Stixx Journal entry #7
Ajuka finally gave in to all my begging and is taking me to the familiar forest today. He told me he'd take me there on my 6'th birthday and that was two weeks ago. He's been way to obsessed with this new evil piece he's discovered. But today he got annoyed enough and realized I would keep getting in the way of his research until he took me like he promised. Hopefully I can find a familiar the first time. I don't know if I would be able to wait another month for a full moon.
"is it time. Is it time." I said as I looked at the clock for the billionth time today.
"hold your horses. You have to wait until midnight for the gap between the dimensions to line up, so we can travel to the familiar forest." Ajuka said trying his best to teach me but I was having none of that.
"yah yah, it's too slow. I'm ready to leave now. " bouncing on my toes I continued. "I hope I get something that's good at using fire like me. then we can train together, and grow our power and be the best in all the underworld.".
"alright its ready. After we go don't separate from me. There are lots of extremely dangerous monsters in there." Ajuka said trying to get me to listen again for the second time today only to fail again.
"the more dangerous the better…ooooo, maybe I can find a dragon. That would be like a dream come true." I said getting even more excited to go.
The teleportation circle on the ground glowed brightly as it teleported us. Next thing I knew we were in the middle what had to be the creepiest forest I've ever seen. There where gnarled roots covering the ground in every direction. None of the trees had a single leaf on them. The sky was a sickly color of gray. There was this odd noise that seemed to come from every direction. There wasn't any one creature that was making the noise, it was like the forest itself was crying out and telling you to go back to where you're from.
'this is the coolest place ever!' I thought. 'I'm going to go and find a friend.'
"now stay close. If we stay together everything will go…. according to plan" ajuka said trailing off as he looked at the dust cloud that took the place of the hyperactive child. "it's like dealing with Serafall"
As Stixx was wandering the forest he was soon in a part of the forest that wasn't like the previous forest he arrived at. This area was mountains with cliffs that abruptly ended in to impossibly shear drop-offs, and snow capped peaks. The dead leafless trees were few and far between in this area.
"this place is a lot less scary then the other part."
As he said that the mountains seemed to shift and darken. Becoming foggy and appearing to have impossibly real looking shadows that began to form into monster's strait out of nightmares.
"me and my big mouth." Stixx said as he took off running to gain higher ground.
"I really.. wish that.. I didn't have.. that stu.. pid seal." He said remembering the seal that Sirzechs put on his wings to prevent them from accidently being discovered when he was in normal devil territory.
As Stixx approached the peak of the random mountain he chose to run up. As he neared the top he ducked behind a pile of rocks that appeared to be built up a few feet high.
"maybe it wasn't the best idea to run off the first chance I had. But if I were still with Ajuka he'd still be explaining rules and guidelines." Stixx said as he leaned back against the wall of rocks.
As he put his full weight on the wall, it shifted and collapsed around him spilling him backwards into the hollow mound of rocks he thought was solid.
He looked around the small hollow and saw tucked away in a corner of the chamber was a marble white rock with smooth edges that looks as if it were carved by the hands of time in a river over the course of thousands of years. It stood out as an odd stone in a sea of gray rocks, it seemed to have a power to draw your eyes in and hold them there.
Stixx almost unconsciously reached for the stone and grabbed it. The moment it touched his hand the rest of the gray rocks exploded outward flying off in every direction.
As he sat there in what was once was his temporary safe house now long gone. He heard off in the distance the sound of hundreds of forest fires all raging in the distance. The sound of whooshing fire and cracking wood mixed with howling winds that seemed to be giving off nothing but hate.
Feeling the looming fear, he decided to seek safety back in the forest hoping the shadow monsters had gone away or at least forgotten about him.
Trying to forget the steadily growing sound of fire and wind. Stixx ran down the opposite side of the mountain he ran up before.
Nearing the middle of the mountain he jogged out to an outcropping to catch his breath.
"so it's face this thing or run away forever. Maybe I can get some answers about this weird rock." Stixx said holding the baseball sized rock up to his eye.
