Ch. 2 Through the dungeon.

As the four Children reach the sparring grounds, they hear loud cries of various mock battles and see many children sparing with wooden swords. Hector sees Mr. O'Connor and walks with the others to him. "Mr. O'Connor, sorry for being a bit late sir." Hector apologizes. "It's about time you four showed up." grumble O'Connor. "Grab a sword from the rack and start sparing." The four each grab a sword and start to walk to the sparing area. "Philip, you and Andrea sparr together while I will team up with Hector." Says Jill. They start cutting and slashing at each other and soon, Hector is driven back by a vicious unslought by Jill. In the other team, Andrea is the one backing up in front of Philip. Suddenly, Hector's sword arm goes limp. Jill slashes at his other arm leaving her one side exposed. Just as she's slashing, Hector sidesteps and brings his sword down on Jill's exposed side. Jill drops her sword and grabs at her bruised side. "That was a really nasty trick you pulled there Hector." Scoffs Jill. "HALT." Yells O'conner. "Your fighting is done for today, we'll be

continuing tomorrow. Go have a good rest and don't get yourselves into trouble." With that, O'Connor walks off and all his students begin to disperse. Just as Hector, Jill, Philip, and Andrea begin to leave, a group of kids blocks their path. These were three boys who liked to bully most of the other kids just for fun. The leader of this group was Chris, a big strong brute who's a bit of a loudmouth. Beside him stands his two cousins, Jack and Justin, both of them a bit skinny. "Look what the cat brought in, little Hector and his little friends, where do you think you're going." Smirks Chris. "Oh buzz of Christ, it's none of your business." Replies Jill. "Oh but it is, you still owe us for that little mishap that happened last week."Sneers Justin. Last week, Hector accidentally spilled oil on Chris's favourite shirt and Chris hasn't forgiven him since. "So, What's it gonna be, are you going to pay up or would you rather get beat up? Chris asks. "I think we'll rather not deal with any of your nonsense, sorry for messing up your shirt Chris. This is all you're going to get." Says Hector and led his friends past Chris's team. Chris is dumstruck by this arrogance and it's not until Hector and his friends are long gone that he came to his full sense. 

" So, Hector, what are you going to do about Chris?" Asks Andrea. "Oh, I'm just going to ignore him for as long as possible." Says Hector, kicking a rock on the ground in front of him. "Hey, are you people finally going to help me explore that chamber?" Asks Andrea. "I guess we can go, considering it looked abandoned anyway." Says Jill. And so, they begin to walk to the building where Andrea found the secret passage. " If it really is a secret place, why was it so easy to find." Hector wonders aloud. "Probably because the floor of that building that was meant to hid the entrance, gave way." Says Philip. They arrive at the entrance to the passenge and Hector walks to the entrance trapdoor to open it, but the moment he touches the door it suddenly opens itself and a shadow appears in the entrance. "Welcome adventurers your destiny awaits you, follow me." "I think we should follow him, I'm intrigued." Says Andrea. "Are you mad Andrea! Firstly, we can't just dash into this situation like this and secondly, we don't even know who or what this strange figure is." "My name is Tigreal, Captain of his Majesty's royal guard. My spirit will roam this land until I find heroes to prepare for battle against Alicia's evil forces. I have roamed this land for 500 years now." It is true that we need heroes to battle Alicia's forces, thinks Hector, this land has been under the rule of that tyrant for over 500 years now, but can it really be us? "I think I'll take the risk to go with this man, I read about a profacy in that history book earlier about heroes who will one day be called up to fight, I just hope this isn't a hoax." "I think I'll join you two then." Says Philip. "Are you people nuts, how are you all so stupid. I'm not going in there." Protests Jill. "Oh come on Jill." Pleads Hector. " don't you want adventure?" "Arg fine, I'll tag along for now."'grunts Jill. The four of them quickly follows Tigreal through the door into, what was beginning to look like a dungeon with cobblestone walls full of moss and spiderwebs. "Wow, this place is really old. I wonder when was it built." "It was built, I think 50 years before I died." Says Tigreal. They continue on for about, what feels to the four, a mile until they came to a udge wooden door. Tigreal nocks two times and the door swings open by itself. They walk through the door and find themselves in a big meadow full of flowers. About a half mile west of the meadow they see a city encircled in stone walls. Tigreal then leads them to a big farmhouse on the other side of the meadow and tells them to stay there a while and refresh themselves. "Stay here, I have to enform the council that you have arrived." Says Tigreal. And just like that, Tigreal is of. Hector and the others approaches the farmhouse, they could smell something dillicous cooking inside. When they arrive at the front door, Hector knocks on the door and a young lady opens the door. "Hey you four, you must be the children Tigreal brought, My name is Layla, I'll be your assistant and trainer here. Come in, you must be famished after your journey. I've made some food, feel free to dig in." She sets a plate of food on a table for each of them.