Flight from the Mystic Moon

I couldn't fee any-thing; my legs, my arms, my head. Nothing felt attached to nerves. I thought by now I should have thrown up. And to make things worse I was unsure what I wanted less; Allen to find and catch me after landing or landing. The sight of the world rising up to meet me was… hard to deal with. Having what could only be estimated as an thousand tonne machine chasing my through hell and high water was terrifying. But from where I hung, suspended in the sky I could tell I would land far before Allen did. The only issue now was…. Well landing. There were no grassy plains to turn to, no water to land in. Just trees as far as the eye could see. I was going to die wasn't I?

"Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, OH GOD!" That's the sound you get out of me when I'm about to crash and die at speeds a hell of a lot faster than I'd like but slow enough to not completely kill me. I managed to slam through the top of the trees and miss the bigger issues at hand. I was yanked and jolted as the parachute got caught on branches then ripped. My head was about to smash head long into the truck of a tree, but a final yank saw me suspended at least 30 feet in the air with nothing but the ground to stop me.

"Ok…. Ok. Ok. Ok." I managed to realize repeating myself made me feel at least still sane. Or at least let me now I was in fact still breathing. My hands as hard as I might to release my-self from my cocooned state, shook and would not stop. I fumbled with the knots that held me and failed miserably for what seemed like forever. Then the ground shook.

"Oh god." My mind refused to acknowledge anything beyond my own existence. That meant for right now, Allen did not exist, but this did not stop me from trying to hurry it up. "Come on, come on, come on! Please!"

"Well, seeing as you asked so nicely…" I tried to turn me head around to see behind me, but I couldn't. The voice that spoke to me made no sounds other than his voice.

"Please, hurry." Some leaves above me feel down and when I looked up and face looked back down. And then I dropped about ten feet. "Fuck!" And stopped once more. The voice above laughed down at me and I was not so impressed as he was.

"Need more help?" I twisted and pulled on string and clothe, but still couldn't get loose. A branch stuck out close to my hands and I reached out for it and the sound of ripping clothe made my skin run cold.

"No!" The harness I was tied to fell without me and I hung in the air being held by the arm by a man that was not really man.

"I doubted you could fly." I could only shake my head. I was glad in a way that he was so astute.

"Help me up?" The man/animal/beast/thing lifted my up like I didn't weight 140 pounds. As soon as my feet landed on the branch and walked over and clung to the tree trunk like it was a life-raft.

"You seem scared of heights…" I scoffed and tried to hold down the bile threatening to come up. "But you came from the sky…" I looked back and the man stood with knees bent staring up at the air-ship I'd just fled from.

"Can you get me safely to the ground? Please?" Even my voice shook now. The man tilted his head when he looked at me and for some reason I did the same thing.

"Sure." I was going to say thank you, but he ripped me from the tree, tossed me over his shoulder and dropped like a rock towards the ground. Obviously I screamed bloody-murder. In 10 seconds he dropped 20 feet grabbed onto another branch and swung forward. I clung to him like I was a bat out of hell and he laughed while swinging back and forth.

"Can you put me down now?" I yelled at me and he turned his head back a bit and smiled.

"You'd have to let go first." I almost, almost out of need to do something, bit him. But I didn't and instead dropped the last few feet to the ground where fear commenced and reared its ugly head. I threw up everything I've ever eaten in my life.

"I wonder… that guymelef in the sky coming for you?" I looked up and wiped my mouth with the back of my hand. To make matters worse the ground shook and when I looked down to make sure it wasn't just me, a pebble by my hand jumped around with the quakes.

"Hide me. Hide me!" The man dropped down from the tree and stood up perfectly normal. He was normal, his voice, his body, aside from being hairy and rather phenomenal agility.

"He after you?" He looked up and over me as if he could see beyond normal human sight as well.

"Yes, yes, please. Hide me!" He looked back down at me for a second to stare at me mildly interested before smiling again.

"Sounds fun." The ground shook harder and harder as I imagined Allen's Guymelef running at top speed, trees falling behind him in his wake. "You're not from around here are you?" He winked at me and pulled me on to his back before taking off. "You can explain later."

At speeds one would never expect to travel while on a living person/thing/man/beast we stood on a ridge looking down from where we'd been only minutes before. I was still latched on to his back when Allen's Guymelef scowered the area I'd just been in and still would be if it wasn't for this guy.

"Thank you." He laughed again at me. Maybe with was that I was too tired from everything, but this guy found everything to be some sort of amusement.

"So, you have a name miss renegade?" Renegade… he was right too.

"Uh, yeah. Ah… Celena." It was the only female name I knew was from this planet so I used it. "You have a name?" Allen's guymelef stopped and looked in a circle, he passed right over me like I wasn't even there. It was great, so terrifying and so relieving to have been overlooked.

"Ragen." I almost didn't hear him. "So, what are you going to do now?" I slide off of his back and bent down till me knees were level with my chest. I stared at my torn clothes and ripped knees to my feet.

"Fanelia. I need to get to Fanelia." I stood up and ran my fingers threw my hair. I could feel the dirt all of me and the feeling of finally being completely alone.

"Well you are a long, long away from there. Do you even know where you are?" I shook my head before even thinking of an answer. "Well you're in Freid and you have a good walk ahead of you. Who about… I treat you to some food and some place to clean up?" I stood up and looked at him like he was a shinning knight.

"Why would you do that for me?" He simply shrugged his shoulders and smiled while he walked next to me and leaned on my shoulder. He was rather tall, just like Allen was.

"You're interesting."

"Am I? Would you mind answering a bunch of questions I have for you?" He nodded without caring one-iota and in the distance I watched as Allen gave up his search for me and followed after the air-craft in the sky. "Because I need to know a lot of things and I feel like I'm running out of time for something."