Hey guys. My last story was a major screwup, so i'm starting it over, same characters, same plot, except now called Journey in the Aether. Enjoy!
When Skye awoke, she was in heaven, or at least it seemed like it. She checked her surroundings, and saw clouds and islands as far as the eye could see. Where am I?, she thought as she checked herself to find she was wearing plain blue jeans and a worn green shirt. Skye had dark brown hair that flowed right below her neck and sky-blue eyes, hence her name. She was five feet tall, slightly shorter than average. She had a slim, hourglass like figure. Anyway Skye was confused about why she was in this place. What was even more confusing was the fact that she was holding a worn-out book. Upon closer inspection it was titled "The Book of Lore Volume 3." She briefly wondered if there were any other volumes, but was distracted by a nudge at her foot.. When she looked down she spotted a cute-looking bunny. She picked it up and was in the process of examining it when it jumped out of her arms and started...farting?It was flying around and looking as if it where puffing out small clouds of methane. What strange place this is, she thought. All of a sudden she heard rustling sounds to her right. She turned around and saw a strange bird-like creature trying to eat a large plant, but the plant was actually alive! Filled with curiosity, she edged closer to the pair. As she made her way towards the creatures, her foot crunched on some grass underfoot. That was enough to get the bird and plant's attention. They both turned towards her (well the bird did) and started firing purple tipped needles at her! She screamed and tried to dodge them all, but she felt three impale themselves into her right leg, and instantly felt a shooting pain. Her vision all of a sudden turned blurry and purple, and she collapsed. The events that happened next where all hazy. A figure picked her up with some sort of beak, and Skye and felt herself being jostled up and down. She could feel blood running down her leg, and strained to keep her eyes open, but then pain overrode her, and her vision blacked out.
Three minutes earlier.
Ethan was doing his daily patrol around the perimeter of his rather-large house with his best friend and only companion in the hostile paradise, Spike. Ethan was a tall guy, six feet tall with raven-colored hair and sharp green eyes, and a muscular wore apparel identical to Skye's. Spike was a large bird, called a moa, which, when tamed, could be ridden when a saddle was placed on their backs. Spike was the weakest and most-easiest to find of his kind, being a blue moa, and could flap his wings 3 times before gliding back down gracefully. Ethan was scanning around for one last time before retiring into his house when he heard a feminine scream. Ethan immediately steered Spike to the direction of the screaming, and Spike flew into the air. Ethan was looking for the source when he saw a shocking and horrifying sight. A girl, an actual human girl, was being pelted by poison darts from a moa and a cockatrice. Cockatrices weren't even supposed to be out in daylight! Ethan saw the girl collapse, and made Spike go into a steep dive, where he (Spike) skillfully scooped the girl up in his beak and flew back up. "To the house, boy," commanded Ethan while looking the girl over. She had dark brown hair that he didn't know the length of, due to the wind. He noticed that at least six poison darts had impaled her. That is going to take a really long time to heal, he thought. When they arrived at his house he quickly grabbed her in his arms and took her unconscious form to his bed, a sack filled with Spike's feathers, where he proceeded to carefully take out three darts in her leg, two in her right arm and one near her chest area. He tried really hard not to look in that particular area as he took out the last poison examined the damage done by the didn't look too serious, but if the poison stayed in her body it would eventually go to her brain. I know! he thought. Ethan remembered that he had a remedy bucket, enchanted from the poison of the exact acheor that had been shooting would really have to slay that acheor. He quickly grabbed a skyroot bucket filled with a gold-colored liquid, and made her drink then ran out to his yard and picked some berries from his berry filled a bucket with them and left it by the bed. He then proceeded to examine her, not in the wrong way, mind you. Her hair, as he now found out, went a bit past her shoulders. She was a bit short, but apart from that she looked normal. At least, what he considered normal. He looked down at her hands and was surprised to find a book in her hands. Somehow she had hung on to it through the entire flight. He gently took it from her hands and leafed through the pages. It was blank, except for the front page, witch read "Book of Lore Volume 3 The Aether," but had a small square in it. Hmmm, i wonder if... thought Ethan, as he placed a piece of Aether dirt on the square. All of a sudden words appeared on the pages that read "Aether Dirt: A paler dirt. Aether grass and skyroot trees will grow on it." "Whoa" Ethan said audibly. This book is magic, he thought. His thoughts were soon interrupted by the stirring of the girl.
Well that's a repost. Review, if anyone still even reads this... oh well!