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Chapter 1 : A Short Story

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The blue haired girls screams echoed through the air, tortured and broken as the blade drew deeper into her shoulder, her amulet ripped from her neck as the Larks sword kept her pinned to the cupboard.
Phoenix’s eyes snapped open and he panted heavily as he tried to shake the thoughts out of his head, Carter was already awake next to him, his eyes as wide as saucers and Allen was sitting up in his own bed, his eyes red from clearly crying.
“You ok?” Nix asked cautiously.
Allen shook his head furiously in response “How do you handle that every night?” he asked in a small voice.
“Carter look after him for a moment” Phoenix almost ordered, ignoring when Carter rolled his eyes at his demand “I have to get Uncle Mike”

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It wasn’t Lonnie’s fault that he was a little loud and intimidating, it was just that he was a Lark and they were naturally loud and intimidating.
They’d opted to leave their chests back at the mountain hideaway, while they may not make it back there at least if they didn’t their special Kryslian artifacts wouldn’t be in the damaging hands of the Elarks. Phoenix could tell the time for war was getting closer, if Allen or Anna slipped up even the slightest it could very well spell the end of existence for Earth and all the people and animals on it. That bothered Nix greatly, he’d never been fussed on the move but he had grown rather fond of the air and sceneries which were nothing like Kryslee.
“Do you think they killed her?” A soft voice snapped him out of his thoughts, he turned to see Allen standing behind him shuffling from foot to foot, clearly nervous to step into his first real battle as a planet.
Phoenix shook his head “No” he answered honestly “they’re doing what Larks do best, torturing her”
“Like Jupiter?” Allen asked, even softer if that was possible.
Phoenix nodded but a gruff voice challenged his answer “No” Lonnie mumbled from behind them “what they’ll do to that girl if we don’t get there soon is much worse than torture and nothing short of greed”
“What are they doing?” Phoenix spun to meet his eye to which he just shook his head sadly.
“They’re harvesting her gifts” the Lark

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