It has been about six hours sence I left the strange masked man in my apartment and headed off to find Leo. six hours of running, six hours of trees, and six hours of no Leo. I stopped and looked around, yet there was no sign of him. The man with the mask said he was down this trail and that I needed to find him quickly before anything else finds him. I wish he would of been more descriptive in telling me where Leo was, I looked up and saw the sky growing dark.
"Great, its about to rain," I said is I kept going down the path. I need to find some shelter soon, there is no telling what type of storm this will be. I kept running down the path when somthing moved to the right of me, I stopped and looked into the forrest.
"Hello." I said as I took my bow off my sholder, "Is anyone there?" Just then these things jumped out of the forrest and surrounded me. By the way they looked I assumed they were natives, I took an arrow from my quiver and prepared for a fight.
The fight never came, the natives just stood there looking at me, I did not know what to do. Then they began to speak.
"It look like grey creature," one said as they stared me down.
"Grey creature, you mean Leo?"
"It speaks like grey one too."
"Where is Leo?"
"It have magic bow, he must watch it."
"He who? The man with the mask?"
"We must not anger him again." They kept talking to each other and ignoring me and I am sure it is Leo they are talking about.
"Look, where is Leo," I shouted, that caused them to stop and look at me, one walked up to me and said.
"Grey one that way," he said pointing down trail,"Pink one go past cave to find grey one."
"Thank you," I said as I started down the trail.
"You find grey one you also find him," he shouted, "Tell him we no hurt you." and with that they dissapeared off into the trees.
I kept running down the trail, looking for the cave and I kept wondering about what they kept saying about the man with the mask. I have a feeling that he will be back and I can not deside if that is a good that or a bad thing. Soon later I saw somthing ahead of me, when I got closer I could tell it was a cave.
"Yes, I found it," I said as I ran up to it, I stopped at the mouth of the cave and looked in. It was pitch black and it looked very deep, "Great." I felt somthing wet hit my head and when I looke up I felt it more and more. It started to rain really hard and I had no other choice, so I entered the cave.
Leos POV
I have been running down this path for thirty minutes and I have not found Aeris yet,"Where could she be?" I said stopping for a breif second. I looked around in the woods and saw nothing then I looked back down the path and I saw somthing in the distance.
I started to run towards it and as I got closer I saw that it was a cave, I looked to the left and right and saw that there was no way around. I looked up and saw the storm clouds above.
"I wonder when it is going to start..." then a rain drop hit my head,"Nevermind," I said to myself as I looked to the cave again. I knew this was probley a bad idea but I went into the cave anyways.
The cave was dark and cold, I continued through the cave wondering how deep it was when somthing shot by my head.
"Great more natives," I said as I ran and took cover by a rock.
I removed my sword and looked out from behind the rock, all I could see was a dark mass moving towards me. I ducked back behind the rock as two more objects flew by my head, one bounced off the rock behind me and I picked it up. It was an arrow, great now they have bows.
I gripped my sword and counted to three and I jumped over the rock, I saw more arrows flying towards me. I swung my sword and deflected all but one, that one flew past my arm and cut it in the process.
"Ouch," I said as I continued towards the creature, but when I said that it stopped firing and lowered its bow. I jumped up and got ready to swing my sword when it said.
"Leo?"
That stopped me from swinging, I reconize that voice, as I landed I said,"Aeris?"
I got closer and saw that it was her.
"Leo," she said as she ran and hugged me.
"Thank goodness you are ok, I was worried about you," I said as I released her from the hug.
"Worried about me, I was worried about you," she took a step back and picked up her bow,"I was told that I needed to find you before somthing else did."
"Thats what I was told," I said giving her a strange look.
She looked at me and said,"Were you told by some strange man with a mask?"
"I was and he also gave me this sword," I said showing her my sword.
"He gave me this bow."
I walked over to her and looked at the bow, I then looked at her and saw that the bow and her matched. I looked at my sword and remember how the hilt turned gray, I did not know what to think.
"Common lets sit and rest awhile, besides it is still storming out there and I dont want to get soaked." I said as I walked to a rock and sat down with my backed leaned against it.
Aeris followed me and sat down next to me, we placed out weapons to the side and started to relax. I looked at her and saw that she was shivering, I reached my arm around her and pulled her close to me.
"What are you doing," she asked me.
"We need to stay warm and sence there are no blankets around, we are going to have to use each other body heat," she blushed at that statement and when I saw her blush I felt myself begen to blush.
I looked at her and I noticed how beautiful she was, I always thought she was cute, ever sence we first met I thought that. This time however it was different, could it be love? The man with the mask mentioned somthing about love, was he talking about Aeris? I dosent matter even if he was talking about her she could never feal the same way about me, she thinks I am a fool.
She looked up at me and asked,"Leo is somthing wrong?"
"No, I am just thinking," I then desided to ask her somthing,"Hey Aeris."
"Yes."
"Did the man with the mask ask you any strange questions?"
"Questions...no he didnt ask me anything, he just told me that this was a dangerous place and that I needed to find you, why?"
"Um, no reason, just wondering."
"What did he asked you?" she asked me.
"Nothing important," I said avoiding eye contact with her.
"Leo," she said moving my head back towards hers,"You can trust me, what did he ask you."
My face was really close to Aeris then, I looked her in the eyes and found myself lost in them. I leaned in closer to her and to my surprise she leaned in closer to me.
"He just ask me what I would do for," our faces were really close now.
"For what," she said, I did not know why but I felt the sudden urge to kiss her.
"For lo-" but before I could finish my sentence a loud noise echoed throught out the cave.
"What was that," Aeris said as she stood up and grabed her bow.
"I dont know but it dosent sound happy," I picked up my sword and stood by Aeris. The sound came again, this time closer than before.
Suddenly the cave started to shake and rock started to fall from everywhere, I grabed Aeris and held her against the wall as the rocks fell. The quake soon stopped and the noise was heared again, even closer than before. I turned around and saw that the quake caused a rock cave in and trapped us in with whatever it was making that noise.
"Aeris," I said,"I looks like we are going to have to fight our way out of this one."
She looked and me and prepared her bow,"Bring it," she said as the creature that made the noise stepped infront of us.
? POV
I watched the two cats ready themselves for the fight, from a ledge near the top of the cave. I looked over to the creature walking towards them and said, "Let lesson one begin."