The Dream Sparrow

The Masquerading Princess

Faye sat down and took the kind of long shuddering breaths that one only takes when they have been running for a long distance. And a long distance she ran. Away from the castle, the kingdom, away from her father, from knowing to much. Going back would be a death sentence. And her father would gladly do the honors. ( Remember that next time you say, "My parents are literally going to KILL ME!") Either way. People were going to be after her. Castle Guards more likely than not.

She had So many questions teasing at her brain. what was this "Gray Wolf Society"? and who was "Muara Nox"? And what was with all of those lists, with names and even whole villages crossed out?  It sounded so menacing. All " I'm going to take over the world and enslave everybody."

Faye had always known that her father was a COMPLETE nut, but she never thought that it was SO dangerous!

She took a deep breath and started to carefully walk farther into the forest. She was lucky to have gotten this far without getting tangled into one of the forest's many famous traps. Come to think of it, there were no signs of traps even being set here. Odd. Keeping a map at her side, one of her fathers most prized possessions, she walked on.

A map with one strange word Carefully inked over its brown, aged top.

"Construer"

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" So what are you looking for, Ash?" Ixia tried asking once again.

"Nothing."  Ash pretended that he hadn't just spent the whole day carefully searching every bit of the forest for clues leading to the location of the dream sparrow.

"Yeah Ash, What are you looking for?" Artichoke echoed.

"I said NOTHING"

"Whatever, its not like I don't already know." Ixia smiled to herself anticipating what would happen next.

How could it be possible!? An inferior species reading his thoughts? Preposterous in every sense! "How did you know I was looking for the dream sparrow?!" He sputtered.

"I didn't"

"OHHHHHHHHHHH BURN! Wait, whats the dream sparrow?"

Ash just Realized what had happened. He had given away the mission given to him by the dragon clan ,Ferinno.

Obtain the dream sparrow, and make a wish that would benefit the greater good of the clan. and then maybe, just MAYBE, he would be allowed back.

Ixia looked down at Artichoke"The dream sparrow is a story, nothing more. I think Ash is leading us up on a wild goose chase."

"Or maybe, a wild DRAGON chase! " Artichoke, said enthusiastically,trying to be funny.

"By the way, you're the first dragon i've ever met?did you know that? I think that's kind of cool! Of course I had HEARD about dragons, And all that, but actually meeting one...."

"Its not just a story, its real. And I can prove it to you! Besides, I have some questions for you!"

Ixia turned to look at Ash unenthusiastically, with her arms crossed." We'll discuss it after we set up camp.This looks like a good spot." They were standing in the middle of a large clearing, with a stream running right down the center. A good source of water and food.

" Oh BOY! what can I help with!?" I'm pretty sure that you could guess that it wasn't Ash who said that.

Partially because he hadn't listened to a word that Ixia said."How come you know every trap here, but the dragons don't?! It doesn't seem possible!"

Ixia  stared to put together some sticks to make decent looking fire pit . "Oh yeah, and why is that?" She didn't even turn around.

"Well, Dragons are a superior species. WE SHOULD KNOW THESE THINGS! Not you!"

That did it. Ixia walked over so she was inches away from Ash's red scaly face "Look, one more remark like that, and you can be on your own, get stuck in some other net, AND STARVE. Now make your self useful, and help with the fire pit."

" Now go make yourself useful and blah blah blah! Ooh, I'm soooo great! In fact I might even be equal to...."

"I HEARD THAT!"

"You Know, I could kill you with one single...." he froze and started looking into forest. The rest of our team soon followed to see what was going on.

They all soon saw a tall cloaked figure appear out of the darkness of the forest. The figure removed the hood that was hiding their face to reveal a girl holding a map in one hand. A girl with shoulder length hair as wild and red as fire, and confused eyes the color of storm clouds.