Zaya began thinking hard, what could she possibly do, she will definitely look suspicious, they could even turn her in, she held a magical looking staff in her hand, while in a humanoid fierce fox form, dripping with blood.
If she changed back to her normal form she would die at that instant and also be naked. She didn't want that either. She thought about crawling back to the cave but that was useless too. She was surely going to die of hunger if she stayed there, so she had to get back and fast.
She stood up on her feet aiming to camouflage herself in the raging snow storm, that was the safest way. After all whoever was coming wasn't running towards her she thought, she could totally escape.
She stood trying to use the staff to walk; it wasn't worth it. She flexed her muscles gathering strength. Just one more time she thought aloud, but it only made her weaker. Zaya lost her balance, hitting the cold snow as she changed back to her normal form. She blacked out.
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There was a rattling in the dumpster, it was coming from a nearby garbage in the middle of an alley. A raccoon jumped out of the garbage can, its gaze falling on a girl who slept on the ground very close to the bin. The raccoon walked closer to the lying girl, who was covered with a ragged robe, sniffing to check if there was any trace of food on her body. The girl suddenly jolted awake breathing profusely, making the stunned raccoon take a few steps back. She grabbed a staff beside her and shoo‑ed the raccoon away from her presence.
The girl was none other than Zaya. She looked around, happy to be back. After Zaya blacked out earlier, she was found by one of the reptilian tribe creatures who brought her back into the cave depths of the mountain where she was immediately treated.
Zaya, who was unconscious, wasn't aware of her state. Even though it was not perfect the reptilians tried their best to heal her wounds, and at the point of them losing their queen. The wisest reptilian used the staff to retain her life, soon, Zaya was up and healthy again.
She was surprised at how civilized the real reptilian kingdom was, their population was in millions all including their armies. It was more beautiful than she could ever have imagined. Through the power of one of the gems on the staff she gained the ability to speak to the reptilians.
The reptilians persuaded her to save their home, after all she was the new queen of the kingdom. She was then taught by the wisest reptilian on how to harness the power of the staff, right after that, she stabilized the volcano.
She also learnt how to communicate with the reptilians even from far distances. She created a council which included the oldest in the tribes who will oversee them till she returns.
There was a final farewell party then Zaya departed from the mountain caves, promising the reptilians that she would return, once again. It's been two days since the volcanic eruption occurred. Zaya had been traveling, she had slept at a dumpster when the sun had set. She wore a ragged brown pale robe which extended to her head forming as a cloak, wearing a face mask along with it. Inside the ragged robe, she wore a red majestic leather armour given to her by the reptilians.
They made it for her signifying a symbol of royalty, it was one of the two parting gifts she was given along with the strength of the Horus eye. While she received that gift a thin red line appeared on her left eye crossing diagonally, Zaya didn't know what it could do or bothered asking she only thanked the reptilian priestess for giving it to her.
Zaya stood up, dusting her homeless looking outfit with both of her hands, as she strolled into the walking way. After a few more hours of constant trekking, Zaya finally got back to her own city. She then walked towards the bus stop, hailed a cab and set off towards her home. She stared at the various bill boards outside on the buildings, most of the screens on the sky scrapers replayed what had happened at the volcano. How it suddenly erupted one time and then suddenly the lava had all disappeared, The old man beside the cab driver's seat suddenly spoke.
"I'm telling you Mike he said facing the cab driver. The world's ending, I could feel it, first the plague and then lava vanishing, all these aren't just coincidences. Soon death will come for us all!"
"Of course old man," Mike said grinning ridiculously as he turned the car to the right, almost at Zaya's street.
"I'll be stopping here," Zaya spoke as she held the golden staff tight in her palms.
"Money?" The cab driver said. Zaya handed him some cash she'd stolen from him earlier, she then stepped out of the car.
The atmosphere was tense they all sat the living room being hosted by Pauline's mother. It was Dan and Naya seating across Carla Brynes in the living room, with two of them in particular arguing.
"Why would you let my daughter go on such a dangerous mission," Naya shot at Carla furiously. "You knew this was going to happen, yet you let her go for one of your stupid experiments." Naya yelled louder in disgust staring directly at Carla.
Carla then spoke, "I think there's a little bit of a misunderstanding here, I was not aware they were going on a trip to a volcanic mountain. Yet still I sent quite a number of rescue teams to their location. It was the only way they all could have survived."
"Spare me your lies," Naya yelled. "Your child is a bad influence on mine, just a few days ago Zaya was sick, she could barely even stand but she insisted on going to school, so she could skip it and end up dead."
Zaya's mother, infuriated, was about to start cursing. The others in the room stood up on their feet, not because the former were about to attack each other but because the body guard stationed at the entrance of the room where they all sat, was just thrown through the door almost hitting the other part of the sitting room.
A figure worked in majestically, it was Zaya her head and face totally covered, she twirled her sceptre around as she balanced it, hitting it on the ground, hardly enough to make the tiles beneath shatter. Sending a whirring sound across the room, she yelled, "Silence!
Mother, I have returned!"