Chapter Two: Training
By: nike13

   "We’re what?!" Teresa yelled as David’s jaw dropped to the forest’s floor.

   "We are here to protect time," Waren said as if it was a normal, everyday answer.

   "We heard you," David said angrily, "We just don’t believe what we’re hearing, and don’t try to say we do since we came with you in the first place. I’m not a simpleton and I do realize that such assumptions are utter rubbish."

   "And are you saying that I’m a simpleton because I’m not some closed minded royal and actually accept the fact that I felt drawn to this… this…" Teresa faltered as she digested the whole of what Waren had said, "How are we supposed to save and protect time? We’re just teens?"

   "That has been accounted for, Teresa. Look around you!" and he gestured with his arms to the woods around them.

   "I don’t follow you," Teresa said, staring vaguely at the wooden surroundings. Waren smiled at her ignorance and stood.

   "Here we will train."

   "Here?!" she stood, shocked and looked closer at their environment but it still looked to be normal forest, minus the large doorway they walked through.

   "Why not?" Waren wondered aloud while David rose from his seating place and dusted himself off.

   "Well, what are we going to use? Do we get ray guns, or giant robots, or special gadgets that can cloak out bodies or something? And who are we to practice with? And..."

   "Would you give the man a chance to answer on your ramblings? You are giving me a headache," David interrupted, rubbing his temples dramatically.

   "Oh, be quiet, you don’t even believe in any of this so why don’t you just leave, or are you afraid of being alone?"

   "Why, you simpleton, I can’t believe anyone would entrust anything to you!"

   "What did you call me?"

   "Must you two continue bickering?" Waren said over their banter. The two guilty parties looked sheepishly back at Waren before he continued, "As an answer to your questions, no, we will not be provided with any weapons or gadgets as you phrase it."

   "Then how are we be expected to do battle?" David asked quietly.

   "Yeah, what he said," Teresa added on Waren’s other side, meekly, just above a whisper.

   "That is what I have already said," Waren said tiredly.

   "You mean the power of soul, nature and mind part?" David provided.

   "Exactly, that is what we are to practice here."

   "Why here?" Teresa muttered and thumped into the stump close to them.

   "What’s wrong with here?" Waren asked again.

   "It does seem adequate to me for a training field," David said, looking around them at the large trees of several varieties, some unfamiliar to him.

   "Well... I’m just not an outdoorsy type girl, that’s all..," she explained shyly, fidgeting with her hands.

   "Simpleton woman," David muttered softly to himself, but apparently, not softly enough. Teresa jerked her head up in his direction and stood, deadly calm.

   "What did you say?" she asked him, her voice just above a whisper. David just looked at her and began to let his own anger grow, How could a non-royal think of speaking to me in such a manner as she is constantly using? and then all his reasons snapped.

   "I said simpleton woman, you’re a silly, female, common, simpleton!" he said with an equally even voice, watching as Teresa began to clench her fists and glare directly into his eyes, Maybe I will let them argue Waren thought as he watched, If anything, they’ll find their powers before we even have to teach them.

   As Waren watched the two bicker back and forth he noticed that Teresa’s hands began to glow out a soft red light with each of David’s insults, She has the power of nature! Waren thought just before a burst of energy flew from Teresa in the form of fire.

   "What was that?!" David yelled as he jumped to avoid the rushing fireball flying towards his head, "She’s a witch!"

   Waren watched with a bit of a smile on his face as Teresa looked from her hands, to David, then to the bushes that she lit aflame, "Did I do that?" she whispered to Waren, trying to get over the shock of what she just did.

   "Yes, actually you did," Waren said lightly, his smile growing.

   "Are you just going to stand there?!" David blared, "She tried to kill me!"

   "Actually, if the fireball had even hit you, your powers would’ve prevented it from causing any permanent or fatal damage to your person," Waren explained, Maybe this will actually convince him that this is all true.

   "What powers?" David asked, eyeing Waren suspiciously, "I’m not a witch if that is what you’re implying."

   "And you think I am?!" Teresa spoke up, getting over her initial shock.

   "Well, if the broomstick fits..."

   "Why you..."

   "Please!" Waren shouted before another verbal sparring match began, "I can’t believe you two! Can’t you get along for just a few minutes so I can explain your new talents?"

   Both folded their arms across their chests and stared at each other as it is to say the other had started it and then looked back to Waren for his explanation.

   "Thank you. Obviously, Teresa holds the power of nature, hence the fireball. The powers are soul, nature, and mind for the past, present, and future so that would mean that your power, David, is that of the soul, meaning you can heal yourself and, most likely, others. My power is the mind."

   "Meaning?"

   Meaning I can talk to others through telepathy, they heard in their heads.

   Telepathy? David wondered and was answered by Waren, again in his thoughts.

   Telepathy is the ability to send your thoughts to someone else.

   "And the ability to hear someone’s thoughts," Teresa added grimly, "Does that mean you can..."

   "But I won’t, Teresa, I know that’s wrong and besides, it gives me a headache."

   "Oh..."David sighed and sat on the ground, trying to sort everything out.

   "Are you okay?" Teresa asked, moving to sit next to him.

   "I’m the Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, a future king and it appears that a peasant understands more about all of this than I do," he mumbled, not caring how inferior he sounded at this point, and for once, Teresa let the peasant comment slide and began to comfort him.

   "It’s alright if you don’t understand. I mean, to be honest with you, I don’t get most of it."

   "But you understand about command codes and telepathy and you’re already able to use your powers."

   "Not really," she said meekly, "I was just mad at you and all of a sudden you were dodging fireballs. I’m supposed to have the power of nature, presumably all of nature, not just fire. As for understanding, well, where I’m coming from it’s called BSing stuff. Like if you don’t know what to write for an essay, you BS it, pretend you know your stuff but you really don’t know it up from down, and if you’re really good, no-one will notice."

   "You can write?" David asked in astonishment.

   "Of course, I can read and write and stuff like that," she said, slightly confused.

   "But you’re not of royal blood, are you?"

   "Not that I know of, no."

   "In my country, I mean time, only royalties or those of the cloth can read or write," he explained.

   "Oh, well, in the 20th century it’s a requirement to go to school and learn all that stuff. That and math and history and junk like that.

   "This shall certainly take some getting used to," David mumbled and looked down at his hands, Power of the soul, huh? I wonder if I can use it after all.

   “Children!” a dark figure yelled out as he watched the exchange between the three teens in a view screen. “The Triumvirate of Time is nothing but a group of children! Even better, children from our past, this is much too easy. The man watched as the would-be warriors of the past and present talked quietly,” Those two can’t be much trouble, but Prince Waren will be. Unlike the others, he has known of his abilities since his youth and thus he practiced, but the others… I believe I have found a weak point in all of this. The other two will be weaker, and thus, more vulnerable to capture… hmm, yes… I have found a weak point indeed,” The man laughed and turned back to the control panel to the right of his throne,” Now to choose the right place to attack, or should I say, the right time.

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