Chapter 3: When the moon meets the wind; Reuniting the wind with fire

Chapter 3: When the moon meets the wind; Reuniting the wind with fire

“Damn, that’s one powerful breeze”

Warnings: Vulgar language, trauma, panic attacks

Sometime after Agni and Nox had summoned her

After Cynthia had been summoned to give Agni a makeover, she reappeared again with Lillian. 

“So, what was that about?” Lillian asked, looking for the next house to burn. 

“Nox dared Agni to get a makeover by me” Cynthia walked over to where Lillian was standing and looked ahead. “Who’s our next target?” She smiles, enjoying burning the houses of people who deserve it. 

“There’s a house near the border of the forest but I think the police are onto us”

“Should we stop?”

“No, of course not! We’ll just have to be extra sneaky” She smiles and walks away.  

Cynthia follows until they come across a beautiful house adorned with colorful lights. Despite its beautiful appearance, the girls knew the real intentions of the people inside, Lillian scoffs at the sight.

“Another bunch of rich snobs. How disgusting. Burn it” She takes a few steps back and signals for Cynthia to manifest the fire. Cynthia walks toward the wall of the house and opens her palm, a small ball of fire growing from the middle. She touches the wall of the house and immediately the house bursts into flames, fire washing over the house until it’s completely engulfed in flames. Cynthia takes a few steps back and claps happily along with Lillian.  Sirens can be heard in the distance, red and blue lights charging toward them.

“S**t, run” Lillian shuts her eyes, then turns into her original form. She soars into the sky without another word.

“Hey!” Cynthia huffs in frustration at the abandonment but also turns into her goddess form. She soars into the sky, laughing a little at the police on the ground who will have no clue as to what happened. Gunshots could be heard from below. 

I guess they saw me

Cynthia takes one look down and then flinches as a bullet flies close to her face. She falters, floating in the air for a second before another bullet flies through the sky and hits her leg. She curses and forces herself to fly higher. 

How can the bullets even reach me?!?!?

She presses a hand to her wound, dark glittery pink blood flowing over her fingers. The bullets keep coming but don’t hit her. She slowly starts to fall to the ground, not wanting to waste her energy while she’s losing blood. She lands in the middle of the forest, turning back into her human form. Being a goddess, she can’t die. But that doesn’t mean she can’t feel pain and suffering. The bullet had gone pretty deep in her leg despite her being far off in the air. She lets out a string of curse words, wishing she was quicker at following Lillian before she got up and started limping forward. The forest had many trees and after a few minutes of walking, a random bird flew down on a branch and just stared at Cyn. She glared at it, not in the mood to be stared at by some bird. 

“Go! Shoo! Get lost bird! ” The bird just tilts its head at her and squawks. “Go annoy someone else.” The bird flies off of the branch and lands right on top of her head. Cynthia goes still, her hand still on her bleeding wound.  The bird takes a few steps on her head and then squawks again. She laughs nervously.

“Ok, little birdy, get going now.” She moves her head in an attempt to throw the bird off but the bird pecks at her head.

“Ow! What the f**k!” She tries to swat at the bird but only succeeds in spraying blood on herself. The bird lets out a loud squawk and flies off Cyn’s head, instead landing in front of her. She flips the bird off and the bird squawks again.  Cynthia takes a step forward but stops when she hears the sound of wind swirling and the sounds of a person crying. She turns around and sees someone on the floor, curled up and crying, the wind around them swirling. Tilting her head, she limps forward to see who the person is. The wind swirls around the person, making leaves, branches, and rocks fly up in the air. The items spin around the person until they eventually shoot out. A discarded tree branch flew toward Cynthia and she ducks. She winces in pain as she bends her injured leg. The person’s crying sounds like the wailing of a banshee, sending a horrified feeling down Cynthia’s spine. She decides to try and approach the being despite being injured and bleeding out, as she tries to approach the person, the objects being picked up by the wind start to get more aggressive, being flung at her at increasing speeds and the rate at which they are being thrown increases as well. The closer she got to the person the more aggressive the winds too, she did eventually reach him, as she was able to identify at least a gender, and despite not knowing the person tried to comfort them.

