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Into the wilderness
Chapter 1 I go to the unknown
I closed the book and warmed my hands against the dancing fire.
I sighed deeply and watched the glowing embers.I watched the endless scene of mountains. We had made it past the border and had trekked 6km north. The bitter North wind slapped my face. My friend Elian Iwaedal Tyrak was setting up camp and his falcon was dutifully guarding us . I felt fur underneath her tired feet. It was Stormeye, my loyal snow cat. A snowcat was a large cat with fur like snow leopard ones. There was something wrong.
Chapter 2 I play dodgeball with Mr dragon
An aroma of dead meat wafted through the bizarre landscape. Dead, burnt trees. Bones of their long lost owners scattered the ground. We had reached the peak of the infamous arachnid mountain. There was a cave and inside icy breaths blasted out of an unknown mouth.
We ventured deeper into the cave. The menacing moutians loomed over the our tiny beings. Shards of delicate light raidiated out of the sun. A cold breath breathed and the animals scattered... Ice ,cold, drain and death were all I could think about. The cold was more intense. Then we saw the sight that would stay in their minds until a century passed. There was a giant dragon. It was no ordinary dragon. Its smooth white scales were as shiny as moon beams. Its horns were chestnut brown. Its eyes stared down at the us as though daring to fight…
I was quite startled. But I had no choice. The dragon blasted ice out of its mouth. We both doged the blast. But where the blast had landed the was a few metres of icicles. This dragon was dangerous. We were doging its blasts quickly. Suddenly I spotted a couple of dry sticks and dashed to it. I rubbed it together furiously. “Come on …”I muttered to myself. Finally, to my relief a roaring fire was created. The dragon stopped firing and backed away. We took the oppotunity to ecsape. Just as we started to run, a silvery mist slipped into one of my empty botanical bottles.
Chapter 3 unexpected mutiny
We had a little rest stormeye was munching on a bit of grub which was … unusual. I decided not to care. But then I heard stormeye growling. He pounced on to me aggressive. Elians falcon was trying to attract stormeyes attention. Stormeye swiftly raced for the falcon but stopped. He seemed to be in mental combat with his bad side. “Wait a minute, is that herbilicus storn ?”I blurted out. The shrub stormeye was eating a minute ago was indeed herbilicus storn. That had caused him to be aggressive. I quickly mixed out the antidote and smeared some on stomeyes snout. This worked. I jumped into the air with joy. But little did I know there was danger.
Chapter 4 the do are die chess match
The next day we hiked through the shriviling forest just 5km away from civillisation. We were stoped in our tracks by a bizarre creature “I’m called the eternal vermin to pass my lands you must play a simple game of chess”he said in a very squeaky voice but he made the ‘’simple ‘’ game of chess sound menacing “But…” we glared at him.“if you loss you die.”He made the die part sound like a casual stroll in the city. In front of our very eyes the so called “enternal vermin” conjured a chess board floating in mid-air. My mouth hang open it wasn’t everyday that you see a creature inviting you to a do-or-die-chess game. During the chess game I couldn’t help wondering why the thing was grinning. Things weren’t going that well. When it captured half of my chess pieces. I peered under the chess board without it looking it was carefully manipulating my chess pieces, I was enraged!! He was cheating. I pulled out my hunting knife and shouted”enough is enough”Elian had realised the trick too and had pulled out his sword. Stormeye growled and elians falcon flapped its wings ready to reach top speed. The eternal vermin just laughed and conjured a glowing magic shield. I threw my knife and it just bounced of and hit my shoulder. I cursed in agony as the vermin cackled. Just as I fell to the forest floor I fell in to a trance my hands gripped the bottle with silvery mist and… uncorked it and the full power of the ice dragons breath blasted out and evaporated the eternal vermin. Suddenly the birds were calling and the forest was greener it was no longer the shrivilled forest. The forest gods spirit was with me. I heard the birds rejoice “the curse has been lifted!”
Epilouge
These are the last words I shall write about the expedition 6 years ago: why settle when you have a lifetime of memories in the wild? Dearest reader, the wilderness is a place where you can connect to the land please use it wisely.
