The next day...
Taie was cleaning out the ashes in the fire when she heard a noise. She whirled around, her eyes searching. She then saw what she had seen before she had met Yreif, the gray shadow. "What is it?" Yreif asked curiously, she was watching Taie glancing at the sky.
"That" Taie replied, pointing, "I've seen that before, do you know what it is?" Taie asked.
"I don't see anything, what are you talking about?" Yreif said squinting past the blare of the sun. "You have better eye sight than me, what IS it?" Yreif said looking at Taie. But Taie was looking at the ground in concentration. Suddenly Taie wasn't there any more, in her place was a smaller than normal finch. The finch quickly flew up above the trees and then it changed into a dragon. It glanced around quickly then, dive bombed back down to earth. She landed softly on the ground, hanged into a human, and as she did Yreif asked,
"Well, what was it? Did you see it? Why did you take such a fast time to get down here?" Taie laughed and said,
"One question at a time, now for the first and second one, I couldn't tell it was like a cloud or a shadow, though it resembled a dragon friend of mine. For the last one, as soon as I changed and started to get a good look at it, it swiftly flew off."
"Oh" Yreif said with a sad sigh. "Well let's get going." she said sullenly.
"Ok" Taie replied. Both girls packed up put their packs on their backs and swiftly changed into their dragons.
The next day...
When a hunter saw a fox chasing a squirrel around a lake, the man pulled back the string to his bow and shot an arrow close to the heart of the fox. Swiftly the fox changed into a girl as did the squirrel. The man blinked in surprise. The girl that used to be the squirrel ran up to the man, pushed him so that he fell onto the ground. She grabbed some rope that was held in his hand, which he had used for tying up game and tied him up with it, she then grabbed him, threw him against a tree, and asked,
"What did you do that for, moron?" He had no clue what a moron was.
"Me? All I know was that a fox was chasing a squirrel, so to save the squirrel's life, I killed the f-" here she grabbed his throat and started to choke him. Then in a voice of steel she said,
"If you killed her, I will personally kill you, slowly, and painfully." he swallowed hard at this. Taie left him tied and ran over to Yreif. Taie knelt quickly removed the arrow from the passed-out Yreif. After a few tense minutes Yreif blinked her eyes open. Taie breathed a sigh of relief.
"What idiot hit me?" she nearly yelled.
"He's over there." Taie said pointing. Yreif jumped up, but Taie held her back to the ground. "Yreif, settle down" after a few tense seconds, Yreif relaxed and said,
"since you saved my life, you deserve to know my real name. Tsol is my real name."
"My real name is Taie." Taie answered. "Now, Yr...Tsol you need to rest, the arrow hit you very near the heart, you can still die" Taie said worriedly.
"No, Taie, I'm a mystical creature, so I have powers, one of those is you can never die except when you are too old, because we all have healing powers." Taie looked at her in shock,
"You have powers? Do others also have powers?" Tsol thought for a moment,
"I'm not sure really, but you have to same powers as me, because we are both PLASMA creatures.
Chapter III
Taie was wandering around one day. She wasn't paying attention to where she was walking, and ran into a tree. It was an old tree with a gnarled base. As she tripped, she fell into a gap between the roots. As she fell, she felt light like a feather, and it seemed that she was spinning around in circles. It was like she was falling into a white stream, with stars and bright figures floating in it. After what seemed to be a long time, but really only a few seconds, she landed on a cliff, which was near a hay field. She looked about her. There was a forest in the distant. The sky was blue, unlike where she grew up. Where she came from, it was always a green sky, unless it was a storm, then it would be a purplish color. As she stared at the sky a voice behind her spoke,
"Hello? Where did you come from, I've never seen you here before." she whipped around at the voice, and there stood a boy, dressed like she had never seen before. He was dressed in big black pants, with a black shirt on. His hair was a blackish brown color, and he wore it fairly long with gelled bangs. She looked down at herself, she was a girl, not a dragon.
"Uh…" she stammered, completely bewildered, she had known some girls that had liked boys, but had never liked anyone herself.
'She appears to be glaring at me' he thought, but she was looking at his looks,
'He's so cute' she thought. Quickly she pulled herself together,
"Where am I?" she asked.
"Where do you think? You're in Colorado, can't you tell because of the mountains?" he replied,
"Colorado?" she said slowly and questioning. "Where and what is Colorado?" she looked behind him, and sure enough, there were many majestic mountains. "Oh, and by the way, what's your name?" she asked him.
"Ian, what's yours?" Ian replied.
"Taie… or Kati, whichever." she said quickly.
"Oh... Colorado is a state and it's in the mid west", he said slowly, kind of looking at her,"...Would you like to come with me?" Ian asked.
"Uh… sure." Kati replied.
"Ok, come on." Ian said walking away. Kati followed. He came to a tree and climbed it easily,
'It's almost as if he's testing me to see if I can follow as quickly as him.' Kati thought, looking up bewildered. Then dejectedly climbed the tree quicker than Ian had, for she did this a lot back at the other world. When she made it to the top she found a girl that looked like she had been drawing and was now talking with Ian. She stood on a branch with easy balance and waited for them to realize that she was there. She waited, then Ian stopped talking and walked over to where he had come up and looked down, then turned to the other girl and said,
"She was right behind me" She smiled, pointed behind him and said,
"Is this the girl? Ian?"
