Lightning was everywhere amidst the void they were in.. Shane was doing his best to hang onto Ghosts harness in one hand while hanging onto Lerran with his other...Ghost was giving everything he had trying to keep them level when he roared loudly as his right wing was hit by lightning....
"Ghost!!!!!!!" Shane cried out as he could feel the dragon shudder underneath him fearfull that he was hurt bad by the strike. His fear was realized a moment later as the Guardian started to plummet downward through the storm. Shane pulled the wolf in front of him and lashed him to the saddle. They fell through the lightning filled void downward at incredible speed. They wondered how much longer it would be before they crashed. More lightning erupted around them as Lerran howled. Shane looked down seeing the void opening up revealing land.
"We're falling to fast!!! We're going to hit hard!!!" Shane cried out to the Guardian. Ghost managed to turn his wings inward trying to shield Shane and Lerran as he roared loudly just before he let loose blue fire from his jaws. The speed of their fall was causing the fire to spread and surround the three in their decent.
From anyone who was below on the ground..the skies turned dark quickly and lightning shot across the sky..a moment later the center of the storm opened up and what looked like a huge ball of blue fire emerged from the storm and streaked across the skies heading downward towards the ground..
Shane's eyes widened as he saw they were heading for what looked like a temple of some kind.
"Down! Down! Down!!!!" he cried out as he pulled on the right reign on Ghosts saddle causing the dragon to veer downward sharply and strike a grassy clearing hard!. The impact by the three created a deep gouge in the clearing as they plowed toward the temple and finally stopped just a few feet from it. The blue flames continued to burn around them for a few more minutes but then began to diminish till it was extinguished.
The three were out cold from the impact. Some time later Lerran recovered first and then went about trying to wake up Shane and Ghost. Shane woke up and turned to the dragon. Ghost took quite a beating when they hit. His right wing was burnt on the leading edge from where the lightning struck. Shane closed his eyes
"Why did you send us here? To be killed? To be abandoned? What have we done wrong to be here?" He thought to himself as he was posing the question to the Lady of the Lake.
There was no one around where they were. Only the temple that they came very close to crashing into. "Great, all we needed to do was crash into that and we would probably invoke the wrath of the deity that it belonged to." He said to himself. Lerran looked about the area searching for movement of any kind. Ghost finally woke up. He looked at the other two and growled lightly as he began to rise to his feet.
Shane regarded Ghost and Lerran.."Well, it looks like we are stranded wherever we landed. We better settle in for the night.
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:01 pm