Whirl of the Light!
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
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(----) Different point of view
(-/-/-) Flash back
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Chapter 23
(----Dra----)
He smiles as he watches Jet appear. It's been a whole two days since they were first introduced and now Jet returns. He hopes it's good news for the females are beginning to need more food and they're not allowed off the ships.
He watches as Jet becomes solid. He knows that it's just Jet and him in this room; the others were busy with other things. He inclines his head in Jet's direction and Jet sits down. "They're acting tomorrow morning. You think you can have all of your kind get ready to bolt when we set fire to one of the ships." Jet asks. He thinks it over and then nods, saying, "They're more then willing. The females are needing more food, their time draws near." Jet asks, "Just when will they have the pups?" He thinks about it and answers, "Two months time, it took us four months to sail here. So seven months total." Jet cocks his head to the right and then asks, "Then you did this a whole month before setting off. How did you know you'd be making the trip?" He sighs and says, "We informed the rival tribe about the attack. We knew what would happen and we counted on that action and the reaction of both sides."
Jet then asks, "Just what happened?" He thinks over the memories and after a few minutes he finally begins, "These people are Silver River tribe of the Irge branch, though they like to think of themselves as five different races. The ones that they were trying to disgrace were the Red Stone tribe of the Irge branch. There was this governorship open up and both tribes had members qualified for the position. It was a tight race between the candidates and Keela's father wanted to tip the balance in their favour by keeping the Red Stone tribe busy with a siege. Our kind of course knew about this and I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to win our freedom, so my uncle went to one of the guards of the Red Stone tribe and staying out of sight, told the guard about what to look for and hints are certain messages. The Red Stone tribe soon found the evidence that we planted and they when to the Order of the Just." He pause as he remembers how proud his uncle had been.
He closes his eyes as he remembers how many of his race was chosen to be folder for Keela's father's army. Jet asks, "How many died?" He sighs and opens his eyes. "A good eighty of my kind were used as folder for the Silver River army. They're all dead, but so is that army too. I feel bad about what happened, but they knew what was going to happen and they still went through with it. I also proud to say that my brothers and sisters took out many of the Silver River soldiers before being killed by the Red Stone troops and the Order of the Just. I think they just wrote it off as them just going berserk." He tells Jet. Jet looks stunned and asks, "Then are you guys the last of your kind? Are there any more of you living as slave back there?" He snorts and says, "The Silver River tribe was the first tribe to notice our kind and they put claims on us from the start. None of the other tribes or branches were allowed to own our kind." Jet snarls a bit and says, "Selfish creatures." He nods in agreement with that.
They don't talk for a few minutes and then he asks, "Anything else?" He watches as Jet thinks about it, and then shakes his head. "Then see you tomorrow then." He says and Jet gets up as he says, "See you then." Jet soon breaks up and gets through the wooden wall. He'll have to get his mate to inform the others, he also knows that his mate will be arriving soon enough.
(----Koichi----)
He finishes pulling the rope that strings up the stone bear hide and watches the looks on his friends' faces. He grins as Terish moves to touch the fur on the hide. He ties the rope up and moves to take a look at the hide too.
Terish then clamp him on the shoulder and says, "Great job, considering it's your first time tanning." Yue nods in agreement with Terish. He sighs and says, "I just followed the direction in the book." Terish just grins and says, "Very true. So, we've talked with some of the older Hunters and about a good thirty of them are willing. What about the younger ages?" He thinks about it and answers, "About ten, also Haku, Recca, and Sellen are in too. What does Ruby have to say?" Yue looks thoughtful and then says, "Ruby says that eight others, not including Rudy, Hinata, Sellen, and us."
He counts up the numbers, including themselves, and comes up with fifty-six. He takes out his names and watches as Terish and Yue takes out lists with names on it. He hands his list to Yue, then he turns to wrap his bear skin. He takes it down and begins to roll it up. Then he carries the skin into the house.
He leaves it by the door and sits on one of the chairs in the living room. They then began coming up with ideas on how to begin the letter. They take a good fifteen minutes to get the opening right. It took a grand total of two hours to finish the letter. They finish and he promised to take it to Elder Ruki himself. They then drifted off to do other things. He also has to go through the stretches that Ruby gave him to go through.
(----Spirit of the Wind—AKA--Jet----)
He signs as he remembers the dream he shared with Tyson. He didn't know just what to think about Tyson, but knows that it really happened. He remembers hearing such stories from certain humans who claimed to have spoken with a JenFe! in their dreams. He also heard confirmation about such things from JenFe! too.
