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Ion was excited for today, he was finally able to go out and have adventures with his friends again after a few months where he couldn't basically do anything. He had a accident were he broke a few bones and gashed his head a fair bit, requiring many stitches. But now after months of just resting in bed, his bones had healed and his gash was noting more then just a little mark. He started to get dressed into his new outfit, one that he was able to pick out a couple of weeks ago when his parents took him and his two friends out to have a fun day. Ion remembered Zephyr and Flint fighting over turns to push the wheelchair he was in at the time, his legs were mostly healed and he could walk a bit thanks to the physical therapy he was going through, but being out like that for the whole day, it was safer for him to be wheeled around in the chair. But a few days ago he was given the ok to walk or run as much as he wanted, to which Ion was in relief of that as all he wanted to do was move around again on his own, without the help of any equipment. He slid one the new pair of boots Flint had made for him as a get well present, they were modeled after the standard boots his tribe was know to wear, but Flint added a bit of flair to Ion's as to make it more customized and personal for him. Looking in the mirror, seeing just how everything looked on him, Ion grabbed his trusty little sword from against the wall and attached it to the magnet on the back of his chest strap. It was the middle of the summer now and a lot of the outer areas had small beasts running about, having a weapon on had was needed, even if you didn't go too far. Ion had shown some natural talent for the sword and for encouragement on continuing to practice and develop his abilities, his father had one made for him, modeled a bit after his own though after learning about some of the archery practice he was doing with Flint, Ion's father decided to have Ion's sword modified a bit while he was recovering to help him with that aspect. "I can't wait to show this to Flint" Ion thought, but taking one last look in the mirror, there was still one small problem.
He lifted up the fur above his left eye, revealing the mark from his accident, a scar that would probably be there for the rest of his life, though his fur would hide it very well, Ion still didn't like the fact that it might show through on some occasions. Luckily for him, Zephyr had that fear covered, as he picked up an orange poofy cap from his dresser and placed it on his head, positioning it a bit the hat covered the place where the scar that he hated so much was. "Perfect" Ion thought, he really appreciated Zephyr getting this for him after he told him about how he felt about the scar, Ion could sense Zephyr cared about him more then a normal friend usually would, this gesture to help fix a problem he had was just another sign of that and besides he really like the hat, it felt good on his head and was very comfortable, he could get use to wearing it a lot. Liking the way he looked and feeling good about it, Ion dashed down the stairs and thought the entry hall to find his father waiting by the door. He asked him how he was feeling and if he was ready to go out on his own again, to which Ion, somewhat annoyed by his father's worries answered back "yesss", he was just looking out for him and Ion knew it but after being restricted for so long, he was ready to spread his wings again so to speak. "Ok, but just be careful and take it easy, don't want you re-aggravating anyth....." Ion's father tried to tell him but Ion cut him off "ok, ok, I get it, won't do anything to overexert myself" His father sighed as Ion ran off and out of the estate, he showed signs of a lot of skill but he was a bit reckless with the approach, something he would have to continue working on with his son, Ion's father thought as he closed the door to the outside.
Ion ran down the street excitedly, there was a bit of pain his his legs but to him that was expected after not using them like this for a while, but to him that didn't matter, he was finally free to do the things he loved to do again, adventuring and training with Zephyr and Flint. He got to the main square fairly quickly, where Zephyr was waiting for him, Scythe in hand and decked out in his tunic with gale symbols. Ion asked him once before what those symbols meant and Zephyr told him there were the markings of the Windfox, to which, when he asked Zephyr what that meant, he told Ion that he didn't know, that his parents told him he would discover that for himself eventually, just like everyone else in his family had. Once they got together, Zephyr made an affectionate comment on Ion's hat, which made him blush a bit before they started their small journey to the city wall and out into the outer lands. Normally they would parkour this part along the rooftops, but with Ion just coming off an injury, they decided it would be best just to simply walk the street instead. It wasn't that far out of the city where Flint's tribe lived, he was waiting by the entrance along with some of his tribe's hunters, getting in some archery practice before they were to set off for the day. Seeing his two friends coming down the road, Flint waved to them and they started running faster toward him. He was decked out in his tribal hunter's clothing, complete with his painted fur markings signifying him as a warrior, he was one of the youngest to receive these marking, but he was a warrior in more ways then one and his tribe honored him for that. After he geared up with his long bow and a quiver overfilled with arrows, the three boys set off farther into the outer valley, determined to explore and have a fun time, something they have been waiting months to do again.
