Chapter 2

I ran as fast as I could into the mountains, cold and alone. The wind was howling like crazy.

“Such a terrible night tonight…” I murmured. I slipped a few times, but didn’t fall off. I was walking for miles on end thinking that Windsong Islands went on forever. Suddenly, I saw something glowing in the distance; a purple sort of glow. I ran faster until I got to the light, and was shocked at the sight. A greeble with a staff, about to cast a spell onto a sugarbat. I could hardly believe it; I thought Sugarbats only lived in Cloudbreak islands. The greeble looked different than normal, though; it had purple eyes and dark purple skin, and crystals coming out of its body. As he was about to cast, I stopped him in his tracks by charging up my undead powers and trapping him in a cage made of bones.

“I’ll free you later…” I said to the greeble, and walked towards the sugarbat. To my surprise, it flew around me, then said,

“Woah! You saved my life!” I jumped back, not knowing what happened.

“You, can talk?” I said puzzled.

“You can understand me?!” It said back. I realised it was because of my amulet and its powers. I got up and put my hood back on. The sugarbat saw the crown I was wearing.

“You’re a princess? Cool!” It said. “But I’m still not sure how you got out here, or how you can understand me? We’ll sort it out later. And also, my name’s Swift. I came out here because all my brothers and sisters starting turning evil and purple, I flew away and ended up meeting you. So, yeah…” He added.

“Well, my name is Venima, Venima Skyfang!” I said to the sugarbat now recognised as Swift.

“If you want, you could come with me back to Cloudbreak Islands and meet the people there, I’ve met oh so many people of all different species there!” Swift offered me. I nodded and followed him through the mountains. We came across a slope with barely any snow on it and wasn’t very steep. It looked pretty safe to both of us. I started to have a feeling someone was following us. Every time we looked behind nobody was there. I could hear someone giggling very faintly in the mountains. We came to a forest full of small trees of different kinds. Nothing was there. Swift stopped to get some firewood while I waited. When we got a fire going I explained why I came out here.

“You see, I fled from my home city because of my powers, I’m also cursed. It’s why I keep my hand on my amulet all the time. The amulet I’m wearing has powers; I’ve only found out that I can talk to any creature in Skylands…” I finished, sighed then put my hand on my forehead. A bright light surrounded me, my clothes changed. I was wearing black, short pencil skirt, a black, gold rimmed jacket and a grey bandage top underneath. I was now wearing a cavalier’s hat. Swift jumped looked surprised. I still had the amulet. He looked surprised at what happened. I didn’t know either.

“Pretty cool for a girl with powers like that, now, we should get some sleep…” And that was what we did…

I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed; my legs weren’t aching at all. I and Swift continued walking through the woods. We kept walking until we reached the edge of the islands.

“Great, what’s next?” I said. We didn’t notice a small girl standing behind us saying

“I can help ya with that!” We both flinched and fell back. I got up and looked at her.

She was so small; I couldn’t tell what age she was exactly. Her green eyes were large for her face and she seemed to be a small android with four spider-like legs, the girl also had a pair of goggles (or visor) on her forehead of some sort and underneath it was a large tuft of light-ish blonde hair, with a larger ponytail on the back of her head. Her torso seemed so be a light blue colour and looked like armour but the arms were silver.

“I think I killed your pet…” She said.

“He’s not my pet; he’s just a friend…” I said to the girl. Swift got up and looked at the girl.

“I think I know her father, he’s been to where I used to live. I think her dad’s name is…. Umm… Spy Rise…” He whispered in my ear; the girl was giggling now. We got up and stared at her as if we were some sort of couple watching their kid.

“Hey… Are you alright?” The girl said.

“Yeah…” I said “Not much to see here, I think you should go home…”

“My home? Oh it’s in Cloudbreak! Name’s Rise, Rocket Rise, and I’d like to help!” I got up

“Well… Rocket… Do you know how to get off the island?”

“Yeah, there’s a dock over there” She pointed “they’ve been using it a while now…” So we went over and waited, I sat down with my legs dangling. I felt like we were being tricked. It had been a few minutes before we eventually saw an airship coming our way

“Hey! That ship looks familiar! It’s Flynn’s” Swift yelled. He turned out right because when we got on the captain (called Flynn off course) shouted

“Where to kiddo?”

Rocket replied “Cloudbreak, Flynn!”

“Boom! To Cloudbreak then!” Then the ship started moving. I sat down in the middle of the ship and played around with the amulet I was wearing. There was a flash when I ended up turning into a wolf, I played with it again and the next second I was an eagle. Then I crash landed into the floor in lizard form. I was about to play with my amulet again when Rocket said

“Hey! I like you that way! It’s… Cute?”

“Thanks,” I said. The ship stopped on an island

“Here’s the stop, you kids! Go knock yourself out!” We got off and left and stepped onto the island.