Harry chased after the dog for a very long time. When he finally got his hands on it, it… it didn't look the same. It was…. transforming. Morphing into something bigger. Something scaly. Harrison backed away and hit a tree. Placing his hand on the hilt of his sword, he began to run away and back towards the small crowd of three from earlier. "RUN!" he called.
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Scarlet raced after Krystal, Harry, and the dog, going deep into the forest. When she finally caught up, the dog started to change and grow.
"RUN!" Harry yelled, backing away.
"What is that?" Scarlet shouted as she turned and ran beside Harry. "A changeling?"
"No clue!" he breathed. He heard it roar behind them, and suddenly is was right on their heels. "Merlins Beard." he grumbled when he saw the size. With it's claws, it picked up a tree and threw it at them. Harry pushed Scarlet to the side and acted as a shield over her, as debris fell down onto his back. Quickly, he stood again, helped her to her feet, and they were running.
as Krystal beheld the giant creature before her she groaned, "Damned Shifter."
She swung up into a tree and flicked her wrists, her silver cuffs transforming into long, sharp daggers.
"Alright kiddies, let's dance."
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Scarlet muttered under her breath, cursing the strange creature with a string of profanities even the Bandits would have been shocked at to hear coming from her mouth.
"Revertimini ad antiquitatem vestram!" she suddenly blurted.
Where did that come from? she wondered to herself. Her thoughts were quickly cut off as the sounds of the creature died down.
Krystal lept down from the tree and flicked her daggers back into cuffs. She went to where the beast had been and found a grey-skinned girl about Scarlet's age laying on the ground. She looked at Scarlet who had a shocked expression on her face.
Scarlet was the source of the magic that had changed the Shifter. That was the strange energy Krystal had sensed earlier.
"Well that explains things," she said to Scarlet with a chuckle, "You're a magic-wielder."
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"What?!?" gasped Scarlet. "But I can't be. The Sapphires would never have let me into their group if they had known I was."
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"Revertimini ad antiquitatem vestram!" she suddenly blurted.
(That's "Go back to what you were!" by the way.)
(Latin, nice!)
"Something must have been suppressing your powers," Krystal reasoned, "Have you ever encountered anyone else with magic?"
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"Not- not that I know of," Scarlet stuttered. "Like I told you earlier, I've been with the Bandits for a long time. They don't like sorcerers or magicians. At all."
Then Mozos stumbled on to the scene, and pointed a finger warily at Krystal. "You..*pants.. run very… *pants… fast. And that, *deep breath * was super cool."
Harry looked at everyone. "This is weird." he muttered.
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"I don't even know what's going on, anymore," Scarlet said, her voice shaking and eyes wide.
she looked at the three people gathered around her and sighed deeply. Well, so much for staying out of human problems.
"Come on, I know where we can get answers. Follow me," she said, striding deeper into the forest.
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Scarlet followed Krystal deep into the forest. After a few minutes, the trees started to grow closer together and their bark became a darker shade of brown, becoming almost black. The normal sounds of the forest slowly disappeared, being replaced with a silence that was broken only by the footsteps and breathing of the group.
Mozos followed silently, he wanted to see where she would lead them. Plus the head chef probably looted his room as soon as he left.
They began to approach a small clearing in the woods, but Krystal stopped before they entered.
"Before we go any further, you must all swear on your lives to never speak of this place or what you will see there," she said, looking at each of them in turn, "Do you swear?"
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Scarlet blink a few times in surprise before answering, "Uh, yeah. Yeah, I swear."
"Yeah, sure I swear but uh, what is this place?" Mozos said trying to eye the clearing.
"This is my home," she replied simply as she led them into the clearing
In the center of the clearing, there were two huge trees with silver-ish bark whose branches intertwined to form a sort of canopy. underneath the trees, there was a round, clear pool. There were small, multicolored twinkling lights floating among the branches and in one of the trees, there was a hammock. Under the other tree, there was a very old looking chest and small pile colored stones.
She turned to face them and spread her arms out, "So, what do you think?" she asked with a smile
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"Wow," breathed Scarlet as she walked into the clearing. "It's beautiful!"
Krystal smiled, "thank you! Now, on to what we came here for."
She walked over to the pool and knelt down, gesturing for them to join her.
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Scarlet knelt down beside Krystal in front of the pool, which sparkled from the many, multicolored lights above. She looked in, expecting to see fish and other water creatures, but it was surprisingly empty.
"What is this?" she asked, looking at Krystal.
"This is an Astéri pool," she replied gesturing at the silvery water. "My people believe that when you die, your soul becomes a star, so all of our ancestors are stars and from the heavens, they can see what occurs below. Star pools can share the knowledge of the heavens to show us other people, places, and events."
She stood up and went to the chest underneath one of the trees and rummaged around inside of it. while she was searching she said, "In this case, we are going to use it to take a peek at your past."
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Scarlet's eyes flashed with an odd look and she said, "I- uh- I don't know if that's really necessary."
"Don't worry, we won't see your entire past" Krystal said, seeing the look on Scarlet's face, "we can narrow it down to just anytime you've come in contact with another magical being. And if it made you feel any better, I could show you some of my own past, too."
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"Um, okay," conceded Scarlet, fidgeting with the grass beside her. "I supposed that's fine."
"What would you like to see first, yours or mine?" Krystal asked gently.
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Flashing a quick smile to the girl at her left, Scarlet replied, "Um, yours, if that's okay."
" That's a pretty powerful pool." Mozos remarked, " Umm, does it show all magical beings or just ones you want?"