Chapter Seven
Sand Castle Reunion
I know that the air of war is upon us. The other kingdoms have become restless over something. My whole self wants to know what the king knows. Yet, I am but a lowly knight. I follow orders not question the authority of which they came. We
are marching through the marshes of the Dragons’ Hold. The knight commander is tense. Every one of us can see it. We must hold strong together if we are to get passed this, but I am afraid that many are wary of the knight commander. I know
he means well, not telling us of his burden, but if they feel they are not being told the truth… no one will listen to his command. If no one listens to his warning and trusts him, we are all doomed to die.
~Sir Melvin of the Dragon’s Hold Mission
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A-May felt herself shielding her eyes by puttingher whole head into Link’s shoulder. She was very lucky that he wasn’t complaining about it. The sand was wet, and the waves lapped at her boots. They were nowhere near as large as the waves back on Earth. It seemed like such a long time ago since she had been to a true beach. How old had she been then?
“You okay?” The boy from the cave asked as she continued to shield her eyes. She felt herself chuckle, which hurt her throat from the near drowning the day before. A-May found herself giving a small look out the white light around her, and then nodded into his shirt. He felt his body heave with quiet laughter.
The sand became less damp and her feet squished on the hot dry sand.
“Dude, you got open your eyes and see this!”
With her familiar’s voice in her head she slowly lifted her head. She couldn’t tell what color her eyes were, but she felt her mixed feelings of joy and worry in one. Her vision began to focus slowly. The light stung her eyes, but she fought through it. What she found was a bright green grass and palm trees. In the distance there was a purple hue of mountains. At one time they could have connected to a mountain range on another island. “It’s beautiful.”
The familiars were running, or flying if you were Chihiro, in circles ahead. The suspicious one, Zavier, was holding up Allisson. Link, the one she would have the hardest time dealing with and who had become her savior more than once, had wrapped his arm around her. It sent shivers down her skin. Fang flew back to her and began to pull playfully at her tank-top, “Come one… you have got to see this!”
“I’m coming, I’m coming,” Link tilted his head at A-May’s response, but she grabbed his arm and dragged him after Fang. Her familiar flew forward quickly to where the four familiars had stopped at the edge of the sand. What she found was dip into a grass bowl. In the middle was a small brown shack. No, not a shack. “Is that a dogo?”
The other two Sentakus had caught up, and she heard Allisson gasp. “There’s others here!” The girl’s voice was a loud squeal. A-May knew better though. This was a place of old. Fate had brought the Sentakus here. That could only mean…
“Allisson!” All four of the kids turned their heads to the voice coming from their right.
Link’s muscles tightened underneath him. Had it not been for the fact that A-May still had ahold of him no one would have noticed. The voice had come from a dark brown haired girl who was running straight towards them. Another person was behind them riding a griffin.
The new girl ran and jumped up eagerly to hug Allisson. Each of the two girls were laughing loudly. As the griffin came to a stop she found the rider to be a tall dark brown haired boy. His eyes were full of mischief, and of happiness. The boy gave a hug and slap on the back to Zavier, and then he came and gave the same to Link. Yet, he stopped when he saw A-May. “Whoa.”
“Hi, nice to meet ya too,” A-May said back with a raised eyebrow.
So this was it the whole group that everyone had been mentioning. The others.
Allisson was still hugging the new girl tightly. They finished their embrace just in enough time for Zavier to give her a one handed hug. She stopped at Link to glare at A-May, “Who are you?”
“Name’s A-May, most call me it, but you can call me A-May,” there was no way she was going to give the girl some weird fantasy satisfaction for being… well, who knows. Obviously the chick didn’t like her.
“Hey, V,” Link said sheepishly. That was new; Link never seemed sheepish at all. Oh. A-May let go of Link’s arm and went to see the griffin, and the bright red bird that sat on the griffin’s back
The girl called V, probably a short hand for something, gave a smirk at A-May before giving a close embrace to Link. A-May didn’t blame the girl for having obvious feelings for the boy. The griffin was a pearl white with ice blue eyes, “Hello Precious, and Flare.” The new brunette girl let go at the sound of the familiars’ names.
