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Chapter 3
At the tree Ira wakes up, she looks at Jalen who was not even in the tree anymore. Ira walked out of the tree and stands on a branch.
While Ira looked in the sky, “Jalen, where you go?”
From the behind her Jalen replies, “I am right here.”
“Where did you go?”
“I heard something, so I went to go check it out, and we have to go now.”
“What? Already, I want so food first then go.”
Jalen looked behind him “We don’t have time, and we don’t have time to fight about this either.”
“Why not, its not like anyone can find us up here, you blend with the trees around her and I can just go inside the tree again.”
“With that we could but you came out and now we got Rithrin’s minions after us.”
Ira looked at the ground and does not see anyone coming “I don’t see anyone.”
“That’s because you don’t have eyes like I do, and don’t have eyes like they do. They can see from miles away from where they are and see everything.”
Having a very angry look on her face, Ira finally came to senses “Fine, lets go, but we don’t even know where to go. Where we suppose to go Jalen?”
“I know where another forest is we can go there for a while till we figure out where to go.”
“Ok, let’s go to that one then, but we have to be quick about it.” Without a single sound, Ira got on Jalen and they started to fly. The way to the other forest that Jalen forgot to tell Ira is that they have to go towards the minions to get to them.
“Are you crazy? We are heading right towards them.”
“It’s the only way to the other forest; we have to go this way.”
“Go a different way, there has to be a different way.”
“There isn’t, this is the only way, and it’s to late now to turn back.”
While they were flying over the minions, Ira looked down and saw all of them.
Thinking to her self “They are really not good looking minions.”
As soon as she finished thinking this, the minions started to shoot arrows and throw other weapons at them, in the hopes to hit them. Thankfully for Ira and Jalen, that the minions kept on missing and didn’t leave a single mark on them, when they thought it was all over Rithrin appeared right in front of them.
“Where do you think you are going?”
Ira not knowing who this teen is, replies “Get out of our way; we have to leave before their master comes or they decide to get smart.”
Jalen trying to fly around Rithrin, but no matter which way he goes Rithrin always right there in is way.
“Again, I ask where you think you are going?”
Jalen frustrated, “Just get out of our way now Rithrin this isn’t your battle!”
“Rithin? Isn’t that the guy who works for the king?”
“Yes he is and the one in our way.”
Ira looked at Rithrin with some confused look in her eyes whispered to herself “I thought he was to be ugly, but he is beautiful.”
Rithrin smiled like he heard what she has said, “Yea I am Rithrin the teen that works for the king, who has all the magic in the world,” he replies while he raised is hand aimed at Ira “So any last words you will like to say before you die?”
Ira noticed that Rithrin is off his guard and wont be able to stop them if they went down close to the ground, who wouldn’t expect them to fly so close to the ground where the minions were. The whole time she was thinking this Jalen shook his head like he heard everything she was thinking about what they can do to get away.
“Is that a no? Petty, I felt bad to killing you, wish I could make you my queen, but it is what is and people need to die when they get to people’s way,” as soon as a bolt left his hand, Jalen and Ira already headed down to the ground, flying close to it Rithrin’s minions started to chase after them.
“Come on Jalen, faster they are gaining on us.”
“I am trying; it’s not easy with all the trees I have to dodge.”
Ira looked back to see how close they were to them, and noticed that they had stop “Jalen you can stop fly so fast, they have stop following us.”
Jalen slowed down, “I wonder why they stopped.”
“I don’t know why, but I don’t want to stay to find out either. There was something different with that guy Rithrin, something I never saw before.”
“Don’t you think about it, he is on the on the good side he is our enemy he wants to kill us, mostly you thought it seems.”
After that they flew in silence, Ira was still thinking of Rithrin and what she saw in his eyes. She was thinking to herself “Those eyes, something about him make seem different from all the other people that are after us, it seems like he doesn’t want to be on that side of evil, but on the side of good or whatever side on I am on. O my goodness, just listen to me sounds like I think he is in love with me, but that can’t be right, can it?”
