The Wagering Tests
The echoes of confusion was still lasting for a few hours and Vidae had ceased her infernal laughing and just glared when an elf guard would pass by.
"Tsaiya do you feel that?" Havanna mentioned while being seated at the farthest away from the door.
"Yes, I do" The girl spoke while looking at her hands and then clenching them shut.
The power that was surrounding her was similar to that of when she was in Rivendell.
"What? She's going through a test? Her first test?" Corvus snapped while looking at Vidae.
"What? Of course not you stupid bird; this is her third test" Havanna shot back at the crow that was sitting on the opposite side of Havanna while eyeing his apprentice.
"Oh? Well Vidae has been through tests as well and the energy that is coming up as well would allow her to take her third test as well" he smiled slyly once more while looking at both Tsaiya and Havanna with interest now. "How about a wager then; why not we allow them to take the test together"
The bird tilted his head while eyeing the crow who had offered the wager.
"And what would that be?" Havanna hissed back, fascinated by what Corvus would have to wager on.
"Whoever makes the most impression on their test of course; whoever does makes the memorable impression between the four of us can command the other to do a single task; just one single task no matter how big or small but cannot harm themselves or any others" Corvus eye's glistened.
Tsaiya however widened her eyes; what could be their desire for her to do if Corvus and Vidae would have won.
"Alright; but we do not know the test that would be given to them so it must be a very impressionable test no matter what it should be for both of them" Havanna added in.
The two spiritual beings began to glow followed by the two pendants around the girls necks too; a lock in perhaps their promise to one another; which cannot be broken by no means at all.
She turned to Havanna with a shocked expression but the duck smiled at her.
"I believe in you Tsaiya; from the very beginning until now I have always believed in you and even my hope and my pride for you grows everyday" he said honestly.
The girl nodded at her friend.
"Like I said before" Vidae snapped causing the two to glare at her. "Your kindness sickens me"
The two rolled their eyes and winked at one another. "Now go and show her them your one of a kind 'kindness'" the duck laughed.
They both laughed.
"I may not be able to hurt you here; but perhaps maybe I can hurt you plentiful of times within our minds" Vidae smirked mischievously.
"I'm only going to say this once for the moment comes for it" Tsaiya said while exhaling her nervous breath.
She opened her eyes and looked at Corvus and then to Vidae who was eager of what she was going to say.
"Bring it on! Bitch!" the girl said while glaring at Vidae who began to laugh out loud once more.
Havanna couldn't help but laugh at Tsaiya's now burning resolve.
And as the laughter died down, they were now serious as the four looked at one another and then all nodded.
"Close your eyes Tsaiya/Vidae" the two advisors spoke to their individual apprentices. "Now go into the realm of light/darkness that you are comfortable in"
The two Celestials felt their bodies dream and drift as the heavy weight around them disappeared and their entire consciousness faded with either a flash of light and consumed by darkness.
I was shivering and was in the dark.
My feet were standing on what it felt as if nothing or a very thin layer of land that would fall beneath my feet in any moment but as I took a step I only her splashing with every step no matter where I would place my feet.
This feeling felt all too familiar to me but I could not pinpoint of what the word and feeling was but yet I just continued to walk along.
There was no light to guide the way and only my senses and burning sense of directions which I could not really count on was telling me which way to head and without any leads or any guides; I just had to believe that it was right to which it hardly wasn't.
I began to blink for a few seconds and the world around me began to lighten up.
There was a small island in front of my vision and I was standing on the top of water.
I looked up to see nothing but the dark and found it awkward that I could see when there was no light at all; this was very peculiar indeed.
A very cool breeze blew against my body, wrapping itself and twirling around my being and my limbs as if comforting me in a sort of way.
I smiled; this felt nice and serene.
As I walked along the water getting once again familiar with the magic that allowed me to do so in the first place I turned to my side and realize that this place which was beautiful should have an everlasting light that guided anyone who would come here.
I turned my head upward and exhaled some air from my body and lift an arm up.
As soon as I had done so; an orb of great magnitude appeared in the sky and had glowed translucently, the object glowed a mystical white brightness.
"Luna, this will be Luna" I smiled.
