To The Mountain

Chapter 5

I took both of them by the arm and popped back to the small hut I created. 

"This needs some more magic," Aella told me. 

River nodded his head in agreement. "Sure," I told them. "I'm going back to the library, you guys can stay and renovate the shack." They both nodded their heads,

 "Wait but what if you get attacked again?" Aella worriedly told me. 

"I have no plan but if I can find another Giant with the fire element we can create a 4-way mirror, so each of us can check up on the other.

 If the magic is advanced enough it can be a teleportation device too." I told them. They sighed and slowly nodded their heads they knew they couldn't change my mind. 

"Great," I said and popped out.

There was a strange rustling sound. This library is so odd, and how did all these giants get here? The rustling was louder and I followed it. A bright orange-haired thing was there. 

I tried to quietly move forward to trap it but I tripped over a fallen book. The was a loud thud of me and a few books falling to the ground. The orange-haired creature ran. 

I quickly got up and tried to follow it, but I tripped again. I sighed. My hands were hurting and my braid was gone. It was just hair everywhere, which was going to make things hard if there was the wind. 

I then just remembered I had magic and made a small vine grow around my orangeish red hair and it was a ponytail, that was still really loose. I got up and quietly looked around to see if I could find the other orange-haired creature. 

After searching for a while I couldn't find it. I went back to looking into books about the Giant's role in the war. I found a book about Earth giants and I didn't look like how an Earth giant would look. I didn't have green or brown hair, I didn't have soft hands nor did I have flowers and vines on me or attached to me. The only common thing I had was just the green eyes. My hair was orange and red, my hands were full of blisters, and I didn't have any feelings of attachment to plants. Very odd. 

I didn't feel an attachment to anything. I didn't fit any of the stereotypes of all the different giants.

I looked around some more and found a section with family trees. It was just titled family trees. I opened it and on the first page was mine. 

The page was blank at first but soon words and pictures and branches started forming. My mother was an Earth giant, but my father was a. There was a rustling sound that broke my thought chain, and I ran after the sound. 

I found the creature again. The same orange ponytails sticking out. It seemed small, but not a fairy, because it didn't have wings. 

I slowly crept up behind and tried as quietly as possible to create vines to capture it. The vines slowly crept behind it like a snake slithering and wrapped around its waist. There was a struggle but the vines eventually won. 

I brought the creature toward me to inspect it. It looked like a fire giant but smaller. Orange and red hair, orange eyes, felt warm, and her outfit looked as if it was on fire. The girl on fire was how I was going to remember her. Most fire giants had coal but she had fire, which meant she was more powerful than the giants who had coal just brushed on their cheeks. 

The vines trailed behind me with the girl on fire in their clutch.

I took her by the hand and popped back the bungalow I called home and I almost fainted from shock. The small bungalow now looked like a mansion, it completely changed. 

There was an indoor waterfall and behind it was a room, most likely for River, and then outside there was a waterfall. There were clouds all around it seemed like they were beds or pillows. The shack was definitely renovated. 

There was an air filter, running water, a shower, a few new rooms made from clouds, water, stars, mud, and grass. There was an aquarium and a storm outside. Aella told me the storm was for protection in case any foreign people try and come to our house.

I showed Aella the girl on fire and asked her if she was a giant or some other creature. She told me that the girl on fire was just a toddler maybe the age of 1-2. 

We all decided to call her the girl on fire since her hair and dress seemed like it was on fire. The girl seemed angry and she had a good reason to be. I basically kidnapped her and took her somewhere away from her home. I would be furious too. 

I slowly released her from the vines and she charged at me bitting me and  burning me with her touch. I was tired but I still tried to fight her with vines and dirt, but she burnt them. She bit me jumped on me, kicked me, growled at me, and burnt me. I was badly injured. One eye of mine was blind, my arm was twisted, my legs were broken, I had bite marks and burns all over my body, and I was bleeding everywhere. 

I woke up to Aella and River taking care of me. The tiny girl on fire was trapped between clouds and water would pour on her if she tried getting out and putting out any fire she created.

 It was a bit blurry but I could see fine but my head was aching badly, and I couldn't move anything. I felt as if I was sleeping on a cloud, which I was. 

Everything started to pain badly. I felt as if I was dying.

The house seemed as if it was slowly crumbling. I couldn't hear anything and my eyes started to close again.

THE END