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"I knew I couldn't trust you!" Kosesho growled boldly as
the eight dark Kougras held him pinned to the ground on his stomach, their paws
pressing against his back to keep him from moving.
"Get my absorbent claws," Sehmno called to the
dark Kougras.
A few of them nodded and walked away.
"Absorbent claws? So… you're going to steal
my powers?" Kosesho said. "I thought you were going to just destroy me."
"Well, I destroy you after I take your powers,
that way I get to do two wonderful things," Sehmno laughed.
The dark Kougras returned and placed the weapons
in front of Sehmno.
"Here are your absorbent claws," one of them
said.
"Great," Sehmno leered. Then he turned to Kosesho
with a malicious smirk on his maw. He put the absorbent claws over his own razor-sharp
claws and then pierced Kosesho.
Sehmno hesitated for a moment. Then the smirk
slowly faded off of his face.
Kosesho looked at the dark Kougras holding him
down. With his snow powers, Kosesho had a snowstorm begin in that part of the
cave. The chunks of frozen snow hurled through the air and smacked into the
dark Kougras who had been holding him down, thrusting the dark Kougras through
the air and falling to the ground, but quickly pulling themselves back up.
Kosesho stood up and glared at Sehmno. "You
really are an amateur. You should have known! Absorbent claws are for taking
the elemental powers from those who have been blessed by Faeries! I was born
with my snow powers!" Kosesho leaped at Sehmno and pinned him to the ground,
growling. "Where are Snowy and her parents???"
"What?" Sehmno asked.
"Where are they?!" Kosesho asked impatiently,
profusely annoyed by Sehmno's determined ignorance.
Sehmno quickly lifted his paw and slashed across
Kosesho's face. Kosesho fell back in pain, then he looked back over at Sehmno.
"I have no use for you now!" Sehmno yelled.
Kosesho held up a paw and then scratched toward
Sehmno from far away; shatters of ice coming out of his paw, aimed toward Sehmno.
The dark Kougra ducked out of the way of the ice shards and then ran up to Kosesho,
jumping onto his side and biting him in the back. Kosesho let out a ferocious
roar and shook Sehmno off of his back.
***
After awakening, Snowy found herself back in her cave chamber. She had regained
enough energy, but was still wounded. She sat up and growled at the guards outside.
She shifted her glance, noticing Aoraef walk up to her.
"Hello, Snowy," Aoraef said, deception stirring
into his voice. "From now on you will stay by my side and be my personal servant."
"No, I'm not going to spend my life serving
you," Snowy said immediately.
"Yes," Aoraef said. "When your parents have
been destroyed as well as Kosesho-"
"No is a simple answer," Snowy growled. She
stood up and walked over to the entrance of her small cave to where Aoraef was
standing, with the guards watching her suspiciously. She began to growl, silent
at first, but then her growl progressed and got louder.
Suddenly, Kosesho came running up to Snowy and
slashed Aoraef, causing him to fall back onto the ground. Aoraef pulled himself
up as Kosesho motioned for Snowy to follow him while he formed a snowstorm.
He controlled the snowstorm to have it only hit the dark Kougras. Snowy ran
quickly with the stripe less Kougra through the cave.
"Do you know where they took my parents?" Snowy
said in hopes that they might find her parents before it would be too late.
"Yes," Kosesho said, because he could smell
their scents even through the snowstorm, since he was a snow Kougra. "Their
scent leads to over there!" Kosesho pointed his nose in the direction of a hole
in part of the cave that seemed to lead to another area.
They headed through the hole and into another
part of the cave where they saw Miro and Clira being threatened by the dark
Kougras. One of the evil creatures growled maliciously and was about to slash
Miro against his face when Kosesho directed the snowstorm toward the dark Kougras.
The strong wind of the storm pushed the dark Kougras back while Clira and Miro
followed Snowy and Kosesho out of that part of the cave.
They headed quickly out of the entrance and
made it out into the open plains of Happy Valley, the sun setting on the horizon.
The ground became shaky, and soon piles of snow rolled over the mountains next
to the four Kougras. The Kougras stared wide-eyed at the enormous avalanche
that had begun as they hurried through the field.
The snow came from the left and right sides
of Snowy, her parents, and Kosesho, and rushed onto them, coating them thoroughly,
holding them under pounds and pounds of ruthless ice.
***
Blizzard crept through the cave slowly, trying to be unnoticed. He was crouched
down and walking along cautiously. He made his way to the entrance of the cave
and stared out at the dark Kougras.
"WHAT?!" Sehmno yelled at the other three evil
Kougras that stood outside near the pounds of snow that Snowy and her family
were contained in.
"They were probably destroyed by the avalanche,"
one of the dark Kougras tried to explain.
"How are you sure??" Sehmno growled, "You three
stay out here and make sure they have been destroyed! If Kosesho or Snowy has
survived, call me out here. I really want to defeat Kosesho for myself, and
my son wants to marry Snowy. But just destroy the others if they're still alive."
The dark Kougras nodded and stood their ground
as Sehmno stomped away angrily. Blizzard made sure he moved unseen by the three
dark Kougras. Blizzard went behind part of the avalanched snow. He sniffed at
the snow to try to see if he could sniff out Snowy and her family.
He then placed his paws into the snow and began
digging through. It was difficult, but Blizzard dug through some of the outer
heaps of snow, but he couldn't go any further because it was harder and icier
every inch of snow that Blizzard tried to dig. He let out a sad sigh as he stared
at the snow, wishing he could dig through to Snowy and her family.
"What are you doing?" a voice growled.
Blizzard quickly turned his head, now noticing
that Sehmno was standing right next to him. "Oh… well… nothing. I… umm…" Blizzard
had to make up a lie quickly before Sehmno would figure it out. "I was just
searching for Snowy and her family… to make sure that they had all been destroyed.
And they have."
"Good," Sehmno said. "Although I really had
hoped that Kosesho was still alive, so that I could kill him for myself." Sehmno
paused for a moment, and then said, "Where are they, anyway? Are you sure they're
not still alive?"
"I'm sure," Blizzard said, now trying to withdraw
back into the cave in hopes that Sehmno wouldn't ask for more information. He
didn't want Sehmno to find out that he hadn't yet found Snowy and her family,
otherwise if Sehmno or any of the other dark Kougras found Snowy and her family,
if they were still alive; he knew that they would destroy them for sure.
"Then where are they? Could you at least show
me them?" Sehmno asked, aggravated. "I want to see them for myself."
"Don't you believe me?" Blizzard asked, cocking
his head and slightly backing up.
"I just want to see them for myself. Now show
me to them," Sehmno said, now with a strongly demanding voice.
"I covered them," Blizzard said.
"What?" Sehmno growled.
"When I saw them, I felt like covering them
with the snow so that I didn't have to look at their pathetic little faces anymore.
I felt pity for them, an annoyed type of pity, since they couldn't escape a
simple avalanche." Blizzard said, trying to sound somber enough.
Sehmno began to laugh, "Great." He turned to
the dark Kougras who were guarding the avalanche. "Come on."
The three dark Kougras followed him back into
the cave.
Sehmno paused for a moment and then turned around.
"Blizzard? Are you coming? We were going to discuss some of our new plans."
A malevolence grin rested on Sehmno's maw.
Blizzard couldn't stay outside near the avalanche,
or Sehmno would know something was up. I'll come back as soon as I can to
find them, Blizzard thought sadly. If Sehmno were to find out that Blizzard
was really trying to help Snowy and her family, Sehmno would probably have the
dark Kougras destroy Blizzard for betraying him. I can't fight all of the
dark Kougras off, Blizzard thought. There are just too many…
To be continued...
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