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Chapter 10 Light's Touch the Earth part 1
Az saw the next world of ahead of her."Please let one of my friends be here." She flew closer to land. The magic changed her as she entered the world.
Az growled as she tugged at the trap. Her paw was stuck. She hadn't been in this new world more than an hour and she gotten herself stuck. She whined as her pulled her forepaw up trying to bit at the loose that was tight around her leg.
It didn't help that it was same leg as her injured shoulder. She knew it was getting worse each day, right now she was more mad and didn't care.
She didn't know how this world worked, but turning into a wolf was not nice. Her sapphire blue hair was no fur. Her muzzle chest underbelly and paws where blue-gray or lighter tone. Her tail had white end like a fox. She stopped trying to bite it as she sniffed the air.
"Ok so being an animal might not be so bad." She told herself setting her forepaw down. "Who's.. there?" She asked ears back. She couldn't fight her way out of this.
A snap of a twig made her look one way then. "Hey any hunters nearby?" She spun around to see a small bear cub looking at her."Uh no." She said, "Great names Koda. What's yours?" He asked bouncing with lots of energy.
She laughed at him. "Names Azura, call me Az." She said "Az got it, so how did you get stuck in a hunter's trap? Why is your fur blue? Where you from? How did you-" she covered his mouth with a paw.
"Stop talking and I'll answer your questions." She laughed and removed her paw from his muzzle.
"Sorry" he said, "so-" Azura sighed and sat down tail curled over her paws. "Ok to answer your first question. I well accidentally wandered into it. I can't get it off now." She added. Koda looked at the trap.
"How about we dig it up. It should lessen up. My mom told me that once." He jumped to his paws and walked over to the stick. She watched him dig it up. With sift tug it came loose. "There." He sat back she pulled it off her leg/paw. "Ok let's finish with those questions." She sat back down.
"My fur is blue because I was born with it." She flicked her ears. "Your fur is brown because your parents fur was." "Oh. Ok how about the next one where you from?"
She laughed at him. "I'm from a long ways away. I'm new here." She told him. "Really. So what you doing here?" He asked her. She gazed up at the green sunlit leaves. "I'm search for my friends. We got separated a while ago." Koda looked at at ground. "I got separated from my mom." She muzzled him.
"Cheer up. I'm sure we can find her." He jumped to his paws. "You mean it? You'll help me find her?" Azura stood up balancing on three paws before setting the forepaw down. "Yeah. We can look for my friends and your mom together." Koda beamed up at her.
Az had always been able to handle kids. She was not sure how, but having Ven around helped a lot. "Let's get going!" The two started off heading deeper into the forest around them. Koda kept talking as they walked.
The two didn't get far as it began to rain. "Koda let's stop for the night." She called to the cub. Curling up in the shelter of two boulders. Koda nestled into her fur. "Get some sleep." She put her head on her paws.
Koda closed his eyes. "Hey Az?" "Hmm?" She kept her eyes closed. "What are your friends like?" She yawned, "if you go to sleep I'll tell you in tomorrow Koda." She murmured.
"Promise?" "Promise, now goodnight." She cracked an eye open and looked at the cub. 'He's so energetic like Ven. Please be here.' She closed her eye and fell asleep.The rain outside not getting in.
Az stretched her sore muscles. Koda bounced out of the two shelter of the boulders. "About time it let up." Koda said. Shaking out her fur from the dampens of last night's rain. "So ready to get going?" She asked the young cub. The two started walking through the forest once more.
The forest smelled of damp from the rain. "So where are we going?" She asked Koda. "The salmon run. Me and mom where going there." Koda explained to her. Az stopped to sniff the air.
Koda did the same. Koda didn't get far. "Az!" She raced up the slope to see the cub running back to her with, unversed. "Koda run hide!" She launched herself at the creatures. "Azura!" He cried. She looked back. "Go. I'll catch up," she ordered him. Summoning her keyblade she swung it using her mouth to hit the unversed.
She tossed her keyblade hitting the last one. She straightened up in a flash she dismissed her keyblade. "Koda?" She called for the cub. Picking up his scent she trotted off the way he went.
