Chapter II: Heroes' Guild

This is the second chapter of the first volume of Fable Black: The Family of Heroes. Derek was so happy, excited, and flabbergasted that he was willing to put all of his dream into a living reality that he will be a real life hero that he always wanted so much. Due to his obsessive compulsive of heroism and his favorite game of all time, "A Hero's Journey", he was now learning a new ways of becoming a hero and make that as his "dream job" in the future by being an actual hero for all Albion for the rest of the people's lives. No matter what Derek wants in his future and during his winter holidays, he was an actual "undercover nerd" (but he can see without his glasses, so he doesn't need to wear his glasses) willing to learn three types of hero disciplines: Strength, Skill, and Will. Soon after, he was now going through 10 years of learning to become a hero, then he graduated into a hero with his new guild seal. Will he be able to graduated from the Heroes' Guild and begin a new life as a hero? Let's find out.
== Entering the Heroes' Guild ==
Derek and a mysterious hero teleported to Lookout Point alive, and Derek was so stressed out and depressed, he was about to throw up. "I...can't...take...this...part...of...pain...and...suffering...anymore..." Derek thought of suicide that he wants to be in his favorite game, "A Hero's Journey". "...This...is...the...worst...day...in...my...life...I'm...going...to......die! *Gagged*". A mysterious hero looks at Derek with his weird look on Derek, "No, kid. You're not going to die, we need to teach you-" Derek barfs on the ground as he kept crying and crying. "Hmmm...I thought you'd have a stronger stomach than that. Come on," Derek snapped into a rage, "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU FIEND!!!" Derek throws punches with his eyes closed as a mysterious hero stayed back and let Derek vent himself without the mysterious hero getting hurt, then Derek wears out, exhausted. "Save your energy, boy. It's not me you want to fight. You might not realise it, but I saved you life," a mysterious hero said that Derek was wear out and needs some sleep, "I wish I can go back to Oakvale and fight for my life and the villagers' lives." A mysterious hero facepalms and said to Derek while uncovering his face, "There's nothing left for you in Oakvale. And if you'd stayed, you'd be as dead as the rest of them," Derek gets up in stand and said to the mysterious hero "I owed you my life for getting me out of Oakvale during the bandit raid. Without you, I decide to die by the bandit's sword, cutting my head off clean," Derek looks up to a mysterious hero, "There's got to be a Heroes' guild nearby that I have to join to learn to handle by myself in the fight and avenge my family, my friends, and the people I love in Oakvale." A mysterious hero surprised to see that Derek wants to be a hero and he respond "Sure, there's a Heroes' Guild nearby that I will lead you to it," a mysterious hero points Derek to the way to the Heroes' Guild, "Come with me."
Derek and a mysterious hero walks towards to the Heroes' Guild and a mysterious hero introduces himself to Derek while walking to the Heroes' Guild "My name is Maze, and I am the head of the Guild of Heroes. You must have heard of it." Maze and Derek were walking along to the Heroes' Guild, "Yes, I've heard about the Heroes' Guild before in the game called 'A Hero's Journey', I used to pretend as a hero like the ones from the Heroes' Guild," Derek said while walking along the path to the Heroes' Guild with Maze, "Actually, I'm Derek. Derek Black, the descendants of William Black, the Archon." "You'll find nowhere safer in all of Albion. Nor a better place to call home, Derek," as Maze explains to Derek of what's going on in Albion that everybody needs heroes to save the day. As Derek and Maze walks down the hill to reach the exit when they've reach near the entrance, Maze said "And if it's vengeance you want, you'll need the training only we can offer," as soon as Derek and Maze reached to the entrance of the Heroes', Maze says "Here we are. I will introduce you to the Guildmaster. He will be your guide from now on." "Okay," Derek replied to Maze before Maze open the door, walked in to the front of the area of the Heroes' Guild, where Derek sees a map and quest cards piling up, due to most important tasks going on in Albion and then Derek sees the experience gate to his left.
