Space Knights: The Arrival by Gregory Samuelson (buy e reader .TXT) 📕

people that choose that want to get into the Golden Griffins. It’s very hard to learn just two weapons and become a knight. I worked very hard to get in and chose a sword and mace. I just qualified to be a knight. In my years in high school I only saw three other guys try three weapons to get into the Golden Griffins, and only one made it.”

“Was his name Zak?” Trance chimed in.

“How do you know him?” Kyle asked in great surprise. Trance quickly explained about meeting Zak and their conversations.

“Well that makes sense. So do you really want to try for three weapons?” Kyle asked and on receiving the affirmative went on with the form. “Okay, what do you want for your third weapon?”

“The bow and arrow. I learned to shoot a bow growing up on Earth and I got more practice on the Markem farm,” Trance replied.

“Alright, if that’s what you want to do. Here you go. Now mom and dad have to sign it as well as yourself. You can still get out of this, just say the word and we can trash this part of the form; however, if you send it in you’re in, there’s no turning back. At least till the third month of the school year. I’m a knight like I said and being a knight is very hard work and extremely dangerous. With three weapons you’ll really have to work hard to get in as a Golden Griffin. I also suggest that you study hard in all of your classes. You may find it hard to believe, but you’ll need to get really good grades in all of your classes to get in as a knight, let alone a Golden Griffin,” Kyle advised.

“That sounds good to me. I was always very good in school back on Earth. Being a knight is something I have always dreamed and imagined,” Trance confessed.

They then took the form to their parents who looked over the form. They paused at the knight class section and asked him about the third weapon and his desire to try for the Golden Griffins. They checked a small handbook from the school about the knight class and saw what grades he’d need to achieve to make the Golden Griffins. He’d have to have very high grades, three grades higher than he’d ever scored in school in his past.

“What do you think?” Trance asked his parents, waiting patiently for their reaction.

“Well if it’s really what you want,” Evan said as he glanced at his wife. In his mind he kept remembering his father’s dream.

Eileen thought about the dream also with other ideas. She was more nervous about this. How could he help in the process of redeeming this world as a knight? Yet she remembered and knew that he’d always imagined being a knight. His dream was about to come true. With a prayer in her heart she nodded that she was okay. Then she and Evan signed Trance’s form and handed him the form to sign.

With the form signed Trance saw that his dream was now getting closer to coming true. He felt his excitement growing as he anticipated going to school. In the days that followed Trance got reacquainted with his family and got to know Kyle. He played with Sammy and got to know Sammy’s friends. He also met some of Heather’s friends and started feeling more and more at home. He could tell that the summer season was quickly coming to an end. He did all he could with his family now that he was with them again. He had missed them so much. How precious that time was, and how short as he enjoyed finally being home. He was determined to go for as much quality as he could. Eileen relished every moment with him and prayed that God would lead him to his destiny and continue to protect him. Each day she praised God and thanked him for returning Trance to them.

Chapter 12

School Again

Two days before the school year was to start Trance went to the school with his parents to finish getting registered. Earlier that day they had registered his brother and sister in school and had their school pictures taken. Trance entered the school behind his parents and before Heather and Sammy and looked around.

The area they entered Trance saw was wide and open. He noticed that there was an area in the middle that was oval in shape and sunk by two steps that went completely around the oval. To his right just beyond the sunken oval was a stage area. The curtains were pulled back and the stage had a dozen tables. Trance had seen that there were ten tables set up in the oval area. To the left of the stage he saw the door to the band room and next to that was the lunchroom door. To the right of the stage was the door to the shop room.

Trance continued to gaze around. He spotted a classroom door at the back of the stage. On the other side of the stage where he and his family were he saw were six trophy cases filled with various trophies. There were two doors to the office between the trophy cases. They went in and were greeted by the school secretary. Trance’s parents turned in his registration forms and the secretary entered his information into the school’s computer and said that it would be a few minutes to process. She instructed them to go over to where the pictures were being taken in one of the classrooms. They would get instructions there for his pictures. By the time his picture would be taken for the yearbook and his identification school card and some for personal uses, his registration would be complete. Trance could then get his information packet and be able to see what his schedule would be.

Trance and his family left the office and went to the