Post by shogunardrion on Sept 17, 2007 13:42:38 GMT -5
Tharagoad pulled his old practice dummies out of the attic, dusted them off, sewed them back up and set them in the old training room. The old paladin looked at the diffrent cuts and gashes on the dummies, and he thought of Ardrion. It had been some 30 years earlier that he trained Ardrion, and now he had to teach Toshiro Hitirra not only how to be a Warrior, but how to be a man. He wondered if he was up to the challange. It had been a week since he left the boy in the forest, and he expected him to be back in another week, or not at all. Suddenly he tensed up, some one was in his home, some one who had snuck in. Assasins he thought, here to kill the boy. He crept into the front room. There, barley able to hold himself up stood Toshiro, he was covered in blood. "Toshiro?!?!" Tharagoad cried. The boy collapsed into Tharagoads arms. "How did you, what happend?!" Tharagoad stammered. " I ran" Toshiro gasped. Tharagoad was in shock. It was nearley 70 miles. No boy could ever do that, but yet here laid Toshiro." Where are you hurt" Tharagoad said looking for the cut that the blood was coming from."Its not mine" Toshiro said. It was then that Tharagoad noticed the wolf fur around the boy. Tharagoad smiled widley."You are made of tougher stuff that I ever gave you credit for my boy". Toshiro Smiled, and passed out from exaustion. The next moring the boy awoke he was in a bed in a room surrounded by cloth dummies, and wooden swords and punching bags. "This will be your room for the next 7 years, it is here that we will train and it is here that you will study all aspects of the warriors life." Tharagoad said from the corner. "Now I am a paladin, so that is the way in which I know best to teach you, but your father is a Samurai". "So you will learn both". The first year was the hardest for Toshiro. Tharagoad was a brutal teacher, but even the young boy could see the changes in his body. He was stronger, faster, and smarter. During the day he trained with Tharagoad and helped with the house. At night he read many books on history, philosophy, Mathmatics, and Magics. This countiued the whole time he was with Tharagoad. In his 3rd year he won his first sparing match with Tharagoad, by his early 5th he was besting his teacher. Tharagoad never said it but Toshiro was his best student. One day while practicing his parries in the front yard, he saw a man dressed in Armour that he had never recalled seeing before. The man was big and wore and enormous helm. As he got closer he relized what the man was, A Samurai. Tharagoad noticed the man, and smiled. The Samurai stopped infront of there home and got off his hiryu. "Are you Toshiro Hitirra?" Toshiro shocked responded" Yes my lord, I am Toshiro Hitirra, how may I be of service to you?" The Samurai removed his helmet, and said" My name is Omura Katsumoto, I am the Samurai who trained your father and now, I am here to train you". Toshiro smiled.