Plantation Millennia Ash'i

Elysia
"We’re not going to make it!!” I heard the screech from my companion next to me. The orange sand blinded me and the purple and brown sky provided no light. I heard her trip next to me and I automatically froze. “Lynn!!” I called, spinning around and grabbing her hand to no avail. The Ostoros came up behind us and automatically tackled me, my hand falling loose of Lynn’s. All I saw was a mat of blonde hair thrashing and fighting other creatures. My brown hair was pulled into a messy bun as I punched, kicked, and bit my way through. All I saw were our two planes falling into the brush, and the men disappeared.

Now Lynn and I were in a new scene. The orange dust was there, along with half-finished wooden construction. We saw a group of people, I think, taking Communion. I don’t know, I was more concerned of the fact our planes had just fallen down a slope. We both decided to go look over the side. I figured there would be a river, but alas, only feet down, were our planes, tangled in the bushes. We worked together to pull them out. Lynn’s single-person blue and white plane, my yellow and black plane were like us, partners in crime. They were in a poor state, but I knew Lynn could fix them up. Suddenly the group of people that were in the double story, half-finished woodwork building came up behind us and tapped our shoulders. “We are going” said I think was the leader. Apparently we were required to go with them since we were in the box-type building. Lynn sighed and just agreed, following them with me in tow. I was riding Crystallia, my pet tiger. I had a deep gash going down my leg, and Lynn’s shoulder was cut. Turns out, these nice people were going to help us. Bandaging us up and giving me a crutch (which I doubt I’ll ever use) we finally got to leave.

Me and Lynn, being our hunting selves, clearly had a talent for lying. Not only lying to men with our charm to persuade them to help us, but lying to woman to help us with our wounds also. We quickly got in our planes, which were somehow fixed, and we flew off. We saw the green water-tower looking building we called home flashing green. Lynn spoke into her transmitter “Psshhhh We need to go back psshhhh.” Even with the fuzzy sound, I understood. I sighed and kissed this dreary world a farewell for the now and started diving down to our base. Suddenly the garage opened and we crashed in, our planes landing rather smoothly for such a rowdy entrance. We were greeted by patrollers Levi and Sage with a salute and an “Elysia. Lynn.” as we went through a steel door.

Suddenly we were in a crowded hallway, like usual, with much less vivid colors. We walked through the door into the store “Planatoura’s.” My brown hair bounced and my blue eyes grew bigger at the site of him. I smiled and walked into his arms. Lynn automatically went to talk to Lizzy, the owner of the store
“James. You’re actually here.” I smiled a smile that just couldn’t stretch far enough. I was so happy to be hugging him coming out of that world into the real world. Normal people walked by the store, and a few dared to come in. Lizzy brushed her hair to her face to hide her Elvin ears, as she went to help the customer for exotic animals. I took James’ hand and walked outside with him, leaving Lynn to be waiting for Izzy to return. My thought process was interrupted by a voice I swear was infested with angels.
“How was it?”
“It was... crazy,” was all I could make out. “Look at my leg” I said, showing him the gash. He lightly rubbed it.
“Smooth,” he said sarcastically. “How?”
“Ostoros.. Who else? The dang white ogres” I mumbled. He laughed and stroked my arm. Suddenly, a blue light flashed and we were at Olive Garden. “You know me too well” I smiled.

Lynn:
I sighed as Elysia left to be with her lover. I love her like a sister, she practically is, I just wish Izzy was around as much as James was. James is rarely around, but he’s around more than Izzy. I mean, I understand being out on patrol out there, but just looking at my forehead reminds me how dangerous being off in another plantation millennia is. I usually take the easy missions, too. My thought process was interrupted by Lizzy. “Happy New years” she said. Suddenly, from the other steel door, out came Izzy and Inza. I all but died, but instead of taking the hard way, I ran to Izzy and jumped onto him, locking my legs around him and kissing him.

“Hi!!” I smiled happily. He kissed my lips, my ear, then my nose and said with his deep alluring voice, “What happened to your head?” he asked, full of concern. “I was in the desert part of Ash’i with Elysia and some stupid Ostoros jumped us after throwing our planes down a hill. We got them though.” I smiled triumphantly. “Now... for the worst part about living in a human world.” I groaned with a laugh, taking his hand to my house.

