Soaring (Soaring Saga #1)

☆Chapter Twenty-One~A Family Is A Family, I Guess☆

"There! Exit's right there!" Audra exclaimed. We sprinted for the door, and she sliced off the lock with her dagger. We burst through the doors, and as soon as possible took off so they couldn't follow our footsteps.

"Whew!" Raina breathed, "That was not how I thought we were gonna start our search!"

"Search for what?" Audra asked.

"Well, we found part of what we were looking for," River explained, "We found the Silver Island, but this is not where we were when we landed. We were actually searching for--"

"Wait, hold up," Ari told him, looking around, "Guys, this... he's right. This isn't the Nexussili Mountains."

"Then where the heck are we?" Raina asked.

"No idea, but I see Argentum up there," Ari said, pointing to the island in the distance. 

"Oh no..." Audra whimpered, "This is the southeast corner of the island! The total opposite side of the Mountains!"

"Wait, what?!" I exclaimed, trying as hard as I could to not crack but probably was, "It took us a week to get across the island, and now we're instantly dragged back even farther than where we started! I went all that way to find my father and our friend only to find them not there and evil! I can't freaking believe it! We fought creatures, navigated some creepy maze city, chased griffins, kept and revealed secrets, nearly got eaten by bronze birds, nearly went permanently depressed from dryads, and for nothing!" 

     I turned to the closest person to me, which happened to be Ari, and cried. Angry, frustrated, crazied-out kind of crying. I didn't care it was probably very awkward, I didn't. I can let my anger out if I need.

"It's okay..." Ari said, trying to calm me and succeeding, "We can do this... just... just gotta... find a faster way..."

     After a moment, I stopped. 

"What kind of faster way?" I asked, wiping my red eyes, "Flying is the fastest we've got!"

"No idea..." he admitted.

"Okay, I need to know, what's your guys' story?" Raina cut in.

"Oh!" Neil explained, "Basically..." he explained what we've been through, how we'd gotten there, what our plan was. He told them about the dream, the prophecy, all the details of our journey across the island as we flew over the ocean again to the main island.

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"Whoooooaaaaa," Raina gasped, "Now this is what we thought it'd be like!" 

     We'd just arrived at Terra, and the twins eyes were wide and shining. Is that what we'd looked like when we got here? Heh.

"Okay, um, what do we do now? How are we supposed to find transportation?" I asked Neil. He made his thinking face as he answered,

"We could go to the Infocentres?"

"And where would those be?"

"One's right here, isn't it?" Raina called from down the road, pointing to a small, square building with a blue I in a white circle hanging above the door, "It looks like the ones from Canada!"

"Wait, you're Canadian?" I was really tempted to make a joke about it, but I didn't want them to think Argentum was racist, "Then how'd you...?"

"Yeah," River explained, "We were born in the province British Columbia, but we'd found out from our mother two years ago that our dad was Avian, and that explained why we had wings and no one else, including her, did. She said she'd show us where he was from, and find a place for us to live there. We found our grandparents on Aeramen, and lived with them for the past two years. We missed our mother, but remembered what she'd said about why we couldn't live in Vancouver anymore and how she could never live in Aeramen. But the thing was, she never said why. I assumed it was because people would try to experiment on us, or whatever. But when I thought about it--"