== Starting up the first day of Heroes' Training ==
Maze met up with the Guildmaster with Derek on his right, "I have a new student for you. His name is Derek Black from Oakvale, the descendants of a Archon name William Black. Put him in the dorm upstairs with a girl," Maze said to the Guildmaster as the Guildmaster was now looking at Derek. "You don't look much like Hero material to me. But Maze knows what he's doing, I suppose," the Guildmaster said to Derek as Derek begin to speak clearly "I really don't look strong enough to defeat a well-trained bandit attack Oakvale who is taller than the bully that I beat up. I wish to become a hero like my mother and my ancestor like the way it should be," the Guildmaster was excited to hear that Derek was wanting to become the hero like the others from the Heroes' Guild. "Well that's good Derek, people of Albion prefer to call me Weaver, I'm the Guildmaster of the Heroes' Guild and Maze is a head of the Heroes' Guild. But, if you want to know my real name, I can't tell you, but we'll see how that goes if we can call you by the nickname or you prefer to be called on your own," the Guildmaster said as Derek were stretching his back, which shows signs that he really need some sleep. "Well, follow me then," the Guildmaster said to Derek as Derek begins to follow the Guildmaster to his new room to sleep in. As soon as Derek and Guildmaster goes from stairs to stairs, and all the way up to the bedroom, the Guildmaster points Derek to his new bed as Derek hop on his bed and sits on his bed, "You'll be sharing this room with Whisper, one of our brightest young pupils," Guildmaster said as Derek was thinking of going back home to his family in Oakvale. "She's playing in the woods right now, but you'll meet her in the morning. For now you should get some sleep. Your training starts tomorrow." Since, the Guildmaster leaves the room and go back downstairs, Derek was so depressed about missing his family and friends back on Oakvale, Derek cried hard enough that he would call it off for the night and see if tomorrow is better than the day he's in. Derek looked at the clock on the wall, it's 10:30, Derek was really tired and can't wait to see what it looks like tomorrow and went to sleep by covering him with sheets and blankets, closing his eyes, laying down in his bed, and for now, he sleeps.
== First day in training ==
Since the night passes on, the sun comes up in the sky, shine the building, and it's 8 o' clock right now. "It's time to wake up!" the girl said as it wakes up Derek, Derek yawns and gets out of the bed. "You must be my room-mate. Hmm. Shorter than I expected," Derek saw his new roommate for the first time in his room, "And you must be, Whisper. Okay, anyways, I'm Derek," Derek said as he puts his hand out to shake hands with the girl name Whisper, "Yes, my name is Whisper, it's a pleasure to see you for the first time. Anyways, I've been here for a month. Had the room to myself 'til now too. But that's all right," Whisper said since Derek and Whisper stopped shaking hands. "You know you talk in your sleep? Sounded like a bad nightmare," Whisper said that Derek was surprised how he talks in his sleep, because of nightmare. "Yes, Whisper, I lost my family, my friends, and my home because of those bandit attacks. And when I slept the first time in this guild, it was like hell, I was hiding behind the fence since the attack, until I was spotted by them and comes after me, behind the fence and takes me to the mysterious, scary lookin', figure and I woke up since the mysterious figure killed me because I hear your voice of 'It's time to wake up'. Boy, it was a nightmare," Derek said that Whisper were shocking to see what was happening, "It happens to a lot the first week. Some don't even last long," Whisper said, "You won't either if you don't get moving. The Guildmaster is waiting for us in the map room. You don't want to be late on you first day. Follow me!" Whisper said to Derek that Derek begins to follow Whisper down the stairs and down the stairs to the map room "Hmm, looks like the Guildmaster got tired of waiting for you," said Whisper "He's probably at the training grounds across the river. Let's go!"
