Run

Kifaku

*Kristopher's POV*

~flashback~

"Mommy!" I screeched running inside of the small house I called home.

"Krisy!" She beamed and picked me up, spinning in a circle before she pulled me into a hug and set me down. "How was my little man's day?" She asked me.

"I saw a butterfly today!" I yelled, screech ting out my still short arms too show her how large it was.

"Really? You know, Kris, grandma always said that those are a sign that something good is coming." Mom smiles at me.

"Really?!" I look up at her with a face full of innocent wonder. "What else do she say?"

Mom took us over to the small wooden table we have had for as long as I can remember, and sat us down-with me sitting across from her on our only chair as she say on the ground. "Well," she began, "Gandma did say a lot of stuff like that but I think thT a story she told me would be more interesting.

"Okay!" I replied. I always loved the stories mom told and I never meet Grandma so I was looking forward to that story.

My mom started. "Grandma always said that when there was trouble when she was a kid the first ones people went for to get help were her parents...

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{the story from grandma's POV}

"Sotria! Where is Yakoue!" A man burst through the animal fur flap in front of the door panicked.

"I don't know. He went out fishing on the ice a few days ago." She replied to the man. "What's wrong."

"The Kifuku is attacking again." He rushed out.

My mom leapt into action, running across the single room hut, to the opposite wall. She put on all sorts of armors and gathers several glowing jewels from a sack that was on the wall as well. She picked up the family sword after that and walked to the man again. "Gather the rest of the defense team. We'll have to make due without Yakoue."

"Okay." The man said and dashed out of the room.

My mom walked over to me and put her hand on my shoulder. "Rani, I need you to go find Pantu and tell him to evacuate the village. You think you can handle it?" She had this leadership aura I had seen each time the village was attacked about her. I knew I had to do what she asked of me without failure.

"Yes." I replied to my mom.

"Go! Hurry, you must tell them as fast as you can Rani!" She said.

I ran out of the hut and turned left, running as fast as I could. I could hear my mom run out right after me, her armor and weapons kinking as she moved with surprising celerity.

I ran along the short,winding, dirt road heading to the hit where I knew she would be and burst through the fur flap on their hut into their room. "Pantu!" I cried out. "Where are you?"

"Rani, I'm right here what do you need?" He asked walking up to me.

"My mom told me to tell you to evacuate the village again." I said I between pants.

"Why? What has happened this time?" He wondered.

"Kifaku." That was all I needed to say. He knew the drill and so did I. He ran out side to spread the word. He was the fastest of all of us. As soon as he was gone I ran back outside and headed for my hut.

I could already see smoke from where my mom and the other villagers were fighting Kifaku, the great dragon.

He has been attacking out village for three months straight now. He never did this before. Never had he done anything to harm us, in fact the elders say it was quite the opposite of that. They say that Kifaku helped the village prosper.

But, of course, that changed when he attacked, forcing us to flee our old village. We have fled each time he attacks. We know how powerful Kifaku is from when he fought by our side in the war that no one wants to tell me about.

I reached the hut and once inside I began to pack all our belongings using my gift to help. I have the gift of Water. I froze a thin layer of water over everything that was light and small enough and used the layer to pick up the things around me, moving them to the center of the hut. I drew a circle around all of the items and run back outside to find Pantu. Luckily he was already running back here. He had helped everyone else out already.

"Pantu!" I called. He was only about 200 feet away but closed it faster than the blink of an eye.

"You ready Rani?" he asked me.

"Yup." I smiled. Despite the danger and what was happening I was still proud of the job I did with the items this time.

"Okay." He said. We walked inside and placed an amulet onto the floor like he always did. He sat just behind the amulet and closed his eyes, his hands made into loose fists upside down and touching in his lap. The items began to glow and then were swallowed up into the amulet.

You see, Pantu is a gifted person. He has the ability to run faster than the wind and to teleport objects anywhere he wants. He figured out this trick awhile ago. He had one of the elders bless that pendant so that he could teleport items into it. It's a really amazing trick.

"Rani, you ready to go now?" he smiled at me.

"Yeah." I said as we walked out of the once fur covered opening into our hut.

But we froze. We froze because before us was Kifaku. I had never seen him before. He was beautiful. He was long and slender. His metallic scaled covered skin shone in afternoon rays with a brilliance greater than any gold and greater even than the sun. He had a mane of golden hair around his head and a trail all the way down his long, long back to the tip of his tail. He has talons like daggers of sunlight and his wings were folded up, yet I somehow knew if they were open I would equally awestruck.

"Rani," his deep voice resonated working me to my very core when his lips parted to say my name, "you must come with me Rani. It is your Destiny. I have not been attacking your village, only seeking to gain entry. My attempts were misinterpreted by the foolish elders who's very rules are endangering them and myself." His voice was deep and filled with a tone of age and knowledge.

"Get behind me Rani!" Pantu said. I obliged.

"Don't get in my way you foolish human. You tamper with a being beyond your years. I had lived a thousand years before you were born. Now again, I ask, stand down. I do not wish to harm you." Kifaku spoke with such a powerful force I found myself waking towards him, my gut telling me that he wasn't lying.

"Rani!" Pantu called after me. "Don't-"

"I have to. I can sense he is telling the truth." I cut him off.

"But..." he trailed off, "what will your mother say since I have failed her?"

"She will say nothing. She has already agreed to allow this. I have communed with her and the other defenders already." Kifaku spoke.

"What about that smoke?" Pantu asked. "Wasn't that you?"

"No, my abilities do not lay within the realm of fire. They are int he realm of air and water. That smoke was from one of the presumptuous attacks of one of the other defenders." Kifaku explained.

"Fine, if that is what Rani's mother wishes... I will have to obey it." Pantu said deflated.

"Good." Kifaku spoke again. "Quickly Rani, get on my back. We have no time to dawdle idly here."

I mounted the dragon's back and he spread his wings. They looked like sheets of gold, much like I imagined. They flapped once propelling us skyward and sending a small wave of dust outward. The ring of dust quickly disappeared with the rest of village that I used to call home with each flap of Kifaku's wings.

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[A/N

I know this seems like a filler but it's REALLY important to the story. It sets up the whole plot and everything! Be patient please!

Also sorry I didn't update anything else. I have strep throat and I my eyes hurt REALLY BADLY whether they were closed or opened so I didn't update disowned. Sorry about that.