Chapter 2,
1 The Unexpected Visit
What a long day it had been. She led a sigh and walked towards home. It had been two days since she last went home. Her father often yelled her, because she stayed out of home so long. But she believed the forest was where she was meant to be. Not in a four walled, roofed place, she was meant to live in. She wanted freedom; she wanted to listen to the forest all the time. But nobody else understood her.
She jumped suddenly, on a tree. And kept moving on the trees, like a monkey. She then stopped when she came to an old tree, unlike the thin ones she had been on. The trees she had been traveling on were much or less a thousand year old. But this one seemed at least the double. She went closer to it and found a crack on it. Clicked on it and stepped inside. The crack seemed to open some sort of a door. But it was unable to be seen from outside.
Her father was yet going to shout at her again. Tell her how worried he was. But she didn't believe a word of it. He should've got used to it by now. She was eighteen and she started disappearing for days when she was six. She wasn't as good as many elves with the bow, but she had a talent with swords. But her father wasn't pleased with this. He found her rather disappointing. Couldn't use a bow, disappearing for days every now and then…was this how he imagined her to be? He wanted her to be rather a good house-elf or a good warrior. He never expected something like this to happen.
She eyed him longingly. He had his back facing the door, so he couldn't see her. Was this how he would be, if he was really worried? She led a sigh and went forwards her father "Father, I am back, to show that I am alive." she said, not like as if talking to her father but like as if giving a report to her boss.
"Where HAVE you been?" her father asked "I have been dead worried for you!" Even his voice was so cartoony. He was rather a good fighter and a handsome boy in his times. But now, he was fat, he didn't hunt anymore and he wasn't even thinking lately.
"I think I saw someone today" she said, ignoring him "a stranger."
"What? You saw someone? But who?" her father said, suddenly giving up to pretend he was worried
"Would I say she was a "stranger" I knew who she was?"
"Well" her father rolled his eyes
"I wonder who she was" his daughter was now eying him "Do you know a stranger, who is supposed to come here? She was no random elf. She had the speed of the wind, and the power of the tiger. I saw her hunt down a deer. But I saw no more, I couldn't see her moves well, she was too fast. But I know she can't be any older than me. She was short."
"Yes," her father said, "I do know a stranger to come indeed. I heard they were moving the Sea Elf family down to the village." His eyebrows in heavens.
"But…I heard there were two, one dead now, a girl and a man, Ugric. Yet the girl couldn't have been the one who I saw. The one I saw was little. And the Sea Elf girl is told to be one of the three warriors who yet could escape form the Ancient Battle. I heard she was a great warrior. She couldn't have been that little girl!"
"May be indeed, because when she survived the battle, she was four years old." Her father said
She was shocked. "A four-year-old girl, surviving a battle, which only two other great warriors survived" was an insane thought. How was it possible, she could not see. She looked at the floor, thinking, thinking how stupid she had been and didn't ask the girl who she was.
"I am going," she said, and made a move towards the door "I won't be back for a few days, unless Blaise honors our village." And she was gone before her father could say a thing.
She kept on walking. She was walking like some sort of an animal, on four legs. And she did it good, not like crawling, but she could even run like that, whenever she heard a noise. She wandered around. These places were not that strange to her. She had once come here. And as her memory was good, she remembered every inch of place she went.
She heard a noise. Sounded like an animal noise. But a mix of a monkey and a tiger. It came from the tree, and only animal that could stand on a tree like that could be only a monkey. But it was as quick and careful as a tiger. Or a cheetah. She jumped aside and looked up. She couldn't see anything. Until some animal jumped in front of her, from the tree.
"Welcome, Blaise, daughter of Ringlô the great. Welcome to the village of Firien's Moon Elves." Said the animal that dropped from the tree. Now Blaise could see, that it was not an animal, but a Grey Elf. A girl with shiny red hair, and with boy clothes on. Beautiful she seemed, but yet so wild and boyish.
"Hello indeed, but who are you? And how do you know who I am?" Blaise asked rather seriously.
"Me? I am a common villager of Firien Wood. Domî is my name, Domî the Berekâ Berô; you might've heard me as…if you ever heard me that is." Domî answered her.
"I heard you indeed. But not by the name." Blaise said, to Domî's surprise "Ugric told he saw you. And he told me not to be afraid of you if I see you."
"Ugric you say?" Domî said in excitement "How is he?"
"You met him then? So why wouldn't he tell your name to me?" Blaise said, a bit suspicious.
