Chapter 6
Gavin looked at his map of Zhong he collected from a library and glanced upwards as he traveled on a trail with his new friend he met, Shelby and her sea hawk Triumph. He tucked the map away and kept walking down a big path as he felt Echo figit in his pack.
"What's in your pack?" Shelby asked going a bit faster so she was at his side, she glanced at his pack.
"Echo" he responded as the Arctic fox popped its head out and scurried out of the bag and softly landing onto the ground, Echo padded softly beside them keeping us there once espasily as Shelby awed.
"Its so cute! No offense but I just can't help it" Gavin laughed as he bent down a bit and petted Echos head before standing back up straight. Triumph swooped down and landed on Shelbys shoulder and squawked at Echo who seemed unafraid as she climbed onto Gavin and laid on his shoulders like a scarf, he smiled as Triumph flapped his wings.
"Were almost there" they had been traveling for almost a day now and yet they were almost there.
"Wait, what's that?" Shelby asked as she gazed up wards, Gavin followed her gaze and saw smoke in the distance.
"Its Zhong..." He whispered "and it's on fire" Shelby finished.
"We need to hurry" he said quickly as Echo jumped in his pack and Triumph took to the sky and they started stunning toward the wall.
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Gavin panted as they came upon the entrance of Zhing only to find it demolished. Gavin took in a shaky breath as Shelby gasped.
"Conquers" she growled as Gavin ran up threw the crushed gates, Shelby following as they climbed up on a pile of bricks. Gavin gasped.
The streets were churned up and houses looked like they were blown up as conquer patrols ran around the streets, multiple Zhongese people huddled in there homes as most of the town was destroyed. Shelby grabbed him and hauled him down as a patrol passed by.
"What happened?" Shelby asked in disbelief as Gavin answered.
"It was attacked" he murmured watching the streets carefully.
"We need to find a safe place to talk more about this" she whispered as Gavin spotted the far wall where the watch tower was located with big piles of bricks and the wall destroyed with Some house remains. Gavin pointed to that area.
"Let's move over there" he whispered, Shelby nodded and slowly slid down the brick pile with Gavin at her tail, Shelby quickly looked left and right before signaling with her hands for Gavin to stay put as she ran to the other side. From the other side ducking behind a wooden pillar from a house and peeked her head out, Gavin heard the stomps of footsteps he backtracked and hid in a broken curved entry way as the patrol passed.
Shelby peeked her head out again as did Gavin as she motioned him to come over,he looked both ways before running across the cobblestone street and ducking behind Shelby and the pillar. She looked both ways one more time before brushing past Gavin and running down the side of house and tacking a sharp turn into a market place, Gavin swiftly followed looking behind them before almost running into Shleby who was frozen in shock, Gavin stood beside her as Echo jumped out of his pack and onto the cobblestone. She nudged his shoulder while he looked at what she was looking at and gasped.
There was a partly destroyed market place with a crushed stage almost looking like
"A spirit ceromony" Shelby breathed almost like reading his mind as they both gazed at the destruction in front of them.
"It must have been destroyed when the conquers attack" Gavin realized as Echo scurried forward and started sniffing at the damage carefully. Gavin quickly followed while Shelby trailed behind him, Gavin dug threw the broken parts as he felt a wave of power drift over him. His sense of smell sharpened and his body felt swift and viscous as he dug threw ignoring the state of the situation he was on. Shelby who stood behind him dodged the stuff he was throwing away and looked around making sure there were no conquers around. Gavin felt his hands scrape something like a cloth as he carefully ripped it off a broken nail and held it up, the power leaving his body in almost a instant.
"Greencloaks" he said looking closely at the green cloth on his hand, Shelby looked at it.
"They must have been here just now, everything looks freshly destroyed no wonder" Shelby said crouching down to examine the green cloth, Echo jumped up on Gavins knee and sniffed at it before pricing her ears as footsteps came into earshot.
"Both of you! Stop right there!" A man shouted as Echo jumped into Gavins pack as Gavin and Shelby shot up quickly Gavin put his hands behind his back and faced the man in conquer like armor.
"What do you think your doing? You heard what the general said, get back to your houses!" He yelled at the, sternly his Lynx that was at his feet growled at them.
"Yes sir! We're sorry sir we'll be going right away!" Gavin said quickly grabbed Shelbys hand and running off not before grabbing his pack, he stopped in a alley way and quickly hid behind a box of crates.
"Thanks" Shelby said breathless as they caught there breath behind the crates, Gavin nodded.
"No problem" he said sighing as he placed his pack down and Echo jumped out, Gavin petted her head.
"Thank you Echo..." He said smiling as she nuzzled him. Shelby smiled as Triumph swooped down on the crates and jumped down and nuzzled his feathered head into Shelby, he pulled away before she could react and started tugging her shirt with his beak.
"He wants us to follow him" Shelby said getting up as Triumph jumped onto her shoulder, Gavin nodded as he slipped on his pac and Echo jumped to her feet at his side, Shelby nodded to Triumph who flapped his wings and started gliding threw the alleyway with Shelby, Gavin and Echo following...
I want to apologize for the lack of detail I'm going to try my best with the detail and grammar, I hope your enjoying this story!
