Fan Fiction ❯ Illusia ❯ Illusia - Her Story 12 ( Chapter 12 )
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By: Serenitychan13 
Chapter 12: Shock
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Suspense / Supernatural / Romance / Fantasy / Action / Angst / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.24.2004 | Updated On: 01.24.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 937 | Visits: 178 | Status: Completed
Chapter 12: Shock
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Suspense / Supernatural / Romance / Fantasy / Action / Angst / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 01.24.2004 | Updated On: 01.24.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 937 | Visits: 178 | Status: Completed
Chapter 12
I thought about this, then pushed the thought away. How could I, the Supreme Princess of Kerahneeah, be falling in love with a bird? I shook my head at him, trying to laugh if off.
“Crazy bird… I just had some kind of dizzy spell… Yes, that’s it… I must be tired or something.” I spoke quickly, trying to make it seem that everything was perfectly fine. Maybe too quickly.
In my heart, I was fighting a fierce battle between emotion and reason. Reason was losing badly.
He turned away, looking hurt beyond measure. He looked as if his heart had shattered.
I wondered if I had indeed spoken the truth… Or could it have been that Terran had been right and I refused to believe him?
Terran cleared his throat harshly and tried failingly to keep the tense emotion out of his voice.
“Well, dear Princess, if you need rest, we should find shelter. We’ll travel faster as deer. Hurry and transform yourself.”
Quickly, I did as he said. Arms and legs became thin and spindly, ending in dainty black hooves. An olive-complexioned face elongated and became furry. My eyes remained lavender, my symbol color. I landed out of my lavender smoke cloud on thin but fairly steady legs.
In a puff of red smoke, Terran appeared as a huge stag. Deep brown eyes still stared almost longingly at me. They hadn’t changed at all.
In an instant, we were hurtling through the undergrowth. At top speed, we leaped over fallen logs, splashed through stagnant ponds and dodged trees. My tawny tannish-brown coat was soon hopelessly matted and dirty, but I knew I had to keep following Terran. Somehow, I just knew that he wouldn’t steer me wrong.
My head seemed to spin as we stopped abruptly in front of a large cave carved out of the side of a hill. It appeared to have been dug out with claws, not worn out by the weather, long ago. There was a bed of leaves in the back and a fire pit long since turned to ash surrounded by stones. I had no clue where we were, but the place seemed strangely, almost hauntingly familiar.
“Indeed, it should be familiar,” said Terran in a low voice, interrupting my thoughts and making me jump. “This is ---”
“Wait! You can read my mind?”
I was shocked. I had met this strange creature less than eighteen hours ago, but it seemed like he knew me better than I knew myself.
It was almost frightening, how much he knew…
“Yes Princess. We share a telepathic link.”
He said this as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
I was too scared to be annoyed. What if he had sensed all that I had been thinking during the tense moments spent in discussion of love?
“So… You can read my mind… But why can’t I read yours?”
“My telepathic sense is more developed than yours for a variety of reasons. For one thing, I have spent my entire life searching for you, so I was carefully attuned to your mind’s signal waves. You never knew of my existence. Your only readings came in small bursts when I came close to you unknown.”
“So basically I can’t read your mind because I never needed to…”
The vague bits of information I had managed to piece together were beginning to make some sense. But not much.
“Exactly. You are learning to use your head!”
“Now, tell me why this place seems so familiar to me…”
The huge stag tossed his head in pained irritation.
“AUGH! Spoke too soon! You still don’t use your head!”
Now that I wasn’t so scared, I was on the verge of annoyance.
“Then TELL me where we are!”
Terran’s beautiful antlered head hung in sadness.
“Remember your childhood, Princess,” he said, his voice low.
I took a long, slow look around. Tears sprang to my eyes yet again.
“Oh! This is Grandfather Bear’s cave, isn’t it!? The leaf bed, the claw marks, the fire pit… It’s all the same as it was… This is where he spent his last night…”
Terran took a deep breath and began to lecture me again.
“Princess, this cave is very important. You can harness the power of fire from the remnants of the pit ---”
I shook my head at him, my ears flapping against my head.
“Wait! The Detection Crystal is reacting!”
“Then use it, Princess!”
“DETECTION CRYSTAL ILLUSION! Point me to the Fire Gem!”
