Chapter 6 - chapter 6

Chapter 6
I waited outside the door for Buzz, looking at the darkening sky. After a few minutes she glided in, folded her wings and her arms and stared at me.
“Let’s go.”
“Fine.”
We walked in silence for a while.
“Buzz, I-” I started, intending to apologize for whatever I had done.
“No. It’s my fault.” She said, not looking at me.
We walked to the council meeting without talking. I for one was afraid to talk. I had absolutely no idea what to say to her. I didn’t understand why she had been so cold.
When we got up to the doors, Buzz pulled her cloak from the air, flung it on, and disappeared.
I pushed the double doors open myself and walked in.
Everything was the same as last time except that there weren’t any people standing around staring at me. Just seven random people in cloaks.
“Allison,” boomed my favorite member of the creepy-cloak-club, standing up.
“Hello,” I said staring back at Deep Blue Robe Guy.
“Don’t interrupt me!”
“Oh right. Wouldn’t want your majesty to lose his train of thought,” I retorted crossing my arms. I was still angry for being drugged the last time I was here.
D.B.R.G. stood there staring at me. I briefly wondered if I had gone too far and regretted being so short tempered but then remembered how annoying this guy was and suddenly stopped caring.
D.B.R.G. looked at me blankly. I wondered if anybody had ever dared to talk to him that way.
After a few more awkward seconds of silence I said, “Soooooo... What’s this test going to be about?”
D.B.R.G. shook his head and cleared his throat. “You will have to demonstrate your knowledge of wood, weapons, and how to make weapons.”
“What happens if I pass?”
“You go to the next level and learn something else.”
“And what would that be?”
“You’ll find out later.”
“What happens if I fail.”
“You’ll find out if that happens.”
Hmmm. Comforting guy.
D.B.R.G. stood up impressively and waved his arms. I heard a small sound to my right and turned to look. Clattering to the ground were a whole bunch of...sticks.
“Oh no...” I muttered, “Not more whittling!”
“What was that?” D.B.R.G. asked.
“Oh nothing,” I said walking over to the sticks. I bent down reluctantly to start inspecting them.
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After a few hours worth of picking out sticks, forging swords and daggers in the forge with the metals that D.B.R.G. had conjured for me, and whittling, I presented my newly made weapons to D.B.R.G. He stared at them for a few nerve-racking moments.
“These are acceptable.” He said finally. I glanced over to where I knew Buzz was sitting. She twitched a little. I smiled slightly at her.
“Soooooooooo...” I said again, “What now?”
“Now...” Said D.B.R.G., “You come with me.”
“Where are we going?” I asked nervously.
“2nd Heaven.” he said jumping down from the platform with a grace I envied.
“Ummm...right.”
He walked down next to me and roughly grabbed my arm with a gloved hand. He was pretty strong and his grip was hard but I didn’t want to show weakness so I stood my ground and didn’t pull away.
Instead I twisted around and waved to the council, “Bye guys! See you, Buzz. I’m sorry for whatever I did to make you angry. I don’t care about the problem of making friends in times of war. I think you are really cool and hope we can still be friends.” I paused, staring at her. When I didn’t get a reaction I smiled bitterly and waved again. I turned back to D.B.R.G. “Ok, let’s go.”
Before he could do anything, however I heard running footsteps. I whirled around excepting to be attacked as some random part of the test that they had failed to tell me about. Instead I saw Buzz running towards me, her hood slipping off her head. She ran into me and I was engulfed in a mass of green hair.
I hugged her back, extremely glad to have her as a friend again.
“I’m sorry!” She sobbed, “I was so stupid! Of course it’s ok to have friends during a war. I’ll fight by your side when it’s time! I’ll-” here she buried her head into my shoulder and all I got from her after that was: “Mrmph mumf trund whelf meshsn.”
D.B.R.G. cleared his throat uncomfortably and prodded me in the back.
I detached Buzz from my neck.
“Bye.” I said.
“See you!” She said wiping the tears from her face, smiling.
D.B.R.G. grabbed my arm again. I gave one last wave and smile to the remaining council members, wondering who would be teaching me next and what.
I heard a snapping sound and looked up at D.B.R.G. His blue, almost black wings unfurled from his back and flapped once or twice. He then grabbed my other arm and flew through a hole in the ceiling that I hadn’t even noticed was there. My stomach dropped as we left the ground and I bit back the yelp that tried to escape from my throat.
As he looked up at the sky his hood fell off and I got my first good look at his face.

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