A/N: I don't know why, but I like disadvantaged warriors like blind archers or one-armed knights O_o…and I also like old masters like Gandalf from Lord of The Rings! Pwnage!

Hunter's Pride

Chapter 3

It only took three…months…nothing to it, right? Most archers would be snipers by now, Keen would've been one too but noooo, the Guildsman in charge wanted Keen to pick an unusual amount of 60 points worth of trunks.

Three months of hard work, cuts and scratches everywhere, a bruise on his rump from the time the fifteenth willow smacked him into a rock.

…Ouch.

Nevertheless, Keen's determination did not wear out and he happily walked out of the archer village equipped with his own bow, two quivers of arrows and donned his archer's scarf with an air of satisfaction.

But he can't stop now, there was much to catch up on, namely how to shoot the bow in the first place…Keen felt his bow up and down and took a whole day to figure out how to hold the bow and shoot. He took another three weeks to lodge an arrow into the trunk of a random nearby oak. What he didn't know was that it was another willow…

His foster mother sighed but did not object to his decision, as long as responsibility still sits on his shoulders, she will let him do as he wishes. However, she prayed to the gods that he will soon or eventually come back with fewer injuries.

Finally, the day of reckoning came for him. Keen carefully armed his bow, drew the arrow and, with deep breaths, released the ammunition into the belly of a spore. The next moment Keen went crashing through the trees and learned how to climb trees faster than how to run through the woods without crashing into any.

Sitting cross-legged on a tree-stump on a hill overlooking the Payon forests, a thief smirked in amusement as he watched the blind archer take shelter in the trees away from a spore.

How laughable, a blind archer! When he first heard about it from the locals, he himself could scarcely believe it, but there he was, red-head, archer's uniform, and trained with the silence of an assassin. It figures, since the archer doesn't have the gift of vision, he could only navigate by sound, so minimizing his own sound would give him as much to navigate by as possible. The thief would do well to be careful of this one, he has potential, so why not…