A/N: Sorry this one and the previous one are so short. I need to type up the second chapter (longer I promise0 and finish writing the third. Anyway, read and enjoy!
Chapter I: Stormy Weather
Purple-blue periwinkles dotted the hillside, waving gently in the strong breeze. Dark-gray clouds covered the sky as far as the eye could see, threatening rain.
On top of the hill, dressed in a deep sea-blue dress, was a pure white artic fox. Her fur was thick, and her sea-green eyes sparkled and swam with the mysteries of the void. Her name was Renna, and as she was known here about as the Sorceress.
In her dainty right paw she held a staff, the symbol of her high office and power. The staff was gnarled and made of a very stout hard wood from a distant far-off land, in the top, fixed firmly, was a leaf-green marble which increased her power.
Suddenly the piercing hunting cry of a northern forest falcon sounded from above.
Renna looked up to see the falcon, a majestic-looking raptor with fierce golden eyes and dark buff-colored feathers, circling above her. Though it's name was Rator, it was known as The Redeemer. Renna's falcon was rather fierce, but very protective.
Rator called again for rain, then both he and Renna ran downhill, as she went, a change came over her. Her muzzle became sharper, her nostrils moved back to it's base, her tail fanned out and grew feathers, her body became covered with dark buff-colored feathers, though her belly remained white, her hindpaws became scaly and her claws extended, her forearms became wings and with a rapid flap she lifted off the ground and took flight. She was a northern forest falcon.
As she and Rator flew, Renna asked him for a weather report in the silent telepathy language of birds. Rator replied, "It good weather up the Den. It will only begin to rain after we have arrived there if we fly fast enough."
From that point onward they flew on in silence, over forest, wood, hill, valley, and dale. Finally they reached a long, varying mountain range that seemed to end the world and stretched out as far as the eye could see to either side.
Without the slightest hesitation, both falcons soared over the craggy, reaching peaks, searching for a special hole in the mountainside. Just as the turbulent winds picked up and swirled rain about to obscure vision, Rator let out a jubilant squawk to let Renna know he had found the Den.
Telling her bird to get her there and placing her faith in him, she plummeted downwards and allowed Rator to guide her wings, mind, heart, spirit, soul, and body toward the entrance.
Almost as soon as they alighted at the entrance and Renna had changed back into her original form, the rain picked up and the sky growled thunder while lightening flashed brilliantly up above.
It was only when they had scampered down the tunnel a little and crouched, sheltered from the driving rain, and soaking wet and panting, that Renna remembered. "Oh no! I've forgotten my staff!"
Clis had been watching Renna and Rator from the thick undergrowth of one of the forests they had flown over ever since Rator appeared.
He alone had witnessed the puzzling transformation of Renna from artic fox to northern forest falcon. And though it had frightened him at the time, now it only puzzled him.
The young dog-stoat had watched as both birds took flight, but he also noticed the gnarled staff that Renna had left behind. Clis missed little or nothing with his sharp, keen glittery little black eyes.
Waiting, the brown stoat pressed his buff-colored belly against the forest floor, nervous of being seen from above. Falcon eyes were no joke. They were as sharp as his and could pick out more from their Arial bird's-eye view. If he was caught hanging around here and that falcon saw him, he'd be dead before he could utter the word "ow".
When they were out of sight (beyond his range of vision) and heading towards the mountains that marked the end of his world, Clis came out of hiding. He glanced fervently around, afraid of getting caught, and then made off with the staff.
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