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He stares out around the forest around him. He hears bird songs of a different kind as he listens to the sounds around him. He looks up into the sky and sees that it's morning, judging the position of the sun.
He then hears something scrap against something and turns to find an odd human taking out a sword. He snorts and says; "Now why in the world would you do that? We're allies with Light village, you know." He decides the human must be from the northern lands.
The 'human' blinks in surprise and says in awe, "You spoke! But how?" He begins to study the 'human' more closely and finds that this being wasn't human. He answers, "I'm a Qualcoal." "That doesn't explain why you speak, beast." The being says. "Qualcoals are an intelligent race that uses chakra. Other intelligent beings that live where I'm from consists of the following races. They are the birdish Fell'Tor$, the horse crossed with a deer Kir!ron, the tall Jraz, the fliers IrKiv, the chakra using gargoyles, the telepathic Arace, the otter like Virel who also use chakra, the wolf crossed with a leopard CerYo, chakra using Water Drakes, the shape shifting TerCa, humans, and the tribeal JenFe!." He lists to the creature before him.
He smiles, as the being looks very concerned at this. "Your kind has never met any other races, huh?" He asks. "I know of four other races." This being protests and he just snorts at this. "I doubt that, unless your talking about the Myel." He says. "How do you know about them?" The creature asks. "They originated from where my kind lives and their back with some of your kind too. You might not even find them when we're done with them. By the way, my name is Spirit of the Wind." He says. "I'm Tyson. It's my job to deal with them, so leave them be!" Tyson says.
He snorts and says, "They're intuding on our lands and they abuse the natives. I myself was hit with an arrow! You have no authority to tell us what to do with them. Learn some respect!" Tyson looks nervous around and then sighs. "It's just, I've never imagined that there can be any race other my mine." Tyson admits. He snorts and says, "Don't judge things by appearance or you might end up with a war on your hands. My kind has explored beyond our lands and know for a fact that there are other races out there, and they're not very forgiving about ignorance." Tyson's eyes flash with concern and before Tyson could say something, the dream begins to fall apart around them.
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He snaps out of his memory and looks to find that it's almost time to begin. He shakes himself out of his thoughts and changes his body into the Myel like form. He then trots out of the bushes towards where many others of this kind were. They all in different forms then their original ones, they didn't want the survivors to be able to identify them.
He didn't doubt that there would be survivors, though not that many. They were going to set one of the ships on fire, but they also planned for the other ships to also catch fire, for they had been working on a jutsu for that exact propose. He knows that the leaders will be killed out right; they can't leave the leaders alive to organize the survivors. They hope that this will take the heart out of them and that they'll stick to the shore and not go exploring the surrounding jungle.
The eighteen of them were positioned around the ship. They then connected up their chakra together and began to mold it into the fire jutsu that they've been working on. Soon they turn tail and the signal is sent up. He heads towards where Dra will have his kind gathered. He watches as the Myel race off the beach and into the jungle. He notices a sailor has noted the fleeing Myel but he takes the sailor out with a simple bite to the throat.
He hides both the body and himself from view. Soon the beings began to be too busy with the fire to notice that none of the Myel were coming to help out. He turns when the last Myel vanishes into the jungle. He then transforms into a large hawk and flies off. He circles over the ships and watches as they all begin to catch fire.
(----Koichi----)
It's been three days since he picked out a drawing for Ruby to use to design the necklace and his decided to give the necklace to Hinata. He has been thinking more and more about his relationship with Hinata and getting bugged about it from his friends and a few others. He wonders if Hinata and him were ready to try dating.
He lies on the couch, thinking of how to approach Hinata to ask her out on a real date, but everything he keeps thinking about just seems too lame. He snaps out of it as his mom enters the house. "Hey mom. How was the mission?" He asks.
His mother continues to strip off her armour and answers, "I'm getting promoted." He blinks, for this didn't answer his question and if this promotion is what he thinks it is then his mother will soon be an Elder of Light village. "So, you pasted the final test then?" He asks. His mother nods and says tiredly, "I'm going to take a nap, wake me at supper."
His mother soon disappeared up stairs and he wonders just what kind of test mission his mother just completed that leads his mother to sleep the whole day away, for it's only ten o'clock in the morning. He shakes his head and gets up to put the dirty armour away. He feels a sudden burst of pride for his mother and he wonders if he should cook something special for supper.
He finishes taking the armour to the workroom and takes a look through the kitchen. He nods and makes a list of what he needs and then grabs the money for groceries. He leaves the house and heads to Hinata in hopes that Hinata might have some free time to come shopping with him.
To be continued …