"Yeah, we should leave," I said as soon as the door closed behind us of our quarters and I had brought the sound blocking barrier up.
"No kidding," Sheila answered as she moved past me to start packing our bags, "The Empress is nuts."
Ren nodded in agreement and moved to get changed out of her dress and into her armour, "She's dangerous. Do we Walk from here?"
I thought about it for a second before I shook my head, "She's done this longer than me. I don't want to risk her being able to track us through the Blind Eternities, I'm not sure it's even possible, I have to check with Ajani next time I see him, but I don't want to risk it. Let's leave the city before we go."
We gathered everything we had and got it packed away in our bags. It didn't take long, not like we really had unpacked.
Heading out of our room, we moved towards the exit of the castle, moving towards the rest of the city.
I smiled at Sheila as we walked past a set of guards, "I wonder what the market is like here. Hope we will be able to find something interesting."
She instantly got what I was doing and nodded, "Personally, I hope for a pair of new shoes, mine are getting a bit old."
"I'm sure we will be able to find something."
We left the castle and headed into town across one of the wooden bridges between the massive branches before we took a right and headed out away from the trunk.
Plenty of elves around. There was a lot of pointing and whispering going on. I ignored them and I glanced at Sheila and Ren as we got towards the platform furthest out on the branch.
She nodded and I handed her my bag before I changed back to my real form, Ren following a second after. Sheila quickly climbed into my saddle and strapped in place before I spread my wings and took off from the platform, turning it into a steep dive towards the edge of the forest.
I really, really wanted to get out from beneath the tree that ate massive dragon eating lizards before somebody noticed we were leaving.
Pulling up from the dive, we flew out over the forest, clearing the edge of the canopy of the massive tree.
That's when everything went wrong. A massive swarm of birds erupted from the trees below, swarming us.
Sheila screamed and ducked down against my armour.
Shit, shit, shit!
Letting lose with my breath, the beam of cold cutting a swat from the murder of black birds but it was nowhere near enough. Can't stay here!
Rengosa was way ahead of me, breathing frost she dove down, ducking beneath the forest ceiling and going down for landing.
I quickly followed, flaring my wings and beating them hard to slow down as I settled down.
Sheila was cursing up a storm as she unstrapped and scrambled out of my saddle before she cast some kind of dark and uncomfortable looking spell into the swarm before it exploded and it rained birds.
"What was that?" Ren asked as she looked around.
"I don't know," I answered, "Some kind of… either a summon or a spell. Either way, no way we have not been spotted."
"Indeed, you have," Sakila confirmed as she walked out from behind one of the thick trees, her two massive wolves flanking her, "I'm afraid I can't allow you to just leave. You're a threat to my pack, you could bring others back here. It's my responsibility to stop that from happening. "
I shook my head and shifted a bit to face her and her pets, "Look, we're not looking to hurt you or yours. We're simply leave you can trust me when I say that we have no intention of ever returning to your little corner of reality."
"I wish I could believe that. But you know where we are and what's more, you can bring non-planeswalkers with you. I can't let you do that."
With that, she spread her arms, her eyes lighting up a bright green.
Sheila didn't wait either, shooting a green ball of flame towards them. Sakila waved her hand and a massive root shot up through the ground to block it.
Her wolves charged and started to grow.
Shit!
Deploying my armour, I pounced on the closest of the wolves while Rengosa did the exact same thing.
Ripping and biting, I clawed up the side of the twisting animal before clamping down on it's throat, ripping and biting as the blood flowed.
The massive wolf snarled and whimper as it went down and I went rolling off it.
I managed to struggle back onto my feet just in time to see a large plant monster burst through Sheila's barrier of flame.
Wines latched out, wrapping around her and she struggled, burning the first couple before they tightened and ripped her in two.
I was faintly aware that I screamed as she reformed in fire and smoke right next to me. Gasping, she put her hand against my side for support.
She let out a curse and I glanced at her quickly,
"Get out of here."
"We can't, we have to Walk!"
"I can't without your soulstone!"
It would take too long. Ren's wolf went down with a massive crash, bleeding out on the forest floor.
"Ren! Get Sheila out of here. I'll keep her back!"
AN// Unbetaed because I'm sick and going to bed.