"Because he doesn't know it." Domî said simply "I never told him my name. But yet he saw me. The first one who managed to see me as a human in the jungle he was, without my wanting. Sharp eyes he has got. When I asked him how he knew I was no animal, he told me he saw my hair. And told me no animal hair could blow like that in the wind. He has sharp eyes indeed. Now, tell me how he is doing!"
"I do not know." Blaise said, looking at Domî longingly "I do not know. But yet I can say he is probably all right. Never saw him in a bad position, I have. Never. Maybe thoughtful, maybe miserable and in a different world, but I never saw him hurt. And I can assure you that he cannot be killed or captured in only two days."
"He is gone for two days now, eh?" Domî asked, sounding not surprised at all "I see… Well, let me lead you to the village and let us talk there!"
"Village? Who wants to go to the village?"
"Surely not me. But you are waited there. And I need to get my blade from the tree near our home. You will teach me how to hunt down a deer so perfectly" Domî said and smiled at the shocked face of Blaise.
"A…a deer? How to hunt a deer?"
"Yes. What is so different about it? You are good at hunting deer. So you will teach me how to hunt a deer. Not that I can't. I just can't do it as perfect as you. And I see you buried the bones as perfectly as you ate the meat. And the wood hasn't been complaining about the digging of the earth. So you should've found the perfect dead spot."
"Oh…" Blaise said, still puzzled but she seemed to understand a bit of it "You saw me? And I didn't see you. I didn't even hear you. And they say my ears are the sharpest Sea Elf ears ever seen."
"Well, it was not your ears' fault" Domî said matter-of-factly "my movements in the wood are not able to be heard more than a cheetah's moves."
"Are we still going? We better get going because I want to be out of here before sunset. If it is dark, we may not be able to see the soft spot of earth, which is not far to us and we will probably have to pass it. Am I not right?"
"You have the memory of an elephant." Domî said, her smile widening "However, not the brain of one. No offence meant, but elephants are the best animals to judge the travels. And you seem to forget the simplest thing! Your mind doesn't work as an elephant mind then!"
"What did I miss, may I ask?" Blaise said, toneless.
"I am a Grey Elf!" Domî said simply but a bit annoyed "I can travel at night easily! You have the ears; I have the eye and the knowledge! What shall stop us on our way? However, we shall go soon. I cannot get the responsibility of a child at a Firien Wood's night. We shall go as soon as you are ready. I will have to slow down, now that I have you, so don't worry about catching up with me"
Blaise seemed extremely annoyed of these words "I am NOT a child, neither someone who cannot take her own responsibility AND I am not a cause you to slow down." She said, her eyebrows in heavens.
Domî smiled gently "Of course," she said "how could I forget the little Blaise's honor? Ok, I will count you are not a child. But I will slow down. It is near sunset and the night will fall upon Firien Wood soon, maybe before we reach the village." She then took her eyes off the sky, which was barely seen through the trees, and turned them on Blaise "Which way can you travel the fastest?"
"Whichever way you can!" Blaise said coolly
Domî laughed shortly but from heart "Every way suits me, I just want to be a bit quicker that's all! Now tell me the way you are the most fast!"
Blaise felt not only disappointed in herself but also embarrassed "Ground is what I am best traveling on, if I understood you right."
"Sorry, I have to have your second best way, because ground is dangerous tonight. It is the night horses pass every year. Sorry, but shall I ask you again; how can you travel the fastest?" Domî said, not a drop of seriousness on her voice
Blaise led a sigh "Then water, I would say, but as you have none near," she said slowly "I will choose…the trees. But I may add, I am not THAT good at them, so I…I wish you to slow down, as I saw your talent on them." The words were coming out of her mouth as if they were on fire and it hurt her mouth to say them.
To Blaise's surprise, Domî smiled "Ok, little master, I will slow down. But be warned, slow or fast, trees are hard to travel on and hide at the same time."
"I am warned indeed!" Blaise said. She now felt a bit more comfortable talking to Domî.
"Let us go then!" Domî said and she was up on the nearest tree before Blaise's eyes. Blaise's climb took a bit more time, but it was not like Blaise was completely not talented. And it seemed like she was giving great work on it.
Domî showed her to the village and Blaise was surprised how heroic they thought she was, but all she had done was to be quick and attack the people from their back so they couldn't attack back! But it was not like she didn't like it…or so it seemed.
A/N: Ok, know you say "so perfect characters! God!" but believe me, you'll see..they are NOT! They will always fight up and all…and the story MAY seem boring, but see, I amtrying to set things right in to your mind until this chapter. With the third chapter, which I am nearly finished(really long one), the real advanture will begin! PLEASE comment!