As soon as what Derek decides to go to the training grounds, Derek decides to explore around the guild and the first thing that he did is walk to the guild shop with Whisper with him and Whisper told Derek "This is the guild shop. When you are older, you can buy stuff here," Derek respond "I can't wait to graduate from this guild and buy stuff in here." Then Derek walks out of the shop and into the legendary heroes graveyard and walks straight out of the graveyard and walks into the Maze's Quarter and Whisper said "Maze lives upstairs, best stay away, though. He's a scary man," Derek respond "I thought Maze is a great hero who saved my life back on Oakvale," and walks out of the Maze's quarters and across the concrete and into the dining room in the Heroes' Guild. "This is the dining room, where the apprentices eats and drink here. And there's a bar over there, but you have to be at least 18 years old to buy their beers, wines, and other alcoholic stuff," Whisper said that Derek seems surprise to see a dining room and a bar, but he is too young to drink other alcoholic stuff from the bar, "Gee, I hope I can be 18 years old to try their drinks from that bar over there. And a good thing to eat and drink in here. Oh boy!" Derek said "Let's get to the training grounds this time," when Derek exits out of the dining room and rushes towards the training grounds as he doesn't want to be late on the first day and Derek and Whisper reached the training grounds. "You've finally prized yourself from you pillow, I see," Guildmaster said "Yes, Guildmaster, I survived the nightmare like some other people did. Even though, I talked in my sleep when it creates a noise that my roommate, Whisper, is getting into concerns," Derek said to the Guildmaster. "Yes, I felt like it too when he talks in his sleep, it woke me up around 3:00 in the morning, seeing him doing this," Whisper said that the Guildmaster was surprised to see Derek having a bad nightmare last night. "Alright, I just don't want to hear about the bad nightmare happening to most people that some of them were dead 5 years ago. Whisper, go see the drill instructor near the training dummies to practice you melee combat," the Guildmaster said when he points Whisper to the training dummies near the bridge. "Yes, Guildmaster!" Whisper respond to the Guildmaster as she walks to the drill instructor near the training dummies. "All right, Derek, it's time to see if you've had any potential. Get in the ring," the Guildmaster commands. "Yes, Guildmaster," Derek responds that the Guildmaster opens the gate to the ring to let Derek in as Derek walks into the ring to see a training dummy that looked like a creepy scarecrow with a scythe on the training dummy's right hand. "Gee! That was a scary looking training dummy that I ever saw," Derek said with chills in his bones that he thought that was a mysterious figure that attacked Oakvale last night.
"Yes I know, lad, I know, just don't worry about that evil looking training dummy that you seen so far," the Guildmaster said as he is about to teach Derek a lesson of combat. "Now then, I want you to hit that dummy as hard as you can," Derek gets ready in his fighting stance. "Just keep going 'til I tell you to stop," the Guildmaster said as Derek guard up and starts to hit the dummy with his punches and kicks 10 times in 5 seconds with not a lot of power in it. "Not making much of an impact there, are you?" the Guildmaster said that Derek's hands and feet were starting to sore. "Hey! I'm 8 years old. I'm not like one of the beefed up, badarse, motherfucking Fist Fighters Gang member who fights for competition and sports with their balls of steel to last up 'til the end," Derek said as the Guildmaster frowns at Derek and said "Derek! Watch your language! You can hear Whisper and other young apprentices hearing you," as Derek apologized "Oh! I'm sorry *laughed*, I'll promise not to say it again, okay?" as Derek stopped laughing and continues to the training. "Anyways, here, try it with this," said the Guildmaster as he lays out the practice wooden stick in the ring and Derek grabs the stick "Oh, I have to hit that dummy with this stick," Derek said and the Guildmaster nods his head and Derek hits the dummy really hard with his stick 10 times in 5 seconds and the scary looking dummy fell down and broken into pieces. "Ah, now that's more like it," the Guildmaster said has he is now trying to explain Derek about the experience orbs "When you destroy an enemy like this dummy, it drops an experience orb. These orbs contain the knowledge gained from killing the creature. It's very important that you collect these orbs, or you won't learn anything! Now pick it up," the Guildmaster teached Derek as he picks up the orb from the ground and the Guildmaster opens the gate as Derek exits the ring.
