Chapter 2: Interrupted by the Hordes
As soon as they unsheathed their weapons, a low rumbling broke the tension.
"Everybody into the trees!" Kamau shouted, leaping onto a tree branch. Everybody
except Yuffie made it into the trees. She was still slipping and sliding on the
bark, just barely out of CloudXIII's reach. "Grab my hand!" CloudXIII shouted,
his voice being drowned out by the sounds of hooves pounding the earth. With a
burst of strength, CloudXIII pulled Yuffie onto the tree, away from the stampeding
hordes of monsters and animals. Yuffie scampered onto the tree branch next to CloudXIII,
panting from the hair raising experience.
They watched the hordes of monsters and animals thunder below them and jumped off
the branches when the stampede finally ended. Aeris noticed a small fire red egg
lying amongst the debris left by the animals and monsters. She picked it up and
held it in her arms, half hoping that the egg would open and find several more eggs
inside. "Hey look at the egg!" Yuffie shouted, watching the egg shake and vibrate.
Kamau took out an old and battered map that seemed to be the map of the world. He
searched the map's old and faded words for something and then put his finger on a spot.
CloudXIII looked at the spot where Kamau's finger was pointed at and read: "Cosmo Canyon"
Kamau nodded and began to explain that the purpose of the egg would be deciphered by
the Elders there. Yuffie and Aeris overheard their conversation and ran over to join in
the conversation. "Me too! I wanna go to Cosmo Canyon! Wutai's boring!" Yuffie shrieked.
"Me three!" Aeris chimed in. Kamau shot CloudXIII an exasperated look and CloudXIII just
shrugged.
The party of 4 walked around in the forest, chopping up wood for materials to build a raft
to go to Cosmo Canyon. According to Kamau's map, they only had to travel some 20 kilometres
across the narrowest part between the continents in order to reach the shores of the new
continent. They managed to bind the pieces of wood together by freezing them with a spell
and then quickly heating it up with a weak fire spell. Aeris noticed that the egg reacted
differently when it felt the heat of the fire spell and seemed to be attracted towards it,
but she just thought it was just an illusion and continued with the task at hand. They froze,
heated and froze again together the pieces of wood to make them stick. All of them tested
out the raft which generally consisted of running on and off the raft and jumping up and
down on it. The raft, however battered, was still usable and they began to row slowly towards
the new continent.
Next chapter: Introduction of a new character! Will they be able to enlist the aid of a God?
Stay tuned for "Those Who can hear the Cry of the Planet" Chapter 3: Meet the Wind!
As soon as they unsheathed their weapons, a low rumbling broke the tension.
"Everybody into the trees!" Kamau shouted, leaping onto a tree branch. Everybody
except Yuffie made it into the trees. She was still slipping and sliding on the
bark, just barely out of CloudXIII's reach. "Grab my hand!" CloudXIII shouted,
his voice being drowned out by the sounds of hooves pounding the earth. With a
burst of strength, CloudXIII pulled Yuffie onto the tree, away from the stampeding
hordes of monsters and animals. Yuffie scampered onto the tree branch next to CloudXIII,
panting from the hair raising experience.
They watched the hordes of monsters and animals thunder below them and jumped off
the branches when the stampede finally ended. Aeris noticed a small fire red egg
lying amongst the debris left by the animals and monsters. She picked it up and
held it in her arms, half hoping that the egg would open and find several more eggs
inside. "Hey look at the egg!" Yuffie shouted, watching the egg shake and vibrate.
Kamau took out an old and battered map that seemed to be the map of the world. He
searched the map's old and faded words for something and then put his finger on a spot.
CloudXIII looked at the spot where Kamau's finger was pointed at and read: "Cosmo Canyon"
Kamau nodded and began to explain that the purpose of the egg would be deciphered by
the Elders there. Yuffie and Aeris overheard their conversation and ran over to join in
the conversation. "Me too! I wanna go to Cosmo Canyon! Wutai's boring!" Yuffie shrieked.
"Me three!" Aeris chimed in. Kamau shot CloudXIII an exasperated look and CloudXIII just
shrugged.
The party of 4 walked around in the forest, chopping up wood for materials to build a raft
to go to Cosmo Canyon. According to Kamau's map, they only had to travel some 20 kilometres
across the narrowest part between the continents in order to reach the shores of the new
continent. They managed to bind the pieces of wood together by freezing them with a spell
and then quickly heating it up with a weak fire spell. Aeris noticed that the egg reacted
differently when it felt the heat of the fire spell and seemed to be attracted towards it,
but she just thought it was just an illusion and continued with the task at hand. They froze,
heated and froze again together the pieces of wood to make them stick. All of them tested
out the raft which generally consisted of running on and off the raft and jumping up and
down on it. The raft, however battered, was still usable and they began to row slowly towards
the new continent.
Next chapter: Introduction of a new character! Will they be able to enlist the aid of a God?
Stay tuned for "Those Who can hear the Cry of the Planet" Chapter 3: Meet the Wind!