A-May acted like she didn’t see. Her eyes were a slightly red color. Anger flowed through her, but yet also an odd feeling she did not understand. One she had never felt. Flare gave a squawking sound, “Hello my dear. It has been a long time.” A-May had forgotten how Flare’s voice sounded so much different from the phoenix squawk. It made her chuckle slightly. At this point she had all of the others’ eyes on her. She put her finger to her lips, which no one could see. Both of the familiars nodded. They knew the motion meant that she didn’t want everyone to know she could speak to all of them.
The new boy had walked over, while the others starred, “Precious seems to like you.”
“Yep,” A-May winked sat Preciosu and turned to the taller boy. He stood a full foot taller than her. Well, maybe a little less than a foot, but not by much. “Never got your name.”
“Marcus.”
That was a name she hadn’t heard before, but who was she to judge right? She gave a small nod and then looked back at the group still starring at her. A-May raised both her eyebrows, “What?”
Link lifted his shoulders in a small laugh, but obviously tried to conceal it from V. The familiars had waddled, or flown, their way back to the Sentakus. They had sensed the Sentakus’ distress. Fang perched on her shoulder, as did Flare onto V’s. A-May felt that Fang was a better percher. Allisson was now the only one not looking into the group. She had sat down on the ground to rest her injured ankle.
What she had in her hand though wasn’t her injured ankle. It was glowing blue crystal on a black chain choker. Something was intriguing her about the object. Since no one had responded to her ‘what’ A-May walked over to Allisson. The rest of the group began to chatter about their adventures while separated. “Something wrong?”
The girl looked up and shook her head, “No, I don’t believe so.”
“Let me see.” Allisson handed her the blue crystal. It’s power was obviously just at the touch. The crystal was an object of power like her’s. A-May instinctually felt for her pocket for the silver finger ring. “Does it normally glow like this?”
Allisson shook her head again, “No, that’s what confused me.”
A-May gave a nod once again and held the crystal heart up to the sun. It left a shine of leaf reflections on the ground. Tiny, but visible. The outlines had a slight blue tint from the glow of the crystal itself. The red-head gasped at the sight. Obviously this was something new to her. Chihiro started chirping sounds beside her. A-May caught them all.
“Lady Allisson, that’s the blue crystal of the Light Spirit. It only glows at activation by the main crystal. Tales tell that a great sorceress had cut a piece of it to give to her great-granddaughter at her birth.” The fairy looked up and then at the crystal again. She seemed to be just as confused about the stone even with the knowledge she had about it. “Legend says that the crystals glow when near each other.”
It angered A-May a bit that she had to act like she hadn’t heard the explanation, “What’d she say?”
To A-May’s surprise Allisson spilled the explanation of the crystal to her without hesitation. Maybe A-May had one other person she could trust other than Link. The blond began to think. If the legend was true, then that meant they were near the same crystal that Allisson’s crystal had come from. “Who gave that crystal to you?”
Allisson looked at her with a tilted head and looked down at the grass she sat on. A-May could nearly see the gears turn in the girl’s head. After awhile the girl shook her head and looked back up, “I think I got it from my aunt or something like that. Don’t remember exactly only because I’ve had it for as long as I can remember.”
“As I thought,” A-May stopped realizing that Allisson probably hadn’t caught on yet. “Have you heard the word Sentaku yet?” Allisson nodded vigorously. Good, one less thing she wouldn’t have to figure out how to explain. She slowly pulled out her silver finger ring. The top of it was a silver skull, and the tip was sharpened at the end. “Don’t worry just need to take it out to explain.”
“Every Sentaku has a certain object of power. Something they always have with them, or seem to hold a special regard for.” Allisson nodded with understanding as A-May spoke. “For me it’s this ring, for you it’s the crystal. It’s something that keeps coming back in some way through time to each Sentaku’s reincarnation.”
Allisson nodded again. She seemed to be putting something together with this information. “So, each of us have an object like this?” This time A-May nodded.
“If they’re truly Sentakus… yes. Do you know what objects these could be for the others?”
A-May watched as the girl looked from A-May, to the crystal, and then to each of her friends who were huddled in a circle. From time to time V would stop googly-eyeing Link to glare at A-May. It made the girl smirk from the ridiculousness of the notion. “Let’s see.” Allisson was looking at Zavier. She seemed to be taking him in from head to toe. “He always wears that brown bead necklace around his neck. Can’t remember the last time I saw it off of him. Maybe at ROTC during class.” A-May took that with a grain of salt since she had no idea what it was.
