Ok now you all have been wonderfully kind while I haven't been posting and I love you all! The reason why it's been so long is because before school started my computer died, as in we needed to get a new hard drive and every thing on the computer was erased. Once we got the computer up again school started and I haven't had time to rewrite the chapter (which was five pages long!) again because I'm in 10th grade and am entering the high school. I should also explain that for those who are wondering. My town is messed up and 6,7,and 8th grade are in one school then 9th grade is in it's own school all by its self (told you my town was messed up) while 10,11,and 12 are considered the high school the 9th grade school is basically considered apart of the high school but it just like that. Confusing isn't it.
Now I went back to all of the other chapters and corrected lots of spelling and changed parts that I thought sucked and so on and so fourth. But still I suck at spelling and still make tons of mistakes so don't expect much.
Chapter #8
Meeting a Migern
Hitomi ran as fast as she could towards the small camp she and Dilandau had made the night before. Something was wrong Hitomi could sense it she could feel the wrongness in the very air she needed to get back to the camp. The trees branches around her seemed to reach out to grab her as if to hold her back, but Hitomi ran on. She was close now she could hear Ludo's screeches and screams Hitomi was running as fast as she could but then a tree root jumped from the ground like a snake and wrapped around her foot tripping her. Hitomi tried to cry out but was cut short when she saw a tree branch come swinging towards her head out of the corner of her eye. Then all was dark...
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A small cut was on Hitomi's forehead but a healing salve had been smoothed over it protecting it from infection. A mumble escaped from Hitomi's mouth slowly opening her eyes Hitomi tried to focus her bleared vision. Once everything cleared Hitomi gasped she was in a cradle of tree branches and leafy vines holding her in a comfortable position gently swaying in a soothing manner.
Hitomi tried to sit up but leafy vines held her gently in place then off to her left the vines and branches rustled. They pulled away from each other creating a little archway then a figure came through. A tall lean very handsome man came though. Well not a man no man could look like this one did he wasn't even human. He was a giant his full height reaching about nine feet if not more, with skin of silvery brown it's ruff texture matched his thick strands of viney hair. His eyes were like white marble with a purple iris, it was then that Hitomi realized that he was wearing no clothes. Not that he needed any she realized at his waist were his legs should have been his body melted into a tree trunk forming vines and branches at the base, the very branches and vines that she was laying on. All she could do was stair at the being before her slowly the branches and vines beneath her moved he upwards until she was face to face with the giant tree man. All Hitomi could do was sit trying not to stair.
"I'm terribly sorry about grabbing you." The being started his voice deep and ancient sounding. "I was hunting and I thought that you were an animal." He stopped and weighted for Hitomi to react, he was surprised when all she did was gulp and stair at him.
"Um... I'm not tiring to be rude but what are you?" Hitomi asked with a child like honesty.
"Well that would explain why your not afraid of me." He muttered.
"Should I be?" Hitomi asked him getting slightly nervous.
"No! No no. You see my kind are known as the Migern we are a mix between plant and animal." He answered her.
"Why are you surprised that I'm not afraid of you?" Hitomi asked with sudden curiosity.
"I do believe that most if not all of your kind fear mine. You see the Migern are a very strong race we are very powerful and we can be a little gruesome when we hunt so humans just misjudged us and thought us to be monsters. There was a time when the Migern roamed all over the country side but now our numbers are few because of the humans hunting us." He stopped and let the facts sink in then continued. "Our great ancestors came from the world beyond the moon-"
"You come from Earth too!" Hitomi interrupted with a yell.
Taken aback the Migern stared at her. "Too? You come from there?" He bent his back with the creaking sound of wood to point to the mystic moon high in the sky.
"Yes!" Hitomi was excited she had meet some one who's ancestors was from Earth.
"Could it be?" He murmured to him self he leaned closer to Hitomi and looked her up and down then his eyes fell on her pendent. "Then the dragon wasn't...."
Hitomi gasped when she realized she had totally forgotten about Dilandau and Ludo.
"Oh my god! I need to find my friends!" She told the Migern.
"Tell me is this one of your friends?" He asked then there was a plopping noise on Hitomi's other side turning around she saw Ludo hog tied and muzzled with vines his nostrils shot out bits of smoke as he breathed.
"Ludo!" Hitomi screamed. "Why did you tie him up!?" Hitomi demanded.
"I'm sorry when I first grabbed you a few minuets later this young dragon had come crashing though the trees and tried lighting me on fire I thought that he was trying to attack me so that he could get you away from he to eat you." He told her truthfully. "I tied him up because the Migern are dragon friendly because humans tend to stay away from dragons and so we live near dragons to stay away from humans usually."
"Oh can you please untie him now?" Hitomi asked politely.
"Of cores." The Migern's vines loosened and released the tiny dragon who in return ripped off a vine and chewed it into a slimy pulp. The Migern didn't seemed to be fazed in the slightest by a vine being torn off.
"I'm sorry I don't even know your name." Hitomi said. "My name is Hitomi and this is Ludo."
"I would tell you my name but you could never pronounce it in your tong but my name means leaf of silver or silvery green you may call me Silver Leaf." Silver Leaf told them.
"Now if you don't mind Silver Leaf I need to find my friend Dilandau." Hitomi asked.
The kind smile that had been on Silver Leafs face faded away.
"What?" Hitomi asked but she already knew. "They took him didn't they?"
Silver Leaf nodded as he spoke. "I don't know what powers you possess. But I know that no ordinary human cold befriend a dragon even a human from the world beyond the moon. But I will help you find your friend."
"Thank you Silver Leaf you have no idea how much that means to me. I don't know why but I trust you." She told him.
"Maybe it is fate that we met." He said.
Hitomi realized that there was something about how he had earlier looked at her pendant. She knew she could trust him but she knew he was keeping something from her, but that didn't matter right now she needed to find Dilandau...
Authors Note: Ok what do you all think? I need input I crave it, and what do you all think of the new character Silver Leaf? And for those who are wondering I have quite a few more chapter to write in this story so it's going to be a fairly long story.
