The Gentle Moth and Vicious Beast

Chapter 15: Comfortable Warmth

It was cold. Wet. Like death. She drifted in the water, feeling hopeless as the river dragged her body in the cocoon of the shivering water. Her injuries to her fragile body was too much to even move. She felt death was gonna take her and she can't come back as the river would just move her broken pieces everywhere, making it impossible to reform. Her last breath escaped her body as her vision was turned to darkness. Unknown to her, a shape was nearby, heard her calls for help, went into the cold water. He began to swim to her fragile body, gently grabbing her and made his way up to the surface for air. He took a deep breath and crawled out of the body of water with Luna in his hands.

"It's too cold leave her here. I have to take her with me..."

The shape carried the unconscious moth to his home. Away from the cold weather.
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A bright light shined in the black void. It glow brightly. It quickly flash brightly as the vision of Luna came back as she woke up. She coughed out the water in her lungs. She breathed the air into her lungs as she looked around her surroundings. It's morning, the snow storm has passed, she was at the opening of a cave that was surrounded by a large lake with ice covering the surface. 'How did I get here? I was in the river. Maybe the lake washed me up here?' Her mind filled with questions. She looked at the entrance of the cave, it was covered with mushrooms that were...pink. Pink. 'Pink? Pink!' She grew happy as she looked in and see Blixer laying on the ground, sleeping and shivering. She went over to him to see what was wrong with him. His body was wet and cold. 'He saved me from the river...' She placed a hand on his body, it was cold and she felt the quick vibration as he shivered in the cold. 'Poor Blixer...' She went out of the cave to look around. His cave is beside some trees, which the twigs have fallen from the branches. She quickly grabbed the sticks and went back inside the cave.

Luna placed the sticks down in a pile. She went around the cave and found a two rocks, she came back to the pile and started to hit the rocks together, the noise of the rocks hitting each other caused the giant shape to wake up. He looked at her as she struggled to start a fire. She finally got a spark and it landed on the sticks, causing a flame to start. "Yeah! Ha ha!" She turned to Blixer who was awake, she squeaked.

"You're up! Sorry I was trying to start a fire to warm us up since you're shivering."

She points at him, which he is still. He tried to deny it.

"No I'm not. I don't need a fire to keep me warm."

"Alright." She said as she watches the flame become a fire and she felt the cold water and frost dry up, feeling the warm. Blixer watched as the fire went. "Fine" He went up to the fire, feeling the warmth as his body dried up. Luna tried to spread her wings to dry them but she winced in pain. She remembered that her wings were injured from the storm. Blixer noticed the wound. The left wing had holes while the right was ripped.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine, they can heal themselves but it'll take awhile for it to completely heal."

"Well that's good to hear and also-"

The moment of warmth quickly turned cold.

"Why were in the river?!"

Luna jumped.

"I was trying to find you, the storm came in and it caused me to land in the river, I couldn't swim and the rocks caused so much pain that I couldn't to move."

"Then why were you looking for me?! I told you not to follow me!"

"It's been so long Blixer. I started to think you were gone when I was in that river."

"It wouldn't have happened if you didn't went looking for me."

"It wouldn't have happened if you just stayed"

He huffed and looked away from her. She puffed up with anger but she took a deep breath and just the fire crackle. They both stay silenced as the fire continued. Not a single word. They looked away from each other as they were mad. Who was to blame? The beast who left his love one, causing emotional damage thinking he was gone or the moth who risked everything to find him, only to injure herself when looking? They didn't know. The silence continued until a growl was heard. Luna jumped at the sudden noise. The growling continued. She shakes as she dashed to the giant shape's arm and hide behind it. She shaked in fear. The growl was louder. She noticed it was behind her. She tilted her head as she placed her head against Blixer's body to listen.

"What are you?"

"Shh"

She listened and heard a loud growl. He was hungry. "Are you hungry?" She asked him. He looked at her and nodded. "Well have you eaten anything?" She looked around and noticed the half eaten mushrooms. "Oh..." He's been eating mushrooms. She thought of something. She grabbed a rock and went outside, Blixer followed her close behind, she went to a tree and grabbed a stick was tall and thick. She went to the frozen lake and looked around. She spotted a good spot and threw the rock at the ice and it cracked. It broke and there, a fishing spot. She grabbed the stick as she made a silk thread was strong enough to pull. She saw a little worm and tied it to the string and tied that string to the stick. She gently placed the worm in the fishing hole and waited. Blixer watched her do her thing, he was confused on what she was doing. She waited until the stick was pulled. She tugged at the stick and out came a big fish. It landed on the ground as it flopped around.

She quickly grabbed a big stick and stabbed it, trying not to look as she did. "There we go, a nice big fish for you. I'll get myself one." She grabbed another worm from the ground and tried again. She ended up pulling out a rather medium sized fish. She grabbed a stick and did the same thing she did to the other fish. She got the two fishes and lifted them over the fire for them to cook.

"What was that? I never tried that before." Blixer asked, unknown to fishing.

"You had never fished before?" He shook his head

"Makes sense as you didn't have arms in that cactus form."

"Hey!"

She giggles. "Well, fishing is when a shape as a stick and they use a strong piece of string and tied bait like a worm to the string. They place it in the water and wait for any fish to grab it. When they do, they'll try to yank it out and there. A fish."

She lifted the fishes up as she finished her statement. "Maybe you catch fish with those big claws of yours, or I like to say paws." She smiles as she handed him the big fish. Blixer looked at it. Maybe it might be better then plain mushrooms. He took a bite of the fish and he beamed up. Luna took a bite out of hers and she smiled. He stood there as the taste made him smile. She giggled at his sudden expression but jumped when he started to chow down on it like a beast. He tore the flesh off and left nothing but bone.

Once he was done, he looked at Luna. He looked nervously, thinking Luna was scared at his sudden change, but she didn't as she laughed. "You were really that hungry?" She took another bite of her fish. She goes into his arm, snuggling up to him. "I'll take of you while I'm here. I'll leave once my wings have been healed." He looked at her as the fire crackled and burned in front of them.

"Alright..."

Meanwhile in Paradise, Cube was in his house with the guards of Paradise and Lycan asking him questions.

"Why did Luna leave?"

"She just wanted to know if he's okay."

"Then what's taking her long? Maybe that beast gotten her already and is keeping her hostage?"

"He wouldn't. You saw that snow storm happened, she probably gotten hurt!"

"Now she's an easy target for him."

Cube grew silent as Lycan tried to get him to speak anything else about Luna and her location.

"Simply tell us where she lives, we have to see what she's been doing."

"It's only for her and her friends to know. You're not one of them."

"Fine, I guess we have to ask the Treeangle..."

The Treeangle knows all...