Young Blood

[Nohiki]

"Oh they are fine, the wizards brought Sol'Lux against us but Tea appeared and ended it rather fast. But we can talk about that later. Let's get you fixed and then home." said Phoenicia, a mild glow enveloping Ciro and fixing what was wrong with him.

Sol'Lux opened her mouth to respond, but took a mouthful of snow instead. She spat it out: "I'm out of shape, i used to be able to bury you in your own attack." Sol complained. "Then let's do that, it's not like the rest can't handle what'S left of tham. After all, we did our share in saving the land already." she said, barrel rolling into flight position.

[Awesomoman]

"HEY MOM! LOOK AT ME!" Taranis was jumping up and down on the carcass. "Holy crap. Wait til i rub this in Tea's face! All that talk about me not controlling my magic. Well how do you like me now sis?"

"She can see..." Gorn still couldn't believe what he heard. "I mean, i should be too surprised. I mean a plant from hell is what healed me but what could she have?" Gorn just shook his head. "Ah, I'll ask her about it when we get home. Now lets see if i can." Gorn walked over the severed head of Titan. He looked it over and whistled. "The most advanced piece of technology and its in our hands. I am gonna have fun with this."

[Morty]

"Gross, Ri!" Ciro complained. He tested his ribs with his paw. All better. "Thanks, ma." he said, ducking his head. "You don't really mean a plant from hell, right dad?" he said dubiously while he thought over the revelations. "She can see now? That's pretty amazing. But what about her magic sight?" he wondered. He'd always been rather jealous of his sister's mysterious ability.

[Nohiki]

"Let's just... go home. There's some sleep to be done." Phoenicia said and opened a portal to the Nest. When she arrived, Lantea wasn't home. She found her on a clearing nearby, diving in the blossoming flowers and chasing a colorful butterfly. "I've never seen the kid so happy." she noticed to Gorn. "I can't imagine what that's like, it must be like a whole new world."

[Awesomoman]

Gorn cast a powerful force field around the severed head. "I'll come back for this. COME ON TARANIS!" He yelled. "Aww come on. 5 more minutes." Taranis pleaded. He had turned the body into a sort of trampoline. "Come," Gorn teleported Taranis over to him. "here." Taranis landed on the ground and pouted. They walked through the potal.

Gorn looked at Lantea and smiled. "Thats an understatement. I think i can ask her what happened in the morning, shes having too much fun right now." "She's not the only one." Gorn's heart sank and his eyes widened. That voice, was that? It couldn't have been. He was trapped. Or was he? Gorn just shook it off. He was probably just tired.

[Morty]

Ciro drifted through the portal and alighted on the soft grass outside the den. He saw his sister playing in the flowers, her eyes no longer misty and unseeing. He smiled a bit, too tired for anything else. He was almost ready to fall asleep at the mouth of the cave, resting his chin on his paws, when his head shot up suddenly, eyes wide in alarm. "The Equinox!"

[Zetherus]

Pandora was looking out to the sunrise until she saw dragons launch from the cave above her. She moved closer to the wall of the mountain so she wouldn't get trampled but remained in the same exposed area. The dragoness was interested on how the dragons used a type of portal to get to Energy Peak so quickly and remotely. She sat up looking down and around her area to make sure no straggling enemies were sneaking in the remote battlefield zone. Nothing looked hostile so she curled up in a ball and tried to sleep.

[Nohiki]

Lantea crashed into the group as she was looking more at the butterfly instead of where she was landing. "Guys, the colors! Look at all the colors!" she said happily, just lying on her back, watching the skies. Then Ciro opened a can of whoop@$$ on her ears. "Chill, dude, there's one next year." she said, holding her ears.

[Morty]

"Exactly! That's a whole year away! We have to go, now!" he said, recovering from Lantea's tackle and upending the bag of maps he'd been carrying since their departure onto the ground, rummaging around for the right one. "Ma! Pa! Can one of you teleport us to this spot right here so we can find whatever's out there?" he pleaded, pointing to the spot on the map that corresponded to the Guardian's astrological position relative to the planet at the time of the Equinox, but he didn't tell them that. "Pleeeeeaase?"

[Nohiki]

Phoenicia looked at Gorn, shrugging: "Well they can apparently take care of themselves and it's two hours till sunset..." she said, "Are you sure you won't get chopped up and burned?" she asked, but Lantea answered insead: "I am sure we will. I've been told it's guarded, bro, let's leave it be and come ready next time." she said with nearly begging voice. She jsut finished a very hard fight and got her eyesight back, last thing she wanted to do was to fight ancient guards of whatever.

[Morty]

"No way!" Ciro bristled. "I went along with your crazy schemes, now it's my turn! We already went all this way." He turned to his mother. "You set us up with this. You followed us to the secret library! You know where the trail ends, so I don't see why it would be dangerous, especially with you and dad around." he reasoned, put out. He'd dropped his high hopes of solving the mystery first as soon as Phoenicia had uncloaked herself in the library, now he just wanted to see the end of the story himself. And how was it that Tea knew all these secrets lately? What a load of bull. She couldn't even read the map until a few hours ago, unless Grandma had been talking to her...

[Nohiki]

"The library was actually a freaky accident i don't get." said Phoenicia with suspicious voice, "Just opening the library was the test, I had no idea Lantea could disable the hiding spell before you found out the activation mechanism or Taranis beaten through the floor, no offense." she said towards the girl. Lantea waved it off. "After that i just stood guard, letting it unfold." Phoenicia explained.
At this point, Lantea had her eyes cosed, as if she was listening. She nodded few times after several seconds. "It was all Fireheart's doing. Don't ask me how. Somehow he survived the death of his body. This is how he was speaking to me." she said and handed out an amulet that Sol'Lux made all those ears ago to communicate with Sharon. "He must have been bound to the other one when he died. That's how i knew how to beat the Wizards back, about the Atlantean weapon, about Visron's amulet, about how to cure myself, everything. That storm i unleashed was supposed to happen where Ciro wants to go, to kill the guards of the place as well. If we go there, the resistance will be very fierce." the little dragoness explained.

Phoenicia held the amulet for a few seconds, anger building up in her. After few seconds , she simply crushed it. "Lantea, did it ever occur to you that the whole time he has been using you as a weapon?! My brother always needed a shrink, and this feat only confirms it. Do you know whit how much danger you came into contact with? It was a fluke of probability that you survived!"

[Zetherus]

Pandora arose from the platform yawning and stretching to the night sky. She looked down at the arguing dragons wondering what they talking about then Shadow Stepped into an open field next to them so she could hear. She sat down tilting her head to the left toward the arguers as she wondered what they were still talking about, until she heard something about a library and some ruins. Then she stood up and got closer lifting her ears at the interesting argument. "Man if I was a treasure hunter these leads would get freaking about it!" She said to herself as she watched.

[Awesomoman]

Gorn shuddered when Lantea mentioned Visron. He did hear him, he was back. "Where is it now? What happened to the amulet!" Gorn asked filled with fear about what might have happened to Lantea.

Taranis didn't waste anytime. He smugly strolled up to Lantea and looked her dead in the eyes. "Hey sis, guess what? I just killed the king of the gryadas. What do you think about that?

[Nohiki]

"Easy, i've sent it back where it was before." Phoenicia held Gorn off. "What, something we should know? that's what we just needed, TWO spirit freaks." growled Phoenicia.

Lantea was now in a little shock at the weight of her mother'S words, however it didn't last for long. She smirked, but in reality, she was trying to hold off laughter as hard as she could. "Yo.. You'r... You're RED?!" she managed to say and then collapsed laughing.