The next morning Zoey and I set off. She said that the fastest way to get to wherever Rythian was meant crossing through a snow biome. It started off fine, but the deeper we got into the tundra the colder I got. I'm just going to share a little fact here. My body... changed depending on the season. For example, in the summer my hair is blonde, My eyes are lime green and my skin is a pale cream. In autumn, my hair becomes very light brown, my skin becomes more tan and my eyes become brown. In winter, my skin becomes a very light blue, my eyes turn blue and my hair turns white, and finally in spring my hair turns strawberry blonde, my eyes go grey and my skin becomes he same colour as it is in summer. So yeah, I change with the seasons. When I was walking through the snow biome it was autumn, but it was so cold that my body thought it was winter and I... well changed colour right there. And that is how cold it was.
We had to take shelter, because Zoey was freaking out over my colour change. I explained it to her, and she calmed down a little. She still insisted that I put on something to make me warmer, so I ended up borrowing a grey hoodie which she had brought as spare. It was a nice fit, and I reverted back to my autumn state. We began to walk again, and Zoey came across a wolf. She tamed it, and gave it the name Klutz, as he fell over a lot. By a lot I mean A LOT. The poor thing couldn't go 10 feet without flopping onto it's side or tripping over it's own paws. It got really sickening after a while. I was seriously thinking on killing the dog on the spot, because every time it tripped Zoey would stop and make sure it was okay, wasting more time, that Rythian could spend using the Creation Stone.
"Look Martie! There's the desert biome." Zoey exclaimed, pointing one finger straight ahead. I narrowed my eyes, and looked for a few seconds. Sure enough there was sand. I could see a few cacti aswell.
"Awesome" I smiled, breaking into a jog to get to the desert as soon as possible. Zoey followed. Luckily Klutz the wolf didn't trip up and withing seconds we were in the warmth of a desert biome.
"Woohoo!" I almost sung, spinning around in the sand. Zoey giggled as she saw me do this, and I immediately stopped.
"So, where next?" I asked her quickly. She grinned at me for a few more seconds, then she looked to her right.
"There should be a desert village somewhere to the right of us. Rythian said he would be staying there for a few days." The mushroom-mancer told me. I nodded, then decided to check the time. I looked up. The sun wasn't in sight. I had a closer look, and noticed it was almost setting, but it was behind a cloud.
"Wait... It's almost sunset. We better get to the village quickly then, shouldn't we?" I said to my temporary partner. She nodded.
"We can run there, if you're up for it. Are you fast?" She told me. Now, let me tell you something. I am extremely fast. You need to be if you're a theif, because if you get noticed you need to get the hell out of there. I didn't want to let her catch on to me being so fast though, so I had to pretend I was just... average.
"I'm all right. Don't really do that much running." I lied. She looked upset for a few seconds. "I can still do it though" I butted in. Her face lit up.
"Fine. Race you to the village." She challanged. There was no way I was letting this one go.
"It's on." I put out my hand for her to shake, but before I could even do that she was away running.
The race was very tiring. It started fine, but I got quite tired eventually. I sat down and rested, even though I was behind Zoey. She would need to rest too, I thought. Once I had my breath back I set off again, catching up to her, who was extremely tired out. Only then I noticed that the village was in sight. I looked at her, and bit my lip, before I ran so I was right behing her, then I scooped her up into my arms, then ran straight to the village.
The village was... well beautiful. I soon found out that it had a name, Apollix. It was named after the founder of the town. The houses were made of bright sandstone, which gleamed brightly. The water in the well looked as if it was made of crystals, and it tasted delicious. They had flower beds scattered around town, and there was many towns. The village was hardly a village, more a large town. It was about the size of six of the usual villages mushed together. It wasn't even that crowded, either.
First of all, we wanted to find a place to stay. The villagers offered us an empty house which they lent to people passing by, at a price of 10 iron per night. It was an easy price to pay, and we took the house. It was in perfect condition, and in a chest was a wide variety of foods. They said that we could eat all we wanted, so I tried to taste as much of the foods as I could. Zoey and I had seperate rooms. I went to my room quite early. I wanted to go over my plan to get the Creation stone, and work out how I would deal with Zoey. It was pretty easy to work something out, and in the end I just lay in bed, waiting for the time to be right.