Kylaia al Jmaa
A.k.a. the Unicorn
NOTE: I don't own any of the characters
PART 2-The Trip
Kylaia felt her stomach go into her throat, then fall into her intestines. The jerking of the wagon was making her sick, she already threw up twice, and she wasn't even off the island.
"Everyone get off the wagon, and into the boat," a warrior yelled at the twenty, four through seven year-olds. They clambered off and walked onto the ship. Each was then given a loose white cotton shirt and matching baggy white cotton pants, and they wore reed slippers on their feet. They cut Kylaia's black hair short, as they did to everyone's hair.
"You should fear what's before you," a cinnamon-skinned girl said to her. Kylaia was jolted into reality, and stared at the girl.
"Who are you?" Kylaia asked the girl. She was fearful, yes, but she showed no feelings, as her Yamani teaching taught her to.
"My name is Aliya, from Carthak. What's yours'?" Aliya asked.
"Oh, my name's Kylaia, from the Yamani Isles," Kylaia answered. Aliya was nice. As the trip went on, Kylaia met almost all the other children, but they, in return, avoided her and thought she was weird and exclusive, only talking to Aliya. About three months later, they neared the Maren coast.
"Finally, land," Kylaia sighed, "I've never liked water much."
"Okay, you don't like water and you've lived you whole life on an island?" Aliya asked.
"We lived inland," said Kylaia responded defensively. Then she turned to the strip of green and brown in the distance, and longed for it to welcome their ship into its harbor.
"Children! This is your last day of leisure! When we land, every night we'll be practicing hand to hand combat every night," the Wolf yelled. Kylaia walked away to get her glaive and practice, she promised her mother she would. The Order of Shang was known everywhere, because they traveled from place to place, never staying in one location long. She admired them, so except or her fear of water, she was happy.
Ring! Splash! Bong! Ting! Her country-bred ears were filling with the harbor sounds, but they soon left her head, because they were herded out of the busy dock and out of the city. They walked all day, and then learned the basics of hand to hand combat after dinner. The pace was grueling, and many of the young complained, and were taken home, so by the end of a week, half the children had gone home, but Aliya was still there. When they were all in the middle of a mountainous forest, there, looming before them, was a large, stone building.
"The Order of Shang," the Boar yelled.