“Hey, calm down, you don’t know me, and I don’t know you, but you have to trust me and calm down.”

Despite not knowing her, he could tell from her soft, but rather enchanting voice, that she meant what she said, and really did mean no harm, only wanting to help them. Cyn, then hugged the person, just wanting them to calm down and said.

“Please, I don’t know what happened, or what is making you feel like this, but please, just please calm down”

She could feel the person's heart start to slow down and the wind begins to relax, but at the same time, she could feel and hear the person begin to cry more, her clothing getting wet as she hugged them.

“There we go, just let it out, shhh, it's okay, it's okay”

As they continue to sob, Cynthia can feel their grip on her tighten, almost as if they were a child holding their mother

“It’s okay, it’s okay, your fine, your fine”

Quietly “Thank you, thank you so much”

“It’s… Oka-” As she goes to finish her sentence she faints from the blood loss and he catches her. He notices a wound in her leg, Gunshots, bleeding, and takes off his shirt and wraps it around the bullet hole in her leg. Once he wrapped her leg he picked her up and began to look for where to take her and in the distance noticed a cabin, the lights on, and the shadows of people who lived there. He then began to absolutely run, full charge towards the cabin, tiring himself out. When reached the door he knocked on the door, prompting Agni to change to human form and open the door to see an unconscious Cyn in the arms of this stranger but without hesitation let them in.  Upon being informed that she had been shot,  Agni immediately ran to his room to grab a Dissection kit and first aid kit.

“Stranger, put her on the couch, and let me see her”

He did indeed put her on the couch and then moved aside. As Agni undid the shirt he said,

“You know, you did good wrapping something around the wound, that makes sure she does have such a high risk”

“Thanks”

“Pass me the scalpel”

As he demanded it, he got and cut Cyn’s leg open to remove the bullet.

“Pass the Forceps”

“???”

“The tweezer things”

“Oh”

As he passed the Agni the Forceps, Agni handed the scalpel. He got the forceps and very carefully removed the bullet from inside her body, pulling it out, very carefully. Once the bullet was, he grabbed a needle and some string and proceeded to sew together the skin of her leg.

“Give her a few hours, about 9, and she’ll be awake again”

“Thank you so much!” He hugs Agni and crushes him.

Weezing “Your…Crushing me”

Letting go “Oh sorry”

He awkwardly takes a few steps back from him, finally inspecting him for the first time. He was a complete stranger, yet something about his voice threw him off. He shakes his head, deciding to ignore it. Agni could sense Ryz’s confusion but just decided to ignore it. Breaking the silence Agni says,

“So….What brought you to Teton”

“Was just here on vacation and well some stuff happened, she found me, helped me, and then she fainted right in front of me”

He looks down at Cynthia’s sleeping form and then back at Agni. 

“Say, what’s your name”

“Agni-Kry, but you may call me Agni”

Ryz’s eyes widen and then proceeds to ask another question

“Agni huh…um…How long have you been here?”

“5 years”

Ryz makes a mental note of this and remembers that Agni also went missing 5 years ago

“So…random question but do you have a pendant”

“Yes, why?”

“Who do you have on it”

“My brother, why do you ask?”

“Heh…me too, wanna see”

“Sure”

Ryz takes off his pendant and gives it to Agni and he recognizes the material that the pendant is made out of, it’s Silver. Agni opens it and sees a picture of him in his Draconic form. As he sees this his eyes go wide but at the same time, he can feel tears welling up.

“Ryz?”

“Yes, brother?”

As a tear runs down Agni’s face, he hugs Ryz and says,

“I’ve missed you so much”

He starts to cry in Ryz’s arms out of pure joy, he found his brother.