Unwanted
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Deltora Quest characters. However, I do own Dakota, a character I have chosen to throw in. My best friend, Stephanie, owns Dakota's boyfriend and best friend, the mimic, Lillend. (I don't think I will be putting Lillend in this, however, I probably will have Dakota in this)
Summary: This story is pretty much a story about romance between L/J (Lief and Jasmine). It will also have quite a bit of romance between Ranesh and Marilen. Anyhow, I hope you all enjoy this fanfic… although, I'm not sure how often I'll update it but I might update it once or more times than that a day, depending on my end-of-the-year homework and such from school. Over summer you'll probably receive several more fanfics on Deltora Quest from me.
WARNING: A tiny bit of fluff starts here between Jasmine and Lief. And I'm taking a break on the Marilen/Ranesh thing until further chapters, since they play no real big part until further chapters. R/R
Chapter V
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Eventually, the conditions outside became so bad, since it was raining so hard, and the clouds made it pitch black and the fog did not subside, that the companions had to stop. They huddled close, each wrapped in their own blankets, underneath the bridge that crossed the river on the embankment just underneath it, between itself and the river, which only had enough room for the three of them to sit, hugging their legs.
Nobody spoke, at least not yet anyways. Jasmine and Barda were worried about Lief, especially Jasmine. Barda was listening for any danger, trying to hear over the rain, and Lief was just lost in thought.
I had been bitten by something before I became ill and started to cough up blood. Along the riverbank, I'm sure something bit me or stung me, I'm just not sure what it was, and I did not see it. It might have just been a thorn off a plant. Lief thought to himself, as he looked into the clear water, the undisturbed water under the bridge, watching his reflection.
Jasmine was watching Lief. She was not paying very much attention to her surroundings at all, which was very unlike Jasmine. I wonder what Lief's thinking about, Jasmine thought to herself. He seems so distant right now. He has for a while too. I'm worried about him, he's got that huge bruise covering his entire upper body, and he was coughing up blood, and now he has that wound in his arm. I wonder what it is that's wrong. Barda, too, was not paying much attention to the surroundings anymore. The big man was nearly asleep, while Jasmine watched Lief, and Lief watched his reflection.
That's why neither of them heard the growling…
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They sniffed the ground, clawed paws leaving clawed footprints as they walked. The way the pads on the bottom of their feet were built prevented them from sinking into the oozing mud caused by the drenching rain.
They were growling amongst themselves, occasionally biting at each others ears or ankles. They highly resembled wolves, but their back and shoulders arched higher than a wolf's, and they had a horse-like mane running down their backs. Their tails were long and resembled a wolf's.
They were four colours each; reddish brown, black, white and grey. Their undersides were white, then they would have a large grey patch, then a reddish brown patch, and then a black spot on their backs. Their mane was pure black. They had several gleaming, sharp teeth, and black noses made for picking up even the faintest smells.
The pack of wolfish creatures had caught onto the scent of the food the companions carried in their packs. And these animals were hungry. Their top two canine teeth protruded over the bottom half of their muzzles like some sort of saber-toothed animal.
They went back to sniffing at the ground, slowly walking; making their way towards the bridge the companions were under. They found the blood Lief had left behind when he had been choking and coughing it up, and sniffed that for quite a while, before moving on towards the bridge again.
Soon, the pack reached the bridge, and took select positions. They were not dumb animals, they were very smart.
The pack caught Lief's movement as he moved uncomfortably, and Barda's movement as well, as Barda shifted in his sleep to a more comfortable position.
For a while everything was quiet, and then the first wolfish creature lunged, but Lief ducked swiftly, and it missed Lief, but got Jasmine, pinning her down. It bit down hard on one of Jasmine's shoulders. Jasmine gasped in pain, and was reaching for her dagger, but something shot out of the water, a tentacle of some sort, and grabbed her wrist, dragging her towards the water.
Jasmine struggled harder against the tentacle, not wanting to be dragged into the water. Lief, with no room to stand, unsheathed his sword, seated, and sliced through the tentacle, but several more came in its place and snatched Jasmine to pull her into the water.
The wolfish creature yelped as Lief dug his sword into its spine, and threw it off Jasmine. The other wolves then jumped from their places. Barda was fighting with four of them already, and the others were attacking Lief and Jasmine.
Jasmine was soon dragged into the water, and was being held under. Everything soon went black for Lief, and for Barda.
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Slowly, Lief opened his eyes to the sounds of birds singing, and people's voices far off. He looked around himself. He was in a beautiful room, in a comfortable bed, with a nice warm blanket draped over himself. Nobody was in the room with him, but it was clear someone soon would be.
Sure enough, a couple of people soon entered the room. One of the people Lief recognized was Tira. The other was a girl he was not familiar with. The girl looked bored, and she had red eyes. She had pointed elf ears that were tipped with black, and she had brown hair to her shoulders. She had fangs, and was wearing all black, and she had a long, brown fur-covered tail that was dripping with blue poison at the tip of it.
The girl also had two scythes strapped to her back, and swords sheathed at her sides, her left hand rested on the hilt of one of the swords. She had brown boots, and she was covered in dark blood, which was not her own.
"Tira… where am I?" Lief asked.
"You're here in Tora," the young girl answered. "Dakota here," she said, nodding to the 19-year-old with her. "Found you and your companions being attacked by a pack of those earth elementals."
"Elementals?" Lief asked. He had read about them in the Deltora Annals, but had not imagined that they were so mean. The stories he had read were of how kind and gentle they were, especially the earth elementals.
"Yes, the elementals have not been happy," Dakota said. A forked tongue flicked out of her mouth then back in like a snake. She was a very beautiful girl though. Although, it was hard to tell through the blood. "Something is making them angry," Dakota explained. "There are four main elements, but… there are six elements in total. Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Light, and Darkness. I'm a darkness elemental." She said.
"Then how are you allowed through the passage into Tora?" Lief questioned. The girl Dakota was half demon, half elf, and she was the daughter of Lucifer himself.
"A spell stronger than your little friend's will," Dakota said, referring to Jasmine. "And it is difficult even then for me to pass through without immense physical pain. After all, I am half demon."
Her comment had suddenly reminded Lief of Barda… and Jasmine. "Is Jasmine all right?" Lief asked, trying to sit up, but a pain shot through him, and he began to cough up blood again. Dakota handed him a cloth. "She cannot swim and she was dragged into the water by something…"
"Barda is fine," Tira said, even if that was not the one that Lief had been talking about.
"But what of Jasmine?"
"Jasmine is not so well."
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Ech. That chapter sucked crap. Anyways, I'm on to work on the next chapter. It will start to have quite a bit of romance with Lief and Jasmine.