Allisson then looked at Marcus who was talking loudly about every which thing. Actually him and V were having a childish argument about how their adventure had went. Something about becoming a dragon snack. A-May caught the sight of a blue sparkle in his ear. It wouldn’t have been noticeable if his sunglasses hadn’t pushed his hair back from his ears. “The butterfly earing.” So A-May had guess correctly, but she waited for Allisson’s explanation of it, “He found it a few years back swimming at the pool. We were just messing around and he nearly stepped on it. We had kept an eye out for someone missing it, but no one ever said they had.” It was a typical story for an object.
“I can tell you right away what Vanessa’s is.” So that was the chick’s full name, “She got the rose pendant necklace a few years back from a good friend of ours who just kinda of… well, let’s just say we aren’t really close anymore.” A-May found herself putting her hand on Allisson’s shoulder.
“Sorry to hear that,” And A-May meant it. For some reason this girl’s pain had made A-May feel as if she had lost her own friend in some way. It probably had some meaning, but she would never know for sure.
Allisson gave a small smile, “Thanks.” By this point Allisson was looking at Link closely. She seemed to be having trouble with what his object could be. “Man, this is sad. He’s really open about himself too.” The girl put her hand into a fist on her cheek as she examined the boy. Allisson kept looking the boy p and down. “I don’t know what it could be for him. Never seen him with an object or jewelry piece of sorts."
A-may looked from the red-head to the boy she had found and dragged to the cave. She caught a bright glint from his neck. The light had caught it just right, and had she not been paying attention she probably would have missed it, “The chain.”
“Huh?"
“The chain he wears around his neck,” A-May turned back to Allisson. “Don’t you see it?”
The girl looked at Link again, “Nope.”
“Well, I’m almost positive that’s what the object is for him.”
Allisson said nothing more, but nodded. If even his closest friends missed small things like that what had A-May missed? There was obviously more than what met the eye to the mysterious boy. Yet, he did seem very open about who he was. Just not as open about who he really is.
“Hey A-May, Allisson, get over here!” Link called with a grin and squinted eyes. The two girls looked at each other with small grins and walked over to the group huddled on the dry sand. “We were just talking about what had happened and stuff. It made me realize… A-May where did you come from?”
A-May raised her eyebrows, “Well, when a mother and a father love each other very much-“
The group burst into laughter, well all except for Vanessa, who glared at A-May.
“Really, what’s your story?”Zavier said anxiously. He was so suspicious that it made A-May twitch a bit.
There was no way A-May could tell her story. She had a lot more she would have to tell… How she got to Baransu. The deal she had made to do so. No, she would have to come up with something. The truth was too raw, “I got tossed here at a young age. I was taken in by the life around me, and most importantly Fang.” The bat gave a happy chirp in response. “I had been living in the mountains when Link fell through the trees. Thought about leaving the rascal there, but I knew I’d hate if someone did that to me so, I didn’t.”
“That’s it?” It was Vanessa’s voice.
A-May gave a gulp to clear her throat, “About it. Not much else to tell.”
Link tilted his head at his new friend. It was as if to say he believed her, but was confused by it at the same time. The girl knew that there was nothing else she could say, but maybe one day.
EEEEEEEE!
All of the kids turned their heads towards the sound that had come from the dogo. They had been so engrossed in their conversations they had forgotten about the old building. A-May had not, but had hoped that they would not need to go to it. The building gave her an eerie feeling.
“What was that?” Zavier said standing up suddenly. The others looked to him and back at the dogo, which was now silent once again.
Marcus, as normal jumped up to go check out the dogo, “Won’t know unless we check.” The other boy nodded and was quickly joined by Link. Allisson took a look at Vanessa who seemed to sigh with contempt. Obviously this wasn’t the first time this had happened. The two girls got up and followed after the boys. A-May watched as the Sentakus followed one another down the slope. One by one their familiars joined them.
A weight went to her right shoulder as Fang landed once again on A-May. She looked up and stroked the bat’s back. “Come on, we better move along. Unless, we wish to be left behind.”
“Dude, we can’t be left behind we’re too cool for that!” Fang said with a smirk. A-May gave a chuckle and agreed. She felt the burning eyes on the back of her neck. The girl turned around the see a black skinny figure standing on the sand. Her breath caught in her throat as she quickly rushed off after the group. Though she could have sworn she heard a growling laugh in her ears.
