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Chapter 6: A Trip To The Di-Yantis Mountains
We travelled far and wide,
As you learned of new power,
The servants found the shield,
And we searched for another,
(4 months previously)
Morgana flew, cloaked in black cloud over the swamps of northern Yantos. Her solid silver eyes glinted in the moonlight as they carefully took in the landscape below. Her light brown-blonde hair was tied back loosely and wisps where flung in her frail looking face from the cold night air. Flying lower, the tops of the tree's passed overhead as Morgana hovered above the marshy ground.
"Disgusting," She sniffed as a large lizard dove into the murky waters below, slithering away into the shadows. "Why that stupid shield thing was hidden here is beyond me!" Morgana swore as she landed in a puddle of knee deep mud, the dirty water soaking into her shoes.
The blackness of the swamp, tinted only by an odd stream of moonlight through the tree's interrupted her perfect night vision. That is what one got for being merged with their guardian.
"I have half a mind to leave right now..." The fourteen-year-old muttered, shaking back the loose strands of hair from her face. Morgana reached into her black cloud-cloak, pulling out a map.
"Ah ha!" She turned the map upside down. "Here we are..." Morgana paused, staring at the weathered parchment.
"Now... where am I?"
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(Present time)
Yeili examined the map, setting the yellowing paper on Seth's back so the wind flying past the two on the Stormer wouldn't get in the way. She was eyeing the eastern boarder of Yintos, where there was miles of endless sand, called the Waterless Sea, until it reached the ocean, but before that, a low mountain line. The Di-Yantis mountains.
While studying in the Dark Realms, the Ethos had learned about some of the exact positions of a few of the Relics through Zad and a few agents who had managed to find a way through to Rados. One Relic was somewhere hidden in the Di-Yantis mountains. Yeili sighed, rolling the map back up and tucking it under her arm.
Now she only had to find a way to get them to the mountains.
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"I'll show you." Athela turned on her heel, raising her hand and placing it in the air, like there was an invisible wall before her.
It was like she had brushed aside a curtain, revealing a small town near sun-up and hardly any people, aside from a woman walking down a street away from the portal - assuming it was a portal.
Adam just stared at it. Surely it couldn't be that easy? Moving a curtain between the Realms. Pshaw. Easy.
Athela turned to him, moving back the curtain and sealing the portal again. "Care to try?" She asked softly, daring him.
He was tempted to laugh. Only, laughing in front of this woman didn't sound particularly good. "Well, yeah. If I really am a Shifter, shouldn't this be simple?" She just looked amused.
"No. You need to feel for the walls between the Realms. To do this, clear your mind and focus on where you wish to go. And do not attempt to leave." Athela warned. "Because I will not let you."
"Yeah, sure." He waved a hand loftily. "Let's try this."
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"You sleep on the ground? Every night?" Thymene looked horrified holding her sleeping bag above her head as the others lay them out. "Where there's bugs?"
"I'm not a huge fan of them myself." Erik said, smoothing out his blanket and standing up. Rion snorted with laughter.
"Not a huge fan? You're terrified of them!" He told Thymene, still laughing. "Exibit 1: Aiiiieeee!!" Imitating his scream, the older girl cracked a smile as everyone else chuckled to themselves. Aside from Ethos Girl.
"Will you stop that racket?" Yeili snapped from her place at the base of a tree, looking over a few documents they had taken from the monastery. "I am trying to read."
"Any leads?" Seth asked from his sleeping bag next to Tarlin's and was cooking dinner. And wasn't doing so great. The water was burning. If that's even possible.
"Either the Di-Yantis Mountains or the Waterless Sea." She stated, her face never changing emotions as she continued to examine the papers and then point out spots on a map.
"Why there?" Cameryn asked, dropping the Dagger into a small bag she carried on her back. "It's completely deserted. No one has lived there in years."
"Precisely. I quote: 'From the empty mountains to the sea, we hid the pieces within the place of Ghosts.'" Yeili shifted the map so it faced the others, pointing to the east edge, where the sand slowly disappeared.
"Well..." Erik ran a hand through his blonde hair. "If it's the Glasspiece, it would make sense." Kara gave him a blank look and he sighed, continuing.
"Lightning and sand create glass, so if there was any major storms, there would be plenty of places to hide another piece of glass around others." They all exchanged looks. Tarlin shrugged and said,
"He's got a point."
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"You're not trying hard enough!" Athela told Adam. He was leaning on his knee's, panting with exhaustion, head bowed.
"It's hard, okay!" He shouted tiredly. "I tried." Athela gave him a hard look.
"I did it. I went through the same training. And I have the ability to open the way through Realms." She picked up her cloak, and put in on, hiding her dark locks, tinted with grey and her eyes. "We will continue tomorrow, Adam."
"Yup. So excited for that..." He said sarcastically. After she left, he allowed himself to drop to the floor in exhaustion, eyes closed, and waited for Mel.
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Yeili yawned into her gloved hand and leaned back in the seat of the Stormer. The Defenders and company had all since passed into the mountains along the east side of Rados, the seemingly endless range extending for miles in all directions.
Tarlin, who was utterly bored, yelled out, "LOOK! Another rock shaped like Malco!"
Kara shook her head. "Nah. He's taller. Uglier too."
Two of the elder teenagers, specifically, Erik and Cameryn, where cranky from lack of sleep and travelling for days. Cameryn turned to glare murderously at the other two.
"Either shut it or we'll stick you in one of the caves in the mountains." Erik growled, who would have glared at them, but was focusing on the rocky path ahead.
"Are we stopping soon?" Thymene moaned. "I ache all over..." she complained.
"Later. Help Erik with the co-ordinates or something..." Seth said absently from his Stormer at the front of the group.
Erik gave Thymene a look that practically dared her to to touch any of the controls. Which she hadn't been inclined to do so anyway.
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(2 months previously)
Morgana examined the Sumosian Shield just lying there on her bed in the cave in the Di-Yantis mountains. It was a dull, chipped metal, nothing fancy, with a Sum Sigil imprinted upon it in gold. The Ethos where probably insane to want a disk of weathered Sumosite. Maybe for some new experiment or whatever.
"Piece of junk." She muttered, tossing it further in her cave. It had taken her a month to find the stupid thing, even with her enhanced sight. And it didn't even do anything.
A bright flash flared through the dimly light room. Morgana hissed loudly in pain, covering her eyes. It took several minutes before her eyes did not pain her to open them.
"Stupid Relic!" She shouted, kicking it hard towards the entry to the cave. The shield glowed with it's Sigil Power, almost teasing her. Morgana picked it up and chucked it like a Frisbee down the steep slope of the mountain. She watched it gradually disappear into the few pine tree's and boulders below.
Then Morgana sighed and took off after it.
A/N: Okie, for those who read the chapter that had been posted on , this ones been edited. A lot. And added too. So yesh, I think this ones better.