“Ira, we are here, you can get off now.”
Ira, snapped out of thought “O, I am sorry,” gets off Jalen, and she sat on a branch on a tree. “Today has been a long day and a weird one too.”
“That is for sure, I will be right back I will go look for some food, while you make yourself comfy in the tree.”
“Ok, I am a little hungry,” with that said Jalen flew off in look of some food that they can eat and Ira went inside the tree to get warm, and so she can hide just in case they came looking for her.
While Ira was waited for Jalen to come back with some food, she decided to take a quick nap, when she fell asleep, in her dream she was in a place she has never seen before there was a guy in her dream. She walked up to the boy looked at him in his big brown eyes she saw a different side of him that no one has ever seen before. She asked him what his name was he answered “Rithrin is my name.” when she heard that she knew what Rithrin she was talking to the one she saw in the teen that same day. Ira smiled at the Rithrin, and he smiled back, “I never had anyone smile at me Ira, thank you.”
“Oh really well you are very welcome, I have to ask why are you in my dreams?”
“I knew you would ask me that, well see the real me is hidden in side and no one has seen me ever, and I am scared to turn evil to good, but I want to do it cause well I love someone very special to me and it was love at first sight.”
“Oh I get it is me, am I right? Its not that hard to change sides Rithrin.”
“Yes it you that I am in love with, and for me it is hard I am never going to be perfectly on the good side I am always going to have those evil thoughts, I been on the king’s side for so long that I don’t know how to act any different then I know.”
“It is ok Rithrin, we can do it together. I will be at your side like you would be at my side. You never have to be alone ever again.”
“And you Ira will never have to feel alone or lost. I will be there for you no matter what.”
“Then why don’t you come and to me in the real world, come and help me in the world out of my dreams.”
“I will join you as soon as I can get ride of the minions and destroy them.”
“Ok I will be waiting for you to join us.”
“I love you Ira,” and with that Rithrin and the dream was gone and Ira woke up. As she woke up Jalen was there with some eggs.
“Jalen, how long have you been there?”
“I just been here for a few, but long enough to here you say Rithrin in your sleep, why did you say his name?”
“Umm…he was in my dreams and it was the real him and he want to join us as soon as he can destroy the minions to make sure they can’t hurt us.”
“You know this could be a trap Ira right?”
“I know it’s not a trap.”
“How do you know this?”
“Because I have very good judge on people and I am not going to let some one fall to the evil if I have a way to change him and help him be a better person.”
“Ok, I hope you know what you are doing Ira.”
“Yea, me too.”
“By the way I have brought some eggs that you can eat.”
Ira walked up to where Jalen had laid the eggs, “how can I eat them? They have to be cooked so I can eat them.”
“My bad,” Jalen brook them on a piece of bark and shoot fire from his mouth cooking the eggs, “Here you go.”
“Thank you Jalen,” Ira started to eat the eggs. While she was eating, in another part of the forest was Rithrin, fighting the minions he had created. With one blow of his fire blast they were all gone. It was not really hard for him to destroy them, after he destroyed the minions he head toward were his love was falling the scent of her to her.
Rithrin walked on the ground till he could no longer smell the scent of Ira, so he went up to the trees where the scent was stronger. Back at the tree, Ira was about to finishing off her eggs when Jalen heard something heading towards them.
“Something or someone is coming towards us.” As soon as he had finished his sentence, Rithrin was right behind him. “What are you doing here?”
“I promised someone that I would come after I destroy the minions that I have created. Well that is what I have done,” Rithin replied while he was walking to Ira.
Ira looked right into his eyes “How did you find us, no one knows where we are.”
“I followed your scent, and when I could no longer smell it on the ground I went up on the trees where your scent was the strongest.”
Ira smiled while Rithrin was saying all this to her, “So all the minions are gone?”
“All the minions that I have made and the ones that follow me everywhere.”
Jalen was not so sure about him, “Ira can you come outside with me for a moment please.”
“Jalen, whatever you have to say, you can say it in front of him. He is part of our team now.”