They encountered a few small beasts during their exploration, they tried their best to avoid them as much as possible but some of them would attack unprovoked and the three of them had to put them down. Neither of them found it too difficult, getting in some experience with their selected weapon of choice, making sure to spread the carcasses away from their path of travel, as larger critters would come down looking for food and doing this would keep those off their trail, not something they wanted an encounter with. They continued on adventuring for hours before coming across a small lake near a forest where they decided to take a break. Zephyr took a seat next to the water, while Flint continued to practice with his bow, shooting some arrows into the nearby forest. It was at this point Ion wanted to show him his sword's new ability, he called him over, though telling him to stand back a bit as he twisted the sword's handle, causing the two sides of the blade to spring apart into a wide "V" shape, with a reinforced string connecting both ends falling out from where the two blade half separated. "Wow you sword can transform into a bow!" Flint excitedly exclaimed as Ion asked if he could borrow a few arrows, mechanical weapons like this were not too out of the ordinary, but Flint never saw Ion's sword do this before and he was excited to see just how good of a bow it could be. He handed Ion a few arrows as Flint decided to challenge Ion to a little competition to see who could fire one farther, a challenge Ion gratefully accepted. Each turn they would continue to out match each other, as Zephyr just sat there and watched in enjoyment at the two in friendly competition. It all came to a climax when Flint shot an arrow deep into the forest, causing birds to quickly scatter to the skies above way in the distance. "Beat that if you can" Flint snarkly told Ion as he seamed confident that his achievement could not be matched. "With pleasure" Ion chuckled back, as he readied his arrow, fully pulling back on the string, taking a deep breath before letting go as the arrow whistled through the air and deep into the forest. They heard a loud striking sound but that was quickly followed by a loud, angry roar which made the three boys frozen in slight fear.
It was not before long when a large beast stepped out of the forest, blinded in one eye with an arrow sticking out, an arrow Ion had just fired at it unknowingly. The large beast set the boys in it's remaining eye's sight, growling ferociously before suddenly charging their position and the only thing that came to each of their mind was just run. And run they did, as the beast just continued to chase them, as they were scared at the though of what would happen if the beast was able to catch up to them, something they didn't want to happen. They continued running, outpacing the large beast as they came to another forest and decided to enter, hoping that weaving through the tall trees would throw it off their trail. It seamed to work, as they were able to make a couple of turns and find a place to hide, from that position they heard the beast continue on forward not noticing where they were located. Ion, Zephyr and Flint sighed in relief, trying to take a moment to catch their breath, but they noticed something was off about this location where they decided to hide. Looking around they noticed that bones laid all over the ground, as they could hear heavy breathing coming from almost all around them, they were in a beast's nest. Slowly smaller beasts then the one that was chasing them, but fairly larger then the small one they took out at the beginning of their adventure, surrounded them, growling angrily at the intruders in their home. The three boys drew and readied their weapons, their plan was not to kill the beasts, as they knew they were no match to do that, but to do some damage, enough to push them back a bit so they could escape. The small battle ensued, with each Ion, Zephyr and Flint being careful about how they would make each strike, doing some decent damage as the beasts seamed to start to back off and before long they ran away entirely.