When Derek is out of the ring of the training grounds, Guildmaster said "Well done, lad. Now then, tomorrow we'll..." the guild alarm ringed as Guildmaster starts to worry what's going on out there. "Derek! That's the Guild alarm! Sounds like there might be something on the loose in the Woods," the Guildmaster said that Derek starts to panicked, "Guildmaster, is there an another bandit raid out in the Woods? I'm starting to worry sick about this," Derek says that the Guildmaster tries to calm him down. "I find it rare to see bandits out there in the Guild Woods. But, this is a good opportunity to test your spirit," Guildmaster said, "I'll wait for you at the Guild Woods entrance while your deal with the problem. Once your done, we can talk about starting your training," Derek respond, "Then I'll see what I can find in the Guild Woods and unleash my fury!" Derek charges through the entrance and into the Guild Woods. All what Derek sees out in the Guild Woods was beetles. "Beetles. Ha! This should be easy," as Derek ran around the Woods and killed his first enemy, the beetle. Derek continues to slay every beetles he ever find in the Guild Woods, so if he ever hear a buzz, he kills it. Derek killed 2 more beetles, and he's excited about being a hero and killed 2 more beetles, then killed 2 more beetles without any scratch, killed 2 more beetles, then killed the last beetle that was left in the Woods. He has no cuts and bruises so far and he was alright, "Well, that's the rest of the beetles, and not even a scratch or sting on me. Phew!" Derek walks out of the Guild Woods unharmed and meet up with the Guildmaster near the Guild Woods entrance, "Good work, lad. Those beetles can be a damn nuisance. Here. I think you've earned yourself some pocket money for that. If you want more gold, I'm sure the servants could use your help with something. Or you can get an early night," Guildmaster said as he handed Derek some golds, "I will help out the servants' needs and I'll see if things need to be done before tonight," Derek said then Guildmaster responds "Sure, I hope you have something that needs to be done, before moving on to continue to your training."
Since Derek was walking to the kitchen area near the archery area, he was encountered by the drill instructor, who teaches Whisper to spar the training dummy, "Skorm's teeth, lad! Did you know how you say that potty mouth of yours that you shouldn't say it again in this guild," Drill instructor said with his unhappy face to Derek. "Oh, I know, sorry. I learned that a long time ago with some teenagers while we were playing 'A Hero's Journey'," Derek said that the drill instructor was frown upon to hear that Derek had learned something long time ago, "Here's a deal, Derek. I will make a swear jar and you put your gold in the swear jar every time you say those bad words. There are a total of 13 bad words that you shouldn't use in this guild, when you get older, you can say whatever you want and curse whatever you want. Got that?" the drill instructor said that Derek had learned his lesson, "Sure, I'll make sure to not say bad words. I'll be going to help the servants in the kitchen. Bye," Derek said as he walks away, "Okay, make sure you keep that language to yourself, I don't want to hear that bad words out of you mouth while I had the apprentice who is under 12 years old, around your age, or they're younger than you. You got that?" the drill instructor said "Yep," Derek said before he walks away and head towards the kitchen. 3 seconds later, he arrived at the kitchen, "Hey. Hey! Over here," Derek walks towards one of the servants "Can you help me out?" the lady said, "What's going on, the kitchen needs cleaning," Derek respond, "No," the lady said "I have to make an apple pie for the Guildmaster at the end of the week," the lady said, "But I can't find any more red apples. I only need another four. If you find enough can you bring then back here. I'll reward you," the lady demands it. "Sure thing, I'll find it for you," Derek said helpfully as he walked out of the kitchen and can't even figure it out where to get the apples, until he spotted an apple near the tree, near the Guild Woods entrance, there are 5 apples on the ground, he picked up four apples from the ground and saw one of the apple on the ground gone bad and it infested around the apple and will not pick it up. So, he walked towards the kitchen with four red apples on his hands and walked up toward the lady in the kitchen and gives her four apples "Thanks! Thank you very much. The Guildmaster will get his pie. Here, have this," the lady give Derek a slice of Blueberry Pie and he ate it and exit out of the kitchen and walks up towards the Maze's Quarters miles away and heard and saw Maze chatting with the skeleton that Derek doesn't know who is he as he walked upstairs. "The journey's length is of no consequence. The Oracle must be protected," said the mysterious, skeleton-like hero, "How can you be so sure? We might need you here. Who knows what battles we might face," Maze said to the mysterious hero, "The signs are too strong to ignore, and the Northern Wastes have been too isolated from the Guild. There is much I may learn there," said the mysterious hero with a impatience to have the Oracle protected. "Well, I hope nobody thinks you're running away from a fight, trying to cheat death again. You know how people talk..." a mysterious hero interrupts Maze, "Talk is of no matter to me," as a mysterious hero thinks it's times up, "May death close his eyes to you, Maze," a mysterious hero said as he teleported away from the Guild. Derek walks up to the quarters "What are you waiting for? Come in," Maze said to Derek as Derek enters the quarter, "That was Scythe. He was a great hero once, back when he had flesh on his bones and blood on his veins," "Well, why don't you listen to him and trust him that Scythe wants you to get things done for him," Derek said "I'm sorry, Derek, there's nothing I can do for him. Anyways, he's just a shell now. What does he know of the choices we have to make, of what it takes to get things done?" Maze replied to Derek as Maze felt frustrated to have this happen. "Can you call Scythe back to this guild and..." Maze interrupts Derek "Go see the Guildmaster, Derek. I'm tired of this discussion that I can't talk to you about it," Maze said as Derek walks down stairs and sees his Guildmaster miles away "You look tired of killing the beetles," the Guildmaster said, "Yeah I am, but right now, I'm ready to continue my training and willing to learn new things in this guild. I will not fail this part, and neither that I will make a mistake. I'm ready to become part of the guild, this will be my life for the eternity," Derek said.
