((Holy cheese I hated the last chapter so MUCH! Can you tell I rushed? I'll try harder, promise))
Amaterasu and Gekigami where now trying to figure out how they could get down from so high in the skies down to the land below. The ark of Yamato had been burnt by Moegami, so they couldn't use it. They had both seen it burning away into nothing but ashes.
Amaterasu sighed.
"It's useless; it's going to take ages to get down, if we do at all." Amaterasu sat down heavily with her ears drooping, her dark eyes where sad.
"We will get down somehow..." Gekigami was thinking about the ark himself. He sighed and sat down next to Amaterasu, who was deep in thought.
Gekigami gave up thinking and lay down, his big heavy paws hanging over the edge of the plains, looking down clouds where moving slowly across the skies below.
At that moment Amaterasu stood up with such speed Gekigami flinched away from her.
"I've got an idea!" Amaterasu turned to Gekigami. "How about we get Moegami to fly us down?" The thunder god sat up again, his ears forwards.
"But you said you weren't going to let any other of us come down?" Out of all of the gods, Amaterasu was most respected. She was like their leader, if she said something, the others would do it.
"I'm not your leader, you are..." Amaterasu thought hard for a moment, looking at her paws.
"...your own leader. Yes, Now then." Amaterasu turned to go back to where the gods where, by now they had all split up and only Tachigami was there by himself on the rock where the Hanagami had been earlier when the gods had gathered together. His Tachi* was leaning on the rock below him. As Amaterasu and Gekigami approached he turned round.
"Oh you have not gone yet?" Tachigami jumped of the rock showing no fear- the two other gods where so much bigger than him.
"No, we can't get down." Gekigami explained. "We need Moegami to get us down..." Gekigami's voice melted away as Moegami flew towards them and landed in front of them, his great wings buffeting them with strangely warm air. Moegami was the second-biggest of the gods, only Yomigami (the dragon) was bigger. Poor Tachigami was tiny in comparison.
"I knew you would need me." Moegami closed his wings and smiled.
A few minutes later, Amaterasu and Gekigami where on Moegami's back and looking out over the edge of the plains. Moegami flapped his wings.
"Gekigami lose some weight!" Moegami chuckled. The thunder god growled slightly. Amaterasu's face stayed emotionless.
"So then are you ready? Dont try to throw up on me ok?" Moegami turned away from his passengers. Gekigami looked at Amaterasu with a worried look in his eyes. Amaterasu shrugged.
Just as Amaterasu stopped, the fire god launched off the edge of the plains, beating his great phoenix wings. Amaterasu felt slightly worried at the flames on his tail and wing feathers, but held her nerves. Suddenly her stomach flipped over as they started falling at speed down and down, off the plains, barely missing passing clouds. Gekigami held his breath. Amaterasu felt a bit sick.
"All right back there..." Moegami's voice was carried away on the wind. Suddenly he pulled up straight again. Amaterasu sighed with relief, looking over Moegami's side; she saw the land below passing underneath them. The trees looked like mere twigs, and people like ants. It was still green where they were, and flowers where blooming all over the place in a rainbow of different colours.
"It's even more beautiful from the sky" Amaterasu gasped at the beautiful land below them. Gekigami smiled as good as a tiger can. It was beautiful, the sun was bright and warm, the grass was a deep green, and where the light caught it, it went a green-yellow. There where houses with some smoke coming from their chimneys in grey streams of fluff. Rivers cut the green lands with soft and dark shimmering blues, their waves licking the shore. Animals from the smallest rabbit to the biggest bear roamed freely enjoying the wonderful environment, and at the same time, fighting for survival. Cherry blossoms made patches of whitey-pink around trees, the wind whipping them into the sky and they then fell like snow.
"Wow" Gekigami finally spoke up.
"I feel proud to be a god of this world. Hm?" Amaterasu nodded in agreement. She looked over at the sun and her heart swelled with pride too. Moegami slowed a little.
"It is stunning... but we have a long way to go, the north is pretty far of, we won't make it in a day..." Moegami cocked his head to the side a bit. "Amaterasu, you know any good places to stop off? Amaterasu thought hard. She would have said Kamiki Village, but they had passed that.
"How about... Sei-an?" Moegami knew where that was. "In that case... Sei-an it is" Moegami turned his attention back to flying; he beat his wings a few times to gain height, as the ground sloped upwards.
They passed lots of other places, when Amaterasu spotted Sei-an up ahead.
"There there!" Moegami nodded and gradually went lower and lower, until he landed with a thud on the grass near Sei-and, but a good length away.
"Won't they think that having a huge great phoenix, a tiger, and a wolf in their city a bit... strange?"
Amaterasu thought about it for a little. "They were Ok with me, after all they have seen a few weird things in their life..." Amaterasu had never thought about it before.
"I'll stay here, you two go. I'm far too large... Don't worry I'll be here in the morning for you." Amaterasu felt a bit saddened, but even she had to agree. "Be careful" Amaterasu gave him a wave with her tail. "You don't know who is out here." Gekigami said his farewells, and the wolf and the tiger, two which should have been enemies, thunder and sun, went into the city.
Oki woke up suddenly. His head ached badly and he couldn't feel his legs at all. He gave a small groan and shifted around a bit, but it just sent pain right though him. He winced and lay back down again.
"Oki shut it and don't move." Oki looked over his shoulder. His eyes where fuzzy but he could make out a wolf standing there. Oki recognised her as Hikari, one of the rescued wolves. She didn't have the nicest temper in the world, and she was pretty tough. When she was young, a mountain goat had attacked her in defence of her young. Hikari didn't just get a nasty bruise, but she fell headfirst down a mountain, and survived with only a few cuts.
She swore to herself and walked towards Oki. "I thought you're meant to be a warrior not a timid little puppy." Oki growled slightly at her words.
"Anyway, those creatures got you-"
"Don't think I don't know."
"You did get a pretty bad bash on the head then"
Oki sighed a little. Hikari just laughed. Oki rolled over of his side onto his front and pushed himself up from there. He shakily got to his feet with Hikari grinning at him.
"I knew you would get up once id given you the Hikari treatment." She gave a knowing look and tilted her head slightly to one side. Oki couldn't help smiling back at her.
((*Tachi – Large sword.
Anyway, i hope you liked it a bit more than chapter one .3. I don't like it personally, but I enjoyed writing the flying part, in fact all of it. Now my shoulder hurts from the typing O.O;'
Two chapters in two days. Record. *ka-ching*))