Chapter seven
Charity grabbed Aerion's arm.
"Lets play a game! I'll be Arain, The evil water witch!" shouted Charity as she picked up a couple rocks.
"And I'll be Damal, the Blackblade Hero." Shouted Halcyon, as he picked up a stick.
"What about you Aerion?" asked Charity. Aerion smiled and aimed his palms at her. She laughed. "So your opposing me."
Aerion then pointed his palms at Halcyon.
"Me too?" he asked.
Aerion nodded. Several giggles broke out. "What are you going to fight with Aerion?" asked Charity with a smile. Aerion didn't respond and took off down the railroad into the forest. Charity looked at Halcyon then shrugged.
"I think we'd better find him."
An eerie silence swept through the forest as Charity and Halcyon entered.
"Aerion, we now you're here somewhere! You cant hide from Arain The Evil water witch!"
Both of their heads turned when they heard a rustle not to far off.
"Stop hiding from the Blackblade hero Aerion!" yelled Halcyon as he held out his stick like a sword. Another rustle, this time in the trees, made the two jump up. They looked around, as if they were wandering through a swamp that was filled with poisonous snakes and deadly mushroom.
"Keep your eyes peeled Damal, Aerion the demon is lurking in these swamps." Said Charity as she narrowed her green eyes.
"You do the same Arain. Aerion is skilled in stuff that we have never heard of." Said Halcyon as he and Charity went back to back. They looked around intensely. Their eyes shooting everywhere. Watching the shadow that moved quickly in the trees.
"Steady…" said Halcyon as he gazed through the leaves. "He's very close."
Suddenly a very unfamiliar sound came to them both. Like a rope being plucked like a guitar string. There was an amazing swoosh as something whizzed just inches past Charity's face.
"Oh my god what was that!" shouted Charity frightened. Halcyon looked in her direction just in time to see a blur whiz past his face.
He screamed and toppled backwards. He looked to the tree were the blur had stopped and become a piece of the environment again. It was a cheaply made but stern arrow. His eyes widened as he screamed.
"Aerion's an archer!"
Suddenly six arrows whizzed through the air landing in a circle around Charity. She screamed in fright and ducked.
"Aerion stop please!" she begged. Suddenly Aerion came crashing out of the sky landing right in front of Halcyon. Halcyon shouted in fright as he noticed the strange blade in Aerion's hand. The handle was like a pair of brass knuckles. His fingers were in holes and rather then clutching the sword's hilt, he held it like a pair of brass knuckles. Protruding out of the strange hilt was an extremely large blade, which appeared as if it had just come out of a dream. It was silver and was about as long as Halcyon's leg.
Aerion lifted the blade and let it fall forward. Halcyon rolled to the side frightened, as the blade nearly missed his leg.
"Aerion!" he shouted. Then a huge thump was heard as a rock hit Aerion's head.
"Leave him alone you big bully!" shouted Charity as she tossed another rock. Saliva flung from Aerion's mouth as he turned to her and exhaled lots of air, his eyes were narrowed and he looked devilishly evil.
He ran toward her, his barefoot thumped on the floor as the necklace around his neck jingled. His orange eyes flared as he jumped into the air and performed a front flip slash. Charity screamed and ran out of the way. Aerion landed on the ground sending dead leaves high into the air. Halcyon frowned and stood up holding out his stick like sword.
"Aerion that's enough!" he yelled, "Let's go!" Aerion turned to him and grinned. He ran ever so quickly to Halcyon and kicked him to the ground. Once again he lifted the blade and let it fall. Halcyon closed his eyes and held the stick up before him horizontally to block the blade, gritting his teeth. Charity screamed as the blade cut right through the stick and came to a halt a Halcyon's throat.
Halcyon panted heavily and shook violently, scared of Aerion. He refused to open his eyes. Suddenly the sword Aerion held faded into oblivion. He kneeled beside Halcyon and put his warm hand on Halcyon's arm. He gently shook him and smiled. Halcyon opened his eyes and flinched.
"A-erion" he stuttered. "I don't understand…" he said confused as he rose to his feet along with Aerion. Aerion smiled and picked up the two stick fragments.
"Oh I see!" exclaimed Charity as she approached the two boys. "He was just acting his part. It was jus a game. Right Aerion?" she said turning to Aerion, who nodded and smiled at her brilliantly. Halcyon laughed nervously.
"Y-you had me going there for a minute…Aerion…" he said with a tremble in his voice. Aerion walked over and rubbed his back. This made the tension in Halcyon fade. He grinned slightly.
"Where did you learn how to do all that? Your home?" asked Halcyon. Aerion grinned slightly and sat beside a tree. He pulled out a bow and arrows from the small crevice underneath the tree's root.
"You made that, right?" Aerion nodded. "But how, It only took you like less than five minutes. Your like the ultimate weapon." Said Halcyon with a puzzled look as he jogged over and glanced over the bow. It was made of tree bark and vines. He soon looked up to see Aerion's fiery eyes looking at him.
"Aerion, what's wrong?" he asked. Aerion tossed the Bow at him and stood up, and marched away with an angry look on his face. Charity rushed over, "Now look what you did!" she shouted, "Aerion wait!"
She ran quickly to Aerion.
Was it something I said? All I said was…he's like an ultimate weap…. Thought Halcyon. He paused and realized what he had just said. He had just called his new friend, a magic user. A gentle boy with no worries of the world what so ever, a weapon. Quickly he rose to his feet and looked toward Aerion's direction.
"Aerion please come back!" he yelled as he ran toward the boy. Aerion stopped but didn't look back. Halcyon stopped before him and spoke.
"Hey Aerion, I'm sorry. You're not a weapon, I wasn't thinking. You're something more than a weapon, you're my friend." He said gently putting his hand on Aerion's shoulder.
"You're OUR friend." Charity said as she put her hand on Aerion's other shoulder. There was a moment of silence. Then Aerion looked up smiling. He jumped onto them both and hugged them at the same time.
"I think he forgives me." Laughed Halcyon.