Shitza: Sorry for delaying, you know why. I have many stories I write and it takes time to update. I hope you'll enjoy this chapter, I hope I'll be able to update soon. Please excuse my terrible spelling, I'm trying to improve and so I'm hoping to do. Have a nice day!
Shitza
Disclaimer: See the Prologue, the disclaimer there stands for very much of everything, except for some made up characters.
Chapter 12 Gone
"A little mountain climbing, that was all we had left, a little mountain climbing... This isn't a little, this is much, and unfortunately, for us, these horse like things can't climb at all!"
Lin was frustrated. They had left the village and were heading upwards. They had been climbing for what seemed to be hours. The Dinkes may have been good creatures to ride, so far, but as it was now, they didn't even want to walk. Nether of the travellers understood them.
Xing yawned, dragging his Dinkes up the path. Chihiro rode hers, but was careful to make sure he kept to the path they took. Over the days she had started to think out a name. She had decided on Hono and Hono it was. She had been lucky to have to most obedient Dinkes of them all. She knew that the others had a major problem with theirs. Lin led hers, Xing had to drag his, Deko carried his and Kohaku, well, she didn't know how he had managed to make his as tame as it looked. But if you looked near enough, you could see it was shivering. What he had done, she had no clue of.
The mountain path they walked was pretty to say dangerous. The mountains themselves were old volcanoes that had gone to sleep, long ago. Nowadays evidence could still be seen over the night, when the small devils, celebrated.
Chihiro looked back, she couldn't see the village any more, she would miss it. Maybe, if she stayed long enough she and Kohaku might be able to live in their own house, like one of those. For now, she just hoped they'd find the next one, before it was too late.
(In Destiny's Realm)
The Phoenix of Destiny had a hard time. New visions had come, none of them looked well. All he could see was scaly hands and blood. He knew what that meant, devils. But how would that be possible?
He walked over to a skull, with rubies for eyes. He threw some cold powder on it, the rubies flashed, first red, then blue, then black. Something was about to happen, it could end in three ways. Either it didn't happen anything, which was good. It could also mean something very good would happen, like as if he would receive information on a newborn Phoenix. There had to be ten phoenixes, unless the balance between would be destroyed. But it could also mean death, which he surely didn't hope. He wondered if the Phoenix Life might know. He didn't know, his brother must. His brother had all names in a small book. If a name was written in blue ink, that person would have a long life. If it was written in red, that person was soon dead.
At that exact moment, he heard something or someone outside. He flew out from the cave he used to be hidden. There was nothing in sight, only the trees and so on. The wind was warm, coming from the south. He felt a rush to stretch his wings, but he shouldn't. It was too dangerous and if he didn't be on his watch, he would fall, just like Peace had done.
(midnight, in the mountains)
Chihiro yawned sitting up, keeping the watch. The others where asleep, soon Deko would have the guard, but that wasn't until for at least an hour.
She shook her head, what a night, nothing had happened so far, unless you would count in the owl that had surprised her. She shook her head, she believed nothing would be able to happen. She didn't know how wrong she was.
When she didn't notice, a low rustle in the leaves could be heard, and the small devils had arisen from their dwellings in the mountain. They whispered in low voices, pointed at each of the characters asleep. They were planning, something big...
Morning grew slowly and smoke, coming from hidden holes poured up. Yet when they awoke, they noticed something was wrong. Lin was gone.
"Lin" Chihiro called out in the open, yet no one answered.
The others woke up by hearing her voice, and they too noticed. She was gone.
"Lin" everyone said, going out to search after her.
(Deep down)
Lin heard them, she heard their calls, yet she was unable to answer. Tight ropes were bound round her hands and another rope over her mouth to prevent her from saying anything.
A small black thing crept up to her.
"Our master wants to see you!" it said.
To reviewers: Sorry for my late chapters shortness, but I'm sort of running out of inspiration. I'll try to make something more interesting, this chapter was yet planned longer, but I decided it to be made as a cliffhanger. Sorry for it, hope you'll have patience with the next.
Winter –iel –o burzum: Thanks for your help, really thanks. Hope you liked this chapter, I'll try to make my chapters become a little bit longer again
Velf: Thank you, liked your suggestion, thinking of using it somewhere else.
End Notes: Next chapter will be longer, it must be longer or else I'm getting to lazy. Please review while I'll try to sort out these problems.
Shitza