Freezing fire

Rayne's POV

"Dylan and Whitney, Dylan and Whitney... Where have I heard those names before?" I mumbled to myself searching through my papers and other items.

"Danvar and White, no... Wait a second... no, not this one either " I thought and threw a piece of paper away. It landed straight in the fire in the middle of the huge tent, immediately starting to burn away. "Aaarrggh, no, no, no, no, come back OUCH!" I said as reaching for the paper in the fire and succeeded to get it out without it having any massive burnings... well, except for myself

"Danvar and White... " I sighed as looking at the paper which I had rescued with so much trouble. Suddenly, an edge of something yellowish reached the corner of my eye. "What is that?" I thought and took and hold of it and pulled it out from under a pile of books. It was a piece of an ancient parchment with fade writing on top

"What is this supposed to be then?" I said reading the parchment which was pretty hard because of the very fade text on it, but managed to catch something like: One day a silverhand and a warrior shall rise. In a group of 9 they will fight, If they fail, the world will ignite. But if they succeed the evil will be gone and the world shall be saved once more...

"The ancient prophecy, but it's missing a piece... I wonder..."

"Whitney, Whitney, Whitney!" "Ren, Ren Ren!" were the voices heard as Whitney and Ren were armwrestling and surprisingly, Whitney was winning although Ren looked like he wasn't even trying. He actually was yawning in boredom as Whitney struggled to bend his arm down.

"Come on Ren, you can't lose to a girl!" Xyrza shouted, teasing Ren and slapping him on the back with his paw, making Ren lose his focus and giving Whitney a slight advantage and she managed to bend Ren's arm a bit.

"Thanks a lot Xyrza!" Ren shouted and with a small grunt, was able to bend his arm back up and the were in a tie, both not giving up.

"Whitney, I didn't think you would be such strong, are you sure you aren't a warrior?" Ren said, of course winning but yet surprised by the physical abilities of a such fragile looking chipmunk.

"I'm no warrior, but I've got to stay in good shape, because the spells require a good physical stamina and strength to be performed properly" she replied, but then Ren got a little bored by the lack of effort and surprisingly bent Whitney's arm on the log they were sitting on.

"That wasn't fair! I wasn't paying attention!"

"Too bad, but hey, You're pretty strong for a girl" Ren said again, his eyes already searching for the figure of Dylan but didn't have to look for long.

"My turn!" Dylan shouted and kneeled in front of the small log.

"I'll accept the challenge" Ren eagerly said and took a firm hold of Dylan's paw.

"Ready, set, go!" Dee said and both of the guys started bending each other's arms, both on a verge of sweating from the physical stress.

"Oh man! That's what I call a good armwrestle newbie!" Ren shouted, excited about Dylan's strength.

"hey! never underestimate someone from the looks of him "Dylan responded, kicking in another gear and bending Ren's arm a little lower but Ren soon sent in his response and regained the situation of a tie.

Both of their arms started shaking, their paws sweating and trembling in each other's strong grip. It was only an armwrestle but both of them also secretly had a competition in squeezing the opponent's paw.

"Feeling it already, NEWBIE!" Ren shouted, his face becoming a little red and the air around him starting to swirl around them.

"Don't use your powers Rennie! Dylan said, flexing his muscles to the extreme and above, his shadow making weird positions.

"No worries, I don't need those to beat you!" Ren said, also tensing the last of his muscles.

"Hahahaa! this is what I call a good one! AARRGGHHH!" Dylan said, bursting out the last bits of his strength in a crushing last bend, making Ren's arm bend down on the log slowly, but surely.

"What just happened?" Ren wondered and everybody looked at them, shocked as the air had finally stopped swirling around them. It was like the light had come back.

"Y-yeah, Ren is usually the undefeated armwrestler" Turac joined "He even beats me and Rayne in chipmunk form, it's probably because of his technique and yeah, most of all his strength"

"Too bad for you, I'm just too awesome to be beaten!" Dylan cheered and spun around his paws in the air although his right arm wasn't as high as the left one.

"Getting to know each other are you?" Rayne suddenly said behind them startling them a little.

"Yeah, it seems these guys are pretty awesome so far" Dylan smirked and everybody looked at him. Just a minute ago he had said HE was the awesome one.

"Good. Anyway, Turac, have you told them about your backgrounds yet?"

"No, the thought haven't actually even crossed my mind"

"Well that's good because I always enjoy telling that story. Why wouldn't you sit around the campfire and perk up your ears. It's gonna be a short, but good story.

"Wow, it's the first time someone warns about a short story" Dylan said with an evil smirk

"Well yeah, anyway, gather 'round the fire" Rayne said.

"What fire?" Whitney asked looking around the camp. Rayne winked at Amy, who shot a bunch of sparks in the pile of leaves which immediately shot out a few flames as they ignited and started to burn warmly.