== Life in the Heroes' Guild ==
The Heroes' Guild was now Derek's new life. The memory of the Oakvale flames still in his mind that he can't let it go or forget it that scorched his mind, but he was now putting his fantasies into reality after his obsessive compulsive of the game called "A Hero's Journey". Soon he had no thought other than training and no thought other than becoming a hero. Also, he became harder, better, faster, stronger, tougher, and more agile with every passing year. His days in the guild were filled with grueling exercises and complicated assignments and duties to get it done, and he study in the library every night. Finally, after working harder and harder with 3 sleepless nights per week in once per month, he was ready to become a Guild Apprentice that Maze had foreseen. The real training was about to begin, and the real tasks was about to come immediately as Derek had know.
"Get out of bed, lazybones!", Whisper alarmed Derek to wake out of his bed. "Shit!!", Derek rudely waked up from his bed when he looked at the clock on the wall of the room and shouted "I knew this was a bad idea to sleep in when I'm tired like a potbelly pig sleeping in the barn surrounded by the fatty piglets!", Derek calm down right now and said to Whisper "What are we going to do today for training?", "We were suppose to meet the Guildmaster on the other side of the river. But that was an hour ago!", Whisper replied. "Well, let's get going. Wanna race?" Derek ask as he was ready to get going, "Yes, we better get going. Race you there!" Whisper said as Derek and Whisper were now running out of the room, down the stairs in the map room, through the dining room and outside of the guild as Derek was leading the race while Derek and Whisper crosses the bridge and rushes towards the training grounds and Derek made it to the Guildmaster first. "Late again?", said the Guildmaster as Derek declares himself a winner, "I win!", Derek shouted, "Oh, shit beans!", Whisper cursed, "Now this time is going to be your lost in the training grounds once we're in free sparring", Whisper said to Derek as the Guildmaster ready to start the training.
"Okay, Derek", the Guildmaster said, "You can put that old stick away, we'll begin training with real weapons now," "What real weapons? I thought we're going to use the practice weapons that we use for training like the ones from the guards college and it's not that sharp," Derek complain about the real incident is going to happen in training. "Don't worry, Derek, it's confirm that this sword is real and it's still a practice weapon like what you've mention it from the guards college, but the tip of the sword is sharp, so be careful," The Guildmaster said "Get used to the weight of this sword, and let's see if you can hit Whisper with this practice sword," "Okay," said Derek, "Let's go, Whisper, in the training grounds." So, Derek and Whisper entered into the training grounds with a practice iron longsword in Derek's right hand and a staff on Whisper's right hand. "Come on then, Derek. Let's see what you've got, farmboy," Whisper said as Derek begins swinging his sword where Whisper guard it with her staff and hit the staff 7 times. "Now pay attention," the Guildmaster noted "What I am about to teach you could save your life one day," Derek begins to listen. "The life of the hero is a dangerous one, and you must learn to block your enemies' attacks if you expect to live long," Guildmaster said as Derek turn his face toward Whisper "Whisper will try to hit you, but you can block her attacks with your sword. Not all blows can be blocked, but you should be able to handle anything Whisper can throw at you." And so, Whisper swings her staff to hit Derek while Derek blocks the attack with his sword and he blocks it 5 times. "Well done. Now let's see if you can combine attack and defense," the Guildmaster said while a hero walks up towards the training grounds next to the Guildmaster. "Ah, hello, Thunder. Come to check on your sister's progress, have you?" a Guildmaster said to a hero named Thunder and he said "You could say that. Whisper told me you've got