The boys had a brief moment of relief before a loud, angry growl came from behind them, the same one they heard after Ion had shot his arrow. Turning around, the boys saw that same large beast from earlier, the arrow still sticking out of one of it's eyes, it had found them again. Trying not to panic, the boys decided they needed to make some sort of stand, to do at least enough damage to slow it down and get out ahead, back to Flint's tribe location, where he could rally their hunters and warriors to take it down once and for all, they would most certainly get in trouble for provoking such a fearsome beast, but it was better then being dead. Ion, Zephyr and Flint readied their weapons again, waiting for the beast to make his move and when it did, they sprang into action. Flint took some high ground to quickly shoot his arrows, hoping to distract it enough for Ion and Zephyr to go in and attack it's legs. It was working somewhat, as the beast would flinch almost every time an arrow would strike it, leading Ion and Zephyr to quickly get a swipe in, at it's front left and right legs respectively, but as the fight went on for a bit, the beast started getting unpredictable. It would quickly and randomly lunge at either Ion or Zephyr, causing them to not get in as many attacks as they needed while at the same time due to it's movements, Flint could not get a good shot off to help. They quickly regrouped and decided to change strategy, with Ion now having access to a bow due to his sword's ability, they decided that Zephyr would go in for the attacks while Ion and Flint would provide the covering distraction, firing arrows at it from multiple directions, they would have to use their parkour abilities to quickly move from place to place, an action Zephyr was worried about for Ion coming off an injury, but there was no other choice.
Handing Ion a few arrows, Flint and him shot off in different directions, quickly firing an arrow at the beast before moving around to another position and doing the same thing, alternating perfectly with each other. This did give Zephyr the chance to go in on the offensive, getting in more damage then they were getting in so far during the fight, but the good fortune would not last long. When trying to move from one position to the other, Ion landed awkwardly on one of his legs, pain shooting up all throughout it, causing him to be immobilized. Flint rushed over asking him "are you ok, can you stand?" "No unfortunately, not at the moment, here take these back" Ion answered, giving back the remaining arrows he had. "You and Zephyr got this, and if he comes this way, I will shove this straight through his mouth" Ion continued, snapping back his weapon to the sword form. "Are you sure about that? Here I will leave you a few arrows just in case" Flint told him, taking about a third of the arrows Ion handed back and taking off to support Zephyr, who was now struggling to hold off the large beast. Ion watched from a distance, feeling hopeless to do anything, why did this have to happen now, when they needed his help the most? Then suddenly Zephyr was knocked back on the ground, as he started to sit back up, the large beast slowly walked towards his position, mouth gaping like it saw wounded prey, prey it wanted to make a meal out of. Flint rushed to fire as many arrows into the beast as possible but before long Ion heard him yell out " Dam it, I am all out, Zephyr! you need to run!" "Come on Zephyr get up, you need to get out of there!" Ion yelled as well, trying to get his attention, but Zephyr just seemed frozen there in fear. Ion snapped back his weapon to bow form and fired all the arrows Flint had left him, cursing at the few that missed their mark due to him not being able to get a good shot of from his sitting position. This seamed to do nothing as the large beast continued to head towards Zephyr, both Ion and Flint were panicky screaming to him to get up and move but to no avail. Ion, feeling more helpless then ever as the beast was now towering over Zephyr, ready to take a bite, he reached out his right hand towards them and all he could yell out at the top of his lungs was "ZEPHYR!!!".
