Hey, I know, I haven't updated this fic in a LONG time, but I got side tracked with my newer ones! But since I've decided to wait for De to catch up with the chapters on the one, I'll have lots of time to work on my others! Well, I won't hold you for long, since you've waited long enough as it is!
P.S. (I'm going to tell you this in every fic, and in my bio, since I'm not sure if everyone reads everything of mine!) I now have a muse, and yet he's not a muse. His name is Touse, but I'm probably going to refer to him as 'Writer's Block' accidently, so be on the look out and try not to get confused! He is the source of my writer's block! This is why he is and isn't a muse, lol.
P.S.S. Since the stars don't work any more on fanfiction's website, I'm going to do "actions" with a - - in front and a - - behind. Ex. - -Points to nice pretty dashes- -
Touse: - -Leaning on shovel, shaking head- - You're hopeless.
Crinzin: Thank you. Anyway, - -glares at Touse- - I'm going on with my story, and I hope that Touse leaves his shovel where it's supposed to be, a.k.a. in the ground!
Touse: - -rolls eyes- - You're no fun.
P.S.S.S. (Sorry) I'm sorry that this chapter is so short!
THANKS!
Chapter 2, An Unexpected Visitor.
Axel gazed up at the furious storm brewing over the stable. It was black as night, even though the half day mark had not yet passed. His sister had gone out again today, as she had done for about the past moon. She seemed to be looking for something out there.
He hoped that she had enough sense to have realized the on coming storm and was riding Clyde back here right now. Her Shin'a'in steed was one who greatly disliked rain, well, storms in general. If she were not coming back at this very moment, she just might find herself walking through the plains on her own two feet.
Axel shook his head and his black floppy hair swung into his field of view. He moved it out of the way with his muscular hand, and continued with his work.
Only seconds after he had bent his head back down towards the stall floor he had been working with, he heard the pounding of large hooves.
'Clyde,' Axel thought 'it's about time she got back!' He tossed the tool to the side and walked out to greet her, but found something he had not expected, especially from his sister. Firewind's favourite beast was slowing to a walk, rider less. This was not like his sister.
Just as Clyde skidded to a halt before Axel, he heard a scream, a terrified, purely female scream, and it was coming from the direction that Clyde had come galloping in from. Axel didn't even stop to think before he was up in the saddle and kicking with all his might to get the stallion to gallop back to the raging storm outside of their small village.
Axel leaned down in the saddle, to help with the blowing winds that seemed to slow them down to a crawl, even though grasses and flowering weeds of all types flashed by in blurs of yellow, green, and purple.
Finally, Axel could see that they were coming up quickly to a large and dark blob on the ground. Axel pulled back on the reins and slowed Clyde down to a nice trot. As they came closer to the blob, Axel could see that it was a human shape and it looked as if it were scorched from burning too quickly.
Axel finally realized why she had screamed only a few moments ago. She had been in the storm and had been struck down by a bolt of lightning. When he got to the body of his beloved sister, he could see that no person could have ever lived through that kind of experience. His sister was gone, gone forever.
Axel slid down from Clyde's back and walked over to Firewind's body. He could see her face relatively well, but almost all of her was black, and she almost looked peacefully asleep. Axel sank to his knees and stayed beside his sister as the storm above raged on oblivious to them.
He was so stunned by what he was seeing, he sat, unmoving, not letting out a sound. Finally, a silent tear ran down his cheek, and he cried silently for his lost sister, with Clyde standing solemnly behind him.
The storm above raged around them violently, creating small divots in the earth, in the form of a circle around them, none getting closer than about five feet. The sky was a purple blue, and the winds rose and fell with strong gusts smelling of rain.
Even though Axel was soaked to the bone within minutes of kneeling down on the wet grass, he gave no notice to it. He shivered, and a sob escaped his throat, and it sounded meek and lonely in the open area of the plains.
At that point, the shrill battle cry of a large bird of prey rang out from the darkness, and when Axel looked up from the ground, he saw a silver steak heading for him. Clyde, normally spooked easily, moved not an inch when the cry came out and the streak because slightly visible.
The flying creature was huge, larger than a horse even, and as it spotted Axel and his dead sister, it cried out again, as if in triumph. It had the look of a bird, but it had the body of a ground based creature, consisting of four legs for walking, and two wings for flying, as it was now. It's beak looked sharp and strong enough to crush his head in one squeeze. It had massive talons on each foot, which looked to be as long, and twice as thick as one of his fingers.
The animal-bird, slowed with great flaps of his wings, which sent no air flying about. One thing Axel could not figure out, was how it could fly in the rain, when it's wings would have been so soaked, they would have been totally useless for at least the whole entire day. the creature halted, with more powerful beats of his wings, and when it touched the ground, it created long lines in the ground with it's talons as it slid on the wet grass.
The creature looked almost nonexistent, as if were living, yet at the same time it was not. Have in some abilities on the earth, such as making imprints. Yet, not some other abilities, such as getting wet in the middle of a furious storm.
As Axel gazed at the thin in front of him, he realized what it was that was standing there so silently. It was a legendary creature from tales that he had heard of the Great Mage of Silence. This thing was a gryphon, one of the many now-thriving things He had created in his time. It looked at him calmly with it's golden eyes, the only things on it that wasn't a transparent blue-white colour.
"I have come for Firewind. She is wanted in the Heavens. I, Skandranon, have been sent to fetch her. She will be in good hands. Please do not worry about her." The gryphon spoke with a deep rumbling voice, and didn't have what they called, or so he'd heard, a gryphonic accent. "the Mage of Silence sends his greetings to all in your family, though he would like it if you would spread the word that he has bene in contact with humans in any form." the gryphon nodded, and Axel slowly nodded with agreeance back.
Skandranon took into his taloned hands, his sister's body, and as his white-blue feathers touched her skin, it healed, along with her clothing, and other belongings which she had been wearing.
"I figure, well, we figured that you would like to see her one last time, in her true form, as a human. She will be back, and that I swear my honor, pride and soul on. Goodbye Axel." With that, Skandranon spread his wings wide, signaling that he was ready to leave, to some higher power above.
The Heavens opened, and light shone down so bright, that Axel had to partly shield his eyes to be able to see the departure. Skandranon nodded in his direction for the last time, and shot into the air, using the powerful beats of his wings, which sent no back winds to Axel.
"Goodbye Firewind. I await your reappearance." Axel watched as the light faded when the blue-white, spirit gryphon entered the Heavens.
The rain cleared quickly as Axel waited for a few more moments, hoping that he would wake from a wild dream, to find Firewind safe and unharmed, back on earth, sleeping soundly in her cot.
Axel sighed heavily, "Well, I think it's time to go back home Clyde. We can wait for Firewind's arrival where I can get some dry clothes, and get a nice hot drink inside me." He looked once more into the now slightly-dark blue sky, and said his final goodbyes.