The Red Nobody

~ Eight ~

ROBYNS P.O.V

She leaves, just like that. She said she was going for a walk, but normally people only go for half an hour at the most, but it has been at least two hours now since she left. Why is it so hard for her to just answer a simple little question! I scream inside my head, slamming my fist onto the floor. I inhale deep breathes, and try to relax.

Nothing

I still feel the same, just as angry, just as upset. I understand that I hurt her but I had no idea it would upset her that much. I had no clue a stupid little question like that would make her so mad. It makes no sense to me why, but at the same time, I know what it was like to feel excluded, to be hurt by others, just for looking strange. I know how I could of handled simple little questions like that. Why doesn't she?

I pick up the book and took it back over to the book shelf, I gently place it back in its little spot. I start to go through all the other books she has. "The History of Angels", "All You Need To Know About Dragons", "Art and Artefacts", nothing I'm particularly interested in. 'There it is', I notice one book I've been using to find, "Druids, all you need to know."

I pull it off the shelf to look at the cover, just a black and purple haze of smoke, and some dust. I brush it off to reveal nothing, just the same haze as before, the title is only written on the spine of the book. On the back was a language I hardly understand, it reads, 'ruco liw quencese, weû-weû, utx arã phà li, iytion gho fęok uno uti utis, noquÿ cie dręq mij høx li re.' Reading the passage sends shivers down my spine, what ever it means, I want to read this book, so read it I shall.

RAYLAS P.O.V

I have no idea how long I've been walking, it feels like hours, but I know it can not of been that long. I inspect the field, I don't recognise anything around me, except I've never seen so many spruce trees in one location. I continue to search the area.

Nothing

I'm completely lost, I have absolutely no idea of my own location. Water splashes onto my forehead, the lake must be near by. I feel a strong tug on my wings and tilt my head to see what caused the sudden feeling in my right wing. 'Caught on a branch, really?' This situation genuinely annoys me.

This has happened before, but not for many years, not since I was young. I retract my wings, until they completely disappear, the branch flings back into place and I move away from the tree and over to a small rocky bank near the river. I sit myself down on a large rock, covered in moss, my wings spread out from my upper back and shake them off.

I seem to be able to completely retract my wings, like cat claws. Its something I've always been able to do, my sister never could, neither could my mother or father. I look down at myself through the water, I haven't seen myself in years, I look so grown, not anything as I remembered myself. Last time I saw myself, was at the most fifteen years ago. I remember my long white hair, my bruise under my eye, the blood of my sister stained on my cheek. I leaned myself back and tried so hard not to remember that day, her blood still haunts me, and those blades, the darkness, the... the.. Blacze!

The leader of the Druids, a powerful foe. One who took my sister, my family and the home I loved, and he will never be forgiven for what he did to me,

'CLANG'

A large silver blade meets the rock I'm sitting on. I jump off and head for the water. I summon up as much electrical power as possible and hold it in my hands, I turn to face my opponent and watch them head straight towards me. I put my hands right near the water, if I touch it, we both die.

"Make one more move, and you die!" I say with force in my voice, scaring them back away from the water.

"Ha! What a funny joke!"

"This isn't a joke!" I say lowering my hand closer to the water. They step back and collapse onto the rocky floor below them, and I see, under the cloak, the black and purple haze...

He's back, and he wants my blood.

ROBYNS P.O.V

The one book I've always been so interested in is now in my very hands, I can read this book. I turn the first page, to the opening, there reads a warning, To whom may read this book, this is no work of fiction, beware, consequences will occur. I reread it over and over, and until finally, it hit me in the face, I have read this somewhere before. On the back of the book! The funny saying in the strange language, it was saying that. But something was different about it, its like it was reversed, it said beware right at the beginning, while in the english version says other wise.

The excitement is so real! I have figured out what the book read, but at the same time, it scares me, and thats just what makes me want tor read it so much more.

I flip over to the next page, there are names, lots of name. They take up the first two pages after the warning. The names are so exotic, like one person, called Kral Ventrek. Another, Chiyoda Tyrreny, and one after that catches my eye, Shiro Exventress. It sounds so similar to Raylas father, his name was Shiro, was it not?. I search for her mothers name, and I see it, a few names down from Shiro, it read Nyx Exventress.

But it's the name in between that hooks onto my eye. It is my fathers name.