Chapter 3
With a splash, Whitetip entered the water. He waited for a few tense moments to start feeling sick, but didn't. Opening his eyes, he looked around, noting that even though the water was black, he could still see.
Glancing down, he looked for the sword he had dropped, but couldn't see it. Internally sighing, he turned to look at the island, before his eyes widened in surprise. There was the entrance to an underwater cave in the side of the island.
He swam towards it, sticking his head inside. Shrugging to himself, he swam into the cave, almost immediately surfacing inside a small cavern. He climbed out onto a rock nearby, glancing around. He noticed a smaller cave nearby, and slipped back into the water, swimming over to it.
He pulled himself over the little rock ledge separating the caves before slipping into the other caves waters. He swam towards a little island in the center of the cave, pulling himself onto it and shaking himself to try and get the water off. Glancing around, he saw the walls of the cave were covered in writing.
He wanted to check out what they said, but he yawned. Deciding he would do it after he got a nap, he curled up on the little island he was on, laying his head down and closing his eyes.
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Whitetip woke up to an unbearable pain all across his body. He opened his mouth to scream but couldn't through the pain. He curled up tighter and stayed like that until the pain gradually vanished. Opening his eyes, he noticed that one section of the wall was illuminated with a faint glow. He slipped off the island and swam over to the section of the wall. The glow was coming from some of the writing scratched on the walls.
Whitetip started at the writing for a while, trying to decipher it. Because it was so old, and some of it had been eroded away it was difficult, but he managed to make out:
"The gift of strength to one of power,
To mend the length, to defend the lower.
To seeing sight, the friendly devil,
Will be in light, no fiend of evil.
The wing of Crystal, a destiny created,
To set things right, or death elated"
Whitetip blinked as the words stopped glowing. Suddenly, ripples started spreading across the surface of the water. Glancing upwards, he saw cracks spreading across the ceiling of the cave. With a yelp, he swam towards the exit, leaping over the ledge and swimming for the exit tunnel as the cave collapsed behind him.
He swam into the tunnel and was halfway down it when a wall of force slammed into him, throwing him out of the tunnels mouth and into the ocean. He turned in the water to watch as the entire island collapsed, chunks of earth and stone falling into the depths of the ocean. Glancing up, he realized that the water was no longer black, but back to its normal state. He swam up to the surface and burst out of the water, unfurling his wings and flapping into the air.
"Whitetip!" A voice called, and he turned to see Fin flying towards him. As his brother got nearer, Whitetip saw him falter in his flight, before flying up to him and hovering in the air.
"Brother, what happened to you?" Fin asked, and Whitetip glanced down athimself, his eyes widening as he saw that his talons were much thicker than they had originally been. Glancing at his arm, he saw it was thick with muscle.
"The gift of strength, to one of power." Whitetip muttered, then started at how much his own voice had changed. It was deeper than before he had entered the island.
"Whitetip…?" Fin asked, reaching a talon towards him.
"It's me Fin." Whitetip said, glancing over his shoulder to see that he had been physically altered all over. "I don't know what happened to me, but it has a purpose, that much I know." He glanced at Fin and added "I'm heading back to my friends… will you come with me?"
Fin grinned. "And spend time with my brother? Why wouldn't I?" He said, and Whitetip grinned. He flew off in the direction of Possibility, Fin right behind him.
A/N:
Okay, so the epilogue is coming up next… I had an idea, and I am cutting this story short so that I can continue with the series. Book six will be posted soon.