Sun and Moon
By InsaneSnakeJig
Authoressess notes - Well... it appears as though I'm finally getting to some good parts, or at least for me. Something else I could say is that I had a staring contest with Buddy-Lee and got the title of 'The great Pooba or Perpetual Non-blinkyness' and that's cool. I WANT THE GAME PRIMAL PREY BADLY SO I CAN LOOK AT DINOSAURS! (The reason why I found it is because I was looking info up on Nanotyrannus for somethin' in this story.... *grin*)
I'll give you the site later... mff.
7.
Drakken had gotten used to getting waken up by his very loud and annoying alarm clock, Pyrolite. She had used her claw to get inside again and bounced up and down on the bed, chanting, "We're going to war... HELP! We're going to war... HELP!"
Dr. Drakken, fully awake now sat up and glared at her. "What do you want?"
Pyrolite smiled. "You need to help! We're going to war... so lotsa stuff has to be done!"
She grabbed him by the shirt/lab coat and started dragging him out of bed, down the hall, and then finally outside in the cold. It was still dark, being winter, and she continued to drag him across the mountain ledge. At the end she finally stopped and hopped down, expecting for him to come down also. Seeing that she would probably just bounce back up and throw him down if he refused, Drakken sighed and followed. She explained their job as she walked around.
"We have to find any ledges that are big enough to build ramparts on! The high ones are good so we shall go up before anyone else been assigned the same thing can find 'em!" With a sudden leap, she was up on an almost un- landable rock and she continued climbing like it was as easy as walking. Dr. Drakken, not feeling up for this slowly was behind watching an Pyrolite was doing yet another nearly-impossible thing, walking up a rock's side on all-fours like spider-man.
Then suddenly, he was grabbed by the shirt again and was pulled up onto the ledge she had discovered. Looking around proudly at her discovery, Pyrolite then proceeded to walk back down. "Where are you going?" he asked and she called back, "Well, duh! To get some people to help make the ramparts..."
She dissapeared from view and Dr. Drakken laid back, shivering. He REALLY missed alot of stuff. Like smart-ness, machinary, science and alot of other stuff. He normally wasn't obsessed with it, but he missed music, too. These people probably think the flute is a 'hard rock' instrument.
He folded his arms behind his head and waited. It was a long time until he heard Pyrolite singing to herself as she made her way up the mountain. "Bagels.... Bagels... that's why we make bagels... la, la, LAAAA! la, la, LAAAA!"
Drakken smiled, wondering how she came up with the idea of singing a song of why she'd make bagels. He saw the familiar hand with claws, and then her body came. She carried a bag, and then she flopped it infront of him. "I'm ready!"
Unloading whatever was inside it, she looked up at him with pleading eyes. "You know... To make ramparts you obviously need stones..."
He kicked her, but not too hard. "You get 'em! It was your idea to drag me out here in the first place."
Pyrolite grabbed his leg and demanded, "STONES! NOW! AND YOU'RE GONNA LIKE GETTIN THEM!"
With that, she leapt backwards dragging him with her, and she fell off along with Drakken. Of course, she easily whirled around in the air still clinging to Drakken like a blood-thirsty tick. He landed on his back painfully on a rock and she was ontop of him growling.
"What are you gonna do now...?" she asked, slowly. Then Drakken shoved her off and remained on the ground, looking at her out of the corner of his eye, smiling. With a sudden sproing, he attacked her instead and Pyrolite swatted madly at the air when he did this.
Dr. Drakken grinned, now pinning her down easily by the shoulders with him next to her. Pyrolite sat up and pointed to a stone. "Pick it up..." "NO!"
Pyrolite expected what was next and rolled when he 'attacked' again.
She bit his shoulder and Drakken stopped. "Get off."
"Grrrmmmpphhhh."
"Off!"
"Mmmmmmmfffffffffff."
"Do you think I enjoy it when you're spit is all over my shoulder...?" WHAP!
Pyrolite let go of his shoulder and clamped a hand over his mouth. She was in a weird position when she did this. "Yoda... look there!" She pointed a accusing finger at Cosmos, standing above them with his eyebrows raised. (He doesn't really have eyebrows being a shark, but the little 'things' above his eyes!)
"Mffa?" (Translation - Yoda?!) Drakken said, and then swatted her hand away.
Cosmos looked very serious, but then he smiled, looking goofy. "I see what's goin' on..."
"What?" Pyrolite asked, not having a clue of what he was talking about.
"No!" Drakken immediatly said, but Cosmos was already prancing around them like a little school girl. You'd know what I mean if someone thought you were going out with an idiot. -_-
"I saw it! I SHALL TELL THE WHOLE CLAN!" Cosmos said sarcastically and began skipping down the mountain to where the entrance was. This was really the first time Drakken could probably win a race between against Pyrolite. He didn't know Cosmos was kidding, so....
"I'LL KILL YOU BEFORE YOU GET TO THE CLAN-THINGIE-PLACE!" He shouted, charging only a few feet behind Cosmos who had actually started running to escape.
Pyrolite just blinked. "I see... Drakken doesn't beleive it IS possible to shift. Mhmmm..." she said, trying to sound intelligent. "Coffee. I want some coffee. Our clan doesn't make coffeee. Hmmm. Right. COFFEE."
Kim and Ron were woken up by their true enemy... Moonbay.
"You gonna just sit here all day when everyone else is working hard?" she asked, whapping Kim on the side of the head. "How'd you get in here?!" She demanded but Moonbay just growled in response, sounding like an insane wolf. "WORK!"
