Chapter 6: SHINKIROKATAURA – The Storm of the Silver Clouds
Cloud saddled the horse and moaned, scratching his shoulder "So you want me to go find a new place to move to, and then what!" Cloud roared at Wolf. Wolf simply shrugged and said "Well, I guess you come back, we want you to start near Kacie's old village, and go 5 miles to the east, Taylor's old tree stand should be there so poke around there" Wolf winked at him as Cloud asked "What's a tree stand?" Sarah hugged her mother tightly "I'll be back mom, its ok!" Kiara hugged her back and said "I know sweetie, just be careful out there, I know Ryan and Cloud will protect you and Mura while you're out there. Just remember, you and Ryan are our only son and daughter, don't go conniving on some suicidal adventure!" Sarah nodded and went to Cloud's horse, mounting it and waiting. Cloud mounted up in front of her while Ryan and Mura got on the other horse "We'll be fine!" Their parents and Kane waved at them as Cloud kicked his horse's sides and sent it galloping through the gate. As they exited the mansion and were out of sight, Cloud dismounted. Sarah looked at him in question but squeaked as Cloud picked her off the horse and stood her on the ground. Cloud patted the horse and it galloped off. He turned to Sarah and knelt down "Get on" Sarah took a step back "Excuse me?" Cloud rolled his eyes and said "Come on, this is faster, trust me" Sarah looked a little uneasy about it but shrugged and climbed on Cloud's back, letting her legs rest behind his and putting her arms around his waist. "Dad taught me how to do it when he used to carry mom around" Sarah gave a small "oh…" and waited as Cloud stood up and raced off after Ryan and Mura. Sarah was comfortable all the way through the ride. As soon as they neared what they believed to be Kacie's old village. They disembarked and walked slowly towards the edge of a large hill. The group gasped, seeing a massive crater in front of them. Sarah dropped into it and looked at the small stone tablet she saw embedded at the bottom. She saw that it read "Here lies the site of a small taste of hope for our kingdom, given to us by the honorable WolfKaeisasha, he will be missed" Sarah studied it for a minute before rejoining the group. Below the hill lay the village, but it looked as if it was abandoned. Cloud kept one hand on the WolfSaeiga, ready for a fight. Ryan flapped his enormous black cape out from his side to reveal the FallSaeiga at his side. They walked down the hill slowly, keeping watch for movement. Sarah gasped out as she saw a shadow shoot across the ground behind a building, grabbing Cloud's hand and pointing to where she saw the movement. Cloud scowled and told the group to stay put. Ryan nodded and pulled the red reverse blade out into a defensive position. Cloud reached the village square. He growled softly and pulled the WolfSaeiga out, prepared for a Fevered Attack. He heard a smash behind him as he whirled around him. An old man stood in an open doorway, staring at Cloud with soft eyes and his mouth opened in shock. He slowly approached him as Cloud held the fevered green blade at the ready. The man stopped and saw the blade. He looked from Cloud to the sword, then to Cloud again. He clenched his teeth and roared "HE HAS STOLEN THE BLADE OF OUR SAVIOR! KILL HIM!!!" Cloud's eyes widened as various hut doors burst open and people flooded out after him. Cloud saw some of their eyes; they were yellow when they should have been white. Cloud gasped as they ran at him with makeshift weapons. Cloud tried to push back the roaring mob of people without hurting any but they knocked him to the ground and tackled him. He roared at the three "GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE! QUICK!!!!!" One of the mob people managed to cut the top of Cloud's wrist as he pointed the WolfSaeiga upward, roaring as it shuddered into the reverse blade sword. The people screamed and scrambled away from him as blood ran down his arm. Cloud panted as they ran back for their huts, obviously afraid of the sword's appearance. Cloud looked around while the blood still ran down his arm towards the elbow "I wonder what they were so scared of…" Cloud put his arm over his face to get support. Cloud didn't even notice a drop of blood fall from his arm and go falling towards his face. Cloud could only blink before it dropped on his top lip, right underneath his nose. Cloud snorted "What the hel-YYYAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHH!!!" Cloud's blood felt like it had turned to ice. His body became stiff as he felt something snaking its way around his arm. He looked down to see bands, pure blue bands snaking their way around his arm. Cloud started hyperventilating and screamed when five of the bands rammed straight into his arm, running their way through his muscles and binding his arm tightly to the sword. Cloud fell backwards as he clutched his banded arm with his normal one, the sword still connected to his hand. He started to hyperventilate as he felt himself becoming stronger. He looked at his reflection in the WolfSaeiga and saw his normal eyes and felt a stabbing at his mind. "This must be the fever trying to take over, and dad said it was hard!" Cloud scowled and got up, the Blade following him. He swung it into a tree and screamed like a little bitch (sorry for lang.!) as it exploded into at least twenty hundred trillion pieces. He looked around and saw that the others had gone, heeding his warning. He climbed up the hill and fell his arm screech in pain. He clutched it with his left and looked down on it as the bands shot out and began wrapping their way around his upper arm, up to his shoulder. Cloud tried to scrape and shake them off but it bound him all the tighter. Cloud groaned and kept walking. "Sarah, Ryan, Mura, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!!!" He screamed, hoping to get some sort of answer. He walked through the forest for what seemed like hours, watching with concern as the animals of the woods shrunk away from him, seeing pure undeniable evil seep out like a poisoned puddle from his entire right arm. He kept trying not to look at the tight blue bands that enclosed his arm. He moaned is frustration as he leaned against a tree. The wind was blowing softly, making his hair flap smoothly and quietly. He was about to cuss out everything around him when he felt something bang against his head. He jumped away from the colliding object. He relieved tension in his muscles as he saw an extremely old rope ladder hanging down from a high platform at the top of a large tree. He sighed "Well, I found the tree stand, BUT NO SARAH!! DAMMIT THIS SUCKS!!!!!" and with that he thrust down his sword in anger and let out such a girlish scream he thought he pissed himself as all of the ground in front of him…….well……. "Exploded?"