Its reflection rippled against the water as I walked across of it; each step causing even more ripples as if the water had thanked me for making it able to see once more.
Stepping unto the land I sat and laid down under the single tree that had sprouted from the middle.
This was relaxing, I had never felt very relaxed such as this.
Turning on the side I witnessed a bridge of land slowly extending outwards to another island that seemed to grow larger and faster than the one that she had been one; the water had been disappearing as the island stretched to become a continent where tree's and even mountains began to form.
The island became a continent in my eyes and on that continent life had taken place as animals started to appear and began to inhabit the landscape; beauty in all its form.
I smiled while the animals came up to me.
They believed that I had created the world for them and had approached me to thank me is to what I believed what they were doing as most animals surrounded me while the others with pride watched closely by the sidelines and acknowledged with just a simple bow to their head in my direction.
Luna began to descend from the sky and in the presence of it all was another orb of light even brighter than Luna that all the other creatures had spoken from their lips; Sola. Luna and Sola.
She smiled as the sunlight began to touch the horizons of the world and showed its true beauty.
The water around the two islands glistened like aquamarine gems as the tree's started to grow slower than the days that seemed to pass very quickly.
The sun on her flesh calmed her while the mountains seemed to rise higher than before while she witnessed the waterfall forming on the top of the highest of mountains.
But then; a sudden sound had caused my entire being to be shaken a whole.
The ground itself shook with immense strength while the trees began to topple over.
I looked on to what I had saw; two figures that were similar to myself had begun to cut the trees down for shelter; it's screams could clearly be heard to us but seemed that the two beings had not heard of its cries.
Days quickly passed as the beings had started to cut the trees down and started to burn them for warmth.
The angers within me had started to boil but what had triggered it all was that of a wretched sound.
The cry of something small and harmless had prompted the anger that I had difficulty in suppressing with every fiber of my being.
As I saw the two beings had stood before the body of a corpse and their faces was not of remorse or sadness of the creature but a look of glee of the food that they now had.
I felt the magic escape from me; surging around within the ground and air and even the nearby water that seemed to be far away.
I wanted to harm the beings that killed an innocent for just sport.
As I approached them, their eyes warm from the life that was given had become dull and fearful.
They most likely had seen the rage building from me and as I neared they scrambled themselves and looked on to me in fear of their lives.
The male shielding the female as they both cowered.
The balance of nature was damaged and they deserved to perish for what they had done; specifically taking another's life when there is plentiful of food around them as well as enough materials to make them survive without harming anything around.
As I came closer the beings had scrambled to a near rock formation to try and lose me, but because of the powers that I received I could feel their energy now and escaping was futile.
Nearing them slowly I saw the male trying to hide the female so that she would at least survive from me but yet again another futile attempt on their part.
I could feel the spark of magic forming from my fingertips I neared them slowly; letting them experience the same fear of the creature they had so cruelly taken the life from. I would let them feel exactly what it felt on its final moments of life.
But yet as I neared them, I felt a shimmer from my being as I looked at them; the fear ridden faces and as I thought about it. The creature must have felt this same too, this fear and hopelessness that they would most likely be feeling.
They had most likely felt the thrill and exhilaration that I was feeling as well.
But as I lifted up my fingertips to finally cast them down; I noticed that they had grabbed unto each other; both crying while holding each other tightly, their naked forms trying to protect one another in what they thought was their final moments of living in the beautiful world.
With that thought I cast magic.
They began to swirl around slowly as a white light enveloped both of them and tendrils separating them from each other but near so their hands had connected and as they twirled around and patches of clothing began to appear on them.
As it ended and they were brought back down; the two looked at me with eyes of uncertainty; of eyes that contained fear as well as perhaps regret of their choices and they knew of what I was capable of doing with them.
They both had flung themselves on the ground and cornering themselves near the rock formation as I stepped near with new resolve.
Mere inches from them I had brought myself closer to them while twirling my fingertips at a nearby berry bush that had gotten smashed earlier; it grew into an enormous bush and as I turned I had done the same with the other food sources in the area.
Caressing the males face I kissed his forehead along with the female.