Kenai reached for a stick. "Hey are there any monsters around?" He looked at the bush where Koda hide. "Uh no." "Great!" He bounced out scaring the older bear. "How ya doing? I guess you didn't see the trap huh? I saw if a mile away."
Koda half laughed. "You must be embarrassed. Don't worry. I won't tell anyone." He whispered. "What?" Kenai said. "You need to get down. Let me help you." Koda picked up the stick end up hitting him with it. "Stop it" he barked at Koda. "It's unless the only way down is to chew your own foot off." The cub said.
"Koda!" Az bounded into the clearing stopping to see the cub holding a stick and an older bear hang from a tree by the same kind of trap she was stick in last time."Huh Koda, what's going on?"
She asked sitting down curling her bushy tail over her paws. "Oh hey guess what this bear walked right into the hunter's trap." Az rolled her eyes at the bear.
"Wisdom comes with age and experience." She padded around the bear. "Who are you?" She stopped to face him. "Names Azura, Az for short" She sat back down.
Kenai looked back at Koda. "I don't need a stupid bear's help or wolf's. I just need the stick." Az gave him a bewildered look.
"Ok, here." Koda handed him the stick. "No, no, no. Put it back, where you found it." He told the cub. Koda moved back with the stick. "By the little rock." "Here?" "Yes!" Kenai started to swing his body. Az sat next to Koda and watched them. "I thought bears were smart enough not to get caught in traps?" She whispered to Koda. "Yeah I thought so too." He said back.
Kenai kept swings. "Wow that tree is strong." Koda laid back on the log eating berries. Az laid down pulling at the berries as well.
"You know when I was little. I was really, was really into climbing tree. All kinds of trees." Kenai kept swing missing the stick.
Az watched with amusement. He recalled Terra and Ven. These two were just like them. She recalled one of them getting stuck. Weather, frozen by blizzard, or being dog piled by books.
Az chuckled. "You might want to rethink your plan bear. It doesn't look to be working." She commented.
It was nearing dusk. Az had taken a nap while she listen to Koda chatting away. She sat up and watched as Kenai was getting closer to the stick. "From that moment on I was more careful about what I lick." He fished before moving the stick closer to the older bear.
"Hah, ha!" Both Koda and Az rolled their eyes at him. "Good now you don't have to be a piñata anymore." Az teased him. "It's all about using your head." He said through the stick in his mouth.
Az stood up and stretched her body. But watched as he boom raged to the ground like on a bungee. Hitting his head Az laughed at him. "Man that's got hurt." She chuckled at him. Koda laughed along.
"That was funny do it again." Koda said him. Az trotted up to him. "Don't you two have some place to go?" He asked irritation burning in his voice and eyes. "Nah, I could watch this all day." Az flicked her bushy wolf tail. "Yeah the salmon run. Me and Az are going." He told him.
"How about this if we get you down you come with us. Deal?" Koda asked Az slicked around next to Koda. Looking at the steak in the ground. "Ok fine deal. If you can magically get me down I go with you guys to this, this-" "Salmon run." Koda replied to him.
"If you can't both of you turn around, and walk away, and ever come back ever?" Koda glared at him looking dead serious. "You swear?" The cub asked him. "Yeah." "Pinky swear?" Koda held out one claw. Az rolled her eyes. 'Ven, Aqua and Terra will loves these two.' She watched the two bears.
"Yeah sure fine, pinky swear. But this a human trap there is no way a dumb little-" Koda kicked it causing it to bungee once more and hit his head on the ground. "You shouldn't call people or animals dumb." She said meeting his eyes.
Kenai groaned."So what we do is travel at day rest at night. My bedtime is an hour after sunset-" he starts sniffing the air. Az fur bristled. 'Were the unversed back?' "Run!" Koda took off leaving Kenai and Azura behind. "Good residence." Kenai snapped before sniffing the air.
Azura's gaze flicked over to a tree she saw a 'human.' She stuffed and stepped back she watched the hunter start to move in. "Run." She whispered to him, but the bear did not move. "Denahi. You fund me." As Kenai moved forward Az growled at him.
Azura could sense it. This human the one the bear knew. Has darkness clouding his thoughts. "Hey it's me Kenai!" The hunter lunged at Kenai. Azura leapt knocking him back.