her training with some farmboy," that's all what Thunder knows about Whisper's progress in the guild. "Maze thinks Derek has great potential," Guildmaster said, "Enough to keep up with my Whisper? Bah!" Thunder said with a disagreement with the Guildmaster. "Well, why don't we see? Whisper and Derek are just working on their melee skills now," said the Guildmaster until Thunder and Guildmaster turn towards Whisper and Derek with Thunder's agreement to see Whisper and Derek in the training grounds. "Alright, children, let's see who has learnt the most in their training," Guildmaster said "This will be a no holds barred duel, just like your final melee test. Prepare yourselves," Derek and Whisper turn towards each other, armed, and into a fighting stance. Derek swings his sword and Whisper parries and hit Derek with her staff in his foot that Derek stumbles and hits Whisper across her throat with his sword that Whisper coughs, but no scratch. Then, it comes into a realistic fighting scenes that both Derek and Whisper were now hitting and blocking each others from clashes to clashes until Derek parries Whisper's staff and her staff flew out of her hands and Whisper picks up the staff from the ground and double thrust kick by holding her end staff to the ground and it misses Derek that Derek had dodge away and Whisper hurts herself, landing on the ground with a staff hits her head after a bounce of the staff and she gets up sore after she picks up her staff and the Guildmaster stops the match. "That's all wrong, Whisper! You need to practise more!", Thunder is disappointed in Whisper and said, "Shame you couldn't see me fight in the Arena. You might have learned a thing or two. Keep training if you want to go there yourself one day," Thunder calmly said and Whisper argues with the Guildmaster "I could have beaten him if you hadn't stopped us," Whisper said "If the Guildmaster hadn't stopped us, I'll beat you again and again," Derek said to Whisper. "We have a few enough Heroes as it is, without the two of you tearing each other apart in training," Guildmaster grudging said. "Speaking of which, Derek, meet me as I make my way to the archery range when you're ready to continue your lessons. Oh and about your melee performance..." Guildmaster judges Derek's melee performance "Excellent, Fight like that in your melee exam. and you will do well," Guildmaster said excitingly, "I'll continue my training to the archery range, Guildmaster," Derek said excitingly, "Then meet me by the archery range to continue your training," Guildmaster said until he walks up on his way to the archery range. But before he do that, he approached a beautiful, young, blonde girl that she was hitting a training dummy with her spear. A beautiful, young, blonde girl halted her attack that Derek was close to her and she said, "Hmm. What did you want?" Derek waves his hand to a blonde girl, "Hey. I'm sorry for being a little shy to you when we were kids. My name is Derek, Derek Black, the descendant of William Black known as the Archon, and it seems you're a fine lady and you were extremely cute when you're a kid with your father that it stuck in my head ever since I've lost my touch and my heart skips a beat," Derek said in flirty ways that a blonde girl was blushed with embarrassment, "Oh! *Laughed in embarrassment* Thanks. Hey, my name is Lucille, Lucille White, my father runs a church in Bowerstone with my mother. I'm assuming to be embarrassed of what you've said and I thank you for your lovely greetings to me. But let's not get too early with the love just yet, I'm still in training with this dummy and the drill instructor will be here in any minute. I'll see you later when the time comes, it's great to meet you." A blonde girl named Lucille said to Derek that Derek departs to the Archery Training, "No problem, I'll see you later when the time comes" Derek said his farewell that Lucille halts Derek by saying "Oh, one more thing, call me Lucy, it's short for Lucille." Derek respond back to Lucille "Okay, Lucy. I'll be at the archery training right now," that Derek walks up to the archery training area.