Sand Castle Reunion
I know that the air of war is upon us. The other kingdoms have become restless over something. My whole self wants to know what the king knows. Yet, I am but a lowly knight. I follow orders not question the authority of which they came. We
are marching through the marshes of the Dragons’ Hold. The knight commander is tense. Every one of us can see it. We must hold strong together if we are to get passed this, but I am afraid that many are wary of the knight commander. I know
he means well, not telling us of his burden, but if they feel they are not being told the truth… no one will listen to his command. If no one listens to his warning and trusts him, we are all doomed to die.
~Sir Melvin of the Dragon’s Hold Mission
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A-May felt herself shielding her eyes by puttingher whole head into Link’s shoulder. She was very lucky that he wasn’t complaining about it. The sand was wet, and the waves lapped at her boots. They were nowhere near as large as the waves back on Earth. It seemed like such a long time ago since she had been to a true beach. How old had she been then?
“You okay?” The boy from the cave asked as she continued to shield her eyes. She felt herself chuckle, which hurt her throat from the near drowning the day before. A-May found herself giving a small look out the white light around her, and then nodded into his shirt. He felt his body heave with quiet laughter.
The sand became less damp and her feet squished on the hot dry sand.
“Dude, you got open your eyes and see this!”
With her familiar’s voice in her head she slowly lifted her head. She couldn’t tell what color her eyes were, but she felt her mixed feelings of joy and worry in one. Her vision began to focus slowly. The light stung her eyes, but she fought through it. What she found was a bright green grass and palm trees. In the distance there was a purple hue of mountains. At one time they could have connected to a mountain range on another island. “It’s beautiful.”
The familiars were running, or flying if you were Chihiro, in circles ahead. The suspicious one, Zavier, was holding up Allisson. Link, the one she would have the hardest time dealing with and who had become her savior more than once, had wrapped his arm around her. It sent shivers down her skin. Fang flew back to her and began to pull playfully at her tank-top, “Come one… you have got to see this!”
“I’m coming, I’m coming,” Link tilted his head at A-May’s response, but she grabbed his arm and dragged him after Fang. Her familiar flew forward quickly to where the four familiars had stopped at the edge of the sand. What she found was dip into a grass bowl. In the middle was a small brown shack. No, not a shack. “Is that a dogo?”
The other two Sentakus had caught up, and she heard Allisson gasp. “There’s others here!” The girl’s voice was a loud squeal. A-May knew better though. This was a place of old. Fate had brought the Sentakus here. That could only mean…
“Allisson!” All four of the kids turned their heads to the voice coming from their right.
Link’s muscles tightened underneath him. Had it not been for the fact that A-May still had ahold of him no one would have noticed. The voice had come from a dark brown haired girl who was running straight towards them. Another person was behind them riding a griffin.
The new girl ran and jumped up eagerly to hug Allisson. Each of the two girls were laughing loudly. As the griffin came to a stop she found the rider to be a tall dark brown haired boy. His eyes were full of mischief, and of happiness. The boy gave a hug and slap on the back to Zavier, and then he came and gave the same to Link. Yet, he stopped when he saw A-May. “Whoa.”
“Hi, nice to meet ya too,” A-May said back with a raised eyebrow.
So this was it the whole group that everyone had been mentioning. The others.
Allisson was still hugging the new girl tightly. They finished their embrace just in enough time for Zavier to give her a one handed hug. She stopped at Link to glare at A-May, “Who are you?”
“Name’s A-May, most call me it, but you can call me A-May,” there was no way she was going to give the girl some weird fantasy satisfaction for being… well, who knows. Obviously the chick didn’t like her.
“Hey, V,” Link said sheepishly. That was new; Link never seemed sheepish at all. Oh. A-May let go of Link’s arm and went to see the griffin, and the bright red bird that sat on the griffin’s back
The girl called V, probably a short hand for something, gave a smirk at A-May before giving a close embrace to Link. A-May didn’t blame the girl for having obvious feelings for the boy. The griffin was a pearl white with ice blue eyes, “Hello Precious, and Flare.” The new brunette girl let go at the sound of the familiars’ names.