"Go and eat; but please do not kill senselessly of another life for sport; there is plentiful of food to eat for you and the being inside of her stomach" I smiled as they understood the words that were coming from my mouth.
The male nodded while he gripped the female's arm as they both walked passed me and then turned to face me near the entrance back to the forest. They had both bowed respectively before fleeing back within the trees and fruits bushes that I had made for them.
I bowed back in return; there is to be no killing at all but coexisting with everything around you to truly feel one with the world.
I noticed the area around me enveloping me with a warm and soothing warmth before I opened my eyes once again and found myself back within the cell; feeling even more strength at my disposal.
"So you have finally returned" Havanna smiled while looking at the girl who had just opened her eyes from the test and trial.
"How long was I out?"
"Just an hour or so" the duck finished while wagging his tail and then turning to face the raven and the crow who was looking at her.
"You passed the test" the duck added on without breaking the glare with Corvus who had done the same.
The girl smiled while standing up and stretching; her bones aching from sitting down for an hour.
"And you Vidae?" Tsaiya spoke with the new resolve she learned from the test.
"Of course I passed" the woman snapped while looking at Tsaiya and then turning away very quickly with a harrumph.
Tsaiya rolled her eyes while smiling. "So what of your wager?" she turned to the birds who both could not look at her.
"You won; we both saw the progress between you and Vidae and the tests you both were flown within." Corvus disgustingly spat as if this was not meant to have happened.
"You created a world of peace and love and when another element had been introduced you did what ordinary people would have done and tried to eradicate it but then you took matters and welcomed it with open arms; a very beautiful impression you had left."
This caused Tsaiya to beam a smile, proud of what she chose to have happened between the mortal man and woman.
"While Vidae had done another; she had created a world of death and hate; everything that was created she had destroyed and when the new element had been introduced she welcomed it with death and destruction; nothing was left of the world at all but the tiny pebble that belonged to the lowest of mountains"
Tsaiya looked sheepishly at Vidae who had once more harrumphed once more at the duck's word; though Corvus had said that her decision of destruction was the correct course of action for anything new and not of the world would only corrupt it.
Now that they have all calmed down; Tsaiya looked to the three people that was in the dungeons along with her.
"For my favor; I wish for Corvus and Vidae to travel along with us and finish the journey to the very end of its run; until the very end" the girl smiled.
"What!" Corvus, Vidae and even Havanna snapped at the girl who began to glow while smiling at the three.
"Tsaiya, you want" he turned while extending his wing out to point at both Corvus and Vidae. "-them to come along with the journey with us?"
Corvus and Vidae looked at Havanna like a mere insect that needed to be eradicated this very instant but the duck continued.
"They will surely try to kill us and everyone that we care for-
"They aren't evil, just misunderstood; it's exactly like within my test, they were just misunderstood and I want all of us to co-exist with one another; I mean where else in the world can there be another Celestial apart from the four of us?" she said while looking at Vidae and Corvus in new light.
"I'm not going to be turning into a mischievous being such as you crows and ravens but how about settling our differences for once for the problem stems between Corvus and Havanna and doesn't involve us; only they alone can fix their mistakes but we are two separate people from them"
Vidae nodded her head. "Intriguing but I don't have interest in becoming good and being your friend; but the favor however still stands and I have no choice but to follow along with you until the favor has been completed" she snapped while sitting down and materializing a weapon at her side.
Tsaiya nodded while grabbing the gems within her bag and morphing them to their respective weapons.
"Now; I have been dying to try a few spells that I have just been thinking of, shall we give them a test?" Tsaiya said while looking at Vidae.
The crow woman just laughed. "Are you sure you are a duck?"
Cocking an eyebrow she chuckled. "Of course I am; from the last time I checked, now let us escape from such a place and journey to the mountain" the duck spoke while readying her scepter in a battle stance.
Celestials and Barrels Do Not Go Well Together.
There was a loud explosion that rocked the elven kingdom and then the sound of bodies dropping were also heard along with a maniacal laugh.
Deflecting arrows as much as they could and also trying to not kill any elven guards; Vidae however clearly wanted too but was banned from Tsaiya and Havanna who deemed it unwise of it.