I stared at the papers in pure confusion, my brain pulsing and racking. “I can fight Ostoros in another plantation millennia... sure no problem. I can send a bolt of lightning to sand to make glass... easy... But Pre-Cal for a 17 year old?... That’s just a sin. It’s just wrong.” I whined, looking up at Izzy. He was such a genius. His long golden hair that covered his eyes also covered his huge brain that probably could answer every question in my text book. I sat on his knee and rested my head on his shoulder. “Please?” I begged, wanting him to do the work for me. “I’ll help you understand it... but you need to get a hold of this babe” he said, kissing my ear. “I can’t get a hold of anything when you’re so distracting!!” I said with a little laugh. I brushed my wild red hair out of my face. I stared at the text book. “I still have 22 problems to go.”I whined. He laughed and pulled out a piece of paper and started scribbling problems. He flipped back to Section 4.9 of my textbook. “Okay, if the hypotenuse and the adjacent are angled at a 7% angle, find out the objective M.” He said.

I followed onto Izzy’s tutoring until the last problem. Suddenly I saw black and red shadows dancing across my house. Light bulbs exploded. I screamed and ducked into Izzy’s arms. A singing, eardrum piercing wind followed, and Izzy tucked his arms around me and buried his head into my shoulder. Crimson forms and shapes took over the house. Birds, lions, tornados. My house was going into ruins. Glass fell like snow petals around us. I peeked over Izzy’s scraped arm and looked at everything. It was all falling in slow motion. It was peaceful in an alarming way. My pupils dilated from the darkness of the house. It was only 7:00pm and usually on earth the sun is still out. Even though the glass of the windows was broken, it was covered by a dark shadow. In slow motion, even though it was slow, it was in a way too fast for me, a piece of glass slit over my eye. Suddenly, something like ash rained down. It was slow, but steady. It was cold like snow, but hard like Ice. The room wasn’t cold, but the touch of the Ash was. Izzy quickly took off his shirt and wrapped it around my bare skin, and put a blanket over both of us. “What is it??” I asked, frightened. “Ash’s Crystal Shards. Very poisonous.” He said. I automatically became scared. “What caused the glass to explode?” I asked. “The presence of Ash’i shadows.” He told me. “We have to get out of here and back to Ash’i. Now. There’s some kind of big disturbance.”

I sighed as I walked back into Planatoura’s and Lizzy automatically put on her lab coat and pulled her hair into a ponytail, exposing her Elf ears. “Where’s James and Elysia?” she asked. “They’re out on a date. I don’t know where they are. They weren’t at Olive Garden.” I sighed. “Well come on back, I’ll fix up your cuts.” Inza said. Inza was Izzy’s sister. You never would have guessed, with Inza’s long red hair and green eyes. Izzy has corn silk blonde hair. It was so soft. He also had blue eyes that were an icier blue than a glacier. He seemed small… but he wasn’t a meathead. He was so strong..

I was awakened from my dreaming of my boyfriend of 6 months by Inza whacking me across the head. “Will you stop!” she said. “What!?” I whined.
“You kept mumbling things about Izzy, and you’re awake!” she snapped.
“Okay jeeze jeeze..”
I held still as my soon-to-be sister-in-law tended to my wounds. “So what exactly is going on?” she asked
“Well..” I started. “Apparently there’s some disturbance in Ash’i. It’s dangerous to go back since you know, we just got back anyway, but once we find James and Elysia, we’re gonna go out in parties to investigate. To keep some of our energy, me and Elysia are gonna go to Snow Rose Coven, Snow Tiger Lake, and.. well.. We’re just gonna go to the Ash’i Snow Plantation Millennium. James and Izzy are gonna go to the Ash’i Barren Plantation Millennium. We’re gonna take Crystallia, and the boys are gonna take either the Beasely or the Griffen. “I stated. A Beasley was the combination of a cheetah and a snake. It had a green camouflage coat; it was as fast as a cheetah. It had venom, and it was as flexible as a snake. The Griffin was popular in most realms and Millennia Plantations. It was a combination of an eagle and a lion. It had the front of an eagle with wings, and the back of a lion. “We just gotta find out what’s going down and fix it” I nodded..