She was shoved into the hallway where Ron was already waiting, also looking tired. "Good morning KP..." he said groggily and Kim just nodded. The satanic wolf-shifter then led them down to the cavern and while they were still half-asleep, she shoved them into the storeroom, full of barrels.
"Now during most wars... the enemy tries to poison our water. So we have to get ready to replace the poisoned water barrels with ones full of GOOD water... Carry these up to the storerooms! They're in the kitchens..." she said and walked off to do her own part, help make arrows for the archers.
Kim sighed. "Let's do it, Ron."
Together they hoisted the barrel up off of the ground, which was very heavy. The hard part was getting up the stairs. Finally they got to the straight hallway and set it down to regain what was left of their strength. The goth-shifter Ron met earlier was waiting for them. "You will ALL die!" she then walked away, and Kim looked at Ron, who shrugged.
In the kitchens, there was already alot of shifters trying to stuff extra stuff into the storerooms. They both dropped the barrel happily, but then a shifter walked up, grabbed the barrel with only one arm, slung it across his shoulder and walked to put it in it's proper place with ease. They groaned and went to get the second barrel.
Cosmos leaped across a wide gap he was sure Dr. Drakken couldn't make. He turned to watch him attempt to, but Drakken was gone. He sniggered and trotted away on all fours. He remembered that somewhere around here was another big ledge where at least four of his shifters where making ramparts. He remembered their Phenotypes easily, because they were all Draconid. And they probably had to be the best fighters, due to their phenotypes. Making his way along, he suddenly recognized the strong scent of blood. Cosmos quickened his pace and then made the final leap to see no other than... what was left of the four.
He walked on, carefully looking at the bloody mess to see what caused it. One of them still had their chest intact, and there was a long, deep scratch in it, so deep you could see the ribcage. He shuddered and started to head back to get anything burnable in the woods. Cosmos couldn't smell any other scents then blood, so he was still unsure of what killed them all.
Meanwhile, Drakken was walking back muttering to himself about how stupid the fish was to accuse him and Pyrolite actually... HISS BOO COUGH!! He found her sitting cross-legged, looking like she was having a hard time thinking and she was making, 'Mhmm! Interesting...' noises.
"Black coffee... no. I mean, a Latte. Wait, is that considered a coffee?" she talked to herself and Drakken wondered if he should leave her there. He would've, but then she popped an eye open and remained in her position, saying, "Aah... Yoda has returned. Do you seek what makes up the Jedi warrior?"
"No... and I always thought people asked that to Yoda." he said.
Then Dr. Drakken realized that she had made ramparts (Or battlements, whatever you want to call it) while he was busy chasing Cosmos. "How long have I been gone'?" Drakken asked, only a little guilty.
"Hour, young Jedi. Er - Yoda." She replied and finally got back to normal, sprawling herself on the cold rock. She grinned. "Cold!"
"Right..." Dr. Drakken answered and and started to head back inside. Pyrolite peered over her ramparts, feeling successful. She took out a bow and arrow, in which she put inside the bag. "Twang... twang... whoops!"
She had accidentally released the shaft, and winced when she heard a thump. She jumped on a rampart, and looked over nervously expecting to see poor Drakken with an arrow in his back. Luckily it wasn't. Only a dead physical shifter with a scimitar in it's hand close to Dr. Drakken who was looking surprised... she laughed to herself and shrugged. 'Wait a minute...' she thought and jumped back over. "Are you okay?" she called down to him.
"Er... yeah." Was all he could reply.
Pyrolite jumped down the twenty feet and landed safely on all fours. She walked on over and poked the dead shifter. "Dude... is it alive?"
"I don't know, is it?"
"Is it alive?"
"Is it?"
"I'm serious... is it alive?"
"You tell me!" Drakken finally said. (Dude where's my car takeoff! MWA HA HA HA!)
She nodded. "Yep!"
"Good." He answered, and then faced her. "I assume that's the bad-guy your clan is going against?"
She nodded again. "It's a physical shifter of the Reguba clan... So that means there's more."
Cosmos dropped a big stack of sticks over the bodies and used a dagger of one of the shifters and a rock to light each one in flames. He stood to the side and growled. He should get used to this. Alot more will happen eventually. And they had physical shifters. Cosmos stared at the fire.
He knew it would attract the attention of almost every Reguba clan member around the mountain, so he turned and walked back to where he hoped Pyrolite and Dr. Drakken remained.
The sun was now rising in the horizon, and other shifters set out to make ramparts. Everytime he met one, Cosmos would tell them not to go near the fires or put them out. He then recognized Pyrolite and Drakken and a big lump with an arrow sticking out of it. It looked like the were fighting, so he quickened his pace until he finally met with them.
First, Dr. Drakken stared at him evily and ten Pyrolite pointed to the lump. "Tiger shifter!"
He looked down at it, a tiger like creature with a scimitar close to the clawed hand.
Cosmos growled and looked at Pyrolite. "Good shooting."
Then the shark shifter simply walked away, expecting them to do something with the body. Then Drakken left. "It's all yours."
Pyorlite looked around. "Hey!" But they were already gone.
Kim and Ron leaned against a wall, letting their poor, abused muscles rest from all the work they had just done, moving at least ten barrels from the tavern to the storeroom. Kim noticed Drakken turn the corner and head downstairs. He gave her a quick glance for a minute and she swore his eye turned golden for a second. "Hey, Ron. Do you want to get something to eat and go, well, somewhere else besides the great hall?" she suggested and he nodded.
"I'm starving!" Ron replied and together they walked off.
