Legend of the Pure Era

Chapter 4 - The Pack

Once I had affectively got all of my own Bond Pack together, we followed Lightning and their own to the coast of the isle. Thankfully no one had gone to rest yet, so I hadn't woken anyone. "Soooo... What are we up to?" Amber spoke in a hushed tone beside me, not one to have much patience with things. Lily seemed to have heard Amber and pulled them over to give the speech that Autumn had cut in on earlier that evening. Thankfully both had the same experience with endless energy, and could handle each other's excitement. Lightning was leading the group, as I walked somewhere within the middle of it. Slowly someone made their way to take Amber's place by my side. Speaking calmly and stoically as usual. "As I heard from those two's rambling, we're just to relax by the coast?" I looked up to Music with a quick nod, answering their question. "Yep, as you can tell it was Lily's idea. They just wanted to do something before the pack training tomorrow." Music hummed in response was the two packs fell into comfortable chatting.

Once we had made it to the coast, Lightning commented on the later hours that were now dotting the sky with the first stars. Mint quickly waved off the comment, teasing Lightning. "Oh don't get your tail in a Badgenine den. Our training is late in the hours tomorrow, we'll be fine." I heard a low huff from Lightning, making most of the group that heard it laugh. I slowly made my way close to Lightning as the group spread out to relax and catch up with the other pack members. "How you holding up?" My head snapped back to Lightning. I smiled to them and replied. "Yeah, 'holding up' fine." I smirked slightly, "How about you? Since you seem to have stolen Autumn's wording. And that was concerning when I said 'poof'." They looked out to the water for a moment, a silent laugh making their shoulders shake. "You got me there. It's just nice seeing everyone together, almost makes me wonder why we're still two separate Bond Packs." I nodded. Wondering what would happen to the isle if these packs became one. "Total chaos. That's why."

We both chuckled at that, bringing attention to ourselves from the joined pack members. "Wanna let us in on the joke Firera?" Pearl was by my right side in a heart-beat. Which almost gave me a heart-attack. Lightning countered Pearl's words as I calmed myself. "Just joking about how low to the ground your structure is, your group  has more winged Liora than the other, what's holding you back?" Pearl puffed up at the challenging tone and bolted back to the group. Where they must have brought it up cause they were now building a higher structure. I found myself giddy from the sight, lightly laughing as the packs built their structures. Since we hadn't gone to build with our pack members, we were chosen to judge the sand buildings. The packs were spilt and merged into little groups, so there was two groups of four. Music was just watching also. Keeping track of the time as more and more stars blinked into the night sky.

Everyone was laughing and joking together, poking fun and teasing. It was really fun to be with everyone like this. As it grew close to a new day, Music whistled to the groups, bringing their building to a stop. They stood by their structures and almost looked like we were back on our first training day as pups. Lightning spoke up, "Keep in mind this is all fun and games, we both watched as-" Cut off by Lily quickly "WATCHED EACHOTHER! Barely looked away from eachother!" Everyone laughed openly, even me and Lightning. We were used to this, the teasing. We were close friends, our Bond Packs knew that, even our Blood Packs did. That's why people were so confused on why our packs hadn't merged. Lightning was the 'leader' of theirs, but I'd say Music was the leader of ours. They got along well. But Music wasn't one to change something with the pack.

Music is, the last known 'chosen' of the Isle. They don't talk about it, so we don't bring it up. We don't know if they ever brought front an Inbondment. But the Isle seems close to picking a new entity from beyond the Isle. It's always 20 years between each chosen, and Music is nearing their 20th year of life. So it's got to be close now. "Are you alright Firera? Do you need another second?" I snapped out of my thoughts, looking to who spoke, it was Lightning. Thankfully they just thought I was thinking of which group won. I played along, whispering to them, "I'm not sure, know do you think?" They told me their thoughts and we both came to an answer quickly. Giving the first group, of Lily, Fantom, Mint, and Storm, the win. The winners just got some bragging rights for a bit. But it left everyone happy.

We all started going our separate ways once the fun was over. Lightning was watching the sky for a moment, sparking some concerns for me. They weren't someone to place a stare to something for too long. They picked that up from training, 'Never lose yourself to something that makes you think.' It's was a interesting saying, but Lightning held it close. I always thought it was so we wouldn't ever think of leaving the Isle. We could fly in and out, but it wasn't done often. There's some sort of magic dome-like thing over the Island. 'No-one can speak of an isle that's not seen.' Another thing said from training whenever someone asked about the dome. Lightning asked that question once, but was met with the same answer.

"You'd think your eyes were tied to the sky by magic at this point." I spoke their words back to them. Earning myself a startled chuckle. "Seems we both have a pull to something we can't explain." I nodded slowly at their words. We left the shore of the Isle soon after, walking together on the path back to our dens. A thought struck me quickly as we were walking, "Wait, why did Mint say training was late morning tomorrow? Didn't you want to meet early morning?" Lightning stood still for a moment, then quickly answered. "Oh, yeah. I wondered if we could train together before anyone else showed up. Just us." I smiled to Lightning softly, I knew they hated training. I myself wasn't a big fan. So training together without everyone watching your every move sounded like it wouldn't be so bad.

We parted ways slightly before each others' dens, as they weren't close enough to walk together past a certain point. I found myself feeling a little lighter, as the day started to bring itself to an end. I slowly made my way into the den, hopefully not waking anyone. I sighed as I made it to my sleeping chambers within the den. Pulling aside the light grassy cover that stopped others from being able to view in. "So, it's new day, now. Which means I have about, 6 sun phases before training with Lightning." Even though the sun would be barely over the horizon at that time. I got myself comfortable and readied myself for a much needed rest.