Chapter 64
Silent Night
"Phaydera... are you going to help me right this wrong?" Akaz said while freezing due to the minor flood. "It will be like a movement, force or not, to make sure that nobody ever gets hurt, or killed. Ever."
"I am not saying I definitely will, but I can help you until a certain extent, to the point where the troopers come down and start chasing either me, or both of us, and probably going to be on our trail for days." Phaydera replied as she held her claw on the top of his front right foot. "Besides, now we will be under the water, meaning that there will be less deployments than usual. Plus, we have a very large amount of oxygen, we have never ran out before, and I doubt the Sevaeric could waste it within a day."
Akaz, realizing that there was one who actually cared for the safety and safe keeping of the inhabitants of the island, smiled a little and ceased to fold his wings while he felt a reassurance in his chest. Warmth came to his chest, despite the cold and crisp wind blasting against him. The wind was almost smooth and slow going, while it would slowly soften the warmth in his chest, and his wings were spread out, catching the wind and giving him a reminder of what an archwing felt like, for his first time. "Anyways, could you please explain what that calm flood was?" Akaz asked Phaydera, while shivering intensely. "It feels like I just got smashed by Vreaze's hammer... Trust me, you do not want to know what it could do." Akaz compared while shuddering to the memory of his enemy in the dream, inside the dimension of Equinox. He was still covered in remaining droplets at his feet, while his scales could feel it even though they were mostly dry. The air became moist and made the island smell like a tropical rainforest.
Phaydera walked away, but then stopped outside of his attack range and sighed while taking in the very strange scent coming from all around the island. "It's complicated, really. Although my knowledge has a general idea of this certain... event." Phaydera said. "This island, Giha Velur was originally the beginning of the Sentients, you know, the beasts that have magic on their side, they all start out as very strange creatures, sometimes looking like inanimate objects. Although, they had a prophecy, and enter 'your mother', Equinox was the fulfillment of the prophecy. We Basalisks, Sevawings, and Dragons did not really rule over them, until one of the Dragons wandered away, from their den, and what did a Sentient do when they saw it walk among the land, minding it's own business? They had to expel it, because of the fear of destruction, so Equinox was commanded to start working on some kind of barrier, as they named it the Qualius barrier, as it kind of represented, a powerful natural expulsion. Then, it was ready, the Qualius barrier, was all set, ready to protect the island from this misconceived threat. Within seconds, the island submerged underwater, and at the same time, the island flooded, and swept the poor, unfortunate lizard away. The flood was excessive, literally pounding him from wall to wall, back to log, anything that took him for once place, and put him in a very critical state. After that was finished, the barrier drained the flood, and with that water, made the barrier outlined with it, and making an actual unbreakable barrier to all foreign entities. It has weakened over the years, making this place very easy for us to live in, since we no longer have to climb the trees in order to not get swept away... Heh. Usually we would lose about more than three each day. Finally, Ytrian told me that the rest of the Sentients are still waiting for Equinox to return here to her rightful home, to once again strengthen our defenses, and to make them stronger in their own territory."
"Gawp." Akaz said with his jaw dropped and being amazed by her so called summary that she said as an general idea. If he was honest, he thought that if that was the general idea, there is a lot more, for it to be explained completely, but then he thanked Phaydera for the surprising explanation anyway. "My mother did this... What about the others? Couldn't they do this as well?"
"We do not know." Phaydera responded while leaping onto Akaz's wing.
Suddenly, Akaz felt a sharp pain, followed by a very strange pop that was felt between his wing and his center. The intensity of the pain force him to roar like he was just stabbed in the heart, but then, without warning he spewed fire while doing so, seeing the huge flame ignite anything in it's way. Phaydera stared right at the source of the loud ear piercing roar, and as she did, she noticed something so similar, that it was almost like they were the same. The problem that separated them from the Dragons was that the Sevawings typically are bright yellow, and have sharper teeth and claws, no armor at all. The most recognizable factor, was the laser that could be spewed with pinpoint accuracy. Akaz's sharp and jagged teeth disturbed the young Sevawing, and his slim tongue, it made her feel uncomfortable. The flames were already catching onto the logs in front of him, as the trees began to burn. Suddenly, all of it, was quenched, satisfied, and it gone away with no trace. Every sound was then replaced by the singing of crickets, and the winds going against the foliage.
"Akaz, did I not mention you look like a Marauder?" Phaydera teased. "Your body is slim, very good for maneuvers, and plus, the up side is that you have armor, that makes you pretty much impervious to normal objects that can kill you."
