OMIGOSH! Sorry for the long wait! Like... a week? Something like that. My internet broke and the internet dude took his time getting out to my house! But I'm back! With 2 chapters!
This chapter was REALLY fun to write. But I apologize if something is wrong. I haven't slept properly for 3 days. So I'm tired.
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Eritess opened her eyes, gasping at the massive amount of cherry blossom trees. "I'm back here?" She wondered aloud.
With a sigh, she once more began walking towards the lake. "I couldn't just wake up in the clearing?" She asked.
As if those words were a key, the ground under her suddenly morphed and the trees and lake disappeared. For a few moments, all that was around her was shapeless silver shapes. Then they began twitching and shifting. Eritess blinked as the figure of the drooping pine came became recognizable, although it was still silver. Shapes were beginning to materialize out of the once shapeless blobs. The ground underneath her began to shift, imitating the sand. Then it was all morphed, she was in the clearing, but everything was still silver. After a few moments of just silver, the color began to drip off the figures like water. Soon, she was standing in the clearing, staring at an amused Diyeh.
"What was that?" Eritess asked, her face twisting in confusion.
"The Dream Realm heard your plea and answered it." Diyeh explained, walking towards Eritess. The white dragoness noticed with a smile that Morhin was balanced on her back, hanging onto her back fins.
"But... How?" Eritess asked.
Diyeh smiled at her. "Remember Eritess, the Dream Realm does not work like the real world. Things that are considered impossible can and will happen here."
"Then is it really a good place to train?"
"Yes. It is." Diyeh answered, signaling Eritess to follow with a wave of her tail.
Eritess walked after her, stealing one last glace at the drooping pine. "What are we going to do today?" She asked, catching up to Diyeh.
Diyeh led her to an area of wildflowers, ignoring her question. Then she pointed her tail at a purple tulip that Eritess thought was quite beautiful. "You will learn how to move and bend a plant without touching it." She finally answered Eritess's earlier question.
"Release your energy. Let it flow through the air and find that tulip. Then connect your energies together." Diyeh instructed, wrapping her tail around Morhin and placing him on the ground next to her before sitting down.
Eritess closed her eyes, having done this part several times. She pushed her magical energy out, smiling when she felt it flow through the air. With the picture of the purple tulip in her mind, she pushed her energy out further, searching for it. She could feel the energy of several different plants and see what each looked like. Finally, her energy found that of the purple tulips and she connected them.
Now she was at a part she had never done before. While she had connected to several different plants, she had not moved them before. Hesitating, she began to imagine it bending, frowning when nothing happened. Her eyes opened, seeing her white energy molding with that of the purple tulip's energy. She glanced at Diyeh, who returned her look with a determined glint in her eyes. "Do not give up." Diyeh said sternly, her brown and blue eyes hard.
Knowing better than to argue, Eritess turned back to the tulip, her energy still connected with it's. She once more closed her eyes and began to focus. Her claws dug into the soil as she concentrated, using all her mental strength to push her energy around. She felt her energy begin to push the purple tulip's around, forming it to her will. She finally stopped the connection, panting at the effort. She looked up at the purple tulip, a grin crossing her face when she saw it bent in several places, looking much like a floral lightening bolt.
"Well done!" Diyeh congratulated, grinning. Morhin gave a squeak of happiness. "Now. I want you to mold several different plants at once."
Confident at her accomplishment, Eritess turned to the group of flowers, a smirk crossing her face. She closed her eyes and pushed her energy out. She felt it connect to several of the surrounding flowers, and she could feel the flower's bewildered thoughts. Then she began pushing and prodding the plants around with her energy, her mind fixed on a certain shape. When she disconnected and opened her eyes again, she could hear the tinkling laughter of Diyeh.
In front of her was the shape of an otter. Morhin was poking it, a baffled look on his face as he squeaked. "Do you like it?" Diyeh asked him, earning a squeak in reply.
"That was easy!" Eritess exclaimed, hopping in place in her excitement.
Diyeh smiled at her. "That is because once you learn it, you can perform it effortlessly the second time. That is how magic works."
"I love how magic works!" Eritess said, earning another laugh from Diyeh.
"Now. For you next and last task for this time. I want you to bend a tree to your will. Then bend several trees as a time." Diyeh said, leading Eritess to a cluster of pine trees. Morhin stayed behind, squeaking profusely to the flower otter.
