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Tale of Warriors Chapter Eight By Blackdawn The bearer of the Spear Head will give unto the children of Mother Earth a child from the stars above who will bear the heart of the True Warrior. Da'tou playfully elbowed Kere in the ribs, though she was about 30 years older then him, he acted 20 years maturer. At first he protested over her continuously elbowing him, but gave in with a smile after a few more turns and did the same back to her. "Quit it!" He said with a laugh, "You're suppose to be quiet when fishing." "We're just moving a lot, not making any noise, except for when you laugh." Da'tou said, carefully digging her taloned fingers into his side without hurting him. He laughed again and tried wiggling away from her but slipped and fell off the rock they were sitting on, he would have gone tumbling into the Puru River if it was not for Da'tou snatching him by his shirt collar. Da'tou laughed some more, "You wiggle too much." Easily lifting him up one handed and plopped the little man back onto the spot of rock he was sitting on before he fell. "Quit making me fall then." He said with a light slap to her big arm and was replied with a slap back, Kere growled in irritants and lifted a single finger to her. "I mean it Da'tou! Quit messing with me." Da'tou smiled, "But it's so fun when I get to pick on my big little brother." Kere shook his head from side to side and looked at his line casted out into the running water. Da'tou seeing something at the corner of her eye to her right and turned her head just to see Gr'it-in standing on a big live tree root watching them fish and goof around. "Your boyfriend has been watching and hanging around you a lot." Kere said after noticing Gr'it-in. Da'tou turned her head to her foster brother with a wicked alien smile and said, "Too bad I can't say the same about you." Kere snorted loudly, he was about to throw a crude remark back at her but the situation shifted when his fishing line tightened and started pulling. At first he struggled with it sitting down but eventually got to his feet and within seconds had fallen back off the rock, and as before was heroically caught by Da'tou and lifted back up, only this time she placed him between her legs as if he were a little child and helped reel-in his line. "Da'tou!" A voice yelled. Looking up to the voice and seen it was Manna, "What!?" She yelled back. "The wise woman wants to speak with you, that's "our" wise woman!" Manna said, meaning the wise woman she was speaking of was the wise woman of East Xingasa. "All right, all right." Pushing herself up and turned to Gr'it-in but was surprised when she saw he was gone. "Hurry up already." Manna pushed, "The wise woman only gets older by the day." She growled loudly then snapped back to Manna, "I'm coming!" Jumping from the rock she was standing onto the muddy bank, a jump no mere human could accomplish themselves. Some minutes went by of Da'tou walking through more trails through the thick jungle until she came to little fence made of various branches that were all tied to one another by binder twine, walking to the fence then came into a little garden, Hubuiri, the wise woman apprentice and helper, was attending to the garden's needs. It only taking the young woman seconds until she felt someone was standing beside her and turned around, her face came alive with a big smile and invited her to come further in. She turned around leading Da'tou to the small straw hut and lifted the brown blanket that was hanging from the door frame then stepped to the side allowing Da'tou to walk in. Da'tou keeping her head low and shoulders hunched forward so her head wouldn't hit the ceiling, sitting right in front of her only a few feet away was the wise woman. Though she was in East Xingasa, she was wearing the traditional clothing of West Xingasa for a wise woman, which was almost nothing at all. Her ears, nose and bottom lip were traditional pierced with various bones and wooden objects, a necklace of bones hung from her neck covering parts of her bare chest and a simple piece of leather was wrapped around her waist. She sat cross-legged and looked to be, asleep. Da'tou sat in front of her also crossing her legs and examined her, if she really was asleep. She reached a hand forward laying it on her small shoulder and gave it a light shake, "Wise woman?" She said. The old woman let out a snort then snapped her head upwards, "What?" She said groggily. "You called for me?" Da'tou asked. The wise woman seemed lost for a moment but came to her senses, "Oh, yes, yes I did Da'tou. I must speak with you about your future." Da'tou smirked, "This isn't going to be like the times when you said the world would come to an end within the next year, three years ago? Or when you said a fire ball would fall from the sky bringing chaos to these lands?" She snorted again, "That fire ball has yet to take place, and I was distracted from my visions when I saw the end of the world." Da'tou smiled, whether the woman was correct about her visions or not, it was still