Chapter 10

(this is repeated from the last chapter…)

"Yes of course, you are the first that I created, and the most unique one…" thought Artia as memories of how she created her very first ARM started to flood her mind…

"Artia dearest, its time for you to try to make your very first ARM, you have been looking forward to that aren't you," asked her mother. Artia grinned, how can she not be excited? She has been waiting for this ever since she had seen one cousin after the other make their pioneer ARM. But there was a worried look on her parents' face, not that Artia could bring herself to blame them, this family has been famous for generations for making ARMs, if she can't make a good Arm, all of the aunts and uncles are sure to give her parents a hard time. She tried her best to give them her cheeriest grin. "I won't disappoint you, I promised!"

Hmm, what Arm should she make? It would have to be one that no one has ever seen before! Hmm, but what should she make/ There's so many ARM maker before her… probably there's no more way to be creative…

WHOOSH! Artia used her black cloak to shield her eyes from the sudden strong gust of wind.

"What was that?" she wondered as she took a peek from behind her cape. It was a gigantic bird, its feathers glittered beutifully where the rays of the morning sun strike it and the huge feather which seemed to be attached to its head glowed with the different colours of the rainbow and its tail feather were glossy and they twirled gracefully in the wind, it was flapping its huge majestic wings very quickly, it was as if it is trying to get away from something quickly.

"So, that's what that caused the huge gust of wind just now…" thought Artia," I wonder where that beautiful bird is heading towards though…"

The curiousity nibbed at the back of her mind.

"Well, maybe I can start making the Arm later," Artia thought, she grimaced as pangs of guilt hit her. Well, it would be a long trip right? She'll probably just say hi to the nice bird which flew past. Sastified with that idea, Artia started to follow the huge bird.

The bird disappeared behind a wall of tall and huge trees. Artia hesitated maybe she should follow, the dense vegetation growth in the forest only meant that all the twigs and branches are going to leave scratched and holes on her cloak, and the dark black pointed hat on her head was new too… the branches are sure to left scratches on it as well…

Suddenly the atmosphere around her seem to stiffen.There was absolute silence, it was as if all of the animals in the forest had gone quiet… Artia glupped nervously. She glanced out of the corner of her eyes. Her fears was confirmed for behind her, growling angrily, arching its huge claws and talons was a huge angry griffin.

The griffin opened its cruel hooked beak and gave a shrill cry, it put out whatever courage that Artia had left in her and all she knew was to get out of the creature's sight as fast as possible…

She was not sure for how long had she run, the forest was getting denser and thicker and she's not surprised if she had already lost her way, but whenever she stopped to catch her breath, she seemed to heard the sound of leaves being crushed under the huge claws and talons of the griffin..

"HEY! Here! Over HERE! Come in here young sorceress!" Artia stopped, she seemed to have heard a soft voice… maybe it was just her imagination? Maybe all of this is just a very realistic dream..

"OVER HERE!" this time the voice was sharp like the shrill cry of a bird. Artia jumped. A bird, may it be the griffin?Sshe didn't know that griffins can talk… It was then did she feel the ground give way beneath her feet…no.. it was her who was being lift up!!!

The thing, what ever it was that lifted her up then started flying, Artia was too shock to even scream, it was until much later, when they had landed on hard solid ground (it is a cave)did she realize that the magnificent bird that she had been following was the one which has carried her using its beak and brought her here to this cave. (which is located halfway up a mountain)

The bird was preening its glossy feathers. It felt awkward to just sit here, so Artia decided that she might as well try to know the bird better, since it is obvious that she cannot get down the mountain without the bird's help.

"Erm, hello?" she asked cautiously, not knowing if this bird was trying to help her back then or trying to get her here so as to eat her up well… there HAD been several folk tales in Kaldea about giant birds abducting young kids to feed their young or to have a good meal..

The bird looked up and eyed her with its beady eyes that were was dark as a moonless night sky. And when it spoke, its voice sounds like a bird singing its morning song.

"Running away fromt that nasty old griffin too aren't you. The name's Creativis, it stands for creativity you know. I can assure you that I am nothing but Creativity itself! You should have seen the illusions that I can make using this feather on my head…" Creativis began to rattle on and on about its illusions are always different and there's not a single one which looks like the other.

"Erm, so if you can make all sorts of illusion, why can't you make a really scary thing to scare the griffin away?" asked Artia. Creativis lowered its head. "That's because a griffin has the brains of an owl and the eyes of an eagle, there's no way my illusions can trick it, it'll know that those are illusions." The bird said sadly.

Artia was disappointed. Now, how in the world are they going to escape from the griffin? Then an idea came into her mind…

"Creaativis?"

The gigantic bird fixed its beady black eyes on her. Artia felt the excitement swirling in her heart. "I am going to make an ARM."

"Huh?" the bird lookd puzzled. How was that going to help?

" I am going to forge you into an ARM, Creativis… if you agree of course… it's the only solution I can think of."

Author's notes: I am so sorry that I took such a long time to upload but there's some connection prob with my internet so the update was delayed. This is part one of their meeting, I'm half done with part 2, I broke the whole thing into 2 to reduce the waiting time for you guys… (sry, but it I am a very slower typer… there's so much things to do nowadays too…) the nxt part will be updated soon (its short though) and for those who wanted to view some artworks that I drew for this fan fiction, you can find them at http://wingsofimagination[dotdeviantart[dotcom/gallery/

just change the [dot to full stop… the way you do in a normal url…

titles for the pieces concerning this fan fiction are :

Artia and Creativis

Pen-And-Sketchbook

Rocking horse

Ugly duckling