Sarah called up to Ryan "You sense him yet?" obviously bored. Ryan's eyes were ultra wide and his hand nearly crushed the branch of the tree he was clinging to as he saw the Gouyakutaruya roar across the forest. "………..uh…yea…..I sense him alright…" Mura kicked the tree "Well what the hell is that supposed to mean?" Sarah was about to say something when she heard horrid shrieks coming from the forest. Ryan turned his head quickly towards the sound, warning the two girls "Fevered, we better move" Mura shook her head in fear at the sound "I don't think that's fevered, it sounds bigger…" Sarah looked into the woods opposite the direction of the tree stand "Come on let's go!!!" They began running full blast into the woods. They flew past trees, a few meadows, and even multiple rivers, but still the sound was in ear shot. Mura looked back behind her to see Sarah and Ryan running with her but as soon as she turned around she nearly wet herself and screamed, stopping abruptly. Ryan looked over her shoulder "HOLY SHIT!" They were standing in front of a HUGE chasm. Sarah peered over and saw black. "Damn, that is one big drop" They heard the screeches again, realizing that it was very close. Mura groaned with fright "NOW WHAT" Ryan looked around frantically and pointed down the edge "look! A bridge, come on!" Indeed there was a bridge, but it was a small, rickety bridge held up by ropes, allowing a single file line to cross. They burst out in full speed towards it as Mura looked to her right into the woods. She thought her heart stopped for five seconds as she saw a pure red dog bounding out of the woods, its fangs bared and drool lapping everywhere out of its mouth. It had to be at least half the size of the Grand Tree, and its eyes were pure yellow as everything else was red. It jumped for Mura as she screamed and ducked. It flew over her and snapped at her neck. It missed as it fell into the chasm, howling after her. As they reached the bridge Ryan made Sarah go first, followed by Mura and him last. When Sarah was half way she looked up to see Cloud standing at the other side. Sarah gasped out in relief. Cloud stood there, his arm still covered in bands and bloody. He smirked when he saw the HellHounDs coming out of the woods. He jumped up high to the half way point of the bridge, the group of three watching him. Cloud's eyes turned from green to pure amber gold to green again as his hair flashed silver and his left hand sprouting claws as he slashed his sword in the air at the Hounds. A thick cloudy gust of wind blew out in an enormous fan as he screamed his lungs out
SHINKIROKATAURA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The large dust cloud continued billowing but out of the smoke billowed pure white and silver lightning. It poured out and swirled around other bands of lightning that shot out towards the Hounds. Some of the bolts hit the hounds, disintegrating them while the others hit the ground and created a massive bolt of earthquake energy. The lightning snaked its way in and out of the ground, making a wave like appearance as it attacked the hounds, obliterating them. Cloud landed on the bridge and panted. The bands retracted with such force he thought his arm would pop off. He looked up and saw the ropes at the end burning. Cloud moaned and turned to Ryan as he changed back to his regular appearance and grumbled "oh please run" Ryan looked at Cloud and peed himself a little "RUN, RUN, and RUN!!! OH PLEASE DAMMIT GOOOO!" He yelled at the two girls who were frantically trying to reach the other side. As the first three made it the bridge snapped and Cloud felt his feet going wobbly. He jumped as the bridge went out from underneath him and he landed on the soft grass. He looked back to the bridge gone, the rest of it hanging to the side which they currently occupied. Cloud turned to the woods they now faced, sheathing his sword he sighed "We have to be careful now guys, this isn't our land anymore" They nodded and was about to begin walking when a loud honking noise made them freeze. HONK!!! HONK!!!!!! Cloud's dog ears flattened to his head "What the hell is that awful noise!?" they heard a big manly voice shout "MOVE IT YOU FUCKING PANZEE!! ITS 7 OCLOCK AND I AM LATE FOR MY JOB INTEVIEW!!" Sarah scowled and looked at the others "ok, first of all, he is a mean man Ill wager; second, what is a job interview?" They shrugged as they heard more honking and some sort of growling, and loud bangs, even wailing noises!!! They walked towards the sounds, clamping down harder on their ears. As Cloud finally exited first he literally choked on his saliva "oh hell where are we!!?"