Chapter 1 I go to the unknown
I closed the book and warmed my hands against the dancing fire.
I sighed deeply and watched the glowing embers.I watched the endless scene of mountains. We had made it past the border and had trekked 6km north. The bitter North wind slapped my face. My friend Elian Iwaedal Tyrak was setting up camp and his falcon was dutifully guarding us . I felt fur underneath her tired feet. It was Stormeye, my loyal snow cat. A snowcat was a large cat with fur like snow leopard ones. There was something wrong.
Chapter 2 I play dodgeball with Mr dragon
An aroma of dead meat wafted through the bizarre landscape. Dead, burnt trees. Bones of their long lost owners scattered the ground. We had reached the peak of the infamous arachnid mountain. There was a cave and inside icy breaths blasted out of an unknown mouth.
We ventured deeper into the cave. The menacing moutians loomed over the our tiny beings. Shards of delicate light raidiated out of the sun. A cold breath breathed and the animals scattered... Ice ,cold, drain and death were all I could think about. The cold was more intense. Then we saw the sight that would stay in their minds until a century passed. There was a giant dragon. It was no ordinary dragon. Its smooth white scales were as shiny as moon beams. Its horns were chestnut brown. Its eyes stared down at the us as though daring to fight…
I was quite startled. But I had no choice. The dragon blasted ice out of its mouth. We both doged the blast. But where the blast had landed the was a few metres of icicles. This dragon was dangerous. We were doging its blasts quickly. Suddenly I spotted a couple of dry sticks and dashed to it. I rubbed it together furiously. “Come on …”I muttered to myself. Finally, to my relief a roaring fire was created. The dragon stopped firing and backed away. We took the oppotunity to ecsape. Just as we started to run, a silvery mist slipped into one of my empty botanical bottles.
Chapter 3 unexpected mutiny
We had a little rest stormeye was munching on a bit of grub which was … unusual. I decided not to care. But then I heard stormeye growling. He pounced on to me aggressive. Elians falcon was trying to attract stormeyes attention. Stormeye swiftly raced for the falcon but stopped. He seemed to be in mental combat with his bad side. “Wait a minute, is that herbilicus storn ?”I blurted out. The shrub stormeye was eating a minute ago was indeed herbilicus storn. That had caused him to be aggressive. I quickly mixed out the antidote and smeared some on stomeyes snout. This worked. I jumped into the air with joy. But little did I know there was danger.
Chapter 4 the do are die chess match
The next day we hiked through the shriviling forest just 5km away from civillisation. We were stoped in our tracks by a bizarre creature “I’m called the eternal vermin to pass my lands you must play a simple game of chess”he said in a very squeaky voice but he made the ‘’simple ‘’ game of chess sound menacing “But…” we glared at him.“if you loss you die.”He made the die part sound like a casual stroll in the city. In front of our very eyes the so called “enternal vermin” conjured a chess board floating in mid-air. My mouth hang open it wasn’t everyday that you see a creature inviting you to a do-or-die-chess game. During the chess game I couldn’t help wondering why the thing was grinning. Things weren’t going that well. When it captured half of my chess pieces. I peered under the chess board without it looking it was carefully manipulating my chess pieces, I was enraged!! He was cheating. I pulled out my hunting knife and shouted”enough is enough”Elian had realised the trick too and had pulled out his sword. Stormeye growled and elians falcon flapped its wings ready to reach top speed. The eternal vermin just laughed and conjured a glowing magic shield. I threw my knife and it just bounced of and hit my shoulder. I cursed in agony as the vermin cackled. Just as I fell to the forest floor I fell in to a trance my hands gripped the bottle with silvery mist and… uncorked it and the full power of the ice dragons breath blasted out and evaporated the eternal vermin. Suddenly the birds were calling and the forest was greener it was no longer the shrivilled forest. The forest gods spirit was with me. I heard the birds rejoice “the curse has been lifted!”
Epilouge
These are the last words I shall write about the expedition 6 years ago: why settle when you have a lifetime of memories in the wild? Dearest reader, the wilderness is a place where you can connect to the land please use it wisely.