Eritess bit her lip, looking at the trees. "Is there a trick to it?" She asked, looking the tree up and down.
"Just the same as the flowers. But a tree takes more power to bend." Diyeh explained, once more sitting down to watch.
"Alright." Eritess closed her eyes and pushed her energy out into the open. She could instantly feel the difference between the flower's energy and the tree's energy. The flower's was gentle and light, feeling like only a thin piece of grass underneath her energy. The tree's energy was almost intimidating. It was rough and thick, feeling like a- well a tree.
Softly, she attached her energy to the tree's, feeling the tree grumble in protest. Then, she began pushing it, listening to the crackling of branches and the swishing of leaves. When she disconnected and opened her eyes, she saw the tree's trunk twisted from the bass to the branches. Just how she wanted it.
After taking a moment to pride in her work, Eritess closed her eyes and connected her energy to several different tree's at once. She formed them and molded them until she cracked open her eyes, seeing her white energy pushing a tree into a lightening bolt like thing. Then she disconnected, smiling at the sight of different lightening bolt shaped trees.
It was only when she began to feel drowsy and her eyes drooped when she remembered her situation in the real world. "Wait! Diyeh!" She slurred, fighting to stay awake. "Please!" To her great dismay, Diyeh only gave her a sympathetic look as Eritess faded further and further into darkness.
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Eritess opened her eyes, sighing as she woke to see the wall of Tyem's home. Sunlight streamed through the windows, making her wonder how late it was. It took her a few minutes to gather her senses but when she did, she frowned as she realized she was the only creature in the room. Eritess stood up, listening to the sound of voices in the kitchen. With a stretch and a yawn, she dazedly walked in, blinking at the sight of the whole group surrounding the whole table, the delicious aroma of muffins drifting through the air.
"The beast awakes." Sparx's voice drifted through the kitchen and she spotted the dragonfly taking huge bites out of a blueberry muffin.
Cynder gave her an apologetic smile. "Sorry for not waking you up. It was a stressful day yesterday and we figured you could use a rest."
"Thanks." Eritess smiled at the whole group before squeezing herself between Adnon and Spyro and taking a muffin for herself. "These look delicious, Tyem!" She exclaimed before taking a bite.
"It was my mother's recipe." Tyem explained, taking a bite of his own muffin.
"Your mother has amazing taste." Flame could be heard mumbling from the other side of the table.
Chuckling at the table's banter, Eritess found her eyes drawn to Spyro and Cynder. The two looked completely immersed in their own conversation. She noted the dreamy looks each held in their eyes. 'They are perfect for each other.' Eritess thought wistfully. It was that moment she made a new goal, she would push her own worries and stresses away and focus on getting them together. They needed to stay in Dragon Village a few days anyway although she doubted Tyem would want them in his house much longer.
Her thoughts were dragged back to the duo as Cynder laughed at something Spyro said. Eritess felt a sense of longing within her as she stared at the two. As much as she hated to admit it, she wanted a relationship like that. She wanted someone by her side, as more than a friend. She frantically pushed those thoughts out of her mind before they could get any further.
'Focus on the muffin.' She burst out laughing a few seconds after that thought, realizing just how serious she sounded thinking that. This earned her several questioning looks.
"Care to explain what's so funny." Sparx asked, raising an eyebrow at her.
Eritess shook it off with a paw. "Inside joke." 'Literally.' The attention switched off of her, giving her a few moments to collect herself.
"Hey Tyem." Spyro began, pulling his attention off of Cynder. "I hate to ask this, after all you've done for us but... Would you mind if we stayed here a few more days? Its fine if you say no, we can arrange other plans."
Tyem nodded, casting a glance at Eritess. She could have sworn for a second there, his eyes once more flashed red. "It is fine by me." He said, breaking the gaze. Flame was scowling beside him. "Stay as long as you want!"
"Thank you." Spyro said, obviously relived.
'Why are his eyes flashing red?' Eritess wondered, dragging her thoughts away from the conversation. 'It has to be my imagination. It just has to be.' So many weird things have been happening to her, she wasn't sure just what was real and what wasn't.
