Claudia attempted to talk to Rayla a few more times, but she ignored her. Rayla had no intention to fall for it, though Claudia was certainly trying to convince her.
While they walked, it seemed Claudia wasn't going to be her biggest concern, as she noticed there were some noises up ahead that meant elves might be involved. Rayla continued walking hesitantly, and similarly, Callum and Claudia did.
"We're getting close..." Rayla mentioned, quietly.
"Close?" Callum questioned.
"To where I'm from. We're going to have to be extra careful from now on." She explained.
"Right." Callum said, "So there's going to be other moonshadow elves? Can't we go around or something?"
"We could." Rayla replied, "Or, we could get you a disguise while we're there so you won't be caught as easily."
"A disguise? Great, I'll work on my elf impression, Elf Callum."
"No, no impressions. Just don't say anything."
"Why not? I think I'd do great elf impression." Callum argued, "Probably even better than Human Rayla impersonates a human."
"Human Rayla?" Claudia questioned.
"Right. You never met human Rayla." Callum remembered, "Which is a shame, because it's really hard to explain otherwise. I think the best explanation would be for Rayla to show you. Rayla, why don't you show Claudia your human impression."
"We don't have time for that."
"Yeah we do." Callum argued, "You don't even have to come up with new things to say as Human Rayla. Come on, you love Human Rayla."
"Fine." Rayla sighed, and put on a disguise, "Hello, fellow human. Human fellows."
Rayla's tone wasn't as enthuastic as it usually was when doing Human Rayla, which she definitely seemed to love doing, but that didn't seem to bother Claudia, who seemed kinda... amazed with human Rayla.
"I sure do love procrastinating. And getting distracted when I'm in a hurry."
Claudia attempted to laugh quietly, but appeared to be having some difficult, "That's so accurate!"
"Totally, my fellow human." She said, "Let's go complain with the other humans, and exchange our strange assumptions about elves."
Claudia continued to laugh, like it was really funny, which Callum didn't understand, "That's so true! Like moonshadow madness!"
Rayla took the disguise off, unfortunately, and looked at Claudia confused, as did Callum. Claudia finally stopped laughing, and noticing their confusion, explained, "Oh, some weird thing Soren heard about. Trust me, it's ridiculous."
"Okay then."
Claudia stood up, with some difficulty, "So that was Human Rayla. You know, I can see how you guys didn't get caught."
"I'm surprised that we didn't immediately get caught." Callum added in.
"Why? Her impersonation was so accurate."
Rayla smiled briefly, "Well, we should continue."
"Maybe she can teach you how to do an impersonation like that." Claudia suggested, walking next to Callum, "For your disguise."
"She doesn't need to teach me." Callum argued, "Just wait until you meet Elf Callum."
As they got closer, Rayla was starting to get a better look at the elves. They definitely seemed to have weapons, which would be a problem if they noticed them. Which they did, unfortunately.
"Hey?" One of them asked, though they seemed a little confused, "Is that a human?"
"Nope." Rayla said, quickly covering them up with what she had previously been using as her disguise, "No humans here."
"Okay." The elf replied, "You know, you don't have to be so weird about it. It just looked like there might be some humans."
"Why would there be humans?"
"Exactly." The same elf replied, "Whatever, though, I have to go tell that to my friend over there."
The other elf stared at them, and then pulled off the disguise, "Unless these were humans."
"You know, I don't really want to deal with humans." The previous elf commented, "I'm sure this child is perfectly capable of handling it herself."
The other elf pulled out its weapons, "Do what you want. I'm fighting them."
Rayla pulled out her own weapons, and stood in front of Claudia and Callum, "No, you're not. Callum, take Zym and run."
Callum grabbed the dragon and did just that, and then glanced at Claudia, "Claudia, come on."
Claudia looked at Callum, and then at Rayla as even more elves surrounded her, probably after noticing the the other two,"Hold on... I have an idea."
"Claudia, whatever you're thinking, don't do it!" Callum suggested, and grabbed her hand, "We need to go!"
"We can't leave her there." Claudia said, as he dragged her away.
"I know." He replied, and then put Zym in her hands, "Claudia, get Zym to safety. I'll go get Rayla."
"Callum!" Claudia shouted, watching as he ran back towards Rayla. Other elves started to notice her, so she ran. Callum asked her to get Zym to safety, so that's what she was going to do... But at the same time, she needed to protect Callum. Her friend.
Zym was also her friend, though, and Callum could protect himself to some extent and Rayla was there. But still, if he needed her help, she'd be there.
"Callum, what are you doing?" Rayla asked, after noticing he was still there. She fought off one elf and dodged an attack from another, though she was definitely out-numbered.
"I think it's time I tested out that new spell I've been working on." Callum answered.
"Right..." Rayla smiled, as another elf started going towards Callum. She stopped the elf with her sword, pushing them back. At the same time, there were an awful lot of arrows to deal with...
"Rayla, get out of there!" Callum shouted, as he started the first part. Rayla decided to use a move that Soren was sure was not a thing in sword fighting, knocking over one of the elves which temporarily distracted the others, allowing her to run towards Callum.
"Aspiro frigis!"
The elves seemed to have some difficulties with the ice Callum had created, which gave them the opportunity to run away.
"Where's Zym?" Rayla asked, once they were a little bit away.
"He's with Claudia." Callum said.
"Wait, what? Why is Zym with Claudia?"
A/N: human rayla is difficult to write. I am not looking forward to elf callum, whatever elf callum is. I guess I will have to figure that out.
or the inevitably approaching tinker..