Chapter one

Summer holidays where here and Emma, kestrel and Aragon where bored.

"Kess why don't we go practice sword fighting in the woods? I've heard that its a good place if you want all kinds of terain!"

"Sure! Aragon what say you?"

"Ok!"

So the three hopped on there dragons and flew to the forest in the centre of the contenent regalia. It was the largest streach of neutral land. It's where the head of each kingdom meet. They dismounted there dragons and walked deeper into the woods.

"Now lets all close our eyes so that we can't see where the other person hides." Kess suggested. They all agreed. Kess climbed partway up a tree. So did Emma. Then they all opend there eyes Kess saw Emma shift into a wild cat and unsheathe her claws. She looked up and nodded at kesstrel. Kestrel nodded back. Kess then turned into a small tiger. Aragon made the mistake of walking right in between them. Emma yoweld and they both jumped out of the tree and landed on Arigon they started clawing him and he went down under there weight. He reached for his sword but his sheath was empty. As where his knife holders. Courtesy of Emma. He started making a fire ball and then stopped and said "no elements right?" Both cats nodded. Arigon put up both his hands "I give up" he said. Both girls bit him once more and jumped up, shifting back into themselves.

"That was a good one. Ok Emma where are my weapons? They'd better not be up a tree." Aragon asked.

"There up that tree. At the very top."

"Of course. At the top of the tallest tree in the forest. Of course." So Arigon started to climb. It took Him an hour. When he was back the girls had eaten lunch and practiced their own sword fighting moves. Emma may not have an element but she could best kesstrel queen of the darkness castle (when leonidis is not around. Which is most of the time.) in a sword fight most of the time. So they sat there waiting for Aragon to get back. When he arrived Aragon had just sat down when, they heard voice's farther up the path and a flicker of torch light. The three glanced at each other.

"hide." Emma whispered. Seconds after they had doused there fire and cleaned up all there gear and hid in the bushes, a team of ice, fire, water, earth, light, darkness, fury, lightning, aqua flame, the shape shift village, and cloud, plus Cody and darklink where there with their best gaurds. Kess, Emma and Aragon hadn't known that there was a council meeting today! Once the comity and there guards had passed, they decided to follow.

" Arigon and Emma aren't you supposed to be there with your parents?" kess whispered.

"Yep!" Emma answered.

"So what are you waiting for? Tag on!" Kestrel prompted.

"Oh! Right. Sorry." Emma called over her shoulder.

so Aragon and Emma tagged on and took there places.

" are all the kingdoms representatives here? Yes? Then let the meeting commence." Leonidis said.

"Who put you in charge? I don't remember that!" Cody challenged.

"Snort. Giggle. That's becouse YOU missed our last meeting becouse you where in prison." Reega and Harper (queens of the fury kingdom and sole members of the fury kingdom) laughed. At that time they had had Cody trapped in their fury dungeons. Unbreakable. Only prison that can hold Cody, older brother of leonidis, most powerfull darkness elemental (other that reega goddess of shadows), and very corrupt. Cody shot the two girls a dirty look. They just rolled their eyes and laughed.

"Girls! This is a meeting, not a-a-a fun house. Pay attention and stay on task." Link commanded. Emma and Aragon tried there hardest not to laugh. So the meeting whent on until it was time to introduce the next leaders of all the kingdoms. Marth came with his nefew, link didn't bring one, dark link insisted that he would take over when link was quote*finally dead!* unquote, then lillias went with Harper,then Leo went with reega, then Roy with Aragon, and Cody who had an explanation of his own.

"If I die" he stopped and glared at Harper and reega as they had started giggling again. "Ahem. If I die then kestrel will take my place. BUT I WON'T be dead any time soon so. Yeah." Kestrel stood there in shocked silence. Cody chose her! But why didn't he tell her?! Well then again, Cody dosent tell her anything. Not any more. Not after what happened. Then, a while later, with the meeting almost over kestrel heard something funny and tripped and fell out of the bushes. Everyone stared at her. Silence. Just silence. And lots and lots of stillness. Then dark link stood up and yelled.

"You! Your the one who stole my sword!" Dark link yelled.

"I did not! It was surprise sharing!" Kess answered indignantly. Dark link growled in response. Then he whipped out his back up sword and started prowling towards Kess. Ike stood up and said "well if where blaming people then she" he said pointing at Emma "succeeded at stealing my cloak and my sword." He started moving towards Emma. Unfortunately he didn't have his sword back yet. So he started making an lightning ball. It crackled and fizzed in a menacing way.

"Oh is little ms no element scared?" Ike taunted. Then Cody stood up.

"And I just want to chase someone." He scowled. The three bad guys looked at each other and said

"NOW!"

"Here's your sword Ike!" Emma yelled as she threw it over her shoulder. It hit Ike in the middle of the face. Emma, Kess and Aragon where running full sprint down the path away from there chasers. They where running neck in neck. Emma in the middle and Aragon and Kess on the right and left sides. Ike threw his sword at Emma. It whisked passed her just barly nicking her ear.

"Time to leave the path!" Aragon yelled.

"No it's to late now." Emma replied.

"Sigh. What I wouldn't give for a teleporting smoke bomb right now." Kess cried forlornly.

"I have one left. Bu it's only for emergencies." Aragon said bluntly.

"You dope! This is an emergincey!"

"I'm not giving it to you!" He replied stubbornly. Emma exganged a glance with kestrel. They both nodded.

"Oh no. No no no no." Aragon protested. Emma just smiled at him. Then she darted to the side and grabbed Aragon's smoke bomb. She then grabbed Aragon and Kess grabbed her. Just as she smashed the smoke bomb Ike put a hand I front of her mouth. She bit him as she spoke so it came out more like "shmersh masiol." the smoke bomb flickered. Once. Twice. Three times. Then it turned into a sucking blackness. It sucked all the air out of them and squeezed them until they felt like they would burst. Then the world evened out and they collapsed onto solid ground. The first thing they noticed was that there was grass beneath them. That ment they wherent in cloud castle becouse as they said. CLOUD castle. The second thing they noticed was that there was two pairs of black shiny boots standing right in front of there faces.