Sephira

Unexpected Rendezvous

A/N: Josh on the top

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"Wake up!" I heard a voice scream near me. A strong gust of wind was hitting my bare face and disrupting my short nap. "Come on!"

"Tone it down a little bit, Felicity. I'm trying to sleep here. I promise to practice my sword fighting when the sun reaches midday," I mumbled softly and snuggled closer to my warm pillow.

"I promise to tone it down when you open your eyes and start flying on your own, siren. It seems like we are going to have to fight if we wish to escape alive," the voice said. Fight? What is Felicity talking about? Wait a second. That voice is too deep to be a woman's.

As I slowly opened my eyes little by little, I managed to start assessing my surroundings, trying to find anything that might help me understand my situation. Several blurred images of vast green trees got my mind working and made me remember the previous events.

The beginning of the trial, my tactic of keeping to the ground which led to my meeting with Josh, and to put the cherry on top, how we both fled from an encounter. Such a disgraceful act, I thought sourly. How could I have let him take me away without a fight? My family's pride was at stake and I let him carry me safely in his arms without a single complaint.

"I said wake up, siren! I won't be able to fight if I keep you tucked in my arms. I'm not planning to lose my life because your lazy behind doesn't want to lose a wink of sleep," Josh hollered once again.

With a fast, elegant jolt I was flying amongst the sea of immense branches. "Sephira, you mustn't let your guard down in that arena. Everyone is an enemy in there and every slip up you do means an opening for someone, someone who isn't you. You know the rules inside of there... Everything goes. If someone goes for the kill, don't hesitate to do so too. No matter what, I want you to go safely home tonight. Preferably with those white wings still there." Felicity's voice rang in my head.

I knew what I had to do, the approach I had to take to escape from this predicament. My sisters wouldn't stop to chit chat and have some tea with me; they wanted blood, my blood, to be more exact.

They wanted to go home and celebrate how they easily coped with all the problems they faced, how they didn't dread their so-called 'fear'. "Look out!" Josh shouted in a quick manner. Without thinking it through, I opened my wings and stopped in the air. A dark-brown trunk was right in front of me, merely a yard away from my face. Josh came and stood by my side, knowing that it was because of his scream that I was still conscious. "We need to-"

"We finally caught up to you."

I turned to face the owner of the voice and came to face a group of five sirens, three which had brown wings and two that had an auburn color, one lighter than the other one. I knew that five against two was no fair battle but in here, everything is fair. Brown-winged sirens are amid the most common yet also the weakest ones, but auburn ones depended on how intense the tone of their wings was.

"My my, if it isn't Little Miss White. Don't think you remember me. I'm Kaolin and this is the group I have assembled," she told me while gesturing to the other five girls. "You should have just forfeited the trial, Sephira. That would have saved you from death at the very least."

"You have no right to tell her what to do," Josh hissed at her. All of my sisters looked over at the halfling by my side, appearing to have just looked at him. The expression of the five changed from a victorious grin to a scared look that only a man could put in their faces.

"You- You stupid siren! How could you put all of us in danger just so you could win this stupid trial! A man infiltrating our village will only bring demise to the whole clan. I knew you were not intelligent but this is pure idiocy. The elders shall have those white wings of yours before the sun sets in the ocean," Kaolin sneered at me.