Then something happened that no one expected, sparks started to surround Ion's arm, as what appeared to be a bolt of lightning shot out from his palm, striking the beast in the head, causing a reaction of a few bolts of lightning from the sky to strike the beast as well. The large beast then stopped all motions, and fell to the ground beside Zephyr, who was still stunned by what was going on around him, missing him not by much. Flint quickly went to Zephyr's side, getting him to snap back to reality as they both looked over the fallen beast beside them, it was dead, somehow they were able to take it down, somehow... Ion was able to take it down. Zephyr and Flint then looked towards Ion in the distance, him shaking as he was looking vigorously at his right hand, also in disbelief in what had transpired as it tingled all over. Zephyr and Flint walked over to him and after a brief moment of silence, Flint asked him "since when could you do that?" "I... I don't know... I... I have never seen anything like that before" Ion replied back, still in full shock at what he was able to do, though as he tried again to see if he could shoot off some little sparks, but nothing came of it. "Well whatever that was, thankfully you were able to do it, otherwise... I would not be standing here right now" Zephyr solemnly responded, still a bit raddled from almost being eaten, before continuing "are you ok, can you stand?" 'I think so" Ion replied back, as he tried to to his feet, but as he stood, the sharp shot of pain came back in his leg, causing him fall back to the ground. "Ion be careful, here let me help you up" Flint told him, as he knelt down and helped Ion get to his feel, allowing him lean on his shoulder for support. "Here let me help as well" Zephyr said as he let Ion lean with his other arm on his shoulder as well. "Thanks, I owe you guys big time for this" Ion said, as the three of them slowly made their way back to Flint's tribe's grounds. "No Ion, it is us that own you big time" Flint replied back, "there was no way we would make it here if it was not for what you did" Zephyr added. "Ok, well we are all even now then" Ion replied as the three boys just chuckled, as relief fully set in after their hard fought battle, it took them a while to get back to the tribe's lands, as they were supporting the limping Ion the whole way. The arrived well later then they were suppose to, as trackers from the tribe had gone out to look for them, as Ion's and Zephyr's parents were already at the tribal grounds, since their boy's didn't not make it home yet. The three of them knew they were in a bit of trouble, but at the moment the adults seamed more interested in making sure Ion was ok, with his parents taking him back into the city and to the hospital to get his leg checked out. Zephyr was taken home as his parents looked like they wanted to have a talking with him as Flint was sent to his tent where his parents wanted to do the same. Each of them told their parents the story of what happened, that it was an accident on how they got back so late and how it was thanks to Ion that they even managed to get back at all. Both Zephyr and Flint received a small grounding from their actions, but their parents decided to postpone it a day so they could go and check in to see how Ion was doing after some rest for themselves.
The next day, Flint ventured into the city, making it to the main square where Zephyr was waiting for him and then the both of them headed towards Ion's family estate. They heard Ion was released from the hospital very early in the morning, with an not as serious as once thought injury. On the grounds, they were greeted by Ion's parents and they told them that Ion was resting upstairs in his room. They headed inside and up the stairs, entering his room to see Ion laying in his bed, his right leg and ankle bandaged and in some sort of brace, propped up by a pillow. When he saw them enter, Ion started to sit up with Zephyr and Flint coming to his side, moving the pillow he was laying on behind his back and sliding the pillow under his injured leg towards him, as his leg slid with him as he sat up. Ion was excited that they came by, with Flint first asking after getting Ion all settled up "how are you feeling?" "I am feeling alright, minor fracture near my ankle around where I broke it last time, but it is not fully broken, just went and over did it a bit yesterday, thats all" Ion replied "though I am not aloud to get out of bed for about a week, not even to go to the bathroom, as the doctors put.. that thing... back inside of me..." Seeing that Ion was somewhat embarrassed by his last comment, Zephyr and Flint decided to change the subject. "Don't worry, we will be here to keep you company until you heal back up again" Zephyr enthusiastically said to Ion, cheering him up a bit. "So um... about what you were able to do yesterday... were you able to figure out what happened?" Flint asked cursorily to which Ion just had a large smile on his face. "I think so, I told my parents about what happened and you will never believe what they told me" Ion enthusiastically answered back "And Zephyr, I may even know what the Windfox may mean as well" Zephyr's interest picked up at this statement, "really? do you mind telling me what it is?" "Well you see..." Ion started to say, as he went on to explain about the hidden mystic abilities his parents told him that everyone in the world had an adeptness to, the fact that everyone in the world was in tune with at least one element and they could call upon its powers as a mystic ability. Ion told them that his was most likely the power of lightning, and that Zephyrs was probably wind from the runes on his clothing and the part about the Windfox, though he could not tell what Flint's may be. Curious with this new knowledge, Flint tried to see if he could recall a time where something out of the ordinary happened, like what happened with Ion yesterday, though no matter how hard he tried, no memory came. "I am sure you will find out eventually" Ion told Flint as he seamed a little down at not knowing what his element was, but still, all three of them seamed excited with this new information, as the mysteries of their world started to grow and new adventure was on their horizons. Once they paid their time and Ion healed up again, they would fully focus on learning the mystic abilities each one of them had, locked away within.
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