Trio Completed

After they had traveled for a bit and told each other their own tales, the two came to the edge of a forest.

"I hate forests." Toshi said.

"Because of the snakes?" Gerrard asked.

"No, because I hate the color green." The two laughed at the joke and then proceeded into the forest.

Gerrard led the way, cutting through the brush in front of them. The tress all but covered the sky leaving only a few patches of light for it to seep through, though allowing plenty of light for them to see.

"So, your war was against a demon?" Toshi suddenly asked Gerrard.

"Well, not a demon exactly, but close enough." Gerrard said. "Yawgmoth," Gerrard shuddered at the name. "The Lord of Phyrexia."

"Phyrexia." Toshi stated. "Even that name just gives me the creeps. And what you said about it sounded horrible. I never want to see a place like that."

"Yeah, well fortunately Phyrexia and Yawgmoth were all destroyed long ago." Gerrard said. "I made sure of that.'

"How long ago was it, that the war was fought?" Toshi asked and Gerrard was about to respond when he suddenly bade Gerrard to be silent.

"What's wrong?" Gerrard whispered.

'Listen," Toshi whispered back. "Do you hear anything?"

Gerrard listened but could not here anything.

"I only hear silence." Gerrard said.

"Exactly, there is not a sound anywhere. No birds are chirping, no wind moving through the leaves, and since we have entered this forest I have not seen any animal of any kind."

"Yes, that's true." Gerrard said. "Strange."

"Yes," Toshi said and then leaned in close to Gerrard and whispered barely audibly. "And what makes it even stranger is I just saw the branches up ahead move."

"What do you mean?"

"We are not alone." Toshi whispered silently. He then signaled Gerrard to keep watch to the left while he kept watch to the right. Gerrard nodded in understanding and went on guard, raising his sword in case of trouble. Toshi did the same.

Toshi scanned the branches where he had seen the movement from, but did not see anything again. But then he just barely saw some movement off to the right and immediately shifted his attention there. Something flashed before his eyes, and glint off the sun.

Metal? Toshi thought but reconsidered it. What kind of metal thing could be moving so quick?

Then he saw another blur of movement in the trees, a green shape dashing through the canopy, almost perfectly camouflaged. Then he heard saw the blur again, moving toward Gerrard, and then it was gone again. Toshi turned to Gerrard and signaled to him to join up. Gerrard slowly walked over to Toshi and stood back to back with him. There forest was completely silent.

Then the blur came out of no where and knocked Toshi to the ground. Toshi was completely surprised to be taken off guard but then quickly recovered and bounced back up toward Gerrard and saw their would be attacker.

It was a creature Toshi had never seen before. It had a feminine quality to it, Toshi thought instantly, though everything else about it was lost to him. What Toshi found most peculiar about it was, besides its green skin, long, green hair, sharp claws and pointed ears, was that parts of the creature seemed to be grafted with metal. No, Toshi was wrong, not grafted to the skin. The metal was part of the creature's skin!

But what was this creature?

"'It's an elf." Gerrard said, lowering his sword a bit. "But why would it attack us? All the elves I know have been friendly toward people."

"Why don't you ask it?" Toshi said wryly.

The female elf stared at Toshi and Gerrard, regarding both of them with her hard stare, but mainly focused on Toshi.

"Why do you continue to look at me?" Toshi asked the elf. "Do you find me attractive?" Toshi joked.

The elf replied by baring her claws at Toshi and started attacking him. Toshi brought up his two swords and started blocking the elf's attacks.

"Look, I really don't want to fight you," Toshi said blocking the elf's attacks. "But if I have to I will." With that Toshi took his short sword and slashed at the elf. The attack struck but only grazed part of the elf's metal anatomy. The elf backed away for a moment, looking a little dazed.

"Hey, why do you only attack me?" Toshi asked. "Why don't you attack Gerrard here also?" Gerrard looked at Toshi incredulously.

"What?" the female elf asked confused. "I just attacked you? I'm sorry, something came over me, I don't know what happened."

"Okay, now I'm confused." Toshi remarked.

"So am I," the female elf said. "At first I was in my home and the next thing I new I was here. I don't even know where here is."

"That makes three of us," Gerrard said, putting his weapon away as Toshi did the same. "Where are you from? I have seen many elves in my life but never one such as yourself."

The elf turned to Gerrard. "I am from Mirrodin, my home is in the Tangle. And this place is definitely not Mirrodin. It is amazing here! There is no metal anywhere."

"Is metal common on Mirrodin?" Gerrard asked.

"Yes, it is everywhere," the elf said. "As you can plainly see. But this place, I have only dreamed of places like this, a world without metal. I only wish I had realized I was here sooner and did not attack you. Once again I am sorry."

"It's okay," Toshi said. "As long as you do not do it again."

"'I will not," the elf said. "Perhaps I should introduce myself. My name is Glissa Sunseeker."

"I am Gerrard Capashen." Gerrard said.

"Toshi Umezawa." Toshi introduced himself.

"I am pleased to meet you both," Glissa said. "So neither of you know where we are or how we got here?"

"No," Gerrard said. "But we are trying to figure out how and why we are here. Would you like to join our search?"

"Yes," Glissa said. "I am sure we can all help each other."

"Great." Toshi said. "Now let's get out of this forest."

"Follow me," Gissa said. "I most familiar with forests, with being an elf and all, and can quickly find us a path out of here."

"Lead on then," Toshi said and then sighed. "Well, I guess I'll have to get used to the color green."