Dark Veins

18 - Atlas, Lead Me Home

Hey guys! Chapter 18 everyone! Enjoy! Also, pic above is what Glacier looks like.

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Previously on Dark Veins:

"Why can't I sleep?"Jesse muttered to herself.

She stood up and walked over to the window. Leaning her arm against it, Jesse stared at the stars in the beautiful night sky.

"I promise Lukas. I'll find you and others soon."she said to herself.

"Who's Lukas?"asked a voice.

Jesse jumped.

(No one's POV)

"Ah! Who are you?"Jesse asked, still  recovering from her scare.

"So....who's Lukas?"the voice asked Jesse again.

"Oh! He's this really cute boy with super soft blond hair and his eyes. Oh, his eyes. They are the most beautiful shade of blue and their dreamy. He's also hot and amazing and hot and super and amazing and-"Jesse rambled on about Lukas but got cut off by the voice.

"Stop saying hot and amazing!"the voice yelled, obviously annoyed.

"I can't help it! He is hot and a-maze-ing!"Jesse said, a dreamy look on her face.

"Anywho, the Atlas you have can get you home. Just believe in the book. Tootaloo!"the voice said as it disappeared.

"Bye? Huh, that was weird. I never got her name. How do I know it's a girl maybe it's a boy in a girl disguise."Jesse muttered as she walked out of the hut, since it was day.

She walked on and on until she reached a temple. Jesse thought the temple looked familiar but she couldn't place it. She pulled out the amulet only to have it swiped away by a black eagle.

"Hey! Give that back! It's mine!"Jesse shouted as she ran after the flying eagle with the amulet.

The eagle stopped when Jesse broke down crying. He folded his wings as he nudged the amulet closer to Jesse. Jesse looked up, her eyes red from crying, and saw the amulet sitting there on the ground just inches from where she was sitting. She went to grab it as a coo was heard. Her head whipped around, she swore she felt her hair wack her face. There sitting be the amulet was the black eagle that took off with it.

Jesse sighed and buried her head with her arms. How does this happen? How does she, The Great and Powerful Jesse, manage to lose the amulet? She scoffed.

"Thank you for bringing it back to me."she said as she grabbed the amulet.

She felt the amulet twitch a bit as the eagle landed on the amulet, his big, bright blue eyes gazing into her green ones.

"Woah! I wonder why the amulet is glowing. I don't suppose you know do you?"Jesse knew it was useless to ask a bird much less the bird that kidnapped the amulet but it was worth a try.

The ender colored eagle shook his head as if saying no. Jesse groaned.

"I guess you need a name huh?"Jesse asked the night eagle as he nodded his bird head.

Jesse thought for a moment before she came up with the perfect name.

"How about Onyx?"she asked as the eagle stayed quiet for a minute before he nodded his head.

Late that night, Jesse came back after hunting food and Onyx flew behind only landing on her shoulder when the two came up to the hut.

"Here you go bud. Eat. You need it."she said as she placed some food - a dead rat - on the floor for Onyx.

Onyx shook his head. As much as he wanted to eat, he couldn't not since she was crying herself to sleep and that worried him.

"Why aren't you eating Onyx?"Jesse asked the black eagle.

Onyx flew up into her face and gestured with his wing to the bowl of food on the ground. It took a minute for Jesse to figure out what he was saying.

"Oh! Your worried about me aren't you boy?"Jesse said as Onyx nodded his black head.

"That's why you won't eat isn't it."she realized as Onyx once again nodded his head.

Jesse smiled as she patted his head. After a few moments she fell asleep, Onyx fast asleep next to her.

KABOOM! Was the sound that woke Jesse up. She rubbed her tired eyes as she stood up, lightly brushing herself off. Onyx woke up shortly after hearing another kaboom that frightened him.

The thing that was making the kabooms ended up being a dragon, the same dragon that followed Ender out of the prison. She bowed her head to Jesse and curled up around the girl.

"Your a dragon. Wow. Never thought I'd have a real life dragon! This is so cool!"Jesse exclaimed.

The dragon turned her head to Jesse and noticed the black eagle next to her. She slowly stood up and paddled over to the eagle where she bowed her head, nudging the little eagle. Onyx flew up and onto the dragon's head.

"Do I have to name you too?"she groaned.

The dragon shook her head, indicating she already had a name. The dragon took a tree branch that was nearby and started writing ruins. She wrote her name in ruins so that Jesse could understand what her name was.

"'My name is Glacier.'"Jesse translated.

"Glacier. That's a pretty name."she told the blue and white dragon.

Glacier nodded her head and laid back down, letting her ice tail wrap around Jesse's legs.

"This changes everything."Jesse said, realizing this would change everything she thought.

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Wow! 18 chapters already!!!!! Yes I know the last chapter and this one are mostly about Jesse but I wanted you guys to see what's happening to Jesse.

Right now she has Onyx and Glacier, do you guys think she should get more animals????

-Ellie