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A/N: Thank you everyone who reviewed this fic! I feel oh so loved! Sorry it took so long to update. Hold onto your hats folks! Cuz here we go!
(A/N2: It's Skky, not Skyy, sorry if I've been spelling it wrong, I miss that stuff some times. I'll try to get it right)
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The next morning Skky woke with the morning sun light blaring in on her face through a window. She got up and opened a drawer and pulled out underclothes, a pair of britches and a shirt and put them on. She dug around under her bed and found a pair of boots. Then she pulled back her hair.
She dug up another piece of jerky and ate it. Then she tried to shapeshift. But she felt light headed and everything went black.
When Skky came round she was laying on the floor, she had passed out. Her magic for shapeshifting was drained. She was still exhausted. Skky sighed, she'd just have to walk to Pirates Swoop, home of Lady Alanna. She was a good friend of her mother; Alanna would lend her a horse so that she could ride back to the palace.
So Skky set out. She walked for hours and was beginning to feel strained. How much farther could it be? She wondered. Finally she saw the flag of the Baroness waving from one of the towers of Pirates Swoop in the distance. But something was not right. Something was very wrong actually. Why was smoke rising from the towers? And... what was that booming noise? Skky broke into a run...something terrible was happening. She stopped suddenly and gasped, Pirates Swoop was under attack!
Skky stepped behind a tree and took a deep breath, shielding her from the scene; it gave her a sense of protection. She gulped in more air and realized that she was hyperventilating; she wasn't as brave as her parents. She wasn't a fighter! But she had to help, what else could she do? She knew she couldn't just sit here. So she began to creep towards the castle that Lady Alanna lived in. She'd dart behind a tree, or a rock. She walked silently, a family of birds twittered in the distance, arguing about who got the last bit of worm. Skky smiled. Hearing the animals chatter made her feel better. Finally she got to the edge of the woods and realized that she had no way of getting into Pirates Swoop with out getting beheaded or shot with an arrow. She sat down, the only thing she could do would be to shapeshift. It was risky, but she'd have to try.
Skky grabbed a piece of the copper flame inside her and transformed herself into a sparrow. It worked, but she felt very, very, tired. She had just enough strength to fly over the wall, land and shapeshift back into herself. She vaguely realized that she was lay on the ground with out any clothing, but that hardly mattered. Then she passed out.
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