Archery, okay here is the Archery part and the Item Craft (trace on) and working in He is able to perceive what others feel, but not understand it
It is not that you are not good at magecraft, it is just when compared to all of the others, you fall short. But Xavius your mentor, he made sure to find what you excelled at above all others. It was thanks to his persistence in this, that you were able to find what it was, you were able to compete in that no one else could compete in. That was Archery, even now,, 5 years later, you are still the best for your age in the Empire, perhaps even one of the best overall given time. And now as you diligently practice your art, the sentinels all watch in both awe and infatuation, or at least those are the words that Xavius and Lady Vashj used to describe the looks upon their sentinels faces. Even now as you practices, all of them stop to see what you can do and you never fail to impress, even on what you consider to be an off day. But at the end of practice, you hear a familiar voice call out to you. "Ah Shirou, my ever diligent pupil, how were the gazes and drool of the sentinels today?"
You turn around to see the cat like eyes of Lady Vashj, she stares at you with those eyes and gives you an ever so sweet, but deadly smile, it tells you that she knows. But you are not put off by it, nor do you feel threatened by it so you can only respond "I am not sure if I enjoyed it or not, if all them are only looking at me, they will fall behind and in battle, I alone will be the only capable archer we have to face an enemy."
Lady Vashj slunk up closer to you as she giggled at what you said, she was now came behind you, she let her skin brush against yours and now looked you in the eyes "Are your eyes, they glow and have the power of the well within them, I am sure that if any event that occurs, you will be more than enough to slay all our foes, won't you dear child."
As she says the last few words, she gently strokes your hair, it is long and orange and has never been cut since your first memory, as Lady Vashj does this she gazes ever deeper into your eyes and says "It is a wonder though, how you can create your own arrows, perhaps you can demonstrate to us how?"
Lady Vashj moves away from you now, but the feeling of both her touch and her breath upon your skin still linger within your mind. As your master in the art of the bow, she was not asking you to show her your ability to create arrows, she was demanding it. And you were obliged to obey her, you choose not to test her and give in to her demands this time. "I will do as you ask of me, Lady Vashj."
Now closing your eyes, you can see that place, a place a land desolate and barren, with only raging fire within it, once within that world, you but hold out your hands to the flames, the view of the arrows, held in the quiver of Lady Vashj come to mind and as you visulize it, the flames twist to form its shape within your hands. Now clench your hard firmly around them you say "Trace On!"
You can feel the heat of the flames die away as something far more solid takes it place, you now open your eyes to the real world once more and in your hands is a set of fine arrows. You hand them over to Lady Vashj who just smiles at you and takes them, notching them in her bow one after the other, she fires them into a practice target. She is very skilled, more than you are at this point and each arrow penetrates deep into the target, but only to fade and vanish after a little while. Turning back to you with a smile, that you think means she is proud of you, Lady Vashj says "Oh how I do enjoy firing your arrows, they do give you a certain edge as they can't be fired back at you."
She claps you on the shoulder and begins to walk away, you take a look around as she does this and can see that some of the trainee sentinels all they way up to some of the most experienced are all stuck in awe of you. Giving a polite bow you say "With that, my fair and strong comrades, I will take your leave and bid you good day."
Placing the bow upon the rack you make your way out of the archery range and back towards the palace, you can hear whispers about you and Lady Vashj, but they all end that it is nothing. For truly it is nothing, Lady Vashj knows not to get too close to you too many times, you don't know why, but it does make most of her own peers and lesser jealous of her. You are also able to see that others are jealous of you, though they try to hide it, why that is beyond you, if they wished to touch Lady Vashj, surely all they had to do was ask her?