Dr. Drakken looked around the cavern. No one was there, so that was good. He'd still have to wait later on tonight to go back to that one room in the library, but right now all he cared about was finding the 'treasure' of Fort Ebony. The mapsaid it was by the rock with the sun and moon carved on, so he headed over to that, and didn't really know where to start. He got the feeling that it had to do with the sun and moon, so poked the moon. Nothing happened. Then his eyes fell on a small carving, barely noticable. It was near the 'base' of the rock, and when he got closer it was a silver image of a wolf howling. And then he noticed there were more symbols going down, and the last one was a shark, and looked a little new compared to the others.
He lightly kicked the shark (It's close to the floor obviously :) and it started to shake slightly. He stepped back just as the wall next to the rock started shaking. Dust fell and the outline of a door soon appeared, and it pushed open. A cloud of dust escaped from it when that happened and then light slowly began to shine through as all the sand in the air settled down a bit.
Dr. Drakken looked around agian. Thank god no one saw that!
He pushed the heavy door open and more dusts and bits of rocks fell off that wasn't already shooken off. Then he went inside. It was really bright inside, and the room was like a large cylinder, and the roof had no windows. All the way up to the window there were symbols. Each one was glowing usually a different color but alot were the same. The colors in the lines were 'moving' around, causing the light to shift alot and make it look the the northern lights on the ground.
This was the treasure? Drakken was expecting something like gold, but this looked like it could be called a treasure. On the circular floor was the symbol of a sky blue shark. The edges were cracked and some rocks just fell. He stepped out onto it and the ground rippled. He jumped back, but realized it wasn't water.
Drakken remembered the door and shut it, knowing he could eventually open it again without a problem. Drakken stepped unto the solid floor again. It rippled but he didn't go through at all.
Was that even possible?
He walked across to just watch the ripples for amusement and then found himself staring at a symbol of a bull skull on the wall. How was this treasure?
Well, this wasn't new, he thought. So far everything I have touched did something weird, he reached out and just alid a hand on it. The creme- colored symbol grew brightly until it was eventually white. Drakken would've pulled his hand away but that annoying 'voice' in his head told him not to.
"For once don't be so paranoid and just see where things lead to. You ARE paranoid, you know that right? Don't you try to ignore me young lady! Drakken.. Drakken?"
Finally Drakken took his hand off and began to turn around, the room was freaking him out, before he realized the ground under him was a creme color. He looked down to see no other then... the bull skull on the ground. He felt like the room hadn't changed at all...
But the door was only a little harder to open that he thought, but it did anyway with lots of rocks crumbling and sand flying all over the place. The room was different. It was really quiet, instead of the trickling noise of the stream. It was DIFFERENT!
Actually, it probably wasn't considered a room. It was more like a feild with gray stone walls about twenty feet high bordering the feilds. There was a rectangular pool in a corner and a well, and those were the only things that pretty much stood out.
Dr. Drakken looked behind him and saw that the door had a staue of a bull right by it, so it was easy to remember. He started to walk around, with questions racing through his mind.
What the heck happened? Where am I?
How was that treasure?
How do I get back?
WHERE AM I?!
He eventually turned a corner and saw that the walls got darker and there was a hall. It ended and there was another one to the left. This time you could see out of it, because the ceiling was held up by gray columns. Drakken took the chance to get a good look around and saw nothing but endless feilds and hills. This couldn't be in America, because people would discover it too easily, and he already got the hint that this was another shifter place.
He tried to think of other places where this could be, he didn't get too far because there was the sound of clopping coming down the halls. Where to hide?
Only shadows seemed to be the place, so he stepped back as 'something' walked by. It was like a horse standing up on it's hind legs and it wasn't as fat. It was dark brown with a white-ish cream mane and tail, and was wearing clothes like a female indian would.
What's with the feather obsessed shifters? He wondered, because the horse had feathers in it's mane, too. Then it stopped and looked straight at him and took a deep breath. The horse blinked, tossed it's head then continued walking. That was close.
Pyrolite got back inside the fort and went to find Drakken.
She ran into Kim and Ron walking to their dormitories (Ron was carrying a big armfull of different stuff to mix and eat) and she stopped them for a minute and asked, "Have you seen Dr. D?"
Kim nodded. "He went to that cavern place."
"Alright!" Pyrolite replied and headed down. Once inside she took a look around and didn't see him. And she obviously wasn't gonna see if he was taking a shower or something. Hiss!
Pyrolite's ears twitched slightly and she slowly turned around.
Something felt funny. She walked over to the rock and her 'sixth sense' predicted someone was already here not too long ago. She followed where she expected he or she went a then noticed that there was a pile of sand on the ground near abunch of symbols she never noticed. They all were dark and carved in ages ago but the last - the current clan symbol - looked like it was glowing a bit.
She knew Drakken had something to with this and she stabbed the shark with her finger with what was meant to be a poke. That rumbling started again and she saw the whole process that Drakken saw.
"Whoa..."
Kim was talking to Wade and Ron was mixing things which he found very fun.
"Wade, can you talk to my parents for me? I don't really want to, I feel bad enough lying to her." she asked and Wade got a look on his face that said 'Oh yeah, expect for me to do everything for you,' and he sighed. "Sure, what do you want me to say?"
Kim thought. "I'll call her when I'm coming back or I have a ride."
"I'll do that, but next time can you tell her that?" Wade asked, and Kim nodded.
He went away to call Kim's parents, and she turned to Ron who was holding something out for her.
"Er... What is it?" Kim asked, not wanting to touch it.