"Run! Now!!" She ordered then leapt off the hunter the two booked it the same way Koda ran. "Over here!" Azura dashed to the ice ahead of them. Kenai kept up. They slipped into the crack in the ice.
Looking by they didn't see the hunter. A creek from above made them stiffen and look to see him above them walking. Azura crouched low while Kenai pressed his body against the wall. "Hey, is he gone?" Kenai put a paw over Koda's muzzle to keep him quiet.
"Hello I can't breath." Koda wiggles free while Azura sighs in relief. She now knew what it was like to be hunted though the hunter was after Kenai not her. 'Circle of life?' She thought. They settled down on the rocky patch.
"Why is he chasing me?" Kenai asked mostly himself. "That's what they do." Koda explained to him. "But it's just not like him to do so." Kenai added. Azura yawned and stretched. "We should take this time to regroup. Besides you promised Koda you'll go to the salmon run with him." Azura tucked her forepaws into her body. Her tail curled on side.
"Well he's lucky he didn't find us. Because when i get into. Fight I'm go all crazy. I'm a raging ball of brown fur." Koda bounced about acting like he is fighting. Az chuckled. "Really?" She laughed watching the cub play about. "I don't want to brag or nothing, butI got some moves." Koda chimed in.
"Oh really" Kenai sarcastically said. "Show us Koda, I'll watch." Az said. She glanced at the older bear with annoyed look.
'He really need to loosen up more.' She thought then watched Koda play about talking about the moves he could do. "On really? He come back!" "Where?" Koda ran and hide behind Kenai while Azura just muttered about him being a jerk to the young cub.
"Typical" Kenai went back to uniting the loose. Koda laughed a bit. "Yeah well- the next time we run into the hunter-" "There is no we. I'm not taking you to any- salon run." "What!" Azura sat up.
"You made a promised him, even I wouldn't break one of a kid." She half barked at him. "But you pinky swore." Azura got up and walked a bit off. "Hey, Az back me up on this." Koda bounced over to her.
She sighed. "Not now Koda. This between you two. Not me. Let 'Mr. I never mess up' learn his lesson the hard way." She laid one and cured up letting the bears figure things about. "Wait uh." Az sat up and to watch this. "The truth is I got separated from my mom-and now with this hunter around -" "kid. I got my own problems."
He turned only to have Azura standing in front of him. "Hey bear-boy. If you leave the hunter will find you. I don't know much about being animal- but I know about living to see another day. If you leave you won't see one."
She looked over at Koda. "He's just a cub with no mom or father, heck has no older siblings and you need to think before you speak." She padded past him back to Koda.
"Come on please. Can't we just go together. There's a lot of bears. A tone of fish and every night we watch touch the lights mountain and last year-" "Wait. What did you just say?" Kenai asked Az saw that something the chatty cub said grabbed his attention.
"There's lots of bears and tones of fish." "No. You know where the lights touch the earth?" Kenai answered it for himself.
"Yeah on the it's right on top of mountain near the salmon run." "Your kidding me." "No, no, they are peculiarly next door. Come I'll show you. It will be great." The cub took a breathe. "I promise to help you escape from every trap. You walk into." Kenai was not listening. "I'm not going to run into anymore." The rope got wrapped around some ice. Az laughed.
"Man you're so clumsy.." Az padded up and freed him from the trap. "Hey, Azura you're still coming with us right. I mean you promise-" "Yes I'm, but I'm not sure I'll be very welcoming to a wolf like me." She cut the cub off. "So what you say Kenai you coming with us or what?" Azura asked him her green eyes burned fiercely at him.
"You sure you two will take me to where the lights touch the earth?" Az flicked her paw at Koda. "If he can't I will." She said. "If anyone of you two slow me down." "We won't I promise." Az nodded, "yeah I rarely- break a promise."
This sealed the deal. "Alright we leave first thing tomorrow." Kenai laid down to sleep.
Koda walked over to lay next to Kenai. Kenai just pushed him away. "Keep all the cuddling to yourself" he said before laying back down. Az walked over and laid next to Koda. "I don't think he that stone hearted. Sleep we have a long day." She laid down next to the young bear.
Azura knew cubs are use to sleeping with their mothers and he was still young. Az laid awake was the two bears slept. Closing her eyes she too fell asleep.