Merida takes her bow and arrows into the games with her and hides them behind her throne, unbeknownst to the king and queen.

On the day the sutiors are presented to the princess, Merida comes up with the plan to compete for her own hand in the games. Unlike the previous time we see her shoot arrows, she manages to hit them all with ease She uses her bow to fire arrows at targets she has set up along the trail in the forest. Ten years later, when Merida is out riding Angus on one of her free days, she can be seen with her bow and quiver. Disheartened that she could not hit the target, her mother Elinor requests for Merida to go and retrieve the lost arrow.

Merida, while being instructed by her father, tries firing arrows with her new bow (missing every shot) until the last arrow she fires is shot into the forest. Merida's shortbow is first seen when King Fergus presented it to her as a birthday present, much to Queen Elinor's disapproval. Merida's Bow is Merida's primary weapon of choice it was given to her by her father King Fergus on her sixth birthday.

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