So before we begin I would like to state that this is my first-time publicly sharing my writing so I know there will be things wrong with it. (and there were a few things wrong even here) and I will gladly take any advice from you guys. be it some minor issues or some mammoth sized errors. Helpful feedback is always welcome because I know I am nowhere near perfect.

Memories

This was supposed to be a simple Job for them; for Team MSTG but this became anything but simple, even still that might be an understatement. Minojent can never remember how everything started or how it all went downhill so fast.

All she could remember is that one moment, with the burning beams blocking the doorway allowing only the smallest windows to see through. Causing still pictures to form of what was happing on the other side till the beam fell closing it forever.

All Minojent could do was to keep trying to keep the pictures open and to dig through to the other side. For there he stood with his back to her holding a warriors stance not allowing fear to enter or to leave.

But keeping the windows open was a fruitless endeavor for they closed faster than she could keep any open. The only feelings she could feel were the flames licking her hands. The feelings of the burns splitting her skin.

"Come on we have to leave, he told us he would be fine; that he would find his own way out of this place," Minojent hear a voice from behind her.

All she wanted to say to her was 'that we had to stay and help him for that was what a team did,' Yet no words could escape her lips.

Becuase Minojent was to focus on rescue and she could not speak. With another shift, the beams fell revealing a larger window into this hellish scape. Yet even with that, he stood still looking away with almost a meditation like figure.

At this moment it was almost like he could read her mind for he turned slightly in her general direction. Then he moved his lips looking as if he was saying something but with nothing more than a whisper to leave his lips.

Then at that very moment, the rest of the wall fell closing every window that lay open to this other place.

"Are you two kidding me, we have to get out of here fast. We don't have time to wait any longer," As he said while pulling on her left arm while she pulled on her right arm. Dragging Minojent away from the now sealed door of flame never to be opened again. With the black void faintly closing around the doorway as it became smaller and smaller, all she could do was let out a fully heartfelt scream.

Then at that moment, Minojent woke up in a cold sweat that clung to every hair on her back and to the soles of her feet. The next thing that Minojent could see was the white lights that shone from the ceiling in this terminal and the support of the chair she was sitting in.

Then for the coming seconds afterward Minojent need to center herself, coming from that nightmare had always been tough. But with tomorrow being that day…. she could feel the memories becoming even stronger than before.

They always got worse, the closer to the anniversary it came. But as if to release her from the grip of that nightmare, Minojent heard the screech of her adoptive younger sibling.

So Minojent turned to look at him and there he was with one feet gripping his cage to keep balance and his beak trying to gnaw his way out. Even though they were in no part a member of the same family or even for that matter species. Talon, Minojent's pet eagle was in some ways the closest thing she ever felt to having a true family.

Being an orphan from an unfortunate Grimm attack on her birth village she never truly had a family. During the attack her mother and father were both killed, only she was saved because of a passing huntsman whom she never knew.

He brought her to an orphanage in Vale where she grew up always longing to know who saved her on that day.

But with Talon she felt as if she regained some essence of a family even though she knew that he could never fill that missing piece of her soul. All Minjonet could do was to just smile and laugh at such a primal instinct to be free from a prison that he didn't want to be in.

"Just calm down there Talon, you will be out as soon as we get over to Atlas. Can you possibly calm down for a second and act as civilized as possible," With that Talon stopped looked at her for a couple seconds as if he could totally understand her.

But no sooner did that come across her mind, there he went back to gnawing on the bars of his cage. All she could do was laugh at that and relax for it seem that it truly was what she needed. It always happened like this for somehow he always knew what she needed to see or hear to comfort her even when in some of the darkest pits of her mind.

And with that realization, Minojent couldn't help but laugh some more at what She had just thought.

"Talon. You truly are a brother to me," Minojent stated to him. That almost seemed like it made him stop he stop gnawing and he even took his foot of the cage and rested back on his perch.

That little distraction was all she need to see in order to get her to feel to better about everything. Now Minojent could sit back to relax after escaping that nightmare from the past. Though the relaxing wouldn't last as long as she hoped it would.

"Now receiving passengers for transport to Atlas, now boarding," With that announcement coming over the intercom Minojent decide she had waiting around long enough.

So with that, she got up from her seat grabbed both Talon's Cage and SkyCrest, her weapon of the trade. With Skycrest slung over her shoulder and Talon Firmly in hand she proceeded to the transport.

Even though the announcement was only just played over the intercom for the transport a line had already formed of businessman and families. All waiting for their trip either back to Atlas or their trip to Atlas. For Minojent it was the former for it was a reason she wishes she could forget.

As she got closer to the front of the line she could feel a mix of emotions. For one part of her was happy to see the rest of Team MTEG but the other side of her knew why they were doing it.

"Next please," chimed the attendant from behind the desk. As she approached the desk she handed the attendant her two seat tickets. "Thank you, Miss….. Angelo…. Who is the person to be traveling with you today?" she asked looking around for someone else.

"That would be my friend Talon right here" holding up his cage as he screeched at the attendant almost scaring her off her seat.

"I guess that is acceptable though normally we ask for our guests to leave pets at home or with their luggage," the attendant reported.

"I understand but seeing as I am not taking any luggage with me the gentleman who helped out with this flight told me that this would be alright," Minojent told her.

"Ah, alright, in that case, that should be alright. So is there anything else you are taking on to the ship today or is it just your pet" at that comment Talon once again shrieked at the attendant scaring her again.

"Yes there is one more item I'm bringing aboard," Minojent said as she lowered the sheathed Skycrest with her quiver from her shoulder and placed on the desk to the now very startled attendant.

"Is this a weapon?" she asked as though she already knew the answer before time.

"Yes, it is. I am a huntress so this should be alright correct?" Minojent declared with a slight hint of modesty in her voice.

"Ohh forgive me huntress sorry for the confusion. And yes Huntsman and Huntresses are allowed to bring their weapons aboard, however, we do confiscate them for the duration of the flight," The attendant said with a more assured pitch in her voice.

"But what about if we come under attack during the trip?" Minojent Ask

"if or when we do we will return your weapon back to you. But I find that very unlikely as we have been using the same route for years now without any trouble for the Grimm," The attendant said with her reassuring voice.

"Alright, then I will trust you. But I am also trusting you to return if the Grimm do attack," Minojent stated as she handed Skycrest and her quiver to the attendant who gave it to one of the guardsmen who was also flying along.

"And with that all sorted I hope you will enjoy your flight, Miss Angelo," the attendant said in a chipper voice as she handed back the tickets. With that Minojent picked up Talon's cage and proceeded to board her flight.

So Minojent bordered the transport setting Talon down on the other seat while she took her seat. As she laid back in her seat staring out the tiny window she was next to thinking of what tomorrow brings.

It will be nice to see everyone again but still kept dragging up those memories from that day. All most on cue again Talon screeched at her snapping her out of her train of thought causing Minojent turning her head to him.

There he was just looking around frantically not enjoying his new surroundings.

"Just calm down there Talon you will be alright, just calm down," Minojent told Talon. With that, he looked directly at her almost as if he understood her. But again no sooner did the thought cross her mind he just screeched again. "Oh this is going to be a long flight"