(ROUGH DRAFT) Endless Sky ~Elemental Chaos~

Chapter Nine

Avaro had managed to find his celestial friend and together, all three of them, managed to find an empty spot to talk. A place where its unlikely anyone would overhear or interrupt.
Lucerne had just finished eating by the time Avaro had found him, lucky for him. Apparently the celestial rushed through his food after being interrupted by Blaze.
"I told her I had to do something and to give Spike some company," Lucerne had said. "She was really pouty when I didn't specify why, but I am sure she'll forgive me soon enough."
Now they were all seating in a circular formation, ready for Cinder's explanation.
"You do remember what happened, right?" Avaro asked, wanting to make sure he wasn't going to get a foggy story.
"I do, I even remember you showing up," Cinder replied. "I don't forget things easily, even if in a state of panic,"
Avaro glanced at his friend who nodded.
"Alright, so. You recall what I told you?"
"Yes, sorry I couldn't be clearer," the elemental apologized.
"No worries, now's your chance to be clearer, alright?" Avaro said, motioning to Lucerne who nodded again.
Cinder looked back and forth between the two. As if debating whenever or not this was an elaborate prank.
"Alright, I'm sure... I can trust you two. Even if I just met you two," he looked at Avaro, "You're not like the others."
"We'll listen to whatever you have to say," Lucerne spoke up, giving a kind smile in which Cinder returned briefly.
"Alright... I can see glimpses of the future," he said, getting right to the point.
Avaro stared at him, honestly not too surprised. It's the only thing that would've made sense, if it wasn't for the fact he wasn't a future seeing profit.
"Now now now hear me out!" Cinder quickly continued before either of the two could speak. "My dad told me to never tell anyone, but it would really help you two to understand if you did!"
"How so?" Avaro asked, skeptical, but still open to listen.
"My mother was a prophet, but hybrids are not allowed here so she and my dad had to think up some plan to cover things up, you see?" The elemental explained, starting to get more fidgety.
"Hybrids are not allowed? Why?" Lucerne questioned, curious on the detail that neither of the two knew about. Though it did explain why there was no mixed breeds in the village.
"Zeru and his dad was afraid that cross breeding will eventually mix all our DNA to the point we lose all our magic! So to prevent that from happening, there a 'no tolerance' rule on that matter," Cinder pouted, looking as if he thought of himself as a mistake.
"If you think about it, he is a mistake," Avaro realized, feeling bad for the poor cat.
"I guess that makes sense, but what if instead it strengthens the magic? And you get elementals with future seeing abilities?" Lucerne offered, obviously noticing the expression on his face.
Cinder shook his head. "It's better not to risk it. I already chose not to have any kits, even if they would be more fire than prophet. I can't bare to take the chance or burdening them with what I have," Cinder hunched his shoulders, staring at the ground.
Avaro frowned. This cat had his entire life flipped upside down, no fault of his. He could almost relate up to an extent. Unlike his entire species, Avaro stuck out like a sore thumb. Traits that no other dragon had. Weak throat that can hardly withstand fire, sensitive wings, pale white scales despite having two fully colored parents. Anyone would think his parents had their egg swapped or adopted one, if it wasn't for the fact no one else had any similarities to him. The only defining features Avaro had, was his horns from his mother, and facial makings from his father. Even his short tempered personality was different from his father's cool chill type and his mother's caring quiet type.
He still missed them though.
"It's alright... Continue please," Lucerne said, clearly sorry for the hybrid, but also not wanting to get too sidetracked.
"Right, so. After I was born and my father had a friend willing to claim to be my mother, everything was fine," Cinder meowed. "But it didn't take long for short sudden painful visions to occur, maybe it was cause of my lack of an eye. Visions for prophets aren't supposed to be painful,"
"Well, what did you see?" The celestial quickly asked, keen for an answer.
"They were always blurry and fragmented at first, it wasn't until about a year ago when one particular vision kept coming back, clearer each time..."
Avaro and Lucerne waited for him to continue, their breaths caught in their throat. If what he was saying was true, all of it, then the entire village could be in danger. And no one but these three would listen.
"Everything collapsing... Crushing inward as if we were in a glass box that kept shrinking and shrinking, but what was in it didn't. Compacting everything and everyone together and crushing us all," Cinder shivered and whimpered as he relived his vision in his head.
The two stared at each other, eyebrows raised. Both having the same thought.
"The wall"
"When... Is this supposed to happen?" Avaro asked as he turned back to the elemental.
"I don't know... Today? A few days from now? In an hour? I know it's soon, some cats I saw there still looked young as they are now," he answered before shaking his head. "Those kits were still kits..."
"Kits?"
"The pink ones, they're still kits in my vision..."
Avaro stiffened, the small pink kittens crawling around in his arms appeared in his head. They weren't his children, but that doesn't mean he'd let them die. Or any child in fact.
"But what if all of this is some hoax? And that Cinder is just looking for attention or taking his dreams way too seriously?" He told himself, frowning.
Cinder seemed to have read Avaro's expression and started to panic.
"You have to believe me! Look at my back! My fave! The specks are like stars!" He meowed quickly.
"Or flecks of ashes," the dragon quietly added and got an elbow in his arm from Lucerne.
"Where is your mother? Can we see her?" The celestial said quickly, not wanting Cinder to distrust them.
"She's... Dead, a few weeks after I was born," he replied in a quiet voice, his ears flattening.
"Oh... I'm sorry..." Lucerne apologized, feeling guilty.
"It's alright, i've already moved on," Cinder reassured, his ears perking back up once more. "But I rememeber my dad's description of her. She was a purplish pink cat with flecks of light pink on her face and back, like my black flecks... I think she had dark purple paws too..." He looked down at his black paws, a wistful look in his eyes. Perhaps pondering on how his life would've been if his mother were still alive. While she wouldn't be able to be a proper mother figure, surly no one would stop her visiting a kit?
Avaro didn't see Zeru yelling at Spike or Mystic for visiting Patch and Rose often.
"You don't know what happened back then. They could've acted too close and gotten Zeru's eyes on them before Cinder was born," he realized, knowing full well that Stripe was only ever close to Fuchsia.
Cinder shook his head, snatching Avaro's attention back. "My mother doesn't matter right now, what matters is getting the others to understand," he said. "Without... Getting myself in trouble of course... Or my dad," Cinder added with a hint of fear in his voice.
"What would happen if you do get in trouble?" Avaro questioned, curious.
"I don't know. Exiled? Locked away? I don't think anyone's ever done what my parents did, or got caught that is," the elemental replied before continuing. "Elementals can cross breed with other elementals just fine. The kits would always be one or the other, never mixed,"
"So a fire elemental can have kits with an electric elemental?" Lucerne exclaimed, his eyes lighting up with interest on learning more.
"Only electric and fire element kits would be produced. We've never had a mixed elemental. No grass with fins or heat radiating off a water element, nothing," Cinder meowed, looking a bit irritated that they have gon off topic again.
Lucerne was quick to catch this.
"Ah, I see. Well, you don't have to say anything. Avaro and I will figure something out, don't worry," he said reassuringly.
Cinder stared at them for a long moment. "You sure? You're not going to turn me in?" He asked.
"No, of course not. Trust us," the celestial replied with a smile, nudging Avaro to say something.
"Oh, uh, yeah. If we have to, we'll think of some wild story on how we got this knowledge. Not mention you at all," he said before joining in on his friend's smile.
Cinder slowly dipped his head. "Thank you. I'll go back to my dad now, it's been a bit too long," he said before getting up and padding off.
"You believe everything he said, correct?" Lucerne asked once the yellow pelt was out of view.
"Yeah, why? Do you not believe him?" Avaro responded with a frown.
"Oh I do, just making sure you do too," his friend said as he looked up at the sky through the trees.
"I was there when he got the vision, it at least made more sense than him running into a tree," Avaro huffed, crossing his arms.
"I know, I know. Since we both agree this is all true, what do we do?" Lucerne questioned, eyes still to the skies.
Avaro hovered on that question.
What do they do. All they knew was that something was going to crush everyone. But no clues on when, why, or how.
"The wall," Avaro remembered once more. Even though he wasn't able to find an end, he wouldn't be surprised if it was a giant dome or cube. Ready to close in on whats inside. Crush them.
"But how do we stop it? Or warn everyone about it?"
Evacuating a couple hundred cats into the mansion sounded like a bad idea. Not only would it be crowded, but Roxxan would also be beyond livid.
"She's probably already livid. The way I left like that, dragging Lucerne along with me," Avaro looked at his friend, wondering why he follows him so closely. "Do I scare him into following me? Am I even a good friend?"
Lucerne looked down and at Avaro. "Got anything?" He asked. The dragon blinked and quickly shook his head.
"Well I do,"
"You do?!"
His friend nodded with a small smile. "Lets go back to that wall, we'll draw a thick line in the dirt at the base. Then come back later and see if the wall moved closer," he explained, looking proud at his idea.
Avaro nodded, grinning. "That doesn't sound all that bad. It'll help us see if the wall can actually move,"
"Mmhm, and I can get a better look at it," Lucerne added before getting up. "We got time to do it now if you're up for it,"
"If it means flying, i'm always up for it," Avaro snorted, his friend scoffing and turning away to hide his smile.

