A Tale of Two Winglies

Chapter five - A book of Shadows

Carefully Meru brought her hand up to the door and knocked twice. From within she could hear someone slide a dish across a table. Then walk over to answer her summons, boots clicking across a wood floor.

Wingly hearing has it's perks. She noted calmly. From inside she could hear a lock go scrapping across it's bolt.

The door opened and a rather tall black hared woman, who peered out at her. For a moment Meru thought that it was Rose, however her eyes where far too different. Her clothes too were different even if they held the same colors of black and gold. "Hello" she said opening the door for Meru.

"Hi..." Meru stepped into the house to find it with a warm golden glow that came from a fire in the corner. The typical cozy house.

"Do I know of you?" She asked. "Or are you one of my husbands friends?"

Hm.... Wonder what her husband was like, if he had friends like myself over....

"Well you see, I was just looking around. I thought I should try to get to know some people around here. Your the first person I came across." Meru answered sweetly.

"Oh... Thank you for coming, I've been very bored since my husband and son left." She said sitting down at the dinner table and pushing out a chair for Meru with her foot.

"Where are they?" She asked joining the woman in the seat.

"My husband is dead, and my son came and visited me not that long ago. I think he might be in Seles, that's where my friend lives. She'll take good care of him now that I'm dead." The woman looked over to see how unsurprised Meru was. "You knew?"

"Well yeah... I've had some experience with ghosts before." Meru sighed and watched the woman's face fall.

"I left the dark place when my son came to see me.... I wanted to see him again after he left, to tell him the truth... Then I was back here again, and I'll wait till he comes back here to see me again."

"Oh, who's you son... And your name I never got it." Meru asked.

"My son's name is Dart, and mine is Claire." She answered.

Meru looked over at her amazed. "Your Claire? Wow, I know Dart you see. He's told all of us about you." In his quite Dart way.

"I thought you seemed familiar, you we're there when my son came to see me in the darkness." She smiled. "Do you think you could tell my son what he needs to know?"

"Oh yeah sure, I'll probably seem him in a few months anyway." She nodded.

"Thank you. You must tell him that the Dragons shall be reborn."

"From the Dragoon Spirits?" Meru quarried.

"Yes. Zieg, my husband, he studied all of this, and when all of the Dragoons are dead the dragons will be reborn."

"Oh, so why didn't they come back after the campaign?"

"Zieg was alive all of that time. He told me so himself, but even so there was the monster. She's a dragoon too. She has always been since the campaign." Claire nodded, then rubbed her hand across the table. "Zieg told me that even the King of Dragons shall be reborn, and he shall be more powerful than before."

"Oh, so when I go, considering that I'll most likely be the last to die. All of the Dragons will be reborn at once?"

"Yes, it is the same for all of the magic species. When the winglies die, and those whom take their spirit are dead, those winglies will be reborn. However for us humans there is no insurance, should we all die it would be the last of us."

"That's... Why would Soa do something like that?" Slightly unfair oh Soa's part.

"Soa's will is hard to understand, but perhaps it means that humans will never die?" Claire glanced around the room and then went to a book on a shelf. "Zieg wrote this, he spent many years upon it. Everything is explained in here, you can have it. But you must take it to Dart, understand."

"Of course. When we have the reunion I'll be sure to take it and tell all of them... Us dragoons." Meru explained flipped through the book.

"Thank you, your such a sweet child. Tell Dart that I love him, and that I shall wait for him in the Darkness." Claire nodded and her body shimmered away into dust. Then the room to changed into a placed that was burned out and destroyed like the rest of the town. However the book in Meru's hands remained intact, even though it had obviously aged.

Quietly she slipped out of the house and back outside, she looked at the book for several minutes, then started to stroll back up the path towards the Village, Bardel completely forgotten.

I'm going to have to make a copy of this and translate it into wingly before I give it to Dart, this thing is way extensive. I mean it's covering the God of Destruction, the Black monster, Dragoon magic, wingly magic and human magic. I mean how deep can you go, for crying out loud it even talks about Soa and stuff.... Hm... Albert's going to want a copy too. In fact anyone would, this thing is like the key to equation.

Meru looked up and glanced around to see if anyone was around.

Can't let anybody get their hands on this before I can get it copied or to Dart. Man... Bardel would kill for this, but then again so would Guaraha...

Quickly Meru dispelled the book into another plain, like that of the one for the souls. She'd summon it back once inside her room. It wasn't likely that anyone would ask her about the book, but just in case, you know.

Guaraha stood talking to Kelina when the barrier opened up, Bardel came marching in looking almost to smug. "Hello Guaraha." He said cheerfully. "Nice day for chasing off brats isn't it?" And then continued down the path way.

"He's so weird, and demented." Kelina commented. "You should kick his ass Guaraha."

"What? I'd get into more trouble, I don't need any of that." He responded.

"Oh sure. Well I'll see..." She glanced towards the barrier to see another figure coming through.

Meru stepped lightly into the wingly world, she glanced around trying to straighten out her vision. The green lighted portal was far to bright. "Meru?!" Two voices called out at her from the left. Shifting around she looked up to see not only Guaraha but also Kelina come racing down at her.

"Are you alright? Where have you been? Did the humans treat you well?" They asked.

"Whoa!" She said waving her hands in front of her as if fending them off. "I find okay!" Then suddenly almost out of no where she felt the two of them slam into her, and give her one tight hug.

Yep, people defiantly love me here too. Except for Mr. Nasty.

A/n: So what did you think? Didn't guess that it was Claire did ja? Haha haa, anyway Meru's back home now and see can relax and translate that book of hers. I'm sure however that you can guess what happened to it though. Anyway Review and have a nice day! ^.^