1 The Unexpected Visit
What a long day it had been. She led a sigh and walked towards home. It had been two days since she last went home. Her father often yelled her, because she stayed out of home so long. But she believed the forest was where she was meant to be. Not in a four walled, roofed place, she was meant to live in. She wanted freedom; she wanted to listen to the forest all the time. But nobody else understood her.
She jumped suddenly, on a tree. And kept moving on the trees, like a monkey. She then stopped when she came to an old tree, unlike the thin ones she had been on. The trees she had been traveling on were much or less a thousand year old. But this one seemed at least the double. She went closer to it and found a crack on it. Clicked on it and stepped inside. The crack seemed to open some sort of a door. But it was unable to be seen from outside.
Her father was yet going to shout at her again. Tell her how worried he was. But she didn't believe a word of it. He should've got used to it by now. She was eighteen and she started disappearing for days when she was six. She wasn't as good as many elves with the bow, but she had a talent with swords. But her father wasn't pleased with this. He found her rather disappointing. Couldn't use a bow, disappearing for days every now and then…was this how he imagined her to be? He wanted her to be rather a good house-elf or a good warrior. He never expected something like this to happen.
She eyed him longingly. He had his back facing the door, so he couldn't see her. Was this how he would be, if he was really worried? She led a sigh and went forwards her father "Father, I am back, to show that I am alive." she said, not like as if talking to her father but like as if giving a report to her boss.
"Where HAVE you been?" her father asked "I have been dead worried for you!" Even his voice was so cartoony. He was rather a good fighter and a handsome boy in his times. But now, he was fat, he didn't hunt anymore and he wasn't even thinking lately.
"I think I saw someone today" she said, ignoring him "a stranger."
"What? You saw someone? But who?" her father said, suddenly giving up to pretend he was worried
"Would I say she was a "stranger" I knew who she was?"
"Well" her father rolled his eyes
"I wonder who she was" his daughter was now eying him "Do you know a stranger, who is supposed to come here? She was no random elf. She had the speed of the wind, and the power of the tiger. I saw her hunt down a deer. But I saw no more, I couldn't see her moves well, she was too fast. But I know she can't be any older than me. She was short."
"Yes," her father said, "I do know a stranger to come indeed. I heard they were moving the Sea Elf family down to the village." His eyebrows in heavens.
"But…I heard there were two, one dead now, a girl and a man, Ugric. Yet the girl couldn't have been the one who I saw. The one I saw was little. And the Sea Elf girl is told to be one of the three warriors who yet could escape form the Ancient Battle. I heard she was a great warrior. She couldn't have been that little girl!"
"May be indeed, because when she survived the battle, she was four years old." Her father said
She was shocked. "A four-year-old girl, surviving a battle, which only two other great warriors survived" was an insane thought. How was it possible, she could not see. She looked at the floor, thinking, thinking how stupid she had been and didn't ask the girl who she was.
"I am going," she said, and made a move towards the door "I won't be back for a few days, unless Blaise honors our village." And she was gone before her father could say a thing.
She kept on walking. She was walking like some sort of an animal, on four legs. And she did it good, not like crawling, but she could even run like that, whenever she heard a noise. She wandered around. These places were not that strange to her. She had once come here. And as her memory was good, she remembered every inch of place she went.
She heard a noise. Sounded like an animal noise. But a mix of a monkey and a tiger. It came from the tree, and only animal that could stand on a tree like that could be only a monkey. But it was as quick and careful as a tiger. Or a cheetah. She jumped aside and looked up. She couldn't see anything. Until some animal jumped in front of her, from the tree.
"Welcome, Blaise, daughter of Ringlô the great. Welcome to the village of Firien's Moon Elves." Said the animal that dropped from the tree. Now Blaise could see, that it was not an animal, but a Grey Elf. A girl with shiny red hair, and with boy clothes on. Beautiful she seemed, but yet so wild and boyish.
"Hello indeed, but who are you? And how do you know who I am?" Blaise asked rather seriously.
"Me? I am a common villager of Firien Wood. Domî is my name, Domî the Berekâ Berô; you might've heard me as…if you ever heard me that is." Domî answered her.
"I heard you indeed. But not by the name." Blaise said, to Domî's surprise "Ugric told he saw you. And he told me not to be afraid of you if I see you."
"Ugric you say?" Domî said in excitement "How is he?"
"You met him then? So why wouldn't he tell your name to me?" Blaise said, a bit suspicious.