Jalen stomped his foot and was getting frustrated with the fact that Rithrin joining their team, “Fine, we can’t trust him. He could be messing with you and lying to you, how do you know he is telling the truth to us?”
“I can see it in his eyes and in his soul that he telling the truth,” she answered while she was looking into Rithrin’s eyes. “He has change Jalen, please trust me.”
“I trust you; I am just not sure I trust him. Just the other day he tried to kill us, do you remember?”
“Yes I remember, but I do believe he changed and I have faith that there is change that can happen to anyone no matter what. Please Jalen.”
“Ok, I trust you. If you do anything that makes me distrust you, you will have another coming thing to you. Do you understand what I am saying Rithrin?”
“Yes, I do and if I do then I want you to kill me. Make sure I will never hurt Ira.”
“That promise, I can keep and have no problem doing so,” growled Jalen
During time they had been talking one of the minions that Rithrin missed headed back to the king to tell him what had happened. When he got there, the king was waiting to hear from Rithrin, “Sir,”
King Darokha looked behind him “What is this? Rithrin sends his minion to tell me the news.”
“No sir, Rithrin has betrayed us and is now with Ira and that bird of hers.”
“HE DID WHAT!!!!??”yelled Darokha
“He also destroyed all the minions he had made and the ones that you sent with him, I am the only one who got away.”
The king, angry, walked back and forth, he looked at the giant bat man, “Well you are lucky you just been promoted up to my adviser and now, gather my army and kill them all.”
“Yes sir,” with that the giant bat man left and got the army ready for the big battle.
In the woods, Ira sat inside the hole in a tree while the guys argued about where they should go next. Rithrin goes back inside and walked to Ira, “Where do you think we should go?”
“Look at the facts, is there any sign of other people that will want to go and fight the king and his men?”
“Well there is a group of people in the mountains, but before we ever go there we will need to get the Indian groups ready for the fight too. They would want to fight him because he is taking their land and they don’t go like dark magic that he has.”
“Then that means we will have to spilt up two of us needs go one way and one go the other way.”
“No we can’t spilt up, Ira where ever I go none of them are going to believe me that I have changed! If I go by myself and you two need to go together, no one will believe you either. We need to stay together all three of us.”
“You both can’t fly on me, and she not ready to fly with someone yet.”
“Then you need to carry me with your crawls then, or I try to use my magic to make me have a ride to fly, but I am trying not to use that magic anymore. I have to learn how to use good magic not dark magic.”
“He’s right Jalen, he can’t use that magic. Would you please carry him please?”
“Fine, I will try, just because you asked me Ira.”
“Thank you Jalen, there, it is set then, we will go to the Indian tribe and get them to go to the mountains and then we will go to the mountains.”
“Our quest starts in the morning, it is too dangers to fly tonight.”
“Jalen is right, the king would know what I have done by now and will be looking tonight, too many will be looking in the skies for us now.”
Ira shook her head in understanding; she finds a spot in the tree hole away from the entrance.
Rithrin looked at her and where she was sleeping, “Why does sleep so far away from the entrance?”
“She sleeps that far, because the first time she sat in front of the entrance and she fell. Even thought she has the power to get back up all by herself, she is still scared to fall.”
“With all the power she has, she is scared?”
“Yeah, not everyone is perfect. She still has her fears and weakness, which is why I chose her.”
“You picked her because no matter what happens to her she is still the same?”
“Yes, that and because no matter what, she is the same and her heart is full of hope and love, strength and courage, even if she don’t know it yet.”
“I see that too in her. I think that is why I have fallen in love with her. All the hope she has in people and how she sees people for who they are inside not what they are on the outside, or how they act in the inside.”
“Yup, well, you might want to get some rest too; we have a big day in the morning.”
“Yeah, ok,” Rithrin lies near Ira, he looks at her, “night Ira, sweet dreams,” then looks at Jalen “Night, and thanks.”
“Night Rithrin,” Jalen looked at the skies right before he goes to bed.