proper to show her respect and believe in her visions. "Though I am old Da'tou, my visions are still strong, and the ones I have been seeing the most, the ones that bother me so, are yours." She only looked at the wise woman. "They have been telling me of the coming of the True Warrior," The wise woman looked into her yellow eyes, "Do you remember the tale I told you?" She asked. Da'tou nodded her head, "Yes." "What does it say?" "The bearer of the Spear Head will give unto the children of Mother Earth a child from the stars above who will bear the heart of the True Warrior." The wise woman smiled, "The beckoning of the True Warrior is at hand, and this person has returned." Da'tou looked surprised and began to think, what came into her mind was Gr'it-in, he certainly fit the bill, he was the only person around here from the stars and was a warrior, far greater then the warriors in West Xingasa. "It is Gr'it-in." She said, "I know it has to be him." The wise woman laid her old withered hand over Da'tou's smiling at her, "My child, this is why you were not chosen as my apprentice." Da'tou frowned. She took her hand off Da'tou's and sat back, "The True Warrior has not come back as a man, but a woman." "But the tale says it will be a man, a warrior. It says that clearly." The wise woman shook her head in disapproval, "No, no tale can stay pure after 300 years, it is only thought that the True Warrior will be a man because all warriors are men, but the True Warrior lies within the heart, whether man or woman." "So why am I here then, are you saying that I am the True Warrior?" She said joke fully. "Yes," She replied simply. Da'tou looked to the wise woman in shock and jumped to her feet, her head hitting the ceiling as she did so, she was at loss of words for what to say but through her mixture of babbled sentences spilling out she was able to say one sentence clearly. "Have you gone insane? I was only joking!?" "Watch your mouth Da'tou!" The wise woman spat, "The signs are clear. You are the True Warrior." She fell to her knees, for so long, she, Da'tou had been trying so hard to be normal and fit into her society of human friends and family. "But why me?" She said, "I'm just . . . I'm just a nobody, just a freak trying to fit in." "Do not say such things’ Da'tou," Reaching her hand to the side of Da'tou's face, "You are a kind person with a pure heart." "How do I show the signs, and when did they start?" She lowered her hand, "Since you were born. The bearer of the Spear Head will give unto the children of Mother Earth a child from the stars who will bear the Heart of the True Warrior. Your Mother was born on the day of the Spear Head and, well, the rest falls into place." "But, me having a pure heart shouldn't count as the final sign." The wise woman chuckled, "You are partially correct, bearing a pure heart also means you must keep your body pure, and this is but part of the final sign, the rest is to be completed. You yet have to bear the sign above your left breast, above your heart, and that my young one will take place when you meet the black shadow at the base of a rainbow." Da'tou sat back stroking her tusks taking in everything the wise woman just said. Could it really be true, could she really be, it? She looked up to the wise woman who only stared back at her with a casual smile. "Anything else?" Da'tou asked her. "Only to prepare yourself." "And I will do just that." She said as she stood up and started to walk to the door. "One more thing Da'tou!" The wise woman said just before she walked out. Da'tou stopped, of course, something that was answered with a yes was really a no. She turned around facing the wise woman and waited for her to speak. "Your friend, Gr'it-in, is very smart. Even if he called you as Da'dtou-di when you denied it was." "What are you getting too now, and how did you know that was one of the things we fought about?" She chuckled slightly, "Da'tou, your real is, Da'dtou-di, not what everyone calls you now, you only know your name as this because that is what everyone called you when you were named by your Mother, not a single villager could pronounce your name correctly hence it was shortened to, Da'tou." Da'tou couldn't help but laugh, "But how did you find out he called me that, I didn’t tell anyone what happened that day." She smiled, "A little bird told me." Da'tou was surprised, perhaps the old woman was all she appeared to be. From outside the hut a high pitch ring from a phone was heard, Da'tou looking in the direction the noise had came from as it was being answered only to see Hubuiri poke her little head through the blanket and say. "Alubiri can't make it, his sister's truck broke down and he has to pick her up." "Oh dear." The wise woman said. Da'tou crossed her arms looking at the wise woman, "A little bird huh?" Her foster Mother must have told half the town what happened when she was fighting Gr'it-in. "Da'tou my dear, I need you to do a favor for me, Hubuiri is too busy with other chores at the moment." "What do you want me to do?" Copyright © 2003-2005, Blackdawn. |