"The guy said it was called a scone whatever that it. Kinda good."
"Sure..." Kim said and took it as she laid back in her bed. It was still hard to get used to the fact that there was almost a race of people that could actually change into animals or have their fur or whatever, and they had these big fortresses and good fighters.
Speaking of fighters, that reminded her of the war. What was to expect of it?
If there had been more then one war, it was amazing how they could fight without regular people noticing. And what would she think of other people now, knowing that they maybe could be a shifter, or something else?
Ron sat up and took a look around. "Where's Rufus?"
The naked mole rat fell out of the scone he was eating as fat as a watermelon. "I almost ate you Rufus!"
Rufus grabbed a strawberry and shoveled it down it's throat, not really paying attention. "Mhmm, whatever."
Pyrolite stepped in and her jaw dropped.
This was... AMAZING! She quickly slammed the heavy door shut and walked unto the sky blue shark, watching it's ripples. This was treasure! She only heard stories about these... they were called sigils. The sigils were supposed to be a great big amount of energy just from one clan that connected them to others. Used only for a good purpose. But from what she was told, when the clans eventually broke out into war they were sealed off so spies, poisoners and beserkers couldn't get into forts and cause damage.
This was barely worth as much as having a tanker of gold to the shifters! Pyrolite just stared in awe at the huge cylinder like room. And it appears as though Drakken found it first, though. She walked up to a particular sigil of a bull skull. It felt out of place.
She began to touch it, but she suddenly stopped. Thura clan, a voice said inside of her head and she looked around. She tried another sigil. Wolfsbane pack, it said again. Pyrolite got the feeling that those where the names of each clan, so she returned to the 'Thura clan' sigil. Her sixth sense easily picked up a shifter had used this one previously. She blinked in confusion.
But she heard that only shifters with strong shifting energy could use these. She didn't know Drakken had that much, but she pressed her hand against the bull skull anyway and felt something rush through her. It was a strange feeling, and then the thought of horses rushed into her head. Like they were stampeding through her. There was a flash of light and she opened her eyes slowly and cautiously. Nothing seemed different except the floor.
It had the bull symbol on the ground though.
She walked across and opened the door, to see feilds with stone walls surrounding them. She then picked up Drakken (his presence!) and quickly ran over. She heard the sound of hooves and made a leap for a pool nearby. The sun had made it warmer, but it was still extremely cold.
"OH MY CRACKERS!" She jumped about a mile up out of the water and did a insane jig as soon as she got out, trying to get the water out of her clothes. (The INSANESNAKEJIG! Now you know how I got my name...) "Cold... My poor neglected skin.. Oh it burns in cold ...hotness... coldly?"
Now she confused herself.
There was a snort behind her and she turned around to see no other then... a horse shifter!
"I DIDN'T MEAN TO! I got here by sigils I found! I'm looking for someone!" she shouted waving her arms around frantically. The horse smiled amazinglly and stuck out her hand. (They're like regular furry human hands but the end joints of the fingers is made of the hoof stuff.)
"No problem. I'm Thura," she said and Pyrolite cocked her head to the side, not really knowing if she should shake hands with fingers that sharp. She took it anyway and grinned. '"I thought you were going to eat me first or get rrreeeaaalllyyyy mad or something! You know there is someone else around here..." she trailed off.
"I'm a herbivore. Even if I was a canrivore, I would take pity on your low intelligence and lack of skill in fighting from your weird... dance thing. Was that a wardance? I heard some people acutally do that..." Thura replied and used her thumb to point behind her. "Back there in the halls. Looks lost." Pyrolite bounded off on all fours to the halls and leapec right in the entranceway but Drakken was already there and the two of them collided.
She twisted onto her back and Dr. Drakken got up.
She followed him here?! "Pyrolite you... LOSER!" Pyrolite lowered her head like dogs do when they get their feelings hurt and looked up at him. "So you knew about the sigils and didn't tell me or Cosmos? I thought we helped you..."
Then Thura walked over and grabbed him by the shoulder and drew him in closer to her. "Now good friends don't do that..."
He whirled around and didn't get spastic about seeing another shifter cause he was getting used to expect the unexpected. "We aren't friends! And anyway, where the heck did you come from?"
Thura snorted like she was offended and straightened up. "I am Thura! Leader of the Thura clan! The small Thura clan.... but anyway, it's glad knowing that you aren't an enemy using sigils to get in! Right now everyone else is going to some clan bugging us lately. The Reguba clan, infact."
Pyroite cocked her head to the side. "But the Cosmos clan is going to war against them, though."
Thura turned to her. "Well, I guess there is more then one Reguba clan. How have they been bugging you?"
Drakken normally would've gone away, but Thura was still clinging unto his shoulder, not really noticing.
"Well, they killed five shifters so far, and four of them were Draconid so that isn't good."
The horse shifter finally let go to fold her arms. "That isn't really good. Look, I'll help you. As long as your sigils can be used to get back here I'll give you a couple of my good fighters, we don't really need them too much."
Pyrolite bounded up and gave Thura a glomp around the stomach. "Sweet! Well, our clan sigil is the blue shark, buh-bye!" She then grabbed Drakken and started pulling him back to the 'treasure' room. She threw him in and then hunted down her clan sigil and went back, all giddy-like.
Authoresses notes - I know, that is alot happening in one chapter. And it wasn't humurous at all, too seriouslyness. Uh... I SWEAR seriouslyness is a word.... Well read next chapter and giv e me a good review or I will sick the tiger with the scimitar on you! By the way, a scimitar is a thick, curved sword. Think pirates.
