Well I will be making atleast one of these per day, as I have been thus far. I’m trying to finish the series b4 school starts and its going 2 b a long series. Well here you go part 6, ENJOY! =D

I slept little that night. Mainly because of two things. One im happy that I actually have somewhere to go and some people to talk to, I didn’t like being a wonderer and it was lonly. So basically i’m excited about that fact, and reason two is the fact that we will be going deep into the ant tunnel and past, fighting on strong monsters. I have been to the ant tunnel before, but not that deep, and none of the monsters were above lvl 30. Hec said the monsters we were going to train on would be above 60. Maybe that even was a bit to tough for me on my first day. I knew Hec would be tough, like the other guild members told me yesterday, but wow isn’t this a bit to much?
As those thoughts ran through my mind, at around 4:00 in the morning I fell asleep.
“Hey Shannara,” I heard a voice say ” Wake up.”
I opened my eyes to check who the voice was coming from, and it was darrel the ice lightning mage.
“Come on man the others are already done with breakfast, were running late.” Darrel said again.
“Ughh… Man what time is it?” I asked still half asleep.
“Its 6:00 am, Hec told us to be woken up by 5:00, remember?” He replied
6:00 AM! WHAT?! I barely slept 2 hours. The statement ran through my mind.
” I’ll go down stairs and wait for you with the others, and lets hustle man.” Darrel said, with his back turned and walking out the door. Despite of the fact of how queit Darrel was, I knew he would be a cool person, it was a friendship in the making.
As tired as I was, and as little sleep as I had, I knew the others were counting on me to be ready. I can’t blow it on my first training day with the guild.
I got out of bed, took off my red polka dotted pajamas, and was out to the shower. I took a less then 2 minute shower because of the time, put on my blue crusader chainmail and took my zard. I was on my way out door, when I saw Hec come in. OHH NO! I thought to myself, is he mad at me for being late? Well glad to say he didn’t look like it.
“Mornin Shannara,” He said in his usual tone of voice, ” Were kinda late aren’t we?” Did you sleep good?”
“Yes,” I replied telling a slight lie.
“Well it sure don’t look like it” Hec stated the fact. ” Listen Shannara,” Hec said again with a change in voice ” The reason I came here today, was the fact that your zard looks mighty worn out.”
“No not really,” I replied trying to make the best of it. Although Hec did have a good point, This zard was about 4 years old, and it has been through a lot of battles with me. I thought to myself. But its old and the metal is already begining to rust on it, its blade also is and looked more dull.
” Well never the less Shannara, I came here because I want you to have something. I mean…. Ughhhh…. The guild and I want to give you something as a gift.”
I looked at him in suprise. A gift?
” Well I was never good at gifting presents to people, and dont have a lot of experience but here you go.” Helf said pulling something out something from his bag, but then I realized what that something was.
” A SPARTA.” I yelled in a pleasently suprised type of way. ” WHERE DID YOU GET THIS?” I asked happily.
” A friend gave it to me, whos a master swordsman.” Hec replied, ” He said if there will ever be a skilled warrior in my guild, give it to him.”
” Thank you,” I said out of joy, smiling at Hec. I looked at the blade of the sparta, it was silver like most blades, but a little purple added to it. The handle was great to grip, showing that in battle it would be hard to lose this. It was about the same size of my zard weighing less, but it was looking, feeling, and being far more deadly.
” C’mon” Hec said ” The others are waiting.”
So we went downstairs into the main big brown lobby. By the looks of it we were already checked out. Everybody was waiting, ready and looking at me in aww. They also seemed to know Hec was going to give me the sparta, because of the smiles on their faces.
” Everybody ready?” Hec said in a loud voice.
” Yes.” Everybody said in unison.
So just like that we were out of the sauna hotel, out of sleepywood, and into the ant tunnel.
The landscape of the ant tunnel was frightening. The landscapes colors were a lot of dark shadows and orange rock. We walked through it not really paying attention to any of it, but having our minds concentrated on what we were going to do. The monsters in the first part of the ant tunnel were easy, and we just walked right over them. After awhile of walking and jogging, we stopped for a short break at the 24 hour store in the middle of our journey. We didnt stop for long before we knew we were off again.
After awhile of walking and jogging again, I noticed that the landscape color of the ant tunnel was changing from orange to blue. Also I was noticing the monsters looked stronger. There were gaesers in the ground that did more damage then the ones earlier. There were ruins of old temples, here also. I thought to myself that anold civilization of mapers must have inhabited this place.
After what seemed like 10 hours of walking we came to a stop in front of old temple door, cemented to the rocks in this place.
” This is where the training and fighting part begins.” Hec said in a very serious tone of voice. ” I will be putting you into parties of 2, for this part. The parties are… Darrel and Matt will be together as one party, Then the next party will be I and Racheal, and the final party will be Jenna and Shannara.
Yes I’m glad I’m with Jenna, I thought to myself. I looked at her and she blushed, then she looked back at me with those pretty blue eyes.
The parties were assembled, and we were off through the big temple door.
When we got through the temple door we were on a platform that was a rock stuck to the rocky walls. We looked down and we say ground, but thats not the only thing we saw. We saw the meanest looking monsters I have ever seen. They were about 13 feet tall, with huge spears they were holding. They had horns and did not show there face. There were two kinds, some of them wore a red or orange(couldn’t tell which) armour, while the others wore blue armour.
” The ones with the blue armour are called taurospears, and they are the tougher ones. While the other ones are called tauromacis and are weaker.” Hec said in the most serious voice I ever heard him speak in” First try to stick to taurmacis, then once you get the hang of it move on to spears. But first look at me and see how I kill them, then after I killed one macis and one spear. Come down and start fighting.”
Hec put on copycat( a 3rd job sin move) that looked to be a high level. He then jumped in the middle of the room using the most skilled double jump I ever seen, and was off to fighting a macis. He used lucky seven, and his shadow did the same thing, a total of for hits, DOING 2K EACH A TOTAL OF 8K. Everyone stared in amazement at Hec and his skills I knew Hec was strong, BUT THIS! He could probably take on the darklord and beat him. Hec picked his next prey to be a spear. He used a different move this time called avenger on the spear, but by the looks of it this one wasnt going to be as easy. He hit Hec using his spear, and Hec was on the ground but he was up before you knew it. He used an avenger again and the Taurospear was down.
Then it was our turn. We got in out parties of 2 and came down. Me and jenna attacked a macis first like we were told. I HIT 3K ON THE MACIS. I never was able to do that before.
After about of an hour of killing spears and macis. With me pawning them with jenna’s assitance. We stopped and went ahead.
Hec stopped us after about 10 minutes of walking. “this door” he said ” leads to balrog.”
Everyone just went cold at the name.