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Hyperactivebluechipmunk: teardrop A new reviewer! Welcome! Where's Yay? Thanks for thinking my story's cool and yes, No-One-Knows is the name of the wolf. I'll send you more explanations on that by email, ok? (it would be too long to post it here) and not all the humans here are mean.
Chapter 7: Was it a miracle?
She was floating in a very dark place. There was no floor or roof; heaven or earth where she was. She was lost but not scared.
In the middle of that darkness where she was floating she saw a very little brightness and for her curiosity, she followed it.
"Two of those stones contain wishes that will come true. You just make the wish very carefully, because it will be literal, but the third stone will give you bad luck, to you and whoever is with you" she heard Phebas words, as a memory. Somehow she also knew that the brightness she saw WAS the necklace and closed her eyes tightly.
She thought about asking to be alive again, but she thought that the puddle she now was could be alive as a puddle, so that wish was discarded. Then she thought to be complete, but then again, the puddle was complete. No parts of it were missing. Then it hitted her.
"PLEASE… please… I wish… I wish I had my body again. Complete and sane like it used to be before the beast ate me" She couldn't think of a more specific way to think of it as she had no voice now.
The stones of the necklace shone in a random way very fast. Kedri closed her eyes, wishing that the stone that the necklace activated was one of the stones of wishes and not the one of bad luck. The necklace was so chaotical that who knows what would happen if the stone of bad luck reacted.
Slowly, she reopened her eyes. The bright light of the early afternoon made her close them again quickly. I hurted to see the sun,but not as much as the rest of her body ached,and she heard noise of people argueing… argueing a lot.
"You're an Alfon of no faith, Wyrmir" Dahra was argueing with Wyrmir about whose god would be better to bring Kedri back from death
- "No, is just that I don't think you're praying lowd enough! How will your god listen!" Wyrmir was smoking from his ears, that angry he was and his face was red as a tomato. The vision caused Kedri to laugh as lowd as the pain that the laughter allowed her to.
- "You'll see… my god will bring her back and then we will see who of us has a stronger faith"
"WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!" Kedri managed to seat down, feeling too dizzy to stand up for now "What are you two fighting at?"
Both of them turned around to look at what they thought it was a puddle on the floor, very surprised to see their friend, sane and safe seated, but in her werewolf form.
- "WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Wyrmir screamed as he never saw herin werewolf formbefore, but Dahra hugged her.
- "KEDRI! You're back!"
- "Heh! I never went nowhere, my friend…" Kedri sayed, returning the hug
- "But what the hell are you?" Wyrmir asked, still a bit in shock
- "HAHAHA!" laughed Kedri "My dear sorcerer. I'm a werewolf… an arborum werewolf, why?"she started to look worried, so she stood up and fell again for the dizziness "Am I…"
- "Yes" sayed Dahra "you're in your werewolf form" then she turned to look at Wyrmir, with a triumphant shine in her eyes "You see? I told you my god would bring her back!"
- "What are you talking about?" Kedri looked confused
- "Dahra says you were resurrected with the prayers of her god. I didn't believe her, but maybe she's right" sayed Wyrmir as an apology to the Piggot.
Dahra bowed "You're welcome"
- "Oh, but I…" Kedri trailed off. There was no point in telling them it was for the necklace, in fact maybe there was a little of what Dahra was saying, as the activated stone was one of wishes and not the one of bad luck. The Shoni Arborum smiled at her friends. "I'd say we should leave as soon as possible. I suddenly don't like this place, you understand" they all nodded.
- "As soon as we gather everything, my friend, and you go back to normal size and "furryness"" Wyrmirlaughed and gathered all his stuff and Kedri's. After he was done, he looked atthe Arborumagain "Kedri... now that I made you the favour of gathering your stuff... would you give me that beautifull necklace of yours?"
- "HAH! SO THAT WAS WHY YOU GATHERED MY THINGS! YOU WANTED ME TO GIVE YOU MAGICKAL ITEMS!" Kedri screamed at him, really irritated.
The Alfon nodded energically, hissing "yesss, yesss, yesss"
- "NO" she spatted at him "And don't insist or I might forget you're my friend. maybe I'll change my mind and give it to you anyways later, but not if you do things just to get it" Wyrmir frowned and looked to the ground, silently.