By InsaneSnakeJig
Authoressess notes - Well... it appears as though I'm finally getting to some good parts, or at least for me. Something else I could say is that I had a staring contest with Buddy-Lee and got the title of 'The great Pooba or Perpetual Non-blinkyness' and that's cool. I WANT THE GAME PRIMAL PREY BADLY SO I CAN LOOK AT DINOSAURS! (The reason why I found it is because I was looking info up on Nanotyrannus for somethin' in this story.... *grin*)
I'll give you the site later... mff.
7.
Drakken had gotten used to getting waken up by his very loud and annoying alarm clock, Pyrolite. She had used her claw to get inside again and bounced up and down on the bed, chanting, "We're going to war... HELP! We're going to war... HELP!"
Dr. Drakken, fully awake now sat up and glared at her. "What do you want?"
Pyrolite smiled. "You need to help! We're going to war... so lotsa stuff has to be done!"
She grabbed him by the shirt/lab coat and started dragging him out of bed, down the hall, and then finally outside in the cold. It was still dark, being winter, and she continued to drag him across the mountain ledge. At the end she finally stopped and hopped down, expecting for him to come down also. Seeing that she would probably just bounce back up and throw him down if he refused, Drakken sighed and followed. She explained their job as she walked around.
"We have to find any ledges that are big enough to build ramparts on! The high ones are good so we shall go up before anyone else been assigned the same thing can find 'em!" With a sudden leap, she was up on an almost un- landable rock and she continued climbing like it was as easy as walking. Dr. Drakken, not feeling up for this slowly was behind watching an Pyrolite was doing yet another nearly-impossible thing, walking up a rock's side on all-fours like spider-man.
Then suddenly, he was grabbed by the shirt again and was pulled up onto the ledge she had discovered. Looking around proudly at her discovery, Pyrolite then proceeded to walk back down. "Where are you going?" he asked and she called back, "Well, duh! To get some people to help make the ramparts..."
She dissapeared from view and Dr. Drakken laid back, shivering. He REALLY missed alot of stuff. Like smart-ness, machinary, science and alot of other stuff. He normally wasn't obsessed with it, but he missed music, too. These people probably think the flute is a 'hard rock' instrument.
He folded his arms behind his head and waited. It was a long time until he heard Pyrolite singing to herself as she made her way up the mountain. "Bagels.... Bagels... that's why we make bagels... la, la, LAAAA! la, la, LAAAA!"
Drakken smiled, wondering how she came up with the idea of singing a song of why she'd make bagels. He saw the familiar hand with claws, and then her body came. She carried a bag, and then she flopped it infront of him. "I'm ready!"
Unloading whatever was inside it, she looked up at him with pleading eyes. "You know... To make ramparts you obviously need stones..."
He kicked her, but not too hard. "You get 'em! It was your idea to drag me out here in the first place."
Pyrolite grabbed his leg and demanded, "STONES! NOW! AND YOU'RE GONNA LIKE GETTIN THEM!"
With that, she leapt backwards dragging him with her, and she fell off along with Drakken. Of course, she easily whirled around in the air still clinging to Drakken like a blood-thirsty tick. He landed on his back painfully on a rock and she was ontop of him growling.
"What are you gonna do now...?" she asked, slowly. Then Drakken shoved her off and remained on the ground, looking at her out of the corner of his eye, smiling. With a sudden sproing, he attacked her instead and Pyrolite swatted madly at the air when he did this.
Dr. Drakken grinned, now pinning her down easily by the shoulders with him next to her. Pyrolite sat up and pointed to a stone. "Pick it up..." "NO!"
Pyrolite expected what was next and rolled when he 'attacked' again.
She bit his shoulder and Drakken stopped. "Get off."
"Grrrmmmpphhhh."
"Off!"
"Mmmmmmmfffffffffff."
"Do you think I enjoy it when you're spit is all over my shoulder...?" WHAP!
Pyrolite let go of his shoulder and clamped a hand over his mouth. She was in a weird position when she did this. "Yoda... look there!" She pointed a accusing finger at Cosmos, standing above them with his eyebrows raised. (He doesn't really have eyebrows being a shark, but the little 'things' above his eyes!)
"Mffa?" (Translation - Yoda?!) Drakken said, and then swatted her hand away.
Cosmos looked very serious, but then he smiled, looking goofy. "I see what's goin' on..."
"What?" Pyrolite asked, not having a clue of what he was talking about.
"No!" Drakken immediatly said, but Cosmos was already prancing around them like a little school girl. You'd know what I mean if someone thought you were going out with an idiot. -_-
"I saw it! I SHALL TELL THE WHOLE CLAN!" Cosmos said sarcastically and began skipping down the mountain to where the entrance was. This was really the first time Drakken could probably win a race between against Pyrolite. He didn't know Cosmos was kidding, so....
"I'LL KILL YOU BEFORE YOU GET TO THE CLAN-THINGIE-PLACE!" He shouted, charging only a few feet behind Cosmos who had actually started running to escape.
Pyrolite just blinked. "I see... Drakken doesn't beleive it IS possible to shift. Mhmmm..." she said, trying to sound intelligent. "Coffee. I want some coffee. Our clan doesn't make coffeee. Hmmm. Right. COFFEE."
Kim and Ron were woken up by their true enemy... Moonbay.
"You gonna just sit here all day when everyone else is working hard?" she asked, whapping Kim on the side of the head. "How'd you get in here?!" She demanded but Moonbay just growled in response, sounding like an insane wolf. "WORK!"
