Here is one of my longest books, SO FAR!!


With the Wind
A world Unknown


Chapter 1
The Troublemaker


“K mom! I’ll be back tomorrow!” Jazzmin Rain called to her mom walking out the door with her backpack filled to the top. “OK, honey, be careful!” But she was already out the door. She walked down the driveway thinking of what her friend Madelyn and she would do. She crossed the road thinking ‘Mady just got a new horse, maybe she’ll let me ride it!’ she turned and crossed another road. All of a sudden a great thirst hit her. “Boy, I’m thirsty.” She said to herself. She turned to see a well in a dark corner. It looked spooky, next to an abandoned old house. But still, she went to get a drink out of the well.
She took the bucket and started lowering it with the age-old rope. She had expected to hear a ‘glump’ from it hitting the water, but all she heard was a ‘donk’ from hitting the floor of the well. “Aw, man!” she said to herself in disappointment. She stared at it for a moment wishing it weren’t true, wishing that it would fill up any second. She turned around. Then herd a ‘hisssssss’ from the well. She turned around, and screamed. A big water dragon (she had read about these) came shooting out! And then it vanished. “Oh, just my imagination.” She turned back around and started walking toward the road.
All of a sudden, she stopped moving forward. It was like she was being pulled backwards. She turned around to see the cause, and saw a purple wave coming from the well and looped around her! It was pulling her in! She struggled to get free, but it was no use. The more she struggled, the faster, and tighter it pulled! All that was going through her mind was ‘Must get free! It’s going to kill me!’ Then it all went black.
When she woke up, she was in a forest. Right next to her was the well, the same well, but no house. She saw around her a bush, with the oddest glow, trees that were of an unknown kind, their leaves were shaped like an oak’s, but they were poky, like a porcupine. “Weird….” She said to her self as she looked at these. Then she heard a rustle in the bushes. “Who’s there?” she asked the trees. “Ouch! Guys! Stop pushing! I’m only so small!” whispered a girl from behind the bush. “Well, sorry! He keeps on pushing me!” another girl whispered, and then the first girl went tumbling out.
*1*

“Uh….. Hi….” She squeaked. Jazz’s eyes flung open at the girl’s fox tail. “Wow! Y�"you have a tail!” The girl made a puzzled face. “Yeah, don’t you? I mean, all of the Sysiles have em’.” The other two came out of the bush. A second girl and a boy. The second girl had a horse tail, and the boy had a dragon tail. “Uh, well… no. I don’t. See?” Jazz turned around two times, no tail. The first girl said, “My name is Canai, this is my sister, Kila, and my brother Torlck. What is your name?” “My name is Jazzmin Rain; can you tell me where the heck I am?”
“You are in the forest of the god Tonack.” Canai said as they walked through the forest. “He is a very powerful god. Some say he has an evil side and he is the cause of this world’s devastation, some say that he is fighting a great and powerful demon and causing the tornados, oh, boy. There are so many different sides of the story. But, you get the point. He is great and powerful, the end!” Jazz raised her eyebrows. “Hmmm, well, I live on a planet called earth. So, I don’t think this is earth. We don’t have a forest named T-t-to grrrr! I can’t even pronounce it! I don’t know how I got here, I’ve never even heard about a species called Sizelez, and, and......” “Bonk!” a branch fell out of the tree above her and knocked her out.
The next thing she knew she was in a den. She bolted up. “Where am I?” Canai came from around the corner of the den. “I see you’re finally awake.” She knelt down and put a purple leaf on Jazz’s head. Jazz jumped. “Don’t worry, Jazz. You’re O.K. You just got hit on the head by a Cacala tree branch. These Torlala leaves should make your bruise go down.” Canai got back up and turned to leave the little hole. “Is this your home, Canai?” Jazz called to Canai. She nodded her head and went to the other chamber of the den.
A black fox walked up to Jazz and rubbed its head on her out stretched leg. Kila appeared out of thin air. “This is Tailia, Canai’s pet.” She pointed at the fox. “We got you something, if you want to fit in.” She held out a necklace that was black and glowed dark purple. Jazz took her present and put it on. There was a big flash. Kila smiled and said “The necklace will turn you into one of us. It will bring out your ‘spirit creature’.” Jazz’s eyes bulged. “What! Why didn’t you tell me that before I put it on!?!?!?” she tore it of. Torlck dropped from the ceiling. “What a matter? Ya scared to become one o’ us?” Jazz gave him the ‘What are you an idiot?’ look. “I just meet you lot, how would I know if you are good or bad? Hm? HM!”
They looked surprised. Torlck looked Jazz straight in the eye. “Well, if you put it that way, we’ll have to force you to!” he held out a hand and whispered “Flamaza” and fire chains went around Jazz’s neck, hands legs and waist. Just big enough so it didn’t touch her skin but if she struggled it would burn her. Kila grabbed her sneering brother’s arm. “Torlck! How dare you! You…Uhng” he easily pushed her down. Canai turned around. “Torlck!” she screamed and ran over and kicked him with what looked like her foot on fire, but purple! He didn’t budge. He picked up the necklace and knelt by Jazz. Her eyes were filled with shear horror and anger. “You monster.” Canai said scowling at her brother. As he looked into Jazz’s eyes they changed. They looked liked dragon eyes; he grew fangs, claws, and a hateful growl and grin. He put the necklace on her. She gulped and looked him in the eyes. It was like she could see into his past.
*2*

