Authors note: I am posting pictures of the 5 Lost Souls on my deviantart but be warned they are anime styled because yea... that's all I can draw.
-At Greenhaven we don't judge each other by where they came from or their past. We judge them by what they do in the present and future-
Marko wandered the halls of Greenhaven with Apocalypse trailing behind occasionally knocking things over with his thick, long tail. Whenever the crocodile knocked something over Marko always picked it up but if somebody was near he apologized to them then picked it up. The crocodile didn't mind to be in passive state but they just got done with a training session to help control their powers with this orange haired Greencloak named Maya. She had a fire salamander as a spirit animal and could control fire this made Marko think of Stetriol and how only 3 days ago they learned the 5th Lost Soul was there. He snapped out of his trance when he heard voices echoing in the halls.
"Do you think she will be evil?"
"It's a 50-50% chance."
"Maybe she will be girly just like me!"
"Who knows, but I'm not going to trust her if she comes. Its Stetriol and everybody that currently lives in Stetriol is bad in my book."
Sure enough he saw Angel, Leo, and Gale coming up the steps in the same hallway he was in. Shurikan was perched on Haven's antlers with Renegade lumbering behind. The hallway was just barely big enough to occupy both Apocalypse and Haven just side to side.
"Oh, hey Marko!"
"Hey."
"Lenori is looking for you."
"Oh, really? Where is she?"
"Down the hall over there. The door with bird carved into it."
"Ok thank you. Here I will put Apocalypse into passive state so you guys can get by."
"No it's fine we can squeeze by we are just heading to one of the towers. You can join us once your done if you would like."
"Sure."
Marko then started heading down the dimly lit hallway until he came to a door that had a carving of a ibis and knocked.
"Um... Lenori? Gale told me your looking for me."
Marko got fell back when the door started creaking open and a blonde boy with a wolf trailed out.
"Oh! I'm sorry did I scare you!? Here let me help you."
The blonde boy helped Marko up and introduced himself, his name was apparently Conor and he summoned Briggan. Lenori came out of the room after Conor did,
"I see you two have met each other. You two are a lot alike you know, despite Briggan and Apocalypse living on two entire different continents they knew each other very well. They were also the two best future seers out of the Great Beasts." Conor and Marko just looked at each other, then at each others spirit animals, then at their own spirit animals. Lenori laughed a little then spoke up again after they finished doing their glance exchanges.
"Well would you like to come in?"
"Oh, yes ma'am, nice to meet you, Conor."
" You too, Marko."
The two boys then parted ways and Marko went into the room with Lenori. In the room there was a large, green, padded chair, an ottoman, a large portable perch with a colorful rainbow ibis, and a red padded chair. Marko took a seat in the, less-grand, red one while Lenori took her spot in the green one.
"How are you, Marko?"
"Oh, um honestly? Lately I have been trying to guess what the last summoner is like."
"We shall find out soon."
"W-what do you mean by that?"
Lenori sighed. "Well I'm not supposed to tell you this but... Olvan is sending a team to extract her from Stetriol. A fellow Greencloak is already in Stetriol scoping out the place."
"Oh, I see."
"But would you mind telling me about your dreams since Apocalypse arrived." Lenori said gently. Marko considered the question and thought of the dream with the blazing yellow eyes and the girl, not only that but the creature that consumed the girl and Marko once he got to near enough to touch her.
"Well, I have had a weird dream for the past two nights."
Lenori leaned forward. "Would you mind telling me about what?"
The dream returned to him vividly. It had been the rare sort of dream that felt like real life, even in memory. He had been walking through a brightly lit, dense forest, the breeze that flowed through was cold against his skin. Walking through the forest, he spotted a black wolf and started following after it.
As he walked, he eventually reached a shadowy part of the forest where the wolf stopped and pivoted to face him. He was able to get a good look at its eyes, which where yellow like the sun. The wolf howled a loud, lonely sounding howl, 'No, it's a call' Marko thought during his dream. A moment later a girl with blazing yellow eyes emerged, it was almost like a human version of the wolf. She held out her hand to him, Marko hesitated but he saw her eyes again, her eyes had the same look in them as he saw in his own. He couldn't ignore her pleading eyes so he took her hand and asked her name.
Before she could answer she screamed, as the once lush forest was set on fire. From the flames emerged a creature, it was so bizarre as its many body parts twisted, writhered, and cracked, as the trees around it mixed with it and it split off into two blobs. The blobs started twisting, molding, and making bone crushing sounds that made Marko cringe when he heard them. The shapes soon morphed into Halawir the Eagle and Essix the Falcon.
Marko and the girl were paralyzed with fear for what just happened. The wolf tried getting them to move, but it was as if they were stone and couldn't. All they could do was watch the creatures went near them and opened their beaks and lunged at them. Just as they were about to be eaten, he woke up, slick with sweat.
"I was in a forest," Marko said. "I saw a wolf, a girl that looked like a human version of the wolf, and a creature. It was strange, the trees blended with the creature and they twisted into eagle and a falcon."
"Have you ever seen a eagle or falcon before?"
"No. But I have seen pictures of Halwair and Essix. And that's what they looked like."
"Was it like them? Or was it them?"
Marko glanced at Apocalypse to think about for a second. The crocodile opens it jaws and let out a sort of groan as if to say "You already know the answer human!" Marko smiled at Apocalypse and turned back to face Lenori.
"It was them."
"Have you had any dreams about the other Great Beasts?"
"No, not yet. I'm assuming you are asking because it will help us tell us where the talismans are?"
"Smart boy, yes it does. Apocalypse has many titles such as, Wavefinder, Moonlistener, and Spiritvisioner.
Apocalypse stood up on his muscular legs and hissed with pride once Lenori spoke his name. Marko stroked in between his eyes with two fingers which made the crocodile close its eyes with pleasure. "Are you really all those things?" Apocalypse turned its head to face Marko and made a groaning sound again.
"Now, about that girl and wolf. What were they doing? What did they look like?"
"The wolf was looked like Fell and the girl, she had black hair and blazing yellow eyes. She was wearing a tunic with a black cloak, she was also holding out her hand in a pleading way almost like she wanted to escape from somewhere." Lenori had a paper and a feather pen and was writing down what he said. "Do you know her name?" asked Lenori.
"No, I'm sorry I don't. Was I useful in a way?"
"Yes very. Not many people have amber-yellow eyes. Marko, do you believe the place you were at was Stetriol or Amaya?"
"Um... I saw a coyote and I believe those are native to Amaya. So I do believe it was Amaya." Lenori nodded.
"I too believe it is in Amaya. But that is all for now, I will let you know if I need your assistance again."
"Yes ma'am." Marko then got up and tapped Apocalypse's nose to indicate to him that they are leaving. The crocodile hissed in response and they started heading to the door. But before Marko was about to exit Lenori spoke up.
"Marko."
"Yes ma'am?"
"Please do try to get to know the girl first. I heard the others talking when they passed my room. Here at Greenhaven we don't judge each other by where they came from or their past. We judge them by what they do in the present and future."
"Yes ma'am I was planning on doing that anyways."
"Good that'll be all see you at dinner."
Marko left not helping but to smile, he was happy somebody else had the same look in their eye as his did. He couldn't wait to meet the girl in the forest. But the smile dissolved when he thought of the creature and how it twisted and whithered when it was changing form. He had no clue what it was or how to defeat it but he knew that he would be able to somehow.