Silver Lining Chapters 3+4

Chapter 3
Turning on to the forest path Aurelia yelled back to her companions to hurry and catch up with her. After riding for about fifteen more minutes they came to a clearing where they decided to take a rest “Where the hell are we?” Mamimi asked as she was sitting her bike against a tree. “I’m sure no one here knows where we are.” Ty replied. Sitting down Aurelia noticed that there was a pattern on the ground made out of rocks. “Hey Ty do you know what this symbol means?” Aurelia pointed at the symbol in the rocks as she said that. “Think it’s some kind of circle. I know what it is but I just don’t remember what it’s called.” Canti said before Ty had a chance to speak. Fhoom. Boom a cloud of dust slowly rose up off the ground they now all layed on. “Ah where the hell are we?!?!” Aurelia screamed, the noise from her outcry causing millions of unearthly birds to fly up out of the trees. “Hey not so loud. One thing Aurelia, none of us know where we are.” Ty pointed out. Mamimi and Canti were unconscious lying on the ground next to Aurelia. “Hey Mamimi wake up you half-wit.” Aurelia muttered as she back-handed Mamimi across the face. “Hey Aurelia watch it that hurts you know.” Mamimi rubbed the bruise that was starting to show up on her face. Then shook Canti trying to wake him up without achievement. Whoosh the sound of a bird drew steadily nearer to where they were. “Watch out below!” They heard someone above them bark. Aurelia and Ty moved out of the clearing while Mamimi was stuck dragging Canti. “You guys are some friends you didn’t even help me!” Mamimi exclaimed as she sat down next to a tree. “Oomph. I hate these wings. I can never seem to get them to fly in a straight line, or land with out me falling on my face.” A boy said from the clearing. The girls just sat there and stared at him, he was the cutest boy they had ever seen. His blue eyes had a bright twinkle to them and his short blond hair was so bright that it looked almost white in the bright sunlight. His clothes didn’t look Japanese at all they looked as if they were from medieval times in Europe and his wings were of the most angelic design. Aurelia timidly stepped out of the forest and into the clearing. “Hi I’m Aurelia and these are my friends Ty, Mamimi, and Canti. Canti’s the one that’s unconscious. What‘s your name?” Ty and Mamimi emerged from the forest carrying Canti between them. “My name’s Sage nice to meet you.” Sage folded his wings behind him like an angel would and held out his hand so Aurelia could shake it. “Your clothes are strange. Where did you get them? Wait I know you aren’t from these parts are you?” “I don’t even think we’re from this world. The world we live in is like this one only different. What continent are we on?” “What’s a continent?? If you want to know where we are we’re in the Anthar forest. If you want to we can go to my home right over there and you can tell me about your world.” "Sounds good to me!" Aurelia replyed cheerfully. They silently walked through the forest following Sage to his home buried deep in the forest not far from where they were.


                                               Chapter 4
Once at Sage’s house they tried to wake Canti though they still couldn’t wake him. “You’re welcome to stay here until your friend wakes. Well then again you don’t have much of a choice my house is the only house until Tsuki Village.” “Well you’re right we have no other choice but to stay here.” Aurelia said. “Would you like some tea while you tell me about your world?” Sage asked Aurelia “Sure why not. I’m parched anyway.” “Well if you want tea I better put some water on to boil.” Sage got up, went over to the stove, and started the fire under the stove then put a kettle of water on to boil. When coming back to the table Sage grabbed four mugs from one of the cabinets. “Well it’s going to take a while for the water to boil so you might as well start telling me about your world.” “Well our world is like yours only there aren’t creatures like you. The place we live in is called Kyoto which is in Japan. I don’t know how we got to your world but I think it had something to do with a symbol on the ground, in a clearing much like the one you found us in. We were on our way to the Cherry Blossom Festival when we decided to take a rest. The next thing we knew we were in this world.” Aurelia explained to Sage. “If you have some paper and a pen I can show you what the symbol looked like.” Ty interjected. “I’ll go see if I can find any paper. There’s a pen and bottle of ink on the desk behind you Miss Mamimi.” Sage got up from the table yet again and went into another room to look for paper. While Sage did that Mamimi got the pen and ink from the desk. Sage returned shortly carrying a thick pad of white paper. Setting the paper down on the table in front of Ty he silently seated himself next to Aurelia. “We better be quite so Ty can think.” Aurelia whispered to Sage. After a few minutes of sketching Ty finally held up a picture of a transmutation circle. (Drawn rather badly if I might add.) “Oh jeze that’s the work of the dark wizard, Thyme, my twin brother.” Sage got up from the table and looked out a window facing east. “His castle is in the eastern mountains. If you want to get home you have to steal his spell book which he keeps hidden somewhere in the caves of the Annex Mountains. Not even I know where it’s hidden.” Sage left the kitchen and when he returned he had with him a map of the mountains. “You won’t be able to get into the castle without my help. And you won’t be going anywhere in those clothes.” “When are we leaving?” Aurelia and Mamimi chimed. “We’ll have to leave at least by tomorrow. The journey will take at least a month.” “Hey Mamimi why don’t you try and wake Canti?” Ty suggested. “Fine I’ll go try.” Mamimi got up from the table and exited the room. “Well I might as well go get the clothes from the attic.” “Wait and I’ll come with you.” Aurelia said as she got up from the table. As they climbed the stairs Aurelia asked. “Will me and Mamimi have to wear boy clothes?” “No I have my little sister’s clothes upstairs in a trunk.” “What happened to your sister?” “Our brother… You know what I’d rather not talk about it.” Once they were upstairs Sage immediately disappeared. “Do I hear the water boiling?” Aurelia asked herself. “Ty could you pour the tea water!?” Aurelia yelled down the stairs. Right when she finished that sentence someone grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back amongst the clutter. “Aurelia it’s just me.” Sage said. “God Sage you scared me half to death.” “Do you really want to know what happened to my little sister? If yes just nod your head.” Aurelia opened her mouth to speak but then she closed her mouth and just nodded her head. “Okay then come over here and sit down. It all started a year ago when my brother found that spell book of his in the attic of the family castle. Our little sister tried to stop him from taking it, but he wouldn’t listen to her. When Thyme was trying to bring a monster from another world into this one Aurelia stopped him. Then he… he killed her without a second thought.” Sage started crying even before he had finished his sentence. “Sage stop crying please someone might hear you. Wait what did you say your sister’s name was?” “Her name was Aurelia the exact same as yours. That’s why I was so shocked when I first met you. Oh Miss Aurelia you might want to get the clothes for you and Miss Mamimi. The trunk’s behind you. I’ll go get the clothes for Sir Ty and Sir Canti. If you need my help I’ll be across the room.” Aurelia turned around as Sage walked across the room. She opened the trunk and brushed away the cobwebs. “What would Mamimi wear?” Aurelia thought to herself. She took two short dresses and two belts. One for her and one for Mamimi.  “Hey Sage you got any weapons around here?”  Aurelia hollered. “Yeah there’re above you on a shelf. Be careful not to hit your head though.” Was Sage’s reply. Aurelia backed away from the wall and stood up. When she looked at the shelf it looked like if might collapse any second. Aurelia grabbed four daggers, two bows, Two quiver full of arrows, and two swords. The shelf looked relieved to have some of the weapons removed. “Sage I’m going downstairs.” Aurelia said as she quietly went down the stairs and into the kitchen.