Chapter 10: Majaka's Visit

"Okay, so everyone understand the plan?" Koro asked.
"Yeah," nodded Rhett. "It's a stupid plan, but...it's a plan."
"It's never gonna work," growled Campbell.
"Alright then, let's hear you come up with something better," smirked Ophir.
"I can't off the top of my head," Campbell snarled, whipping around to face him.
Misty closed her eyes and sighed. Today they might possibly be escaping this horrible prison. But then again, we might not, said a voice of doubt in her head.
We will, Misty retorted determinedly. She had a feeling in her gut that they'd escape. They had to. They couldn't just remain locked up in here forever; it was supposedly her and the others' destinies to go save Yin and Yang. They couldn't do this all from the Amorache Tribe jail.
"Will we get hurt?" Bracken murmured.
"We won't," insisted Koro. "We'll get out of this jail."
"Yeah," agreed Lilypaka. "I believe this should work. The flaws in this plan are minuscule. If, of course, we're fast enough."
"I'm fast," smirked Tiggerpaka. "I am the speediest animal in the land! I move at blur! No animal can catch the speedy meerkat--"
"Shut up," Lephos snapped.
Misty turned to look at her sister, Adele. The winged she-wolf looked back at Misty but, as usual, said nothing. Do you understand this? Misty wanted to ask. Do you know that you'll have to run?
Adele blinked once but that was it.
Misty sighed and turned back to the group. "We should start," she said.
"Right," Sidew nodded in agreement.
Bracken stood near the entrance then got down onto the ground and yelped out loudly, as if in pain. "Augh!"
"Hey!" Campbell yelled. "This guy's paw broke!"
"Why's Campbell the 'yeller', anyway?" Misty heard Lephos wonder.
"Because she has a big mouth," Sidew said, and the brothers snickered at this.
Just then, Ferrum the lynx came in. "Bracken!" she gasped. Misty felt a pang of guilt in her stomach; out of all the Amorache Tribe members, Ferrum had probably been the nicest, even if she did have a bit of a temper occasionally. And here they were, about to trick her. This is for your own good, Misty scolded herself. If you don't do this, you won't escape. "Are you okay?"
"My paw..." Bracken grimaced.
Suddenly, someone else walked in. "What's going on?"
It was Tsovo. Misty scowled as the wolf came in to examine what was going on. They had only been expecting one animal to come in. Now they had to deal with two.
"Bracken's hurt," Ferrum said worriedly.
"Looks fine to me," Tsovo muttered.
Misty glanced at Campbell. They locked eyes and Misty nodded, hoping Campbell got the message. Much to Misty's relief, the gray wolf nodded back, understanding what Misty was trying to say.
"Yep, he's a wimp," Tiggerpaka snorted. "I mean, if I twisted my hand, I'd go on fighting! He's not as tough--" he was cut off when Lilypaka slapped a hand over Tiggerpaka's mouth. Despite this, Tiggerpaka kept speaking into his sister's hand, but his voice became muffled.
"Yes, well..." Misty advanced closer to Tsovo, her body overcome with nerves as she anticipated what was going to happen next. At the same time, Campbell crept closer to Ferrum, confirming that she had understood Misty's silent message. "I think you look at Bracken's paw a bit closer..."
Suddenly Misty slammed into Tsovo's side and knocked him onto the ground, holding him down with her forepaws. For once, Tsovo's bored, emotionless expression had been replaced by utter shock. Campbell now had Ferrum pinned down, and as they were held to the ground the others fled out of the entrance at what appeared to be a blur, running on adrenaline from anticipation.
Misty turned to take after but pain shot through her paw. She flinched and yelped as she saw Tsovo had bit down on her, and he kicked her right in the stomach, making her fall back. She scrambled to her paws and Tsovo got to his narrowing his eyes at Misty.
Misty turned to look at Campbell only to see her friend had already fled. Misty growled to herself as Tsovo advanced. "Trying to escape?" he asked coolly.
Gritting her teeth Misty lunged at the wolf, but Tsovo darted to the side at immense speed that took Misty by surprise. She tried to attack again, this time aiming for his paws, but Tsovo took his claws and slashed them across Misty's head. She yelped out in pain and felt blood run down her fur, slowly moving down her nose. She didn't have time to try and wipe it off to prevent herself from being blinded before she felt claws latch onto her back. Misty yelled out and turned to see Ferrum biting down on her back. She howled and bit down on Ferrum's paw, sinking her teeth in and drawing blood. Ferrum screeched and fell off, but landed on her paws in a fighting position. She bared her teeth. "I'm sorry Misty, but I'm doing my job."
"If we were ever the slightest of friends, you wouldn't be attacking me right now," Misty retorted with a growl.
"Tribe before anything else," Ferrum spat, just as Misty was knocked over and pinned to the ground by Tsovo, just as she had attacked and pinned him down not so much earlier.
He dug her claws into her shoulder and blood poured from the spot where he struck, and Misty gritted her teeth to fight back a yelp of pain before taking her own claws and slashing Tsovo's leg.
Tsovo snarled and fiercely slammed his paw onto Misty's head, and she could only just hear her name be called before her vision went black.