She was shoved into the hallway where Ron was already waiting, also looking tired. "Good morning KP..." he said groggily and Kim just nodded. The satanic wolf-shifter then led them down to the cavern and while they were still half-asleep, she shoved them into the storeroom, full of barrels.
"Now during most wars... the enemy tries to poison our water. So we have to get ready to replace the poisoned water barrels with ones full of GOOD water... Carry these up to the storerooms! They're in the kitchens..." she said and walked off to do her own part, help make arrows for the archers.
Kim sighed. "Let's do it, Ron."
Together they hoisted the barrel up off of the ground, which was very heavy. The hard part was getting up the stairs. Finally they got to the straight hallway and set it down to regain what was left of their strength. The goth-shifter Ron met earlier was waiting for them. "You will ALL die!" she then walked away, and Kim looked at Ron, who shrugged.
In the kitchens, there was already alot of shifters trying to stuff extra stuff into the storerooms. They both dropped the barrel happily, but then a shifter walked up, grabbed the barrel with only one arm, slung it across his shoulder and walked to put it in it's proper place with ease. They groaned and went to get the second barrel.
Cosmos leaped across a wide gap he was sure Dr. Drakken couldn't make. He turned to watch him attempt to, but Drakken was gone. He sniggered and trotted away on all fours. He remembered that somewhere around here was another big ledge where at least four of his shifters where making ramparts. He remembered their Phenotypes easily, because they were all Draconid. And they probably had to be the best fighters, due to their phenotypes. Making his way along, he suddenly recognized the strong scent of blood. Cosmos quickened his pace and then made the final leap to see no other than... what was left of the four.
He walked on, carefully looking at the bloody mess to see what caused it. One of them still had their chest intact, and there was a long, deep scratch in it, so deep you could see the ribcage. He shuddered and started to head back to get anything burnable in the woods. Cosmos couldn't smell any other scents then blood, so he was still unsure of what killed them all.
Meanwhile, Drakken was walking back muttering to himself about how stupid the fish was to accuse him and Pyrolite actually... HISS BOO COUGH!! He found her sitting cross-legged, looking like she was having a hard time thinking and she was making, 'Mhmm! Interesting...' noises.
"Black coffee... no. I mean, a Latte. Wait, is that considered a coffee?" she talked to herself and Drakken wondered if he should leave her there. He would've, but then she popped an eye open and remained in her position, saying, "Aah... Yoda has returned. Do you seek what makes up the Jedi warrior?"
"No... and I always thought people asked that to Yoda." he said.
Then Dr. Drakken realized that she had made ramparts (Or battlements, whatever you want to call it) while he was busy chasing Cosmos. "How long have I been gone'?" Drakken asked, only a little guilty.
"Hour, young Jedi. Er - Yoda." She replied and finally got back to normal, sprawling herself on the cold rock. She grinned. "Cold!"
"Right..." Dr. Drakken answered and and started to head back inside. Pyrolite peered over her ramparts, feeling successful. She took out a bow and arrow, in which she put inside the bag. "Twang... twang... whoops!"
She had accidentally released the shaft, and winced when she heard a thump. She jumped on a rampart, and looked over nervously expecting to see poor Drakken with an arrow in his back. Luckily it wasn't. Only a dead physical shifter with a scimitar in it's hand close to Dr. Drakken who was looking surprised... she laughed to herself and shrugged. 'Wait a minute...' she thought and jumped back over. "Are you okay?" she called down to him.
"Er... yeah." Was all he could reply.
Pyrolite jumped down the twenty feet and landed safely on all fours. She walked on over and poked the dead shifter. "Dude... is it alive?"
"I don't know, is it?"
"Is it alive?"
"Is it?"
"I'm serious... is it alive?"
"You tell me!" Drakken finally said. (Dude where's my car takeoff! MWA HA HA HA!)
She nodded. "Yep!"
"Good." He answered, and then faced her. "I assume that's the bad-guy your clan is going against?"
She nodded again. "It's a physical shifter of the Reguba clan... So that means there's more."
Cosmos dropped a big stack of sticks over the bodies and used a dagger of one of the shifters and a rock to light each one in flames. He stood to the side and growled. He should get used to this. Alot more will happen eventually. And they had physical shifters. Cosmos stared at the fire.
He knew it would attract the attention of almost every Reguba clan member around the mountain, so he turned and walked back to where he hoped Pyrolite and Dr. Drakken remained.
The sun was now rising in the horizon, and other shifters set out to make ramparts. Everytime he met one, Cosmos would tell them not to go near the fires or put them out. He then recognized Pyrolite and Drakken and a big lump with an arrow sticking out of it. It looked like the were fighting, so he quickened his pace until he finally met with them.
First, Dr. Drakken stared at him evily and ten Pyrolite pointed to the lump. "Tiger shifter!"
He looked down at it, a tiger like creature with a scimitar close to the clawed hand.
Cosmos growled and looked at Pyrolite. "Good shooting."
Then the shark shifter simply walked away, expecting them to do something with the body. Then Drakken left. "It's all yours."
Pyorlite looked around. "Hey!" But they were already gone.
Kim and Ron leaned against a wall, letting their poor, abused muscles rest from all the work they had just done, moving at least ten barrels from the tavern to the storeroom. Kim noticed Drakken turn the corner and head downstairs. He gave her a quick glance for a minute and she swore his eye turned golden for a second. "Hey, Ron. Do you want to get something to eat and go, well, somewhere else besides the great hall?" she suggested and he nodded.
"I'm starving!" Ron replied and together they walked off.
