Numbered and Factions

Chapter 11

Lavender finds herself alone in her dorm. It's pretty late at night but she had been treating people for a majority of the night. She prunes a couple feathers and sets them in a box of other shedded feathers she'd collected. The idea was to make them into something but she really doesn't know yet.

The dorm is nicely organized and spread out, a small shelf of medical textbooks sits near her bed, a small nightstand sits next to her bed with a glass, some pencils, and a hairbrush, a desk sits near the door with a laptop and notebooks for her classes, some photos of her and her family here and before sit on her lightly colored dresser.

Eyes on her arms and wings, she's quiet. The clicking of claws taps by outside, just the night watch. It's quiet tonight, soothing compared to the hustle and bustle of the past few days. So many sparring matches ended with injuries. Tiring yet always entertaining. A broken arm here, a dislocation there, snapped backwards legs, sprained ankles, a burning gash in the back. Always fun for the young medic.

There's a tap at the window, she sits up and gets back.

Click.... Click...

CRASH

A scream rings out through the women's hall.

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I find myself bolting out of my dorm, it's not normal to hear a scream this late at night. Especially from Lavender's direction. I slam my body into a shadow to clear the door and sink under it.

"LAV!"

There's a manned wolf and a husky girl there. They turn and look at me, the husky is holding Lavender by the arm. I growl and set my arms ablaze with a rich shadow.

"DROP HER." I yell. The wolf snarls and steps towards me.

I've heard of this wolf, Cerbi brought him up in passing when we were talking once. Terran, fitting his name he has control over the earth. Terran bares his teeth and growls. The husky shakes Lavender in her grasp, Lav whines and looks at me. I can hear someone coming from behind.

Suddenly the ground under me shifts and throws me forwards towards the wolf and husky. I catch myself and go to grab the wolf by the neck. I miss and he strikes me to the floor by my chest. The husky hops through the window with Lav in tow and runs. I try to stand as my body shakes, my torso feels hard. I look at my hands as rich shadows drip onto them. Was I stabbed? Impaled? Not the time to worry, I look at the wolf.

Terran snarls with a smile, my chest feels harder. I choke. Goddammit he impaled me. I throw my hands to the floor as it coats in the same shadow my body was spilling. Terran backs up trying to avoid it, I smile,

"Wel..come. To the Shadow Plain."

The ground basically opens under the wolf as he's dropped in along with myself. The scape is vast, winding, and pitch black. Spirits of shadow run around with their laughing, some run up to me and start working the spear of rock out of my chest. Terran curls back and snarls, he morphs the rock from my chest into a legion of sharp spears and arrowheads. The spirits grab him and pin him to himself in a knot. I open an exit a good bit away from here, I don't know where it is but it's a field. The spirits gang up and throw the wolf down out of the plain.

I got myself out of the plane at Lav's dorm. Cerbi, Piper, and Harmoninea are there staring at me like I was the one who broke in.

"Pixy, where is Lavender." Harmoninea breaks the silence.

"Well, while I was occupied fighting off a earth firing wolf some husky looking woman grabbed her and ran off"

"SHE WHAT." Cerbi growls,

"Listen! I was trying to get to her but that wolf IMPALED me! I Could barely move!"

Cerbi growls, "And did you think to call for any sort of help at all?!"

"I thought her screaming would be enough! I'm sorry"

"Sorry won't be enough if she ends up DEAD!"

Piper grabs Cerbi's shoulder in a quick moment,

"Calm the hell down. Both of you. Nothing good is going to come out of ya fighting like rabid animals"

"Piper's right, you said it was a earth using wolf and a husky woman correct?" Harmoninea asks, her voice smooth and clam.

"Yeah."

"Then we know where to look. Pixy, you stay here and recover. I can see your chest still bleeding out shadows. I'll stay with you since Lav is gone."

I nod. Cerbi huffs and steps out of the room, hopefully he calms down some.

"I'll go and get Spark, Storm, and Kit. They'll be our best options with Pixy down. And Pixy, you take care of yourself and don't do anything stupid." Piper smiles and pats me on the head, her touch is warm and loving.