of the matter as she knows that this two village have always been jealous of our village progress , it has always been hidden from everyone but it seems those two village decided to take action .

"How many months do we have ?" She asked .

" Probably 2 months , as the first small waves can't do anything to the village . But i am afraid if those village army attacks is at night "

Hearing this she nods and tell Thomas "It seems they have planned everything "

" I have decided to send all the children of the village and Ivon out from here through the secret passage. If we survive, we will go to bring him back " Thomas tells Evilia.

Hearing this she nods and Thomas goes out to prepare all the children for it .

While Thomas busy in preparing his soldiers and village's children, Ivon was busy in practicing the posture , while for most new Soldier it takes 4 days at most to learn the posture ,but for Ivon it took 2 weeks to learn.

After 2 week , Sir Eynar although busy ,still made out time for Ivon , but after learning that it took so long just to learn the basic he was very disappointed , he understood that young master Ivon doesn't have talent to be a knight . He then tells Ivon to learn archery with boss , hearing and seeing the expression of Sir Eynar , Ivon understood that he doesn't have talent to be a knight .

Although he doesn't have talent but his thinking is better than normal person .

Then Sir Eynar taught him how to handle the bow with a correct posture as the posture is similar with Sword footwork . He leaned the correct posture soon then as instructed , focusing on the target he released the arrow .

Seeing this Sir Eynar was happy , although Ivon couldn't target the bull eye but the arrow touched just 2 finger far from the target , but still it was better for the first time .

Then Ivon kept on practicing , while Sir Eynar went to inform about the news to Village Head Thomas . Thomas after learning that Ivon doesn't have talent to be a knight was very much disappointed, then Sir Eynar told that young master Ivon has talent for archery , made Thomas happy .