The Light in Darkness

1:2 - A Dangerous Night

Chapter 1.2 - A Dangerous Night

Lin gazed up into the looming night sky as she smiled, thinking how the forest of Nibel was beautiful during the night... The sun was nearly about to disappear on the horizon... Ever since she arrived here in this forest with her brother Izi, things have started to look much better for them...

They met all kinds of different creatures here and what surprised them the most was an ancient legend... A myth that she would have never thought she would be able to see...

It was a Spirit...

A Spirit Guardian...

A living, breathing Spirit Guardian... Gears clicked in her head as a smile formed on their faces that day. The forest was under the protection of a Spirit tree, they never imagined they'd ever see an actual protector of the forest...

Lin and Izi were a species called Moki. Small scavengers with big floppy ears, lime green eyes, and a long tail. They were playful little creatures who live in a land far from this forest...

If only she had been more careful... She didn't want to involve her brother with this problem... If it wasn't for her, they would still be playing back home and getting scolded by their parents for being so reckless...

Lin's thoughts were taken away as the sun finally disappeared into the distance. She turned around to see the moon slowly rising behind the cold mountains... To think that she would experience this feeling of peace again... After everything that's happened... It was surreal...

"Lin!" Her brother called out to her, from their home inside the tree below.

"Coming!" Lin said as she carefully and happily stepped on one branch to another, as she finally dropped down from her ledge above the treetops.

She and her brother Izi lived inside a hollow tree for a few seasons now, they created a platform outside the tree that circles all the way around. They called this a Tree House, and it was something their friend and them used to make back then...

She saw Izi who was talking to the little Owl they rescued from the Glades earlier this day, he was doing a lot better now. Though his head and wings were bandaged up to make sure he'll make a full recovery.

"Oh. Lin!" Izi said as he noticed her come down from her spot up, on the treetops. Both he and the little Owl was sitting around a lantern with a firefly trapped inside. "So... Big problem... He doesn't remember anything, and I asked him a couple of questions and it looks like the only thing he remembers is his name..."

Lin was a bit skeptical of that at first, but then she did remember that the Owl fell from the tree, likely hitting many of the branches on his way down, then hit his head on a plant. Luckily for him, that plant was a healing plant that heals any injury, though it's not that effective. As she came closer to the Owl, he tilted his head at her curiously. Who were they? And why were they so fluffy?

"Hello. I'm guessing my brother already told you who we were... But do you not remember anything?" Lin asked but like Izi, all she got was a shook of his head as he didn't know anything.

"I really don't know... I just remember everything going dark... And my name... My name is Aru..."

Lin put her hand over her chin and thought for a moment... They could always try and hit him on the head again, maybe it'll get his memories back. Or it just gets worse, but what else could they try? The worst thing that could happen is that he gets permanent brain damage... Okay, that does sound bad...

"Should we try asking Nightingale? He seems to know everything about this forest, maybe he'll know of some way that could help him get his memories back." Izi commented, looking at Lin's eyes and knowing exactly what she was going to do. She always goes for the fastest way to solve the problem, she was always reckless...