Monday, May 28, 2007

(Title: A Legacy to Remember) Chapter 5- History
the Next Day Celie woke late, due to all the gossiping, as Yen called it, all through last night. the elders had been bustling around lately, more than usual. when Celie had asked why all she had got was a few sharp snaps from a rather sharp, elder.
Celie sat on a rough cedar branch and dangled her feet above the ground. she was waiting for archery-session to begin. a few sharp chirps echoed through the forest. her angled ears caught the sound even b4 her eyes saw the sea-blue colored bird dart into the air b4 her. she turned her head up to face the bird. she smiled as she watched it nestle into the leafy branch beside her, turning its head toward her as if to say well, arent u going? with a sigh, she slipped off the branch and raced into the forest, and out into a brightly lit meadow. the rest of her group was already there, some turning their heads to stare at her as she emerged from the tall trees. "ummm..." she started, uncertaintly. "Celie," eris-Aramil asked sternly "where is your bow?" seeing Celie stare, he muttered,"never mind, never mind, take the new one Kane made yesterday." Celie walked stiffly over and picked up an ebony black bow, tipped with murky silver at the tips. as everybody took their places, eris-Aramil stood by the side, to supervise. "Ready..." Celie nocked an arrow and strung it, as did the others. ". . .Fire!" eris-Aramil nearly bellowed, pausing to scowl at those fumbling with their bowstrings. Celie lifted her bow, so that it was on the same level with her eye, pulled back with all her strength ...and let it fly. her arrow flew swift and straight, her heart leaped for joy, but quickly sank when she saw a stray arrow knock hers off course. "What?!!" Celie stared, and blinked. she strung another arrow, gave it her all and watched it fly. only to have another arrow shoot it down, as it neared her target. she turned her head, only a bit, but it was enough to see an elvon girl, cock her head and smirk. "Elix! what was that for?" Celie cried, outraged. "oh? it was yours? i'm so sorry" Elix called back, mockingly, "i was just shooting down all the arrows that might reach the tree-targets," Celie grunted, and turned back to her own bow, too bad, the field's too full of flying arrows for eris-Aramil to see that Elix she thought his sight is not what it used to be Celie slid her eyes over the field to watch one of her friends, Kay, shoot an arrow. Celie watched the arrow near its target, and then, another arrow seemed to be flying toward a collision course with Kay's arrow. she stared, Elix! she jumped up to tell Kay, but stopped herself. with a sly smirk, she slid an arrow onto her bowstring and aimed it toward the colliding arrow, and released. her arrow skimmed through the air, narrowly missing someone else's arrow. she watched it smack into Elix's. both of their arrows tumbled back to earth. Celie heard Elix swear and saw her release another arrow toward Kay's second one. once again Celie shot and once again Elix cursed. Celie grinned at Elix when she scowled at her, having finally found out that Celie was the one shooting down her arrows. now, this is a lot more fun than simply aimming at targets
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Celie sat down under an astounding oak, its branches reaching far out, entwining themselves with the branches of an oak nearby so that it seemed that its branches never ended. she watched as the others took their places on the soft grass, as eris-Sandor crouched down at his spot in front of his group of students. but just as he opened his mouth to begin teaching a tall elder elvon stepped out from behind the trees. "Sandor, may i have a word with u?" "why of course."he replied. the pupils watched their teacher stand to talk with the council member. they were whispering and Celie could only catch the word 'warriors', 'fight' and 'hurry'. when they were done the elder elvon seemingly slipped back into the trees again, as eris-Sandor took his place in front of his class. "I am afraid we will have to skip our lesson on dwarfs and their clans." several of the elvons in Celie's group whooped, but were quickly silenced by eris-Sandor's stern glare. "we are going to learn about werewolves and the GrassRetches instead." his forehead furrowed with worry, "i am afraid... u will need to know this for the upcoming months." the elvons murmured among themselves, Kay whispered to Celie "u dont think there really will be a fight do u?" her brows raised in question. "i'm not ...exactly sure," Celie's eyes held a far away look as she thought about the scar on her leg that had only healed to a simple closure, its markings remained. eris-Sandor cleared his throat as he began, "Long ago when our clan was new to this land, the wolves roamed. their sizes varrying from as large as an adult elvon to as small as an infant. but dangerous they all were. some could speak our language and some could shapeshift, and diguise themselves as one of us. but those were rare. they fought among each other, pack versus pack but once in a thousand years they massed together and raged a war to us, the elvons. their reasons were unclear when we asked them why, their only response was to bite and slash, forcing us to fight back. these wars