As soon as he reaches the circle in the archery training area, the guildmaster said this, "Well, Derek, you were pretty charming to that girl you've talked to while she was hitting the dummy, and I think that's just making her uncomfortable for you to do that, but it sounds like she's not going to ignore you, because she decided to see you later when she was not busy," Derek said in his confession "Lucy was such a fine lady and not only that, she was extremely cute girl when she was young that I saw her with her father talking to you. She is the girl from my dreams," the guildmaster giggled while face palming and said "I'm assure it's none of your business when I was having a conversation with the priest from the Bowerstone church with a little girl into making her a guild apprentice. But let's not talk about this right now, are you ready for your archery training?" Derek excitedly said "Sure, guildmaster, let's do this." The guildmaster now feels he's ready to teach Derek how to shoot an arrow to the target, "Alright then, lad. Let's continue our training with the bow," the guildmaster said that he gives Derek a practice yew longbow with a practice yew arrows, "Oh hell yeah! I remember shooting this arrow at the apple on top of my sister's head. Wooh. Thank goodness I was one lucky kid that I perfectly shot a apple at a very far range that my mother told me to hold my breath and stay still," Derek said while feeling giddy and was ready to get going, "Guess I'll get used to this for quite a while," "To begin with, see if you can hit the three stationary targets," the guildmaster said as Derek are in his ready position "And put some effort into it. The longer you pull back your bow string, the more damage you will cause. But make sure you stay within a circle." Derek grab his arrow and pull his bow string too far that he released his bow string that fire an arrow right at the head at the front target, then Derek fire an arrow at the middle target in the head. Lastly, he pull his bow string way too far that there was a tiny bit of the crack on the practice yew longbow and it fire an arrow at the back target in the head, but went right through the back target's head and into the background of the archery area. "Well done! You hit all the targets. But don't break that longbow by pulling the bow string very long, because your longbow will break," the guildmaster said to Derek as a warning that depending on the durability of the longbow, Derek can't pull his bow string way back that it result either a bow string snapped, or the wooden arch of the longbow break itself apart which results in "not a good sign" to do that. "Unfortunately most foes don't stand still, so let's see how you fare against moving targets," the guildmaster commands Derek as Derek gets ready in his fighting stance with a bow, "You have a minute to score as many points as you can," "Then let's get to it!" Derek said while he draws his bow, "The front target is worth one point, the middle one is worth three, and the one at the back will score you nine points. And remember, the longer you pull back your bow string, the more damage the shot will cause. More damage means more points, but you have to balance the power, firing rate, and accuracy. Let's see what you can do." the guildmaster said as Derek fires his first shot at the head of the moving back target that bends the stand back further, but no breaks. So Derek continues his shots at the heads on every moving target within one second of reloading and under one millisecond of his timing, reaction, speed, and good luck, and caused even more damages on every target that the target stands was bending a tiny bit further but no breaks. 30 seconds later, he racked up his points from over 50 - 150, Derek's arms is getting a little bit worn out, but no sense of fatigue in his arm muscles. 15 seconds later, he racked up to over 180 points with no breaks then scored over 200 points in 5 seconds, then he give all his might and power that he scored 256 points before time ran out. When the time ran out, the guildmaster said excitedly, "Excellent shooting, my lad. Do that in your Skill test and I'll be most impressed," Derek wipes his sweat from his forehead in proud. "I did that since my childhood. My father, Brom Brown, taught me everything that he learns from my grandfather, John Brown. And my mother, Catharina Black, taught me everything that she learns from my grandfather, Rodrick Black, and my grandmother, Robyn Infinity." Derek continues toward his agreement "And I will continue my training to earn my title as a hero, guildmaster," Derek said that the guildmaster laughs so hard as he now takes Derek's agreement into training "Oh, ho, okay. We'll do that Derek, we'll do that now," the guildmaster stops laughing and said the next training "Next we will learn about the ways of the Will. Speak to me when you're ready to continue with your training. I'll be heading to the island by the waterfalls."
As soon as the Guildmaster walks down the waterfall, Derek was encountered by the drill instructor with Lucille on his side saying "You do know 'busy in training' was part of the Heroes' Guild's policy that all guild apprentices are not supposed to be interrupted by the other apprentices around," the drill instructor said as an additional warning that Derek has received and noted. "*Sighs* Sorry, drill instructor. It's just I can't get her out of my mind, and I first saw her through the window when I was a kid," Derek said as he is feeling bad for breaking one of the guild's policy. "But hey, if this is your first time, interrupting one of the apprentices' training, that's alright, just don't do it again," the drill instructor said as Lucille starts to show her expression to Derek "But I do accept that we meet again anytime that you're taking a break from the training," Lucille said that Derek said excitedly that Lucille is not going to ignore her when she was thinking of a date, a place to hang out, that sort of stuff. "Oh good then! Well, I'll be off to training at the waterfalls, I gotta learn my Will this time," Derek said that he was going to the Waterfall by the demon door "Oh, okay, right now I'm doing the Skill training. We'll meet again when there is a break in the training," Lucille said as she was now learning her Skill training in the archery area.