A-May acted like she didn’t see. Her eyes were a slightly red color. Anger flowed through her, but yet also an odd feeling she did not understand. One she had never felt. Flare gave a squawking sound, “Hello my dear. It has been a long time.” A-May had forgotten how Flare’s voice sounded so much different from the phoenix squawk. It made her chuckle slightly. At this point she had all of the others’ eyes on her. She put her finger to her lips, which no one could see. Both of the familiars nodded. They knew the motion meant that she didn’t want everyone to know she could speak to all of them.
The new boy had walked over, while the others starred, “Precious seems to like you.”
“Yep,” A-May winked sat Preciosu and turned to the taller boy. He stood a full foot taller than her. Well, maybe a little less than a foot, but not by much. “Never got your name.”
“Marcus.”
That was a name she hadn’t heard before, but who was she to judge right? She gave a small nod and then looked back at the group still starring at her. A-May raised both her eyebrows, “What?”
Link lifted his shoulders in a small laugh, but obviously tried to conceal it from V. The familiars had waddled, or flown, their way back to the Sentakus. They had sensed the Sentakus’ distress. Fang perched on her shoulder, as did Flare onto V’s. A-May felt that Fang was a better percher. Allisson was now the only one not looking into the group. She had sat down on the ground to rest her injured ankle.
What she had in her hand though wasn’t her injured ankle. It was glowing blue crystal on a black chain choker. Something was intriguing her about the object. Since no one had responded to her ‘what’ A-May walked over to Allisson. The rest of the group began to chatter about their adventures while separated. “Something wrong?”
The girl looked up and shook her head, “No, I don’t believe so.”
“Let me see.” Allisson handed her the blue crystal. It’s power was obviously just at the touch. The crystal was an object of power like her’s. A-May instinctually felt for her pocket for the silver finger ring. “Does it normally glow like this?”
Allisson shook her head again, “No, that’s what confused me.”
A-May gave a nod once again and held the crystal heart up to the sun. It left a shine of leaf reflections on the ground. Tiny, but visible. The outlines had a slight blue tint from the glow of the crystal itself. The red-head gasped at the sight. Obviously this was something new to her. Chihiro started chirping sounds beside her. A-May caught them all.
“Lady Allisson, that’s the blue crystal of the Light Spirit. It only glows at activation by the main crystal. Tales tell that a great sorceress had cut a piece of it to give to her great-granddaughter at her birth.” The fairy looked up and then at the crystal again. She seemed to be just as confused about the stone even with the knowledge she had about it. “Legend says that the crystals glow when near each other.”
It angered A-May a bit that she had to act like she hadn’t heard the explanation, “What’d she say?”
To A-May’s surprise Allisson spilled the explanation of the crystal to her without hesitation. Maybe A-May had one other person she could trust other than Link. The blond began to think. If the legend was true, then that meant they were near the same crystal that Allisson’s crystal had come from. “Who gave that crystal to you?”
Allisson looked at her with a tilted head and looked down at the grass she sat on. A-May could nearly see the gears turn in the girl’s head. After awhile the girl shook her head and looked back up, “I think I got it from my aunt or something like that. Don’t remember exactly only because I’ve had it for as long as I can remember.”
“As I thought,” A-May stopped realizing that Allisson probably hadn’t caught on yet. “Have you heard the word Sentaku yet?” Allisson nodded vigorously. Good, one less thing she wouldn’t have to figure out how to explain. She slowly pulled out her silver finger ring. The top of it was a silver skull, and the tip was sharpened at the end. “Don’t worry just need to take it out to explain.”
“Every Sentaku has a certain object of power. Something they always have with them, or seem to hold a special regard for.” Allisson nodded with understanding as A-May spoke. “For me it’s this ring, for you it’s the crystal. It’s something that keeps coming back in some way through time to each Sentaku’s reincarnation.”
Allisson nodded again. She seemed to be putting something together with this information. “So, each of us have an object like this?” This time A-May nodded.
“If they’re truly Sentakus… yes. Do you know what objects these could be for the others?”
A-May watched as the girl looked from A-May, to the crystal, and then to each of her friends who were huddled in a circle. From time to time V would stop googly-eyeing Link to glare at A-May. It made the girl smirk from the ridiculousness of the notion. “Let’s see.” Allisson was looking at Zavier. She seemed to be taking him in from head to toe. “He always wears that brown bead necklace around his neck. Can’t remember the last time I saw it off of him. Maybe at ROTC during class.” A-May took that with a grain of salt since she had no idea what it was.
