"Where are we headed?" asked one of the deamons who followed behind Taverna. The green hued deamon had flown due west for three hours without speaking to anyone. His eyes moved back and forth, catching glimpses of the ground below, probably looking for anything that looked as if Bellcast had spies following them.
Taverna turned his head in mid flight, then flipped over, his hand blasting wind in the faces of the flying slave-used-to-be's. At once they stopped and floated in the middle of the sky. "We're headed to the mountains to the west. There are many valleys and caves which we'll use for training, and it gives us cover from anything Bellcast sends our way."
Jirba, the deamon who had spoken to Taverna, nodded. Taverna flipped back into the position he had been flying in and began to fly once more. The others followed him. Jirba casually flew slower than the others, allowing him to soon be at the back of the pack. He began to drop in altitude, and at once he felt a great pain in his back. Taverna's claws pulled out from the lifeless body Jirba, and as the deamon fell to the ground, Taverna released a wave of deamonic energy at the ground. The trees of the forest rustled as a gray coloured deamon tried to get out of the way of the blast, but Jirba's body colided with the deamon, and both bodies exploded in a bloody mess.
"Traitors are unacceptable. If anyone plans to betray me now, come forwards and attack me!" No one stepped forwards. "Good. Your second mission in my training is as follows. Destroy any living being in that forest. Incinerate the forest if you need to. And if you knwo of a traitor who did not step forwards when I asked, kill him."
The deamon warriors of Taverna dropped down to the forest and began using their powers to set fire to the forest. They somehow had learned to fight in unison and with strategy, as not all of the deamons were lighting up the forest. Others skimmed across the top of the massive inferno, looking for anything that was struggling to live, or anything that tried to escape. And as the deamons began to come back up to Taverna, two were struck from the air and tumbled into the fire below. The traitors.
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Nara's wings carried her across the desert of Craiyo to the northern shores of Speed. The ocean surrounding Speed's main island was gray-blue in colour and waves over fourteen metres high rolled along the top, collapsing down on each other and rising with twice the force. Aquatic deamons lived in the ocean, although they were few in number, as the beasts of the sea were generally larger and much more ferocious. Nara began her descent and as her altitude rapily dropped her speed rose, up until the point where she was in pain because of the air resistance.
The red hued deamon's head crashed through the water and Nara's speed quickly decreased. But her built up speed carried her down quite a ways, and when she felt deep enough she extended her wings, arched her back, and began to move forwards and up in direction. This direction resulted in her entering a small cave that, due to it's position, allowed air to remain and kept water out. Once Nara had surfaced from the water and was breething again she beat down with her wings and propelled herself up into the cave, through a small network of caves and tunnels. Whoever had originally forged this place had been sure to dig well so as to prevent water from flowing into the cave in the unlikely event that it was forced up.
Nara had originally found the cave two years ago when she had been seking refuge from Axerion's henchmen. She had been chased to the northern most point of Speed- Lislama Point, and from there she had headed west, to where she eventually collapsed from exhaustion and fell into Iskarna- the ocean the surrounded Speed's main island.
She had somehow survived and found herself in the first tunnel, floating in the water, face up and breathing. It had then been her life saver. It would now serve a purpose much greater. From here she could gain access to Terra Eterna, and from there, she could re-enter Speed almost anywhere, since flying in Terra Eterna was much safer than flying in Speed.
