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The Equinox

Prologue
History Written
Journal Entry 28

  This night was an excellent find, we have finally discovered the ruins after a long month's search. As a historian, I have translated many runes to find my way here through a vast jungle and sharp rock edges besides many mountains, looking for any clues to find the glorious treasure I had my hopes to find one day from the stories I've heard in childhood. These ruins describe of a dragon the size of castles back in the days, and of its many minions that a young person would summon, the human was no mage, but created these beasts with his mind. It was a terrible sign to see a stray monster, for it is a scout, and any seen scouts are a sign of an incoming war. This dragon could also create creatures at his will, for he was the best known dark sorcerer who terrorized many towns and villages, looking for crystals the color of amethysts but only managed to find one. Before this beast could do any more damage to the kingdom, a mage came one day, hearing the news, and sealed the dragon away, deep, in the dark cave that was forever left forbidden. These walls tell of many other stories, but this was the most interesting one. I shall update my journal on my other finds and stories.

~Chapter 1~
Awakening after the Eternal Rest

Breathing in air, taking deep breathes, cold stone flooring, my mind starts to have flashbacks and my heart begins to beat, while steam vapor went through my snout. Fire began to blaze through me, and I slowly opened my stunning yellow sleek eyes that glowed through the darkness around me, giving little visibility. I've began to test my movements with the available space around me, twitching my dark blue tail left to right, then expanding my silver wings as far as they could go, revealing scratches from the past. I slowly lifted my head, being careful to avoid any sharp rocks above, and scanned my surroundings from there. Taking large breaths in and out, and noticed something at the edge of my eyesight. Slowly, I rise off the ground, putting pressure into my four legs with four silver claws at each end for my front legs and three for my hind legs. Slowly turning my head with my whole body started to slowly weaken me due to lack of air in this cave, and slowly moved towards the shine ahead of me. Each step, I got closer and noticed a hint of purple on the shine, in the middle, an amethyst gem. I remembered this stone, and every lost memory came back to me the longer I stared at it until I found the memory of what my objective was. To get all five crystals, but since I have one, that leaves four left to find. My cold deep laugh echoed through the cave, making bats and mice scurry out, that's when I found the entrance. I was free once again.

"Rea, wake up, time for breakfast" I faintly heard as my mom shouted out and drowsily sat up on my bed, but with the radio on, its quite difficult because its like a lullaby to me, I turned towards the radio to my right and peered down the side of the bed where a white fluff was at. "Good morning Tasha" I whispered out and my dog, Tasha, woke up silently with her eyes now open and turned to look up at me, I smiled, and stood up on the floor to turn the radio off. Today, I dressed in blue since it was my favorite color, a light blue short sleeve shirt, blue jeans, and white socks. I went out the entrance of my room, went down one flight of stairs to reach the kitchen, and smelled bacon, along with eggs and toast. I continued forward, ended up at the dining table, and sat at the chair closest to the end of the table and near the open window, which showed a bright beautiful blue sky with no hint of clouds. Later, my mom sat ahead of me at the table and dad came with the food served on plates along with utensils to use. "Good morning, did you sleep well?" I heard from my dad and replied simply, "yeah."

"Rea, do you know what today is?" I looked at my mom and suddenly got excited, with a smile I seemingly shouted out, "state fair?" both my parents nodded and I grabbed two pieces of crispy bacon. I knew that I couldn't go if I didn't eat everything on my plate, I don't enjoy eggs much but with the two pieces of toast I have, I placed eggs on one piece of toast and placed the other on top and squished them together to combine and make a egg sandwich of some sort. A glass of orange juice later and I was ready to go, but first, I had to let my two dogs, Ginger and Tasha go outside. I scrapped the remaining small bits of food in the trash and placed the dish in the sink with other cups, plates, bowls, and utensils from yesterday and such. I went down the stairs with the dogs following me close behind, trying to reach the back door before I could, so it was similar to a race. Everyone was doing something of their own, I was thinking of what to bring for the long drive ahead and chose a book called, "His Majesty's Dragon" by Naomi Novik that I got from a yard sale recently and never read, I also brought my Nintendo DS lite just in case. All three family members headed out towards the garage after I let the dogs in and put them straight to the kennel with food and water as their own breakfast while we're gone.

The garage started to open with a rumble and the small black car started to drive reverse, and once out in the bright sunshine, headed forward towards a long drive to Wasilla, Palmer for the annual state fair. After about half way through the drive, I looked out the window from my seat where all there was is a large marsh area where only a few trees would grow, it took many years for those trees to grow in that area, and they never grew leaves, just brown and gray branches. I started to see a house, then two, then a large field, then two large fields on both sides, then I kept looking for more details and sure enough, I spotted a brown animal on four legs grazing on the grass, a cow. Later, I saw a huge round object rolling in one place, a Ferris wheel, we were close to the state fair finally, I thought about all the animals in the petting zoo, the rides, what I could win from games, and food from the stalls.

After dad paying for our parking fee, we drove around the parking lot trying to find a decent parking place for the car so we don't have to walk much after the excitement from the fair. Once we found a good place in the purple parking lot, we headed towards the purple gates through the dirt ground with little grass, the yellow parking lot would have had grass. After reaching the gates, and paying yet another fee for adults, children, seniors, etc, we took a stroll through all the shops that seemed interesting, antiques, clothing, accessories, toys, trinkets, and many other things. The food stalls sold grilled corn, kettle corn, refreshing drinks, coffee, cookies, ice cream, strawberries in chocolate, and other varieties along with my mom's favorite, little sliced cooked potatoes with a bit of salt and a side of sour cream. The rides were my favorite part, there's the silver streak, apple spin, 1,000 knots, tornado, carousels, bullet, bumper cars, and others for any kid or adult.