Allisson then looked at Marcus who was talking loudly about every which thing. Actually him and V were having a childish argument about how their adventure had went. Something about becoming a dragon snack. A-May caught the sight of a blue sparkle in his ear. It wouldn’t have been noticeable if his sunglasses hadn’t pushed his hair back from his ears. “The butterfly earing.” So A-May had guess correctly, but she waited for Allisson’s explanation of it, “He found it a few years back swimming at the pool. We were just messing around and he nearly stepped on it. We had kept an eye out for someone missing it, but no one ever said they had.” It was a typical story for an object.
“I can tell you right away what Vanessa’s is.” So that was the chick’s full name, “She got the rose pendant necklace a few years back from a good friend of ours who just kinda of… well, let’s just say we aren’t really close anymore.” A-May found herself putting her hand on Allisson’s shoulder.
“Sorry to hear that,” And A-May meant it. For some reason this girl’s pain had made A-May feel as if she had lost her own friend in some way. It probably had some meaning, but she would never know for sure.
Allisson gave a small smile, “Thanks.” By this point Allisson was looking at Link closely. She seemed to be having trouble with what his object could be. “Man, this is sad. He’s really open about himself too.” The girl put her hand into a fist on her cheek as she examined the boy. Allisson kept looking the boy p and down. “I don’t know what it could be for him. Never seen him with an object or jewelry piece of sorts."
A-may looked from the red-head to the boy she had found and dragged to the cave. She caught a bright glint from his neck. The light had caught it just right, and had she not been paying attention she probably would have missed it, “The chain.”
“Huh?"
“The chain he wears around his neck,” A-May turned back to Allisson. “Don’t you see it?”
The girl looked at Link again, “Nope.”
“Well, I’m almost positive that’s what the object is for him.”
Allisson said nothing more, but nodded. If even his closest friends missed small things like that what had A-May missed? There was obviously more than what met the eye to the mysterious boy. Yet, he did seem very open about who he was. Just not as open about who he really is.
“Hey A-May, Allisson, get over here!” Link called with a grin and squinted eyes. The two girls looked at each other with small grins and walked over to the group huddled on the dry sand. “We were just talking about what had happened and stuff. It made me realize… A-May where did you come from?”
A-May raised her eyebrows, “Well, when a mother and a father love each other very much-“
The group burst into laughter, well all except for Vanessa, who glared at A-May.
“Really, what’s your story?”Zavier said anxiously. He was so suspicious that it made A-May twitch a bit.
There was no way A-May could tell her story. She had a lot more she would have to tell… How she got to Baransu. The deal she had made to do so. No, she would have to come up with something. The truth was too raw, “I got tossed here at a young age. I was taken in by the life around me, and most importantly Fang.” The bat gave a happy chirp in response. “I had been living in the mountains when Link fell through the trees. Thought about leaving the rascal there, but I knew I’d hate if someone did that to me so, I didn’t.”
“That’s it?” It was Vanessa’s voice.
A-May gave a gulp to clear her throat, “About it. Not much else to tell.”
Link tilted his head at his new friend. It was as if to say he believed her, but was confused by it at the same time. The girl knew that there was nothing else she could say, but maybe one day.
EEEEEEEE!
All of the kids turned their heads towards the sound that had come from the dogo. They had been so engrossed in their conversations they had forgotten about the old building. A-May had not, but had hoped that they would not need to go to it. The building gave her an eerie feeling.
“What was that?” Zavier said standing up suddenly. The others looked to him and back at the dogo, which was now silent once again.
Marcus, as normal jumped up to go check out the dogo, “Won’t know unless we check.” The other boy nodded and was quickly joined by Link. Allisson took a look at Vanessa who seemed to sigh with contempt. Obviously this wasn’t the first time this had happened. The two girls got up and followed after the boys. A-May watched as the Sentakus followed one another down the slope. One by one their familiars joined them.
A weight went to her right shoulder as Fang landed once again on A-May. She looked up and stroked the bat’s back. “Come on, we better move along. Unless, we wish to be left behind.”
“Dude, we can’t be left behind we’re too cool for that!” Fang said with a smirk. A-May gave a chuckle and agreed. She felt the burning eyes on the back of her neck. The girl turned around the see a black skinny figure standing on the sand. Her breath caught in her throat as she quickly rushed off after the group. Though she could have sworn she heard a growling laugh in her ears.