Sharp As A Tiger, Quick as a Dragon [PERMANENTLY UNCOMPLETED]

Chapter 15: What does the fox say?

"But isn't that place like lost a long time ago?" I questioned Yedana about the Library of the Great Spirits.

"They used to be but I think I know exactly where it is." Yedana replied confidently.

"You know where it is buried in the treacherous Hado* Dessert?!" asked Tom questionably. "Its not in there, the library is deep inside the Mysterieux* Forest." answered Yedana.

"Great more digging through forests!" exclaimed Tom exasperatedly.

"Hmm... the Mysterieux Forest eh? How can u be so sure?" I asked Yedana completely tuning out Tom.

"Remember how I went to summer camp last summer?" asked Yedana.

"Yes." I answered.

"Yeah one of the 'classes' were Archeology," continued Yedana making finger quotation marks in the air when she said classes "and Rey taught us how archeologist use stuff they already know to find historical sites." I nodded.

"Well we already know that the Mysterieux Forest has every necessity that is need for the Great Spirits to live and plus the forest's denseness is a great cover for a huge library." Yedana pointed out.

*Hado means hard in Japanese.

*Mysterieux means mysterious in French.

"Who or what are the Great Spirits?" asked Tom.

"They are animal spirits that protect Life on Earth." I explained "There are eight of them: the owl, the macaw, the wolf, the fox, the red panda, the black bear, the leopard, and the white tiger." "Oh and these spirits gather information where they write it down and place it in a massive library. Right?" finished Tom. "Right." I confirmed. "So what are we waiting for! Lets find that spirit library!" said Tom. So I summoned Air Strike again and we hopped ontop of him. "Next stop, the Mysterieux Forest!" I told him.

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We flew and flew and flew. Until suddenly- "Look! That's the forest!" exclaimed Yedana pointing downward. I looked and saw a dense cover of tree leaves that looked like a huge green cotton candy. "We won't be able to see from up here, so why won't we walk from here on." suggested Tom. "Tom's right. We should walk." agreed Yedana. Too tired to argue I nodded my head and steered Air Strike to the forest ground. Man, I felt like I haven't slept in ages! As soon as my feet touched the ground I collapsed. Tom and Yedana caught me before I hit my head. "You all right, Cynthia?" asked Tom worridly. "Yeah." I said waving the question off "I'm just tired, that's all." "You better rest." Yedana told me "Remember the last time you didn't have enough sleep?" I did remember. I stayed up trying to finish a 10 page essay on the 'Wonders of Science' for science class. The science teacher just gave it to us that day and excpected us to finish it. The wose part is tat even if I went to bed, I would have had to wake up an hour later at 6 o'clock that morninig to catch the bus that came at 6:30. I ended up catching a fever because of the lack of sleep and trust me, my temperature was really high! My mom called the school and complained that they caused her healthy daughter to become sick and very fatigued. Trust me, once you got my mom mad, you rather wrestle with an angry gorrilla than take on the wrath of my mother's rage. I didn't want to get sick again so I was helped up by my friends and then returned Air Strike back to his card and then collapsed back onto the ground not even caring to get my sleeping bag from my bag. And then the last thing I remember before I fell asleep is someone putting a warm cozy blanket ontop of me.

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"Watch were your pouncing on you filthy dog!" I heard the furious voice of Tom. I woke up with a start.

"W-w-what's goin' on?" I asked sleepliy, while rubbing my eyes. I took one look at the scene in front of me and collapsed on my back laughing. On the floor was Tom holding a stick in front of a Eurasian wolf stalking towards him. While Yedana watched with a face as white as snow. I walked towards the wolf, my amulet radiated with a blue light as I walked towards it. Soon my mouth moved on its own.

"Prohibere lupus! Nos quod nulla mali!" I spoke to the wolf. Miraculously the wolf backed away.

"What did you say to it?" asked Yedana incredulously.

"I said stop wolf! We meant no harm! in Latin." I answered plainly.

"Tu a puero de Romae?" (Are you a child of Rome?) asked the wolf.

"Nulla, ut de Dite Cynthia." (No, I am Dite Cynthia.) I answered. To my surprise the wolf bowed its head.

"Servio tibi." (I am at your service.) replied the wolf with its head bowed.

"Gratias tibi."(Thank you.) I thanked. "Vos nos ut in bibliotheca autem magna spiritus?" (Can you lead us to the library of the great spirits?)

"Quidem!" (Of Course!) replied the wolf cheerfully "Ut Magna Lupus fuit valde te exspecto!"(The Great Wolf has been expecting you!) With that said the wolf began to walk.

"Follow that wolf!" I commanded.

"Are you kidding! That wolf tried to kill us!" cried Yedana.

"ME! He tried to kill me!" corrected Tom.

"Look. You want to find the library or not?" I asked,irriatingly running my fingers through my hair. Yedana and Tom reluctantly nodded.

"THEN FOLLOW THAT WOLF!" I commanded loudly. They scrambled to their feet and we ran after the Latin-speaking-wolf. See, if you want something done you have to ask for it forcefully. The big grayish wolf lead us to a gate in the midst of the forest. Behind the gates were a huge building that looked like a pastel version of the Taj Mahal. We opened the gates and entered. The wolf had already disappeared into the thick forest. We made our way to the front door and I held the hand-shaped door knocker and knocked three times.

"Who dares to enter the Gates of the Great Spirits!" answered A chorus of voices; high and low, thunderous and calm, cawing and hooting. A strange powerful gust of wind suddenly blew against us.

"It is I! Dite Cynthia and my companions, Yedana and Tom." I answered bravely.

"We been expecting you." replied the voices mysteriously. The wind suddenly died off and the door swung open. We took one look inside and entered.

*Author's Note: Sorry if my Latin is not correct. I don't speak Latin, I just used Google Translator to translate my English to Latin. So please forgive me you Latin Speakers out there if my Latin is incorrect. Thank you.