Elysia:
I was curled up with a full stomach on James. I leaned up and kissed him, my lips moving against him. I wound my arms around his neck when I felt his wind around my neck. “The Yes Man” was on the television, but I didn’t really care. Suddenly, I became cold. I felt a tug on James and I knew it wasn’t him pulling away. I wound my legs around him and pulled my face from his. Suddenly all of the lights exploded. I screamed and jumped up as it rained glass. “James!!” I screamed as a harsh wind knocked me off my feet and into a pool of some kind of crystal. I didn’t know what it was, because it wasn’t glass. I felt it pierce my skin. James jumped straight over the couch and saw the Crystals. His eyes widened. He walked straight into it with eyes closed as if he knew something I didn’t. All I felt were James’ arms circling me and the wind being knocked out of me as he threw me over his shoulder. The same warm blue aurora light flashed, and barely holding onto my consciousness, I noticed we were back at Planatoura’s. Lizzy saw James and her eyes widened. “This happened to Izzy and Lynn too. They’re in the back in Inza. Go in there with her and I’ll close the store down.” Lizzy commanded. I didn’t hear it all, only parts. I felt his warm lips on my forehead, then I lost sight.

I felt my vocal cords moving but I couldn’t hear what I was saying. I was trying to say “Fix it” but I couldn’t get it out, I think. I could hear Lizzy and James talking to Inza though.
“James, it’s obviously Ash’i Tanada Crystals. Lizzy, get the rubbing alcohol” I heard a voice. I couldn’t determine it though. Suddenly though all my senses became high wired and I jerked up and threw up my Tour of Italy I had at Olive Garden out the window. I kept sitting up, holding my head. Inza had a bottle of rubbing alcohol in her hand and some little pieces of crystals in a cup. James held my arms suddenly, and I felt a sharp pain. “OW!” I screeched. I couldn’t thrash cause of James. Three more pulls, three more howls, and it was over. I whimpered.

“Where were you guys?!” Lynn asked. “Well… Never mind that. Apparently you guys see the problem.” I took Lynn’s hand and she helped me up. “I’m good” I sighed. “So… what WAS that?” I asked.
“Disturbance in the whole Ash’i world. Me and you are gonna head to the Snow Plantation Millennium since we just got back from the Barren. We’re takin’ Crystallia and she’ll be a snow tiger, and the boys are either gonna take the Griffin or the Beasely.” I listened closely. “We don’t know where it’s coming from, so we’ll keep tabs on the boys and go from Plantation to Plantation. “ Lynn said. “Let’s get out emergency packs.” She said. We went to the closet and pulled out two backpacks. They came completed with disguises, emergency food, water, bombs, knifes, and a first aid kit. Lynn and I went to say our goodbyes to our worlds, not sure if we’d see them again. And we didn’t mean Earth.

I went through the door on the left holding Lynn’s hand, and James and Izzy went through the door next to us. As my hand hit the wall, my free hand broke from James’. Suddenly, I was in a new land. It was like in Chronicles of Narnia. The difference was, the snow coating everything was white; the snow falling was black. I slipped on my brown jacket and Lynn slipped on her white one. The cold bitter wind blew hard. She saw a black mountain. “Up there?” Lynn suggested. “Maybe” I replied back. Crystallia was now a snow tiger, full grown. “Hop on” I said to Lynn. She listened to me, and I held onto the neck fur. Like a flash of lightning, we were off to the mountain in the Ash’i Snow Plantation.

I squinted my eyes as everything around me was a blurr. The sky was a dull gray. Crystallia clocked easily at least 80mph. She was like a supertiger. We approached the mountain. When we were almost to its base, Ostoros came out from behind an ice wall. I sighed and dismounted Crystallia, pulling out a knife. Lynn followed slowly behind me, barehanded. The Ostoros red eyes didn’t scare us. Their 7’9 height didn’t scare us. Their powers did, though. Lynn’s hands lit on fire, and an Ostoro locked its gaze on her. There was a cold(no pun intended) silence for the first move to be made. Crystallia lunged at a lean Ostoro, and the battle was on. There was a flurry of punches and fire being thrown. Then, out of nowhere, hands wrapped around my waist and threw me into a patch of ice, giving me roadburn. Knowing the only other people that possibly could be here where Ostoros and maybe some 4000 like us, I saw there no use to scream. As I got up with my black and gold banded knife in hand, I had flashes of things I remembered throughout my childhood. Growing up with Lynn, being told when I was 13 what a 4000 was, besides a number. Telling Lynn when we were 15, but not explaining the 4000. Both of us falling in and out of love, both of us meeting James and Izzy. My mind wasn’t connected to my body, because I was fighting like it was my last fight, and I didn’t even realize it. I decided today would be the day to explain it all to Lynn.