The girl with the sunlit hair stopped a nearby elf with a twirl of her fingers while muttering a single word while the elf guard just slammed to the ground and lay motionless.
"Sleep" she repeated as another had done the same.
They made their way towards the cellar once again where the barrels were stored when an even bigger group of elves had trapped them within the room; the spell sealing the door is what kept them safe.
"Bilbo and the dwarves had used this passage to escape from the elves; perhaps we can recreate such an escape?" Tsaiya spoke while levitating two barrels and emptying out their liquid contents unto the ground as the bashing on the door had grown louder and even more desperate while elven words were being spoken on the opposite end echoing within the walls of the room as well.
"Can't we just go to the front entrance? I promise that I'll just chop a few limbs off their bodies just for being nice" Vidae smiled slyly but behind her smile she was quite serious as well; this was not a joke to be taken at all.
"No; the spell on that door will keep them occupied until we are far from here, perhaps farther than Lake Town" Tsaiya hissed while jumping into the barrel and then sticking her head out while Havanna quickly flopping himself within the barrel as well.
"Come on; we must hurry" the girl snapped to which Vidae had once again harrumphed while quickly sliding herself in the barrel and Corvus complained about how he had to follow along as well while flying within the circular wooden container.
As the four sat there; Tsaiya used her magic and forced the lever to activate and with a click the plank began to sway to one side while the weight of the barrels began to cause it to roll into the water below.
Of course they yelled while holding unto the edges of the barrel while they fell into the water and the current quickly guiding them down the river to the mouth of the cave and then throwing them over a waterfall that seemed to be the exit.
The rush of the river had caused them to drift fast and swift passing by boulders in mere seconds while they noticed some elves stationed on a wall that oversaw the river; the gates tightly closed and they soon arrived and was trapped.
Vidae smiled while raising her hands up; dark tendrils of magic sliding from her fingertips as it snaked its way to the lever that activated the gate's control mechanism to open as well as seal the Watergate if any invasion should happen.
The lever was forcibly turned and the gates opened; letting the four to continue to ride the rapids as they were tossed and turned as well as slightly wet from the ride of being thrown around within the barrel.
Cusses as well as unheard words escaped from the mouths of the four while their barrels were striking mostly every cornered rock and branch on their trip down where they were met with even more ferociousness of the water.
The two could not even concentrate enough to cast any spells of some sort because they were being thrown and pushed all around though Vidae would occasion laugh at the ride for she was enjoying it far too much at this point; her cussing stopped but she had just laughed.
As the waters had calmed around them; they quickly was able to have a breather before they would start to possibly head into another area that would be quite ferocious as the one that they had passed just now.
They both never even bothered to even paddle to shore but had just used the magic to allow the barrels to float to the shore by themselves and the four had climbed unto the slippery rocks that had almost caused them to slip and fall back into the water.
They came to the rocks and exhaled a relieved sigh; they are not going to do such a thing again.
"How dare you make us go through that!" the raven snapped while Havanna glared back at his old companion and began to return the favor.
"You are under the spell of promising; you will have to follow the favor of the bet that you had lost! So do not shout at us like this for you know that it was the only way out"
Corvus was about to say something before Havanna had cut the crow off. "And Fighting was not an option; even if it was I had a very strong feeling that neither Tsaiya nor Vidae would have made it out of the Elven Realm let alone the Forest alive; this was the only way to have gone and besides; we have traveled far and are now out of Mirkwood; we should be grateful that such a path exist"
Corvus grunted; he had been proven wrong while he snubbed and went to Vidae who had begun to cast spells to attempt to dry herself off.
Tsaiya was doing the same also but applied a fireball in her hand and had been placing said orb near her being; using it as a tool to dry her yellow dress quicker for being soaked to the bone as well as having the dress being skin tight to her being was not in fact comfortable at all.
"Tsaiya!" Havanna called.
The girl turned to the duck and he was jumping up and down in a certain area.
"What is it?" she called out.
"Come here! Hurry!" he exclaimed.
She stepped over jagged rocks and stepped near Havanna and gaped at his find.