It didn't take long for the two to take to the skies and head off. Their dragon wings casting large shadows on the trees below. Lucerne had advised a slow pace, afraid of smashing into a wall and potentially getting badly injured. Fair enough, Avaro didn't exactly want another bruise on his head. It was still throbbing dully with pain, the last thing he wanted was to double it.
Lucerne was slightly ahead, willing to take the hit himself since he was uninjured. Avaro lagged behind, disliking his inability to dive around and go as fast as he would like. Though it didn't take long for Lucerne to suddenly come to a jarring halt and yelp.
"You alright?" Avaro called out as his friend flapped backwards and quickly balanced himself.
"Yeah I'm fine!" Lucerne responded, reaching out with a talon and placing it onto the invisible wall.
"So this is it?"
"Seems like it,"
"Wow... This is odd..."
"Nah, a giant invisible wall in the middle of a forest is not odd at all!" Avaro exclaimed, trying to lighten up the mood a bit. It didn't really work.
Lucerne placed his other talon on the wall and started feeling around, as if trying to find a hidden switch, crack, or hole. To Avaro he just looked like a mime.
"I'll see down below," he announced, the celestial just making a noise to show he heard him. With that said, Avaro slowly made his way back down to earth. Shrinking down into his human form so he can slip through the trees and reach the dirt. Everything looked normal, nothing uprooted or pushed. In fact, the wall seemed to go through the plants. Trees on his side had branches that clearly reached over to the other side, but wasn't cut off.
That was unexplainable.
Avaro headed over to the wall, keeping a hand out so he can find it before it found him. Following it to the ground, he found a small brach that was halfway on the other side and grabbed it.
Snap.
Where the invisible wall was, the branch snapped, cleanly. Almost as if it was cut, the end perfectly flat.
"Okay, that is certainly odd," Avaro thought with a frown, looking up at the large blue dragon in the sky.
"Hey Lucerne!" He called out, only that he never managed to get the words out.
Before he was able to open his mouth, a hole opened up underneath him. Swallowing him.