raged for numerous years. but along these years several of us seemed to 'disappear' into the night. these nights were when usually some of us were attacked in our sleep. this attack killed hundreds, accumulating over the years. which is why we warriors," he coughed and avoided Elix's laughing eyes, "sleep in the trees and the common folk sleep in huts, surrounded by our sleeping trees, deep in the forest. so that IF indeed, a wolf wanders into our mist, hoping to slaughter a villager or two, us warriors may crawl silently from our perches in the trees to kill the creeping wolf. but..." Kay interrupted," why do u speak of wolves in such great hatred, if u yourself dont know their reason to kill?" eris-Sandor's eyes widened, "Because they have killed many of us! and now plaese let me continue," ignoring Kay's attempt to speak,"but it seemed that whenever a single one of us were not resting high in a tree, and instead were resting alone on the forest floor, we would be attacked in our sleep. it was a strange case indeed," he continued" if we were out, alone on the floor, asleep, or taking a stroll, we would be attacked by a wolf. these attacks were on the nights of the Full Moon. but even stranger was that the wolves seemed to know all our exits, entrances and the quietest way to slip in and out unnoticed." Celie shuddered. my attack was also on the night of the full moon. Yen raised her hand, "wasnt Yura's attack on the night of the full moon?" "u mean ERIS-Yura dont u? yes, why it was. she seemed to have disappeared of her own accord afterwards."he replied. "how do u know they didnt Drag her off?"Yen questioned. "Footprints! Footprints!" he grunted "there were no pawprints." "there Were no FOOTprints either," Yen challenged,"and u said some of those wolves seemed to have become very clever in sneaking in and out of the forest." everyone in the group looked at eris-Sandor. he sighed"we all have to assume she did; there is no need to create false troubles. besides, who are u to think u could challenge me?" Yen flicked her head in the air and slanted an eyebrow,"i was on the patrol that discovered that." an uncomfortable silence filled the air as eris-Sandor didnt reply. Kay mumbled softly "ummm... why dont u contine the lesson now, eris-Sandor?" her voice echoed through the clearing and left it silent. then eris-Sandor coughed "why of course Kay. u see the council eventually came to the conclusion that their was a spy among us, a rare shapeshifter- wolf. then came the time when for 2 years everyone was watched closely by the warriors. but even that didnot satisfy the council members, for they thought 'what if a warrior themself was a spy, but what if one of the villagers were a spy?' but deep inside all their thoughts was also 'what if one of Us, council members are a spy as well?' and so u see for the next several years, the clan fell into dispute, each elvon for himself. Trust had vansihed from the clan and so had order. elvons turned on each other. this lasted for 4 years, a sad and dangerous time. but one night a wolf pack attacked an unprotected group of villagers and all at once worry for each other and hatred for the wolves returned. and that inspired order back into our minds, as well as peace and trust. once again was our forest was well protected and once again we withstand the wolves." Sara had fallen asleep and was snoring quietly next to Celie. Celie nudged her and Sara snapped back awake. staring at eris-Sandor's moving mouth, as her eyelids slowly descended and she dropped back to sleep, murmuring "...its still not over ...yet....?" as she slowly started snoring again, Celie sighed and scrolled her eyes in response to Kay's questioning glance. ". . .and so u see the legend of the werewolf started in our clan because of some idiot who tried to howl like a wolf." Yen raised her hand, eris-Sandor ignored it so Yen started talking anyway, "so u dont believe in werewolves? how do u know if that 'idiot' was actually a werewolf morphing back into the form of an elvon?" "they arent real, nor are they true," he stated blandly. Yen didnt reply, instead she stared into the distance. a crunching of gravel and loud talking was heard, coming closer and closer at each breath. eris-Sandor grunted "sounds like my next class." he strectched and yawned. Celie's tree-group got up and stretched. the next class approached. oh look, its the Pine-group Celie grunted. the other group approached, eyeing them in something near to digust. Celie sneered back. "well, well, well. if it isnt the Elm-group." an elvon Celie identified as Baree spoke. "oh, that must have been the oldest line u have ever said," Elix replied mockingly, "dont bother acting like you're better than us, if u want a fight, we'll bring it." she crossed her arms. even though Elix was mean to her, Celie loved her in a fight. "oh yeah," an elvon named Lyda snarled. "hush, hush. Elm, i believe it is your afternoon break and i believe u should go now and not waste it."eris-Sandor said calmly "Pine please take your seats." as the Elm-group walked away, Lyda said in a stage whisper "good thing that group left, they were awfully rude." Elix called back "look who's talking. and who would Want to stay with Your group!" Kay laughed out loud.
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