There was a mess here; not the mess of a pile of bodies but a mess of items being flown all over the place; a pipe that had been to soaked to use anymore; bandages with a stain of red that was turning into a dry brown had been smeared on the cloth as well as other knickknacks of items littered the stone that they were standing on and these items seemed very vague but also familiar.
They also meant that the group had to rush and hurry themselves for many of the possible reasons to do so; either they were being chased or they were taken hostage or other reasons that Tsaiya had refuse to think of.
"They were here; we are standing at the spot that they were at but where they could have gone too?" Havanna spoke while looking around.
"Lake Town of course; it isn't that far from here; from what I remember" Corvus spoke in the first time with a tone that wasn't either degrading or that of irritation or even snapping.
The four group looked around.
"There is a dock here; perhaps there was a boat that the company of my friends had journeyed onto" Tsaiya said while approaching the wooden dock as the other three trailed behind of her.
"How are we to go there? To Lake Town?" Tsaiya spoke out while they noticed that the barrels were still there but was insufficient of means to transport them to Lake Town.
"We could always take the barrels?" Vidae pointed out.
"No; the water surrounding the town will be very icy and cold; we'll freeze to death" Corvus spoke to his apprentice.
An idea then struck the girl who was looking at a tree nearby.
"Then how about we make ourselves a boat" she said to the group who gave a perplexed as well as confused look towards her.
"Explain" Vidae demanded while crossing her arms.
"Well; we could just make a boat; you see those leaves that are floating on the water, we could ride those leaves to Lake Town" she smiled.
Vidae scoffed. "Last time I checked; our big bodies could not fit on those tiny leaves; if we were in our avian forms which will happen in a few days' time; then perhaps we could do such a feat but sadly we cannot wait a few days and stay here; the dangers of the orcs are near"
Tsaiya shook her head. "I always thought that you had possibly joined forces with them"
Vidae's mouth gaped open; obviously insulted by Tsaiya's remark against her.
"I choose to travel alone with Corvus; aligning myself with orcs is of disgusting of nature and I kill them at first sight; though I hate to admit it but I would rather align myself with you than orcs any day"
She did not know if it was a compliment or an insult but she chose the latter instead.
"Anyway, I was talking about us enlarging the leaves and use it as a boat; crystalize it and use it to row ourselves to Lake Town" she smiled.
Vidae nodded her head while looking at Corvus who had done the same; at least they could agree on something!
Plucking a leaf from the tree she approached the water and put said leaf on the water's surface and backed a few steps away.
With a wave of her hands; a green light enveloped the leaf and it grew brighter and brighter with every second passing until finally what lay before them was no small leaf; but one of enormous properties that could possibly hold at most 7 people unto it.
"This magic does not exist" Corvus spoke in awe while looking at the enlarged leaf and then towards the girl who had cast the spell.
"How do you do this? These are no normal castings and magic's"
The girl shrugged.
"I do not know how I am able to do this; I just will it. I just think of a thought and I raise my hands and I cast the spell" she explained while being the first person to go unto the leaf that seemed to balance with her weight on it.
"It reminds me of the attempt you had made while trying to concoct the potion to rid of one's desire to eat; if I recall correctly it made you have a hunger like every before; rivaling that of a hobbit" Havanna cackled while Corvus already hurling remarks at the duck and the two began to fight once more.
Vidae harrumphed while stepping into the leaf while the two avian beings bickered while hopping into It as well.
"Will you help me row this?" the girl asked Vidae who just gave her a belittling look.
"Celestials do not row boats or in this instance; a leaf on the water" she spoke while closing her eyes and facing forward; her hands caught on her skirt while clutching it tightly, clearly she was uncomfortable at the moment and Tsaiya could not help but to just roll her eyes while grabbing a gem and transforming said item into a paddle and began paddling the group towards Lake Town.
The ride was almost silent except for Havanna and Corvus talking to one another in civil ways; by orders of their apprentices since the two had been continuingly arguing.
Vidae had just been staring off into the distance while filing her nails into sharper claws with her wicked looking blade while Tsaiya on the other hand could not think of anything else but one or possibly two dwarves who had been haunting her mind.
The girl had been quietly mumbling to herself to get answers that possibly she could come up with but no matter how many times she would think about this kind of situations she would always come up with even more questions that branched from the main topic.
