The Banished One
By: Jay Whitefox
Chapter 5
The sun slowly rose over the jungles and its light came on a hut seemingly built into the side of a cliff. The hut was made of a mix of wood and some plants and the bones of some large beast. Against one side of the house seeming part of it is a huge old oak with smoke coming from a hole in one side of it. Over the door way and making up part of the roof was the skull of some great lizard the bottom jaw missing. Then a small bronze dragon wings its way out of the door to land on a perch made for him and the others by the keeper of this home. Following the little dragon was a red haired teen, she was dressed in a leather loin-cloth with a matching halter top and resting on her shoulders were shoulder pads made from bone with leather padding on them for her friends to rest on. On her arms is a pair of leather bracers with long bone knives stuck into sheaths on them and matching shin-guards on her legs with more of the knives. Her hair was held out of her eyes with a leather headband with small sharp teeth set in it giving it the look of some primitive crown.
She smiles as she looks up at the sky her skin tanned from time spent in the sun working and training. She then flares her ki slightly calling her friends to her and the other bronze and the golden female fly out of the hut to land on her shoulders. She hums as she walks along to the side of the hut where a rack stands an on it many different kinds of weapons. Several spears with sharpened bone tips, a pair of nunchucks made from bone with leather cord between them, a huge stone axe with a wooden handle, and the last a long sword made from bone, with an edge on both sides, with a leather wrapped hilt. She seems to think and then smiles and takes one of the spears and grins as she then walks towards the beach to do some early morning fishing.
She soon comes to her fishing spot and smiles. It was a small cove where she had placed long poles into the water for her to train on top of them while she fished. Each pole was at a different height then the ones near it and she had made some more springy then others to add to the challenge. With a leap she lands on the first pole and looks down into the clear waters of the cove. Her blue grey eyes watch the waters carefully till she see the first fish of the day slowly swimming by an with a light leap she lands on a pole near it as then her spear lances out an the tip slices through the fish and she pulls it from the water with a grin.
She then smiles as she removes the fish from her spear and throws it into the air where her small dragons swoop down and take it in their claws and fly to the beach to have their morning meal. She watches them for a few moments before she returns to her training/fishing dancing from pole to pole her spear darting out and coming back with a neatly speared fish on the end that she would then throw back to the beach where her dragons would watch them for her.
She is soon done and returns to the beach and picks up her catch noticing her friends had eaten a few of them. She grins and walks back towards her hut as she thinks about her time spent here. She had come no closer to remember how she came to be here or where she was from but she had remembered and name she thought it might be her own. Soon after she remembers and few more names and gave them to her small friends. For the gold she named her Kasumi and for the bronzes Ryouga and Ukyo. Her own name she believed to be was Nabiki.
When she returns home she heads to the kitchen she had set up using stones she had cut using her ki and then polished. She had a counter to work on and a fireplace with the chimney worked into a huge old tree that her home was built against along with the stone of the cliff. She had spent a day working on the tree to make the tubes in it to allow the smoke to go out and the air to come in. she sets the fish on her couther an takes up one of her bone knives she kept in here for cleaning her catches and gets started. Her hand blur as she works throwing the guts and bones into a small stone dish for her friends to eat from as she readies the rest in a wooden bowl for herself. She then picks up her home made bone chop sticks and walks outside and sits on a grass mat she had made and starts to eat.
As she eats slowly she thinks about her plans for the day. She wanted to explore more of the area around her home and see if there were some other things to eat. She had discovered some fruit trees early on here and while she didn't know the name of it's strange blue and red fruit they tasted good. She had moved a few of the trees closer to her home so she wouldn't have to travel far to get some fruit. She then looks up as some of the locals make their way to her house. Like her three friends they were small dragons of different colors, some golden ones, bronzes, greens, blues, reds, purples, and a few whites. They flew around the hut and then off towards the beach and she smiles watching them. They always came to look in on her since she had befriended her three.
Just then something streaks across the sky above her and she watches it as it crashes into the jungle. In a blur she was moving her stone axe hanging off her back and in one hand her spear and in the other her bone sword. She didn't know what it was that had crashed down but it had landed in the hunting area of the hook claws. Lizards that walked on their hind legs and hunted in packs, they had on each foot a single hooked claw that she had seen them use in their hunting. They liked to set traps for their prey, by leading them into an ambush, but they had learned not to bother her. She leaps taking to the tree tops as she rushes to the crash site.
Soon she reaches the spot and sees the crater and she blinks as in the carter was a sphere that was white but she could make out a door on it with a small window. She stretches out her ki sense and looks at the sphere as she feels something alive inside it and by her guess only a few years old. With a light jump she lands near the pod as she uses her ki to cool the air around her from the heat of the crater. She then looks it over and then in the window and see inside it a sleeping child no more then 3 or 4 with long spiky black hair and a long black furred monkey's tail. She then sees that who ever put the baby in the pod hadn't bothered with clothing letting her see it was a girl. She shrugs as she then uses her ki to cool down the pod and slowly force the hatch open with her bare hands.
She soon has it open and she lifts the girl out and looks at her and smiles slightly. She then looks up as she feels the ki of the hook claws coming towards her and she picks up her weapons and places them inside a fold of her ki as she holds the baby and looks at the pod. It could be useful for something and she folds her ki around it also and then leaps back into the trees and takes off tree hopping for home with the baby girl.
Soon Nabiki has returned to her home and she takes the pod out of her ki fold and sighs as she had never tried to hold something so big before in it and she then walks inside with her little guest. Her dragons look on with interest at the new addition to their home. She looks around and then sets the baby down on her pallet of furs and wonders what to do now. She then turns quickly around as she feels a burst of ki from the girl and moves to catch the child who had just leaped at her growling, the girl's tail waving around behind her. She looks into the girl's eyes and blinks in surprise seeing the rage in them. Something about them remembered her of somebody and then a name came to her and she grins and says. "Hello Akane I see you are awake."
She then smiles as she holds the child close to her and one hand strokes her tail seeming to calm the wild girl down quickly. Nabiki starts to sing softly to Akane as she strokes her tail and uses her ki to dampen the little girls rage and urge for battle. Not remove it as she would need these to live in this place but so she could control them and learn. Nabiki smiles as she soon holding a sleeping girl once more as she continues to sing, and looks outside at the space pod. She wonders what fates were behind sending her a little sister.
AN: Wow another Chapter out and this one is more to show one of the others already mentioned. The world she is on is one I came up with a long time ago for a sci-fi rpg I made. I think you can guess the universe she is in. I'm still in need of a proofreader to help me out with the stories. R&R or my Muse might stop talking to me.