Dr. Drakken looked around the cavern. No one was there, so that was good. He'd still have to wait later on tonight to go back to that one room in the library, but right now all he cared about was finding the 'treasure' of Fort Ebony. The mapsaid it was by the rock with the sun and moon carved on, so he headed over to that, and didn't really know where to start. He got the feeling that it had to do with the sun and moon, so poked the moon. Nothing happened. Then his eyes fell on a small carving, barely noticable. It was near the 'base' of the rock, and when he got closer it was a silver image of a wolf howling. And then he noticed there were more symbols going down, and the last one was a shark, and looked a little new compared to the others.
He lightly kicked the shark (It's close to the floor obviously :) and it started to shake slightly. He stepped back just as the wall next to the rock started shaking. Dust fell and the outline of a door soon appeared, and it pushed open. A cloud of dust escaped from it when that happened and then light slowly began to shine through as all the sand in the air settled down a bit.
Dr. Drakken looked around agian. Thank god no one saw that!
He pushed the heavy door open and more dusts and bits of rocks fell off that wasn't already shooken off. Then he went inside. It was really bright inside, and the room was like a large cylinder, and the roof had no windows. All the way up to the window there were symbols. Each one was glowing usually a different color but alot were the same. The colors in the lines were 'moving' around, causing the light to shift alot and make it look the the northern lights on the ground.
This was the treasure? Drakken was expecting something like gold, but this looked like it could be called a treasure. On the circular floor was the symbol of a sky blue shark. The edges were cracked and some rocks just fell. He stepped out onto it and the ground rippled. He jumped back, but realized it wasn't water.
Drakken remembered the door and shut it, knowing he could eventually open it again without a problem. Drakken stepped unto the solid floor again. It rippled but he didn't go through at all.
Was that even possible?
He walked across to just watch the ripples for amusement and then found himself staring at a symbol of a bull skull on the wall. How was this treasure?
Well, this wasn't new, he thought. So far everything I have touched did something weird, he reached out and just alid a hand on it. The creme- colored symbol grew brightly until it was eventually white. Drakken would've pulled his hand away but that annoying 'voice' in his head told him not to.
"For once don't be so paranoid and just see where things lead to. You ARE paranoid, you know that right? Don't you try to ignore me young lady! Drakken.. Drakken?"
Finally Drakken took his hand off and began to turn around, the room was freaking him out, before he realized the ground under him was a creme color. He looked down to see no other then... the bull skull on the ground. He felt like the room hadn't changed at all...
But the door was only a little harder to open that he thought, but it did anyway with lots of rocks crumbling and sand flying all over the place. The room was different. It was really quiet, instead of the trickling noise of the stream. It was DIFFERENT!
Actually, it probably wasn't considered a room. It was more like a feild with gray stone walls about twenty feet high bordering the feilds. There was a rectangular pool in a corner and a well, and those were the only things that pretty much stood out.
Dr. Drakken looked behind him and saw that the door had a staue of a bull right by it, so it was easy to remember. He started to walk around, with questions racing through his mind.
What the heck happened? Where am I?
How was that treasure?
How do I get back?
WHERE AM I?!
He eventually turned a corner and saw that the walls got darker and there was a hall. It ended and there was another one to the left. This time you could see out of it, because the ceiling was held up by gray columns. Drakken took the chance to get a good look around and saw nothing but endless feilds and hills. This couldn't be in America, because people would discover it too easily, and he already got the hint that this was another shifter place.
He tried to think of other places where this could be, he didn't get too far because there was the sound of clopping coming down the halls. Where to hide?
Only shadows seemed to be the place, so he stepped back as 'something' walked by. It was like a horse standing up on it's hind legs and it wasn't as fat. It was dark brown with a white-ish cream mane and tail, and was wearing clothes like a female indian would.
What's with the feather obsessed shifters? He wondered, because the horse had feathers in it's mane, too. Then it stopped and looked straight at him and took a deep breath. The horse blinked, tossed it's head then continued walking. That was close.
Pyrolite got back inside the fort and went to find Drakken.
She ran into Kim and Ron walking to their dormitories (Ron was carrying a big armfull of different stuff to mix and eat) and she stopped them for a minute and asked, "Have you seen Dr. D?"
Kim nodded. "He went to that cavern place."
"Alright!" Pyrolite replied and headed down. Once inside she took a look around and didn't see him. And she obviously wasn't gonna see if he was taking a shower or something. Hiss!
Pyrolite's ears twitched slightly and she slowly turned around.
Something felt funny. She walked over to the rock and her 'sixth sense' predicted someone was already here not too long ago. She followed where she expected he or she went a then noticed that there was a pile of sand on the ground near abunch of symbols she never noticed. They all were dark and carved in ages ago but the last - the current clan symbol - looked like it was glowing a bit.
She knew Drakken had something to with this and she stabbed the shark with her finger with what was meant to be a poke. That rumbling started again and she saw the whole process that Drakken saw.
"Whoa..."
Kim was talking to Wade and Ron was mixing things which he found very fun.
"Wade, can you talk to my parents for me? I don't really want to, I feel bad enough lying to her." she asked and Wade got a look on his face that said 'Oh yeah, expect for me to do everything for you,' and he sighed. "Sure, what do you want me to say?"
Kim thought. "I'll call her when I'm coming back or I have a ride."
"I'll do that, but next time can you tell her that?" Wade asked, and Kim nodded.
He went away to call Kim's parents, and she turned to Ron who was holding something out for her.
"Er... What is it?" Kim asked, not wanting to touch it.