The thoughts had been clouding her mind since Beorn's house and had been popping up to interrupt her chain of thoughts whenever she would have the free time to do so.
She thought of Kili and Fili; equally however.
Kili for causing her heart to beat erratically when being near or even conversing with her with any topic and as he neared her she felt as if her heart would have jumped within her throat and then slowly make its way down to where it had been originally.
Fili on the other hand had only recently entered her mind ever since the sword trainings and has lingered even harder since the kisses he had planted earlier.
She kept shaking her head from the growing emotions that welled up inside of her from the two Durin brothers who had made an impact on her.
"What are you thinking about?"
She turned to the crow girl who had been looking at her with an odd expression. Tsaiya had just sighed, she could not tell Havanna about this since he was very focused on training her and she of course could not tell the company members since she was the outsiders and they were more a of knit family.
"I just… it's very complicated" she mumbled.
Vidae scoffed. "Complicated? Both you and I are quietly sitting together along with those two who had been at odds since god knows when; are currently sitting in an enlarged leaf, I doubt it can get any more complicated than that"
Tsaiya nodded in agreement, how on earth did these four had been in this situation; no one knows but they currently are and well; it wouldn't hurt if she told someone who was somewhat in a similar situation than she was. So she did, she had told Vidae everything about her emotions towards the Durin brothers who are not only are the heirs of a powerful kingdom but is a totally different species than she is, including of the fact that she had been lying to them from the start of the journey and everything along from where she grew up and what she had done though; she knew of them but they had known somewhat little about her and she felt extremely terrible of telling all of those lies to her friends, especially those two now had a special place within her mind as well as perhaps heart.
"You're in love" Vidae said while continuing to file her nails.
"What- No; I can't be-"Tsaiya flustered only for Vidae to silence her with a look.
"Don't bother denying it; you've been sighing ever since you have been talking about those two"
"But I can't fall for one of them let alone two! Not only is that being greedy on my part but; I'm just-
"You're scared if they find out you're a duck and not a girl?" Vidae cocked an eyebrow up for only to Tsaiya to nod multiple times.
"I see it as" The woman then looked forward while she explained her mind. "From all the things you had told me about them; they seem to like you no matter what; even if you're originally a duck; you're a girl here, so it doesn't really matter at all unless you decide to form your bonding with one of them during the New Moon-
"No, No, No; we shall not talk about those things right now" Tsaiya flushed with embarrassment while her face turning a beet red from the thoughts of that.
Vidae laughed at began talking once more. "Well, if I were in your position I would most likely put a spell on both of them and claim the riches of that kingdom for myself"
Tsaiya rolled her eyes. "I don't want any riches; I just want…" she sighed without completing the sentence and just looking down.
She just wanted a family, people that she had come to love surrounding her and one of the two brothers to love her too but as more than a family member.
"Then tell them; tell them both how you feel, perhaps after the journey when everything is finished and dandy of course; you wouldn't want to confess to them during a battle where likely all three of you could be killed" Vidae laughed. "Though it is tragic but death comes to everyone and anyone; I just choose to deliver it early for some individuals" she smirked.
It had been a few hours as the two Celestials talked while the two avian beings continued to argue once more and by the time they noticed they had managed to reach the end of the river and now they were on a lake that was cold and icy where icicles were forming at the bottom of their leaf boat as flat ice beds floated around them.
"We're almost there" Corvus said while Havanna just rolled his eyes and approached the other two.
"You guys doing alright?" he said to look at Tsaiya and then back to Vidae.
"Yes thank you" Tsaiya smiled while looking at Vidae who shrugged.
"I am quite well; though I do have an urge to burn something since I am quite freezing right now" the odd Celestial woman spoke while summoning a ball of fire within her hands to warm herself up.
Tsaiya had then remembered the encounter she had with Vidae in her dreams in Lake Town, it had to be Lake Town for the lake seemed similar and the very air around felt familiar as well; she then began to think that was it just a test or was it a vision of the future.
"We met in Lake Town; don't you remember you silly duck" the crow girl smirked evilly while side eyeing Tsaiya who froze instantly.
"Perhaps we should relive and reenact it as well?" she continued.
