When the Land meets the Sky: A Tail of Two Mages

Chapter 3 - Nature's Fury

Oiamh's POV

During talks with Ryella Titania things went sideways forcing me to activate my INCOMPLETE MAGIC and also scaring Yukio as well as Esterra

"Who are you and what do you want with the Fae Ruler?!" I demanded to the stranger standing in front of us with twin daggers.

"Oh nothing with them. But I'm surprised YOU'RE alive little puppy. The great wolf warrior's very own daughter as well as the daughter of the Guardian of Nature" they just said my parents' titles. This can't be good.

Dad may have retired from the battlefield but he's still known as the great wolf warrior whereas mom is still the reigning nature guardian until I come of age to inherit it.

(This is gonna come back in time with the flashback arc planned for chapters 11-16 so yes it'll be six chapters which is an insane amount for me to do for the past but it'll be worth it)

"WHO ARE YOU?!" Yukio shouted

"My name....is irrelevant but know I am the one who lays waste and decay to the land" shit....

As a wolf of the land that's not good news to hear

"If you're after the forest wolf you'll have to go through me first! I may be a sky wolf but I'm still a wolf!" Zero responded

Why is he??........

"As well as the guardians of fire and ice" Esterra and Yukio added

"And myself and my faerie Kin" I was shocked. I'm only fifteen and have this many people willing to help me?

"No. It seems they're after me and me alone. Am I wrong?" I asked whilst holding my thorn whip

"That would be right and now you've left yourself wide open!" Then I saw a flash of black magic hit me in the chest. But after my world went pitch black.

~~~~~some time later~~~~~

"Imh.....aimh.....Oiamh..." I heard someone calling. I opened my eyes then realised it was my dad

"Dad?......what? How'd I get back here?" I asked as he helped me sit up then I recognised I was in my bedroom in our home. I rubbed my eye as it was somewhat itchy

"Whilst at the talks with the faeries someone entered the castle. Everyone was trying to defend you but the person managed to land a decaying attack on you. If not for that other wolf, we would have lost you" Dad explained

Zero saved me?

"Why would a sky wolf help a forest wolf like me? They betrayed us didn't they? During the great wolf treaty when negotiate failed and they fled to their sky home" I asked dad

"For now just focus on regaining your strength. You've been asleep for five days sweetheart" dad told me. FIVE DAYS?!

He also dodged the question again....him and mom always do this. You'd think after a while I would have learned to stop asking...except I can't help but wonder what really happened 12 years ago...

"I'm going to go visit Esterra and Yukio, I'm sure I gave them a fright five days ago" I told dad

"Alright sweetie. Take it easy though OK?" I nodded with a smile then left to go find my friends.

I was walking for a while through the forests until I reached the moon cliff. It's not shaped that way or anything but you can see the sunrise, moon rise and the stars clear as day from here.

"Hm? who are you?" I heard a voice ask then I saw a girl with sapphire blue hair and fins emerge from the water

"Aleiya! It's me Oiamh. Albeit 10 years older but it's me!" I replied gleefully then went down to hug her

"OIAMH!" I heard two voices shout with joy

"Esterra! Yukio!" I responded

"Thank the heavens you're alive. You scared us when you collapsed. If not for Zero you would have died from that attack" Yukio explained

One thing is playing on my mind....that boy Zero. His name is the same of a childhood friend of mine.

He had sapphire blue hair with light blue fade near the bottom like I have with the red in my brown hair...

Could he be the same Zero I knew as a pup?

"Something on your mind?" Someone asked. I looked and it was Queen Niamh?!

"Your Majesty!" I shouted in shock then curtsied

"I've told you before Oiamh no need for the formalities. You're like a niece to me sweetie" she told me

I forget that sometimes

"Just that Zero who was at the fae land, is there a chance he could be the same Zero from my childhood. The one I had mild feelings for until the great wolf flight when the sky wolves fled from the earth to the heavens above...." I explained

"Then why not talk to him?" Aleiya asked

"I can't. You know the forest wolves hate the sky wolves since they abandoned us" I replied

"But how do you know they abandoned the forest and returned to the sky maybe to protect their own territory...." Esterra said

I just stayed silent but then heard a voice

"Oiamh.....precious puppy...harken to my words" Then a mysterious figure appeared in front of me. Though given the reactions from my friends and the queen, we all saw the figure.

I tensed up though. Last time I saw a mysterious figure I was almost killed =.= can't really blame a wolf for being cautious can you?

"Easy sweet wolf. I mean you no harm. You may know me as Astraea (what? I liked the name.) or the supreme guardian of nature as I am called" I was in shock. This is one of my oldest ancestors. My family have always been the guardians of nature. Mom is the current and I'm next

"You're my ancestor....." I said

"Indeed. I saw what happened to you and to be honest pay no heed to the man of decay. He knows who you are and has been trying to eliminate our bloodline for centuries as we've guarded nature since the dawn of our kind. Forest AND Sky wolves. Which is why I've come here. You need to make peace with the wolves of the sky again. Otherwise you will not be granted other powers as a guardian Oiamh. You need them on your side and as allies." Then Astraea left.

"Great -.- I gotta make peace with those sky dogs. *sigh* guess it would be my job as the next guardian. And I think I know who to talk to." I said after she left then returned home to just rest and recover more of my strength.