I finally updated! I know I meant to update earlier, but I keep wanting to write my story on fictionpress. It's about the world ending in 2012 perfect time to read it too. and review which would be awesome. It is called '12-12-12 the worlds end' I'm keira-22 on there too, just in case you want to read RA story on here. Anyway here is the chapter you have been waiting for.

Apprentices vs. Ranger

Halt paced around his house, Ava and Jay were outside probably playing the tracking game. It had been two days since Ava and Jay had become apprentices. The training should start today, but they hadn't complained about not starting the training. Halt would start their training, but it was a tradition to not start the training until they had complained six times. Halt had to start their training, he knew, but he would wait until after lunch.

Jay dropped and rolled, reaching his temporary hiding spot. Jay and Ava were playing the tracking game, again; surprisingly it was really the only fun thing to do at Halts cabin. Well, actually that wasn't surprising at all.

Ava kneeled down to look for Jay's trail, it was gone, what a surprise. This game was getting quite boring; they had played it a million times. Ava continued walking, looking for the trail to appear again.

Jay crawled out from the dried up river and started to follow Ava. She kept walking as if she saw a path which she didn't, seeing as there was no trail there. This wasn't right; she knew he was there, oh well he would try to scare her. He dropped to the ground and started crawling, he was about to grab her foot, when Ava started to scream then turned around and ran. This freaked Jay out so he started to run to. Suddenly Ava stopped and started to laugh.

"Wha- you tricked me!" Jay said, realizing that she had just faked that whole thing.

"You're so gullible," Ava laughed "come on let's go make lunch,"

"I'll make it if you clean up," Jay said.

"No, no, no, I'll make it if you clean up," Ava amended, she hated cleaning up, cooking was much better.

"Fine," Jay agreed.

Ava, Jay, and Halt were all having a very conversational lunch. Okay so maybe they weren't, maybe it was only Halt complaining about the sandwiches and coffee.

"This coffee is nasty," Halt complained.

"Hey, suck it up! If you're going to insult my cooking then make it yourself," Ava said sarcastically, they both knew Ava and Jay would be stuck cooking for the next four years.

"I'm not insulting it, it's called constructive criticism. If I wanted to insult it I would simply say it is nasty," Halt said indignantly.

"You did say it was nasty though," Ava challenged.

"No, I said that you burnt the water when you were boiling it," He replied.

"How would I- never mind," Ava said knowing she would never win this. Halt could barely stop the smile that was spreading across his face, when had he gone soft?

"So are we going to start training soon?" Jay asked. Well that's once, let's just act like its six.

"We'll see," Halt replied. Ava and Jay were outside, trying to make up a new game when Halt came out.

"Let's go on a walk, shall we?" Halt said as more of a statement than a question. Jay and Ava followed; Halt led them to the woods. Every once in a while Halt would ask what animal made a trail, they would answer correctly every time. Halt decide to move on to evaluate their unseen movement, they were good, but needed some work on that. Halt gave them some advice on unseen movement and they improved instantly. Even though they both had had ranger horses for a while he still evaluated them on that, not surprisingly they had all the commands down. Halt would have started with weapons, but it was starting to get dark and it would be easier in the light, so Halt decided to try something new.

"We are going to play the tracking game, this time you two are going to find me." Halt said.

"Oh, that's too easy," Jay exclaimed sarcastically.

Halt looked around for a good climbing tree, after finding one he began to climb then sat still to wait for them to start looking. Five minutes later they walked by so he crawled down and walked to his final hiding spot.

"Oh my gosh where is he?" Ava exclaimed, they had been looking for an hour now.

"I don't know, maybe one of the horses could find him," Jay suggested.

"Yeah, okay," Ava agreed. They were at the barn when Ava noticed something.

"Hey Jay, did you notice that there is a light on inside?" So the two ran inside and saw Halt sitting there.

Okay so it's not the best chapter, but the next one will be better. I will try to update before the end of the year. But, like I said, if you get bored read my other RA story or Fictionpress story It's about the world ending in 2012, perfect time to read it too. And review which would be awesome. Or you could read my other story It is called '12-12-12 the worlds end' I'm keira-22 on there too. Review and tell me what you thought.