Chapter 9

Danger with powers

Salina was psyched about being able to learn how to fly and more because she was going to be learning with Sago. They had gone to sleep after they had talked and Salina was just now getting up. Yakumo wasn't asleep (surprise), but she was still in the room getting something out from under Salina's bed.

"What are you doing?"

Yakumo looked up. "Getting your sword for when you start training with the weapons tomorrow."

Salina got up and went to the mirror to fix her hair because it felt like it was extremely messy. When she saw herself, she saw two things. A girl with crazy hair, and also she saw that that messy hair was gold. Well, not bronze, but still. She turned to Yakumo and pointed to her hair. Yakumo laughed. Salina knelt down to look at her sword. It had a gold handle that looked like it was a bit oval like but had a point at the end, then it had two side parts that curved a bit towards the blade which lumped a bit then made another lump before getting to the end of the blade. Salina slowly and carefully picked up the sword for two reasons. One, because it was a bit heavy and she wasn't sure she would be able to hold it, and two, because her clumsiness was not only directed to her feet. As she held it, she noticed it wasn't that heavy. She backed up and swung it a bit, not to fast, afraid she would drop it. She was kinda having fun, then someone knocked and walked in and she was a bit surprised, so she dropped it. Mushra stopped when the sword landed right in front of his feet. "Whew. That was close. A few more inches and I would never be able to walk the same way again."

Salina scratched the back of her head and said, "Sorry. I was having fun playing with the sword. I'll be more careful. Sorry." She said again. Sometimes she would say sorry way too much, and she also got that from her father.

"Maybe you should put it down till tomorrow." He said grabbing the sword and slowly putting it down.

After laughing, they went to the next room. Sago and Kutaal were waiting in the next room.

"Good morning, guys." Salina said, yawning and stretching.

"Morning." They said.

They stood. As Kutaal and Sago headed for the door, Mushra and Salina followed. Salina kicked there tails today but ended up being really tired because they started so early.

Once inside, they all sat down with some water, but Salina hurried and sat on Kutaals bed and said, "Sorry, but I'm wimpy and tired and I need a bed." She sat up to take a gulp of water, then put it down and laid down.

She had her hands behind her head and her eyes closed. She started to think about her using powers while everyone talked. She couldn't hear them, she was too busy imagining. She started to picture flying with Sago and smiled. She couldn't wait. The picture in her head started to fade as she realized she was falling asleep, but she fell asleep before she could gain enough conciseness. Mushra was talking about how he was planning on beating someone's tail in rock paper scissors tomorrow, but then everyone heard someone snoring and looked over to see Salina was lying on her side, a bit curled up, and snoozing away.

Yakumo looked at her friend and said, "She must be tired from working so much, since she's not used to it. She probably should be in her bed, but I don't to wake her and make her move. Someone needs to carry her to the room."

Then everyone turned to Sago, who sighed and got up. He went to Salina's side and slowly picked her up and let her lay on his chest as he carried her. She moved a bit, then she wrapped her arms around his neck and nuzzled her head under his chin. He was a little nervous about how close they were, but yet, he liked it. He carried her to the next room and laid her on her bed. He stood there for a minute, not wanting to take his eyes off the beautiful angel, then he knelt down and lightly rubbed her cheek. All he thought was please…don't die like the others.

He headed back to the other room where everyone went back to what they were doing while whistling. After everyone ate, they went to bed. The next morning, Salina woke up, not remembering how she got in the room. She stretched and got up. She didn't feel one bit tired. She looked around the room and saw her sword resting on Yakumo's bed. She went to the next room. Yakumo was sitting on one of the beds, holding something that looked bulgy.

"What's that?" she asked.

Yakumo looked up. "Oh, hey. This is some armor for you to wear so you aren't hurt by the weapons."

Salina looked at it with an annoyed look only because she knew Mushra was going to make fun of her. It wasn't that bad, it was just a bit big.

"The guys are outside. You should get this and your sword and head out there." Yakumo said handing the armor to Salina who grabbed it, got her sword, and headed outside.

The guy's where just swinging their weapons around, getting ready to use them. Salina walked up to them and placed her armor on the ground.

