"Shade, how, did…"
"It is okay, I will tell you everything, but one question, how did you get here?" Shade asked.
"Long story, but I bet you have a longer one" Marina said.
"No doubt" Shade told Marina about how in fact how he did die, and Marina started crying about how he was there the whole time and she did not even know. Shade told her how he had been caught in the lights and somehow ended up here. "How did you get here?" Shade asked Marina once he had told her what had happened.
"I was just flying around, hunting, and there was some colorful lights in the sky. I flew a little higher and I could not fly away. For a moment I felt… I don't know, Energized. There was also a bright glow coming from all the animals and plants below me. It temporarily blinded me, but when I got my vision back, I saw I had this" Marina said and showed Shade her wing. It was clear and translucent, just like he had, Shade realized with a start. Both Marina and Shade's wings looked like Zephyr's wings, just they were glowing slightly. What do you think it means?" Marina asked.
"I have no idea," Shade said. "But I know we need to get to this bat called Dusk, I think these bats around here…err, are actually not bats, but something called chiropters"
"Run! Soricid attack!" A chiropter shouted while gliding down through the forest.
"A what?" Shade and Marina said at the same time, blushing once they did.
"Climb! Now!" one chiropter shouted at them as he climbed for safety. Dozens of chiropters were filing out of the hollows and warning others, and climbing higher as they did. Shade started to worry.
"What are they?" Shade screamed at the nearest chiropter. But he did not have to wait long to get his answer. Millions of small mole like creatures with sharp red teeth stampeded out of the bushes and crowded around a small chiropter that had fallen. Shade watched in horror as they all bit the chiropter and he stopped moving. Shade could tell he was alive, and was only paralyzed, but still…
"Hey you two, stop staring down there like idiots, the soricids can climb you know" one chiropter said over his back as he was climbing. Shade regarded him, for he was focused on what was below. He watched in extreme terror as the soricids tore every last piece of flesh from his bones, then left the bones in the clearing to rot.
"Shade!" it was Marina, "Behind you!" but Shade had no time to look behind him before he was being dragged of by one of the soricids.
"Marina, help!" cried Shade, but she had been bitten too and was being carried by a soricid in the same direction he was. Shade then got an idea. Shade closed his eyes and thought of the scariest thing imaginable, and let out an echo blast into the forest right before he was completely paralyzed. Out of nowhere a large winged lizard like thing blasted out into the clearing, scaring off the soricids that surrounded Shade and Marina. It bit and clawed at the soricids, but never touched them.
"Winged Saurian!" some chiropters screamed from the trees. There was suddenly a bunch of terrified screams from the trees, chiropters started lifting from the trees and gliding away from the saurian. Shade opened his eyes and the saurian disappeared. Many chiropters gasped and gave puzzled looks down to the area the saurian was just in.
"What did you do Shade?" Marina asked him. Of course, she knew it was him.
"Echo projection, never fails"