She saw a young boy with a dragon tail was left alone in the middle of a volcanic area. The boy was crying. And then he started glowing. She heard a voice that sounded a lot like Torlck’s but younger saying ‘They don’t care about me. Just because I am part red dragon doesn’t mean that I’m evil, does it?’ he fell to his feet, and started to breath heavily. Then he bolted upright and let out a hideous roar. And turned into a half dragon looking thing. She broke free of the flash back just as the boy turned around and she saw the horrid eyes.
“You see my past, don’t you?” he asked her with a toothy grin. Jazz felt her blood pulsing through her body. Her head started to ach. Her ears started to move up to the top of her head. As they did they started to turn into a wolf’s. She grew a wolf tail. She looked at Canai, and Canai looked at Jazz with the saddest eyes. Canai looked at her ‘brother’ one last time, and screamed “You are not my brother, at least, not any more!” She grabbed his dragon tail and, despite the pain of the burning spikes, pulled him to the ground. The confinement spell disappeared. Jazz grabbed Canai and Kila and ran, at lightning speed, out of the den.
Torlck looked around. “How did she go that fast? That is impossible… Unless she has the spirit creature of the legendary wolf-tiger, Sylaran. Humph. Even if that was so, how could a normal girl possibly possess such a creature? And how did my sister pull me to the ground? The only way possible is if she finally found out the true fox power: copying an enemy’s powers. Heh, heh. I shall find them out, and destroy them!”




