To The Mountain

Chapter 3

I woke up gasping for air, 

"Another nightmare"

 I sighed. 

"Well better get to work,"

 I said to nobody. I planned to heal other giants and mermaids and figure out how this war started. I wanted to win the war no matter what, even if it was for a slightly bad cause.

 We needed more soldiers on the battlefield. I practiced controlling vines, throwing them, allowing them to heal giants, protect me, and make deadly attacks. I was an Earth giant, the most common kind I thought bitterly.

 Air giants were the rarest. I wondered if there was a way to learn all. A new goal, find a library nearby and get find some books on giant magic. I wasn't feeling that bad, not like last time where I was about to collapse from exhaustion. 

I took a little break to go check on mother. I kneeled down and carefully took her hand and felt her pulse. It was stronger, but how did this happen? It was a question that was nagging me at the back of my mind. My thoughts stopped when I felt my mother's pulse slowly lessen, I knew she would die soon since even before this all happened her health was bad. 

I did learn healing magic but I was worn out and I wouldn't be able to practice more magic for a long time. My mother was important but training for the war was a lot more important. I had to let my mother die, even though she was the only family I had left and it was just a few days after my brother died.

I buried my mother in a grave near our old village since I could now move to different places and appear and leave. 

I left our old village to a library nearby which luckily a few water giants had cast a spell that would repel fire away. 

I walked in and felt a crisp wave of air hit me. I immediately knew where to go since my parents use to take me here all the time. I went to the history section since schools were closed and I never remembered learning about what started this war. 

I skimmed through books and books and books but couldn't find anything. Was there really no book written about this ongoing war? That was really odd. Something was very odd about this library itself.

There was a rustling sound in the next aisle I went to go check it out. There was a bit of silver hair. Not like an older person's hair but it seemed naturally silver.

 An air giant I thought. I went in and was about to reach them but a huge blast of air hit me. I felt really dizzy but didn't fall. 

"You're pretty strong for an Earth giant." 

I heard a voice say.

 I groaned and opened my eyes. My head was hurting badly now. 

I saw two sparkling blue eyes. Definitely an air giant I thought to myself. 

I got up and felt very dizzy. I was about to fall down but that air giant helped stabilize me. I finally got to look at her and she had silver hair, blue eyes, and was wearing a shirt and pants. 

It looked like she had lots of cuts, on her cheeks, arms, and it seemed like her upper eye was somehow removed.

" Hi, my name is Aella. You're an earth giant right?" she whispered.

 I asked why she was whispering. 

"There is someone else in this library that I was trying to find. They are after me." Aella told me.

 "Those cuts look awful, can I try and heal them?" I asked her. She glared at me "These cuts have been cursed to continue to bleed for eternity, the fairies cast it on me while I was fleeing my village."

 "Wow, I also was fleeing my village," I told her. She then looked closely I could smell her breath and hugged me. It was an odd feeling nobody in my family ever hugged me, we weren't a very touchy family. 

"Wow your eyes are super green," she told me.

 "Um thanks, I guess." it was a very odd compliment and I was still confused on why she inspected me so closely. 

"Your hands look like you've had a tan."

 "I was outside for a very long time it would have taken up to much magic to stop my skin from becoming a bit dark," I told her.

 She seemed satisfied with my answer. I asked why she was here and she was also looking for a book on how the war started. These were way too many coincidences, but she seemed nice and was a giant.

 She told me that she and her friend were escaping the fairies and he was hit by a curse.  

"I'm trying to find him and reverse the curse," she told me. 

I told her I could grab him with my vines and she agreed. I closed my eyes and felt vines entering from the door. 

"I need you to tell me how he looks so I can direct the vines to find that person" 

"He's shorter than me, blue eyes, his hair is different shades of blue that's extremely straight with a crown kinda like a flower crown, and is wearing a white shirt and blue pants." I felt the tingle of magic and the vines grabbed onto it. "Get ready to cast the spell!" I yelled out as he was coming closer and closer.