Planet of the Stars

Chapter 40: Bird

I approached the bird rather slowly, I realized that it was watching me with narrowed eyes. I slowly put my hands up to show the bird there was nothing in them. The bird still watched me with narrowed eyes. I changed my body language to show that I meant no harm that seemed to calm the bird down, although it still regarded me with nervous eyes. I carefully made my way towards the area where the bird was injured.

I gently placed my hand on the birds side to show that we meant no harm, the bird was so big I just reached it's side reaching as far as I could. The minute my hand touched the bird it calmed down immediately. I then quickly got to work on the injury. There was a bit of shrapnel imbedded in its wing. I quickly focused on it, my crystal force found it, and then I yanked it out of the wing throwing it to the side.

The bird jolted but it didn't lash out. I went over to the injury and gently placed my hand on the wound. Blue and green light left my hand and surrounded the wound. I watched at the blue-green magic knitted the birds wound together, and when I finished it didn't even look like there had ever been a wound. When I finished I quickly backed away, and gestured for Felicity and Grace to come out slowly, they did.

When they were beside me I saw the bird regard us carefully. I held out my hand and waited for the bird to make the first move after edging towards it just barely. The bird bowed down and let me rest my hand on its beak. I smiled and started stroking it. I gestures for Felicity and Grace to do the same.

They held out their hands and gently stroked the bird also. A smile stretched across my face. It had been awhile since I had bonded with an animal and the fact that I was doing so again really made me happy. The bird gestured for us to get on its back. I froze.

"She wants us to get on her back," I whisper.

"Why?" Grace asks.

"I'm assuming she is going to give us a ride, but I don't know why," I say.

Before Grace and I did anything else I saw that Felicity was already getting on the birds back.

"Flick!" I whisper.

"What?" She wants to give us a ride, why would we deny that?" Felicity asks.

I look over at Grace and she just shrugged her shoulders. I sighed, but then carefully grabbed the side of the birds neck and then swung my leg over her neck. Felicity sat behind me. I held out my hand to Grace who took it, and she ended up sitting behind Felicity. When the bird realized we were all on it flapped its wings and I giggled because with how big the bird was it had a massive wingspan.

So the vegetation around and under the bird when it flapped its wings looked like a ship was landing or taking off but with a lot more power. When the bird was above the trees it started flying a certain way. I smiled as I looked over its side. Below us were sprawling greens of the trees and I cold see our shadow racing underneath us. I smiled.

I had never felt like this before. I was crying because for the first time in a long time I felt like my heart was beating excitedly. I looked behind us and I noticed something that didn't make me as happy. A while back there was a patch of brown and I immediately figured out that Big Brother was mining this planet for its resources. I turned back around to face the front and I was a little less excited to be riding this bird.

Eventually the bird landed, and I got off. I helped Grace and Felicity down and when we were all on the ground I thanked the bird by gently patting its beak. It nodded its head to me, then took off. When the bird had left I turned to face Felicity and Grace.

"Grace, when does Big Brother usually come?" I ask.

"They still have a few days until they do why?" Grace asks.

"They're stripping the planet of its resources and I can't let that happen. I'm trying to figure out what we're going to do to stop them," I say.

"Well there's something I've only heard of, but I think we should try it," Grace says,

I nod. She tells me what she had heard and then we try it. I stand with Felicity behind me, and Grace a few feet away. She holds out her hand and creates a ball out of her magic. I do the same.

The balls combine in the middle and when they do that they create a huge explosion. I grin.