Brights awoke with a start. Stretching as he stood, he heard several satisfying pops. He normally didn't sleep on the floor but with how he tossed and turned at night he knew he could have fallen out of bed. What he did not understand was why his room was so hot. He normally kept it at a rather cool temperature. Once he opened his eyes the first thing that caught his attention was the fact he was staring at a cave wall. Quickly turning around he saw a desert not but nine feet away.

"Bloody hell! What happened to me last night?" He wondered aloud, scratching his head with his tail as he thought about what could have happened. Then he realized he was scratching his head without his hands. Quickly he reached behind himself and pulled a blue tail into his vision and he did the only thing he could think of, scream. This was not a scream of fear but a scream of joy. "Yes, by the gods I have a tail! Thank you, thank you! Oh what fun you and I shall have once I figure out where we are?"

"Well, I can tell you we aren't in our world or the game by the looks of it."

"Night, is that you?! How are you her..... Holy shit man why are you a fucking thestral?!"

"Because I'm inside the body of my avatar just like you. How are you not freaked out by this? I know I was when I first woke up."

"Because I always wanted a tail! I mean think of all the good it will do." He gave the best shit eating grin he could at the thought of it all. "Though I must say I'm quite jealous. You got wings man, wings!"

"Well as least your still human I'm a fucking anthropomorphic horse!"

"With wings."

Night was a very hard man to anger but when you push his buttons too much he can get pretty nasty. Balling up his fist, he swung for Brights' head, only for him to duck at the last second. His fist hit the wall sending out a spider web of cracks from the impact.

"Wow, I mean just wow! That could have been my face just now. How did you not hurt your hand doing that?" Brights stared wide eyed at the wall.

"Because I did a little research while you were still asleep. Even though we are not in the game we still have all our powers and items. Things even still work like in the game. We can't use the menu and the HUD is gone but other then that it's business as usual." Just to emphasize his point he slowly reached forward and his hand disappeared into a black, purplish fog. A couple of seconds later he pulled out an amulet.

"Well that's good we should be able to take care of ourselves the......." At that moment Brights paled and a look of horror took his face. "Dude we got a problem, a big , big problem."

"What are you talking about?"

"Venrus! Man if this happened to him as well he's going to be so fucking pissed! You know how he gets once he's angry at something! He will be blind and it's our fault! How do you think he will take that if we meet up some time in the future?"

"Well he was cool with it before maybe..."

"Cool with it! Cool with it! He blew a gasket when it happened and slaughtered a dragon on his own, a DRAGON! We aren't in game anymore and now he's blind for real! WE ARE SO DEAD!" Brights dropped to the floor in the fetal position rocking and screamed "We're Dead! We're Dead, we're dead, we're dead!"

Night picked him up and gave him a good smack "Stop that you idiot! We will be fine. Venrus is more analytical about things then we are. If I know him he will more then likely be trying to figure things out and see if he can find us or give us a clue to find him. He was in the keep, so he's more then likely still with it, if it came here as well. He would not just leave our home and all those in it. He will take charge and wait for us."

"Ya, I guess you're right." Brights looked down and then to Night "You can put me down now, I'm good." Once his feet were on the ground he went over to a big rock at the mouth of the cave and sat on it. "So find anything out there?"

"Not much. I didn't go far from you." Night was now at the cave entrance looking out at the desert with his arms crossed. "Only thing I found were some minotaur tracks but they were heavier then normal."

"Well that's just great, more minotaurs! We are going to need to be careful since we don't know what's out there and get some info."

"Already working on it." Night lifted the amulet up. The main body of the amulet was a gray stone, with two silver blades in an 'x'. The top had a big emerald on it. "I summoned my scout titan and sent him out to take a look. He should be back soon."

"Oh is that one of the guardian spirits I missed out on getting? What's it called and what does it look like?"

"His name is Jirwolf. He is a celestial wolf so most of his body looks like the night sky but he does have grey-blue fur on some of him. He is part of the Gaia-Titan class and he is a scout. He is three feet eight inches tall. His ability 'Sixth Sense' gives him awareness of space and time. He can take on an astral form that lets him channel blasts through reality itself. He can twist the space around his enemies by using a sonic growl to disorient them. He can also freeze his opponents. He is also extremely speedy. In other words, he's the perfect partner for me."

Brights looked at him with a scowl "Man, looks like I really missed out. So you got any others on you?"

"Well your not really missing out on anything. I can only call on him once a day and if he takes too much damage he go's back to his amulet. Besides you got your insects you can call to help you."

"Well ya you do got a point there. I got a lot more that I can call to help me. Though you still didn't answer my question."

Nights looked up and smiled "Yes, I got two more on me but that will have to wait." Pointing out of the cave "Here comes Jirwolf."

Brights turned and just like Night had said a celestial wolf slowly made its way into the cave. Jirwolf walked over to Night, sat down and looked at him.

Night leaned down and started to pet him "So my friend, fined anything out there?"

Brights kept looking back and forth between the two as they were saying nothing. "Is he going to tell you anything?"

"He is, titans cant talk like me and you, they have a telepathic bond with the one that holds the amulet." Night gave Brights a sly smirk "What he found is where the minotaurs are but he says they are very friendly. Walked right up to the village and sat there. Some came over and pet him even gave him some food. These minotaurs have much bigger muscles and are top heavy but once they start running don't get in the way. According to him if we walk at night in the cool air and rest in the day it will take two nights to get there."

"TWO NIGHTS! How far did he go out there?"

"In his astral form Jirwolf can cover great distances very quickly." Night sat down and leand on the wall " Best get some rest we leave at night fall."

After their short, rest as soon as twilight hit, they were off following Jirwolf to the location of the minotaur village.

Author's Note

Amulet

Jirwolf