"Uh, yes..." he said, as he turned to her.
"This is Crystal, and Crystal, this is Kati"
"Or Taie, whichever" Kati added quickly. Crystal nodded and motioned for Kati to sit down. Kati sat down and swung her legs that were dangling down from the tree. She then got a good look at Crystal. She appeared to like black as much as Ian did. She wore tight black clothes including black lace like things along her forearms. Kati stared at Crystal's face.
"Uh... if you don't mind me asking..." She started slowly. Crystal shook her head.
"What's the stuff on your face? It looks like really dark earth." Kati asked. Crystal looked startled and asked,
"Where did you say you came from?"
"Uh..." Kati stammered, "I'm...not... sure, actually" Ian and Crystal stared at her,
"You don't know where you came from?" Ian asked incredulously.
"Well, uh... don't you have dragons? Unicorns? Foxes? Any type of persons?" Crystal blinked and said,
"well, dragons and unicorns are just faerie tales, and yes we have foxes and such, but they're animals, not persons!" Kati stared at her,
"ANIMALS!?" She said with a shocked look on her face. 'This must be what Cheo was talking about when she said that there are other worlds.'
"Well, what is your 'world' like?" Crystal asked, kinda interested. Kati looked at her, but then obliged,
"well, to make it short, the sky was green, not blue, well, purple when a storm was coming, our mountains don't have that white stuff, we don't have those things over there" she said waving at the houses you could see in the distant
"The only people we had didn't wear your type of clothes" Ian and Crystal looked at each other, Kati continued, still looking at the sky
"There were more 'animals' as you call them; there are unicorns, dragons, horses, flying horses, and much more persons"
"What about you guys?" she asked, as she finished. Ian and Crystal had been looking at each other, and looking surprised the whole time Kati was talking. "I never knew there was another world..." Crystal said, almost questioning. "Another world?? Well, isn't this part of my 'world' as you call it?" Kati asked.
"Well, I'm not sure myself." Ian replied.
"Can you take us there?" asked Crystal eagerly.
"Uh...I don't even know how I got here, I just tripped, and here I am." Crystal blinked and replied kind of sadly,
"Oh, so you don't know how you could possibly get us there?"
"Well... do you have a forge anywhere?" Kati asked.
"A what?!" Ian answered, shocked.
"You know, where you make swords, there's a big fire, and stuff like that usually they are in a hill or a rocky place." Ian looked and asked Crystal,
"What about down at the rock cut? Or that one place where we go with the others?" Crystal replied,
"Does she REALLY want to go to the other place?" Ian replied,
"I doubt she even KNOWS about Goths!"
"Goths?" Kati asked with a puzzled look on her face.
"Uh...ya...come on let's go" Crystal said and put her drawing things away, and stood up. Kati shifted. Ian went over to the exit place and turned to face Kati,
"Do you want... uh..." Crystal looked over to where Kati had stood and gasped. Ian asked,
"Where did she go?"
"Are you guys coming or not?" asked a voice on the ground. Startled Ian looked to the bottom of the tree,
"How did you get down so fast?!"
"Uh...it's called jumping" Kati said exasperatedly
"You just went and JUMPED out of the tree!?" Ian asked shocked.
"Ya, how do you get down?" Kati answered slightly confused.
"Uh...well the same why...but...oh, never mind" Ian said
"Uh...oh...k?" She answered slightly confused.
Crystal was the last out of the tree. She slipped a bag over her head so the strap was on her left shoulder as the bag rested on her right hip. Ian led as Crystal talked to Kati,
"So why do you wear all that mud on your face?" Kati wanted to know.
"Well, it's the way I express myself. Don't you guys do that in your world?"
"In my world I'm a dragon. I'm only a person when I want I free meal in a town."
"Can you change into a dragon here?" Ian inquired.
"I...uh..." Kati stopped, closed her eyes and after a few anxious seconds, exploded soundlessly into the air. She drifted back as a dragon. She grinned at them and nodded. She landed and changed back into a girl. Crystal and Ian just looked at her.
"You ARE a dragon" Crystal said in an awe filled voice.
"Ya...can't you guys change? Or are you guys one of the brethren?"
"Brethren?!" Ian asked.
"Ya, they keep the sacred places and fight only to keep it clean of evil. But then you guys could be the Ecli. They are just normal in my world. They can command nonliving things to do what they want." Kati explained.
"That's NORMAL?!" Crystal said incredulously.
"Yes" Kati said slowly as though knowing it wasn't the right answer.
"Here we are" Ian said. They had come to a lower part of a mountain. There were many cracks protruding out of the rock. They entered on of the cracks and found themselves in a cavernous place. There were a few other people there, all dressed like Ian and Crystal.
"Who's she?" a boy asked. The boy was wondering why just a cute girl had come by being a Goth, and yet didn't look like one.
"Derek, Kati, Kati, Derek" Crystal replied, introducing them. Derek just stood there as Kati nodded to him. The four of them gasped as a pain was felt throughout their body. They sank to the floor unconscious.