The Arborum got up and tried to go back to her normal size and Arborum shape... "AAAAAHHHHH!" the pain was unbearable and she almost passed out. "What's this? I can't go back to normal! Dahra! I can't go back to my regular shape!" Dahra stared at her, eyes wide opened while she tried again, but it was too painfull and she almost fainted again.
- "Don't try it again, Kedri. I don't have to carry you on my shoulders"
Kedri almost started crying for the pain, but then she remembered that in her wish she didn't ask to come back as an Arborum. She wished her body to be complete again; that included the esence of her wolf. She sighed. In the Arborums beliefs if you die you must stay dead; if you're resurrected your soul will never, ever restor havepeace. Kedri knew it and now she had to go on knowing it will be that way... Sometimes you ought to sacrifice something to achieve your goals.
The three friends started the walk again. They didn't talk in the way, but they soon arrived to a fortress surrounded by a two meters deep pit and some huge stakes. Apparently there was no door to get in.
- "HEY! anybody there?" they all shouted to whoever was inside once and again untill a head showed over the walls. That person talked in a very strange language that none of the three understood. It took out a bow and an arrow, ready to shoot and pointed it towards the friends. Wyrmir closed his eyes and started praying. Dahra prayed too. Kedri was scared, but she hoped that Tyra would protect her.
The figure over the wall shoot right in the moment that a giant serpent was going to bite the sorcerer.
They opened their eyes and sighed in relief. while the person started pointing with the bow again and shouted something in that weird language. It sounded urgent.
Wyrmir got over Kedri's shoulders, because he didn't know how to swim. Kedri was taller than 2 meters, so there was no problem and the three of them got into the pit. A small door opened and the people over the wall threw them a rope to climb. Dahra went first; then wyrmir and Kedri went last. They thanked to the people, who of course, understood nothing of what the foreigners were saying.
The guard that helped them up smiled and showed that this was a very friendly town. Even if they didn't understand each other he showed them around. The town was almost a ghost town if it wasn't for a few people that lived almost all in the center of the town, where there was a joung larch surrounded by stones. Kedri tried to get close to the larch, to speak to it, but the guards didn't let her.
That day they spent it going through the town, seing if they could find something usefull. besides a 23 and a half meter long rope they found nothing else. That evening they spent it by the fire, eating with the guards. Kedri saw that there was a bow and she pointed it to them, like asking permission to keep it. It seemed that the bow was of none of them, so the guard motioned her to take it. She took it and tested it without an arrow. Kedri nodded; it was a good bow, and smiled at the guard. Then she looked around to get some arrows, but the guard showed her his almost empty quiver and grimaced.
Kedri saw that there was wood near and there was metal too, so she spent the rest of the night, before going to sleep, teaching them how to make arrows.
The next day, Kedri woke up and she was alone, so she saw the chance to speak to the larch. She touched it and smiled. The tree told her that he was very well taken care there; the humans gave him water every day and that he was there since 10 years ago. "Where do you come from?" Kedri asked. It wasn't a verbal speech. Arborums communicate with the trees in a more spiritual way, so they can collect thoughts and feelings from their vegetal brothers and sisters. "I come from the woods to the north" the tree answered. "Why are those stones surrounding you, brother? isthis a kind of altar to you?" Kedri kept asking. "I have no idea" was the answer.
She stopped talking to the tree when she saw Dahra with the corner of her eye. That's when she stepped away.
- "What were you doing?"
- "I was talking to my brother. We're heading north now. Where's Wyrmir?" she looked around, in search of the sorcerer, and he saw him talking to the guards. thay gave him food and water to help them with the rest of their trip.
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After walking all the rest of the day, stopping only to eat once and collect dry wood, the three friends arrived to a cave. they made a fire and Dahracooked some food. The cave was strange. the walls were not smooth, except in one place, where there was a picture like the one that the "skeletonknight" (like Kedri started calling him) held in his horse. They knockedthat walland it sounded like it was a door, but noone opened. Kedri shrugged resigned; they were going to spend the night there any ways, but Dahra saw that there was a small stone in the floor of the cave, tied to a thin string that passed down the door. She took it and hauled it and a bell rung. Still noone opened.
By midnight the door sounded. Someone from the inside was opening it. A Kaon's head showed out.
- "Come in, come in, fast!" he motioned them to get in.
A/N: Sorry to leave you here, but hey! at least now you know that Kedri's not dead. I promise you'll have more action and fighting verysoon, ok? now I really need to leave, so...
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