User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Winter 2014-2015/@comment-7562999-20150126132120

Dazzling Light grudgingly ''follows The General. She sighs at the very prospect of having to go through yet another training course. She had already gone through one about ten years before when she was still alive with Lamentations. ''

Firefly: I know you aren't happy about this, Snowy Sky, but I cannot change the fact that you are too rusty on procedures and need training. It baffles me why they even allowed you to possess the Paladin's power. I had always theorized that is was them trying to drive the mortality out of you...well now they got their wish.

DL: So....are there many others in this "course."

Firefly: We get new recruits all the time....less than we used to, but still many. You''ll be training with them...Ah there they are...seems that they've already lined up and are prepared for the first exercise.

''Dazzling Light looks ahead of her and sees a rather long, single file line of other angels. Some look nervous, others brave, and still others look absolutely terrified. ''

DL: (To herself) What is there to be afraid of?

''Firefly seperates from Dazzling Light, ordering her to stand at the end of the strip of ponies. She walks out and stands in front of the rookie angels.''

Firefly: All right! Listen up! Today is the first day of basic training! You will be here for as long as it takes! Some of you may graduate earlier than others, some may not graduate at all! The first stage of training is combat and flying.

''One pegasus stallion chuckles. ''

Firefly: Something funny there, rook?

The stallion: Oh come on now, I was born a pegasus, I shouldn't have to learn how to fly again.

Firefly: You haven't done angel flying yet then, rook. It is far more complicated than that gliding you did back on the surface. NOW CAN IT OR I WILL UNSCREW YOUR HEAS AND (EXPUNGED) DOWN YOUR NECK!

''The stallion falls quiet. ''

Firefly: Now then. Your first task, is to choose a weapon. As you can see behind me there are various bows and crossbows. Select one that feels right for you, then head to the range and takes some target practice. With Heavenly weapons, the first time you use it, that weapon is bound to you, you will keep it forever. Now then, Dazzling Light, as you've had experience with Heavenly weapons before, why don't you be the first to choose?

''As Dazzling Light trots to the rack of weapons, she hears whispers of the other trainees. ''

A mare: That's the old Paladin.

A stallion: She was a Blest!

Another mare: I heard she fought Abaddon, The Lord of Fear himself!

A third mare: Yes, that's what killed her....

''She eventually reaches the rack of bows and looks up and down the row. Her eyes eventually settle on a glittering silver recurve bow, simple in its design. She trots forward and picks it up, it feels incredible balanced in her grip. She takes the bow and a quiver full of arrows and trots to the firing range. When she reaches the targets, she picks a target, squares herself up to it, and draws an arrow out of the quiver. She positions the arrow on the string, and raises the bow up to eye level. She pulls the string back, looking down the shaft of the arrow. She breaths in once, twice, three times. She exhales sharply as she lets the arrow fly. It lets out a screaming sound as it sails at the target. When it hits the target, the tip detonates, rocking the shooting range with a shockwave. Dazzling Light is about to pull another arrow out of her quiver, but she hears a faint snicker behind her. She turns and sees Firefly standing a few feet behind her.''

Firefly: Somehow I knew you'd choose that one...

DL: Why do you say that?

Firefly: Well, do you know who that bow previously belonged to?

DL: No one, I thought you said that they are bound to one soul and only one soul.

Firefly: This bow is a special case....You see back when Ramiel ran off in the Last Great Battle he left behind this bow. Didn't take it with him, so the bow just hung on this rack waiting for him to come back. No one has been able to hold it much less fire it since, but I feel now that its waited long enough. You now weild the Angel of Hope's bow. It was called The Diviner. You can always change the name if you want, it's yours now.

DL: No....I like that name.

Firefly: Now, remember this. Every arrow you shoot out of this bow, no matter what it is, will always become an explosive arrow. Basically if it hits a target it'll explode in a firey ball of Heavenly death, consuming any baddies in the process.

DL: So, I need to be careful.

Firefly: I'm sure you can manage.

''Dazzling ponders something for a few seconds. ''Am I still immune to fire?

Firefly: ...We think you should still have the immunity, though we aren't 100% sure. We know you can still breath fire as before you woke up here, you were breathing out smoke, so it was safe to assume that you are still immune to any blaze.

DL: Wh-what about my children?

Firefly: We assigned an angel to look after them for a while. At least until you can visit them yourself. Now any more questions?

DL: No that is all, ma'am.

Firefly: Then get back in line! Hustle!

Dazzling Light gallops back to her end of the line and watches the other trainees choose their bows, feeling slightly better than she did when she first arrived.