The Moonlings: The Ancient Fortress

Chapter 2

She looked around and quickly found the source of the smoke. The school was burning. Actually, the whole village was burning. She dove down and grabbed Maple. With Willa's help, she lifted her into the air. Aqua, Frosta, and Ember all lifted Aqua's friend, Titania, into the air. All around, flightless moonlings were being lifted into the air. She flew to the emergency clearing. She crashed to the ground on top of Willa and Maple. "Ow, ow, ow, ow." said Maple. "I think you just broke every bone in my body." The moonlings gathered in the clearing in shock. After a quick headcount, the moonling leader, Shimmerstone, came up. "Everybody please stay calm," she announced. "My sister, Willa, knows a place where we can stay temporarily. I know you won't like it very much, but we are going to live with humans." A gasp echoed through the crowd. "I know this is very startling, but this human tribe is in tune with magic and Willa says that they already have a place for us to stay. She says that they have promised that, for the duration of our stay, they will not harm us." Right as she finished, someone yelled, "Humans are promise breakers!" Another one yelled "Yeah! No humans!" The crowd started rioting. "Calm down!" Shimmerstone called with no avail. Misty decided to step in. "CALM DOWN!!!!!" she roared, using the wind to carry her voice. "Thank you, whoever that was," said Shimmerstone, looking distressed. "I know this will be hard, but to make this easier, I have some humans from the tribe here to help us move!" Nobody knew what to think. They had finally accepted that they were leaving their home to live with humans. When they were trying to salvage their stuff from the wreckage, they stayed as far away as possible. One younger-looking one came over to Misty and tried to talk. Humans and moonling languages originated from the same place, so they were similar. It was still hard to understand human. Misty got that her name was Fern, but not much else.