Chapter Nine
I am now reupdating it, sorry! Please read again... At least the last part of it!
I woke up facing a still asleep Kyou. He looked sweet while he was sleeping. His arms were wrapped tightly around my waist and… My arms were around his waist! I unwound us from each other making sure that he didn't wake. My heart was beating faster than it should've been, I was sure of that one.
I sat up and looked at the sky. The sun was just starting to rise when I'd waken. It has to be around five or six, I thought trying to figure the time of day. I looked around the valley that we had been taken to. It was lively at this point in time. I could just tell that Mother was far to our right.
Well, I thought, it looks as if I'll miss part or all of school again today. I might as well enjoy it as long as I can. And with that thought, I tried to snuggle back up to Kyou. My heart may have been beeting extremely fast, she thought to her self trying to make her self believe that this was okay, but it's not like I didn't like him... touching me.
Then something started squirming within his T-shirt. I backed up a couple of inches and looked at the spot were I had felt the squirming. Nothing moved… I shook my head incredulously and again tried to snuggle up to him. I felt the squirming again. I backed up again to find that something were his stomach was, was moving.
"Kyou?" I asked. "Kyou," I said this time trying to wake him. I repeated myself more than once. Finally I just screamed his name right next to his ear and our heads collided.
"SHIT! What was that?" he cursed rubbing his head and looking around. Then he looked at me.
"What?" he asked rubbing his head where our heads had collided. He looked angry, but I just pointed at his stomach trying to get him to realize that something was in his shirt. He looked down to find his shirt squirming like it had before. He lifted his shirt up and a small ball of fuzz fell to the ground with a loud, "Youch!"
The thing looked up at us and yelled, "What'd ya have to go and do that for!? I was all nice and comfortable." It was a high pitched voice and it yelling at us just made it that much higher pitched.
Kyou just kind of laughed and said, "What were you doing in my shirt?"
"I told you!" it screamed. "I was comfortable. If I have to share my bed with you two, then I should at least get to pick were I sleep!"
"Your bed?" I looked at the giant birds like nest beneath us. "This is your bed?"
"Yes, and you two stole it. So I stole his shirt…" there was a loud neighing sound behind us. Mother stuck her head over my shoulder making me jump a little bit and nuzzled the little bundle.
"I see," she said, "that you've met my daughter, Faerie."
"Mom," Faerie whined, "They stole my bed and then woke me up before sun high."
Faerie was only about the size of my palm and was as white as a piece of paper. Her wings could barely be distinguished from her back. He mother picked her up by her neck being wary of her mane and moved her over to the grasses.
"Quit being a pest, Faerie. They are our guests. Be kind to them for we owe them something great," Mother said looking at her daughter than to me.
"Mother," Faerie sighed, "what about the meeting!"
"I'm getting to that. Go wash up and join me at the alter," she looked me and Kyou over and then said, "Would you like to join us at the alter?"
Kyou answered for us, "Yes, please."
"You will have to walk over to it," she motioned to a small rock in the middle of the field. "It is not our custom to carry travelers on our backs in our home." Kyou and I nodded agreement and she left at a canter towards the alter. Others began to join her in the jaunt there.
"This should be a real treat," Kyou said starting towards the alter.
"Why's that?" I asked catching up to him.
"It's said that they," he motioned towards the Guardians, "rarely let anyone see their meetings. They are private and sacred things. Some even think that the Guardians are who the Kytens originated from."
We walked the rest of the way in silence. It took about fifteen minutes to finally catch up to the Guardians. Mother along with Faerie stood near the edge of the group looking at us expectantly.
There was a faint buzzing in my head as Mother's smooth voice spoke, "All of this will be in our language so I will translate as best as I can into yours."
"Who's that up at the alter?" I asked pointing towards a grayish brown Guardian.
"He is our leader," she answered without looking at him. There was a long pause of silence and then the Guardian in front of us began stomping his hooves on the alter. The rest of the herd began to do the stomping also. "This is the opening to every ceremony. We're waking up the past Lunar Blade spirits," she thought to us. I felt a bit light when the leader stopped his stomping and so did the rest of the herd. Then he began making neighing sounds, flaring and unflaring his nostirils, shaking his head from left and right violently, and then he went silent.
Mother translated, "Our people once were at war with the people we share this land with, the Kytens. Who saved us from our destruction? Who knew that we were only as strong as we had to be? Who knew that we were going to die out if she didn't stop this war? Who's child had been taken and we did nothing to help? Who helped this entire planet? Who, in the future, is prophicied to save us once again?" The next words she said was a light whisper, "Lunar Blade. She stoped the fighting when we were in the middle of a war. She knew. She knew that we only protected something that needed to be protected... She knew we were dying. We could've helped her, but we didn't. We could've saved her child, yet we didn't. Lunar Blade saved us... us all! She'll do it again, I have seen this! This time... This time we will be there for her! We are sending one of ourselves with the human-Kyten and the Kyten." I think mine and Kyou's mouths both dropped six feet or more. "They will keep an eye on the child of Mother and I, Faerie. Faerie, you will stay with them, look for Lunar Blade. Look hard, she will not be in the obvious of places. For all we know, she could be a reckless slut. Bring her luck, help her, keep her safe, call us when we are needed. We owe her spirit, her mind, and everything else that belongs to her ourselves. We must repay this debt! If we don't, we will become just as evil as the Deamon Lord himself." There was a long pause before she finished translating, "Leave this alter now, and let the love of Lunar Blade be with you all!" The large grey brown Guardian jumped down from the alter and faced the herd. The herd began to turn around and faced the other end of the pasture. Mother let out a loud neigh and all of them began to gallop again rushing past Kyou and me and Faerie who sat smugly on Kyou's shoulder.
