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The sun rested its warm glow across the vast hills and intricate valleys. Lively birds soared across the blue, cloudless sky, and forest animals grazed the plains. Trees began to lose their leaves. The unique flowers of the woodland drifted from their branches and rested in the tall grass.
A young boy dragged a long stick across his trail as he staggered behind his parents. He glanced into the ocean of tall trees as he found a new interest.
The couples walked slowly along the hillside, arms attached compassionately around each other's body. The beautiful woman's bright yellow dress dragged behind her feet as she walked, and her long blonde hair shone and swayed brilliantly in the light. The black, unruly hair of the man covered his dark eyes as he looked down onto to the face of his love. Her hands circled the rim of her rounding stomach.
The dark haired boy scurried to their side and stood in front of his mother. He placed his hands gingerly upon her stomach and waited silently.
"I don't feel anything," he said.
The couples smiled.
"You won't yet. When the baby is bigger, it will always be moving around," his mother explained.
The boy smiled, and scurried back towards the trees.
"Do you think it's all over?" the tall, dark haired man asked.
She shook her head. "Not yet. The powers at a neutralized state."
"They'll be looking for him, even if he does only possess half the key."
They continued walking together through the high reaching blades of grass.
"We have time," she said. "Finding the last half of the key shouldn't be hard. It'll be a difficult road though, Van. There'll be more dangers."
"Whatever the years bring, we'll be there." He smiled, and pulled her close.
The raven-haired boy watched his parents disappear behind the hillside, their voices calling his name. He slowly trailed along the same forested route, grazing the branches of the trees. He stopped and looked beyond the heavy trunks and thin branches. Far behind the drooping autumn leaves that hung off the trees, drifted a long, soft object.
He watched as the black feather floated around the curves of the forest.
"Ty!" the voices over the hillside called.
The boy narrowed his eyes towards the trees, and ran through the long grass towards the steep pitch of the hill.
Birds nestled in the trees took flight from the bushel of leaves. The feather drifted towards the ground, and dissolved onto the light surface of the leaves. The instant it vanished, the yellow, red, and orange leaves it faded away onto smothered into a black dust of shrouded leaves…
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^o^ Well, the story's done, and with a lead to a sequel!! Hehehehe! Thanx for reading it, I hope you guys enjoyed it. I'm deciding whether or not I should do a sequel. If I do, it may take awhile to begin it 'cause I don't have much of a storyline idea yet!! @_@ Don't forget to review!!!