Part VI

The knights came out of their state of shock a few minutes later after seeing Cammi and his mother reunited. The description Cammi had told them after his nightmare fitted the female gummi perfectly, her long golden hair swayed slightly with the breeze revealing her young features and her light ocean blue eyes that sparkled. Her golden fur glistered in the sunlight that appeared for a few minutes before hiding behinds the clouds nearby, a smile was plastered on her face, she looked truly happy and her name was Meloni.

Cammi and his mother broke apart and she placed him back on the ground but he still kept a firm grasp on her hand, as if afraid that she would vanish if he let go.

The two looked at one another and smiled before Cammi's mother began guiding Cammi towards the knights.

Sir Plucki and the other two knights beside him looked astounded, just yesterday Cammi had told them his nightmare and described his mother and then the next day she show's up right in front of them as they watched Cammi and his mother confront them.

"Bienvenue, Gummadoon" said Sir Blastus taking Meloni's hand and kissing it.

"Thank you, (pause) I believe it must be one of you three that raised my son, Cammi?" said Meloni pulling her son in front of her and placing her hands on his shoulders to which Sir Plucki nodded.

The knights, Cammi and his mother began to discuss about Cammi and why she was absent in raising him which she replied, as there was an evil after him named Tarquan. She left him in the bushes while she led Tarquan off track and away from her son which she had succeeded for ten years before he realised what she had done and returned.

They had just finished their discussion and went indoors, Cammi and Sir Plucki going back to their room while Meloni, Cammi's mother was shown to an another room.

The sun was beginning to set and Cammi soon came out of his room and went to join his mother on the castle walls where he wanted to watch the sunset with her. The sun began to sink down over the green hills casting a long shadow ahead of it, the sky was no longer blue but pink and orange as the rays of the sun began to falter and disappear along with the sun taking the last bit of warmth with it.

Cammi smiled feeling both happy and fulfilled to have his mother back.

They stared at the sky for a few more moments before Cammi beckoned his mother inside to show her the swords he had recently made. They started off the castle wall, Cammi running ahead, his mother close behind him when she suddenly stopped dead in her tracks.

Time seemed to have stopped by for her, her eyesight became focused and a blur as several images flew in front of her. She saw a hill nearby Gummadoon swarming with humans, an evil, hideous smile plastered on each of their faces, all armed in the dead of night with their weapons, torches were used to guide them.

There at the front stood the leader, invisible by his cloak as was his army, they looked to be observing the castle when the images quickly changed before her and showed her Gummadoon.

The fight was over, many were killed, blood stained the ground as well as many human and gummi's hands and weapons, the humans had fled and had just been beaten.

Meloni felt the images leave her mind and could feel someone shaking her and another waving their arms in front of her eyes. Her eyes then blinked and she was back in reality, seeing Cammi in front of her, two tears were rolling down his cheeks as he stopped waving his arms in front of her face. She felt that she had a migraine due to how much pain her head was giving her, turning slightly she saw that Cammi's foster father was beside shaking her and asking if she was all right.

Meloni immediately remembered the vision and told him what she had seen, as so they could be prepared as she suspected that these small groups of humans were working for Tarquan and so that evening everyone was on guard and proceeded with high caution since Meloni's vision.

Evening soon came, the sky was pitched black, and the wind was bitterly cold and damp, the stars that dotted in the nightsky dimmed dramatically since there was no moon at all that night.

Cammi teeth clattered, he was shivering at the cold wind despite that everyone was quite and listening intensively for any footsteps or anything suspicious. He was by his dad's side on the lookout when his mother joined them, her face was emotionless, and her eyes focused and glowed in the dark as she came and stood by him. He turned to face the empty space in the dark that he could hardly see since it was so dark. He concentrated hard and focused on the space, after a long while of staring and about to give up he then saw something in a resemblance of a shadow moving in the forest and was coming closer to the empty space on top of a hill where his mother had predicted they would be. Cammi lifted up his hand to indicate what he'd seen, but his dad pulled it down nodding his head that he had seen it.

The whole castle waited for this shadow that now lurked in the empty clearing on the hill as they looked closely they could see several other shadows, many torches were now lit and they could see the human's weapons glistering in the light.

Cammi went pale when he saw them and watched as every knight around him tightened their grip on their weapons as he held the hilt of his sword tighter by his side under his cloak. Next thing he knew when he turned around was that the human army, were no longer in the empty clearing but all around the castle trying to spy on them. He observed them carefully but before he knew it both sides were in war, the human's opening up the attack to which the gummi's automatically retaliated.

Since then he had been kept aside with his mother, away from the battle, as his father didn't want him to participate.

Cammi from his place by his mother on the castle wall at the other side of Gummadoon, tried to peer over the wall since he wasn't tall enough, he tried to see the battle field below as he looked over he wished he hadn't as felt a wave of nauseous washed over him.

Thick red blood stained the ground and appeared black in the night, a few corpses lied on the ground, weapons of their own piercing their heart and the smell of death lingered in the air as Cammi watched the few remaining humans fled for their lives.

Cammi watched from his place, feeling he would be sick any moment observed the knights as they rode through the gates looking relieved and happy but serious all at once. He knew that before the battle had happened they had considered vanishing but with Cammi's enemy Tarquan on the prowl they knew they wouldn't be safe and especially not Cammi even if they had vanished. Cammi dismissed the thought and began running down the flight of stairs towards his foster dad who had just come through the gate and was dismounting his unicorn to take to the stables.

Sir Plucki dismounted his unicorn and was guiding it towards the stables when he heard a familiar cub call his name and grab him around the waist. He stiffened slightly but smiled down at the cub that was hugging him, Cammi was small for a cub his age but he had loved and raised the cub since he was three years old.

Cammi broke the embrace and turned to see his mother beside him smiling at him and he returned the smile.

Sir Plucki had seen Cammi's pale face and wondered what was wrong or had happened when he saw the colour return to his face he watched Cammi's innocent, childlike smile grace his lip's and his eyes sparkling. He observed Cammi and thought him to be a small cub again rather than a teenager with that smile and his eyes sparkling.

End of Part VI

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