Journey Chapter 19

Coal was confused, he had been carried for an hour by this creature. It was grunting as it carried him away from the castle. “Where are you taking me, I need to go back!!” Coal shouted, the creature didn’t hesitate. “Let me go!!!! I am the prince of the late Emperor Avalanche!” Coal shouted again, the creature still didn’t hesitate.

He was carried for a while long until the creature went down a tunnel and dropped him when they reached the end of the tunnel. “Finally, now what was your idea of taking me from my ho-. Bramble??” Coal said in shock, sure enough it was Bramble and he had taken Coal to his home.

“Well it’s good to see you too. At least I could get a thank you for saving your life.” Bramble said, Coal chuckled irritatedly.

“My father just died in front of me Bramble!! I’m sorry but I don’t see you ‘saving’ me when my people needing me the most as something I should thank you for. If anyone why didn’t you save my father!!” Coal said.

“Oh well, Sorry for saving your life then, you were just about to hit with a blast of ice and I didn’t want to see another person I know die.” Bramble said angrily, Coal lowered his head.

“Thank you.. for saving me.” He squawked.

“Well you’re welcome. I’m sorry about your father Coal.”Bramble said.

“Thank you. What were you doing over there when Fenrisulfr came though?” Coal asked,

“Well a friend of ours and the Five said that he saw Fenrisulfr come out of the Bifrost and saw him go eastward. And he told me to go and warn you and your father about it, but when I got there. I was too late.” Bramble said.

“Who was this friend?” Coal asked, “That.. would have been me.” A voice said. Coal turned to see someone who he didn’t recognize, a carnotaurus.

Coal continued to look at the carnotaurus to see if he could recognize him to again to make sure he wouldn’t make a fool of himself.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I know you. Who are you?” Coal asked.

“Oh, my name is Basil.” The carno said, “And how do yo-. Your name is Basil?” Coal said surprised.

“Yeah?” Basil said,

“Basil as in the brother of Spark?” Coal asked. “Yes, I’m Spark’s brother.” Basil said.

“Why have you been hiding? Your sister has been hunting you down across Fjordur!” Coal said.

“I’m not ready, I am just not ready to see her or talk to her. Especially since she is now apart of the Five. I feel like… like I failed her as a brother. And I don’t know what she would do.” Basil said,

“Okay, I can understand stand that. But she loves you, you know. Why else would she be hunting you down across Fjordur and the realms. Speaking of, where have you been hiding that she hasn’t found you?” Coal asked.

“Here.” Basil said,

“You mean in the redwoods?” Coal said.

“No, in Brambles burrow. I heard that he helped you and the Five, so I came here and asked if I could hide here until I was ready.” Basil said.

“When he came to me and asked to hide here, I told him it would probably only last a week before she looks here. I was surprised that a month passed and she still didn’t come to me to ask. Let alone a year.” Bramble said chuckling.

“Well I stayed here for several weeks and barely remember where your burrow is. Maybe she just couldn’t remember where it was.” Coal said.

“Okay, can we please get back on topic.” Basil said cutting in,

“Now I was on the edge of Vennaland and Runheimr when I saw a giant wolf enter into Runheimr.” Basil continued.

“Okay, well then how did you get to Bramble tell him about Fanrisulfr?” Coal questioned Basil,

“I got to him only a couple hours before you got here. It wasn’t much time to waste. I didn’t know where it was going but I knew it would be a matter of time before it would go to the terror bird kingdom.” Basil said.

“As soon as he came to me, I ran and found you and saved you from getting hurt or killed.” Bramble said.

“Okay, since we are all caught up and we know that everyone here is not a threat at the moment. What is our next plan?” Coal put forward.

“What do you mean at th-”

“I am kidding Basil. But I’m not kidding about the fact that we are in danger here and that we need to make a plan to escape and get help.” Coal continued cutting off Basil.

“Might I suggest that we do what we did last time we had to do something like this.” Bramble suggested,

“Good idea Bramble we do what we did with the Five.” Coal said.

“What was that?” Basil asked cautiously, “We’ll leave at night and head to the Shadowmane Tribe, and this time me and Bramble will both make it there.” Coal said confidently.