Thursday, February 24, 2005

chapter 8

I have found a stream on my first night and have decided to follow it, hoping it will lead me to the Blunder Mountains or whatever they are called. I jump up in a tree and look around; there, in the distance is a cave. It is almost noon; I shall sleep there for the night. I walk in the cave and look around. This cave is big enough to house a dragon, and there are ledges going down the side walls almost like shelves. I sense a presence and to my surprise there is a person with strangely pointed ears lying on a particularly large shelf.

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Faiasteiera. Aew neieda aot aog Faiasteiera! With a flap of the mighty dragon’s wings, she doubles her speed, exactly what the elf on her back commanded in Elven. All of the sudden the bright blue scales of the one named Destina become a blur from her speed and the elf on her back looks like a cloud speeding with her. The elf has long flowing black hair, pale skin, and hazel green eyes; a darker green then most elves.
Asi thyisa faiasta eienougha Tyrea?
Yeiesa. It was fast enough. Tyrea lay back on Destina’s hide and started to doze off when she heard a startling noise, it was thunder.
We have to get under cover she says in her mind in Elven to Destina.
I’m on it. They head down to a cliff and right before they get to the cave shock of large hazel green eyes flash into the young elves head, Destina, for those were her eyes, had been hit by a lightning bolt. Tyrea immediately transferred them both to the cave with her magic. It was almost too much for her to handle. Had it been a foot farther and she would have died, but she got them there, and passed out.

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Wake up. Please wake up. Tyrea! The elf shot up and held her ears; the mental yell had woken her up, and almost made her deaf.
Well. You seem to be doing much better.
I am, thank you, but we have to keep moving, or we won’t make it in time. The elf, wearing dragon hide pants to protect her legs from Destina’s scales and a light knit long sleeve shirt, tried to jump the ten feet needed to get to Destina’s back; something she could normally do; made it five feet and fell to the ground.
I can’t get up, were going to have to wait. The dragon puffed a bit of smoke in acknowledgment and went for some water from a stream near the cave.
Tonight we’re still going to have to train you know, so you better get better soon.
I know, don’t worry, I will be better. Tyrea went and rested on a big flat stone slab attached to the cave wall.

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“I can’t wait for Destina and Tyrea to get here, because when they do I will have a dragon of my own!”
“Don’t get too ahead of yourself, the dragon still has to CHOOSE you for you to be bonded with it. Being bonded with a dragon, hhuuhh. It makes your magic three times stronger you know.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever. I’ll get to fly everywhere!”
“Wrong, if the dragon likes to fly everywhere you can fly everywhere. Remember, dragons are just as intelligent as we are. Being bonded with a dragon isn’t as pet and master, it is as friend and friend.”
Gallo was discussing the hatching and matching as it had come to be called with his pupil, Labara, one of the fourteen children eligible to be chosen by a dragon. “You have much to learn Labara, and if a new born chooses you, it will not be me to teach you. There are only seven eggs, and only three of those are suspected to be girls, and considering that most of the time a newborn chooses a friend of its own sex, you only have three chances, but that will most likely be enough chances to get a new born. You are very lucky. Back when I was an eligible there were fourteen of us, and two eggs.”
“All right Master Gallo, I’ll keep that in mind, but wouldn’t it be cool to be bonded with a dragon! If any of the new born dragons are half as pretty as Destina I would be matched with a VERY beautiful dragon.”
“That you would, especially if it has Destina’s wonderfully mysterious eyes!”
“I know, isn’t it cool how one second they will be green and the next there a greenish brown!”
“Yes, that would. Well, good day, your lesson is over. You can go home now.”

