I opened my eyes and looked around; it seemed normal and not at the same time. Some leaves were so dark green that they were almost black. I’d never seen any of the plants around me. Sure, they would look like an oak or a spruce, but then something would prove me wrong, like misshapen leaves or a warped trunk. I wasn’t sure I was still home, or even on Eearth.
I looked around for the book I’d been reading, but it was just an ordinary note book now. Weird... I thought to myself. I stood up and immediately came face to face with another person and was back on my butt.
“Whoa!” she said, and extended an arm to help me up. ”You okay? Sorry I scared you.” Her hand was a talon with icey blue scales that traveled up her forearm and ended at her elbow.
“Um….” I hesitated to take her hand., “Who are you exactly?”
“ I’m Lianna, commanding officer of the Northern Armed Fforces for the Kkingdom of DreamCatchers.”
“Huh,” I answered, “That’s a mouthful, do you have a nickname?”
She was about to answer, but was cut off by a little boy running out of the woods, who was smiling and laughing, “Lili! Lili! Help, Arf’s trying to get me!” He kept on giggling and ran to Lianna.
“Is he, now?” sShe said, clearly doing it to humour him., ”Well, we can’t have that.” She scooped him up and placed him on her hip, which wasn’t hard, considering his small frame and her tall, broad one. His black- tipped ears and black- ringed tail twitched happily, and he wrapped darker tan hands around her neck.
Is she his mother? Should I be concerned?
Also, I'm not sure what I was expecting with the name Arf, but it wasn't a three foot tall guy with paws, a tail, and huge fox ears.
“I’m 30 years old.” he replied in a monotone voice, as he looked me up and down with a suspicious glare.
“Oh...” I responded, a little put off, and confused--, very confused.
“Who are you, anyway?” He asked as his ears pulled back a bit and his hand rested on what appeared to be a knife holster.
“Yeah, come to think of it, who are you?” Lianna repeated, slightly repositioning herself so her body was between me and the child.
“I mean you no harm!” I held my hands up in surrender, “I’m not exactly sure how I got here, though… uh, my name is Abby, by the way. Abigail Lars.”
“You look funny,.” tThe boy said, with a completely innocent, and matter of factly tone.
“Oh yeah, well, so do you, raccoon boy,” I snapped back while sticking my tongue out at him, the kid did it, too, like he thought it was a game.
The short man, Arf, then spoke up, “Since you’re on our territory, we’ll be taking you to the Kking, he’ll decide what to do with you then. Try anything funny and I won’t hesitate to slit your throat.”
I yelped, and nodded quickly as Arf started walking ahead, the dragon lady and her kid following behind me.
I looked back and saw racoon- boy staring at me from beside Lianna. “What do you want, kid?” I asked.
“I have a name, you know,.” hHe said, slightly hurt. “It’s Nyxin.”
Lianna narrowed her eyes in warning towards me.
We kept walking, Nyxin and I sharing glares back and forth. I screamed at pretty much all the creatures that we saw, They looked really weird and Nyxin made sure to poke fun at me., “What, you scared of, a Borkforn? That’s harmless, why’d you scream?” ...and the one time I didn’t scream or yelp, he did.
Lianna looked over to see why and tensed., “Nyxin, Abby, stay here. Arf, I think we got trouble,.” she said, her tone made me nervous, and did the same to Nyxin.
“Right,” Arf responded, drawing his knife and following her into the bushes.
Nyxin and I sat and waited, he fiddled with some leaves, first out of boredom, but when we heard yelling and feral growling, he did it nervously. “So,” I said, trying to break the ice, “Is Lianna your mom, and Arf your uncle, or something?”
“That’s a little personal, but yeah, Lili’s like my mom,.” hHe responded, he started to brighten up slightly. “She’s a soldier for the king, and she’s training me. I wanna fight, but she says I’m still too young,.” he added, a little sadly.
“Well, you do kind of seem it, how old are you anyways?”
“Seven, but I’m turning eight soon.”
“That’s nice, happy early birthday.”
At that point, Arf and Lianna came back onto the path. That made Nyxin’s mood brighten up more, and he flashed them a toothy grin. They smiled back, Lianna seemed to see that her son had been nervous just a minute before, her face softened., “Kiddo, you don’t need to worry about Arf and me. We’re trained, so we’ll be fine when we fight the nightmares.”
“But I’m trained, why can’t I fight them, too?” Nyxin asked, pouting.
“You’re still too young, kiddo.” Lianna shook her head as if she’d had this conversation a thousand times. “They can still trick you.”
“Nyxin, you still sleep with a nightlight.”
“No, maybe once you don’t sprint up the basement steps.”
I chuckled a bit at their banter, thinking back to how they reminded me of arguing with my dad when I was younger. I stopped laughing and frowned when the memory came up, where are my dads? Where am I exactly?
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