"No, there shall be no harm will come to the civilians who are innocent here Vidae; they are people who wish to live in peace"
Vidae had just rolled her eyes. "Peace is overrated, I had just wanted to show them and prepare them for the inevitable end that will soon be falling upon them quite quickly actually; Dragon fire is something to be afraid of; even our magic is equally of matched to such a thing but Dragon fire however can leave a trace of fear scaring them not only physically but mentally as well; if only we could cast such spells"
Tsaiya looked on with disbelief of the girl who was chuckling while hurling the fireball within her hands, back and forth like it was a child's play thing of a toy as she giggled in delight at the thought of its destructive powers perhaps.
They dodged enormous pillars of rocks with ease and they could also see in the misty and clouds that settled on the lake; they saw the silhouette of the Lone Mountain up close; its height and fullness so very close to where they were.
This must be what the company had saw when they journeyed here as well; they had to see such a thing.
As they cleared the mists they noticed a wooden town near the shore of the lake and Tsaiya had looked at it.
"Lake Town" she whispered to which they all nodded.
This was they were going to go and then of a sudden realization hit her.
She was near the end of the journey.
She was very close to helping the dwarves to Erebor and to battle the dragon and then finally let them enter their home and reclaim it finally.
The journey that she took with them was ending quite soon and only now she had realized such a thing.
She felt hallow inside but also happy that they were finally heading home too.
"We're approaching the gate" Corvus spoke as they floated to the gate where they were greeted by a man who looked at them with a very peculiar expression; well who could blame him? They were riding a leaf for god's sake.
"May we enter the town please" Tsaiya spoke while smiling at the man who smiled back. "Of course you may but be warn that we will be closing the gate in a couple of minutes as well; luckily you have arrived here in time"
Tsaiya nodded but as soon as the man was about to call the guards to raise the gate; another figure had appeared dressed in black and Tsaiya as well as Vidae had already felt the eerie air around him.
"Who are you two?" the man spat while eyeing them.
"We are here to visit a friend" Vidae glared at the man who was eyeing her and then to Tsaiya who had a much more calmer atmosphere rather than the girl who he thought had swirling storm clouds hovering above her.
"Well if you wish to see your friend; why not we have a little time to ourselves?" the man winked.
Tsaiya was about to protest when Vidae began screeching.
"Do you know who we are and you dare talk to us in that kind of manner?! Do not make me angry sir." The woman demanded while conjuring up her fireball threateningly
"I will use this if I have too; no I want to use this against you; to see the burning of your flesh as it slowly peels from your body as you are set alight; the fire that I hold within my hand is no ordinary flame; it cannot be extinguish by any methods of cooling other than you jumping into the most coldest lake far up north but sadly you wouldn't be able to take five steps from where you are standing now before you die"
Tsaiya's eyes widened while the man's had saucers; he could already feel the heat from the fireball floating within her hand and he dared not taunt a person with powers that could easily destroy him with ease.
"Let-Let them through" the man sacredly said while backing away.
The gate was lifted while Vidae smirked but not breaking the eye contact she had with that said man as they sailed within the town that smelled of oil and fish.
As they sailed passed through the narrow canals they saw the people staring at them while children of all ages ran around the docks playing happily and as soon as they saw them waved innocently at them; Tsaiya smiled and waved in return but on the other hand as for Vidae; had a scowl on her face.
She did not like children at all and under her breath Tsaiya had heard that they were all snot nosed children who clung too much on her feathers and threw rocks at her when she was in her bird form.
As the two stepped onto the wooden docks; the two was then surrounded by people asking of where they had come from and why are they there; they were asked about their clothes and all as well but the two girls could not really answer any of those questions; Tsaiya being in a rush to find her friends and Vidae having the urge to burn everything around her.
But as Tsaiya gazed upon the mountains once more; she knew that she was at least close to her friends once more and that their journey was soon to be completed; for they were all in Lake
And this concludes our tale... i'm just joking :) haha the next chapter! Lake Town! What will happen? Will Tsaiya really confess her love and to who she will confess it too? Isn't it so difficult to be falling for two men? Especially if they are brothers? Stay Tuned!