Chapter 11

 Daiki's eyes were full of rage, while Cephas was the complete opposite, more like complete worry. "Daiki!~", Brier said while raising her arms to him to be carried. Daiki's eyes slowly became soft as he saw Brier safe and happy, he quickly picked her up and started motioning towards Cordelia and Aella. "Well it's not my fault she followed me from the forest!", Aella said with such arrogance in his tone. Daiki continued to motion towards Cordelia, I had no idea what he was saying, but I knew he was scolding them. "I just wanted to play with them…", Brier said, looking at Daiki with tears welling up in her eyes. Daiki slowly started calming down, motioning towards Cordelia and Aella in a slightly defeated manner. "Thank you for the Apology, we are Brier's friends too remember? You know we would never put her in harm's way.", Cordelia stated with her soft smile. "Well there was this one time…-", Aella stated before he was cut off due to Cephas smacking him in the back of the head. "Hey..!!", Aella snapping back at Cephas for the rude interruption, he pouted like an angry preteen. "So… Who is this? You have failed to introduce him.", Cordelia said with an elegant tone. "Oh, I'm Aden.", I stated with a slight smile, "Big Brother Aden is a Human!~" Brier said. Cordelia and Aella stood there in shock, looking at Daiki and then back at me. "How is this possible…-", Aella said while looking at Daiki, and the only response he could give was a shrug. "Well, it is great to meet you Aden~", Cordelia said as she patted my head. I gave her a gracious smile and started putting my shoes back on. "So how did you end up here?", Aella leaned over me confused about how I even existed. "Well.. you wouldn't believe me if I told you..-", I was interrupted by Cephas as he let out a slight grunt. Brier quickly jumped out of Daiki's arms and quickly went to Cephas, "You ok..?", Brier said while holding his hands. Cephas looked at Brier, slightly blushing, "Yea.. I'm ok, I just have a slight headache", Cephas held his leaf hat as the wind picked up.

 Brier continued to hold Cephas's hand and smiled, I turned my direction east and noticed a large storm cloud approaching. "We should find Shelter…", Cordelia stated with her very calm and elegant tone. "Yea! Let's hurry.. My fur gets matted when it's wet..!", Aella stated, obviously in a very concerned manner. "There should be a cave up north, you should get there quickly if you want to make it.", Cordelia said. "You're not coming??", I stated while watching her slowly descend into the pond. "She is bound by the water, she can't even step foot on land…", Aella said with slight sorrow, looking at Cordelia. I looked at Cordelia who did not seem upset by her situation. "We'll come back for you Cordelia..!", Brier shouted while Daiki picked her up. "I'll be here..~", Cordelia said, slightly surprised and pleased to hear that. I nodded in agreement with Brier, "We will come back once the storm is gone", I said as everyone was getting ready to run north. Cordelia nodded and started descending into the water, sheltering her from the upcoming storm. The rest of us started to run North, the thundering was deafening, I could hear Brier's loud cries as the thunder struck in the distance. Daiki was holding her close to comfort her and shelter her from the rain. After what seemed like ages, we finally spotted the cave Cordelia mentioned. We ran inside and Daiki had to crawl his way into the cave to avoid breaking off his branches. Once everyone was inside the cave, we all breathed a sigh of relief. I grabbed my flashlight to provide some light in the pitch-black space we were supposedly trapped in for the duration of the storm. Once I turned on my flashlight, the cave lit up, exposing the depth of the cave as well as unusual markings carved into the walls. Revealing an unsettling prophecy about a human from the sky.