Chapter 15: Orgian Castle

They've been traveling for many days now. Their crew had managed to find the town but Nayr had warned them ahead of time that the villagers weren't nice to outsiders so they decided to cloak themselves buy the maps and hurry out of there. The map wasn't the most detailed but it turned out they didn't need a map because they found Orgian Warrior footprints. Orgian Warrior footprints were all over the place but they seemed to all lead to the same place.

Nydoru went ahead of the group to find more of the footprints because he was the fastest and he apparently, really wanted to go. Unknown to him, Akineo was also following him after much persuasion from her sisters and the others because he wasn't that strong. Akineo in her wolf form could also keep in touch with her sisters while Nydoru couldn't. He was already out the forest and was only bordering it not exactly in it. He was about to go away from the forest more but he decided against it and was about to go back to the group.

She smelt an Orgian Scout way before she saw it. She growled lowly to herself and glanced at Nydoru. Stupid! Can't you hear him!? She snarled in her mind and went out from her hiding place. She quickly turned back into her human form before he started screaming. "Let's go, a scout's coming." she snarled and started running, practically dragging him behind her. She cursed in her head and morphed back into her wolf form. She looked at him then at her back.

"Climb on your back?" he asked. She nodded and snarled for him to hurry up. He scrambled onto her back and she started running at full speed back to the group.

Nydoru buried his face into her fur and tried not to topple over. Very abruptly, Akineo stopped and Nydoru literally flew over her head and landed on his butt right in front of Jevin and Airieng. "Ow, ow, ow, my butt." Nydoru said while getting up carefully.

"I'm sorry. I should've warned you. Hey Jevin, where are the others?" Akineo asked after she transformed and noticed nobody but them was in sight. Jevin and Airieng just stared at Nydoru and Akineo blankly. "Airieng? Jevin? Hey?" Akineo said waving her hand in front of their blank faces.

"What're you talking about? There right here...." Jevin said in a monotone voice. Akineo suddenly froze. She quickly covered her mouth with her sleeve.

"NYDORU! Cover your mouth!" she snarled at Nydoru but when she looked at him she saw his usually over-smiling face was as blank as Jevin's and Airieng's. SHe blinked and transformed into her wolf form and ran away.

Nukanah!? Eedeed!?, Akineo screamed in her mind.

Akineo, quick come to the cave where you left us. Nerak is with us but only because we transformed quick enough. The poison doesn't affect animals or creatures only humans. The rest of our group inhaled too much miasma, Nukanah explaned.

Akineo almost sighed in relief but that was quickly overcome with worry about her human friends. For now, she had to meet up with her sisters and Nerak.