Thinking about her situation brought her thoughts back to Mosk. How she missed the brown dragoness. She wanted so much to run to her old home and wrap Mosk in a hug. But she was pretty sure that would get her in trouble with Mosk and that was the last thing she needed.
'But why did she forget me?' Eritess wondered, finishing off her muffin.
"Eritess." Flame said, forcing her back to reality.
"Huh?" Eritess shook her head, trying to rid her of her depressing thoughts.
"I need to talk to you. Privately." The dragon tilted his head towards the living room for emphasis.
Nodding, Eritess stood up from her seat and walked back into the cushion filled room. "Look." Flame began. "We don't need to stay here a few more days, Spyro is perfectly willing to go to Toltarium as soon as possible, given the circumstances and I've explained to Sparx that we might have to put Mission Oblivious on hold-"
"No." Eritess interrupted. "We can stay here a few days. You guys need the break. Mission Oblivious still stands, I can take you to the library today to look for it. You guys have put up with my problems long enough. Take a break!"
Flame briefly looked surprised at her outburst before it was replaced with a cheeky grin. "Alright! I'll tell Spyro later. Once he can take his googly eyes off Cynder of course."
"That will be fixed quite quickly if things go as planned." Eritess said, smirking mischievously.
"Why yes of course." Flame piped in a British accent, leading her back into the kitchen.
They sat down in their places again, exchanging sly glances with Sparx. "So. Eritess is going to show me and Sparx the library today." Flame said nonchalantly, reaching out and claiming another muffin.
Spyro almost spat his drink on the table in his surprise. "You? In a library? Who are you? Where is Flame?"
Flame rolled his eyes. "Eritess needs to get some extra books and asked me to go with her. Sparx just tags along where he isn't wanted." The last sentence sent Sparx into a glare contest with Flame, ending in Flame winning with his 'bone bender glare' as he called it.
"I could go with her." Cynder offered, looking confused at the white dragoness.
Eritess could feel herself panicking as she tried to come up with an excuse. "Well... Flame also needed help understanding the legends with Torritask. So I'm forcing him to come along for some history books." Flame gave her approving wink.
"Oh..." Cynder switched her gazes between the two dragons. While she tried not to show it, Eritess could see doubt lingering in her emerald eyes.
"It would be a great chance for you and Spyro to hang out for a while!" Sparx said, hovering over Flame.
The two looked at each other in the awkward silence that followed. "Yes. Well." Eritess stammered, scooping Adnon up and placing him on her back. "We should probably be going, before the majority of the village gets to the library. Thank you again Tyem for doing this and we'll see you two later!" With that, the four darted out of the room, leaving the remaining three to exchange baffled looks.
"Whew. Close one." Eritess sighed, walking out onto the streets.
"Are we really going to learn about Torritask?" Adnon spoke for the first time that morning.
"No." Eritess said, casting a sad glance in the direction of the cafe. "We are starting Mission Oblivious."
"We need code names!" Adnon exclaimed, jumping up and down.
"Code names, huh?" Flame said thoughtfully. "What names do you suggest?"
"Well..." Adnon looked at the group in turn. "Ducky!" He said pointing at Sparx. "Poly." He then pointed at Flame. "Chicken." He tapped Eritess on the back. "And I'm Terror!" He had a triumphant smile on his face.
"How did you come up with those?" Sparx asked, apparently not liking his code name.
Adnon huffed. "You are yellow like a rubber duck. You remind me of a Roly Poly. And Eritess likes Chicken!" Eritess giggled at his explanation.
"Do I have to be Ducky?" Sparx whined as they neared the library.
"Quit your quacking, Ducky." Flame said upon entering the library. "We got things to do."
Grumbling, Sparx flew off. "Look for the book Oblivious Love." Eritess reminded Flame before walking off, letting Adnon walk next to her.
"Good luck, Chicken." Flame snickered before walking off.
"Be careful not to roll up in a ball! They might mistake you for an overgrown insect!" Eritess retorted over her shoulder, grinning as he stuck his tongue out at her.
"Lets get down to business." She murmured to Adnon, beginning to read book titles.
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Those are the kind of Code Names I used to come up with when I was a kid. XD My shih tzu dog was titled 'Fruitie' on our missions cause she reminded me of a mango. I dunno how.
What is up with Tyem?
Mission Oblivious is under way! Let the Mischief Begin! Mwahaha!
Thanks for Reading!