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Esper Eidolon

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Sophia Wynter #4: The Training Years

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Warning, some graphic content within this chapter.



"I think the king has lost his damned mind. He sends me a girl for training? A blind one at that?!"

I stood before the training master whom looked me up and down. Disgust filled his voice as he shook his head.

"No. I refuse. This would be an astonishing waste of my time. Get her out of here."

The guardsmen stood very still as they looked to the training master.

"The king has decided she to go through the training. You will train her as ordered."

The trainer looked down at me and walked up to me smacking me across the face.

"Eyes down girl."

"Y-Yes sir!"

"Are you trembling?"

I did not answer, as my body shook in fear of another hit. Quickly he hit me in the stomach, hard enough to lift me from the ground. I fell to my knees gasping for air as the guardsmen backed away from me.

"A Kings Guard does not tremble. Does not fear pain, embraces it. Get up!"

I slowly pushed myself up, breathing heavily as he smacked me again. Another smack to my cheek nearly caused me to fall over again. Instead I stood still and concentrated, grasping his hand before it smacked me again. A shortly lived victory as he quickly kneed me in the gut again. This time I fell to the ground coughing blood. Turning away from me, he laughed slightly as he looked to the guardsmen around me.

"Throw her to the streets where she belongs. She is done alread-"

I slowly pushed myself to my feet, wiping my mouth of blood as I staggered a bit.

"Stay down."

I shook my head at him as I held my hands up in a coeurl fighting stance.

"Idiot girl, stay the hell down!"

"NO!"

Immediately he appeared before me and smacked my hands aside, grasping me by my neck and pulling me to his face.

"You Dare think yourself capable of even defending yourself?"

I gasped for air as he punched me repeatedly in the gut and squeezed my neck until I fell unconscious. Tossing me to the ground he looked towards the guardsmen and smiled again.

"Fine. Take her to her cell, prep her properly."



******



I awoke, breathing heavily as I moved around, feeling metal bars upon the ground below me. A cool breeze floated beside my near bare skin. Feeling down, I felt only rags covering my top and bottom. As the cool breeze brushed against my head, I nearly cried as I realized they shaved my head. I heard the clatter of metal moving before me, and reached out to feel an opening.

The space I was in, seemed to be a cage, fit for only its occupants to crawl. As I crawled out, I glanced around to see several other people around my height crawling as well. We all stood in a circle, telling me the area was rather small for five to fit and that we were all young.

"Alright, most of you know the rules. You want to get further in your training? Beat the seventh hell out of each other. If you fail... and most of you will, you go back in your cage for another week. Now fight you filthy dogs!"

The other four immediately began to move towards me. I knew quickly I was looked upon as the weakest link. One quickly ran at me with his fist before him. Smacking the fist aside and bare palmed his nose, knocking him down in pain as another tackled me to the ground. Stone caught my fall and my body throbbed in pain as another pushed himself on top of me while another held my arms, proceeding to beat me till I could not move.

They let me go as I fell helplessly limp and turned towards the rest. I tried to move, again, but my body was severely beaten. The two boys finally turned on one another until a grotesque sound of meat being smashed by a hand filled the small room. The winner released his victim from a head lock, while the victim lie still upon the ground.

"We have a winner."

"Is the other alright?"

"Don't know.. Hey lad, you alright?"

No response came from the boy as his aether began to fade.

"He.... He's dying!"

I cried looking up to see blinding light as two men looked down towards us from a caged pit.

"Guess he was not meant to be a Kings Guard then."

I struggled to move but pushed myself to the boy, channeling what aether I could into his body in a weak heal. The victor however, did not appreciate my attempt and quickly kicked me in the face.

"He's mine you little wench! I claimed him."

"I can save him! Please!"

"Shut up!"

He stated as he kicked me stomach. The hurt boys aether finally faded without assistance. Quickly they pushed us back into our cages and shut the doors behind as the lead the victor out to the next "stage" of training. The guardsmen picked up the dead body of the boy and covered him as they took him away.

"His sacrifice will be remembered."

One of them stated, glancing towards me as I grasped my legs and felt like hiding from the endless nightmare.


*****
Six Years Later
*****


I walked into the sparring room in not but my cloth covers. Now, I was forced to wear a sash over my eyes as well. Though my hair had grown back, my wounds of the past had healed. Many more were to be found after the months in the pit. My acceleration into proper training was deemed unnatural.

Most whom fought against me thought it disgraceful that I would bare weapon against man and dare try to achieve kings guard as they. I held a long staff in my right hand. Resting it against my back as I waited for my new adversary to arrive. As he entered the room, he held his staff to his side and spat towards my wrap covered feet.

"Bitch like you needs to be on her knees. After four years, thought you would have figured that out by now. Where you belong and all."

His voice deeper, though it did not hide whom he was to me.

"You are the boy whom killed that boy in the pits."

"I'm about to kill you as well. I've had enough of you being here and so has the headmaster. I do this, and I get bumped"

I shook my head as he quickly attempted to smack me with his staff. Immediately, I smashed his left big toe with a slight movement of my staff. Shocked, he moved away, grinding his teeth at the pain.

"I could have saved him."

"Your job is not to save. Not here. Get over it!"

He pounced again at me, missing me with his staff as he felt a harsh smack to the back of his neck. His body fell over limp immediately as I dropped the staff beside him.

"You are paralyzed. I fractured your spine. You will likely never walk again, nor piss freely. I could heal you, but I would prefer you to enjoy your new jail."

I lied to him, as the guardsmen quickly walked in and backed me against a wall.

"How dare you!"

The headmaster walked in and looked down upon what I had done. He quickly walked up to my and slapped me across the face as the guardsmen held my arms to my side.