The Detection Crystal rose into the air at my eye level, spinning around in all directions and rotating. The Diamond Point, a chip from the Diamond Star, was glowing bright ruby red. The same red glow was emitting from the fire pit. An oddly-shaped, blood-red ruby rose up out of the depths and floated in front of the Detection Crystal’s point.
When I was again able to speak, my voice was very, very soft – almost to the point of sounding fearful.
“Is this… the Fire Gem?”
I thought about this, then pushed the thought away. How could I, the Supreme Princess of Kerahneeah, be falling in love with a bird? I shook my head at him, trying to laugh if off.
“Crazy bird… I just had some kind of dizzy spell… Yes, that’s it… I must be tired or something.” I spoke quickly, trying to make it seem that everything was perfectly fine. Maybe too quickly.
In my heart, I was fighting a fierce battle between emotion and reason. Reason was losing badly.
He turned away, looking hurt beyond measure. He looked as if his heart had shattered.
I wondered if I had indeed spoken the truth… Or could it have been that Terran had been right and I refused to believe him?
Terran cleared his throat harshly and tried failingly to keep the tense emotion out of his voice.
“Well, dear Princess, if you need rest, we should find shelter. We’ll travel faster as deer. Hurry and transform yourself.”
Quickly, I did as he said. Arms and legs became thin and spindly, ending in dainty black hooves. An olive-complexioned face elongated and became furry. My eyes remained lavender, my symbol color. I landed out of my lavender smoke cloud on thin but fairly steady legs.
In a puff of red smoke, Terran appeared as a huge stag. Deep brown eyes still stared almost longingly at me. They hadn’t changed at all.
In an instant, we were hurtling through the undergrowth. At top speed, we leaped over fallen logs, splashed through stagnant ponds and dodged trees. My tawny tannish-brown coat was soon hopelessly matted and dirty, but I knew I had to keep following Terran. Somehow, I just knew that he wouldn’t steer me wrong.
My head seemed to spin as we stopped abruptly in front of a large cave carved out of the side of a hill. It appeared to have been dug out with claws, not worn out by the weather, long ago. There was a bed of leaves in the back and a fire pit long since turned to ash surrounded by stones. I had no clue where we were, but the place seemed strangely, almost hauntingly familiar.
“Indeed, it should be familiar,” said Terran in a low voice, interrupting my thoughts and making me jump. “This is ---”
“Wait! You can read my mind?”
I was shocked. I had met this strange creature less than eighteen hours ago, but it seemed like he knew me better than I knew myself.
It was almost frightening, how much he knew…
“Yes Princess. We share a telepathic link.”
He said this as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.
I was too scared to be annoyed. What if he had sensed all that I had been thinking during the tense moments spent in discussion of love?
“So… You can read my mind… But why can’t I read yours?”
“My telepathic sense is more developed than yours for a variety of reasons. For one thing, I have spent my entire life searching for you, so I was carefully attuned to your mind’s signal waves. You never knew of my existence. Your only readings came in small bursts when I came close to you unknown.”
“So basically I can’t read your mind because I never needed to…”
The vague bits of information I had managed to piece together were beginning to make some sense. But not much.
“Exactly. You are learning to use your head!”
“Now, tell me why this place seems so familiar to me…”
The huge stag tossed his head in pained irritation.
“AUGH! Spoke too soon! You still don’t use your head!”
Now that I wasn’t so scared, I was on the verge of annoyance.
“Then TELL me where we are!”
Terran’s beautiful antlered head hung in sadness.
“Remember your childhood, Princess,” he said, his voice low.
I took a long, slow look around. Tears sprang to my eyes yet again.
“Oh! This is Grandfather Bear’s cave, isn’t it!? The leaf bed, the claw marks, the fire pit… It’s all the same as it was… This is where he spent his last night…”
Terran took a deep breath and began to lecture me again.
“Princess, this cave is very important. You can harness the power of fire from the remnants of the pit ---”
I shook my head at him, my ears flapping against my head.
“Wait! The Detection Crystal is reacting!”
“Then use it, Princess!”
“DETECTION CRYSTAL ILLUSION! Point me to the Fire Gem!”
The Detection Crystal rose into the air at my eye level, spinning around in all directions and rotating. The Diamond Point, a chip from the Diamond Star, was glowing bright ruby red. The same red glow was emitting from the fire pit. An oddly-shaped, blood-red ruby rose up out of the depths and floated in front of the Detection Crystal’s point.
When I was again able to speak, my voice was very, very soft – almost to the point of sounding fearful.
“Is this… the Fire Gem?”