Standing in the middle of the flat outcropping the heard the sound reaches a crescendo as the entire edge Ignited into flames trapping him inside the fiery circle of death.
Then it landed. A humongous phoenix bigger than any of the normal familiar sized one's which where normally the size of any other bird.
"WAS IT YOU WHO FOUND MY NEST" the great bird said as it landed and flared out its wings showing off its massive size. "BECAUSE YOU SAW PAST MY NEST'S ILUSSION MY CHILED IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS, SO RAISE IT WELL. IT WILL BE LIKE NO OTHER PHOENIX BEFORE IT IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND A [DAGON/PHOENIX] HYBRID ITS FIRE WILL BE HOTTER THEN ANYOTHER. BECAUSE OF THIS IT WAS NOT ALLOWED WITH THE OTHER CHILDREN OF THE NEST. SO I THANK YOU FOR DISCOVERING IT."
"I don't understand why me. Why was I able to find it?" Stixx tried to scream up to the bird
"YOUR HEART BOY, YOU HAVE A BIG HEART FOR THOSE WHO WOULD BE OR ARE ABANDENED AND ALONE. MY CHILED WOULD HAVE HAD THAT FATE WITHOUT YOU." With that the giant bird took flight and the forgotten fires went out making the forest seem much darker.
Bringing the rock now egg back up to his face "so you're a phoenix huh, hearing all that and knowing you choose me how could I possibly turn you away." Stixx said with a smile on his face. "well mission accomplished better get back to Ajuka be for he worries himself to death."
Wandering in the most likely direction of where he arrived at, Stixx set of, still holding the egg cradled in his hands.
"maybe I can ask a familiar here for directions." He said knowing he was lost
As the path was getting wider he approached a clearing. Looking at this new change of terrain he decided to use it to his advantage and shoot up a signal flair of his fire in hopes that Ajuka was looking for him and not simply waiting for him to return.
Walking to the center of the 30-foot circler opining Stixx held up his left hand as his right was holding the egg. He shot up as big of a fire ball as he could muster. The purple flames reaching up a hundred or so feet before Stixx hand to stop and regain his strength.
The fire of seven sins as it was called, was one of the fires he was born with. His name was [Stixx bathymaas]. The Bathymaas clan was a lost clan that used the flames of sin as their weapon. His clan was unique in it was not like the other clans with similar fire. The other clans can only use one or two of the seven sins in their fire. He could use them all as if it where second nature. Which is why it appeared purple in color.
"hopefully that did it. Better find a place to sit and wait." He said turning around to see that someone had already spotted him and was heading right for him. Unfortunately, it wasn't the someone he wanted it to be. The beast heading for him was looking at him as if he were a nice dinner.
"oh crap…" Stixx said as he turned to ran.
Turning around he was about to start running for what felt like the tenth time today, but was halted by a girl who was in front of him. A weird little girl wearing a gothic Lolita outfit that left little to the imagination, it made a fallen angle's seem like they wore to much clothing.
"guahh…don't just stand there RUN!" Stixx said looking behind his back seeing that it was a griffin that had its eyes locked on him and was much too close to escape. Stixx made a quick decision and pushed the girl to the ground to his side and dropped the egg in the process. turning around he faced the griffin as it swooped down hooking both claws into his chest. On either side of his heart.
As the beast landed it pulled out its front bird-like front claws out of its pray. In the process pilling put huge chunks of flesh and lung muscles. Blood going everywhere, it covered the egg that was lying next to him. As he looked around he saw the little girl standing again and holding up her hand pointing to the beast and fired some sort of energy at the monster.
It was vaporized, the griffin was gone, not even dust or ash was left.
'what just happened, where'd it go…' Stixx thought as his consciousness was starting to fade
As he blacked out the girl look over him and stared down with a blank face. Her face was the last thing he saw as she placed the egg now red, into his hand.
author's notes
well here it is my first ever story. i hope you like it. not a lot of story explanation but i hope its enough to keep you interested for when the explanation comes.
thank you for your time.