"Oh, that fire..." Whitney said and they all gathered around the burning pile of leaves. Rayne quickly threw in a couple of logs preventing it from cooling down.

"So, here's the deal..."

"And that was the whole story about how the chipmunks came to me and found out that they are elementals" Rayne stopped his indeed quite short story (read Kuro Shimo's stories if you want to find out the story!)

"That explains how you can fly and do all those fancy things while we were up the cliff" Dylan said and looked at the others with admiration in his eyes

"Nothing special, we were born this way" Ren said almost showing off.

"Anyway, I also found out some more information about the spear you're looking for. It's one of the three supreme weapons in the universe and I suppose this is the strongest one of them all. Anyway, it's guarded by 5 or actually 6 fearsome beasts, each stronger than the other and yes, they live in that forest, or actually beneath it, because there's a massive labyrinth like a tunnel system under it and in the middle is the spear."

"Like in Greece.. um in..." Gwen started

"Yeah, we all know it's the labyrinth of the minotaur, but nobody's interested where it is. Please continue Rayne" Xyrza interrupted

"Okay, so the labyrinth has, according to only legends of course, 5 larger rooms which each contain one of the guardians, but the labyrinth itself has many traps and lesser beasts, but nobody knows what and at the end, is the hall with the spear of freezing fire. A spear with the might to ignite the whole planet or move the pacific ocean or... at least freeze it."

"That's it?"

"Yep, pretty much what I got from some of my rare artefacts" Rayne said looking slightly awkward

"Well there should have been more about those monsters. Now we don't know how to prepare for battle with some unknown monster with unknown abilities" Ren said sounding annoyed

"I agree, but that's all we have so that has to do. At least we know to prepare for a long, dark, dangerous trip" Rayne said

"And you actually thought you could just get it yourself?" Gwen asked Dylan and Whitney, who got a slight blush on their face

"Well, we didn't know it would be so hard or anything" Dylan said quietly and Whitney nodded. "But then it's good you met us!" Dee shouted and Ren joined her rising his weapon and screaming a loud warcry

"It looks like we're all in this mess already so what do you say, should we prepare or train before leaving?" Rayne asked and the votes split. Ren, Dee, Xyrza and Gwen voted for training and the rest voted for preparing

"So what about this, Turac and the others go gather the equipment we need with me and the rest will go to assemble a training course. Deal?"

"Deal!" everybody shouted in unison

"Good then, Turac, Amy, Dylan and Whitney, follow me if you please" Rayne said walking in the tent and the rest followed

"WOW! This is huge! I never thought it would be this big from outside!" Dylan shouted after a quick glimpse of the tent. It seemed to have 4 rooms plus one kitchen and a massive living room

"Yeah, you can do pretty cool things with magic if you can" Rayne said looking proud

"I can do magic, but a thing like this never crossed my mind! Think Dylan. what if we'd have this kind of tent every time we were out in the woods, out cold."

"Yeah, that would've been amazing, but let's not think of it now. We should pack, am I right?" Dylan said and the rest nodded and rushed to different parts of the tent to get their stuff and soon came back with handfuls of items such as torches, spare arrows and bows, knives, clothing, blankets and everything else necessary

"How do you guys think we can carry all this?" Dylan asked Amy, who returned with another load of something which looked like some herbs

"Well, Rayne will just put a spell to our bags which increases their capacity and decreases their weight so that's no problem" she said rushing away and Rayne appeared from his room eating a donut and carrying some books

"Okay, I think we have everything by now... okay, step back" he said rolling up his sleeves and pointing at the items and the bags with his hands and a puff of smoke was sen and soon... nothing looked different

"Umm... Rayne, I think you just failed" Whitney said

"Of course not my darling, look" he said grabbing one of the bags and stuffing it with a variety of different items, but he didn't stop. He just kept packing and packing and finally finished"

"Phew, it should be half full by now" he said and Dylan's and Whitney's jaws dropped "WHHAAAAT? You just packed 1/3 of all items and it's half full?"

"Well, I thought Amy explained it to you already, they're expanded so they can carry a whole lot of items"

"I guess she said something like that, but I guess we were just stunned from the amount of stuff so we didn't quite pay attention"

"Yeah, it's not too normal to live with our family so you better get used to it during the time in here or else we'll have trouble at our mission"

"We'll try"

"Good, but I think the best way of doing that right now is to get on that training course and practise with others. I think everyone's already there" Rayne said looking out of the window (yes, this tent even has a window)

"Okay, we'll do great. I promise, bye!" Whitney said and they dashed away leaving Rayne eating his donut.

"I wonder what will their futures be. I think it's time to look at the stars once again" he thought taking another small bite of his donut.

I hope I did good with Rayne and the other OCs again, anyway, next chapter will be them training for the upcoming adventure.

Oh, some of you may have noticed I got the expandable tent and backpacks form Harry Potter, oh well...

Remember to review! I'm out!