They all left the boat (and water), setting foot on the colossal island. It hadn't changed since the day Luna left it... it was like their home had been frozen in time, reserving the memories that lay there.
"Ok! We should try and find our old cabin first. Maybe there are some clues to where the treasure is hidden!" Luna beamed.
"Yeah!!! Treasure hunting, here we go!!" Atomu cheered, running up the hill of trees while dripping wet in water.
"Calm down, Atomu. You're gonna break something," Echo ordered, keeping her pace to walking.
"Yeah! Let's go!" Luna agreed, sprinting up the hill like there was no tomorrow.
"Do any of you even care about your safety?!" Echo questioned in frustration.
"What's the fun in that?" Aki called with a grin.
"How about not breaking your bones?!!!" Echo grunted.
"Wow, you're such a mommy. You gonna kiss my knee if I scrape it?" Aki mocked.
"My lips are going nowhere near your defoliation of a body!" Echo yelled.
"Oh, darlin', you don't know the half of it," Aki grinned.
"What the hell does that—" Echo was interrupted.
"WOOOHOOO!!!" He ignored her and joined the others, flying up the hill, not too far off the ground.
"Wait for me, Aki darling!!" Galaxy jumped on him.
"Echo, look! That's the tree you fell out of that one time!" Luna giggled.
"Which we agreed never happened!!" Echo yelled.
"Look! That's where we built the treehouse!!" Luna beamed, pointing up towards a very impressive treehouse.
"Whoaa!! Cool!!" Atomu exclaimed, briefly stopping to admire the awesome treehouse.
"That's a cool base..." Leo blushed, enchanted just as much as Atomu.
"And over here is where Echo used to train with her dragon!" Luna went on, pointing to a clear part of the forest that was surrounded by sliced and burned trees.
"Wait!! DRAGON?!!" Atomu yelled in shock as Leo ran to catch up with everyone.
Some movement occurred in the treehouse from under a blanket just as Atomu looked away..... a small creature with bright cyan eyes scurried within the leaves and branches of the treehouse.
"Oh! That's where I started growing flowers for the first time! Well, tried too, hehe," Luna continued into the forest.
A yawn sounded from the treehouse as someone emerged from the blanket, spotting Shadow Moon hurrying through the forest...
Their violet eyes widened to the sight.
"Look over there! This is where I dug a hole to become one with the soil!" Luna added.
"I'm sorry- what?!!" Aki remarked.
"Oh, look! Poison ivy!!! I have bad experiences with this......" Luna mentioned.
"Oh yeah, you fell in a bush of it on the island where we used to train with our dragons," Echo recalled.
"Huh??" Concerned Aki noises.
Flashback!!
"Owwwww!! So itchy!! So itchy!! AYAKAAAAAAAA!!" Luna cried on the floor of the forest.
"What is it, little one?" Ayaka - the plant dragon that had taken her in - asked the crying child.
"It's really itchy!!" she whined.
YOU ARE READING
The Demons of Shadow Moon
FantasyAwake. But the nightmare has not ended. It's simply been forgotten. With her memories wiped, Luna wakes up on an island all alone. Scared and fragile, she clings to the kindness offered to her by two demons. They take her in, and teach her magic! B...