Sago turned to her. "Ok, before we start training you need to get used to using it so-"

"So you don't end up almost chopping my toe off like before." Mushra interrupted.

"Sorry." Salina said.

Sago glared at Mushra and then cleared his throat. "As I was saying, first you'll get used to it, then you can start learning to attack and block."

Salina nodded and stepped back, not wanting to end up stabbing someone. She started swinging it like she had the other day, then started doing attacks and also moved it in positions were she would block.

Sago walked up and said, "You need to make sure you are putting enough power in your attacks and blocks." He got behind her and grabbed her arms and showed her how to do it while saying how much force she needed to put into it. She almost didn't hear everything he was saying because she was too focused on the fact that he had his arms around her. Her stomach was flipping like crazy. He let go and she shook her head so she could concentrate on what she was doing and hoped that she wasn't blushing. She heard Mushra laugh and knew she probably had been. She thought of the last thing Sago had just said about how she should think of the sword as an extension of her arm, a part of her arm that could wound someone, but a part of her nonetheless. She tried that and she did pretty good. After that, they started attacking. Salina almost forgot to put her armor on. Salina was knocked down ten times, Mushra twice, Kutaal four times, and sago was also knocked down four times. Mushra was just happy about doing better then them. They all took a second to catch their breath and were about to get back to attacking when they heard a really loud screech. It was so loud; Salina covered her ears until it stopped. She turned to see a pterodactyl looking thing coming from a weird, purple, smoky portal that floated above Maliki's castle.

"What in the world is that?!" Salina yelled a little.

"That's a terra, one of Maliki's evil creatures that he can pull from different worlds, and time lines." Kutaal said. Yakumo came running out.

Mushra turned to her and said, "Get the villagers to the house." Yakumo ran over to the villagers and started gathering them close to the house, then formed a white see through wall around them and the house that cut them off from Salina and the boys.

Salina looked at the guys and saw that they had their wings out. Sago turned to Salina and said, "Stay down here. We'll fight this."

They jumped in the air and started attacking. Salina just watched. The guys were doing real good, but Salina wasn't able to watch any more because she heard a roar and turned to see a kind of big three headed dog. Salina grabbed her sword and got ready. The dogs just glared at her, snarling, teeth showing. It ran at her. She ran at it deciding almost too late to jump out of the way. The dog turned back around and started running at her again. She used the water and made something like the aqua vortex sago would make on the show and hit the dog. The dog was knocked on his back. This made it angry. It charged at her, furious, chomping its teeth. Salina jumped out of the way, but one of its head caught her by her armor. It bit down on it hard and broke the armor and one of its teeth scratched Salina's shoulder. She fell on the ground, her hand on her shoulder.

"Nice putty lady!!!" Kimberly screamed, worried for Salina.

Sago looked down, knowing who Kimberly was yelling for. He was about to fly down and help her but the terra got in the way. Salina got up and moved out of the way before it got her again. It got even more irritated. It ran at her again, then jumped at her. She closed her eyes, ready for the pain, but she didn't feel anything, nor did she hear it get closer.

She opened her eyes to see Sago standing in front of her, protecting her. The dog was frozen in mid air, ice all over it and under. Sago turned to Salina and asked, "Are you ok?"

She nodded. "Nothing serious, just a scratch on my arm." She moved her hand to look at it. It was still bleeding, but not a lot.

Sago looked at it. "When we're done, Yakumo can heal it."

They turned around to look to see if the bird was down yet, but was actually coming towards them. They thought it was going to attack, but it grabbed the frozen dog, lifted it then dropped it to free the dog. They both charged at Salina and Sago. The two got ready for the attack. The bird went strait for Sago and knocked him into the wall. Salina's anger rose and she started to feel a warm, tingling feeling in her chest that traveled to her arms. Her red stone started shining white and the light also traveled down her arms, and then a white orb started to form in front of her as she outstretched her arms. The light got brighter and brighter until the orb shot out at them. Salina fell to her hands and knees, trying to catch her breath. She heard the creatures screaming in pain, then it stopped. She looked up and saw them become cards, but her vision started to blur and she felt too exhausted to hold herself up. The last thing she saw as she fell to the ground was Sago running to her. The last thing she heard was him calling her name. She tried to stay awake, but she couldn't.