When Misty woke up she was no longer at the Amorache  Tribe, but in a forest. It was incredibly bright and full of greenery. It's supposed to be near white-earth, Misty told herself. What's going on...?
She narrowed her eyes as a huge white winged wolf made his way into the clearing, with black markings on his face. Misty recognized him immediately. "Majaka--?"
The huge wolf merely narrowed his eyes at Misty. "What are you thinking...you stupid girl?"
Misty flinched at the remark as her ancestor continued. "You get yourselves captured by that weak-minded Amorache Tribe and put in jail when your time is running out!" he snapped. "Don't you realize that Yin and Yang's fighting is going to get worse and worse before one of them dies? You have a limited amount of time to complete your destiny, or you're going to the Void when the world dies out because you failed to save it."
Anger filled up Misty's chest. "IT'S NOT MY FAULT!" she snarled. "I didn't ask to get put in jail!"
"Well you could have prevented it," Majaka snapped.
"How?" Misty demanded.
"There were so many different ways you could've, grandchild, but your blind eyes couldn't see them," Majaka hissed. "If only you could see all the different things I could see..." He then stopped and seemed to consider what he just said. "...you'd probably go mad," he muttered.
Misty felt too annoyed to care about what he had just said. "Well then, wise dead guy, what am I supposed to do?" she demanded. "Huh? If you're so all-knowing--"
"Respect your elders, girl, didn't anyone teach you?" Majaka growled. "There is a way to get out of your situation. My eyes can see many different versions. What you and your idiotic friends just attempted definitely wasn't one of them." He then looked Misty up and down. "Oh, there's a way out, all right. And the way out is right in front of you, girl."
"What...?" Misty began, but her vision went black again, and the last thing she saw was Majaka spreading his wings and shooting away.


When Misty woke up everything was dark. She first thought she was in another dream, but she recognized the smell of the Chief den. Why am I here? she asked.
"What were you thinking?" asked a voice.
Something shifted in the shadows and Misty realized it was Tsovo. She felt too tired to reply, but attempted anyway. "We wanted to get out," she retorted.
"You could've gotten yourselves killed," Tsovo murmured.
"And you were helping us prevent that, how?" Misty said dryly.
Tsovo didn't respond for a while, which Misty was okay with, but then she heard Tsovo sigh. "You wouldn't get killed, of course," he said, "but I don't think my father would mind killing off your friends."
"Why wouldn't I die?" Misty asked.
"Because I don't want you to," Tsovo replied. "I think my father would respect that. He seems awfully desperate to get me to become Chief. I have him right where I want him."
Confusion filled Misty. Not only had her great-great-great-many-greats-later grandfather yell at her and called her idiotic and stupid, insisting that finding a way out of this was easy, now Tsovo was adding on to the confusion she already had by speaking in riddles, so it seemed. "...Okay," was all Misty responded with.
"Your friends are still alive right now," Tsovo said. "They're back in the prison."
"Then why am I here?" Misty asked.
"You got injured the most. I had to take you to Nahuel," Tsovo explained.
"Well, I want to get back to my friends," Misty insisted.
"Why not stay here?" Tsovo ventured.
Misty felt a pang of annoyance. "Because I am loyal to my friends," Misty growled. "You may say 'Tribe first', but for me, my friends are first. If they're going to be imprisoned, I will too. With that said, I'm now ordering you: take me back."
Immediately she felt stupid for insisting she was ordering Chief's son around, but Tsovo merely replied with, "If that's what you want, then."

Author's Note:
Chapters two days in a row, wow. o:
This chapter was fun to write. ^-^

QOTD: What do you think Majaka's saying?