"The guy said it was called a scone whatever that it. Kinda good."
"Sure..." Kim said and took it as she laid back in her bed. It was still hard to get used to the fact that there was almost a race of people that could actually change into animals or have their fur or whatever, and they had these big fortresses and good fighters.
Speaking of fighters, that reminded her of the war. What was to expect of it?
If there had been more then one war, it was amazing how they could fight without regular people noticing. And what would she think of other people now, knowing that they maybe could be a shifter, or something else?
Ron sat up and took a look around. "Where's Rufus?"
The naked mole rat fell out of the scone he was eating as fat as a watermelon. "I almost ate you Rufus!"
Rufus grabbed a strawberry and shoveled it down it's throat, not really paying attention. "Mhmm, whatever."
Pyrolite stepped in and her jaw dropped.
This was... AMAZING! She quickly slammed the heavy door shut and walked unto the sky blue shark, watching it's ripples. This was treasure! She only heard stories about these... they were called sigils. The sigils were supposed to be a great big amount of energy just from one clan that connected them to others. Used only for a good purpose. But from what she was told, when the clans eventually broke out into war they were sealed off so spies, poisoners and beserkers couldn't get into forts and cause damage.
This was barely worth as much as having a tanker of gold to the shifters! Pyrolite just stared in awe at the huge cylinder like room. And it appears as though Drakken found it first, though. She walked up to a particular sigil of a bull skull. It felt out of place.
She began to touch it, but she suddenly stopped. Thura clan, a voice said inside of her head and she looked around. She tried another sigil. Wolfsbane pack, it said again. Pyrolite got the feeling that those where the names of each clan, so she returned to the 'Thura clan' sigil. Her sixth sense easily picked up a shifter had used this one previously. She blinked in confusion.
But she heard that only shifters with strong shifting energy could use these. She didn't know Drakken had that much, but she pressed her hand against the bull skull anyway and felt something rush through her. It was a strange feeling, and then the thought of horses rushed into her head. Like they were stampeding through her. There was a flash of light and she opened her eyes slowly and cautiously. Nothing seemed different except the floor.
It had the bull symbol on the ground though.
She walked across and opened the door, to see feilds with stone walls surrounding them. She then picked up Drakken (his presence!) and quickly ran over. She heard the sound of hooves and made a leap for a pool nearby. The sun had made it warmer, but it was still extremely cold.
"OH MY CRACKERS!" She jumped about a mile up out of the water and did a insane jig as soon as she got out, trying to get the water out of her clothes. (The INSANESNAKEJIG! Now you know how I got my name...) "Cold... My poor neglected skin.. Oh it burns in cold ...hotness... coldly?"
Now she confused herself.
There was a snort behind her and she turned around to see no other then... a horse shifter!
"I DIDN'T MEAN TO! I got here by sigils I found! I'm looking for someone!" she shouted waving her arms around frantically. The horse smiled amazinglly and stuck out her hand. (They're like regular furry human hands but the end joints of the fingers is made of the hoof stuff.)
"No problem. I'm Thura," she said and Pyrolite cocked her head to the side, not really knowing if she should shake hands with fingers that sharp. She took it anyway and grinned. '"I thought you were going to eat me first or get rrreeeaaalllyyyy mad or something! You know there is someone else around here..." she trailed off.
"I'm a herbivore. Even if I was a canrivore, I would take pity on your low intelligence and lack of skill in fighting from your weird... dance thing. Was that a wardance? I heard some people acutally do that..." Thura replied and used her thumb to point behind her. "Back there in the halls. Looks lost." Pyrolite bounded off on all fours to the halls and leapec right in the entranceway but Drakken was already there and the two of them collided.
She twisted onto her back and Dr. Drakken got up.
She followed him here?! "Pyrolite you... LOSER!" Pyrolite lowered her head like dogs do when they get their feelings hurt and looked up at him. "So you knew about the sigils and didn't tell me or Cosmos? I thought we helped you..."
Then Thura walked over and grabbed him by the shoulder and drew him in closer to her. "Now good friends don't do that..."
He whirled around and didn't get spastic about seeing another shifter cause he was getting used to expect the unexpected. "We aren't friends! And anyway, where the heck did you come from?"
Thura snorted like she was offended and straightened up. "I am Thura! Leader of the Thura clan! The small Thura clan.... but anyway, it's glad knowing that you aren't an enemy using sigils to get in! Right now everyone else is going to some clan bugging us lately. The Reguba clan, infact."
Pyroite cocked her head to the side. "But the Cosmos clan is going to war against them, though."
Thura turned to her. "Well, I guess there is more then one Reguba clan. How have they been bugging you?"
Drakken normally would've gone away, but Thura was still clinging unto his shoulder, not really noticing.
"Well, they killed five shifters so far, and four of them were Draconid so that isn't good."
The horse shifter finally let go to fold her arms. "That isn't really good. Look, I'll help you. As long as your sigils can be used to get back here I'll give you a couple of my good fighters, we don't really need them too much."
Pyrolite bounded up and gave Thura a glomp around the stomach. "Sweet! Well, our clan sigil is the blue shark, buh-bye!" She then grabbed Drakken and started pulling him back to the 'treasure' room. She threw him in and then hunted down her clan sigil and went back, all giddy-like.
Authoresses notes - I know, that is alot happening in one chapter. And it wasn't humurous at all, too seriouslyness. Uh... I SWEAR seriouslyness is a word.... Well read next chapter and giv e me a good review or I will sick the tiger with the scimitar on you! By the way, a scimitar is a thick, curved sword. Think pirates.