Akaz then finally realized that Phaydera was on his back, toying around with his feelings, and gently stroking his back with her sharp claw. Akaz could feel the sharp edge, as it would hurt a lot, but at the same time, it would bring comfort somehow. "Next time, can you please not use my wing to hop on, next time use my tail?" Akaz asked Phaydera with a angry tone. At the same time however, multiple explosions set off one by one, as the noise of pure agony came all across the island. Lasers began shooting up through the canopy, and then it became a yelling nightmare, making both of them want to get out of here as soon as they could. "Over there! Wait..." Phaydera yelled as she realized that what she once saw before was no longer there. It was a indestructible mountain, one that was the most likely to be the best hiding spot, despite the very obvious hole with innocent animals in there.
"Where did the mountain go?... I swear, it was here a decade ago." Phaydera said with confusion, standing up on her two hind feet, scanning around to see if she could find any trace of it. "It could not just move by itself... Something must've moved it."
"Its gone. We do not know where it is." A female voice called out between two bushes next to a bunch of trees. "Of course, I know I might be listening to Ytrian's daughter right now, but its time to test that theory."
"Who are you!?" Akaz asked while staring at the bushes. "What did you want with us!?"
"Oh, it is you two." She said while appearing out of the bush with a bunch of blood covering her teeth. She snarled a bit, but then as she observed more, she became a bit more calm for them. "Akaz and Phaydera, something that I would not of expected on this island, Sevawing and Dragon together."
"Hey, aren't we similar in some ways?" Phaydera asked.
"That is true. Although even if you do help with this island's one major problem, Your mom is not going to be very fond of that, especially if the Sevaeric find you here." The Raptor replied in a calm tone. "I am very sure you both know me, as I saw both of you multiple times now?"
"Of course." Akaz acknowledged. "Its Feria. Or formally known as Ukona."
Feria holstered one of the stolen knifes that her corrosive spit could not go through. The strange part was that she would rather stand up like a human instead of an actual raptor, but nobody can blame her, since she is a hybrid herself. She raised her tail up, and slapped it onto the moist ground under the damp air. The impact of her tail splashed a puddle of water, causing it to go everywhere around her. She got a bit uncomfortable as it splattered across her smooth tan skin, and her claws were sinking into the squishy ground. "Ugh." She complained while walking away from the puddle. She came near Akaz, opening her hands wide and calling out to Phaydera, pleading to make her jump off of Akaz's rough back. She called constantly, while she was refusing, but then once she asked for the 5th time, she came down by jumping off and gliding down to her clawed hands. "Good girl."
Phaydera heard her say it, and it ticked her off so much, that she slapped Feria in the face. Feria then held her tighter with one arm, and forced her mouth shut. she held her with anger as Phaydera tried to squirm and struggle out of her grasp, but it was just too strong for her, and she could not murder her, or else her powers could get weakened to the point that she would not stand a fighting chance against the Sevaeric. In her mind, she would think of all the times Ytrian did this, and apparently it was too many, impossible to count how many times her own mother did this to her. Suddenly, Ytrian gripped tighter, as Phaydera wanted to scream in the war filled island. Then, Akaz stepped in and nicely asked Feria to let her go. Feria nodded, and released the grip of her mouth and center, as she dropped to the floor filled with a ton of water.
Suddenly, with a bang, a pillar of light that had rings expanding from the laser touched down from the sky, into the underwater island. So many gone through the beam, that it was a new shipment of returning inhabitants. A few seconds later, another set of screams and yells of agony filled the space. Chaos was already spreading, as fire began sparking up from the trees, but it was extinguished quickly. "What was that!?" Phaydera asked.
Before Feria could say anything about it, she was cut off by a sudden green light, that appeared right under each of their feet. The light felt like it was slowing them down, as restraints began rising out of them and bounding their feet with no hesitation. Akaz then knew what he had to do at that situation. Equinox once told him that if that ever happened, just use the desolation to negate the effect. So, he focused, and by imaging the restraints in his mind, the magic restrains began fading away, getting weaker and weaker until they were nonexistent. "Seriously, what in the actual hell is happening?" Phaydera asked urgently.
"I dont know, but whatever it is, it cannot be good." Feria stated. "Here, follow me, there has to be some kind of reason that it happened, something was not here, and just entered now. It is not a Sevaeric deployment, I know that, but anything else would be something like the wrong purpose."
"Alright then, if you say so Feria, Lets get to that crimson spire!" Akaz cheerfully said. "This should be very easy!" He said while galloping along the forest.