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Suddenly I realize that I will not be able to find blood out here, but for some reason I refuse to bite this human, so I decide to wake her up.
“Excuse me, what are you doing here in the middle of no where?” She opens up her eyes, sees what I am and jumps up like a board.
“Geieta atou!”
“What language is that?”
An English speaker, great.” she mumbles in her language.
“Get out! You will not be feasting here today, and I won’t let you stay here for the day light either!”
“Relax, I have no intensions of killing you, I was just curious. Do you know your way around here?”
“Step twenty feet away from me, and then I will answer.” I do as she demands. “All right, this place is called Dirketia. To the south of here is Kelton, to the east- Jorana and the west, Wiinda, the village of the wind. For you see, the magical Bluiundeiera Mountains are guarded by that village, and the mountains give off magic wind that flows through the village, protecting it.”
I smile “Why would you tell someone you barely know, and have obviously already judged badly all of this?”
“I don’t know. I just have a feeling I judged you wrong considering you just stepped exactly as far away as I asked.”
“Well, thank you, this second judgment wasn’t wrong. My name is Brea, and, as you have already figured out, I am a vampire.”
“Yes, well my name is Tyrea, and I am an elf; the language I was speaking earlier was elven.”
I laugh “That’s interesting, considering elves don’t exist.”
“We obviously do exist, I will prove it.” She lifts her sleeve and there on her arm is a silver armlet with a dragon, facing the same direction of my ring engraved in the white gold band. “This is something that the elves who are bonded to dragons receive.”
“Then where is your dragon?”
“Here.” Destina. A dragon lands in the cave and shows her teeth when she sees me. Stop! I have found that she is good.
“How did you get her to stop?”
“We are bonded; I can speak to her in my mind.”
“That’s interesting. All right. I believe you; I just haven’t met an elf before.”
“Yes, well we are a very secretive race, I have only told you because, somehow, I know we were supposed to meet. It must be Destiny.”
“Yeah, well, I know what you mean, but I don’t really believe in the hole destiny thing, and I get enough of that at home. I have a ring like your band actually.” I show her my ring, and she gasps and then a look of understanding comes over her face.
“You, you are an elf friend, and the strongest that will ever live of your race.”
“Um, I don’t know about being an elf friend or the STRONGEST vampire to ever live, but I do know I am the strongest vampire whom will ever touch this ring.”
“I don’t know who told you THAT, but I speak the truth. There is a legend that my people, and a special other few have always known. It says that the strongest of every race will one day meet, and they will form a team against the most evil of each race. Though it is said that they will have to defeat their species on their own. Oh, there will also be one strongest half bread. I feel that now I can show you.” She lifted her arm once again, and there, on the armlet are three diamonds on each side of a diamond, and they are glowing.
“But, yours are not glowing? Was I mistaken?”
“No.” I take off the other ring with the vine on it, and my ring adds to the ominous glow of Tyrea’s armlet.
“Ah, you own a mystic vine ring.”
“Yeah, I own whatever you just called it, but there is something bothering me, a witch I know named Fayla has obviously lied to me.”
“Oh, Fayla. She was the one who discovered me also. She did not lie to you, she told you what you needed to hear, and I quote her own words ‘If I had told you the truth would you have accepted the truth?’ She is very wise, and it is her job to discover us and…” Tyrea’s voice becomes so soft I can not hear her (even with my super hearing) and she starts to fall. I transform beside her, catch her, and set her down softly.
“Why is she so weak right now?”
In a very interesting voice the dragon answers “So you do know that we can talk.”
“Of course. But what is wrong with her?”
“She had a near experience, now she must rest, but she has to get better soon, or my eggs will hatch before we get to the village so that my hatchlings and the little children may be bonded just like Tyrea and I. Oh, where are my manners, my name is Destina.”
“Is there anything I can do?”
“Actually, if you could find a way to help me get her on my back, we might actually be able to get to the village on time, and since you have the ring, you should come with us anyway.”
“All right, I will just teleport her up there and”
“No, that is how she got hurt, she was almost killed teleporting us to far. Don’t you know the rules of magic?”
“Of course I do, anything you do with magic, you have to have enough energy to do with brute force. If you don’t have enough, it doesn’t matter; you will dye trying because you can’t stop it once you have tried to do it.”
“Exactly, but if you know that, then you must know that it is too far.”
“Not for me, how far did she teleport you anyway?”
“Fifty feet.”
“And she is the strongest elf?”
“No, she is GOING to be the strongest elf. She is still young. Besides, she had to
teleport us both.”
“Oh, well, here we go.” All of the sudden Tyrea is lying on Destina’s back.
“Where to?”

i think this chapter relly introduces a new twist... if u don't get it now, u will.... by the end of the book, just remember this chapter.
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