Chapter Thirteen

After the run in with Viper and Tatsuya they stayed up in the tree quietly for quite a long time, they didn't actually look at each other for a while.

"Are you guys also on the run?" Karla asked breaking the silence

"Uh you could say that" Tatsuya said

"why are you guys out here, what are you running from" Viper asked asked looking directly at Starblaze who was lost in thought.

"well… I don't know really I'm still trying to process everything" Karla answered noticing her sisters state and trying to divert Vipers attention from her but Viper seemed to be relenting and wanted to get her attention.

"Starblaze" she looked up in a rush after hearing her name strongly

"yeah?"

"why are you guys out here" Viper asked looking Starbaze in the eyes

"what? I- I dunno"

"but you have an idea don't you"

"why would I have an idea"

"because you always have an idea of things like this" Starblaze was caught in a spot because she knew a lot of things that she didn't tell anyone but Viper was suspicious already and she was pretty smart.

"um the- the principal mentioned something about dragons nest stones" Tatsuya and Viper looked to each other with a look that said something.

"what else did he say what exactly happened" Viper asked paying close attention to her now

"Um okay when he called us in his office was quite cold and pretty dark but we could still make out his silhouette, he asked us if we knew why we were there but we said no, he told us to come closer to his desk and he showed us two stones, he said they were dragons nest stones or something then he practically threw it at us , we looked at him and decided he wasn't serious then the stones started to glow in her hands, I dunno what that meant but he seemed to know and started acting weird then…then" Starblaze stopped her words and her eyes seemed to grow darker

"then what?" Viper asked looking at Starblaze warily

"our parents…"

"not our parents, two people came in and tried to capture us or something"

"but Starblaze those two people were our…"

"parents? Would 'parents' do that? they know something we don't and I'm gonna find out" with that Starblaze jumped down the tree and started walking away, Karla sighed and went to jump before looking back at the siblings

"are you guys coming with?" she asked, they looked to each other and nodded following her and Starblaze.

It was almost dark and they were still walking, they didn't seem to be getting tired anytime soon which left Viper and Tatsuya puzzled, any normal person would have taken at least a couple of stops by now but they were still moving without tiring.

"hey Viper" Starblaze called

"what?"

"you and Tatsuya are siblings right?"

"unfortunately"

"why is his name in Japanese then" Viper didn't reply right away though, she looked around for a while before sighing

"uh i- I dunno didn't ask, besides I like my name" she said shrugging

"oh okay"

"wait I have a question too"

"ask away"

"what are you guys, I mean you definitely aren't humans as far as I'm concerned"

"uh we're elves, I mean we should be elves, our parents were I guess"

"I thought they weren't your parents"

"don't make me wipe that dirty smirk of your face" Viper laughed a bit before running forward and walking at Starblazes side and ruffling her hair a bit it looked like the group was getting closer.

"oi Starblaze lets stop for the night I'm tired and hungry" Karla said once the night came

"you don't look tired though" Tatsuya said arching a brow

"no but I wanna stop I'm actually hungry"

"maybe we could hunt something" Viper looked at Starblaze and laughed

"do you guys know the first thing about hunting?" Starblaze looked at her and scoffed rolling her eyes

"duh"

"fine let me see you do it, there is a deer right over there go on" Starblaze dropped her bag on Vipers head before going towards the deer casually, as she got closer she disappeared, Viper and Tatsuya looked around for her before hearing a quick wooshing sound as kunai sliced through the air before embedding itself in the deers forehead, it stumbled before receiving another to it's chest, it stumbled a little more before letting out a low cry and falling to the ground Starblaze reappeared and went to the deer retrieving hr kunai's as clean as before she used them.

"dinner" Viper and Tatsuya stared at her in shock as she picked up the deer and put it on her shoulder walking towards them.

"so any idea where we're sleeping tonight?" she asked snapping them out of it.

"uh yeah there's a- a cave like thing over where the deer was" Starblaze nodded and turned around going to the cave like structure and setting down the deer, the siblings came in short after to see a fire started already and the deer was cooking.

"how are you guys doing these things, I mean it's like you've been in the wild on your own like this before" Tatsuya said looking at everything

"well we used to stay with our aunty at the other end of Opwood, the part closer to Blackmoor, it was really cool there, we would jump around on the trees thee the whole day, and eventually she taught us a lot of stuff like how to start a fire with our bare hand, how to hunt and I can tell poisonous stuff or spoilt food just by tasting it thanks to everything I ate there" Viper looked at Starblaze who had one of her goofy smiles on her face

"wait maybe she's still there, do you think we should go there?" Karla asked

"good idea, it's better than roaming around with nowhere to go" Starblaze said

"wait what's your aunties name anyways"

"Hazuki"