Chatterbox: Inkwell

Read my story

I have decided to post chapters of my story on here, because I just really want people to read it and tell me if it is good. Heh. Anyways. the first part/chapter/whatever will just be posted straight on here. 

Prologue 

Fergus Varrenn hurried to get all the creatures into a shelter before the storm got any worse. His blond hair was plastered to his forehead. The screeches of young snowlings reminded him that their fur wasn’t as waterproof and warm as it would be when they grew up, so he urged some ferroos into their hutches and dashed off. 

His wife, Karry, was nearby, ushering some worrenns into their building. She yelled to Fergus, “There are several eggs about to hatch! Tonight is not a good night.”

He called back, “Stay with the worrenns. I’ll get the other animals into safety.”

Karry shoved at a young, stubborn, black-furred worrenn, finally resorting to grabbing its antlers and yanking it into the barn where the other wolf-like creatures were waiting. “No way!” she called back, “You’ll need more than just Min to get the faen and the fairi into their pens.” Resigned to the fact that his wife had ended the argument, Fergus went over to the meepi cage to make sure that all the tiny, flittery creatures were safe inside their glass enclosure. A little ways away, the water-droplet dragons were dancing about, continuously leaping out of the water and feeling the rain they loved on their sensitive whiskers. “Hey,” he heard Karry call to him, “did you remember to get the pennets?”

He cried, “No! I completely forgot!” and rushed off towards the other side of the sanctuary. Karry followed him. They both knew that the pennets freaked out if it rained, so they would take a lot of work. They could hear the pennets shrieking before they even reached the stony caves where they lived. However, the shrieking of pennets was not the only sound piercing the stormy night. Fergus and Karry could hear babies wailing and the sound of a gentle lullaby. Confused, the two tried to find the source of the strange sound. Over by the edge of the forest that ringed the sanctuary, there were two small bundles. A large, blurry shape leaned over them. It seemed to be singing to the little bundles. Karry watched from a distance as Fergus crept closer, trying to discern what the three shapes really were. As she looked on, Fergus stopped just a little ways away from the closest tree. The taller, blurry shape’s beautiful singing petered out and it looked down at the small bundles at its feet. With a quiet buzzing noise, the tall dark shape was gone as if it had never been there. Karry rushed forward to Fergus, anxious to see what he could see. Tiny, dark faces peeped out of the bundles. Silver hair wreathed their faces and the blankets that wrapped them were a dark indigo-purple color. Their eyes were a icy blue-purple color. Karry and Fergus each picked up a baby, instinctively comforting them as they so often comforted orphaned animals. Fergus gave a small exclamation of surprise as a small slip of paper slid out of the bundle he was holding. He read it aloud to Karry, “Take care of them. The one with shorter hair and a dimple when she smiles is Jade. The other child is named Tori. I know that you are probably the best fit people for the job of taking care of my precious daughters…” here Fergus quieted, looking at the note with shock and amazement.

“Is there more?” Karry asked curiously. 

He replied, “It says, signed by a Forekk.” Karry stifled a gasp. Forekk were so utterly rare! They were rumored to be just as intelligent, if not more so, than humans. She took another look at the baby in her arms. It had straight, silky hair that nearly came down to its shoulders. The child that Fergus was holding had slightly wavy hair that came only to its ears. 

“So,” Karry decided, “The one I’m holding is Tori, and the one you have is Jade.” For the next few hours, Karry was busy in the main house, drying off Tori and Jade and trying to dig out something that would fit them. Fergus was frantically trying, along with Min, to get the pennets, faen, and fairi into shelter. When he was done, he went to the main house to find Karry, but she wasn’t there. The butterflew outside the doorway said that she had gone to the worrenn barn. Fergus remembered what Karry had said about the hatching worrenn eggs and he was suddenly frantic. He dashed across the slippery wet grass, frantically trying to get to the worrenn barn in time for the hatching. He got there and saw that Karry was already there, with Tori and Jade, and two small bracelets in her hand. The bracelets had gold chains and tiny gold key-shaped pendants. Tori and Jade cooed, oblivious to the desperation of the people around them. Two worrenn eggs were preparing to hatch, and all the female worrenns were crowded around the nests. Fergus pushed his way through the crowd of damp, furry bodies until he saw the eggs about to hatch. He pushed the worrenns out of the way and sat at the edge of the nest. Karry came forward and sat next to him. ¨Here,¨ she said, ¨We have to put these on the babies so they can help here at the sanctuary.¨ She handed Jade and one of the bracelets to Fergus. He took the squirming baby and the cool, thin bracelet. ¨Unclasp the bracelet,¨ Karry instructed her husband, ¨and on three we´ll clasp the bracelet onto the girls.¨ Fergus knew that these bracelets were a mechanism that would allow the girls to communicate with all creatures. He had one himself, but it was in the form of a slim watch. ¨One, ¨ Karry started as there was a loud cracking sound from the nest. She paused for a second, then continued, ¨two, ¨ there was another loud cracking noise. This time the crack was visible in both eggs. It looked like the eggs were bonded and would be hatching at the same time. Finally, Karry said, ¨Three!¨ and Fergus clasped the golden bracelet around the tiny, pudgy wrist of Jade. At that exact moment, there was an even louder crack than before. The two worrenn eggs split open just as both bracelets were clasped. One of the tiny, winged, antlered wolves tumbled right into  Fergus´s lap. He looked down at it, shocked. Jade giggled and gripped its antlers, dragging it onto her lap. The newly-hatched worrenn licked the baby Forekk´s face, and Jade giggled again. The other worrenn had stood up and solemnly lay in Tori´s lap. Fergus and Karry looked at each other, astonished. The two bonded worrenns seemed to have bonded to the sweet little Forekks. 

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