Chapter 2
The World-Wide Problem

Day turned to night and they made camp. They were all quiet for most of the night. “Hey Jazz, how did you run that fast? I mean, only one creature on this planet can run that fast and it’s a legend!” Canai exclaimed. Jazz looked up at Canai. “Tell me more.” She ordered. Canai took a small old beaten up book out of her pack. “My grandfather, Hagrith, wrote this book. It is all the legends of the wolf-tiger, Sylaran.” She opened the book to the first page and started to read it.
“Long, long ago, the land was covered in blackness. The seas were drenched with the blood of the innocent. Until one day when the Sylaran rose from the sea and enchanted the land with a time freeze.” She turned to another page and gasped in surprise. “It says here that if a Sylaran becomes one with a human, or in other words becomes sysile, the barer has to flee from the party he or she is with every night two hours before the moon is at its highest peak. It’s talking about when their beast blood overwhelms the human blood and they look a lot more like the beast.” Jazz looked at Canai funnily.
Canai frowned. “Hm… Does your world know about were wolves?” she asked Jazz. Jazz nodded. “That’s exactly what happiness! Except with were wolves they only change on the full moon. But sometimes us sysiles get mixed up with were wolves. We, too can be part wolf and change on the full moon. But the difference is that were wolves can’t control themselves, only half were wolves can, and us sysiles can and we have ears and tails, and sometimes claws all the time. But, we can hide them for a short while.”
“So you’re saying all we need to do is wait ‘till I change and we’ll know?” Jazz asked Canai. “Exactly.” She replied. “What if I am the Sylaran? What will happen?” Canai smiled, “If you are it’ll be the best thing that’s happened to this world in a million years. Our world is in grave peril. An evil force appeared over a million years ago. This world has been in danger of becoming a black void for a thousand years. And the wizards, dryads, blessed falcons, and many other creatures including sysiles are weakening against these forces. We have done all we could to keep this world in order. But all that has become of it is shear chaos. The one creature who could save us was the legendary Salaran. But it was just a legend. And now that legend might have been brought to life.”
*4*
“My watch says that it’s almost ten.” Jazz said looking at her watch. “What’s a watch?” Kila asked Jazz with a puzzled face. “Oh, that’s right. You guys probably don’t have these things… Uh, a watch tells you what time it is. Don’t you guys have a way of telling time? Like a sundial or something?” Jazz questioned. “Oh, yeah. Yeah, we do. Oh, no. It’s all most time. One minute ‘till ten. Sorry. Got to go!” She started to run away, but Jazz zoomed in front of her and stopped her. “I thought this was a test to see if I am the legend or not.” She claimed with her arms crossed. She frowned, looking over Jazz’s shoulder into the dark woods with need. “This night is my night to change. I am a multi-tailed-red-tipped black fox, just so you’re not that surprised.”
Jazz’s watch buzzed telling her it was ten o’ clock. Jazz knelt down, with her arms tight around her in pain as her arms, legs, and face grew fur, and her hair grew longer and darker. Her fur was faded striped, and she grew another tail. Her fangs grew even longer. And her eyes were in-between a tiger’s and a wolf’s. Canai was just standing, with her head held high, excepting her changes proudly, like becoming a queen or something. Her fur was black�"except for the tips of her tails, ears, and hands. Her hair was red, and her eyes had fire burning deep inside.

Jazz fell to the ground. “The change must’ve been a little to much for her.” Kila declaimed to Canai. Jazz just lied there with her eyes wide with terror. Canai knelt down and put her hand on Jazz. Jazz shut her eyes, and got up on her feet. She staggered a little, and lifted her head to look at Canai. “Canai…” she fell and Canai caught her “Wow. I guess it’s true. You look exactly like the picture.” She made sure that Jazz could stand, and grabbed the book of the stump and flipped through the pages till she found a picture of the sysile salaran. “Here. You look exactly like the picture. Jazz walked over to her on all fours. ‘It does.’ She thought to herself.
“Wow, I never thought that the salaran would be my friend! This is amazing! The salaran…” Canai wowed at Jazz. Jazz walked over to the nearby cliff and looked at the moon in the sky. She lifted her head and let out a sound that sounded like a howl and a roar combo. She paused for quiet a while. Canai walked up and put her hand on Jazz’s shoulder. “Do you know what the Salaran symbolizes? It means peace between heaven and Jahah, or, in your world, Earth.” She walked back to the dying fire and sat down by Kila.
*5*
Chapter 3
The Master Of Magic

Next morning they set out for the “Master of Magic”. Canai said that he can help them out with her brother. “Hey, Canai, why is this guy called Master of Magic. I thought no one could even learn everything about it. Is he human?” Jazz asked. “No, he is not human. He is eleven. They, sadly, are much smarter than humans. He is my master. Yes, he has been secretly teaching me the most important spells there are to a magic user’s life.” She smiled proudly. Kila looked over at Canai. “So, that’s what you’ve been doing when you went away all that time. Why didn’t you tell me? I would have liked to learn something or two!” Canai turned around to look at Kila. “That’s exactly why. The things he taught, they were too much for you. Remember when I was just a normal fox? Not black with red tips everywhere?” Kila looked at the ground. “Well, yah, b�"“ “Master Manias is exactly the reason why I changed! You are too young for the lessons he taught would have harmed you, too. I could not live with that. It was already too late for me.”
They were quiet except for an ocasinal ‘this way’ or ‘Hurry up!’ from Canai. When they finally got to a big cabin Canai said “Here we are. Master Manias’ house.” She walked up to the door and knocked. The door opened moments later and in a low voice Manias said “Well, if it isn’t Canai. How long has it been? At least a month or two.” Canai looked over her shoulder at Kila and Jazz. “Kila, don’t go asking Master for any lessons. They are too dangerous.” Kila frowned.