A thought then crossed my mind, "Mom, could I go to the petting zoo? Since next year I might not be able to go?" I asked through the bustling crowd of people, as we we're just about in front of this huge green stable looking house. My mom reached into her pocket and held out her hand towards me, I placed my hand out and a quarter fell into my palm, "sure, but don't be in there too long, I'll come soon" mom informed. I nodded, and walked inside the wide open entrance and I heard a variety of noises. Ahead of me was the petting zoo with a short line so I walked to the end of the line and waited while watching the small area beside me. There were goats, pigs, a small horse, chickens, a calf, sheep, and on the side in a smaller area were bunnies, ducks, and some other animals. The attendant opened the gate and I went in to the side where there was seemingly little gumball like machines like the ones were you could get gum but instead there were small animal food like wheat or grain in its place. I put the quarter in the slot available and twisted the knob, I heard the food come down and cupped my hand below the area where I'm supposed receive the food and slowly opened the cover and food poured into my hand. A goat came down the bundle of hay it was standing on and came down next to me, so I place a small bit of the food into my hand and fed the white goat with black spots, and two small tan horns.

More goats came, I fed them all small bits, a little to the cow, then some for the chickens to peck off, and the rest to the sheep and other goats. I then took a look at the bunnies, one was a pure white color, a black color, and a brown, and all three cuddled up next to each other dozing off. I then got up and petted the goats, then walked towards the exit where another attendant opened it up. But at the same time an attendant was opening the bunny gate to feed carrots, all three rabbits woke up, the white one dashed out, seemingly disappeared and then was out in an instant, Once I as out with some other kids, I thought of what to do, 'should I help? Should I stay? My mom isn't here yet… no…. yes?' I took a deep breath, 'the attendants will get it, they don't need help' with that thought gone, I washed my hands with the small sink that was available and continued to wait for my mom on a nearby bench.

A flash then came and a white rabbit was in my lap, I looked at it with an astonished look and softly grabbed it, wasn't this the same rabbit that I saw in the petting zoo? A small laugh came, "you seriously think I'm a rabbit? I'm a chinchilla" I looked at the 'chinchilla' and was it talking just now? The chinchilla looked up at me, "yes, I talk, isn't that normal to your kind?" I replied silently, "uh… no, I don't think so, how are you talking?" the chinchilla looked down, "oh… so I blew my cover" cover? What kind of animal is this? "I'm named Snowie, and I'm looking for a giant fluffy" Snowie proudly stated, "um, nice to meet you?" I hesitated and the chinchilla made a small laugh again, "I don't bite" I laughed a bit myself, this is unnatural for a chinchilla to talk I guess, "Well, my name's Rea" the chinchilla looked up with a smile, "nice to meet you" I nodded. I then asked, "A giant fluffy?" the chinchilla nodded, "yes, I love to collect fluffs from around the galaxy. I have the powers to teleport to an area if I know it well, however, I'm being hunted down, like a bounty hunter, because of my power, so I have a sort of guardian who's actually my friend" I looked at the chinchilla in shock, this couldn't possibly be real. "Wait, so you're basically risking your life just for some giant fluff?" Snowie shook her head, "no its not like that, fluff is used for many things where I come from, clothing, furniture, even medicine"  I looked up in thought, "interesting" I then heard my mom calling out to me "um… is it okay if I try to help?" I asked without thinking. The chinchilla nodded and went into hiding into the small backpack I carried. I became silent, what were the chances of this ever happening to me?  

"Rea, its time to go" I looked at mom as she approached, "already?" mom nodded, "there's a storm coming and we have to go before we get stuck in traffic, we'll come another time" I replied, "okay" I got up and walked through the crowd that some had umbrellas they have purchased from a shop or brought on their own. A silent figure in the shadows of a far away birch tree put away its binoculars, mounted a blue-scaled raptor, and headed towards a cave and once there, made a report to a huge dark scaled being, "I have found the creature with the teleporting ability. It seems she's become friends with a human girl" The huge blue and silver scales moved and yellow eyes glowed through the darkness with little light coming off the single crystal and the dragon was in a sitting position, "good work, now for the next step in this progress. We'll need creatures to capture Snowie, below this room is a machine that creates what is in your mind, I believe you'll be the best for it since the machine won't work with my thoughts. I doubt that human can protect herself against such creatures, only Snowie can sense them" the figure nodded, and the dragon continued with its deep voice, "and keep an eye on them at all times, something tells me something interesting is coming, HAX"

~End of Chapter One, Awakening after the Eternal Rest~
I finally got done with the first chapter, and now my friend :iconyouhastaste: will type the next chapter, then I'll type the 3rd chapter :meow: this is like an intro to the main character Rea, with her going to the state fair and meeting a strange chinchilla named Snowie, :iconyouhastaste:'s character. And Equinox has awakened from his long supposed eternal rest, his desire to find all the crystals must have corrupted his sleep. His minion? hehehe, its HAX for some reason :meow: :iconyouhastaste:'s idea after I mentioned something about HAX :XD: so hope you enjoy, this story is just epic to me and :iconyouhastaste: :meow:
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windmaster45's avatar
:D I can't wait for the next chapter.