"Because he doesn't know it." Domî said simply "I never told him my name. But yet he saw me. The first one who managed to see me as a human in the jungle he was, without my wanting. Sharp eyes he has got. When I asked him how he knew I was no animal, he told me he saw my hair. And told me no animal hair could blow like that in the wind. He has sharp eyes indeed. Now, tell me how he is doing!"
"I do not know." Blaise said, looking at Domî longingly "I do not know. But yet I can say he is probably all right. Never saw him in a bad position, I have. Never. Maybe thoughtful, maybe miserable and in a different world, but I never saw him hurt. And I can assure you that he cannot be killed or captured in only two days."
"He is gone for two days now, eh?" Domî asked, sounding not surprised at all "I see… Well, let me lead you to the village and let us talk there!"
"Village? Who wants to go to the village?"
"Surely not me. But you are waited there. And I need to get my blade from the tree near our home. You will teach me how to hunt down a deer so perfectly" Domî said and smiled at the shocked face of Blaise.
"A…a deer? How to hunt a deer?"
"Yes. What is so different about it? You are good at hunting deer. So you will teach me how to hunt a deer. Not that I can't. I just can't do it as perfect as you. And I see you buried the bones as perfectly as you ate the meat. And the wood hasn't been complaining about the digging of the earth. So you should've found the perfect dead spot."
"Oh…" Blaise said, still puzzled but she seemed to understand a bit of it "You saw me? And I didn't see you. I didn't even hear you. And they say my ears are the sharpest Sea Elf ears ever seen."
"Well, it was not your ears' fault" Domî said matter-of-factly "my movements in the wood are not able to be heard more than a cheetah's moves."
"Are we still going? We better get going because I want to be out of here before sunset. If it is dark, we may not be able to see the soft spot of earth, which is not far to us and we will probably have to pass it. Am I not right?"
"You have the memory of an elephant." Domî said, her smile widening "However, not the brain of one. No offence meant, but elephants are the best animals to judge the travels. And you seem to forget the simplest thing! Your mind doesn't work as an elephant mind then!"
"What did I miss, may I ask?" Blaise said, toneless.
"I am a Grey Elf!" Domî said simply but a bit annoyed "I can travel at night easily! You have the ears; I have the eye and the knowledge! What shall stop us on our way? However, we shall go soon. I cannot get the responsibility of a child at a Firien Wood's night. We shall go as soon as you are ready. I will have to slow down, now that I have you, so don't worry about catching up with me"
Blaise seemed extremely annoyed of these words "I am NOT a child, neither someone who cannot take her own responsibility AND I am not a cause you to slow down." She said, her eyebrows in heavens.
Domî smiled gently "Of course," she said "how could I forget the little Blaise's honor? Ok, I will count you are not a child. But I will slow down. It is near sunset and the night will fall upon Firien Wood soon, maybe before we reach the village." She then took her eyes off the sky, which was barely seen through the trees, and turned them on Blaise "Which way can you travel the fastest?"
"Whichever way you can!" Blaise said coolly
Domî laughed shortly but from heart "Every way suits me, I just want to be a bit quicker that's all! Now tell me the way you are the most fast!"
Blaise felt not only disappointed in herself but also embarrassed "Ground is what I am best traveling on, if I understood you right."
"Sorry, I have to have your second best way, because ground is dangerous tonight. It is the night horses pass every year. Sorry, but shall I ask you again; how can you travel the fastest?" Domî said, not a drop of seriousness on her voice
Blaise led a sigh "Then water, I would say, but as you have none near," she said slowly "I will choose…the trees. But I may add, I am not THAT good at them, so I…I wish you to slow down, as I saw your talent on them." The words were coming out of her mouth as if they were on fire and it hurt her mouth to say them.
To Blaise's surprise, Domî smiled "Ok, little master, I will slow down. But be warned, slow or fast, trees are hard to travel on and hide at the same time."
"I am warned indeed!" Blaise said. She now felt a bit more comfortable talking to Domî.
"Let us go then!" Domî said and she was up on the nearest tree before Blaise's eyes. Blaise's climb took a bit more time, but it was not like Blaise was completely not talented. And it seemed like she was giving great work on it.
Domî showed her to the village and Blaise was surprised how heroic they thought she was, but all she had done was to be quick and attack the people from their back so they couldn't attack back! But it was not like she didn't like it…or so it seemed.
A/N: Ok, know you say "so perfect characters! God!" but believe me, you'll see..they are NOT! They will always fight up and all…and the story MAY seem boring, but see, I amtrying to set things right in to your mind until this chapter. With the third chapter, which I am nearly finished(really long one), the real advanture will begin! PLEASE comment!