"You are an insolent little pest! I should kill you where you stand!"

"GO AHEAD I WELCOME IT!"

I screamed at him as I attempted to attack him, only to feel the strength of the guardsmen holding me back.

I could feel his glare as my face turned to a big grin, knowing I had made him angry. He motioned to the guardsmen to move let me go. They did so and I quickly pounced at him. He smacked me aside with ease and grasped me by my neck. Quickly he smashed me into the ground and picked me up, repeating it until I laid bloodied upon the ground. As he let me go he stood up, recomposing himself as he grasped a knife from his pocket.

"Enough of this foolishness."

He quickly plunged the blade towards me. I pushed my right arm up and felt the blade penetrate my shoulder. Immediately I smacked my palm into his nose, so hard that the impact fractured his skull between his eyes and stabbed into his brain. He fell over dead upon me as the guardsmen remained still. I breathed heavily as I tossed his body off of mine and pushed myself to a limp as I stood before the guardsmen.

Grasping me by my arms, the cuffed me behind, and lead me away from what I had done.


******
Several Weeks Following
******


I stood in a cell deep in the barracks, naked and chained in the middle. My arms and hands bound high over me, enough to make it so only my tip toes gently tapped the ground. Here I remained for countless days as a display to the men, awaiting punishment. The cell door began to open behind me and I cringed as several men walked in.

"Sophia Wynter, you are charged with killing Headmaster Nelock Balmon. How do you plead?"

I kept very still as I concentrated upon my tip toes again.

"Guilty. And I do not regret it."

"Very well. We are here to make you regret it."

I remained quiet as I listened to the guard give his judgement.

"By order of the Kings Guard you will server in the order as what you are ordered to. For killing the headmaster, three hundred lashes upon your back and body will be administered. Ten for every day you will remain here."

I bit my lower lip until one of them approached me and grasped my head.

"Open your mouth, for your own good."

I opened as he inserted something for me to bite upon. He backed away and immediately I felt a whip slap against my bottom.

"Grrr!!!!"

I cried out as another hit me. Ten lashes a day would not allow me enough time to heal, clearly. But I knew, somehow, Someway, I would need to endure.




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Comments (19)

Annabel Ashcroft

Faerie [Aether]

Wow Esper, it's so.....brutal. This poor kid cannot help but be scarred in more ways than just physically.

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

The entire point is to get rid of the weak, force for the strong and those whom no longer fear.

They demand you be less humanity and more obedience. They also feel that dealing with things like death and torture etc,at a young age will make them tolerant of it later in life.


This also takes place when less women are allowed to take part in such things due to traditional means. So when you put a little girl in such a field, they look at her as a threat.

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

This also happens durring the transition of kings. King Theodric has taken over and is radically changing the faith of ala mhigo because he hates Rhalgar. So things which happen during her training happen without care.

The next chapter will be essentially showing what she endures because of her actions against the headmaster and a student. As well as the radical change of power with the king, and how that will effect her.

Cleopatra Huntre'moon

Odin [Light]

Poor Sophia.

The chapter is so well detailed. Good story Esper. :)

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

Thank you Cleo, I did not mean for this chapter to be so long.
It ended up running longer because of the details of the years I wanted to share. Much was left to the imagination to kind of get readers to wonder what she truly went through all those years and how she survived.

Much happens and much more to come yus yus

Annabel Ashcroft

Faerie [Aether]


So total callousness with loss of any empathy. If they had the ability to do it, they could probably just make some automatons or golems for guards to get total obedience, no fear of anything, and no humanity. It would probably also not take up nearly the amount of time and effort to do so either.

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

Right but developing full automations that could keep up with say, assassins and not have malfunctions would be difficult. (Considering the times being a few decades following the autumn war)

Ala Mhigo was rather advanced but automations could not show the loyalty others of humanity could give.

This was also before Theodric became king. His father openly supported the ways of Rhalgar and the had monks of all kinds protecting him.

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

There was also the pride in strength they held.
Making this chapter I kept a few things in mind.
The option to give the child a chance to become a kings guard was pure optional but much like any military this meant the person would become property of the military. Not something you want to see happen to children but I felt it more fitting for this lands past to train at such childhood.

Still, all optional for parents to do, but I imagine some children were pulled from the streets as well.

Krohman Ark

Behemoth [Primal]

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

XD

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

I guess I should state for the record, Sophia is 18 when she kills the headmaster.

6 years of working herself to the breaking point every day so she could eventually get rise higher then the headmaster, only to realize on accident she's pushed herself lower by killing him.

Fenris Somnium

Siren [Aether]

Oi! I'm applying salve on the injuries as I read on, but now that I think about it I was probably the kindest among your many captors

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

@fen, this is about Sophia Wynter, not Scarlette. Sophia is espys mummy

Fenris Somnium

Siren [Aether]

Right! I was referencing all of your works and thought about how the brutal reality of captivity contrasts with my version, not to confuse characters. Not like I could forget the smell of gunpowder, the cry of Aeon, and Sophia's sacrifice on the streets of Ala Mhigo :3

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

Yah you treated your captives with princely treatments! Yus yus :3

Gawd that is going to be another emotional moment when I write that to its full extent. Getting there! Lol

Fenris Somnium

Siren [Aether]

I simply believe violence on captives is far too brutish. To make your captives talk takes true finesse of the tongue ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


And I'm looking forward to the full extent of the write.. the first one was pretty intense as is!

Klaus Veridian

Malboro [Crystal]

Good read Esper

Denzyne Starweaver

Gilgamesh [Aether]

Some of us just don't take prisoners...

Esper Eidolon

Diabolos [Crystal]

*pats Denzy*

I tried to warn that one not to take your shades... he did not listen... poor dust pile...
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