Spirit Animals:The Return of Dakota, Saphira, and Isamu

Chapter One: Dakota

Sasha was a shepherd's daughter. She has warm golden-brown skin, but her blue and purple veins is shown through her fingers to elbow. She has long and wavy golden-blonde thick hair and her blue eyes are deep and blue as the ocean with hints of stars. She's all limbs, sharp elbows, long-limbed legs, and high cheekbones. She usually like to wear warm hunting leathers with a warm amber cloak, a amber bandana with gold and silver spots and stripes that has foxes wrapped around her hair, a longsword, a bow, and arrows. She lives in Trunswick, her father is Euran and her mother is Amayan. Their names are Charles and Anaya. She's their only daughter, with cousins whose names are Tarak, Victoria, Elsa, Anna, John, Justin, and Carlos to help them with

her herding, generations of shepherds and sometimes she goes off the shepherd's trail.
Right now she was watching a sheep herd grazing on the high pasture. Then she has to herd the herd back to the low pasture (which is wear the sheep barn house is at, while her home is a two miles walk). She narrowed her eyes, as she looked up at the sky a flock of blackbirds flew towards the east. Something's wrong. Really wrong. Her parents had been speaking in hushed whispers for the last few days when they thought she was out of earshot. With fear and worry expressions written on their faces. But she was getting worried. But with any luck, she might can have a adventure. She loves feeling the sun bathing her back,water drops spattering all over her, having the wind through her golden-blonde hair, almost dried mud cover her shoes, and be her own boss in the forest. Sometimes she feels like a maned fox in the forest.
But now she has a Bonding Ceremony today, she was thirteen years old today. Since they have no Nectar, she just need to wait until the sky gets dark and for a flash of light for any spirit animal.
She watched as the sky turned uneasy purple-blue. In All Hollos Eve, it usually makes Sasha feel uneasy, nervous, and more jumpy than usual.
"Sasha!" called a new voice, Sasha jumped two or three feet in the air with surprised fear.
The voice belongs to Tarak, the dark brown haired girl with dark brown eyes came running forward,where Sasha is standing at.
"What is this time?" said Sasha, while she tried to calm her nerves down, and she also rolled her eyes. "Lost your herd again?"
"No," said Tarak. "It's time for your Bonding Ceremony."
Sasha breathed in a breath. It's time for a new change for her.
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"Daughter of Anaya, step forward." called the Earl of Trunswick.
(Which was actually Dawson, his father had ran away and took every coin, every jewel, and so on. So the townsfolk had voted that Dawson should be Earl of Trunswick, and he did. Despite he is around eleven years old or older.) Sasha is dressed in amber dress, given by her best friend and Dawnson's older sister, Daphne.
Sasha walked towards the Earl, and joined him on the stage. When she looked down she saw that all the townsfolk looked weary and dull. All the Marked townsfolk had dormant their spirit animals. While she felt a flare of defensive love, courage, and intelligence for her hometown.
She nodded at the Earl. She is ready.
Dawnson's eyes softened with understanding.
Hidden animals began to call out. Spirit animals started twisting out of passive state and started calling out. Hidden birds shrilled. Wildcats yeowled. A bear roared. A moose trumpeted. A camel snorted and stomped.
The ground began to tremble. The sky darkened,as a swift cloud had overtaking the sun. A brilliant flash pierced the gloom like lightning, but much nearer than any lightning Sasha had experienced,nearer even than the time she saw a tree trunk at the crest of a hill she was climbing on.
Onlookers were too scared to say anything. Dazzled by the flash, Sasha blinked repeatedly to restore her vision. Hot tingles spread from her chest along her limbs. Despite the oddness of the moment, she felt irrationally joyful.
And then she saw the mane fox.
Much like any sheepherder in the region, Sasha had experience with foxes and wolves. Many stole sheep under her care.
Now the largest mane wolf she had ever seen is standing right in front of her. It was a remarkable creature-long-limbed,well fed, with the most beautiful and sleek amber-colored coat, with golden hairs on her back, silver hairs around her white breast and white bibbed-tail, and thick dark brown neck-ruff that Sasha could have ever imagined. She took in sleek, dark brown paws,keen claws, savage teeth, and bright amber eyes. The animal is around the same size of a jacal or a wild dog from Nilo.
Sasha gasped the when she recognized of the maned wolf.
It was Dakota the Maned Wolf, Daughter of Briggan the Wolf.
The maned wolf stared up at her with such confidence. Though large and fearsome, the animal seemed in very much control of itself. Sasha was in awe that the predator such as this would show her so much respect. Those amber eyes hinted at a greater understanding than any animal should possess. The mane fox was waiting for something. The maned wolf stopped in front of her.
Sasha held out a trembling hand and the mane wolf's warm pink tongue caressed her palm. The touch was electric, and the tingling in Sasha's chest immediately ceased.
For an instant, Sasha felt courage, clarity, cunningness, and alertness like she never known. She smelled the mane wolf with enhanced senses, and somehow knew it was a female, and that it considered her an equal.
Then the strange moment of expand perception passed.
Not just any spirit animal. A maned wolf. Nobody summoned hybrids animals! Dakota the Maned Wolf had been one of the Legendary Beasts, and spirit animals were never the same species. Everyone knew that. It didn't happen.
"Good people of Trunswick! News of this day will echo across all of Erdas! In our hour of need, Dakota has returned!" said Dawson in a powerful voice.
When everyone and their spirit animals cheered, Sasha caught sight of a silver-chained necklace around her neck, in the middle is a black wolf-fox howling to the blue sky filled with stars.